The Top of the Week

It is a Monday morning and is looking like it will be quite a nice bright day. it was quite cool overnight so is taking time to warm up and I haven't been out yet to see what it is like.

This picture shows how my gift mum - received on April 23rd. looked a few days later with my African violets that were putting on a good display then. The mum " bit the dust" a week or more ago and has been relegated to outdoors in hopes that it will get rested & renewed by late summer.

On Sat. we took a one day trip to Fargo, ND to attend a Bible conference. The conference was very refreshing both from the standpoint of the ministry from God's Word and the fellowship with the Lord's people. We also had a mini family reunion with my sister, aunt, uncle & cousin who came up from Lincoln & Omaha, NE. , my second cousin lives in Fargo area so we also saw him.

Bro. A. McIntee spoke about the sufferings of the Lord Jesus from Psalm 22. Bro. M. Atwood spoke about leadership from the first chapter of Joshua. Our only regret was that we couldn't stay for the complete conference (until today).

Spring at Last

Here are some shots of things blooming in our yard right now. The top is a Bergenia - this interesting plant is evergreen and when the snow melts away the leaves look as good as the previous summer - they have a little more red color during the winter but are covered with snow anyway. the blooms are among the first to come in the spring and even beat the tulips and daffodils in our yard this year.

Picture 2: the Shubert Chokecherry tree in our front yard has fresh green leaves coming out as summer advances the leaves turn dark maroon.

Picture 3: The blooms just opening on the Nanking Cherry shrub - many years this is in full bloom for Mother's day it is a little late because of the very cool weather this spring.

Picture 4: Those beautiful yellow "weeds" that every little kid loves to pick a bunch of for Mother.

Mission hospital mattress production.

On Saturday, May 10, '08.

Top picture: Michael turning the covers right side out and preparing the corners for stuffing.

Bottom picture: David folds the foam mattress in half and straps it together so that it will slip into the cover easily.

Middle picture: ( sorry they got out of order)
Helmut puts the foam in the covers.

After completing 50 mattresses they wrapped them in bundles of three in clear plastic vapor barrier with an address label. (No picture of this step.)

This evening 50 more mattresses were finished with Les and me lending our hands to the project.

Every thing is now ready for delivery to Portage la Prairie to pack into the container to Zambia.

It is a welcomed rainy day here in Winnipeg. It is so nice to hear the rain dropping on the shed roof - that way I know it is still raining even when I can't see it. We have had very little rain this spring.

These mums were given to me for my birthday by my dear husband. I like to make an arrangement like this to photograph - I'll probably use it for a greeting card.

The computer is frustratingly slow this morning so this is the end of this post.

A few pictures from recent events.

The beautiful bouquet of red roses, carnations, mums and baby breath given to me by T. for my birthday.

We celebrated M.'s and my birthday on April 27th.


The untimely snow on Apr. 25th. there was more on May 4th. but I didn't get a picture of it



Then there was the day that A. had to take the turbo charger out of his car so you can see the two "mechanics" hard at it. there is still a day coming when he has to put it back in.

Tid Bits

It is high time for a new post. I am feeling a little like spring today as it is lovely out.

These orchids are native to Manitoba along with many others. We were quite surprised about how many native orchids can be found in our Provence. We didn't see any of the others at the orchid show that we know of. The grower of these said that they are quite hard to grow in pots and force to bloom for the right time of the show.

Another person who was promoting the MB search for orchids had a big chart of pictures of the various types that can be found in MB. Hikes are sponsored by this group to go looking for the orchids - you need to be a member.

I thought on such a nice day I should clean my oven - for some reason the self-clean program doesn't want to work so I just cleaned up the worst part with a wet cloth and scrubbed the racks. Forget the "self-clean" - blah!

Not much is growing in my garden yet as it has been far too cool so far. No daffodils or tulips or apple blossoms yet.