Comments on: August 11, 2009

By: Pat Ohlmann

Pat Ohlmann — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:56:10 +0000

Ah, Connie–each of us and all of us will at some time come to the end of our days. But few of us will have left for our loved ones the grace-filled testimony to faith and life and loving that fills your blog each week. Thank you for sharing your days and years–all of your readers are the richer for it. You are certainly God’s gift to all of us.

Pat Ohlmann

By: Jeff Parker

Jeff Parker — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:59:19 +0000

Your words touch my heart Connie, thank you for them. Thank you also for the faith that you display with each word you write. It is an inspiration to all of us who read your words. My thought and prayers go with you as you travel this journey.

By: dick gale

dick gale — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:53:34 +0000

Hi Connie and all —

The comment from Katherine and David succinctly sums my response to your very special post.

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Our SoCal summer has been very pleasant, with warm days and cool nights. However, it has been “raining” heirloom tomatoes and other goodies from Susan’s garden for several weeks. As previously, some of the tomatoes have made it into canned sauces and jams. The latest recipe – throw trimmed and roughly cut tomatoes and any spices/sugars/vinegars into a 9 X 12 Pyrex glass pan — with a 400 degree over, you’ll be done in an hour or so plus, with the juice boiled off. (Soak dish to ease clean-up, but you can do two pans at once.) (See San Francisco Chronicle (SFgate.com) for sauce recipes several weeks ago.)

While waiting for the oven, Jane Kirkpatrick works well. This well established author (new to me) lives in Eastern Oregon, and writes fact-based historical fiction. Her latest, Flickering Light, is set in Winona, Minnesota, and deals with a young woman and her interest in photography. Another is A Sweetness to the Soul, set in Eastern Oregon around 1860. Both are excellent reads.

Please know that you three remain very much in our hearts and prayers.

dick and susan gale, laguna woods, ca

By: Katherine Haar

Katherine Haar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:36:23 +0000

Again dear dear Connie you write with such eloquence on the passage of life through its many phases. And again you teach us all how to respond to the journey we are all traveling.You are so much closer to the goal than most of us and yet you remain uncomplaining of journey that was chosen for you to follow.

The swallows must have known you’d need something special right now and the gift of a third family in one season was that gift. Enjoy them in their last few days in the nest.

We will continue to hold you, Charles and the extended family in our prayers.

Katherine and David