Thank you, Ben and Sally, the whole Hylton family, and all who helped to make it another wonderful celebration of friends, family, and Christmas cheer.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Softball Success
The Tonasket softball team made a surprising run into the post-season this spring. Helping fuel the success of the team were our own Dayzi and Samantha Keller. Congratulations! We're proud of you.
Samantha
Dayzi
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Special Music by Dave Morgan
It has been a privilege to have Dave Morgan as a part of our congregation for almost two years. In that time he has been generous in sharing his musical gifts. After a lifetime of dedicating those gifts to serving God, he knows and can play by ear hundreds--maybe thousands--of hymns and praise songs. There have been many Sundays when it was time for Special Music that we have asked Dave to "come up and play something." He has always been more than willing, and we have always been blessed by his music.
Dave is moving to the Coast with his family, so we will miss his Special Music. But we'll look forward to those times when he will be able to visit and "come up and play something."
Thanks for ministering to us, Dave. You have helped us to "let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts." (Colossians 3:16)
Dave is moving to the Coast with his family, so we will miss his Special Music. But we'll look forward to those times when he will be able to visit and "come up and play something."
Thanks for ministering to us, Dave. You have helped us to "let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts." (Colossians 3:16)
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Sugar Shack
It was a chilly March day when I stopped by to see Frank and Betty Holmes. Frank was out in the sugar shack.
Frank would spend 28 hours in the shack this spring boiling down the sap. It has taken him as long as 40 hours in past years, but he had a bigger, more efficient stove this year. The yield would be seven quarts and a pint of fresh, homemade Washington State maple syrup. Well worth it, in my opinion, and greatly appreciated by the friends and family that get to taste it.
Betty had sent some instant coffee and creamer along with me out to the sugar shack. While Frank and I visited we enjoyed a treat that was new to me: maple coffee made with the boiling sap. Trust me, it's good! Stop by next Spring and have a cup with Frank.
The collecting jugs were still hanging on the sugar maples that came as saplings from Ohio many years ago. Betty would collect 63 and 3/4 gallons of sap this Spring.
Frank was inside the shack watching over the boiling process. He's been doing this for years, carrying on a tradition that goes back to his father.
It's a wonderful thing to step out of a chilly day into the warmth and fragrance of a sugar shack.
The sap was on a steady boil, and was slowly getting there.
Frank would spend 28 hours in the shack this spring boiling down the sap. It has taken him as long as 40 hours in past years, but he had a bigger, more efficient stove this year. The yield would be seven quarts and a pint of fresh, homemade Washington State maple syrup. Well worth it, in my opinion, and greatly appreciated by the friends and family that get to taste it.
Betty had sent some instant coffee and creamer along with me out to the sugar shack. While Frank and I visited we enjoyed a treat that was new to me: maple coffee made with the boiling sap. Trust me, it's good! Stop by next Spring and have a cup with Frank.
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