He planted peas, radishes and lettuce. I would like to get some onions in the ground yet. I don’t know if it will make it but it just depends on the weather.

We were very saddened to hear that Joe’s 97 year old grandmother fell and shattered her hip bone. She broke the same bone several years ago. This time the doctors don’t think they will be able to operate. The last I heard she is still in a lot of pain. I feel so sorry for her.

Daughter Verena wrote a letter to her the day before we heard the news. I told Verena to still go ahead and send her letter and maybe someone would go ahead and read it to her. God is above and has a reason for everything but it must not be nice to be older and not be able to care for yourself.

Saturday evening we attended the spring youth performance at the community center. I was surprised to see our neighbor lady there and was happy to sit and visit with her. There was a very big attendance and hardly room for everyone to sit. The program was given by some of the youth in our community and surrounding areas.

There were 32 youth involved in the program. They sang some songs in German and then some in English. The audience stood and sang the song “Neither do I Condemn Thee” and then the youth acted out some plays, most of which were based on Easter. One of the plays – called Easter in Cricket County - had some city relatives visiting some country cousins who ended up teaching them what Easter was all about. Some of the Amish boys playing the city people dressed in suits and ties. It was cute because the grandmother in the play told the city visitors that she had found a priceless treasure. The excited city cousins asked if it was “gold or silver?” And the grandmother said “no, it was my great-grandmother’s quilt.” The city cousins eventually caught on to the meaning of Easter. The play had a good lesson to it. It was a two-hour program and afterwards bags of popcorn were passed out to everyone.

On Sunday we spent the day at sister Emma and Jacob’s house. We had a good meal of grilled pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, corn, colby and pepper jack cheeses, dill pickles, ice cream and chocolate cake. After dishes were washed the children began driving the pony cart. The girls enjoyed making their own stickers with some kind of sticker maker that Jacob and Emma’s daughters have. Joe and I played a few games of Aggravation with Jacob and Emma. The day turned out to be rainy. We had a thunderstorm late last night and lots of rain. Today is cloudy and the sun is trying to peek through. I haven’t been out to check yet, but Joe says our rhubarb is peeping above ground. Our winter onions are also coming up really nice. Surely soon the dandelion greens should start showing.

I will share the recipe of peanut butter cracker fudge with you. It is an easy, simple recipe to follow. I was working at a sewing factory when I was published to be married. The other workers gave me a recipe box and everyone from work put a recipe in. I worked a sewing factory so there were lots of women there that contributed a recipe. This is one recipe from that box:

Peanut Butter Cracker Fudge

2 cups sugar

2 tablespoons butter

1 /2 cup milk

Boil these three ingredients for 1 minute over medium heat. Then follow the below instructions:

Add 1 cup of peanut butter,1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 /4 box of crushed saltine crackers (1 sleeve) to the melted butter, sugar, and milk.

Stir well and spread into 8 X 8-inch pan to cool. Cut into 1 inch squares.

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