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Faith Marie was rooting for the Steelers yesterday!! 🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤


 

We just loved getting these pictures today!!  😂  ❤️  🦌  💚 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone from the Winklers & the Spicher’s!!

As told by her mother Brandi...
So many of you have been wondering how Faith is doing. Thank you all for your thoughts prayers and support through this journey. Faith had a rough start since being brought into this world and been through more than most adults. She was born full term via c section due to being breech. Her head was under my ribs and she wouldn’t turn. When she came out she did pretty well Tuesday then on Wednesday she started having episodes of apnea. Her brain wasn’t sending signals to her lungs to breathe. She was put on a cpap then by Thursday she was placed on a ventilator. Friday we were told that she has trisomy 18, Edwards Syndrome which is a rare chromosomal defect. There is no cure, no fix, it just is. These babies have short life spans. They are lucky if they live past the first 6-9days of life. 
By Saturday the ventilator was doing all the breathing for her and Deryk and I had to make a heart breaking decision. That’s not a life living on a vent for the rest of her days. 
But our little girl wasn’t done fighting yet, she was not done living! The vent was discontinued, she opened her eyes and breathed! She was placed on monitors to track her oxygen, heart rate and respiration’s. We waited another week to see how she would do. No more episodes of apnea! We went through a week of education and learning how to care for once she came home. Our hope was restored! She would come home! Our Faith is now 2 weeks old and defying the odds! Our Faith is a true testimony that there is power in prayer! ❤️
I also have to say that the staff at Penn Highlands DuBois NICU and maternity are amazing people! We couldn’t have gotten this far without them! They went above and beyond their call of duty and made whatever accommodations for Faith, us and our family. They have been a God send for us and we are forever grateful to them. 💝

This is my grandparents Edward & Mildred Wank of DuBois.
They are both gone, God Bless them.
 
I was enlarging a smaller photo to a larger one and had it on my computer so I decided to share.
 
No idea what the year was .... but if you know my mom Joline, you'll see the resemblance on Grandma's face. 
 

 
 

Why does every thread have to turn into an argument or put down?  I'm sure we can all agree that there are both needy people and needy animals out there.  We should be praying for each and every one of them and trying to help wherever we can.

We are going to be adopting a baby girl in 4 weeks!! Our little girl will be 8 weeks old & we can't wait to bring her home!!
 
Meet Chi Chi
 

I have been planning a field trip for the BUDS Gardeners and the Jefferson County Master Gardeners and happened to trip across this website!  Excellent reading for those who would like to understand the Amish better.
 
http://karenannavogel.blogspot.com/

McGeorge Rd Today
 

Tyler Rd Friday & Today
 

1. Make lye water out of ash. You can boil 2-3 spoons of ash (clean white/grey fluffy ash) with water and then filter it with a coffee filter. Lye water is a great cleaning agent and sanitizer for clothes, floors, windows, silverware, plates, and even rust in marble.

You can also make lye by adding the fluffy white ash in a cheesecloth.  In a bucket with holes on its base, you add the cheesecloth and ash, and hang it somewhere high. Add the water. Underneath, place another clean bucket to collect the lye. The lye has a brownish colour, so you remove the bucket when clean water starts to sip through. Test the lye by adding a fresh egg in the liquid. If the egg floats, the lye is good to go, if not, repeat the process.-For use in soap making.

2. A paste made out of ash and water, can remove stains from furniture.

3. If we want to remove a stain from clothes the moment they happen, we add a bit of ash and after about five minutes, we rub it with the crumb of a bread (not the crust, the soft white bit).

4. Ash is a great odour repellent, just add a bit over the area that smells. eg, kitty litter.

5. You can remove odours from a fridge, by adding a plate of charcoal ash inside. Change the charcoal over, until the smell is gone.

6. You can use it to brush your teeth. (recipe here)

7. You can wash your hair with lye soap  and rinse with vinegar. This is especially good for oily hair.

8. Lye is used in many foods and sweets. Like grape must pudding (moustalevria),  honey cookies (melomakarona), and in bread. It makes bread fluffy and prevents it from crumbling. Lye is also good for the cleansing of the intestines.

9. Ash was used for many years in farming. It recycles the natural nutrients back into the earth. It can be used as compost but does not include Nitrogen. It aids in the increase of the earths PH level which in return, aids in the growth of the plants. (But because of the ongoing increase of the PH level, not all veg and fruit thrive from it. eg potatoes).

10. It strengthens plants that love calcium, such as tomatoes, vineyards, beans, spinach, peas, avocados, garlic etc. Even rose bushes. You can add 1/4 cup ash before planting.

11. One spoon ash per 1000l of water, strengthens underwater plants.

12.It prevents plants from frost in winter, if you add a layer of ash over them.

13. Animals hate ash. You can rid your garden of insects and various parasites, such as slugs and snails.

14. You can rid yourself of ants. If you throw some ash in their colony, they will be forced to relocate, as they can

I have seen rose of Sharon with the different colors on it..way cool!!
 
My hubby would love the fruit tree!! Wonder if you can addxa limb of chocolate on there for me?!?!

http://www.wearecentralpa.com/story/d/story/10-year-old-raises-thousands-for-humane-society/23346/wcZo7E80Bka0u1PFutBbIA

A different deer
 

I just learned something new today...deer can swim

on the back of the couch and have room to spare! Weigning in at 26.4 lbs, Miss Minnie Pearl, aka Tonka Truck (when she comes running she reminds me of a Tonka and she has a big dog run), aka Radar Ears, because her ears are so expressive, sometimes when she is listening to you talk to her, her ears go up like little radar satallites lol. She should be close to 5 months now
 

 

 

had them posted in another thread.