CORRESPONDENTS: St. Luke Living Center years ago
By SUE GUTSCH
St. Luke Living Center reporter
Friday morning's recipe required lots of elbow grease to mix and prepare peanut butter jumbo cookies. Living center bakers had to cream butter and peanut butter, mix in white and brown sugar, add three eggs one at a time, stir in four and one-half cups of oats, mini chocolate chips, and M&Ms. Ruby was our chief mixer, but had lots of help putting spoonsful on baking sheets and eating them after baking.
We thanked Lois Winter and Bill Schimpf for guiding us through an afternoon of bingo before snacking ion the plate of sliced golden delicious apples and a bowl of sweet and salty bite-sized mix prepared by our dietary department.
The Rev. Brett Huebner of Our Savior Lutheran Church brought the Sunday afternoon worship service to residents gathered in our chapel.
We prettied-up Monday morning which certainly prepared us to observe the February birthdays of Barbara Libal and Melvin Brewer that afternoon. The celebration included happy wishes, freshly baked chocolate cakes, chocolate ice cream, and a roomful of party-goers including Mel's sister and brother-in-law, Raymond and Nadine Koegeboehn and Barbara's niece, Carmel Samples.
Tuesday morning, avid book clubbers enjoyed hearing the new happenings on the prairie. A new, larger church, a brand new school near the Ingalls claim, a new three-month teaching job for Laura, Almanzo's shiny new black carriage with glossy red spokes in the wheels and lazy-back cushions pulled by two newly-broken colts, and seen more new evidence of romance. Something not new was Pa Ingalls' "itchy feet," again.
After lunch we moved into our small dining room pushed two tables together and with Magdalen Dvorak's help, completed a recent project. Our idea began with a front-page picture in a weekly farm paper entitled, "Ewe Tired of Snow?" Using our talents, we put on display "artwork" depicting all manner of activities done to alleviate winter weather boredom. The panful of kolaches Magdalen brought certainly fell into that category.
A different sort of "artwork" is on display in our small beauty shop which Bonnie Plummer has turned into an "emerald isle."
Part one of our outing Thursday afternoon was for shopping purposes. Later, because we were already on the west side of the reservoir, we toured that area for a change, to complete the excursion.
