Surprise Snow!!!

This past Saturday we were greeted with falling snow, which continued steadily throughout the day and into the night.

Since John was driving to Reutlingen on Sunday, he decided to put the winter tires on the car (had to manage without his trusty assistant Zach).

The red spots in the photo are our neighbor's roses.

Here's the raspberry patch.

This is Sunday morning!

According to the German weather service, this is the first time in decades for Germany to have such a heavy snowfall in October.

Such a radical drop in temperature only comes every 30 to 40 years!

 

After John preached in Reutlingen, he visited a couple who attended our church for a few years while they were student teaching.  They now live near Reutlingen and just had a baby in September.

Here are some scenes from their area!

October Activities

More yummy bread from John the baker - this is whole wheat

This is Dinkelsauerteigbrot - or spelt sourdough bread; dinkel is a wheat species here in Central Europe, "spelt" in English or "farro" in Italian;

This is cracked rye with yoghurt

Preparing the mini breakfast buffet before the seminar on teaching children

A humorous skit demonstrating what you don't want to happen when you teach a Bible lesson 

 Unruly, "bored", hyperactive kids; unprepared teacher

Group work - each group preparing a lesson from different well-known Bible passages

Sigrid's creations

Last year's bumper crop of walnuts

This year's pitiful produce - two little boxes-full

That time of year again - the falling leaves

The little old man and the little old lady working hard without any children to help!

 

 

 

 

 

New heating units - one in the dining area

 

and one in Zach's room (after all those years of freezing to death)

 

 I got the last page of instructions for my block-of-the-month quilt while I was in the States; finished sewing all the borders on

The quilt top is done - but a quilt is not a quilt until it's quilted.  I may have to have this professionally done - it's huge!