singers or fingers?

One of my joys is directing an ensemble which presents early American hymns, often in German and unison. Here's the group eight years ago at a restored meetinghouse close to Kitchener, Ontario. The name of the group is Foresingers, the Anglicizing of a German word, not in an English dictionary. The point? Someone at a future venue apologized for letting the spell checker change our esteemed name to forefingers. Funny, not?

and boil some more...

...late into the night, until the temp reaches 219, seven degrees above the boiling point of plain water. This year I added a candy thermometer to the sugaring operation which clips to the side of the vat and stays in. (pics by Joel)

get away to zip 17565

Milton and I struck out for the territories on a two-hour, mid-winter vacation. Destination was a township-built underpass by-pass near Marticville contested by the Commonwealth. The by-pass crosses over the old railroad right-of-way which is becoming a public trail with a new electric transmission line. From there we drove a few miles to Pequea where the road ends at the Susquehanna River. Pequea has a post office.