It's hard to concentrate as I do this post today. In the background the TV is on with the horrible unfolding of the shooting that took place in a one-room Amish school here in Lancaster County today. Someone called our school around noon today to tell us what had just taken place. I happened to be in the office copying worksheets at the time. After that I had to go and begin my afternoon classes and had no chance to find out more. Would you believe how I got an update on the situation? Our daugther Miki from Sweden called our school and the secretary put her through to my room. She had already seen it on the news in Sweden and was the one who told me that some students had died. How bizarre. And how dreadfully tragic as we learn more about the actual events that took place in that school.
Yesterday afternoon we went to Anthony and Lori's place in State College. We hung out there for a while. In the evening we went to their church fellowship hall for a celebration of Anthony's 30th birthday. As we were leaving their house it was raining as the sun shone. There was the most brilliant rainbow I have ever seen, in fact it was a double rainbow.
The most fun of the evening was when I played a cassette tape of Anthony singing "Blow the Trumpet in Zion" when he was around 5 years old. As he reached the chorus, he shifted into his high head voice, then proceeded to sing the chorus over and over, raising the key every time. Everyone just howled laughing.
I gotta go. We're stopping in at Dick's parents' place to see Dick's nephew Japheth and his family, who are visiting from Minnesota. Then we're taking Destiny to my friend Rose from church, because we're going out to eat with John and Elaine Nissley who were our attendants at our wedding 35 years ago today.
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