Church hosts home-cooked Easter breakfast
By Riva Hawkes
Following the sunrise Easter services, which by the way was attended by 11 hearty souls who braved the bitter cold, a public breakfast was held at the Whittier Congregational Church. This was under the supervision of Don McKellar and assisted by wife, Candy, Phil and Susie Faulkner, Sharon Grant and Verna Boone.
The menu included French toast, eggs (over easy or scrambled), regular toast, lots of bacon plus coffee, tea and orange juice. A good crowd attended and everyone had a great time visiting. This was the last of the popular breakfasts and every looks forward to them come the next Lenten season.
Tom Hawkes is home from his stay at Mass. General Hospital in Boston where he was a patient for three days. He is doing very well and expects to return to work in about three weeks.
Clayton and Priscilla Varney have been in Presque Isle recently where Clayton consulted his doctor. The ride up was uneventful as the day was one of the good ones we have had occasionally, and we certainly hope we have a lot more of them.
I had a phone call the other day from a former resident of the area, now living in Florida. Unfortunately, I didn’t get her name and the connection was poor, but she said she read the Pioneer and really enjoyed it all.
I still have the two cats staying in my barn and the other day I had to shoo the black one away from my bird feeders again. The yellow one doesn’t seem to bother the birds, for which I am thankful.
I am still busy putting out the peanut butter-and-lard mixture as the woodpeckers and starlings make short work of it. They’re hardly leaving any for my little chickadees and nuthatches. Now, I have the rose-breasted nuthatches back to join the white-breasted ones.
My cedar tree is a busy place. The little red squirrels are busy running up and down it and occasionally leaping from the tree to the roof, where they sit and watch the area. Every late afternoon the herd of deer arrive from the woods and make their way slowly across the crust up the feeding area. Now, I have from six to about 10 of them and they sure like the bread and apples. If one of the little ones get in the way of one of the adults, the adults butt the little ones away in no uncertain terms. But usually they are nose to nose busily eating everything in sight. I’ll miss all this menagerie come spring.
