Study Visit

Clarence's Study Visit to Bangor (April 20 - 27, 2009)

Clarence's visit was rather eventful (or uneventful) depending on your perspective. Other than eating dinner and watching once a movie with Dad, he practically devotes 10-12 hours in Nancy's bedroom to study during his visit to Bangor.

This is his upright position staring at the computer. Is he studying or playing computer games? Who knows!!

This is his slouching position when his doesn't have enough backgones.

After 7 days of hard studies, it is time for him to depart.

This Honda CR-V looks familiar. Is that Mom and Dad's car? He is nice enough to take it off Dad's hand. Since Mom's passing, Dad has no need for two cars. He keeps Mom's favorite Toyota and sells the Honda to Clarence. It is good to keep the car in the family, at least this is what we think.

It is sad to see the green "stallion" leaving home for good. This is the way it goes.

"Up, up the road and away"

It is disappearing and soon will be gone.

Noah's Ark (March 19 - April 2, 2009)

Follow the Prophet

Noah was a prophet called to preach the word.

Tried to cry repentance, but nogbody heard.

They were busy sinning - Noah preached in vain.

They wished they had listened when they saw the rain

Yeah! it was too late. The flood came and swept the face of the earth.

"Everything" was destroy.

Except the food storage on the right

and some other stuff in the ark

After 14 days, god has compassion on his servant and sent his angel to rescue him,

to drain the water out

into the stream

further away in the back yard.

When the dove brought the olive leaf back to the ark. That meant the water had receded and all was well.

Christmas and Box Day

Christmas Day

I went to bed fairly late the night before. Almost forgot to put the stockings on the couch let alone cookies and milk for Santa. Santa was such a forgiving person. Even with my forgetfulness, he....

left us with some goodies in our stockings. We must have been pretty good all year round!

Christmas breakfast consisted of potato pencakes and bacon strips. After breakfast, we set up our web cam with Clarence and family to view the grandchildren opening presents. There was a strong gust of wind knocking out power in Bangor. That was the end of that. We only watched 10-15 minutes of the happpy faces in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I had to go to the homeless shelter at 10:40 a.m. to serve dinner.

The homeless shelter is the place where Amy and I had planned to serve the Christmas dinner to the poor. To honor her, I went. It was nice to see these people being fed. I had a great time serving some of God's children along with other volunteers. I was the gravy maker along with some other chores that were assigned to me. Christmas is about giving. I was glad that I was able to give some of my time in serving them.

The wind had died down and the power was retored. We turned on the web cams again so that the children in Michigan could watch me opening my presents. These is what I have received. Many thanks

This is an ariel shot of the presents and what Santa has given us.

In the evening, I watched the Ann of Green Gable series as we have been doing it for the past years. But this year, I was watching it on the big TV screen . Thanks to Pres. Bush for his stimulus package.

Boxing Day

We invited the Lee family from Ellsworth Branch and our Bishop and his wife, the McCumbers for hot pot this day. The Lees are from Korea. The children were born in the United States.

This is Jenny and Douglas Lee

Jenny Lee was playing with her doll

Sommer was playing with her doll house.

Whereas Douglas was playing with the car transportation truck.

Bro. Lee was sitting at the head of the table with Karen McCumber sitting in between the two children

Sister Lee sat between Bishop McCumber and her daughter. We had a marvelous time. Sister McCumber made an orange cake for dessert.

The Senior Tang Tradition is Broken

This would have been the first Christmas we would be on our own. Who could imagine that Dad would spend Christmas on his own. You just never know what might be around the corner. This is what we had planned for the Christmas dinner on December 24th. Rather than having turkey and ham, we had lamb chops and scallops wrapped in bacon strips with the "usual" trimmings.

Would you like to join us?

This is a close up of one of the plates. Why do I have to eat Brussel sprouts? It is........

We ran out of salad dressing. I had to use mom's favorate Zesty Italian.

The lamb chops and wrapped scallops weren't too bad at all.

To top it all, I baked my favorite apple pie that mom made for me.

The smile on the face said it all. I was very happy with the way the pie turned out.

Apple pie without ice cream is a "sin". I was sinless at least for a little while.

Yumm......y dessert.

A Very Nice Tribute to Amy S. P. Tang

I receive a sympathy card from the Frish Family. Sister Frish must have written the card. This is not an ordinary card I have ever received. In a few words, she depicted some of Mom's life services. This is the front and middle of the card. Just in case you couldn't see what is written, I will write it out for you.


"The song, "Scatter Sunshine" comes to mind when thinking of Sister Tang. That's how she lived life - scattering sunshine all along her way. Frequently we would hear, "she took me to the temple, she taught me about Jesus, she drove me to the store, she had me over for dinner, she washed my windows," and on and on. Her kind words and deeds will ever be missed. Love, Joe, Tish and Zach

Before and After

In oder to maximize my time these days, I thought of a creative way to multi-task when Michelle called shortly before Christmas, I used my toque to hold the cell phone down while cooking dinner at the same time. Not bad, uh!!

Santa recognized my need and put a wireless blue tooth for my cell phone in my stocking. Thank you, Santa, you are kind. Now, I can do many things at the same time.

In preparation for Christmas

Christmas Cheer

It was great to have Annie and Nancy here for Mom's Memorial Service on November the 29th (Saturday). I am grateful that they could come to give me their support. Annie left on Monday. After we took her to the airport, Nancy decided to set up the creche we made as a family in a family home evening activity 20+ years ago and the Chrstmas tree. If she wasn't here, I wouldn't have bothered. Thanks to her, the setting brings Christmas cheer to my life. And most importantly, it reminds me the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ some two thousand years ago who brought salvation to mankind.

Our hand made Creche we created some 20+ years ago in Edmonton, Alberta. Now it is deplayed in Bangor, Maine.

Dear Nancy, she insisted that we should set up the tree.

She sure had fun decorating the tree. We decided to put the bows back on this year in remembrance of mom. She made them

This is part of the Tang tradition. Dad always put the star on top of the tree - a final touch.

Merry Christmas to all and a good night. Santa will be here soon. I better go to ged. Otherwise, I won't get any presents.