Demo Release and Return

We arrived safely in Pennsylvania on Monday.  Playing at Eaton Rapids was a great experience.  Seeing old friends, making new ones and sharing lots of music put us on a buzz that lasted quite a while and is still ringing now.  There was a great turnout.  Our many thanks to everyone at Eaton Rapids for their help and assistance, to everyone who came, to www.YouthforYHWH.org  for partnering with us and our huge thanks to the Father who got us there and back!

Now available on www.reverbnation.com and www.grooveshark.com is our new diy demo (just until we get in the studio for real).  You can download the songs on ReverbNation and can stream them on both ReverbNation and Grooveshark.

Also in the News arena is our new name:  Come To Call , the official name of our band.  The demo is called "Demos For Friends".  Our tour is called The Water Can Tour, and the Water Can is our current logo.  Just to keep you all up to speed.  On Grooveshark, it is temporarily named The Water Can (the artist).  We'll be working on that glitch.

We'll be on the road again for our second show in three weeks.  All the dates are as follows, we will be playing smaller venues between these more official ones.  We'll update on where and when we will be places:
December 17th- Rocheport, MO
December 24th- Cisco, TX
December 31st- Augusta, GA
January 7th- Virginia Beach, VA
January 14th- Bronx, NY
January 20th- VT

Stay posted
peace,love,lynays

Band Without a Van

Yahweh is good.  We're trusting he'll help us get to Michigan before the 26th (our first scheduled date).  The van is not in service because the Head Gasket is on it's way out very quickly.  Now we're a band without a van for the trip that we were planning to leave for in 4 days.  It's so good this didn't happen a week from now and leave us stranded in between PA and Michigan somewhere!  For this we are so grateful.  Still looking forward to touring around and playing music with a bunch of new and old friends.

Our tentative schedule looks like this:
November 22 and/or 29- Lansing, MI
November 26- Eaton Rapids, MI
December 3- Rocheport, MO
December 10- Cisco, TX
December 15- Biloxi, MS
December 17- Augusta, GA
December 24- VA Beach, VA
December 31- NYC, NY
January 7- NH/ VT
January 14- Philadelphia, PA
January 21- Frystown, PA

We'll be stopping along the way and saying hello to a lot of people we know in different areas.  Hopefully have many musical moments and memories to carry with us. With us will be the band and great friends, Self Aside.

If our dates change, we will keep everyone posted.  SEE THE FLYER BELOW


YOUTH DAY FLYER

Rest Easy

William D. Swartz

William D. "Willie" Swartz entered into eternal rest unexpectedly on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at MS Hershey Medical Center. Only 14 years old, Willie was a true champion. Overcoming physical disabilities as a double transplant survivor Willie never looked back. His contagious smile was his signature trademark and will be sincerely missed by those who had the honor of knowing him. Willie will be deeply missed by his parents and family, Keith and Angela (Halbleib) Swartz, his sister, Jazmine, and brother, David Swartz of Mount Joy.

Willie was an eighth grade student at Donegal Middle School and loved playing his favorite PlayStation video games Grand Theft Auto and Little Big Planet. He especially enjoyed going to the beach at Ocean City, MD and camping with his family. Willie loved being around people, and found it easy to communicate with friends and strangers alike. His personality was genuine and a natural gift from God, which we were blessed to have shared in Willie’s life journey.

In addition to his parents and siblings, Willie will be deeply missed by his maternal grandparents: Larry and Judy Halbleib, of Bainbridge, and paternal grandparents: Eileen F. Kranch of Rheems and Gary Swartz of Mount Joy; maternal great-grandparent Elizabeth Gutshall of Bainbridge; paternal great-grandparents: Eileen E. Kranch of Rheems and Marguerite Swartz of Elizabethtown.

A Celebration honoring Willie’s life will be held at Florin Church of the Brethren, 815 Bruce Avenue, Mount Joy on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 4 PM with Rev. David Tressler officiating. Friends may view and visit with the family from 2 until 4 PM. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Willie’s name may be directed to the Nemours Fund, Children’s Health Dept., Shands House, 1600 Richland Rd., Wilmington, DE 19803, Attn: Child Life Department. Online condolences may be directed to www.sheetzfuneralhome.com. Sheetz Funeral Home, Inc, Mount Joy.

Note from Mike and Grace:
Willie was our next door neighbor. He just moved in a couple weeks ago. We didn't get to know him very well. When we would see him out front of his house with his dog we would wave and say hello and he would wave and smile back. Willie is at rest now, but will be raised up on that great day. We will all be in the presence of Yahshua and the Father, surrounded by eternal light. Kieth and Angie, his parents, are great people, keep them in your prayers that they may be comforted.

Whirlwind and Great News

I know, it has been a while.  Since the last time we blogged, Grace started a 40 hr/week class, we had a flood, Feast of Tabernacles and all the other life happenings haven't stopped either.  It's been so wonderful!  Not much time for blogging however.  Let's start this off with the good news...


Lynay-s is a featured local artist in the Silver Moon Gallery at Park City Mall (Lancaster, PA). Check out the store's website:  www.thesilvermoongallery.com

We currently have four pendants on display, and will be delivering many more within the next few weeks.    It's a great blessing to be on display with such fine artists local and national, we couldn't be more thankful!  If you're at Park City sometime soon, make sure to stop in and find our stuff!  You'll see our business card beside our display.

Feast of Tabernacles was a blast.  It was so uplifting, inspiring and full of the Great Spirit!  I've never felt anything like it in any years previously.  We were overwhelmed with joy and blessings.  Mike and I were the youth leaders for ages 12+ and had 27-30 kids in our group.  It was a handful, but so fun!  Pictures soon...

 Hurricane Lee dumped 10-20 inches of rain on Lancaster County.  We are already WAY over our records for this year and are forecasted to get 6-12 inches of SNOW TONIGHT...Before November 1st!  I've been warning our snow crew of a wet and blizzardy winter.  Now they'll see why.  The tides off the coast of Washington and California predict it perfectly every year.  Back to Lee, however... 

A few feet of water in the basement, lost a lot of stuff, but haven't felt better!  We can fit all our possessions in the van now.  It is so liberating!!!

We were blessed to receive funding for a new guitar from our fellowship family and gifts from friends and family as well.  The love of the Father truly provides. The insurance covered the house's heating system. 


It took me a while to write this, it is now snowing and coming down at around an inch an hour.  A baseball sized snowflake just fell on our windshield!  Going down to Smoketown because Mike is on call tonight and we want to be ready to bunk before the roads get super bad.  Already have over an inch and it looks like it may be 6-11 more inches.  Again, NOT EVEN NOVEMBER YET.  :)

Peace, Love, lynays
Grace

More later

 We love fermented foods.  If you don't know anything about it, it's the natural and original way to pickle things.  True sauerkraut is lacto-fermented, NOT pasteurized and soaked in vinegar.  The difference is an amazingly healthy antibiotic, probiotic and health tonic vs. a sodium loaded junk food.  Check out this link if you want to know more about the history.  Lacto-Fermentation

 Here we are washing jars.  Got them super cheap at our local MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) thrift store. 

 Here are lids, cherry tomatoes from the garden and free cucumbers from our Amish raw milk suppliers.

 I put all the tomatoes into boiling water and immediately removed them directly into ice water.  This keeps the nutrients and causes the skin to separate from the tomato.  Dip out the tomato, peel the skin, place pulp in green bowl and skin in white for compost.

 As described above.

 Skins!

 Pulp.

 Tomatoes in ice water.

 Just one of the three bowls of our tomato harvest that we fermented.  I've got 3 more bowls to ferment today.

 Ugly cucumbers.

 Here is the end result of our salsa.  Make sure tomatoes are cup up really good, add in onion, garlic, some green pepper, a little salt, whey (left over from making yogurt), tons of HOT PEPPERS and cover tight.  This is THE BEST hot salsa I've ever had!  Great thing is, 1.  It's raw.  2.  It's a probiotic.  3.  It is really hot and spicy.  4.  It's almost completely free!!! (Just maybe a penny for each jar (the salt and whey byproduct from making yogurt)).  5.  It is super fast and easy.

WHEY

 Cucumbers in water and whey/salt/spices.

 8 jars of cucumbers, 6 jars of kickin salsa

 Sauerkraut:

 Add cabbage, cardamom seeds and whey and salt.  Mash (by hand) for a while till there's a lot of juice.

 Cabbage is incredibly juicy when bruised.  Who knew?

 There was tons of juice.

 Then just put it into jars and let sit.

2 hours worth of work, $1.50 worth of materials, enough health food to last a family 6 months.  This will KILL colds, flus, stomach ailments, any sickness or candidas.  This will give you energy, fix your intestines, stomach, colon with beneficial bacteria, thus healing your body.  Great for many many ailments.  It's a no brainer!

Water Can Zine Issue 1 Release

Here is the first ever issue of THE WATER CAN, a lynays quarterly zine.  To subscribe or to subscribe for someone you know, to the snail mail version, please send an email to lynays.give  @  gmail.com with name/address and preferably either a phone or email. We would gladly send one.

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Enjoy!