If you haven’t been aware of the changing seasons, this week should be "Look Out Your Window Week." If you live in the country or take a drive in the country you will find the fields are no longer covered with dried cornstalks and other debris. The fields have been changed, it seems, like overnight, but I know it takes longer than that. The fields have been turned into a beautifully tilled farm. The farmers are all anxious to get into their fields and to get this year’s crop planted. If you live on a country road all you have to do is to look out the window and see that automobiles and other forms of transportation have been replaced with tractors, wagons, and many more pieces of machinery that I no longer recognize. However, as it’s planting season you had better watch where you are driving. The farmers are moving their machinery from farm to farm and all of us need to be careful.The Steen Senior Citizens had their May meeting at the Steen community building on Monday, May 3. Cards and games were played. Lunch was served by Bill and Bertha Bosch. Congratulations to Michelle and Tim Baker on the birth of a daughter, Karlee Daniele, on Wednesday, April 26, in Luverne Community Hospital. She joins one sister at home. A Bosch family 1 p.m. dinner was at the home of Dries and Laura May Bosch on Sunday in honor of the family birthdays. Those helping to celebrate were Tom and Amy Bosch, Emma and Isabel, Sioux Falls, Paul and Diane Bosch and Eric, Brandon, and Nathan Bosch, Sioux Falls. The family celebrated Tom and his daughter Emma’s birthday and Laura May’s birthday also. Last Monday morning Mildred Paulsen and Julie Schurr, Luverne, attended a meeting of the Southwest Regional Development Committee in regard to the medical supplement plan for the coming year at Luverne Pizza Ranch.Those from the Steen area who attended the Union Gospel Mission Prayer Breakfast Saturday morning were Malena Boeve, Karen Ramaker, Glenda Bonnema, JoAnn Paulsen, Joyce Aykens, Mildred Keunen, Jo Aykens, Cena Mae Tilstra and Millie Klarenbeek. It was at The Oaks in Sioux Falls. The speakers were Walter and Elizabeth Handford. The Girls’ League of Steen Reformed Church hosted a Mother/Daughter Banquet Wednesday, May 5, in Fellowship Hall.Sid Berghorst was admitted to Luverne Community Hospital on Sunday. He was transferred to Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls on Monday and was able to return to his home on Wednesday. Laura May Bosch hosted a birthday party Friday afternoon in her home. Those attending were Gert Hup, Hills, Anna Elbers, Betty Boeve and Darlene Bosch, all from Luverne, Henrietta Boeve, JoAnn Paulsen and Melba Boeve. Monday morning coffee guests in the Jo Aykens home were Gertie Ann Van Batavia, Mildred Keunen and Joyce Aykens of Worthington. Thursday noon Laura May Bosch and her sister, Kay Cox of Adrian, enjoyed noon lunch together at the Coffey Haus in Luverne. Sunday has been designated as "Mothers Day," a day when we have the opportunity to let our mothers know how much they mean and have meant to us all through the years. They are always ready and willing to listen to our problems. They were, and still are, ready and willing to share our good times as well as our bad times. So, this week I would like to share this article titled, "A Birthday Tribute to Mothers.""A lot of things in life are taken for granted. The food we eat, the homes we live in, the cars we drive. The greatest treasure we have are people. Of these, our greatest value is our loved ones. Through the years you have been, not only a Mother but also a friend … not overlooking the roles you have filled as a cook, nurse, housekeeper, and a lot of others that we cannot list for lack of space. All the goodness, compassion, learned in our lives, came from a home where these things were taught and practiced. The love that was given so freely, although at times, we didn’t know it, was still appreciated and cherished.It is only fitting that on this day — your special day, you are surrounded by those who wish to give you, what you have always given to us … LOVE!"Let us remember these words as we wish each and every one of our mothers all of our love and the best of everything for her in days to come.Happy Mothers Day!