Coffee when expelled through the nose will kill keyboards, but this quote might be worth it:
“When someone asks you think about ‘what Jesus would do’, remember that a valid option is to freak out and turn over tables” — Unknown
Category: Fun
Oh dear, what’s this?
Oh, this made me laugh. There are several related videos that are also very funny.
More this and that
Woman in Rocking Chair – Thomas Pollock Anschutz
Finally my site traffic seems to be going back to normal.
About Comments: Please note I have closed all comments on the posts about the Adam Race/Carol Race story from last week and I do moderate comments on other postings. I will be posting updated information if and when I get it. I want to thank again all the very good and kind people who have contacted me about the situation. Also I ask that you all keep the Race family and their parish community in your prayers.
Stand-mixer Whole-wheat Bread Recipe:
- mix:
- 1cup very warm water
- 1 tbsp yeast
- 1-2 tbsp sweeter (honey, sugar)
- 2 tbsp oil or shortening (butter, lard, olive oil)
- ~1 tbsp salt
- mix until blended and then let sit for 10-15 mins, switch to the bread hook.
- then mix in:
- 4 cups flour (I use 1cup bread flour, 1 cup whole wheat flour, and two cups whole-grain white)
- 1 cup warm water
- alternate the flour and water until the flour and water are all in then continue to add flour until the dough forms a single mass. The dough will still be sticky to the touch but shouldn’t be sticking to the bowl sides. Let your machine kneed the dough for about ten minutes then stop and let it rise for about 30 mins. (optionally: Knock the dough down and let it rise again for about 30 mins.) Place the dough in loaf pans and let rise 20-30 mins and then bake at about 375 for about 20 minutes.
40 Trash bag challenge:
I am on week 8. I will be moving the challenge to the side bar so you can still keep up with it. It has been a lot of fun especially as the children have gotten involved.
One Space a day Challenge:
I have had so much fun with my bags that I am starting an organizing challenge for myself. The goal will be to de-clutter and organize one small area a day for thirty days in six weeks. One shelf, one drawer, a desktop, counter top or cupboard. I plan to do before and after shots for this round.
“Every Sandwich Tells a Story”
But Subway won’t will let kids tell theirs if they are in a home school.
I heard about this in an email and was all set to be up in arms about it until I read that the grand prize was $5000 worth of athletic equipment for the child’s school. I don’t think we really could make good use of the athletic equipment, at least not 5k worth. That said, sure Subway could have worded the ad sensibly and more sensitively or even allowed the homeschooled students to designate an elementary school to benefit, but I don’t think this was meant as a slight against homeschoolers.
Cooking Catholic!
Julie at Happy Catholic found one of the coolest links Catholic Cuisine. Food for feat days and the liturgical year.
Say it like you mean it.
The Anchoress never fails to provide something worth watching. This is fantastic. Give Taylor Mali a watch and tell me what you think.
I am bumping this back up in light of a fantastic post at Woman Honor Thyself. You know, the post just was like so cool…
Like a wave or something
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai
Frugality, it is sweeping the nation like some sort of wave or something. I laughed when I heard this on NPR yesterday. Featured on the Your Money segment was Natalie McNeal, who’s blog is The Frugalista Flies: The frugal side of fabulous. I haven’t really checked it out. I am not, and really have no pretensions to being, “fabulous”. Since I don’t do manicures or club-nights to start with I am not about to give them up. But I still love the idea of the blog. Especially for single women I think there is a lot of pressure to be “in” and to have and do all those things that everyone else is doing.
One thing Natalie said yesterday was that letting your family and friends know you are tightening the budget will help you stay on the wagon. It is true. In fact I will go one further and say, “Your girlfirends are probably shuddering over their Visa statements too. If you say, ‘Hey, I am cutting back on spending let’s go to the free concert in the park instead of the club this weekend?’ you might find them grateful.”
One other thing she mentioned was acountablity and how blogging about her budgetting adventures helped her stay on track. I completely agree with that, which is one reason I started my 40 Trash Bag Challenge. Just knowing that people who read my blog will see the progress (or lack there of) with my de-cluttering efforts is a huge incentive to keep going with it.
A very early Lent
If you think Lent is really early this year you are correct. Easter this year is nearly as early as it can be, as you probably know Easter is celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, or the Paschal moon. Lent begins forty days before Easter. I was reading these interestesting facts about the date of Easter at Wikipedia:
In the Western Church, Easter has not fallen on the earliest of the 35 possible dates, March 22, since 1818, and will not do so again until 2285. It will, however, fall on March 23 in 2008, but will not do so again until 2160. Easter last fell on the latest possible date, April 25, in 1943 and will next fall on that date in 2038. However, it will fall on April 24, just one day before this latest possible date, in 2011.
The cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date, happening 220,400 times, or 3.9% compared to a mean for all dates of 162,857 times, or 2.9%.
So, yes this is really early for Lent to start.
Photographs from days gone by
I was reading at Happy Catholic and she reports that The Library of Congress has set up a flickr account with some of their collection online. I am so happy. Maybe I shouldn’t be this might turn into a huge timesink.
Oh, this is fun!
The Anchoress had this lovely find and I just had to put it here to:
Simply Catholic 
