Hallelujah – the 50 years accumulated clutter that my grandmother left in our basement is G-O-N-E, Gone! Special thanks to my mom and dad who came and took most of it to the dump and some of it to Goodwill this morning. The only depressing thing – seeing how much is left…. OURS. And we’ve [...]
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Oh, to have read this article during my first year of marriage – bitterness is such a sickening disease. Praise God for for the sanctifying influence of marriage! I went through the pile of papers on my counter this afternoon, which included at least 6 invitations to graduations and weddings. When I was done I had a large pile of envelopes, second envelopes and those little tissue paper inserts people stick into their invitations. No offense to anybody reading this whose invitation made [...] Mystie recommended Mary Pride’s Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling because of the section of the book devoted to explaining several home schooling methods (at least 4 of which I’d never heard of before). The paragraph at the beginning of the chapter on Classical Education & Great Books by Fritz Hinrichs caught my attention:\par Most [...] I finally found a book that has a description of making sourdough bread without commercial yeast that answers all of the questions I’d been unable to answer by googling!\’c3\’82\’c2\~ Apparently, my first starter might have been just fine – I just didn’t let the bread rise long enough! It seems that all of the instructions [...] On Monday evening we went for a walk, and when we got back I noticed that my right calf was sore – I’d been favoring my right toe by walking on the outside of my foot – without really even noticing it. Ever since then my toe’s been getting a little more noticeably sore, but [...] World had an article about the mixed responses to the new movie “The Da Vinci Code” in its most recent issue. I’m pretty well certain that I don’t want to contribute $8 to the producers of a blasphemous film – but should I perhaps feel obligated to get it out of the library and read [...] It’s 84 degrees outside today! That’s hot for around here it seems like – especially in early May! We’ve been avoiding moving too much, and this afternoon we went to two air-conditioned places – the library and Fred Meyer. It’s much cooler down here in the basement, but there’s not too much normal housework type [...] Need a new tool to pick up all of those long hairs imbedded in the carpet that catch your toes as you walk along? Vacuum cleaner not doing it’s job? I have a simple, easy, cheap solution:\par An update on my newest passion – bread. I started a sourdough starter on May 2 with whole wheat flour (from Winco) and water and fed it every 24 hours, except when I was at my parents this weekend. I’ve made biscuits with it (OK, but nothing special) and pancakes with it (pretty good – [...] Mystie asked:\par Geste at Home #4:\par \par We had a busy weekend! On Friday morning, Michael climbed up on a step stool and tore out part of the bathroom ceiling from back when the shower leaked through the basement bathroom ceiling. While he was doing that, I was running around packing for our trip – to my parents for Ben and Emeth’s [...] I’ve been thinking about this Universal Curriculum thing… I intended it to be a gradual thing, but still as I ponder what else I would put in a “life textbook” for my kids I am rather disappointed with how few things come to mind! It seems I haven’t been learning very much after all! I’m reading the Scarlett Letter with Alice right now, and it’s taken a good long time to even get around to mentioning Hester Pryne. But as I read the lengthy descriptions of non-essential personnel at\’c3\’82\’c2\~ Custom House (port tax office) and the dulling effect of government employment on the author, this sentence caught my eye:\par It [...] Pay for convenience. If you talk about doing a process, somebody will always say “you know, they have these thing-a-ma-jigs now that make that a whole lot easier!” And they’re always more expensive than doing it the old-fashioned way. There are exceptions to that – when economies of scale come into play – it\’c3\’82\’c2\~might be [...] |
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