Searching for a Balance

  I put on my little wellies and sloshed outside to throw more cardboard into the raised bed. It rained all day yesterday with a lighter rai...

 I've read that is one has lots of debt in several places, it's best to pay off the smallest, then the next, and so on. Well, I'...

  It was cold this morning.

 Hurricane Ophelia has been passing by at a distance, and so there's been a couple of rainy days here. I spent some time today switching...

 "Come to me, all you that yearn for me, and be filled with my fruits; you will remember me as sweeter than honey, better to have than ...

 A true September day - the stillness of it. I can hear insects repeating themselves in the way they do, but otherwise, it's quiet. No b...

I first posted about this nine years ago! Well, it's still excellent. I'm talking about the chocolate avocado pudding: Heat up 1/2 c...

 The stay under this thing which generates warmth for them.  I picked this one up today - so cute!

 I couldn't get the chick photos off my tablet for some reason, so I'll have to take some more tomorrow. They grow fast. I made the ...

 "I will cleanse them of all the guilt they incurred by sinning against me; all their offenses by which they sinned and rebelled agains...

We're having some nice weather, but it still feels like summer, just late summer. I can hear the katydids outside now.  A customer gav...

 Today was dry and beautiful. Which is saying something, because it's been so humid and un-September-like. But at the beginning of the m...

 I have encountered, tonight, video after video on youtube, the same message. These prayerful people, Protestants I think   GOD SPOKE TO MY ...

 There's a rumbling in the distance; this goes on every day, with rain of course, and high humidity. I think Thursday will bring dry air...

 A fellow from the phone company came on Friday when my brother was home for lunch - that was nice! I was getting a little more reading done...

 I'm at work right now, and posting this because we lost our internet at home yesterday; the phone company is coming Monday morning to f...

  I took this photo at the library, and it's a little incubator with seven eggs within. There is a program that equips your school, libr...

 I noticed that the cats were vying for the north window in the spare bedroom; my room has the same exposure, so I looked out. I have no ide...

 It's Labor Day here in the U.S. I just found out it originated as a "Monday holiday" , the first Monday in September, startin...

 I was alarmed one day to see a rabbit out my window, with something around its neck. That was disturbing; had someone tried to put a collar...

The collect from Mass this morning struck me: O God, who cause the minds of the faithful to unite in a single purpose, grant your people to ...

 I'm reading The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton. Our main character is in a dangerous situation, but thought he was quite alon...

 We had a lively thunderstorm yesterday morning while getting ready for work, the kind that makes you nervous about washing up but you know ...

The above is a quote from Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams. More of that later. I had a cute pillow from the thrift store, from w...

 Gretchen would like the recipe for flatbread I made yesterday. You mix together: 150g spelt flour, 150g rye flour, 1 tsp. instant dry yeast...

 Last night I decided I should make bread today. This morning I was reading Gretchen's blogpost and when she got to the part about maki...

 O God of love, grant us your peace, Within each restless mind. May all our inner turmoil cease, God, show us how to find Your quiet rest, y...

 I'm nearing the end of the Adams-Jefferson letters. From John Adams, Dec. 2, 1811: I have been deeply afflicted with the account of you...

 The very rainy weather pattern we were in seems over, and it's actually been September-like at times, in the high seventies and how eig...

 "What God's voice tells us is the true story of his incredible love for us. No other storyteller, however gifted, can paint for us...

 Saturday was the feast of saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Martha's behavior in the bible story always gets the critical eye, doesn...