Susan's Pendulum

For more information, here's a website that lays things out pretty clearly. I would, however, be leery of their recommendation that yo...

I found nutrition information online, through a company that sells bottled kombucha. His claim is that there are 30 calories per 8 oz serv...

Katie pointed us to another article on ethanol and how it will harm both the economy and the environment. Philip has been asked to come i...

I enjoyed drinking kombucha before I discovered bottling. I have to admit that I tried to make a very small batch every night so that it wa...

Oh, I'm so proud of the guys! When we needed a new back door, the one purchased was chintzy and it was installed wrong. Within a year, ...

It's time for cleaning. Not the regular weekly vacuuming and dusting, but the looking-in-closets kind of cleaning. Today I eliminated ...

Just want to mention that kombucha stains. Not like tea, but worse. I have noticed that if I splash some kombucha onto the cloth cover whi...

Because of surgery, we just couldn't manage to make it to a theatre last December to see The Nativity Story . We watched it last night, ...

The kombucha "mushroom" is not a fungus. It's a symbiotic colony of yeast and bacteria. When a batch of kombucha tea is ferm...

Kombucha is a fermented sweet tea. It has a bit of a vinegary taste with some fizz. When aged, it can taste somewhat similar to a homebrew...

So many people today have complicated telephones with all sorts of technology embedded in them. When I call Kathy, she answers the phone wi...

We'd been doing some non-fiction reading aimed at the late 1700s in our country. We'd read some political science, a couple of biog...

A few years back, my husband and I decided to invite one of the old guys in the congregation over for an afternoon of dinner and poker lesso...

I remember when, as a child, my mom told me that the "poor pastor's family" could only afford one 8-pack of Pepsi a week. I p...

The day of the wedding was a mite chilly. Matt's mom pointed out that men's formal wear involves long sleeves, ties, and jackets. ...

Rachel and Matt's wedding was lovely. The processional was Pachelbel's Canon (with strings and organ) -- people from Fort Wayne are...

Mrs Mumme had a very good idea: plugging the CCA symposium on her blog. So I'm gonna copy her. The topic this year is especially tim...

We tend to homeschool year 'round ... except in February, when days are short and sunlight is in short supply and it seems that the only...

Pr Stuckwisch mused a bit on Friday, in light of dear little Oly's first communion today. It's a long long blogpost, which will put...

On Friday, my husband painted the church sign. Ya gotta understand that his congregation is accustomed to having a pastor for 2-3 years, the...