Susan's Pendulum

Yesterday I had started the grain soaking for my bread. And then I forgot. Shoot -- I didn't want to leave the grain soaking overnigh...

Did you know that if you wear sandals and cotton socks outdoors in 2-3" of snow, that your socks will get snowy? And when they get sno...

"Keep Christ in CHRISTmas." "Put Christ back into Christmas." I see it on shopping bags, lapel pins, signs in front of c...

What homesteaders have in common is the desire to be more self-reliant. To be more pro-active in planning and living their life. They valu...

I had hoped to go visit my folks this weekend. But I heard the weather warnings. Snow. Ice. Freezing rain. I think maybe I'll postp...

Back in the ancient days, when I was in college, back when people programmed computers in Fortran and Cobol, there was a conundrum of how di...

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you, Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be a...

There's not a whole lot of Christmas preparation goin' on here. There probably won't be either. It's not so much an object...

Emily started her own meme of sharing Three Christmas Memories that you have, be they good or bad, hilarious or just plain odd. (I'm ...

My son's alma mater (the second-largest public university in the state) is in the midst of a controversy over an upcoming lecture. Wal...

Okay, I admit it. I'm ADD and distractible. Someone asked me to read "Dark Night of the Soul" by St John of the Cross. So I...

We have recently enjoyed Monsters Inc and Ratatouille . It amazes me how they can make movies these days that are appropriate and such gre...

The vets who take care of cows, sheep, pigs, and horses are the vets who know that cats and dogs are animals and not people. They know that...

Snopes confirms another computer virus making the rounds disguised as postcards or online greeting cards. The thing that I never know, tho...

Ouch! Oh, the pain! Ouch ouch ouch! I neeeeed to get rid of stuff in the house. It doesn't hurt much to send clothes to Goodwill. Weed...

Sometimes a mother might have to gently nudge her child next to her in the pew and point to the spot on the page of the hymnal. El-Kiddo ge...

Do you suppose that maybe, just maybe, God knows what's good for me ... even when I am confused and uncomfortable and in pain? I might ...

Over the last weeks, my father was having a hard time figuring out that he was in the hospital. When he knew he was in the hospital, he was...

Pastor told us the story of when he was visiting a shut-in shortly before he died. The man asked "if he needed a beer." As it wa...

Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up m...