Susan's Pendulum

As long as I'm making recommendations for local businesses, there is a great apartment manager in Walworth. For those who are in need o...

Most of you who read my blog aren't going to care about this, but I just gotta sing the praises of a local businessman, in case anybody ...

With Gary having a full-time secular job, the congregation is no longer paying for health insurance through Concordia Plans. With Gary havi...

Late last spring, our cat Athena was getting to be so much cuddlier and schmoozier. She would occasionally jump on laps to be petted. She ...

We're going to be moving. Instead of having Gary commute to work daily or live apart from the family, it seems better to us for the fam...

We pray at mealtimes: The eyes of all look to You, O Lord, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open Your hand and satisfy t...

Boy, John McCain has called me so many times tonight! When Gary called in the middle of the evening, I surprised to find it was my husband ...

I finally came up with a solution! The pepper grinder we'd had for years finally quit. The gears were just worn out. I bought a cheapy...

That Ug-guy (the one who buys ugly houses) is in the business of taking fixer-uppers off the market. When Ug gets to them first and makes s...

Again this week, we shipped off Gary to Milwaukee with a suitcase packed for the whole week. The weather forecast looks like the only time ...

Our internet connection was down for 14 hours. And now that it CAN operate, it does so only with difficulty. It's very hard to check e...

So cold that the tires froze to the garage floor. So cold that the knob on church door froze, and the pastor's key was broken off in the...

Of course, Paul's glasses would fall out of his pocket and be lost forever in a snowbank only one short week after we're no longer ...

When one of my children was just a little toddler, the end of his finger was cut off in a door-slamming incident which would forever give me...

All week, I've had something on my feet to deal with the germies in my chest. Sometimes I've put on vaseline as the "glue...

The zone LWML prayer breakfast was scheduled for our church this morning. Most of the attendees would be in their 60s to 80s, and most woul...

Since 3:00 yesterday afternoon we have been having "snow showers." The snow is deep. The roads are hazardous. Businesses, churc...

Site Meter is an online tool that tracks the visitors to a website, temporarily recording what city they're from, what time they check y...

Pastor tells us that one of the blessings of tribulation is that it incites us to pray. He says that people can go on their merry way, thin...

The insurance called today and told me that the van is a total loss. She defined that for me: it will cost more to fix than it's worth....