Susan's Pendulum

My husband tells me he's hearing ads now from desperate ethanol producers who are out to make us realize that ethanol has NOTHING to do ...

I spent most of the day trying to figure out which pictures and crucifixes and icons should go on what walls in which rooms, and which shoul...

Philip did me a big favor yesterday by sitting with Maggie at the beach while I did errands. While there, he saw a woman go by with a tatto...

WPA has long advised that parents filling out the PI-1206 request confirmation from the Dept of Public Instruction that the form was recei...

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with ...

About a week ago I finally got Maggie to the beach for the first time this summer. There's a county park nearby (only four miles!) that...

We have seldom had whole wheat noodles that were edible. They tend to make a gooey, sticky, mass of yuck when boiled. My friend Sandy make...

Over the past several weeks, we have been bumping into GOOD movies. First was Girl with a Pearl Earring . It's basically "histori...

Okay, I'm slow. Angie tagged me to play a long time ago, during symposium, right before VBS, and I was not keeping up very well on blo...

We finally gave up. We hauled the stuff off to Goodwill. In May, when I looked at prices for advertising a rummage sale in the Shopper-pap...

Thursday Bible class was in charge of providing dinner one night for VBS. I took a whoppin' big batch of steamed carrots. Okay, so it...

7. SMARTWEED has smooth-edged leaves and one of the thickest stems you'll find in a weed. It's not flowering yet, but when it doe...

I wrote a year and a half ago about finding underwear for the guys that lasts and lasts. Although it's more expensive initially, it...

After the septic system was installed, I seeded part of the mound, and the installer seeded the rest of the mound and the other places in th...

Sometimes you start a tradition without even realizing what you've gotten yourself into! In need of cheesecake one year, and with amp...

This week's psalm is the "resh" portion of 119. Verse 154: Revive me according to Your word. Verse 156: Revive me according to...

This morning's psalm in Congregation at Prayer was 135. It sounded remarkably similar to one of the psalms we prayed recently. I went...

Brenda is engaged in the challenge to find and identify 100 species of plants within walking distance of her home. The initial idea was p...

It's gonna make it hard to use bicycles for transportation if we don't have enough to go around. The top priority for yesterday was...

It probably took me 8 years at our old house before I figured out which direction was east. There's a big curve in the road --a rather ...