Susan's Pendulum

The funeral yesterday evening for Milly was crowded with non-members. Our insurance agent sat in front of me. The librarian was a couple r...

A couple of years ago, I walked into Woodman's to find glasses in one of the carts near the entrance, the carts where over-ripe bananas ...

42. Both the leaves and the flowerheads are much bigger in RED CLOVER than in white clover. And red clover doesn't have the gloriousl...

38. There are lots of different fleabanes, but since I love daisies so much, the DAISY FLEABANE is one of my favorites. Fleabane looks qu...

35. When you see it from a distance, SPOTTED KNAPWEED makes you think of Canada thistle. But it's not. No prickles. Different genus...

I give up. (Y'know, I think we finally gave up on the real pool about 4 months ago.) After some frustration at the beach, culminating...

I'm trying to think if there's anything I hate more than car shopping. Hours and hours online, sorting through ads. Finally findin...

Why would anybody take a perfectly wonderful peach, full of juicy sweetness, raw and healthy, and do anything but eat it "plain"? ...

Saturday was the zoo-day for Gary's workplace. No, they weren't all supposed to act like monkeys that day. It was a day AT the zoo...

Something noticed in recent months: a cat smell. When we were house-hunting, some houses had a cat smell and others didn't. I'm no...

Katie asked how to make these, as she does not have the church-cookbook collection that I have. There are so many recipes for this, with mi...

Forgetting has been the problem of late. I put in a load of laundry, turn on the machine, and discover that I forgot the detergent. I disco...

29. I didn't take the picture. Most of the ST JOHN'S-WORT was done blooming shortly before I started this ID-ing venture. St Joh...

This is from Barb Wieting, and Jane asked for the recipe today. Since I'm not sure if Rachel and Katie have it (and I know they'...

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out. For of Hi...

Look -- no longer a binder! The second edition -- which has been edited to go with LSB -- is now available .

I don't like to clean for company. I don't want to clean for company. I want to live in our house at the cleanliness level we can en...

These may be obvious species to many of us, but I need my youngest to learn them too. So here's #25, CORN . And this corn is going to ...

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be li...

Today's selection from Day by Day We Magnify Thee includes this: Secular authority is an image, symbol, and likeness of the authority o...