Susan's Pendulum

We have been eating lots of vegetables from our CSA . With a freezer full of beef, a stockpile of flour and yeast, and weekly boxes of fre...

I have loved having a laundry chute in the new house. No carrying laundry baskets up and down the stairs. Just drop the dirty clothes down...

Pr Peperkorn linked to an article by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway (just can't get used to these young folks' married names ... includ...

You know all those wussy little playgrounds that decorate the parks now? For whom are they constructed? It used to be that high slides and...

Lest anyone think I've forgotten , let me just say that I've refrained from writing or talking much this year on the subject . Alth...

I used a neti-pot and I am not dead! Raw garlic slices taped to the skin behind my ears. Raw garlic taped to my throat. Making turkey soup. ...

How can it possibly take TWELVE minutes to toast two pieces of bread and spread peanut butter on them? Twelve minutes! No wonder we get n...

Frost? Who said there could be frost this morning? What's up with this? Wasn't it just August a couple of days ago? Didn't I...

As my husband and I were talking over some ...uh... "conflicts" we have had with other people (as in, when somebody bites your hea...

Tonight was our celebration of the Feast of St Michael, transferred from last Monday. The statue of St Michael killing the devil (somewhat ...

Our Bible story today and tomorrow is Korah's rebellion (Numbers 16). Some of the Levites were not satisfied with the responsibilities ...

Paul Ryan (conservative Republican, well-versed in economics, who worked on crafting yesterday's bailout package) was on Charlie's ...

The media is telling us that this is the blackest time for economic news EVER. Even more than Black Tuesday at the end of 1929? That's...

Last Tuesday the kids and I attended another APT play with some homeschooling friends. Midsummer Night's Dream was a play I never und...

Katie asked for the following recipe, and this is what I have jotted down. Usually now I prepare it with real milk and real chicken stock i...

Over the last decade or so, I have given up on trying to remove splinters with a pair of tweezers. They just never worked. Instead, I woul...

In Thursday Bible class, Pastor was talking about the Father giving His Son, and so he brought up the ultimate icon of that: Abraham's ...

It's probably not big enough to note all the doctors appointments, kids' piano lessons, and family reunions, but it's still a gr...

One of us here is a total Hogan's Heroes fan (although she does prefer Beaver even more). One of the boys discovered something intere...

Although we didn't have as many people riding along with us as we'd originally hoped, two of my daughters and I headed off to Indian...