Susan's Pendulum

We picked enough beans earlier this week to add to a stirfry, but tonight was the first time I picked and got almost enough for the supper v...

A man had to attend a large convention in Chicago. On this particular trip he decided to bring his wife. When they arrived at their hotel an...

Combine 3/4 cup sugar and 2 Tablespoons cornstarch. Pour sugar over 1 quart of raspberries, and heat gently (do not cook!) until sugar melts...

My mom read me lots and lots of Arch books when I was little, and because of that I tend to know my Bible stories pretty well. But Sihon an...

One day, an immigrant from Poland entered a New York City Police Precinct to report that his American wife was planning to kill him. The pol...

It makes for a glorious day full of joy when a person doesn't try to do in one day what should normally be accomplished in the space of...

The tender, new, little plants are more likely to be nibbled by the bugs than are the bigger, stronger plants. Maybe sugar and caffeine and...

A customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods totaling a great deal of money. The distributor noticed that the previ...

The beginning of Psalm 148 calls on the angels and the Sabaoth, the sun, moon, and stars, the heavens, to praise the Lord. Then it says why...

Butter = $0.95 per cup Walmart's cheapest coconut oil = $1.40 per cup Real lard from the Darien butcher = $0.35 per cup Hydrogenated lar...

Since a couple of cyber-stalkers seem to have lost interest in my blog, I haven't been keeping a very close eye on my site-meter to kno...

In the past, I always got side-tracked during the late summer and early fall as I read Day by Day We Magnify Thee (also available in an upd...

We have books that need to be sold. I started listing Paul's textbooks from last semester on half.com. It's so hard to know how to...

Sunday's [three-year] epistle was from Ephesians 3 and began, "For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Chris...

We babysat Gus today! Oh boy oh boy oh boy! It's so NICE to know that somebody loves me enough that she feels comfortable calling and ...

Cheryl 's got a great little clip of Milton Friedman explaining to Phil Donahue why it's not a wretched, evil, terrible, nasty thin...

A husband looking through the paper came upon a study that said women use more words than men. He was excited to prove to his wife that he h...

Is this too warped? It was such a relief when the doctor said, "Oh, man! You are SO messed up! You are in terrible shape!" My t...

As we talked about the garden last night, Gary mentioned how nice it looks and how weed-free. He wasn't saying "thank you" an...

I have tried all sorts of ways to hold the tomatoes up. We've used the tomato cages; the weight of the tomatoes makes the cage fall ove...