day {month} book 2/7/2015

 

{Kate the cake-baker makes an appearance in our kitchen!}

 

For today… Saturday, February 7, 2015

Outside my window... White snow, bright snow.  {sunshine and snow.. which is melting – current temps in low 40s} 

And happy cows of course.

Hearing...  a Chopin CD along with the rumbling dryer

Pondering... balance

Praying for...

• young Micah and his family {waiting for more details}
• Denise –  her chemo treatments did not go well this past week
• Jill – enduring weird diet in prep for radioactive iodine treatment in two weeks
• Dr. Beal – president at Ambassador who suffered a serious concussion a few weeks ago {while playing basketball with students?!}  He is still home battling headache etc.
• Abby & Daniel – both at school
• Kate – at home! temporarily, preparing to travel overseas

 

Thankful...

{ Emily Burger Designs }

Creating... care packages <3

Going... to stay at home today – while my family is out for the day helping with a church event

Reading... the good, bad, and even some ugly

• Bible:  mostly Matthew, with an occasional Psalm.  Added these while in the middle of Joshua.  I should be spending more time in my Bible reading – for so many reasons.
• I enjoy and appreciate Dr. Hieb {I even voted for her for Iowa governor last November – and I might wish she could become the ‘health czar’ for our entire country}  Anyway, you can  {CLICK}  read one of her recent articles which goes well with this quote from a facebook-based friend:  “The vaccination issue is a litmus test. If someone does not understand the threats to to personal liberty, they never understood what liberty is.” [E.S.]
• you don’t need a link to find profanity-laden nonsense

• vitriol  noun vit·ri·ol \ˈvi-trē-əl\  : harsh and angry words

To confirm what you may be assuming, I am in the non-vax crowd {which of course includes a variety of individuals along with their varying motivations, so please don’t judge others by what I say or do – and vice versa}. 

However, I am not petitioning the state to mandate that everyone else live according to my beliefs and choices.

A different subject but there was also too much vitriol related to a local issue last several months.  Why so much? 

It’s all enough to give me cause to research alternatives to blood pressure meds… [or another good reason to deactivate my facebook account]

Looking forward to... the end of the media frenzy over ebola truck stops oil spills measles mandating vaccines

fyi – I just read that the measles strain in the Disneyland cases is identified as B3.  The MMR vaccine is reported to include measles genotype A.  Does that look like an important fact?

 

Is anyone concerned about ISIS?  Boko Haram?

 

Sorry, did that turn into a vent?

 

Another thanksgiving… The House of Representatives voted to repeal Obamacare.

 

In the kitchen... I have chicken stock bubbling and granola cooling.  {No leftover strawberry cake – that was delivered to my brother’s yesterday for a dinner party.}

Recent meals:  turkey roast, lasagna, burritos, turkey packets, pizza

Upcoming:  beef roast, chicken chimichangas, chili, chicken taquitos, calzones, gyros?

Also hoping to make this vegetable stir-fry again {Against All Grain}

In the learning rooms... We briefly skimmed through the Darwin-related chapters of Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave; I am now reading aloud the chapter on Karl Marx.

Circuitous arguments are common fallacies, but initially they are sometimes unrecognized because the circle is too large to be observed by some minds all at one time…. The circuitous arguments on which Darwinism and other axioms of science are built have become virtually foundational in modern education.  In this, there is great peril to the culture of our time.  The modern mind must force itself to rethink what it means when it speaks of this great, all-pervading, and sure knowledge that is called science. [Breese, p. 33]

…science cannot explain the moral nature of man, and therefore refuses to recognize the depths of sin into which man has fallen.  Its sees no need for redemption but only calls for education. [p.45]

Also for history – romantic era artists such as Constable, Delacroix, Goya, and Turner; composers Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Paganini, Schubert, Wagner.

Kate is hoping to learn a little Chinese.

Around the house... the usual stuff and dirt.  A large pile of classical CDs from the library…and Kate’s stuff too {some of which was supposed to stay in storage at the dorm}!

The Mother Load... today’s laundry; debone chicken; finish/bag granola for college kids; roll/cut/bake chilled sugar cookie dough; start tomorrow’s roast and prep veggies; special dessert??  The floors need vacuuming and mopping, furniture needs dusting, bathrooms need cleaning.  And then there’s last spring’s fall’s spring cleaning. 

I still want/need to seed my indoor window box with spinach, lettuce, cilantro, parsley; begin tax return prep; begin/finish a shutterfly photo book or two; learn how to register the Cowgirl for an accounting class for next fall.

But lest you think I am a do-nothing facebook bum {only} who neglects her blog for no good reason… I have hauled/mailed away our To Go Piles, baked and crafted for a benefit auction, caught up my ironing(!), ordered a variety of vitamins/supplements/oils, bought and mailed a birthday card (yes, that IS newsworthy and unusual), made countless spinach smoothies for us, and entered 3+ months of checkbook accounting into the computer.

 

Noticing that... sitting at the computer {for a long time}  is a sure way to give myself a backache

Something fun to share... Abby’s fellowship hosted the student body chapel service this week  – with a Gettysburg 1863 theme.  A couple weeks ago she was busy with her staining skills for banquet décor at church. {phone photos don’t enlarge very well}

 

A favorite quote for today... or two {more WordArt}

 

 

One of my favorite things...  Packer football.  ‘nuff said ~ till next season.

A few plans for the rest of the week...

Online Healthy Gut Summit begins on Monday – click here for daily schedule and registration – it’s FREE if you catch the lectures this week.

I’m sure sugar will be on the list of Bad Guys.  That should make birthday and Valentine’s celebrating so much more fun, don’t you think?

A peek into my world... last Sunday’s snow storm {Feb 1}

One final thought of thanksgiving… See that tractor with a bucket? and cab?  Nice for cold, windy weather and for clearing a path in our driveway.

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Giving credit where credit is due:

While I am not linking up with anyone, you could read more weekly news posts at other blogs by following any of these links:

• Peggy at the Simple Woman’s Daybook

• Julie for adapting this daybook version as her own ‘Grasshopper Days’ ~ Perhaps I could call it the GHV Daybook. :)

• You can also find a similar weekly meme in Happy Homemaker Monday at Sandra’s

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Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord,

that thou fulfil it. Colossians 4:17