Menu Monday

After missing last weeks post about our weekly menu, I noticed one thing. I didn't really stick with my plans for the week. Hopefully this post will get me back on track.

Monday

Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, either green beans or peas, and salad that was leftover from dinner last night.

Tuesday

Leftover Beef Roast (need to try something new and interesting here), leftover mashed potatoes, and the asparagus that is left in the crisper.

Wednesday

The Tuna Casserole I was going to make last Friday.

Thursday

Leftover Spicy Turkey Soup and some type of sandwich.

Friday

Lazy Perogies, cause I really hope youngest DS is coming home and he loves these.

Saturday

Chicken Cordon Bleu, Rice, and corn.

Sunday

Pork Roast, potatoes, and carrots.

I may be able to make a dessert for the upcoming weekend. I am sure even if it is only cookies, DS will be extremely happy.

Everybody have a wonderful day.

God bless.

Sunday Ramblings

I have finished with the Lay Presided Services for awhile now I hope. I think that these took more out of me than I thought they would.

Most people seemed just fine with them, but a few of our regular parishioners did not show up at all. Mainly because they services were in fact Lay Presided. Hmmm, wonder how they fulfilled their Sunday obligations, for some reason I don't think watching the Mass on TV actually counts.

Today's question at the end of the Homily (I can call it that because Father Brian wrote it) asked us Who do we see Christ in?

A hard question to answer without really thinking about it. The easy answer for me would be my husband and children. They accept me for who I am with all my human frailties and love me in spite of them. This question became harder when I looked beyond my immediate family and Father Brian. One could say I see glimpses of Christ in everyone I meet, but to really go beyond that is hard for me. Perhaps it is my own failings that cause this problem and it is something that will be an ongoing project to work on.

The house has been infested with small flies lately. You know the kind that look like fruit flies but are just a touch larger. I finally figured out where they were coming from when I watered my plants today.

My lovely poinsettia seems to be the culprit. I don't want to throw them out when they are still so beautiful, but it may come to that. Anyone have an idea or two that I could try to get rid of the pesky flies without getting rid of the plant?

Off to read a few blogs and then to do some more knitting.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Almost Done

Tonight I presided at my fourth Sunday Liturgy of the Word. Only two more to go and I will be home free.

This service did not have Communion and so only took about 1/2 hour. Amazingly everything went very well with the service. However, things did not go so well with the locking up of the church. One of the doors seems to be a bit cantankerous. While it opened nicely, it seemed to not want to lock back up. Refusing to have to spend the night in the church guarding the door I fiddled with it for about 15 minutes before I could get it to lock.

I think for tomorrows services I am going to stick a sign on it asking people to use one of the other doors. Saving me some time I hope.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless. 

A Wonderful Use It Up

We were discussing using things up in our homes on a forum I frequent and one of the posters Recovering Dreamer mentioned drying garlic, grinding it up and making garlic powder. Since I have a fairly large bag of garlic that I am working my way through I asked how she made her garlic powder. Wonderful woman that she is, she gave me directions and that is what part of my day has been spent doing.

I had to go downstairs and pull this out once again.

Proceeded to peel and slice the garlic as thinly as I possibly could. Hmmm, the garlic slices fell through the racks so I placed some plastic wrap on them and then put the garlic on top.

Proceeded to dry the garlic and once it was dry moved on to the next step, grinding to a powder.

Recovering Dreamer used her food processor to grind her garlic. Me, well I used one of the two coffee grinders we own.

I dumped the dry garlic slices into the grinder.

Put the lid on and pulsed a few times.

This is what I ended up with.

A lovely fresh garlic powder. I put it in an air tight container ready to use.

Drawback.....my house smells like garlic. Pros I managed to use up some of the garlic in the house. Tomorrow I plan on making some more. The old adage "Waste Not, Want Not" is the mantra this year in my home.

Check out her blog. The link is on my side bar..... A Life Beyond Money. There is always something new to learn there.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Thursday Tid Bits

Today has been a very relaxing day overall. I only worked for a few minutes this morning and my meeting tonight was cancelled. Perfect as far as the weather goes, it's cold, windy and not a fit night out for man or beast little lone a woman.


While it looks like a lovely winter's evening, the temperature with the wind chill is in the -30 C range. Very cold and only going to get colder as the sun disappears.

The really nice thing is that this picture was taken at around 6:20 pm and the sun is just beginning to go down. The days are getting longer, so even with the cold, storms, and wind I can tell spring is on the way. Oh, I can hardly wait until I look out my window and see something other than snow and ice.

Mind you one good thing about winter is that it gives a person lots of time to think and to craft!!!

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Working On One Of My Goals

As many of you probably remember I posted some goals at the end of last month for this month. One of those goals was to knit 10 Ruffle Scarves.

Thought I would share how far along I have gotten on that goal. One scarf is in the mail to the person who wished to buy it.

These are two of the three scarves I have finished.

This is what is on my needles right now.

Slowly but surely making my way through the yarn I picked out. It does look like I will be able to finish this goal on time. That is if nothing gets in the way.

Other than these scarfs and waiting on news about my niece's boyfriend there is really not much happening around here.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Really I am so very sorry that I have not been posting lately. There has just been so much going on not only with my new position at work, but another happening.

This past Friday our niece's boyfriend of many years was in a serious accident on the way home from an ice fishing trip. He was ejected from the vehicle he was in through the windshield. He is conscious, but still not breathing on his own. The CT scan today did not show any complications due to his back surgery (he fractured his back between C4 and C5), has some serious frostbite as help could not be gotten to him for awhile, and needed to have CPR in the Star's helicopter for 7 minutes before his heart started once again.

I am asking for prayers for his recovery from all of you.

Promise that I will be doing regular posts again very soon.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.