Easter

May all of you have a joyous Easter.

He is risen!!!!

God bless.

Good Friday

Today was our Good Friday service. The second part of the Tridium, and for the first time the church was packed.

The celebration was solemn but also filled with expectation and joy. Solemn, because Christ gave up his life so that we might live, but filled with joy because we know he rose and will come again. Part of the celebration in the Catholic faith is the veneration of the cross. I was a candle bearer beside the cross and watching all the people come forward, touch, kneel, or kiss the cross was extremely moving. Watching the procession from a different perspective gives one a different out look. People while showing great reverence also showed great joy. As they turned away from the cross and met my eye they smiled and seemed at peace. Thus they imparted peace to me.

My family is all home now and I may not get a chance to post much in the coming days, perhaps a picture or two, perhaps more.

As Christ said "My peace I give you." May you all find peace and joy.

Have a wonderful evening.

God bless. 

Thursday Tid Bits

Well, the Tridium has begun. I love this time I  the church. I don't however like the smell of the incense, it usually makes me cough. This time however it did not seem to be as strong.

We got a phone call from Kurt a couple of nights ago. It seems that he was trying out a new exercise and heard something rip in his arm. He was in great pain to begin with and headed to the hospital in his small center. After waiting a few hours he was looked at by the on call physician and told they figured it was only a minor tear of the tendon. He wasn't so sure a of that and so headed in to Calgary when he found a sub to teach his classes a day later.

Turns out that the tear could be worse than the home physician thought. He will be having an ultra sound on the arm next Thursday. If it is as bad as this second doctor thinks he will have to undergo surgery and have 4 to 6 months of healing and physiotherapy to look forward to.

Poor guy. It isn't fun having a cast on your arm during the hot summer.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

PS I did this post on my tablet and now have come back in and seen all the mistakes. Darn automatic spell check. Hopefully corrected and now everything makes sense.

God bless.

Monthly Goals and Project Declutter

First off I thought I might let everyone know how I am doing on Project Declutter. This month not as much left the house. I only recycled, tossed or donated 63 items. However my total for the year so far is 470. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

I am keeping it simple this month. Some of my goals are on going, and two are new.

1.   I am continuing with the scanning of pictures and the burning of DVD's.

2.   I will sew the green table cloth for the prayer table at one of the schools.

3.   Continue working on the dragon cross stitch.

4.   Complete items for the Family Reunion Silent Auction.

5.   Complete some of the goals from previous months.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Thrifty Tuesdays and Update on Months Goals

Perhaps the thriftiest thing I did today was not leave the house except for a couple of very frugal walks for exercise. This means I did not spend anything at all. Every month I set a number for the days I will try not to spend anything. This month I set 20 no spend days as my goal and I am happy to announce that I actually made 23 days without spending. Very, very, thrifty!

When we went on our stock up trip I mentioned buying sandwich meat in large rolls. Sunday and Monday were spent slicing and packaging it up for future use.

This is the summer sausage sliced and packaged.

Here is the ham, sliced and packaged for the freezer.

The roast chicken breast was next to be sliced and made ready.

I don't have photos of the bacon and the salami, but we got 6 1 lb packages of bacon and 6 packages of salami.

Total cost to buy everything was $100.00 and by slicing it all we managed to get what would have cost us over $300.00 at a grocery store presliced and packaged!! We saved over $200.00 and have sandwich meat and bacon to last us months. All it took was a bit of time.

Now an update on my goals for this month. I am sorry to say that I did not do as well as usual.

1.   Continue with the cross stitch dragon.  I have been working on this and can see the end in sight. It isn't done yet but getting very close.

2.   Work on using up those odds and ends of yarn.  I have put this aside for now as I need to get working on some other projects, but I did manage to get a few of those odd ball pieces used up

3.   Declutter the house.   I managed to keep on doing this as I spring cleaned rooms and will update you all on "Project Declutter" tomorrow.

4.   Scan pictures and burn DVD's.   I am getting these done as fast as I possibly can. I do believe that this will be another ongoing goal for the year. I am about 1/3 done and getting much faster. Hoping for only another month or two on this project.

5.   Start bedding plants.   I did get this goal completed. I have started my Moonflowers, some more ivy and some tomatoes.

So I did manage a few things but not as much as I would like to have gotten done.

Everyone have a wonderful evening.

God bless. 

Menu Monday

Another lovely week is here. The sun is shining and very soon if this keeps up we will get to use the BBQ for grilling more often.

Here are this weeks menus. Remember I can and do move them around often.

Monday

Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, crusty buns, and perhaps some pudding for dessert.

Tuesday

Leftover Roast Beef from Sunday. I think Roast Beef Sandwiches (can use up the leftover gravy that way) coleslaw, fries, and the leftover pudding for dessert.

Wednesday

I work today so once home I will be using up the leftovers from Monday and making Baked Spaghetti.

Thursday

Steak in Mushroom Sauce, mashed potatoes, and the remaining coleslaw if I haven't used it up. If the coleslaw is gone I will make green beans.

Friday

Some of the cod we bought on our stock up trip, along with fries and a salad of some sort.

Saturday

Our big Easter meal as youngest DS will be heading back home tomorrow. We will be having Ham, Potato Salad, carrots, pickles, cheese, and probably a cake and ice cream for dessert.

Sunday

Leftovers from our meal last night or if they are eaten at lunch perhaps something lighter like soup and sandwiches.

So there you have it. What we plan on eating for the next week.

Everyone have a wonderful day.

God bless.

Sunday Ramblings

It is Palm Sunday and the Passion was read in church today. I was narrator for the first time and by the end of the Passion my knees were shaking. I was so worried that I missed a page and made a fool of myself, something that I should not have worried about as I was helped by the Spirit. Makes one realize that everything is in God's hands.

Reading the Passion also enabled me to enter into the story in a way I never have before. Christ gave up his life so that we could have life. He opened our way to God by tearing the veil to the Holy of Holy's in the temple. This was the main thought behind Mark's Passion story. It enables us to have a direct contact with our Lord.

The rest of my day was spent scanning pictures, processing the meat from our stock up trip (putting things in meal sized packages, slicing the sandwich meat) and just enjoying this perfect spring day.

Thought I would share a few of my stock ups with you all.

I went to Micheal's and bought sale yarn. Not like I don't have enough to start up a small store of my own.

As I said all the yarn I bought was on sale. I also purchased some embroidery thread that I was close to running out of. The round cake pan was not on sale, but I have the largest round pan and thought buying another round pan could make me think about making a tiered cake. I am hoping to do that for Harvey's birthday this year. Kind of a family celebration as he turns 65.

I also made a stop at Fabricland.

Once again everything I bought was on sale using my Customer Card. I picked up a lovely patterned knit to make a skirt with, some stretch denim that I am thinking of making a skirt with (I could use a denim skirt) and a burnt orange to use in a quilt.

I also picked up some more sewing machine needles. One never knows when they will come in handy.

The spools of thread are embroidery thread for my embroidery machine. I am trying to build up a good selection to use in projects.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.