Very Very Busy Day. I cleaned most of the kitchen, the dishwasher repairman came, went to Plymouth to have lunch and then to Sheboygan Falls to finish planning the Thank You dinner for the volunteers at Blessed Trinity. I got home just in time to fix dinner for Dick and me before heading out for four hours of work at Rhine Plymouth. It was a beautiful evening and we have 23 league teams so we were really hopping. Bobbie and I actually came home at about 9:30PM. The crowd was still pretty thick, but they were done shooting and probably will hang out there for at least a couple more hours. We don't drink or smoke so hanging around there isn't a big WOO for us.
Tomorrow I don't have to go anywhere at all.
I think I am hungry for chocolate. I must think of something chocolate that is not a huge enough recipe to feed the county. Perhaps cupcakes or brownies or something like that. I will let you know.
Here is a Psalm for going to bed which I will be doing ANY MINUTE.
I will lie down and sleep in peace; for you alone, O Lord, make me rest secure. Psalm 4:8
Mary
Friday, April 15, 2005
Thursday, April 14, 2005
I fixed Hamburger Helper for supper tonight. I had a box down there that HAD to be used as I don't even KNOW how old it was. I decided not to check the expiration date. It was quite good as they usually are. I used ground turkey instead of beef. I also found a recipe for a really great pea salad in the Taste of home. It is quite simple.
Mix together:
1 lb thawed peas
1 8 oz can drained sliced water chestnuts
1/2 cup chopped red sweet pepper
1/3 cup chopped red onion
In another bowl combine:
Mix 1/2 cup mayonese
1/2 teasp garlic sauce
1 teasp. dill weed
Stir together. Let sit for a bit to meld the flavors and serve. Really crunchy and good.
Tomorrow, Joan Schueffner and I will be finalizing the plans for the Thank You Dinner at Church. We have over 100 people coming, closer to 150 so far so I believe that it will be very successful.
Had choir and bell practice tonight. I really enjoy the bells and will like them even more when I feel more secure and sure of myself. One of them has Aunt Helen's name on it so I feel a special closeness to her. I still miss her. She was REALLY my best friend. I am sure she watches over me.
Love
Mary
Mix together:
1 lb thawed peas
1 8 oz can drained sliced water chestnuts
1/2 cup chopped red sweet pepper
1/3 cup chopped red onion
In another bowl combine:
Mix 1/2 cup mayonese
1/2 teasp garlic sauce
1 teasp. dill weed
Stir together. Let sit for a bit to meld the flavors and serve. Really crunchy and good.
Tomorrow, Joan Schueffner and I will be finalizing the plans for the Thank You Dinner at Church. We have over 100 people coming, closer to 150 so far so I believe that it will be very successful.
Had choir and bell practice tonight. I really enjoy the bells and will like them even more when I feel more secure and sure of myself. One of them has Aunt Helen's name on it so I feel a special closeness to her. I still miss her. She was REALLY my best friend. I am sure she watches over me.
Love
Mary
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Here it is Wednesday. It was chilly this morning when we walked and really did not get over 50. It is supposed to warm up on the weekend. We are really in need of some rain.
The best friends are comfort friends
The friends that come in youth
The ones with whom we shared missing teeth
Acne, lies and truth.
The above is the start of a poem I am working on.
Had lunch today with several of the "comfort friends" that I graduated from high school with. We ate at the Firehouse in Sheboygan Falls. We graduated 47 years ago and try to get together every couple of months.
Wendy Shrank had given me copies of some writings of Gerry Gartzke, a man, who lives in the old Brickner Woolen Mill apartments and is very ill with cancer. She asked me if I had come up with any ideas for publishing the writings. I have been thinking that perhaps we should produce a bbiography of Gerry to give meaning and background to the reader and include the writings throughout the biography. She is going to see if perhaps he would be up to the two of us interviewing him to try to put this together. He does have good days and bad days as he is very ill.
My cousin David Bowser, it trying to convince me to help him put a book together of the Bowsers and trying to sweeten the idea for me by including the Deeleys (who are not related to him at all.) I would like both of these projects but am a bit afraid of the committment. However, I will be done with council this summer and then can keep my church stuff down to just helping with events and choir.
I hope I don't bore you with my days and plans. It is really nice for me to be able to recap the day and include my dreams.
My brother Jeff had hernia surgery today. Mother said he is home and OK but say a little prayer for him.
A William Jones said "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
Be well
Mary
The best friends are comfort friends
The friends that come in youth
The ones with whom we shared missing teeth
Acne, lies and truth.
The above is the start of a poem I am working on.
Had lunch today with several of the "comfort friends" that I graduated from high school with. We ate at the Firehouse in Sheboygan Falls. We graduated 47 years ago and try to get together every couple of months.
Wendy Shrank had given me copies of some writings of Gerry Gartzke, a man, who lives in the old Brickner Woolen Mill apartments and is very ill with cancer. She asked me if I had come up with any ideas for publishing the writings. I have been thinking that perhaps we should produce a bbiography of Gerry to give meaning and background to the reader and include the writings throughout the biography. She is going to see if perhaps he would be up to the two of us interviewing him to try to put this together. He does have good days and bad days as he is very ill.
My cousin David Bowser, it trying to convince me to help him put a book together of the Bowsers and trying to sweeten the idea for me by including the Deeleys (who are not related to him at all.) I would like both of these projects but am a bit afraid of the committment. However, I will be done with council this summer and then can keep my church stuff down to just helping with events and choir.
I hope I don't bore you with my days and plans. It is really nice for me to be able to recap the day and include my dreams.
My brother Jeff had hernia surgery today. Mother said he is home and OK but say a little prayer for him.
A William Jones said "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
Be well
Mary
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Yesterday, I forgot.
I was busy most of the day. In the morning I went to church for bible study. We had a lively discussion. Tom and Kathy Keyes are back and it adds to the group to have them there. The discussion was on the Resurection. Without the Resurection, what good would Jesus' death have been. The Resurrection gives hopt to us all and a promise.
The afternoon was occupied by Writer's Club. We had a speaker this time. Rachel Pennington, who wrote, The Christmas Tree Ship , came to speak to us. She had also worked for Mark Victor Hanson and Jack Canfield, who do Chicken Soup for the Soul books. I heard Mark Victor Hanson speak several times in my "previous life". He spoke for Amway and for Realtors. He is a dynamic man, very good looking and very Christian. He is a hugger so we got along well. He would not remember me but I remember him as a really inspiration speaker and a warm individual. I remember a quote of his that really impressed me. He said, "God did not make the diamonds of this world for the devil's children." The context of the saying is that God made a beautiful world and that he does expect his children to realize the beauty and wonder of it.
love
Mary
I was busy most of the day. In the morning I went to church for bible study. We had a lively discussion. Tom and Kathy Keyes are back and it adds to the group to have them there. The discussion was on the Resurection. Without the Resurection, what good would Jesus' death have been. The Resurrection gives hopt to us all and a promise.
The afternoon was occupied by Writer's Club. We had a speaker this time. Rachel Pennington, who wrote, The Christmas Tree Ship , came to speak to us. She had also worked for Mark Victor Hanson and Jack Canfield, who do Chicken Soup for the Soul books. I heard Mark Victor Hanson speak several times in my "previous life". He spoke for Amway and for Realtors. He is a dynamic man, very good looking and very Christian. He is a hugger so we got along well. He would not remember me but I remember him as a really inspiration speaker and a warm individual. I remember a quote of his that really impressed me. He said, "God did not make the diamonds of this world for the devil's children." The context of the saying is that God made a beautiful world and that he does expect his children to realize the beauty and wonder of it.
love
Mary
Sunday, April 10, 2005
The day was beautiful again. Chelsea and I saw some daffodils blooming down the street and Mother has a few opening too.
Jim and Bobbie and I went shooting today. I am not doing as well as the first week. I think the sites have been bumped a bit as I have to aim right or be really left and low. I is hard to adjust. Jim is going to help me adjust them next Sunday.
We had my famous Lasagna Soup for supper tonight. My lasagna is usually spoonable, not easily served in wedges, the first day we eat it - thus Lasagna Soup. The last few times it was pretty well set up and I think Dick and Jim were getting used to it. However, today we were back to the good old soupy stuff. It tastes great and will be nice and firm the next time I serve it. I has also made a rhubarb-blueberry pie which I now know is very tasty.
The Mass this morning was for Pope John Paul II and Fr. Gene told several stories of previous papal elections, including one who was only eighteen and reported to be the illegitimate son of the pope previous to him. Fortunately, he died just a few years later of a stroke, apparantly in the bed of a prostitued. As Fr. Gene said, not all the popes were holy or honorable. Pope John Paul II was that - honorable and holy. I may not have agreed with all that he did, but I never doubted his love for God and mankind.
If we get rain this week, I think I will see my herbs and the second peony come to life.
Love
Mary
Jim and Bobbie and I went shooting today. I am not doing as well as the first week. I think the sites have been bumped a bit as I have to aim right or be really left and low. I is hard to adjust. Jim is going to help me adjust them next Sunday.
We had my famous Lasagna Soup for supper tonight. My lasagna is usually spoonable, not easily served in wedges, the first day we eat it - thus Lasagna Soup. The last few times it was pretty well set up and I think Dick and Jim were getting used to it. However, today we were back to the good old soupy stuff. It tastes great and will be nice and firm the next time I serve it. I has also made a rhubarb-blueberry pie which I now know is very tasty.
The Mass this morning was for Pope John Paul II and Fr. Gene told several stories of previous papal elections, including one who was only eighteen and reported to be the illegitimate son of the pope previous to him. Fortunately, he died just a few years later of a stroke, apparantly in the bed of a prostitued. As Fr. Gene said, not all the popes were holy or honorable. Pope John Paul II was that - honorable and holy. I may not have agreed with all that he did, but I never doubted his love for God and mankind.
If we get rain this week, I think I will see my herbs and the second peony come to life.
Love
Mary
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