Quote of the Day

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

- L.M. Montgomery

(And somehow related to the family motto.)

VBS, day one

The good news: the hibiscus is going crazy this week so we actually get to enjoy it before vacation.

The bad news: "red sky at morning."

It did indeed rain on this first day of VBS. The first time I ever remember it raining on the already-crazy Monday. Fortunately, we had a plan and things went well in spite of the weather. Tomorrow's rain may push us a little closer to the edge though.

Bulletin Board

What was that Bulletin Board category (in the Pioneer Press) where people described encountering the same new word two times right together?

Swabia: (Swey-bee-uh) A historical region of southwest Germany that originally included parts of present-day France and Switzerland.

In the book I'm currently reading, Father Dietrich (a 14th century priest) is marveling at the Swabian imagination. (Little does he know that he's about to encounter all manner of sci-fi craziness.)

In my kitchen, the spatzle I purchased from Aldi are labeled as Swabian egg noodles.

You may thank me for your (probably) worthless bit of trivia for the day.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

- Herman Melville