The Last Bit of Peanut Butter in The Jar

Yesterday, I had just a little bit of peanut butter in a jar. I decided to try an experiment.  I fixed some ramen noodles... without the flavor packet... and then I put the noodles in jar and stirred them up.

Next, they went into a bowl.

Well... it was surprisingly good, and I plan to make it again, only next time I'll spoon the peanut butter onto the noodles.

And I won't wait for the jar to be almost empty.

One-Member Clubs Revisited

Imagine if one actually did found a single-member club.   I think that what would work best would be a card club.  That club would "meet" once a week, and would be dedicated to one of the many games of solitaire!

A Little Gift?

This may contains spoilers for those who haven't read "Papa's Wife," by Thyra Ferre Bjorn [which I'm reading for the umpteenth time!], so I will skip a few spaces.

The book is a mixture of fiction and nonfiction.  Yes, her father really was a Swedish Baptist minister with eight children, and yes, the family came to America when Thyra [fictional name Charlotte] was a teenager, just as they did in the book.

In the book, she was given the nickname "Button" when she was a newborn baby. I wonder if she was called "Button" in real life; I like to  think that she was.

Now for the spoiler.

In real life, Frans August Ferre [Papa] died and was buried in Massachusetts.  In the book, his fictional counterpart dies while he and Maria [Mama] are visiting Sweden for the first time since coming to America.  Deacon Lund, a character in the book, says: "God never makes a mistake.  Pastor Franzon taught us that.  He will sleep now, where he would have wanted to sleep his last sleep-in Swedish soil"

I like to think that having his fictional counterpart "sleep his last sleep... in Swedish soil" was Thyra Ferre Bjorn's little gift to her late, beloved Papa.

I'm SO Glad I Can Read This Online!

 Did the word "Glad" in the title make you think I was talking about one of the "Pollyanna" books?

"Love and Knishes
An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking
New Revised Edition"
by Sara Kasdan
[nonfiction, Jewish]
This book was a favorite of mine for years in the original
edition.  Even without the recipes, the anecdotes are worth
the price of the book.
[Excerpt from my "Books Read In The Past Week" post from July 13th, 2013]

This is another book lost when I moved; I've been able to replace some of them, and will replace others in the future.   There are, however, some books  I've had to consider, for now, as "gone but not forgotten," either because they are no longer available, or because they are no longer affordable.  [I say "for now" because they could very well become available and affordable.]  

"Affordable," of course, means different things to different people.

Okay, I've gone off on a tangent. [I think tangents are fun!]  

I hope to replace the new, revised edition someday, but meanwhile I've borrowed the original from openlibrary.org.

Thank God for books that I can read for free online!

Reading an Entire Gospel in One Sitting

In his book, "The Rosary: Chain of Hope," the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel suggested carving out some time when we wouldn't be interrupted, and reading an entire Gospel in one sitting or kneeling.

I've just done this with "The Gospel According to St. Mark."

[I read the Gospels over and over, in order, and I had finished Matthew earlier today.]

I found it absolutely overwhelming, but in a good way.... in a very good way.

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Looking for some great Catholic blogs?  Want to share your own? Hop on over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets!

Semper Gaudete! : Addition to my Rosary Art Collection

Semper Gaudete! : Leading Pro-Life Activist’s Wife Scheduled to Terminate Her Pregnancy

Semper Gaudete! : A Piece of Writing I've Loved For Years

Semper Gaudete! : Mary Never REALLY Suffered

Semper Gaudete! : Two Fathers, Two Little Boys

Semper Gaudete! : Single-Member Clubs

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books, (except Sunday books) are grouped by author, and not necessarily in the order read.

"Least of All, Me"
by Sister Anthony Marie, OSF
[fiction about nuns based on fact]

"Love God And Do What You Please"

by St. Alphonsus Liguori

adapted by M. J. Huber

[spiritual reading]
a favorite of mine; thank God it wasn't one of the books
lost when I moved!

"Blueberry Muffins"
by Colleen Spiro
[nonfiction]
(Kindle Book)

{Sunday books}

Bible books read this week:

"Judges"

"The Gospel According to Matthew"

"Girls' Clubs
Their Organization and Management" #
by Helen Josephine Ferris
[nonfiction]
(free online book)
{carried over from last week}

"Rowena the Sailor"
by Ruth Langland Holberg
[children's fiction]

"The Persian Pickle Club" #
by Sandra Dallas
[fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan

"Elsie Dinsmore"
"Elsie's Holidays at Roselands"
"Elsie's Girlhood"
{carrying over into next week}
by Martha Finley
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant)]
(I recently made two posts about the "Elsie" books)
First Post
Second Post

"The Taste of Spruce Gum" #
by Jacqueline Jackson
[children/YA fiction, historical]
(openlibrary.org loan)
{carrying over into next week}