Monday, November 26, 2012

Appropriate Reading Device?

I've just started reading Little Blog on the Prairie  by Cathleen Davitt Bell online.  Somehow it seems to me that a book with a  title like that ought to be read on the computer.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Disrupted Card Game

I've known for a long time that my Farmor (paternal grandmother) played cards.   It's only recently that I've learned that she belonged to a card club,
the D. D. D. Card Club.  (So far, I haven't been able to find out what D. D. D
stands for.)
One afternoon, Farmor had some of her friends over for a game of cards.  Perhaps it was a meeting, and her turn to entertain.   Perhaps it was just a friendly get-together.
Suddenly, the game was interrupted when a skyrocket came through the screen window, and whizzed around the players' heads.   The guests left, quickly, one might even say hastily.
I heard this story years later from the culprit... my father! It was when his mother got a hold  of him that the real fireworks happened!

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

Join me and a growing group of Catholic bloggers at Sunday Snippets.   Thanks to RAnn for hosting!  I've found some wonderful blogs here.

Semper Gaudete!: Novena for the Canonization of Fulton J. Sheen

Semper Gaudete!: NunEssential: Strength and Grace

Semper Gaudete!: New Item In Vintage Media Collection

Semper Gaudete!: Andrew Brown, my great-great grandfather

Semper Gaudete!: The Old Rugged Cross

Semper Gaudete!: Gobble Gobble?

Semper Gaudete!: Homily 2012-11-18 - Fr Anthony Mary MFVA - Canticle of Creation- 33rd Su...

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"The Great American Broadcast:
A Celebration of Radio's Golden Age"
by Leonard Maltin
[non-fiction]
{carried over from last week}

"Five Little Peppers Midway" #
by Margaret Sidney
[children's fiction, series]
{read online}

"Of Swedish Ways"
by Lily Lorenzen
[non-fiction]
{carrying over into next week}

"The Majesty of Grace"
by Jane Langton
[children's fiction]
{carrying over into next week}

Novena for the Canonization of Fulton J. Sheen

 Please join me in praying this novena.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Gobble Gobble?

It sort of gets my goat when I hear people refer to this holiday as "Turkey Day."
Hello!  Where on the calendar does it say Turkey Day?
It's Thanksgiving Day.  Or rather, it is the official American celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
Because, after all, every day should be a day for giving thanks.

Encouraging news about EWTN's Fr. Anthony

Fr. Anthony hopes to be back on the air in the near future.  Oh, HOW I'm praying for that to happen! https://franciscanmissionaries.c...