A Good Day To Be Sick

Today is a day of rest in a different sense... it's a day of BED rest.  I've got a cold. 

Headache... on and off.

Stuffed nose.

Coughing.

In a word... BLECH!

But in a way I'm ALMOST glad.  After all, today we pray in a special way for the Souls in Purgatory, and I can really help them by offering up my sickness.  So November 2nd is a good day to be sick!

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! : Reading an Entire Gospel in One Sitting

Semper Gaudete! : I'm SO Glad I Can Read This Online!

Semper Gaudete! : A Little Gift?

Semper Gaudete! : One-Member Clubs Revisited

Semper Gaudete! : The Last Bit of Peanut Butter in The Jar

Semper Gaudete! : Winky and the Computer

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.

"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"
"Jonah"
"Titus"
"Ruth"
"Micah"

"The Gospel According to Matthew"

"The Gospel According to Mark"
"The Gospel According to Luke"

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

"Elsie's Girlhood"
{carried over from last week}
by Martha Finley
[children's fiction, Christian, (Protestant)]


"The Taste of Spruce Gum" #
by Jacqueline Jackson
[children/YA fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)
{carried over from last week}

"Papa's Wife"

"Papa's Daughter"

{carrying over into next week}

by Thyra Ferre Bjorn

[fiction, Christian (Protestant) themes]

"Love and Knishes
An Irrepressible Guide to Jewish Cooking"
by Sara Kasdan
[nonfiction, Jewish]
(openlibrary.org loan)

Winky and the Computer

Winky's been spending a great deal of time around the computer lately.  If cats could type, he'd probably be on Facebook and Twitter... and he would definitely have a blog.

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.