New Picture in, and Decision About, my Rosary Art Collection

I've added a new picture to my Rosary Art Collection.
I've also decided that from now on, Sunday will be my day for working on this collection. Just one more way of enhancing my Sundays!

Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

I'd like to invite you to join me and a growing (and may it continue to grow!) group of Catholic bloggers at Sunday Snippets. Thanks to RAnn for hosting! I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.

Semper Gaudete!: Brown vs. Gray (Helen Gurley and Nellie) BY FR. FRANK PAVONE

Semper Gaudete!: Homily 2012-08-18- Fr. Wade Menezes - Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Semper Gaudete!: Homily 2012-08-19- Fr. Wade Menezes -Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Semper Gaudete!: Homily 2012-08-21 - Fr Wade Menezes CPM - St Pius X Pope (Memorial)

Semper Gaudete!: A Song I Didn't Know that I Knew

Semper Gaudete!: Approaching Two Collections From Opposite Directions

Semper Gaudete!: I'm SO Glad I Found this Picture!

Semper Gaudete!: Summer is Winding Down

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 Miraculous Medal"

 by Mary Fabyan Windeatt

[biography, age 10 and up]

(Read on Sunday)

"Jack and Jill"

by Louisa May Alcott

[fiction]

{Carried over from last week}
"The School Queens" #
by L. T. Meade
[children's fiction]
(Free Kindle Cloud Reader book)
"Marya of Clark Avenue"
by Marie Halun Bloch
[children's fiction, based on the author's childhood]
(this is one of my VERY  favorite books,
one of my SPECIAL books.)
{carrying over into next week}

Summer is Winding Down

Summer is winding down, and before it is over I want to:

Re-read Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Go on the boardwalk and look at the ocean

(I'd have to go with Mom because of my balance problem)

See the Friday Night fireworks.

(Again, I'd have to go with Mom)

Eat Italian ices 

(I don't know why I haven't bought any this summer!)

Re-read The City Boy by Herman Wouk

I'm SO Glad I Found this Picture!

Street in Viznitz, near the Ringleplatz

My Baba came from Viznitz, so I am absolutely delighted to have discovered this photo online.
I wonder, did she often walk along this street? Might it even, perhaps, be the street where she lived as a young girl? And do the descendants of any of her friends and playmates live there even now?
These questions, I cannot answer. What I do know is that this is a little piece of my family history.

Approaching Two Collections From Opposite Directions

[The title of this post almost rhymes! LOL.]

The way I collect decorative magnets, and the way I collect "Break-Offs" are very different.
For my decorative magnet collection, I will often look for a specific kind of magnet, such as a bird, a fish, or a fruit. I spend money (not too much due to being on a fixed income) on this collection.
This is not the way I add to my Break-Off Collection. I never look for any specific item, although there are some I'd like to have, such as a handle from a dresser drawer.
I simply add items as I find them, and I will never spend money on this collection.
One thing I do with both my offline collections is to catalog them on my computer. Another thing, and this is the most important thing, that I do with both of my offline collections is.....

ENJOY THEM!!!

A Song I Didn't Know that I Knew

When I was little, I used to love watching Davey and Goliath. Yep, a little Jewish girl watching a Christian show! But back then, I wasn't really aware that it was a Christian, or even a religious, program. To me, it was just a show about a boy with a talking dog. After all, in those days, even families on secular programs talked about God, and went to church.
Years later, when I was at camp, I went to church in the nearby village with a boy I liked. It was a Lutheran church, and the first hymn listed was one I didn't think I was familiar with: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.    But when the organist started playing, I remember thinking, "Hey! That's the music from Davey and Goliath!"
And even now, I think of A Mighty Fortress is Our God as the Davey and Goliath music!