Sunday Snippets-- A Catholic Carnival

Come on over to RAnn's blog for Sunday Snippets, where Catholic bloggers share their posts.  I've found some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete! : New England Sunday, 1840s

Semper Gaudete! : New Item In Break-Off Collection

Semper Gaudete! : I Love Online Games, But....!!!

Semper Gaudete! : Finding The Source of a Story

Semper Gaudete! : Singing To Winky

Semper Gaudete! : Incident In A Store

Semper Gaudete! : If I Could Form An OFFLINE Club

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read In The Past Week

If I Could Form An OFFLINE Club

I love my online Share-Care-Prayer Club; don't get me wrong on that. However, I'd also love to be able to form one of those clubs where people get together in person, but that isn't possible for me.  I'm unable to travel, or even walk outside (except on my porch) unless I hold onto somebody's arm, and my own attached house is too small to accommodate a group of people.

However, if I could form an offline club, it might be a reading club; these are quite popular.  Mine would be a Books and Tapes Club.   This would allow people with dyslexia, or with visual problems, to join if they wanted to.  Now and then, ALL

members would listen to a tape.  We would then discuss, not only the book itself, but how well or poorly it was read.

Then again, I might start a Sunday Night Lunch Club for fans of

Maud Hart Lovelace's "Betsy-Tacy" series.  The  SNLC would meet on Sunday evenings, preferably if the next day was a holiday.  Members would take turns hosting.  Sandwiches and coffee would be served, and, if available, songs from the Betsy-Tacy books would be played and/or sung. 

Or I might form a club for making rosaries; members would also pray the rosary at each meeting.

I said (wrote) that I can't have an offline club.  What I should have said is that I can't have an offline club at this time.  Perhaps someday I will be able to have one.

Incident In A Store

I was in a store quite a few years ago, and I went up to a saleslady and asked her where a certain item...I forget what... was.

She pointed.

"Could you please tell me in words?" I requested politely.  "I have a perceptual disability, and it's hard for me to tell just where you are pointing."

"Well, tough on you!" she snapped in a VERY nasty voice, and walked away.

I followed her, tapped her on her shoulder, and responded.  "You are right.  You're absolutely right.  It is tough having a handicap that people don't understand.  But do you know what makes things so much tougher for me?"  I looked right at her and answered my own question.  "People like you."

Singing To Winky

Yes, I sing to my cat, and he seems to enjoy it.

Sometimes I'll sing the first part of the "Cat Duet."

Sometimes I sing the chorus to Do Wah Diddy, changing the

words to:

Mew, my kitty, kitty purr, kitty mew.

Every now and then I sing the "Meow Mix" jingle.

And every night, when Winky jumps onto the top of the couch

to go to sleep, I pet him and sing "Soft Kitty."

Finding The Source of a Story

In the chapter in "Little Men" called Round the Fire, Jo tells a story called "The Suspected Boy," which she says was "written years ago by a dear old lady."

Well, I finally found out the source of the story.

The Internet is a wonderful way to research things.

I Love Online Games, But....!!!

I love online games, but they can be a bit... make that a LOT... frustrating sometimes.

To give just one example:

I've been stuck on Level 312 of Pet Rescue Saga for almost two months now!

New Item In Break-Off Collection

I've just added a ceramic tile that came off of my kitchen floor to my break-off collection.  I found it on the living room carpet, but I wasn't sure what it was until I saw the empty space.