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[Servant4Christ]

On 9/9/2022 at 10:14 PM, Slache said:

I absolutely hate elderberry. It tastes like blueberries that hate you.

Elderberry syrup made with local honey is fantastic. My kids absolutely love it. Add a splash to fresh lemonade and it tastes like Snapple iced tea.

Belated sweet elderberry syrup booyah!

Edited September 11, 2022 by Servant4Christ

[KrissiK]

1 hour ago, 73349 said:

Krissi's rain has been delivered to my house instead. Shipping and supply chain issues, ugh.

 

Confirmed: We could, if called upon to evacuate, get out of the driveway in five minutes, with some essentials (medicine, phones and chargers, etc.). At least if it's daytime.

Yep, all we have is humidity. Last week it was 113 degrees and 9% humidity. Today it’s 96 degrees and 54% humidity. Honestly, I prefer 113 degrees and low humidity.it is just nasty outside.

[KrissiK]

Servie got the Booya/h. An elderberry Booya/h!!

[KrissiK]

I survived the AFSA. Haircare supplies are coming in noticeably smaller containers. Of course the price is the same as it used to be.

[Slache]

39 minutes ago, KrissiK said:

Servie got the Booya/h. An elderberry Booya/h!!

*angry blueberry Booya 

[Susan in TN]

Dinner was IP goulash and a new-to-me food and recipe: parmesan roasted leeks.  I don't think I've ever made anything with leeks before, but ds27 bought a couple huge ones a few days ago and I wanted to use them up.  It turned out super yummy.  Even ds17 had a second helping.

Parmesan Roasted Leeks

4 large leeks (I had 2)   
salt & pepper to taste   
1/4 C butter, melted    
1/3 C freshly grated parmesan

Preheat oven to 400*.  Cut roots and dark green tops off and remove outer dark layers.  Cut in half lengthwise and rinse.  Place cut side down in an oven-safe skillet, add 1/2 C water, cover, and simmer on the stove for about 5 minutes.  Drain water and flip leaks over so they are cut side up.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Drizzle with melted butter and sprinkle on parmesan.  Roast uncovered for about 25-30 minutes.

[KrissiK]

2 minutes ago, Susan in TN said:

Dinner was IP goulash and a new-to-me food and recipe: parmesan roasted leeks.  I don't think I've ever made anything with leeks before, but ds27 bought a couple huge ones a few days ago and I wanted to use them up.  It turned out super yummy.  Even ds17 had a second helping.

Parmesan Roasted Leeks

4 large leeks (I had 2)   
salt & pepper to taste   
1/4 C butter, melted    
1/3 C freshly grated parmesan

Preheat oven to 400*.  Cut roots and dark green tops off and remove outer dark layers.  Cut in half lengthwise and rinse.  Place cut side down in an oven-safe skillet, add 1/2 C water, cover, and simmer on the stove for about 5 minutes.  Drain water and flip leaks over so they are cut side up.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Drizzle with melted butter and sprinkle on parmesan.  Roast uncovered for about 25-30 minutes.

I like leeks. That does sound yummy.

[Jean in Newcastle]

We went to our small city festival in the park. Juliet didn’t eat anyone or even bark. I was very proud of her. But we’ve been working  hard and this was part of her training. I wouldn’t let anyone pat her though. 

[Junie]

Good Morning!

Happy Sunday!

Church and Iglesia.

Remembering those who died on 9/11. 😞

[Ellie]

1 hour ago, Junie said:

Good Morning!

Happy Sunday!

Church and Iglesia.

Remembering those who died on 9/11. 😞

 

[Susan in TN]

Good morning!

I’m playing for early service this morning and then will need to pick up the girls from scout camp.

Coffee!

[KrissiK]

Good Morning!!!

COFFEE!!~D

Sunday!!!

Yes, we do remember those who died on 9 /11. I remember exactly where I was and all the details of that morning. Definitely will never forget.

[Susan in TN]

I can't find my size "F" crochet hook.  I'm trying to decide if I want to use size "G" or order an "F" to get here tomorrow.

The humidity here has dropped from 100% (at 6am) down to 90%.  At least it's only 75 degrees.

[Renai]

We had a homeschool field trip yesterday. We visited 3 of the 4 geophysical regions in our state, collected rocks and fossils, and realized just how volcanic New Mexico was. Very cool. We went in a complete circle, 165 miles total. 

[Slache]

Gas is $2.89.

First responders service. We had tacos afterward. Nursery next week.

Store.

Another store.

Another nother store.

My back hurts.

[Servant4Christ]

52 minutes ago, Slache said:

Gas is $2.89.

We were thrilled to see $3.69

[Renai]

Just now, Servant4Christ said:

We were thrilled to see $3.69

We saw $3.25 yesterday and filled dh's tank. We were on the way to the meet up point, and that was the cheapest we've seen. The gas station near our house is usually the cheapest in our city, and it was $3.64.

[Slache]

2 hours ago, Servant4Christ said:

We were thrilled to see $3.69

It was probably that two weeks ago. I think we're low tax here? We're consistently lower than the rest of the country.

[Slache]

My husband uses a tank a day for work. Gas is important to us!

[Jean in Newcastle]

Gas is over$5 a gallon here. 

[Jean in Newcastle]

Got glutened (Friday night). It hit me like a ton of bricks last night and today. Didn't sleep much last night. Barely got to church (and the bathroom). Spent all morning in my car in the church parking lot sleeping or rushing into the bathroom. So exhausted and my tummy still feels unsettled. I guess that I won't walk. (I did look for advice on celiac.com. It said that with an autoimmune reaction like this not to exercise.). 

[Jean in Newcastle]

Watching a cheesy Jackie Chan movie. 

[Susan in TN]

6 hours ago, Renai said:

We had a homeschool field trip yesterday. We visited 3 of the 4 geophysical regions in our state, collected rocks and fossils, and realized just how volcanic New Mexico was. Very cool. We went in a complete circle, 165 miles total. 

Cool.  I want to go back there.  How is the fire situation?

[Susan in TN]

4 hours ago, Servant4Christ said:

We were thrilled to see $3.69

Yeah - it's been stuck at $3.79 for a long time here, but at least it's below $4.  
    
Almost everyone was seated for dinner when ds17 came down and asked if we were going to eat at the cookout at so-and-so's house.  😳 uh, no, I had not heard about that.  Ds17 is going to go.  I'm not feeling great.  Everyone else ate pizza here.  

[Wheres Toto]

Happy Sunday Evening.  It's been a marathon weekend of getting the science center ready for classes to start tomorrow.  The upstairs is functional and 99% organized.  The 1% is basically my stuff so won't effect anyone else.  The downstairs is clean, set-up and ready to go.  Except the jr room which needs to rug put down but the jr teacher should do that in the morning based on how they want it set up.  

I'm not going to be in early tomorrow since I have to take dh to the hospital for his catherization.  Usually I would be there for all the classes during the first week at least but not this year.  I'll have to leave the hospital before dh can go home as it is (my mother is bringing him home) so I can drive ds to school and make it back before my classes.   I should be there until his procedure is done and he's in recovery.  

Lucky for me my head teacher is amazing and will take care of anything urgent until I get there. 

[Servant4Christ]

I'm reading some of the stories in R&S grade 6 reader. Some of these are very interesting and will lead into some great research and discussion of the time periods they were written in or about! I'm usually very cautious about Anabaptist-specific stories, but the story called The Executioner (an account from the Martyrs Mirror) really makes you think about the time period when being rebaptized as an adult (because they were first baptized as infants) was a criminal offense that was punished by execution!

[Servant4Christ]

On 9/10/2022 at 5:43 PM, KrissiK said:

Haircare supplies are coming in noticeably smaller containers. Of course the price is the same as it used to be.

Yay! I'm not the only one noticing this!

[Servant4Christ]

My phone is telling me that Renai is typing. Hi Renai!

Edited September 12, 2022 by Servant4Christ

[Jean in Newcastle]

Servie is a stalker. 

[Servant4Christ]

3 minutes ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

Servie is a stalker. 

It's in a yellow box right above my typing box. You just can't NOT notice it.

Edited September 12, 2022 by Servant4Christ

[Servant4Christ]

It's later than I realized! Goodnight all!

[Jean in Newcastle]

7 minutes ago, Servant4Christ said:

It's in a yellow box right above my typing box. You just can't NOT notice it.

You shouldn’t be able to see if I’m typing. I changed my settings so that my name shouldn’t show. 

[Renai]

3 hours ago, Susan in TN said:

Cool.  I want to go back there.  How is the fire situation?

Mostly burn scar repair and trying to lessen the effects of monsoon rains. Flash floods are bad, especially in the burn scar areas.

During our trip yesterday, we drove through a portion of Las Conchas, one of the largest fires that happened in 2011. I remember it because I was hanging up Gymnast's diapers outside when ashes started falling from the sky. I knew it wasn't snow because it was in July. That area is over an hour east of us. One of the fires this summer ran into the Las Conchas burn scar, so the firefighters were able to concentrate their efforts elsewhere. It was interesting to see the growth that has happened in the last 11 years, as well as the remains of the fire, like areas of burnt trees.

We didn't even know if we would make it to the field trip, actually. Friday night, I took Gymnast skating, and when it ended at 9pm, she told me she had fell and her hand hurt. She was calm about it, and I'm calm about everything, so I quietly formed a plan to take her to the ER for an xray because the type of pain she was describing didn't sound normal.

After leaving my overwrought dh at home, I took her to the ER closest to our house. It's a newer hospital, and I heard good things about it. When I got there, they said it would be about 7 hours to get taken care of. So I drove across town to our old ER. We were out by 12:30am or so. They put her in a splint, and referred us to a bone specialist. They said they didn't see anything in the xray, but with her age, there is concern about growth plates. I got a call from the ER doctor this afternoon saying the radiologist did notice a tiny buckling, so to make sure to follow up with the specialist. So I will. I was planning on it anyway.

I'm glad I didn't listen to a freaked-out dh who said putting ice on it would be fine, and started blaming me for everything in life itself, and ended with him wanting a divorce. No, there is no forthcoming divorce. 

We were in bed by 1am and getting up at 7am to meet the homeschool group an hour away by 9. It was a great day.

 

14 minutes ago, Servant4Christ said:

My phone is telling me that Renai is typing. Hi Renai!

Yes, I saw on the laptop that you were typing, too! 😅

 

2 minutes ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

You shouldn’t be able to see if I’m typing. I changed my settings so that my name shouldn’t show. 

I don't see when you're typing.

[Slache]

Renai is typing again.

[Renai]

2 minutes ago, Slache said:

Renai is typing again.

It's another long one. I'm not finished yet. 😅

[Renai]

 I have an interesting dilemma. It has to do with learning language. It's long, so you can skip to the ***** if you don't want the background.

English is my first language, my default, my heart language.

I started learning a bit of German while a teen in Germany, while taking Spanish in high school. I never pursued learning German, although I could understand a little (I knew when Americans were being talked about 😅), and developed an ear for it.

I started learning Japanese when I was in college, informally with friends, while taking Spanish classes. I found it easier than Mandarin, which my Taiwanese friends at that time tried to teach me, in vain. I was reading hiragana and some katakana (Japanese), and was learning phrases. I didn't get very far with it, although I did introduce Dancer to it while young, and she went a lot further with it, through high school.

Spanish is my "second" language - the one I became fluent in first. Spanish is spoken in our home as much, if not more, as English since we are a bilingual/bicultural home. For business and medical, I revert back to English. It's mostly laziness, as I could probably get by with doing these things in Spanish.

I started learning Mandarin 4 years ago when I started Gymnast. I mostly did it to help her through classes, but got hooked. Some of the method I've written in my book is based on how we progressed in Chinese. I use a few resources for study, recently adding Duolingo.

So, here I am, perimenopausal, with not enough to do in my life (🙄), decide to use Duolingo for Spanish, to get me out of my lazy grammar habit. It forces me to use correct grammar, instead of the very relaxed way we usually speak. Since I plan to do more workshops in Spanish, I find it necessary to remind myself of actual standard Spanish. 

Then, I got the great idea to relearn and expand on my German. After a couple of weeks of that, I added Japanese. 🤷🏾‍♀️ 

*********************

The research shows that learning language, or knowing more than one language, helps our aging brains. So, my ADHD self is juggling four languages. That's not the problem. The problem is my brain doesn't know what to default to. Like, I'm asked for a translation of a German phrase, and Chinese pops up (for example, I always want to default to "wo" every time I see "I" or "ich" when studying German. That's....actually the only word...). With Chinese, it's Spanish. Spanish is Spanish, but sometimes English. And Japanese characters (not the hiragana or katakana) I hear in Chinese.

Why isn't my default English? Isn't that strange? Is this helping my brain, or just making me crazy? 

 

 

[Slache]

21 minutes ago, Renai said:

 I have an interesting dilemma. It has to do with learning language. It's long, so you can skip to the ***** if you don't want the background.

English is my first language, my default, my heart language.

I started learning a bit of German while a teen in Germany, while taking Spanish in high school. I never pursued learning German, although I could understand a little (I knew when Americans were being talked about 😅), and developed an ear for it.

I started learning Japanese when I was in college, informally with friends, while taking Spanish classes. I found it easier than Mandarin, which my Taiwanese friends at that time tried to teach me, in vain. I was reading hiragana and some katakana (Japanese), and was learning phrases. I didn't get very far with it, although I did introduce Dancer to it while young, and she went a lot further with it, through high school.

Spanish is my "second" language - the one I became fluent in first. Spanish is spoken in our home as much, if not more, as English since we are a bilingual/bicultural home. For business and medical, I revert back to English. It's mostly laziness, as I could probably get by with doing these things in Spanish.

I started learning Mandarin 4 years ago when I started Gymnast. I mostly did it to help her through classes, but got hooked. Some of the method I've written in my book is based on how we progressed in Chinese. I use a few resources for study, recently adding Duolingo.

So, here I am, perimenopausal, with not enough to do in my life (🙄), decide to use Duolingo for Spanish, to get me out of my lazy grammar habit. It forces me to use correct grammar, instead of the very relaxed way we usually speak. Since I plan to do more workshops in Spanish, I find it necessary to remind myself of actual standard Spanish. 

Then, I got the great idea to relearn and expand on my German. After a couple of weeks of that, I added Japanese. 🤷🏾‍♀️ 

*********************

The research shows that learning language, or knowing more than one language, helps our aging brains. So, my ADHD self is juggling four languages. That's not the problem. The problem is my brain doesn't know what to default to. Like, I'm asked for a translation of a German phrase, and Chinese pops up (for example, I always want to default to "wo" every time I see "I" or "ich" when studying German. That's....actually the only word...). With Chinese, it's Spanish. Spanish is Spanish, but sometimes English. And Japanese characters (not the hiragana or katakana) I hear in Chinese.

Why isn't my default English? Isn't that strange? Is this helping my brain, or just making me crazy? 

From what I understand, this is completely normal. You don't default to the easy one, you default to the convenient one. So, the one you were last thinking in, the one you were using when you last thought about that subject, etc. I know when I study something in Spanish that subject lives in that language in my head. 

[Jean in Newcastle]

You “usually “ default to the first language that you had to learn purposefully. Ie. Not the language you learned from infancy but the language you had to use mental tricks/actual study skills  to learn. In your case you default to whatever language fits your needs. 

[Servant4Christ]

8 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

You shouldn’t be able to see if I’m typing. I changed my settings so that my name shouldn’t show. 

I cannot see when you are typing. I didn't know that was a changeable setting either. I only noticed recently when it started popping up as well as showing me what other members are on each thread in the forum.

[Servant4Christ]

Good morning! Coffee, morning routine, then first day back to school! Wake up all the children! Squee!

[Slache]

I am not ready to face another day.

[Susan in TN]

Good morning!  It's The Queen's favorite day!

Nevertheless, I'm with Slache.

I woke up much too early after a dream that I was being attacked by columns of spiders.  Maybe I can get second sleep. But breakfast is done and we are getting ready to start the day.  I need to try to get the pup to the vet to check his ear again and pay some bills.  This afternoon/evening we have music lessons, children's choir, and scouts.

Coffee!

[Junie]

Good Morning!

Happy Monday!

Not fully awake yet even though I've been up for 2+ hours.

Maybe breakfast will help.  

[Junie]

Y'all must be doing a whole lot of Mondaying...

I went to the dentist and took a nap.

[Slache]

I survived. So much Monday.

The downstairs neighbor (didn't know we had one again) apparently tolerates a toddler running and a toddler crying, but not a toddler screaming in protest. That's fair. I should parent more. Also, the turnaround rate in this apartment is crazy.

[Wheres Toto]

Dh is staying overnight.  He ended up having "significant blockage" and they put in a stent.   He's glad because it means they figured out the problem and fixed it.   Hopefully this will truly help the lack of energy and light headedness.  

First day of the new year is done.  It was interesting but overall seemed to go well   My head teacher is really enjoying herself this year, which is great. 

[73349]

Mondaying here. School, flu shots, laundry, tennis, dinner, then DS needs to go to scouts early. Tomorrow looks a lot like it: school, drums, groceries, dinner,  meeting.

Edited March 8 by 73349

[Jean in Newcastle]

Going to go on my loop. 

I wanted to just start to dive into things now that my back is feeling better but the celiac thing has now set me back. But I guess that I have to be content with this morning’s groceries shopping plus getting my exercise.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Day 14 loop with Juliet 

[KrissiK]

It’s been a Monday. I feel like all I did was work and work and work, but got nothing done I needed to get done. Most of my job seems to be putting out fires.