Polar what?
While AlGore’s troops are busily writing their Letters To The Editor about my column last week, demanding that I be fired and shot and drowned and spoken rudely to, let me just point out that, when that column was published, it was 62 below zero in Minnesota. Sixty-two below.
Now, I know, a cold snap is not irrefutable evidence that the planet’s climate is not actually getting warmer, overall.
Weighing In On a New Year…
A friend observed that we have arrived at the time of year when Americans take on the weighty matter of discussing weight loss. As a rule, that’s as far as it goes. As the wordsmith said, “When everything is said and done, usually more is said than done.” Talk is cheap.
Oh, a few hang on, going to great lengths to avoid great widths.
Have you noticed that spring seems to be here already? We have had beautiful weather. I was inspired to walk around my yard to look at all that needs to be done. The water table must be very high. We have several springs that run when the water table is high.
Gee whiz.
There’s a new science out there.
It’s called Gee-Whiz-ology.
You heard it here first.
(Because I just made it up.)
A new science for the New Age.
The study of awe.
As in “awesome.”
Or “wowie zowie.”
We can say that about so many things in life.
The very ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Every day.
All the time.
To be in awe.
It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
Redbird in a bare tree.
The bare tree blooms into a redbud.
Bulbs come up wit ...
Wining and Dining on a Saturday Night!
Our community is renowned for its ability to raise funds to meet almost any need. If someone is sick, we'll hold a fundraiser to help them with their expenses. If a public structure is in need of updates or repairs, we'll hold a fundraiser to finance the project.
As a pastor of a growing church in a small community, I have rarely taken the opportunity to write an article for the paper. There have been occasions where I have witnessed or experienced situations that have urged me to publicly engage the community outside of the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Mason.
Mother’s Brown Bread
courtesy: Cooks.com
This old recipe dates back to the Second World War. The brown bread loaves were made and sold by patriotic women all across the United States so they could buy War Bonds and support the effort. Real easy; real good; quite different.
Ingredients:
1 cup molasses
2 cups buttermilk
1 handful bran
1/2-1 cup raisins
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
Process:
Mix all ingredients toge ...
Over the past few years, the Mason Garden Club has replanted the front flowerbeds near the statue, the one to the left of the front door as you come in, and constructed the butterfly flowerbed to the right as you come in. They have also spent hours watering and maintaining the beds year-round, and the results are beautiful!
The sea ice is melting, the oceans are rising, climate change is causing hurricanes to be more frequent and more powerful, and I have a bone spur on the ball of my left foot that’s driving me nuts. Actually, not all of that is entirely true. Or at all true.
Friends Will Rogers Never Met…
Will Rogers--a long ago American favorite whose gentle humor and keen observations made a world smile often, and sometimes even think--claimed he never met a man unworthy of his liking. Dying too soon in a 1935 plane crash, this gift to America from the Oklahoma Territory would have included women, too, had he not lived in an age of unbridled chauvinism.
Caught in the jaws of the Great Depression, we needed him.
