tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72926195274738692072024-03-13T01:11:48.418-07:00Glacier DreamingGlacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-59330611125954575612011-09-29T02:10:00.000-07:002011-09-29T02:12:00.983-07:00Wise Words for my Frazzled Heart<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"To live content with small means, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to seek elegance rather than luxury, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and refinement rather than fashion, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to be worthy and wealthy, not rich, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with open heart, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to hear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never - </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconsc</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 19px;">ious, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 19px;">grow up through the common. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is to be my symphony."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-15202942550496610652011-09-24T21:47:00.000-07:002011-09-24T21:47:46.707-07:00What Happens When Your House Sells<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, we decided we should "downsize" since we are truly empty-nesters and our life is in a time of Great Change. And what I didn't really expect to happen (getting an offer on the house) happened less than a month after it was listed. So, that's good news. But I started to wonder <i>what on earth</i> I was thinking.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Where should we live? What kind of place? How can we find something by the time we are to close on our current house?</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She gave me a grade in 3 categories: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Everything was spelled phoenetically, which interestingly enough, I don't know how to spell.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>"snacks: needs improvement"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> "Behavior: horrible"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> "love: needs improvement"</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I burst out laughing when I read this. She was obviously upset about something, right? When I called Angie to tell her I had found it, she had no memory of this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So, I guess my behavior and love must have improved, because I found a letter she wrote some time later, with much more positive thoughts about me.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Dear Mom,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love you. Thank you for being the best mom in the whole world! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> You do so much for me! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You brighten my day with your personality! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You give me so many presents. You and dad are the stars of my life. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Your loving daughter,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Angela"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">It was a wonderful summer and I am blessed.</div></div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-55552152476558368282011-04-02T11:20:00.000-07:002011-04-02T11:20:01.375-07:00This week's diversions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, if I do watch TV (not often) I always check to see what's on PBS. And in the past few months I caught a few episodes of "Doc Martin," a comic drama about a London surgeon who moves back to his home town (a beautiful Cornish village) to become the GP. He has a fear of blood and has no bedside manner, which makes me like him in some strange way. I mentioned to some friends that I had started watching this show and they said they had gotten "hooked" and had ordered the DVDs. Would I like to borrow them? Indeed. So, last Sunday I did something I have never done before: watched a DVD on my laptop. And I got so engrossed that I watched three episodes in a row. Have had no time since then to watch any more, but am hoping for some time soon to watch some more.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I also started reading <u>Unbroken</u> while we were away in Montana a month ago. It was a great compelling read, but I had to return it to the library before I had finished it. Fortunately, my name came up on the list again last week, so I got into it again. I almost always read at bedtime but shut the light off at 11 or so. This book had me so hooked that I was reading to well after midnight every night this week. Laura Hillenbrand is a great writer and this story of an American GI in WWII is one of the most gripping books I have read in many months. Thus book is not for the faint of heart as it records the torture Louis Zamperini experienced at the hands of the Japanese. It will probably be on my "Top Books of 2011" list. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-76482135809082659212011-03-21T06:01:00.000-07:002011-03-21T12:18:45.661-07:00March Getaway<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people like to head south for a winter getaway </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but Doug and I decided to catch a bit of winter 2 weekends ago. Just a wee getaway.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had not had 2 days off together since vacation last summer. Headed north (Montana and Glacier Nat'l Park) on an Allegiant Air flight (those less expensive flights out of smaller airports) on a Friday evening. Left 88 degree weather and found ourselves in freezing weather in a few hours. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had 2.5 wonderful days of doing something very different from our daily routine. We reflected on life and the future and the amazing creativity of God.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stayed at a cute little cabin in Martin City, where we were told, "People are renegades." The cabin was really cute. Unfortunately, the leg of the bed frame gave way as Doug sat down on the bed that evening. "Well, never mind, I'll sleep on that side. It shouldn't be that bad." Well, it wasn't so easy to sleep at that weird angle, trendelenberg-like, so we pulled the mattress onto the floor at 5 the next morning for a couple decent hours of sleep.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But never mind, because we had this to see the next day. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLeO0B38oSHs1fWRPDnKapoTIwj4TKXUV4oXc3Zp66a4T0ePJ3p88EeQauxbfNCgsNrxRCa8xTyteh3vnlkTWOPfV53efBXxfRU71ed06E3Z7cVy_nIrJ4mnjIfgstu-VA1SR5mWbETk/s1600/IMG_0918.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLeO0B38oSHs1fWRPDnKapoTIwj4TKXUV4oXc3Zp66a4T0ePJ3p88EeQauxbfNCgsNrxRCa8xTyteh3vnlkTWOPfV53efBXxfRU71ed06E3Z7cVy_nIrJ4mnjIfgstu-VA1SR5mWbETk/s640/IMG_0918.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-47184651751855674572011-03-17T07:49:00.000-07:002011-03-20T20:06:44.269-07:00Do you have a "Dementia Mentor?"<blockquote style="text-align: justify;">We all need mentors in our lives. I have many (and many of them aren't aware that they are mentoring me). In the past year I have been privileged to care for a beautiful woman with dementia. When I have dementia I want to be just like her. Why? She always had the sweetest disposition, never complained, was always thankful for something or someone, and always spoke kindly to everyone.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">While I was away last weekend, she passed away. I don't always cry when my patients die, but I cried when I heard she had died.</blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">Daughter Trisha sent me this poem which speaks so poignantly of the dementia process. </blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><i>Forgetfulness</i></span></span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">by Billy Collins</span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of,</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and even now as you memorize the order of the planets, something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps, the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whatever it is you are struggling to remember it is not poised on the tip of your tongue, not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It has floated away down a dark mythological river whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall, well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle. No wonder you rise in the middle of the night</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war. No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.</span></i></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_zx-zHgJm5zMCAMxQZ5P2uZGvyp37ArtfhSFt9m81b82oTeaVEr_2T37U3zfPBllSRWcoP6RBGQfZW_H4BmH2Y6lpT1iRlGSl0NT-xctGiLxSAfh2NAugFwIxkzzAKCTp3yuYHwEGx50/s1600/IMG_0880.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_zx-zHgJm5zMCAMxQZ5P2uZGvyp37ArtfhSFt9m81b82oTeaVEr_2T37U3zfPBllSRWcoP6RBGQfZW_H4BmH2Y6lpT1iRlGSl0NT-xctGiLxSAfh2NAugFwIxkzzAKCTp3yuYHwEGx50/s400/IMG_0880.JPG" width="400" /></a> </div><blockquote style="text-align: center;"> (This is where I was last week-end. More on that later.)</blockquote>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-4846849065744572602011-03-10T21:01:00.000-08:002011-03-10T21:01:44.820-08:00Simple beautiful things in my life this week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Tulips from friends...</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>blueberries on my Apple...</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>a strawberry on my Apple...</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And other beautiful things: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">playing Mexican Train with friends,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lunch out with co-workers (patio dining in March),</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working on a project with a friend,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">mentoring a new nurse today,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">keeping up with my Bible reading and prayer,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Skyping Bowman and Trish,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a little wedding planning with Angie,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">knowing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>God Is In Control</i></span>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="goog_483782034"></span><span id="goog_483782035"></span></div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-60809040299602371192011-03-03T06:24:00.000-08:002011-03-03T06:51:12.598-08:00Improving my mental health<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I read an article about mental health that said people who "work" with their hands have markedly better mental health than those who don't. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This can take many forms: playing piano, gardening, sewing, decorating, cleaning, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">baking bread, woodworking, painting, fixing a car, dusting (okay, maybe not dusting).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So to improve my mental health and that of my sweet sister-in-law Loraine last Saturday, we made whole wheat bread.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had never worked with yeast before.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And she did a wonderful job--totally "got" the kneading technique and the bread was seriously the best whole wheat bread I have made in years. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Okay, truth be told, I don't make bread all that often.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-84115992659153449702011-02-22T05:39:00.000-08:002011-02-22T11:30:29.988-08:00Talking about China<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had forgotten how much I love to talk to kids about China. When we returned from our 5 years there I did presentations on China in Trisha and Angie's school classrooms. It's been quite awhile since I did it but I had the chance to talk with the elementary age kids at church on Sunday. We talked about panda bears and how to say hello in Mandarin and why their roofs curl up on the ends and that Chinese children are taught in school that there is no God.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-75785002538800312662011-02-12T20:57:00.000-08:002011-02-12T20:57:35.833-08:00A long love....<div style="text-align: center;">It's getting close to Valentine's Day so thought I would post about my parent's long love affair.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It started when a Minnesota farm boy met a city girl visiting the farm. Love bloomed across the miles.</div><div style="text-align: center;">She was working as nurse in new Jersey and later Seattle.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He was working the farm in the Red River Valley of Minnesota.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have several boxes of my parent's love letters.</div><div style="text-align: center;">They wrote constantly, sometimes more than once a day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was during WW II when their love affair started and grew.</div><div style="text-align: center;">They talked about their work and the weather and their families and the farm and the war </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the economy and their love for each other. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I have not read through them all but each one I have read touches me in some way.</div><div style="text-align: center;">They had a long, deep, committed love and were married for 56 years.</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Their" song was "As Time Goes By," </div><div style="text-align: center;">"Their" movie was "Casablanca."</div><div style="text-align: center;">They loved the Lord and their kids (and spouses) and grandkids</div><div style="text-align: center;">We all miss them so much and are so glad for their long love affair...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">These boxes are filled with their letters. Wish I could transcribe them all and make a book for the family.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As Time Goes By</span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You must remember this<br />
A kiss is still a kiss<br />
A sigh is still (just) a sigh<br />
The fundamental things apply<br />
As time goes by<br />
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And when two lovers woo<br />
They still say: "I love you"<br />
On that you can rely<br />
No matter what the future brings<br />
As time goes by<br />
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Moonlight and love songs - never out of date<br />
Hearts full of passion - jealousy and hate<br />
Woman needs man - and man must have his mate<br />
That no one can deny<br />
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It’s still the same old story<br />
A fight for love and glory<br />
A case of do or die<br />
The world will always welcome lovers<br />
As time goes by </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;">© 1931 Warner Bros. Music Corporation, ASCAP</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-17937564880579930412011-02-06T20:14:00.000-08:002011-02-07T00:10:29.506-08:00Sister Love<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td colspan="2"><div style="padding-top: 3px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me"</span></b></i></span></div><div style="padding-top: 3px; text-align: center;">Mary Worley Montague</div><div style="padding-top: 3px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My sister Peggy came from Calgary this past week-end, so we had just a short time together. We see each other quite rarely but she is one of my favorite people. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She reads and sews and leads women's Bible studies and is a great cook and quilter, among other things. And she doesn't own a cell phone! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> These are a couple quilt projects she has given me...(I know, lucky me.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There was a hard frost predicted the first couple nights she was with us so at 10 PM she helped us harvest our fruit crop. Here are 4 of the 8 bags we picked in the dark.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On Saturday we hiked the Heiroglyphic Canyon trail in the Superstition Mountains.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">One of the rockier trails she has hiked, she reported.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She's game for anything (as you can see) and we had a great time walking and enjoying lunch and God's creation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">These may look like graffiti left by kids. But they aren't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Archaeologists aren’t sure who left the petroglyphs in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hieroglyphic</span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Canyon</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, but most think they were drawn between 700 and 1100 A.D., during the Hohokam habitation.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We saw hundreds of saguaros (or was it dozens; I wasn't counting). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They have a relatively long life span and take up to 75 years to develop a side arm. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Enough of the travelogue. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> This posting is about my amazing sister. So glad she came and look forward to seeing her again in 4 months, at Angie's wedding.</span></div><div style="padding-top: 3px; text-align: center;"><span id="goog_792287998"></span><span id="goog_792287999"></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-75134296818244516612011-01-29T03:50:00.000-08:002011-01-29T03:59:34.342-08:00"What's for breakfast?", said Pooh<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pooh nodded thoughtfully. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> “It’s the same thing,” he said. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> – A.A. Milne</span><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is the breakfast Doug made for his Integrity Group a few weeks ago.</span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-65250612447951645112011-01-26T04:47:00.000-08:002011-01-26T05:36:53.497-08:00Lightening the LOAD<div style="text-align: center;">Trinity's annual yard sale is happening this Saturday. This event has mushroomed into a mega-sale over the years. It's a wonderful chance to lighten my load of stuff. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> Gone, gone, gone are all my dusty artificial trees, unworn ties and jackets, </div><div style="text-align: center;">pictures, packs of notebook paper.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's the stack that Doug took over on Monday.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">No, the book case isn't going, but see that empty shelf? That held our 20 year old World Book Encyclopedias. (Sent to us, free from the World Book Company when we lived in China.)</div><div style="text-align: center;">As Doug said last night when bagging then up, "It's the end of an era." Guess that could mean a lot of things. It got me wondering if anyone even sells encyclopedias any more?</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It feels good to lighten the load.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Don't store up treasures here on earth,</div><div style="text-align: center;">where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Store your treasures in heaven....</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will be also."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-61360283787439383132011-01-23T21:05:00.000-08:002011-01-23T21:05:29.695-08:00Signs that made me laugh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Funky signs and notices always make me smile.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Saw this sign hanging in a coffee shop in Duluth a year ago .</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It was hanging here at Dunn Brothers Coffee, Duluth, MN.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Isn't this cute? LOG, inside and out.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And when I saw this it got me thinking about how exciting it would be to pack everything up and be free of the "stuff" of life, which is the way I felt every time we have packed up and moved somewhere new.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But, alas, a day later it was all back where it was prior to Oxyclean Man's work.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not to say that I don't really like where I live.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's just exciting to be on a new adventure sometimes.</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-28980960282110392782011-01-16T16:51:00.000-08:002011-01-16T17:06:44.271-08:00Lesson from a hospice patient this week<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My job with Hospice of the Valley as an RN case manager takes me to elderly patients who live in group homes or assisted living facilities. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) very irritable,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) she had a jumpy yappy little dog that I didn't much like. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some people tell me I have a character flaw for not being an animal-lover. This may stem back to a traumatic experience when I was a teenager. I went for a bike ride on the highway by the farm and our St Bernard followed me, </span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">only to get hit and killed by a car the dog was chasing.</span></i>) </span> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to Evelyn. So when my boss asked me I really fussed about it, telling her my reasons for not wanting to take her on. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I have such a great boss and I really could not say no to her. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Friday was my day to visit Evelyn. I told Doug I was dreading it. But I prayed as I headed for her place and made a decision to think of her from God's perspective. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Knock-knock. 'Yap, yap, yap!" I entered to the jumpy dog </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and walked across the dirty carpet to her bedroom. I introduced myself and asked if she wanted to stay in bed or get up. She wanted to get up. She weighs 74# and is very cachectic but she insisted on getting herself up out of the bed and into the wheelchair. We visited a little. Then I asked her how she was feeling. (After all, I have to chart her pain level.) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O boy, wrong question to ask Evelyn. "How would you feel if you couldn't breathe </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and could not walk and had lived too long?" </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yikes. Back off. Take a deep breath. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Decided to comment on her beautiful paintings and ask her about how she became a painter. That led to her telling me about her painting and then her career as a court reporter in some very famous cases. I even pet the dog a bit. Pretty soon I realized I was actually enjoying myself. And I could tell she was appreciating the conversation. I was able to gently remind her that God loves her and she thanked me "for the very enjoyable visit." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I could not have been more surprised.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you, God, for grace.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) I don't understand how or why prayer works, but God gives us the privilege of seeking Him and of joining Him in His work as we pray for others. We are having a week of prayer emphasis at our church and I am excited to be with like-minded people seeking the Lord.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) Friends make a big difference in my life. I spent time with a really fun friend yesterday. She always makes me laugh. We had lunch today with some people that have known Doug and me since we were first married - 35 years ago. We all seem so the same. How could 35 years have intervened? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) I don't like to give a "hard" word to anyone. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5) People have a great capacity to disappoint one another. Many times people disappoint unintentionally.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-34484223769670062282010-12-24T14:11:00.000-08:002010-12-24T14:11:39.872-08:00Merry Christmas Eve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wishing everyone PEACE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christmas breakfast last Saturday. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doug's kuchen, following his Grandma Dave's recipe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angie, sending out her Christmas Countdown E-mail.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seth gave Angie this yoga block.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(it may have a fancier name, but I can't recall it.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Home-made snowman.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angie was all over the home-made gifts this year.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isn't this sweet?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seth gave us a "soft" Bocce set, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so late one night there was a (brief) game of indoor Bocce.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And again, wishing peace for you.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-28843122106881827162010-12-21T19:31:00.000-08:002010-12-22T00:36:27.564-08:00Early Christmas Eve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Since Angie has to work this Christmas, she flew home from Lubbock last Friday evening.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seth finished his first semester of teaching 5th grade in Tucson and came up, also.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We pretended it was Christmas Eve.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had a nontraditional supper - fondue.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We SKYPED Trish, Pete and Bowman in Bangladesh. They were a couple hours away from flying to Nepal and we will not be able to talk to them during the 18 days they are there. A wee bit bittersweet.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We are happy for them but missing them at the same time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Games and goodies are always a part of Christmas gatherings at our house.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Doug made Angie a caramel latte.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We played Dominies (Mexican Train).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Angie got her traditional flannel PJ pants. Doug bought them this year.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This bongo player looked on from the tree.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> (This is a favorite ornament bought in the 1970s in Montana).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Trish bought this in Amish country a year or so ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We went to bed thinking about how grateful we are that God became flesh and lived among us.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Doug's sermons the past three weeks have been on God showing up....</div><div style="text-align: center;">Empty</div><div style="text-align: center;">Approachable</div><div style="text-align: center;">As an underdog</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you, God.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-13290232198539815512010-12-09T21:38:00.000-08:002010-12-09T21:38:29.487-08:00Swedish Rusks<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUkQdjISRz63SsP8I-MSzeA-Kku0uc-Vz3KkfvAszDlvcY7fUt-6t6yvKWzkLdlLNIhX8HKPugPnDWPeBnkmfmK01fLCZ67AW8C4MAZ4OTaCsEeJhly9w3li7pzAI7MWTVMlo38abrDU/s1600/IMG_0316.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYUkQdjISRz63SsP8I-MSzeA-Kku0uc-Vz3KkfvAszDlvcY7fUt-6t6yvKWzkLdlLNIhX8HKPugPnDWPeBnkmfmK01fLCZ67AW8C4MAZ4OTaCsEeJhly9w3li7pzAI7MWTVMlo38abrDU/s640/IMG_0316.jpg" width="480" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</span></div> I decided to do a tutorial, primarily for the girls (that would be you, Trisha and Angie).</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mom made her braided Swedish coffee bread (yeast bread) into rusks when I was young but in her later years she started using this Almond Rusk recipe recipe. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is quite a bit easier (faster) and very, very yummy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(The Italians call this biscotti, but for we Swedes, it's rusks.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love that I have this recipe in my mom's handwriting, also.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start by creaming together 1 cup shortening with 1.5 cups sugar. Add 2 eggs and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 tsp almond extract.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, mix the following together in a bowl: </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 tablespoon cardamom.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add that to the creamed mixture, alternately with 1 cup sour cream.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My very old $10 hand mixer does fine, until it gets really thick. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then you will need to use a spoon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the last addition of flour, add 1 cup chopped almonds (can be very coarse).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will now be very hard to stir. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is okay.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things are going to get messy, so now is the time to take off your rings.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's the really messy part. Generously grease your hands with butter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The house will now be full of the fragrance of almond and cardamom. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If that doesn't make you happy, I don't know what will.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(about 20 slices per loaf, but I never count or measure).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at 225 degrees for 30-60 minutes, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">until quite dry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These will keep for a long time at room temperature.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best dipped in coffee or milk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wish I could thank Mom for this wonderful taste memory.</span></div>Glacier Dreaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08687529315791880588noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7292619527473869207.post-16962671624981907282010-12-04T19:44:00.000-08:002010-12-04T19:44:34.087-08:00Love that Lutefisk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doug definitely knows how to make me happy. He surprised me by reserving tickets for us at the annual Lutefisk Dinner at St Peter Lutheran Church in Mesa.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People mock and deride the humble lutefisk but for me it brings nothing but joy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The feeling I get anticipating this meal may be what other people get</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> anticipating a delicious cinnamon roll. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It all has to to do with my childhood. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our main Christmas celebration occurred Christmas Eve and consisted of a meal of </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lutefisk, white sauce, boiled potatoes and potatis scorv. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went to Grandpa and Grandma Johnson's where my aunts and uncles and cousins gathered for the evening.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, this meal today took me back to that...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This man greeted us at the door. He walked about the room during the meal and it was he who made a good amount of the delicious lefse that was served.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (Which was definitely Doug's favorite part of the meal.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dick and Dolores Korsmo joined us. Some strangers sat at our table and, wouldn't you know, they had friends in common from North Dakota. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is it, looking yummy. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I almost cried when I took my first bite of lutefisk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has absolutely to do with lutefisk or my Swedish heritage but I found is on the kitchen floor as I stepped away from the radio after finishing listening to</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rounding out the day with ginger snaps. Made 13 dozen, most for the treats that will be served after Trinity's annual Sounds of Christmas celebration next weekend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use Mom Davidson's recipe, which is delicious, but after reading the Pioneer Woman's similar recipe I did add cardamom and may do so hereafter. YUM.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could not imagine that Christmas could be Christmas without the cold and snow.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now here I am in the sunny south where we never have snow. And it's okay.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this is what the beginning of the Christmas season looks like here.</span><br />
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