41 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-11-15”

  2. Do any of you make popovers? Mr P has tried to make many times since we married but the don’t “pop”. I have told him at first he was using all purpose flour then I found another excuse. Last weekend I suggested it may be the humidity. He says he has made them many times even in Cuba and they were fine. I am not a baker. It is too precise and I can’t follow directions and be both we red with precise measurements to bake.
    Do any of you have another suggestion I can give him?

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  4. I always pack too much when we travel. How do I learn to pack lighter? Especially when weather can be so changable, I pack for three seasons. I end up using maybe one quarter of what I packed. Suggestions for improvements in packing?

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  6. Good Morning! Having a puppy in the house is having a baby in the house….except when baby awakens in the middle of the night, you just change the diaper, warm the milk and cuddle….puppy needs to go outside to do her business….when there is a blizzard outside at 2 in the morning, mommy gets cranky…especially when no one else in this house wants to take over….she is sweetly sleeping right now on her doggy bed…I’m ready for my second cup of coffee!!
    KIm….do ya’ll warm the milk first? Granny always warmed her milk to hot…not boiling…before she added it…popovers were always perfect…..
    Janice I’m not certain a person can pack lightly when having to prepare for differing weather conditions. My go to clothes for traveling are a black pair of slacks, jeans, tops that can work well with both. I wear a comfortable pair of shoes and pack a pair. I usually pack too much because I still want choices while I’m away.

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  9. Looks good.
    I used to know a guy named Alton Brown.
    I can remember enough to picture him, but I don’t recall the situation.
    It may have been Southwestern Seminary..

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  11. What’s a popover?

    Happy puppy-in-a-blizzard 🙂

    I walked the dogs this morning, trying to see if I can’t add a morning walk to my routine (along with their regular evening walk). Only walked slightly shy of 1 mile, keeping it short and simple until I can establish something of a “routine.” If I’m too ambitious in the beginning, I’ll never keep it up.

    I really do need to take better care of my health.

    Janice, it helps me to remind myself that if I need something I don’t have or find a suddenly “need,” I will be able to just find a store to buy it. Or will there be laundry facilities available to wash dirty clothes? But I have a tendency to take to much when I go places, too.

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  13. Good thoughts on Christmas:

    http://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/kevindeyoung/2015/11/10/christmas-is-not-for-cranks/

    “…. reviling when reviled is hardly a wise or biblical strategy. I get the frustration. And yet, surely we can do better than communicate to the watching world, “Screw you! I’ll get you to say ‘Merry Christmas’ if it’s the last thing I ever do, jerk!” If the idea is to keep words like Christmas in the public square–and hipper-than-thou Christians take note, that’s not a pointless goal–there are better ways to go about it. …”

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  14. My granny made popovers, dumplings, apple crisps, you name it, she made it from scratch….she was our cafeteria lady at my elementary school….back in the day when the cafeteria ladies made all the food from scratch….such great cooks!
    Popovers were always eaten with butter and honey poured inside….Granny would put apple butter on hers.

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  15. Never had any problem with popovers either, even making them in humid Hawai’i, but also haven’t made them in years. I just did whatever Betty Crocker told me to do.

    I plan what I’m going to wear every day of the trip, include thermals if I suspect it may be cold, take tennis shoes and a paid or dressier flats that can go with pants or a dress and tights. I hated to do so in Europe, but I wore my boots and ended up wearing them nearly every day so they were a good choice– but that was a last minute decision after United sent me a flight alert and warned of bad weather

    My father’s advice (the veteran visited 118 countries before he died) was similar. If you need something, buy it and then you have a souvenir! Totally liberated my packing woes 32 years ago!

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  16. http://www.chicos.com/store/category/travelers/cat40010?searchdef=2243318&CMP=KNC_GOOG_BRAND_TRAVELERS&CAWELAID=120218480000966081&CAPCID=72354613597&cadevice=c&gclid=CIfQsu3eiMkCFQmoaQod6RQMzQ

    A few key pieces can be dressed up, down, or whatever. You can purchase knock offs of the basics at Sam’s Club. They wash out well in a hotel sink and can be dry by morning. For much travel they sell disposable underwear (not Depends) and a bra can be washing in the sink with shampoo– because soap is soap.

    Of course this is one of those situations where do as I say not as I do. I have reached the point I am willing to pay the extra $50 round trip to take an extra suitcase.

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  18. A delightful lady came to my house once, for about three weeks. She arrived with just one small suitcase, as I recall. She was always dressed very nicely and comfortably. Though I did notice she needed to wear a hat in the schoolroom. And a coat. And mukluks. And a parka. Rather like Mary Poppins in some ways.

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  19. I usually end up with a few things I don’t use, but not many. For socks and underwear, I pack number of days plus one. (You never know if you’re going to suddenly need to stay an extra day or get drenched in a rainstorm.) For pants, one pair for every two days, plus one extra if we are going to be doing a lot of hiking and there’s a good possibility of pants getting muddy. Shirts, about two for every three days. Plus one or two sweatshirts for layering, long john bottoms if I’m likely to need them, and a coat if it’s cool enough. For years I never packed anything that wasn’t green or blue, because most of my wardrobe was green and that made a very easy mix-and-match; now I mostly have neutral pants and everything is going to match anyway. If we’re going to be gone over a Sunday or attending a special dinner, I have one particular dress I take. It packs without wrinkling and it’s sleeveless but pairs well with a particular sweater, so it gives me flexibility. And then I choose the most comfortable of the pants I put in the packing pile, and set them and a shirt aside as travel clothes, and don’t put them in the suitcase.

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  20. More important than the clothes, I need at least one book. If the trip is at least four days, I take one nonfiction and one fiction. I keep in mind the weight, but it can be a book I’ve been meaning to read but haven’t gotten around to yet, but if one is “heavy” in terms of reading matter, I will make sure the other one isn’t. Usually I end up reading one all the way through and the other one maybe halfway. In the days I used to be on an airplane alone, I made sure one of those choices was a long paperback novel (often by Dickens), and that was my travel book. I’d have several hours to read it at the airport and on the plane, but I might or might not read it while at my destination, depending on whether I needed to leave the rest for the trip home; if I only got a quarter or a third of the way through on the trip out, then I’d keep reading it during the trip. If I got halfway or more, then I either needed to save the rest for the return trip or finish it but set another aside for the return. I found Dickens good for trips simply because I have a hard time getting into him at home, but give me several hours when I have nothing else to do, and I can focus.

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  28. On packing light: Necessity is the secret. I cannot afford extra luggage charges, and I have few clothes in any case. Also, often I have to take public transit (bus, ferry, train), meaning that I have to be able to carry all my luggage. Efficient packing can reduce the amount of luggage necessary, such as placing clothes in sealable plastic bags and compressing out all the air. Books are a challenge; thanks to somebody, I now have an e-reader, but I also have some notebooks I like to carry with me and also music books. I generally end up with marks on a shoulder from the weight of the book + computer bag. Finally, packing light does mean taking a risk – you might not be prepared for every possibility. That’s when you get to figure out a new and creative solution.

    It is Remembrance Day here. We observe it by wearing (artificial) poppies on our lapels, and local dignitaries lay poppy wreaths at the local war memorial (or cenotaph as they are called) and then we observe a minute of silence at the 11 hour of the 11 day on the 11th month. The big ceremony in Ottawa has a veterans parade, and a gun salute and a fly by. The classical radio station I grew up listening played this beautiful piece, among others, every Remembrance Day – the final movement from The Battle of the Atlantic Suite:

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  29. Forrest is quite the fashion plate on his travels today. (He went with Papa to pick up Auntie.) He was already wearing a normal grey t-shirt, & he paired that with a pair of pajama shorts, with boxers underneath. The boxers are longer than the pj shorts, so they stick out the bottom of the legs.

    When it was time to go get Auntie, he put on his rain boots, & a hoodie, to finish the outfit. So cute. 🙂

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  32. I read on the kindle, too and always save up magazines to read on the plane and then give away. The only physical books I carry these days are guidebooks. And they’re by Rick Steves if I’m in Europe.

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  33. I make popovers. I have no good tips for how to make them ‘pop’ better. I also make a giant puff pancake. A restaurant we frequent makes the same type as a special. Sometimes it raises incredibly well and sometimes it is flat. The restaurant has never been able to figure out why. I haven’t either, although mine has never been completely flat.

    You might try King Arthur Flour (or a similar site) for some tips. They have some really good pans, although they are sold elsewhere, too.

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  35. 🙂 We went to Fatz for dinner after church tonight.
    The waitress asked if I were a veteran.
    I said “Yes”.
    She took $12.78 off my bill.
    I left a good tip.

    The reason I’m still up is:
    1. We just got back.
    2. I had two cups of coffee at dinner.

    🙂

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  36. I see on FoxNews that people are criticizing Hillary for laughing when a guy said he wanted to strangle Forina.
    Such trivia.
    I’m no Hillary fan, but there are worse things than this.
    Leave it alone.

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