Bible Quiz Day 77

Answer to question 76 - Zacharias, Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-45)

Question 77 - Jesus was buried in a tomb that belonged to _________ of __________.

Farm Fresh Pasta Sauce

8 servings

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 garlic clove, minced

1 cup finely chopped onion

1 cup finely chopped bell pepper

2 quarts fresh roma or grape tomatoes

1 tablespoon fresh (or 1 teaspoon dried) italian herbs 

salt to taste

Sauté garlic, onion, and bell pepper in oil until vegetables begin to soften.  Blanch tomatoes and remove skins.  Add tomatoes to the pan and saute for several minutes.  As the tomatoes begin to soften mash them with a potato masher.  (Do this carefully or you'll have tomato juice all over you!)  When all the tomatoes are mashed thoroughly, add herbs and salt.   Cover, lower heat and simmer sauce for 30 minutes or until ready to serve.   Enjoy over your favorite pasta.

Menu Plan Monday

Supper Menus
June 13th-18th

Monday
angel hair pasta with farm fresh pasta sauce
Tuesday 
fajitas, spanish rice, guacamole, pico de gallo, tortilla chips
Wednesday
make your own nachos (using leftover fajita fixings)
Thursday
out for supper
Friday
out for supper
Saturday 
breakfast for supper

"Hem your blessings with thankfulness, so they don't unravel." 

~Author Unknown

.:chess:.

My talented Daddy (builder of the hearth bench and the barnyard stool)

made a beautiful, heirloom chess board for our family for Christmas. 

On his last visit he brought me a little matching

box he had built...

to hold the chess pieces. 

The chess board is getting a lot of use this summer!

My son and I decided to start a summer long chess match.

Every time we finish a game, we just start another 

and play whenever we both have time.

Nine games in so far...

I'm down by one game. 

He's good.

He's been good for awhile. :-)

::: a knitting journal :::

This brand new knitting journal

was also given to me along with the 

yarn jackpot.

I'm really excited about it!

It gives tips on how to take good photographs

of finished projects.

A place to record details about 

the pattern, needles, and yarn used.

A place for a picture.

And a place for a yarn label and/or sample.

I have a picture of everything I've knitted so far 

and I've saved yarn labels as well,

so I'm anxious to get my projects into my journal!

What a nice record of my progress it will be. :-)

*The journal was written by Char Loving, 
published in 2003 and retails for $14.95.

Jackpot!

Whoo!

Hoo! 

I hit the yarn jackpot I think!

Someone sweet passed on some yarn

that she thought I would get more use out of 

than she would. :-)

I didn't argue!

I already have visions of projects

dancing in my head!  

A poncho with this yarn?

Or this?

I scarf out of this?

Or maybe I could tackle a knitted hat?

This yarn is very interesting.

And so is this.

Something for a baby? 

More baby soft yarn.

Not sure what I might want to do with this yarn,

but I love the color.
A scarf, hat, and mittens set??  Dare I dream? ;-)

Lots of this!

Maybe an afgan?

And this is my favorite!!

Just one skein, but I think it'll be plenty

for an autumn scarf!

Can't wait!

But first, I've got to get this

baby blanket

finished up!  

All that yarn waiting for me is a fantastic motivator! :-)

~Touring Gruene~

"Gruene (pronounced “green”) is a town in Comal County, Texas. Once a significant cotton-producing community along the Guadalupe River, the economy is now supported primarily by tourism. Gruene lies entirely within the city limits of New Braunfels. Much of Gruene was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 21, 1975.  Gruene's history begins in 1872 when first generation German American farmer Heinrich (Henry) D. Gruene purchased 6,000 acres of farmland three miles north of New Braunfels along the Guadalupe River. He built his house and planted his surrounding land with cotton. In 1878, Gruene opened a mercantile store to serve the several dozen or so families sharecropping on his land. The town benefitted by its location along the stagecoach route between Austin and San Antonio, the store thrived for many years and stimulated local commercial growth. Gruene Hall opened in 1878, and the Thorn Hill School and three large cotton gins soon followed. By the time the International-Great Northern Railroad was built across Comal County in the 1880s the small community was bustling with commercial and farming activity. By 1900, Gruene was a prominent banking, ginning, and shipping center for area cotton farming. Though it never had a post office of its own, the community did possess two freight rail stations by the 1910s. Gruene was decimated, however, by the boll weevil blight of the 1920s, and further doomed by the effects of the Great Depression. By 1930 the population had fallen to 75, and post World War II highway construction bypassed the town. By 1950 Gruene was essentially abandoned and had become a ghost town. As a result of the restoration of area structures, such as the Gruene Hall and old mercantile store, Gruene began a re-birth of sorts in the early 1970s. Redevelopment and restoration of the area continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s and today, and though no longer an autonomous community (it was annexed by New Braunfels in 1979), Gruene maintains a thriving tourist business. Many original structures from the town's heyday still exist, including the Gruene Family Home, a Victorian-style edifice built in 1872 which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and today operates as the Gruene Mansion Inn. A historic water tower rises above Gruene Hall, and other buildings at the heart of the district have been renovated into shops and restaurants." 

~above taken from www.wikipedia.com~

~Tubing the Comal~

The Comal River is the shortest navigable river in the state ofTexas and in the United States. Proclaimed the "longest shortest river in the world" by locals, it runs entirely within the city limits of New Braunfels in southeast Comal County. It is a tributary of the Guadalupe River. The Comal begins at Comal Springs in Landa Park and flows 2.5 miles until its junction with the Guadalupe.  The Comal was originally called the Little Guadalupe in early Spanish accounts. After Spaniard Pedro de Rivera y Villalón identified the longer river as the Guadalupe in 1727, the Comal was given its current name. The name means basin or flat dish in Spanish.  The river is also one of only two rivers to host the fountain darter, a fish now in danger of extinction. The only other river inhabited by the darter is the nearby San Marcos River.

~above taken from www.wikipedia.com~

The pool is open for the summer!

We had a lot of trouble keeping water in our pool last year 

at our new place. 

The ground looked level, but it wasn't!

This year Mr. H. spent several days preparing a level spot 

before he sat the pool up for the summer.

And, of course I was fascinated with the process!

First he used stakes and string to lay out the boundary 

and see how much drop there was in the ground. 

Then a dump truck backed through our yard

with a load of dirt.

It backed right up to the string boundary,

and dumped the load of dirt that Mr. H. had ordered.

It's too bad my four year old nephew wasn't here.

I have a feeling he would have thought the dump truck

was pretty cool. ;-)

Then Mr. H. removed the string and stakes,

and made a permanent form for the pool area.

Then it was time to spread the dirt!

He made an nifty little contraption to level the dirt.

When the ground was level,

he spread out a tarp 

and set up the pool.

And now I don't have to spend my summer

hollering at children to not lean on the side of the pool!!!
Which I might have said once
or a thousand times last year.;-)

Thank you Mr. H.!!!

The pool

is open!