This Thursday is the first Thursday of the month. Call the Temple and make reservations early for the 10 a.m. session. We will leave the Meijer parking lot at 8:30 a.m. Call me and let me know if you are going so I'll know who to expect.
The Stake RS Women's Conderence is April 25 from 9:30-1:30. You can learn about it and register at www.ldsbooklovers.com/wc.asp
I'm looking forward to General Conference this weekend. Hope everyone gets to see it.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Gardens
I've been planning my garden. I can't wait to get outside and get my hands in the dirt. I've read a good gardening book-- "Gardening When It Counts" -- and am hoping to have greater success this year. In reading about gardening I found a garden that everyone can plant. Of course it will take work and weeding, but the harvest will be fantastic! Here it is:
PLANT THREE ROWS OF SQUASH:
1. Squash gossip.
2. Squash criticism.
3. Squash indifference.
PLANT SEVEN ROWS OF PEAS:
1. Prayer
2. Promptness
3. Perseverance
4. Politeness
5. Preparedness
6. Purity
7. Patience
PLANT SEVEN HEADS OF LETTUCE:
1. Let us be unselfish and loyal.
2. Let us be faithful to duty.
3. Let us search the scriptures.
4. Let us not be weary in well doing.
5. Let us be obedient in all things.
6. Let us be truthful.
7. Let us love one another.
NO GARDEN IS COMPLETE WITHOUT TURNIPS:
1. Turn up for church.
2. Turn up for meetings.
3. Turn up with a smile, even when things are difficult.
4. Turn up with determination to do your best.
MAKE SURE YOUR GARDEN GETS PLENTY OF EXPOSURE TO THE SON!
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. --Gal. 6:7
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit--and man is his own gardener. --James Lane Allen
Happy gardening!
PLANT THREE ROWS OF SQUASH:
1. Squash gossip.
2. Squash criticism.
3. Squash indifference.
PLANT SEVEN ROWS OF PEAS:
1. Prayer
2. Promptness
3. Perseverance
4. Politeness
5. Preparedness
6. Purity
7. Patience
PLANT SEVEN HEADS OF LETTUCE:
1. Let us be unselfish and loyal.
2. Let us be faithful to duty.
3. Let us search the scriptures.
4. Let us not be weary in well doing.
5. Let us be obedient in all things.
6. Let us be truthful.
7. Let us love one another.
NO GARDEN IS COMPLETE WITHOUT TURNIPS:
1. Turn up for church.
2. Turn up for meetings.
3. Turn up with a smile, even when things are difficult.
4. Turn up with determination to do your best.
MAKE SURE YOUR GARDEN GETS PLENTY OF EXPOSURE TO THE SON!
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. --Gal. 6:7
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit--and man is his own gardener. --James Lane Allen
Happy gardening!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Lemon-Cornmeal Cake
When life serves you a lemon make this cake!
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp each baking soda and salt
2 sticks (l cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 Tbsp grated lemon zest
1/4 cup lemon juice
4 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk or plain yogurt, stirred to loosen
Sugar Glaze
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice
1. Heat oven to 325 F. You'll need a 10-cup decorative tube pan or a 12-cup Bundt pan coated with baking spray. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder and soda, and salt.
2. In large bowl beat butter, sugar, lemon zest and juice with mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time until blended. With mixer on low, alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk until batter is smooth. Scrape into prepared pan; level top with spatula.
3. Bake 55 to 65 minutes until wooden pick inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 5 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, make the sugar glaze:
Whisk glaze ingredients in a small bowl just until combined (sugar will not be totally dissolved). Invert cake from pan onto rack; place rack over a baking sheet. Brush glaze all over hot cake until absorbed (sugar crystals will be evident). Cool completely. Transfer cake to a serving plate and cover. Let cake rest several hours or overnight, before serving. Store cake covered at room temperature up to 4 days. Cut into thin slices to serve.
Tip: Use lime zest and juice for a zesty alternative.
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp each baking soda and salt
2 sticks (l cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 Tbsp grated lemon zest
1/4 cup lemon juice
4 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk or plain yogurt, stirred to loosen
Sugar Glaze
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice
1. Heat oven to 325 F. You'll need a 10-cup decorative tube pan or a 12-cup Bundt pan coated with baking spray. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder and soda, and salt.
2. In large bowl beat butter, sugar, lemon zest and juice with mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time until blended. With mixer on low, alternately beat in flour mixture and buttermilk until batter is smooth. Scrape into prepared pan; level top with spatula.
3. Bake 55 to 65 minutes until wooden pick inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack 5 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, make the sugar glaze:
Whisk glaze ingredients in a small bowl just until combined (sugar will not be totally dissolved). Invert cake from pan onto rack; place rack over a baking sheet. Brush glaze all over hot cake until absorbed (sugar crystals will be evident). Cool completely. Transfer cake to a serving plate and cover. Let cake rest several hours or overnight, before serving. Store cake covered at room temperature up to 4 days. Cut into thin slices to serve.
Tip: Use lime zest and juice for a zesty alternative.
Monday, March 9, 2009
I've been thinking. . .
about Identity Theft. In Primary we learn "I am a child of God." In Young Women we learn, "We are daughters of our Heavenly Father who loves us and we love Him." In Relief Society we learn, "We are beloved spirit daughters of God, and our lives have meaning, purp0se, and direction." This is our identity, the one Satan is forever trying to steal from us. He uses deceit, mocking, comparison, criticism, riches, and many other methods to take this identity from us.
Our identity protection is weakened by disobedience, apathy, ingratitude, and failure to pray. Our best protection is to always remember who we are, where we came from and that we are destined to become a Goddess. Reading our scriptures daily and praying daily are our reminders and will help us through any identity crises that we come up against. Remembering who we are will keep us from being enticed by the party in the 'large and spacious building'. How do we best help those around us who are suffering from identity theft or identity crises?
Our identity protection is weakened by disobedience, apathy, ingratitude, and failure to pray. Our best protection is to always remember who we are, where we came from and that we are destined to become a Goddess. Reading our scriptures daily and praying daily are our reminders and will help us through any identity crises that we come up against. Remembering who we are will keep us from being enticed by the party in the 'large and spacious building'. How do we best help those around us who are suffering from identity theft or identity crises?
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Welcome to the RS Blog
This blog is for you. It is my hope that we can all benefit from it as sisters in the Gospel. I hope that it can be a place of inspiration as well as a place of information. I'm hoping that all will feel that they can make suggestions, ask questions and offer help to each other using this blog as one means of communication. I am not very good at this (computer-stuff), but I think that I will get better with your help, and maybe there is someone out there who would really like to do this.
Perhaps at least once a month we could have a topic to think about and share ideas on. Also we will post announcements of activities. Please feel free to make suggestions and we will work on them together. For now, please note the announcements that follow:
Meet at McDonalds this Wed. (tomorrow) at 9:00 a.m.
Temple Trip this Thurs. Meet at Miejer at 8:15 a.m. We will leave at 8:30. You call the temple if you are planning to go.
HFPE Tues. March 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Perhaps at least once a month we could have a topic to think about and share ideas on. Also we will post announcements of activities. Please feel free to make suggestions and we will work on them together. For now, please note the announcements that follow:
Meet at McDonalds this Wed. (tomorrow) at 9:00 a.m.
Temple Trip this Thurs. Meet at Miejer at 8:15 a.m. We will leave at 8:30. You call the temple if you are planning to go.
HFPE Tues. March 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Monday, March 2, 2009
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