No sloppy pizza at my house today!

I had planned on pizza for dinner but decided the best way to handle a meatless pizza was to make it more intersting and turned the same ingredients into calzones - basically folded over pizzas. They are baking even as I type. Since my husband takes leftovers for his work lunches, a calzone would be easier to pack and eat at work. My son likes anything with the taste of pizza with lots of cheese and tomato.

A long day of sewing but I finally have a quilt on the homeward path to completion. It is an Our Lady of Guadeloupe quilt with Our Lady featured in each of the twelve squares. It turned out even better than I anticipated. Now, if only I could find a market for quilts!

Rain in the forecast which would make me happy! Hot soup and bread will definitely be on the menu as I saved back a nice, meaty bone to simmer to death and enhance for soup.

Currently trying to figure out how to lengthen an altar boy cassock without it looking really tacky. Of course, it couldn't look worse than a cassock that only goes to the knees and reveals less-than Sunday apparel!

Dinner is done and so am I.

Greetings to the rest of the world and peace and no earthquakes!

There's a difference . . .

One thing I've noticed in all the news reports about the recent disaster in Japan is the lack of stories of looting. Sure, there isn't much left after the tsunami came through but that doesn't usually stop the have nots from taking whatever they can from someone who might have only a little. Whenever I think of the worst possible scenario, the first worry that comes to mind is how to protect my family and whatever provisions we might still have on hand. You think about the most productive way to get through a crisis and that would be to share equally. I've heard so many people, however, say that they will do anything for their children. One guy actually said that if his children are thirsty, he WILL take water away from another person. Guess that's where the basic human kindness goes to pot because taking away someone else's water for your child, condemns the victim's children to dehydration. I'd like to think that people would give consideration to a potential situation as a whole and make sure all the children had a sip of water equally.

I don't have a good feeling about our neighborhood. We actually did have an evaculation alert several years ago in the wake of a massive fire bearing down on our neighborhood. No soon had the police recommended we evacuate, trucks with young men started prowling the area with no good intent in mind. Many of us did pack our cars but stayed poised in our driveways to protect our home to the last minute . . . from these predtors not the fire!

Our modern world provides much potential for disaster. We do have to plan ahead and store extra provisions. We also have to pray that adversity brings out decent behavior from everyone and not an opportunity to get away with murder.

Makes sense in any faith-based life . . .

“In order that we be exercised in humility, it is necessary for us to be sometimes wounded in this spiritual battle: but we are never overcome except when we have lost either life or courage.” ~St. Francis de Sales