Nothing learned is every wasted . . .

He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.

- Jeseph Joubert

Something we have all discovered . . .

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

- Sam Ewing

Shooting down a popular argument with facts . . .

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-silliest-argument-ever-is-one-you-hear-all-the-time

And, so it begins . . .

Sigh . . . The day before my youngest son's first day of college and I have to make the long trip over there today in order to purchase his book for class. I had planned on doing so, yesterday, but Martin Luther King had priority for his holiday and the college was closed. Nothing worse than not having the required book the first day of class so I'm doing the proper, mother thing and seeing to this today.

Tomorrow, my son has a ride to his first day of class with a friend. I think that works well as you don't really want your mother by our side at college . . . although I've threatened to do so! :-) I even offered to buy him an Hello Kitty lunchbox and he turned me down. Go figure!

Another dreary, overcast morning but the sun seems to be winning out over the clouds and fog. Still not enough rainfall for Southern California but this never surprises us residents. It is a blessing when we get enough rain and a fact of life when we do not.

Another vote for parchment paper . . .

A favorite bread roll in our family is a crusty cheese one. I don't make them very often because the cheese often turns into burned tar before the bread is finished baking. Then, I have the baking pan to soak . . . and soak . . . and soak in hopes of eventually getting it clean. Since the arrival of parchment paper in my kitchen, it has reduced a lot of these problems. Up until yesterday, however, I still hesitated to make cheese bread rolls. I finally straightened my spine and entered the kitchen prepared to try this favorite recipe with parchment paper and see what would exit the oven at the end of the baking period.

I lined the bottom and the sides of my favorite, heavy 13x11-inch baking pan with parchment paper. No vegetable oil spray or butter, just the paper. I formed my bread dough into serving rolls, dipped them in a mixture of olive oil and butter and rolled them in a combination of grated cheddar and Romano cheese. Once the pan was filled, I scattered the remaining cheese over the top . . . and baked them.

The parchment paper worked perfectly! The rolls were tender on the inside, the top had a bubbly crusty cheese finish and the bottom of the rolls has a crispy layer of baked cheese. Since bread needs to be removed from the pan as soon as possible to avoid the baked goods from 'sweating' and gettin soggy, it was super simple to just lift all the rolls out by the overhang of the parchment paper. I set the whole thing on a cooling rack and got rave reviews from my family at dinner. And. the pan just needed a soapy wash and rinse.

Some slated but funny views via quotes!

"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
-- George Carlin

"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
-- Doctor Who

"Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
-- Quentin Crisp

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."
-- Dandemis