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― Maya AngelouNonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-31017023169289950972018-01-14T20:52:00.001-05:002018-01-14T20:52:26.369-05:00Mikayla's Voice on PEAK TV<br />
If you have followed my blog, you know that I have been involved with Mikayla's Voice non-profit since its inception. Recently The PEAK TV did a short piece on our organization.<br />
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<br />Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-52833774343468229902017-08-23T11:55:00.001-04:002017-08-23T11:55:35.858-04:00Summer SpecialsHere are a few of the recipes I have tried this summer. All of them were enjoyed by my husband and I have been told can be repeated.<br />
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Top row: Sirloin Steak with Sauce Robert, Grilled Chicken and Pear Salad, and Hot Honey Salmon<br />
Center row: Salmon with Brown Butter Tomato Relish, Chicken with Sauce Soubise, and Coffee Rubbed Pork Tenderloin<br />
Bottom row: Mediterranean Fish Cakes, Barbecued Steak Sandwich, and French Onion Chicken<br />
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Tonight I will be repeating the coffee rubbed pork tenderloin, Yummy!Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-36207853590595505142017-08-20T12:30:00.000-04:002017-08-20T12:30:08.352-04:00<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Treat older women as you would your mother, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters. </span></i>1 Timothy 5:1-2 </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Long ago my aunt shared the story of how my uncle told her she just had to love my mom because she was like a mother to him growing up. That seemed odd in a sense because my mom and uncle were not that far apart in age, but my mom was the one who was always there while my widowed grandmother worked as the sole supporter, raising her five children. So, to him my mom was like a mother. My aunt took his words to heart, because she has always loved my mom, and my mom has always loved her. It was a struggle for my mom to stand and kiss my aunt good-bye but she did, and I heard them both whisper, "I love you!"</span><br />
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I adore Jacques Pepin, and was thrilled when his new cookbook arrived in my mailbox last week. Years ago it was so much fun to watch him and Julia Child in the kitchen. Occasionally, I am lucky enough to catch a snippet of the two of them on PBS. Although I enjoy watching "Chopped" and other such shows on the Food Network, there is nothing that compares to Julia and Jacque in the kitchen.<br />
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Jacques makes everything he does in the kitchen look so easy and his recipes are delicious. His next cookbook will come out in September: <u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544824393/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">A Grandfather's Lessons: In the Kitchen with Shorey</a></u> My copy is on order!<br />
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Bon Appetit!Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-70007710644451639042017-08-20T12:03:00.003-04:002017-08-20T12:03:19.470-04:00A Sunny Sunday Afternoon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Playing cards has never been my thing. Growing up my brother and sister always would spend time playing cards at the kitchen table while I'd have my nose stuck in a book. Words have always been my game. Let me read, write, play scrabble or just talk, but playing cards?! Only if I must. Apparently, my brother and sister got their card playing gene from our mother. She can play cards for hours! So every once and awhile, I will take pity on my 99 year old mother, who seems quiet and bored reading her book, and says, "Mom, do you want to play cards?" She never hesitates, and always I enjoy the time and the game. <br />
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It has certainly been awhile since I've posted anything. How is it that life becomes so busy, that we don't find time for the fun things in life? Blogging is a fun thing to me.<br />
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I have been knitting and cooking up a storm this summer, but you would not think so by the looks of my posts, or the lack there of! I cannot show you all the new recipes I have cooked, but I will tell you that I have made, on average, two new recipes a week this summer. Perhaps what I will do in a future post is copy the recipe photo, post those pictures and if there's a dish that looks tempting to you, you can message me and I will share the recipe. However, for this post let me share the August birthday, which for me was a Christmas celebration.<br />
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The stockings took weeks to knit which curtails all other knitting. Presently I do have a stole on my needles and hope to share pictures of that piece in the near future.</div>
Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-70072111741025125492017-04-12T14:45:00.001-04:002017-04-12T14:45:19.795-04:00Knitting for Twins<span style="font-size: large;">I haven't posted in awhile, mainly because I haven't been very crafty of late. However, I do want to share what I knit for my niece's twin babies awhile ago. She had their pictures taken a few weeks back and shared a photo with me today, which I am sharing with you now!</span><br />
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Dana went home to Jesus at 1:30 AM this morning. She recorded this song with her siblings on December 28, 2016, the one year anniversary of her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. They recorded three other songs, which you can also find on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Z-1J9Y3VI" target="_blank">Anchor</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WYnwsRfKgE" target="_blank">Undivided Heart</a> (Dana wrote Undivided Heart), and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Z-1J9Y3VI" target="_blank">Hope Will Rise</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's January 9. Today was the first day back to school for our kids here in Grand Haven. I am feeling a bit of sadness today over the ending of the holidays, the dullness of January and February that hits pretty hard around here, and to top it off I haven't been feeling good for a few days now. I believe it was a bug i caught (that left me throwing up, etc) but you never know on this journey if it's chemo related or something else.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All that to say, I needed to hear from God today. He is so timely and I am so running late in my time. I often realize my need when it's already been lingering for awhile where He is always ready with a word of encouragement or challenge before I knew I needed it. That was today. I was just saying I was tired and discouraged and needed something for this next part of the journey. I've been dehydrated for real a bit lately and often realize that when you take a drink BECAUSE you are so thirsty, you are already late to the solution. We need to be drinking our Living Water before we are thirsty and not waiting until we are in need.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So this morning, I decided to listen in to one of the Passion Talks from their conference last week in Atlanta. Passion is geared at college students, but they bring in some of my favorite authors, pastors, and speakers so I love to listen to what God is leading them to say to that age group and what I can learn as I "eavesdrop in." I listened to Pastor Levi Lusko as God used him to talk to ME. He talked about needing to know where to go to get our second wind. I have another Scan on Thursday and I want to enter this scan FILLED UP and ready and not depleted and on empty. So where do I get my second wind? From time in God's presence, allowing His Spirit to invigorate me once again. I've experienced the "second wind" in my running when I used to be a runner. What an amazing feeling that is! Just when you think you can't go on, something kicks in and you are given the energy you need to keep going.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Are you in need on a second wind today? Feeling like you are out of your own energy? We were never meant to carry all of this on our own. The second wind is a gift from God and the reminder that I can do NOTHING on my own and was never being expected to or asked to do it all on my own. I'm praying once again that this kindness from the Lord would lead me to repentance for trying to manage all of this. I can't manage it. The weakness, the throwing up, the lack of energy, the amount of brain power that this disease is taking from me- I can't manage it. Thanks to the One who knew that about me and gave me the reminder this morning of letting Him give me my second wind. Then, I can face a scan Thursday, news about tumor growth/stability, and all that I need to 'handle" in the next few weeks. Only with Him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another gift from that talk this morning was the reminder that I am not chained to my circumstances (or chained to the chemo). My circumstance is chained to ME. That way of thinking about it gives me the ability to see that I bring God and the mindset that I want to have into my situation; not the other way around. Chemo and cancer don't define me- they are just along for the ride. I think that the last week has allowed for some false thinking in me about this and it was time to remember who is leading who. God is leading me, with circumstances straggling behind. Not God leading my circumstances with me straggling behind. I don't know if that distinction makes sense to you, but it was another perspective shift for me on who I am following. I am directly following God with nothing in between, not being led by sickness trying to see God around the sickness. Don't make that same mistake. Your view of God gets blocked by the situation. And when you try to see God around a situation you think is in charge, sometimes you lose sight and start to take the situation as bigger than it really is. Thanks Lord, for all of this today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A quick update: we did find a potential match for the gene mutation therapy idea. Depending on what the scan shows Thursday, we will come up with a plan and I will have more info. I have done 6 rounds of this last chemo and it was harder on me than I was expecting! Please keep praying for wisdom to know what to do next, depending on what the scan shows.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks family and friends! Your support continues to encourage me! I love reading each comment even though I can't comment back to each one.</span></div>
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Dance, Dana, Dance!Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-87923981908108689062017-01-19T09:40:00.000-05:002017-01-19T09:40:38.258-05:00Fond Memories<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My dear friend, Eileen (age 26 on the left, 1977) asked me to make her a pair of skin tight, black satin slacks. I am pretty sure I used taffeta, not satin, but I did sew up a pair for her to wear to a party. We had so many laughs while making these slacks because Eileen kept asking me to make the legs tighter and tighter; she wanted them pencil thin!<br />
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Fast forward 40 years! Eileen called me last week and asked if I thought she could wear those SAME slacks to a wedding. She always told me that she'd never get rid of them, and she never did. Of course, I told her they would work since all the younger girls seem to be wearing leggings everywhere. She pull them out from the back of her closet; matched them up with a top, and there you have her (on the right, soon to be 66, 2017) wearing the very same slacks 40 years later!<br />
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Way to go, Eileen, even more beautiful today.Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-19526910887852011112016-12-01T15:12:00.000-05:002016-12-01T15:12:01.193-05:00Highlighting Talent<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is such beauty all around us, but sometimes we hardly notice!<br />
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The sky this morning from our back deck.<br />
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First cousins: my mom, a young 98 and my Godfather, trailing behind at 90!</div>
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Johnnette has a very evangelical personality and made all 450 woman present at the conference stop, think and reflect on our uniqueness. We, the feminine gender, are physically the most complicated of God's creations....we whom can create and give life! She had so much to say that I can't even begin to share it here. </div>
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She liked the sweater I knit for her.....</div>
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Her mother managed this task while undergoing chemo treatment....</div>
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Doesn't she look radiant!?</div>
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to be with her granddaughter (above picture) and watch her great-granddaughter marry and....</div>
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Then, I walked a few more blocks and saw this lovely couple! It seems as though they were greeting me too.</div>
Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-40446154669175765372016-08-14T12:08:00.004-04:002016-08-14T12:08:32.035-04:00Day at the BeachFriday my hubby and I were able to steal a day and take off for the Jersey shore. It had been five years since we had been to the Jersey shore and three years since we've had sand in between our toes. It was most enjoyable!<br />
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Although I took many pictures of the surf and scenery, I am sharing here my most favorite picture of the day......<br />
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We were walking along the beach and from a distance I could see this woman sitting at the ocean's edge. I said to my husband, "there is a gorgeous picture." I zoomed in and captured what I think is a "beauty!" When we finally walked up to where this woman was seated, I bend down, took her hand and said, "You are beautiful!" She gave us the warmest smile and begin to converse with us. She told us that she was 90 years old, and was at the beach with five generations of her family. She told us that she has been in the hospital a lot lately, and that she prays every night she will die at home, because she doesn't want to die in a hospital. Her husband of 63 years died at home after having his leg amputated and she hoped the same for herself. We talked about how sitting and listening to the ocean, and being with her family is the best possible medicine in the world. We wished each other a good day, and we continued on our walk. I don't know her name, but I certainly wish her the best and will pray that she be granted her wish to die at home.</div>
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<br />Nonna Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16012184355923456462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938746173580319773.post-67335247273976376552016-07-23T16:51:00.000-04:002016-07-23T16:52:51.977-04:00Faux Roman ShadesSo another Saturday and another project. Hubby is outside working and I'm inside sewing new window treatments for our kitchen. It has taken me awhile to decide what I wanted, and now that I've decided I have to move on the idea before I change my mind!<br />
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I was going to follow directions I found on <a href="http://www.freshlyhandmade.com/2012/07/roman-shade-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> to make Roman shades, but realizing I would never pull the shades down, I thought why go through all the bother. So I decided to make a valance that looked like a Roman shade; or something like a Roman Shade. </div>
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One thing I do wish is that I made it long enough to have a third fold! Hubby and I both did the measuring and we both THOUGHT we calculated for a third fold, but as you can see there are only two folds. I thought of faking a third fold with the fabric left at the bottom, but you'd see the "fake" from the outside and goodness knows we can't have that!! </div>
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I went to Hobby Lobby at noon and by 3:30 the valance was made and hung. I owe Karen at <a href="http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/2012/09/tool-time-tuesdaywindow-valance-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Sew Many Ways</a> a debt of gratitude for sharing her valance tutorial.<br />
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First I cut the drapery fabric to the size I wanted the valance to be, minus an 1/2 seam allowance on three sides....</div>
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While my dear husband ran to Home Depot to get a 1 x3 board and L brackets I sewed and ironed the valance...</div>
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I placed the valance onto the board as suggested in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/I%20went%20to%20Hobby%20Lobby%20at%20noon%20and%20by%203:30%20the%20valance%20was%20made%20and%20hung.%20I%20owe%20Karen%20at%20Sew%20Many%20Ways%20%20a%20debt%20of%20gratitude%20for%20sharing%20her%20valance%20tutorial." target="_blank">Karen's</a> tutorial, and my hubby stapled it into place for me.</div>
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Viola! A custom made box valance. Sadly between the light outside and the dimness of the room I was unable to capture a great picture of the finished project, but...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bushkill Creek<br />
ISO, 400, 110mm, f/6.3 1/160</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fungi on Log/Bushkill Creek<br />
ISO 110, 78mm, f/7.1, 1/200</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bushkill Creek<br />
ISO,100, 42mm, f/4.8, 1/200</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bushkill Creek<br />
ISO 400, 42mm, f/7.1, 1/200</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scheneck Creek Bridge<br />
ISO 800, 250mm, f/6.3, 1/160</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">God's Garden<br />
ISO 400, 270mm, f/10, 1/250</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">God's Flowers<br />
ISO 320, 270mm, f/6.3, 1/500</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grey Skies<br />
ISO 200, 140mm, f/6, 1/2,000</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dew Drops<br />
ISO 400, 200mm, f/8, 1/160</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scheneck Falls<br />
ISO 500, 60mm, f/5.3, 1/60</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bug Bait<br />
IS) 2200, 100mm, f/6, 1/500</td></tr>
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