A Delicious Recipe for Dumb Old Meat Loaf

3 lb Ground Beef (turkey)
1 Small Onion (chopped)
5 Slices of Bread, crumbled (cracker crumbs)
3 Eggs
1/4 C Bottled Horseradish (or Veganaise/mayo)
1 T Sea Salt
1 T. Mustard

Topping:
1 C Catsup
1/2 C Rapadura OR 1/4 C honey (packed brown sugar)
1 tsp Fresh Grated Nutmeg
4 tsp Mustard (heaping T)

Preheat oven to 350*.  Combine meatloaf ingredients, divide in half and shape into two loaves. Place on baking sheet, bake for 30 min. Add topping and bake an additional 30 min.

We also like our BBQ sauce on this. For more yummy eats check my recipe index.

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

Random Japanese Trivia - Shinkansen

The French have a train that rivals the bullet train; but then we're not studying France. We are discussing options of traveling from Tokyo to Misawa. We could fly, or we could ride the "Bullet Train" from Tokyo to Hachinohe (where someone from the chapel would meet us and take us to Misawa). The train would require finding another way to send our luggage ahead...and a bit longer of a trip....but doesn't it sound like a great adventure? What do you think? Plane or train? We've been told the Air Force will pay for either...the train is cheaper so they don't care if we do it. ::Snort:: Most fly?????

The Shinkansen (新幹線 ?) is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan.The network has expanded to link most major cities on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū at speeds up to 300 km/h (186 mph). Test runs have reached 443 km/h (275 mph) for conventional rail in 1996, and up to a world-record 581 km/h (361 mph) for maglev trainsets in 2003.

Shinkansen uses tunnels and viaducts to go through and over obstacles rather than around them.

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen is the world's busiest high-speed rail line. Carrying 375,000 passengers a day.

This is assuring, " During the Shinkansen's 44-year, nearly 7 billion-passenger history, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions, despite frequent earthquakes and typhoons."

This is not, "Injuries and a single fatality have been caused by doors closing on passengers or their belongings...". ::snort::

Facts from here....and verified in various children's books and videos we've been watching.

We've not been sharing the cool things we're discovering....but we'll schedule some to share as we work on our lap book.

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

Saturday Work

We worked all day on jobs....photos will tell the story...but I'm too exhausted to upload them tonight. LOL

Tonight the girls and I went and decorated the Fellowship Hall. It looks pretty and nice for breakfast tomorrow a.m.

That's about all we did.

::snort:: Typed this, previewed and my signature was missing....turns out I was on the region's blog...now this would not have been the type of thing I like to post for regional edification. I really must quit posting when I'm tired. ::snort:: YES - there is joy in being exhausted from a full day of work...I think I'll get to experience that more often in the next few weeks. ::snort::

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

It's PAINFUL

ACK.....years of educational supplies to sort through!!!! TWO HUGE TUBS of NEW educational kits, old band instruments, books, art supplies.... I'm telling you it's PAINFUL for a frugal homeschooler to get rid of stuff that I KNOW will be needed in the future.....almost as painful as getting rid of the toilet paper roles a few weeks back. I HAVE needed them several times too.....

But surely I can buy notebooks, paper, colored paper, fun art kits, science kits, games and such in Japan. Right?

I started with the school closets first...as I KNEW they would be the hardest to part with and to price....ACK.....even got rid of my box of catalogs...um...havne't used THOSE in years as all the companies have online catalogs.

The hardest part really is figuring out what things were worth to then price....instruments, picnic tables, 6 ft tables, books, bike trailer, lawn mowers....what do you think about books? .25 for paperback and .50 for hardback unless otherwise marked? Or more or less?

Onward....
Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

My Elephant Stinks!

Stacia's "baby of the week" is this elephant. (I don't ask). She sleeps with it and it goes EVERYWHERE with us.


One a.m. this week she awoke with the elephant. I had been treating Arielle's finger. I had washed my hands. But Ichthammol smells like coal or tar and looks like it too. I hugged Stacia and told her good a.m.


She sniffed, looked at me, looked at her elephant and said, "Huh! My elephant STINKS!" ::snort::

This stuff is good! Betsy said I could keep some, as she had trouble finding it here and had to finally order it from a vet......I went on line and they SAY Walgreen's has it behind the counter....but I'm sold on it. I've been calling it the "stuff from Pennsylvania" as both ladies who knew about it were from that state.... but this is it....





Online they say there is "no reason for it to work"....but Arielle's finer was hard, swollen, red, and green....and the doc's said they could see her Wed. Tuesday night I put this stuff on it..... Wed a.m. the finger was open and draining....and it's only gotten better. I read online that it is good for boils. Some of our kids have suffered with boils. I plan to get them some....


After all, if it will "hep my goat" it has to be good for me too. ::snort:: What about the rest of you? Have you seen this before? Is it only a NE thing?

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

Friday Recap

• Saw a friend's dh off at the airport. When he returns we will be gone. Goodbyes stink. Yeah, I know....hellos are coming...but don't tell ME they don't stink. ::snort::
• Went to visit a friend. We didn't have much visiting time.....
• Attended Good Friday Service at Chapel.
• Shopped for Chapel's Easter Sunrise breakfast/ delivered things to Fellowship Hall.
• Shopped for pizza...got lost....went shopping...picked up Pizza Hut.
• Josiah and Michael (son of friend in item 1) came over for pizza.
• Josiah, Michael and Jared went to his apartment.
• We watched Prince of Egypt.
• Jamin came home from work, Jared came home from Cy's apartment. The day was over.

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

Prayer Request for OK Families

A quick prayer request. There have been wildfires in OK. I trust all are praying for those affected by the fires.

I do know of one specific Navy family assigned to Tinker AFB who has lost everything. I've posted the request (with names removed) on the Central PWOC blog, if you'd like to read the message....but bottom line is that this lady is here with her children (her dh is overseas) and is in need of our prayer. The children are especially having a hard time with having lost everything.

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.