Just in case you’re wondering what I was doing on the 4th of July, let me tell you that for most of the afternoon, I was balling melons--cantaloupes, honeydews, and watermelons. I’ve balled melons before and therefore knew that the activity would exhaust me.
Therefore, just in case you’re wondering why it took me most of the afternoon to ball my melons, let me tell you that it was because I needed to take a rest every once in a while. In fact, that is what I am doing right now.
At this writing, all my melons have been balled with my nifty melon-balling tool. The balls are all chilling in glass containers in the ‘fridge.
Just in case you think I should be all finished, let me tell you that I still have to carve out the watermelon halves so they will become the decorative bowls to hold the melon balls.
And, after that, I am going to lay down and have a really good rest!
Just in case you want to make melon balls for the 4th, or any summertime picnic for that matter, let me tell you that I wish I had consulting this nifty recipe before I started balling my melons. Otherwise, I would have cut open my melons with a decorative edge as in the photos on the recipe site I found on the EHow website in an article called, “How to Make Watermelon Balls.”
If you scroll down, you’ll also see photographs and links to: How to make a fruit salad bowl out of a watermelon; how to carve a watermelon boat; how to carve a watermelon bowl; and most importantly, how to find a sweet watermelon.
OK, enough of my yakking. Time to get back to carving out those watermelon decorative bowls.
What were you doing on the 4th? Or, if you’re in Canada, on the 1st? Dominion Day?
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I just saw that Nora Ephron died last week. What a loss. Her movies, such as Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, are a couple of my favorites. There are some lovely memories of her from friends and colleagues at this link. Do you know she loved to cook? Since Julie and Julia was also hers, it shouldn’t be a surprise. She was 71 and she died from leukemia. Poor thing. She evidently struggled with it for a number of years. Who knew? She kept her illness to herself and only a very few close family members and friends. She’s probably best known for the line, “I’ll have what she’s having,” after Meg Ryan’s fantastic fake orgasm in restaurant in the movie When Harry Met Sally. It feels like a black hole in the space where she used to be. She will be sorely missed.
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I just uploaded a gorgeous sunrise “cover” photo for my Facebook page. I took this photo as we waited for the “Queen of the North” ferry boat to begin it’s northern passage from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert in Birtish Columbia. I love sunrises. They are so hopeful. Check it out:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Chapman/111868652215851
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Here is the story of an amazing healer. John of Gods says that he does not do the healing, but that God and benevolent spirits work through him to heal others.
Continue readingEvery Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning and afternoon, one of the world’s best healers, John of God, holds a free clinic for anyone who wants to attend. The clinic is in the little town Abadiania Goias, Brazil, 130km outside the capital Brasilia.
In my book, When We Were Gods, I wrote about my experiences when I went for hypnotherapy, because I was desparate to lose weight. As a result of past life regression, I learned about past lives which had created my present need to lose weight. I found it helpful to see what I had done in previous lifetimes so I could change what I was doing now.
Continue readingI’m on Facebook now. Here’s the link to my page. If it’s responsive to you, I would appreciate that you would “like” it. Thanks so much. Carol http://www.facebook.com/pages/
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I saw my first robin yesterday! So, for those of you further north than the Atlantic coast of southern Virginia, or those further inland where it is colder, be assured, spring is on its way.
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If you’ve been following my blog the last couple of days, you probably noticed that I’ve been having problems with my WordPress blog. After doing a simple update of the software, many features didn’t work. Thankfully, posting works fine now that I received some help from James Maduk at MySmallBizU. I really appreciate all the help I’ve received from James. His company not only hosts this blog, but his site also contains over 1000 step-by-step videos on how to do online marketing. If you’re interested in having an online business, I would suggest a good place to start would be with the MySmallBizMap. Great thing is, the MySmallBizMap is free.
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