Food Bonus: Roasted Cauliflower with Mustard Cream Sauce

It really is hard to beat nicely roasted cauliflower.  (Thanks, Rachelle, for teaching me so many years ago!)  Today I tried adding a sauce to the roasted cauliflower.  Oh, my, was it good!!!  For breakfast.

I also brought it to the office for lunch.  If there is any leftover, I will eat it for supper!

Here is a quick synopsis of what I did:

Roasted Cauliflower with Mustard Cream Sauce!  So good.
 375 oven

Put cauliflower in cast iron skillet, sliced in thirds and drizzled with olive oil.  Covered with cast iron cover.  Foil would work.  Baked 30 minutes.  

Removed cover and cooked an additional 25 minutes, until tender.

The underside of the roasted cauliflower.  Isn't it pretty!

Sauce
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 Tablespoons stone ground mustard

1 Tablespoon whole wheat flour
2 Tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons snipped scallions, green part.

Melt butter and add flour.  Cook for 1-2 minutes then add cream.  Cook for 2-3 minutes then add the salt and mustard.  Cook, stirring, until thick. Add snipped scallions.  Pour over the roasted cauliflower.

So good.  Did I already say that?  My plan is to share at lunch time but the closer I get to that time the less I want to share....I guess I better buck up and remember a giving nature is a Christ-like attribute.

LATER:  Well, I did not happen to share the sauced cauliflower with the people in the office.  I did not stop for lunch.  Well, actually I had to go home, or chose to go home, to pick up the Envelope Punch Board by WeRMemoryKeepers. I also picked up a 12 by 12 pad of paper  and the 1-2-3 Punch Board. (While at home I ate a sausage I had left in the microwave earlier...Hope it won't kill me but I was hungry by then...) I had opened an enveloped that was not addressed properly so I thought it was meant for the mission office, since that is what it said on the outside of the pretty blue sparkly envelope.  When I opened it, the first this I saw was:  "Dear Sister M...."  Whoops!  Not for the office...so I went home to get paper and punch board to make a new envelope to mail the card to the missionary in.

After making the envelope ( a cool purple one), I showed Sister J and Sister D how to make envelopes, then we worked together to make a box on the 1-2-3 Punch Board. Both sisters liked the punch boards.  Maybe a sale for WeRMemoryKeepers!  Nice.

Anyway, by the time we had finished that Sister B. had come in to talk about some changes to documents on our missionary portal.  Then President B. came in for other meetings and when he was done Sister J. and I were involved President and Sister until we finished learning some nifty new things that will make Transfers so much easier on everyone.  And it was time to go home.  

So I ate the last of the cauliflower for supper.  Dear One was not interested at all.  NOT. AT. ALL. Well, his loss.  The best part about that was that I did not eat anything after supper.  First time in ages I did not get sucked into getting more stuff for him to eat and then joining him.  I feel virtuous, and hopeful that the scales will be my friend in the morning...

Mission Knitting: Baby Sweater Begins

Cheryl Brunette has so many wonderful videos on YouTube about knitting. Or go here. Or here for the class...She has a 15-class series on knitting a sweater.  I have started it.

The first class really is how to make a gauge swatch that works for you.

Once you have the gauge swatch knitted, not a miserable little one, but at least six inches square,  you measure it multiple places then take an average.  Any simple calculator will do the job, or you can do it with pen and paper.  Once you have the gauge with the yarn and needles you want to use, you plunk those numbers into the schematic of the sweater you want to knit.  In this case it is a Size 1 baby sweater.  A polo pullover.  I am very excited about it and have a baby waiting to be born to wear it!

Here is a picture of the ribbing.  You can tell I am a little impatient as I am knitting the front and the back at the same time.

Sadly, I had gotten to this part yesterday and realized I was supposed to knit the ribbing with needles one or two sizes smaller.  Oh well.  Did NOT want to start over so I continued.  Babies don't have much in the line of waists so I think it will be all right.  I WILL be more careful when it comes to the cuffs on the sleeves.

Munchie Monday: Rice Noodle Bowl with Ginger-Peanut Sauce

The other day a few missionaries were in the mission office to pick up supplies.  After they were gone I noticed a few papers left on the table where four of them had been sitting while waiting for the other two.  This is a recipe from them!  I do not know where they found it.

For the sauce in a medium bowl I put 3 Tablespoons each  lime juice, soy sauce, and rice vinegar.  Added 1/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1 Tablespoon ground ginger,  nearly a Tablespoon sesame oil, and 1/4 teaspoon red chili flakes.  I whipped until well combined and set aside.

What I actually did since I did not have the cabbage, carrots, and cucumbers is that I sautéd a large sweet onion along with one red bell pepper sliced thin.  Cooked the rice noodles according to package...which was that I put them in a bowl and covered with boiling water and let sit for 8 minutes or so.  Drained the noodles and put the sautéed vegetables and noodles in a large bowl and poured the sauce over the top then tossed.  They were ready to eat.  Yummy.  Mostly.

These are the noodles we used:

This is what they looked like ready to eat:

The crazy thing is DEAR ONE ATE TWO BOWLS OF THIS STUFF!!!!!!  Unbelievable.  And the next day he ate the rest. Unheard of!  Funnily enough, I did not like is as much as I thought I would.  Isn't that a pretty pass?!

Food Friday: Anytime Special Treat

Ten days or two weeks before Valentine Day I saw a recipe somewhere with author Cathy Trochelman for some chocolate strawberry sandwich cookies.  I knew I did not want to go to the trouble of making cookies but thought that thick brownies, cooled, then split, would be great.

This is what I did:

Made a double batch of Duncan Hines brownie mix into batter.

Sprayed a six-well heart-shaped silicon pan and two six-well round silicon pans with vegetable spray.

Used the quarter-cup portion scoop to fill the heart-shaped wells first then the round wells.  A few of the second round-well-pan portions took a little more batter as I did not want to add another pan, nor did I want to throw away the extra batter. Placed silicon batter-filled pans on large cookie sheet.

Baked them at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes. WAY NOT COOKED so I cooked for ten more minutes then for 5 MORE minutes after that.  The heart-shaped brownies and the first round-shaped brownies were done.  The round ones with more batter were NOT done, which I discovered when I released them from the pan...so I just put them back in the oven for another 5 minutes.

NOTE: The trick with silicon pans, I have learned, is that the pans and their contents MUST cool for at least fifteen minutes before trying to release the nifty food from them.  If you do not wait, at least if I do not, there is a disaster with the contents I have worked hard to create.

These brownies cooled all night on the rack.  I wanted them a little bit hard-ish to cut in the morning. They sliced nicely with my very expensive Cutco cheese knife. Also VERY SHARP Cutco cheese knife. Ask me how I know...  Since they did slice well, I went ahead and made the filling.

My filling:

In a mixer bowl I place one stick (4 ounces) room temperature butter (never substitute!) and 4 ounces room temperature cream cheese.  I beat them in the mixer (the old Sunbeam Mix Master I got on Freecyle!!! My mother had one which was white and rounded and metal and worked ever so well my entire growing up years.  This one is yellow, plastic housing, with glass bowls, and also works well.  Takes the bite away from leaving my Bosch and Kitchenaid mixers home) until they were perfectly combined and smooth.  At that point I poured in 1/2 cup of frozen raspberries that I had thawed overnight. I considered not using the berry juice but then thought that all the flavor is in the juice and left it.

After beating in the raspberries until smooth and oh, so pretty,  I added 4 cups confectioner's sugar, one cup at a time.  When smooth I removed the bowl from the mixer and put a reasonable blob of delicious filling in the center of each set of brownie slices.

At this point, and since it was 28 degrees outside, and also since there was NO ROOM in the refrigerator, I put the covered container just outside the door.  I am hoping that since the doorstep is seventeen steps up that no one, including dogs, will investigate even though there is a light on totaling illuminating the container.  With good fortune the complex management people will not be walking around looking for infractions at 5:15 in the morning.  They DO fine you if you put your trash or recycling out, I have heard, though I find that hard to believe.  I guess it would depend on how long you left your trash out.  There are more dogs in this complex than children but I am pretty sure I have never seen one run free, so I think the brownie treats are safe.

Now we shall see if our office people like them.  They are a pretty good slug of sugar....I won't be taking one myself since I "licked the beaters" and feel that sugar racing through my veins!  That was enough.

Snow! And Ice.

There has been talk about snow here.  We did have a little snow on the ground when we got up yesterday.  Today this is what we see:

This photo was taken about 4:45 AM.  I was up planning to do a little Spanish.  Instead I worked on the numbers for a little sweater I am going to knit starting soon.  (I had finished the gauge swatch and blocked it last night so I did the measuring this morning and put the numbers of stitches in the pattern schematic so I am ready to cast on.)

After an hour of watching the YouTube class and inputting these numbers I went back to bed.  It was nice to be horizontal but I could not sleep.  The early-leavers from the complex were just plain crawling out of the parking lot, crunch crunch crunching along under our window.  Made me want to just stay in bed all day.  In Vermont I know how to drive in snow but here there is so much angst about the snow that I am uncertain.  It is only half a mile to the office but I am not sure I am brave enough to walk over with scary drivers on the road...

Mission Knitting: Celtic Knot Neck Warmer Scarf

Some time ago I found a pattern that I thought was great.  It looked relatively complicated but turned out to be very easy.  It was called the Celtic Knot Looped Scarf or something like that.  This is my rendition:

You can find the pattern here.

The yarn I used was a clearance yarn at Michaels. I used US size 11 circular needles and cast on 36 stitches.  The yarn is 100% acrylic, not my first choice but the price was right.  Blocking acrylic is not the easiest.  I do not know if the braided section will remain pretty or if it will roll back into cylindrical fabric after a while.  If I knit this again, for the knot section I will knit the edge stitches in moss stitch to keep them from rolling as this stockinette stitch did.

Fun Paper Crafted Treat Boxes

Some time ago I ordered some chocolate-covered  cinnamon gummy bears from the BYU Bookstore.  They came in two days.  I have been dying to make some little boxes to put them in to share on Valentine Day.

After watching multiple box-making tutorials on YouTube I settled on a very simple hinged box.  The girl who showed how to make it made it lipstick-sized.  I thought I could do the same thing with different sized paper to get a larger box.  It turns out, I could!  It makes me very happy when one of "my projects" works out.

How I did it:

Using a Fiskars cutter (which actually drives me crazy since it is supposed to cute 12 by 12 paper but really only cuts 11 3/4...so aggravating) I cut one inch off the edge of the card stock which is attached to the binding so I had a piece of card stock that was 11 by 12.  I cut it the long way so I had three pieces which were 11 by 4 inches.

Using an EK Tools scoring board since my Martha Steward score board is at home, I scored both the long edges of each piece at 1 inch.  I turned to the short side and scored one inch from each end...switching ends after the first scoring.  At that point I then scored at 5 inches and then at 6 inches.

After burnishing on each of the score lines, I folded on each line.  At this point I was ready to cut.  On the long side I cut on each of the short score lines to the first long score line, making four little one-inch "boxes".  On the inner side of the two outer boxes/tabs, I cut a little wedge of paper out.

On the inner tabs I cut small wedges on both sides.  At this point I put tape-runner glue on each of those tabs then stuck them to the long sides that had not been cut.

 The new Extreme Tomboy glue runner which cost a lot of money and hope was TOTALLY WORTHLESS.  And I mean TOTALLY.  However, I managed to get the job done.

You can see where the one-inch "hinge" is in the middle of the paper. When folded and glued, it makes a really nifty box.  The completed box is 3 inches by 4 inches by 1 inch. Very satisfying size.

Here is the completed project.

In case you want to know,  you can put six of those chocolate-covered cinnamon gummy bears in each box.

Munchie Monday: Overnight Raspberry Chia Oatmeal

Here is another quick and easy breakfast!

In a one-cup widemouth jar place,

1/4 cup old fashioned oatmeal flakes
1 Tablespoon raspberry preserves
1 Tablespoon chia seeds
2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk


Stir well.  Add up to 10 fresh raspberries or as many as you can get into the jar.  Cover and put into the refrigerator overnight.  If you cannot get the raspberries in, just leave them out until morning when you give the cereal a stir, pour into a bowl, and top with raspberries.

Really good!

Food Friday: Sautéed Kale and Scrambled Eggs

Food experiments can turn out okay sometimes.  This time is one of those okay times.  It is not a great time, just okay.

We got a nice bag of baby kale while shopping last week.  It was a biggish bag and the refrigerator was rather fullish!  So...I put the kale bag on top of the eggs on the top shelf of the refrigerator which is right below the freezing compartment.  You guessed it!  Part of the bag froze.

Not wanting to waste it I decided to sauté it like I do spinach, except I did not take the time to chop any garlic or onions...well, we are down to our last onion and I never want to be without an onion in case some important dish comes to mind before I can get another bag.  So, this was just kale, a little granulated garlic, and then a couple of eggs scrambled in.

It looked rather nasty so I did not take a picture of it, but with a little bit of Table Tasty seasoning, it tasted okay, plus it had the added attraction of being slightly healthy.  Very little coconut oil in the pan and two eggs are not the best but...dark green leafy vegetables and protein...not all bad.  Better than the chocolate wafers from earlier.

Mission: Laundry Woes

Sometimes I amaze myself with my ineptitude!  Today is another example.

Last night I was really tired.  VERY tired.  I put the whites into the washer and set it going and was in bed by 7:30.  I had taken my "501 Spanish Verbs" to bed for some nighttime reading and went to sleep before putting the washing into the dryer, feeling confident that Dear One would notice the open doors to the laundry cubicle and move the clothes along.  Something that he does very regularly.

This morning I noticed the doors were mostly shut so I opened the dryer to get out the clean dried clothes.  Empty!  That was a surprise.  The bigger surprise came when I lifted the lid on the washer!

This is what I saw:

In case you cannot tell what it is--it is a whole roll of plastic garbage bags that must have fallen into the washing machine before I dumped in the dirty clothes. Without looking to see if anything was already in the washer tub.

This is how many there were:

Almost the whole roll of 100 bags.  Do I feel smart, or what?!!

Hopefully I will not do that particular error again.

February Birthday Card

We have birthdays in February so I needed to get some cards made.

To tell you where the idea came from, I was watching a Frugal Crafter YouTube video.  She has been using Rubber Stamp Tapestry Peg Stamps for a long time, which successfully sucked me into buying a few!  I do love the few that I have bought from Rubber Stamp Tapestry.  The Frugal Crafter had designed some unmounted rubber stamps for them and made a couple of cards with them.  I liked them so I ordered her stamps and a couple of others.  They arrived on Thursday!

This is the first one I made with those stamps.  Some missionaries,  elders, were in the office after I had made the card (at home but brought to the office to mount).  I asked what they thought of it.  One of them said it was a little strange.  The other one said he liked it. He asked if I had made it so I said yes.  The other one then said if it was homemade, he loved it!  He just would not buy it in the store. He said he loves homemade cards. The other elder then told me that one of the missionaries in our mission has parents who own Stampin' Up!  Oh. My. Goodness!!!  Stampin' Up is the devil!  Can I tell you I have spent way too much money with them?!!! But loved everything!

 

For this card, I made a light green card base, having to change the size multiple times by cutting.  You can see in the upper left corner of this card a tiny bit of green which is actually on a page of Spanish language business I was doing.  I did not notice it until too late to crop.  I think I will put learning to crop on my radar soon....

For myself, I am okay with this card.  I do think I will use actual watercolors and brushes when I do it again.  I do really like the grass, though.  Also,  the tree is rather blurry because I did not have an acrylic block to mount the stamp on after cutting it out. I used a Chinet plate.  Don't do it!  Still, I thought it did give a little depth to the tree.

Mission: The Fog Miracle

There is a lot of talk among missionaries about the miracles they see every day, big ones and little ones.  When a miracle happens for you, it is easy to pay attention and remember to give gratitude to the One who made it happen.

Today was the first in a series of three zone conferences this week.  Dear One needs to attend them all to render a variety of kinds of service. Today was the only one I will attend as the office needs to be attended.  Dear One needed to be at the stake center by 7 AM as the missionaries were to begin arriving at 7:15 for car inspections before their first meeting at 8 AM (where they were to receive the smart phones for their area-one phone per companionship) before the start of the spiritual instruction that always starts at 9 AMM.  In order to get there on time we were out of bed just after 5 AM.  I had hoped to go swimming prior to taking him to the meetinghouse but I have to be up by 4:30 to make swimming work, so--not today.

When we got outside around 6:40 it was foggy.  Well, it was very foggy.  It was so foggy that our GPS kept getting lost from the satellites.  We kept getting a "Lost Connection" and other happy messages.

It is a fifteen minute drive to the stake center.  We were crawling along because the fog was so thick.  Then we were stopped.  After a while we started crawling again and pretty soon saw lots of emergency lights and traffic detoured.  A bad smash in the middle of the road.  We should have taken the route Dear One had in mind instead of following the GPS in the car...

Anyway, we finally arrived at the building after 45 minutes of travel and waiting.  My tummy had been clenching the whole way.  After changing drivers, I was nervous as a cat to get in the driver's seat, but had to get back to the office so, after waiting for all the cars to go by and let me out onto the easier route, the way Dear One had planned to go, I started out in the fog.  Within seconds of getting on the road there was cleared air probably three or four car-lengths in front of me.  I am talking clear air, not sunshine but no fog at all.  The thick fog was there, just way up ahead of me.  This bubble of cleared road enclosed me all the way to the office.

May I say I am so grateful to Heavenly Father for providing that miracle for me.  About halfway to the office I realized that my stomach was not clenching and I was calm as a baby.  It was perhaps a small miracle but oh so lovely and a great way to start the rest of the day.

Mission: Valentine Treat Attempts

Valentine Day is a great time to make chocolate treats to share around with friends.  I have been collecting heart-shaped tins and silicon molds for years.  Since I got to Oregon I have collected more!

This morning I tried to make some chocolate wafers to share at the office.  I used the 10-heart pan with decorated bottoms which will become the tops.

This is what I did:

Turned on the oven to 350 degrees F. since this silicon pan can be used in the oven.

Placed 6 Wilton Candy Melts wafers in each well.

Place silicon mold onto a cookie sheet.

Placed in the pre-heated oven for 3 minutes.

Removed from oven.

Picked the silicon pan up by the edges and whacked it onto the counter several times.

Not all the wafers had totally melted so I put it back in the oven for 1 minute.

Removed from oven and whacked on counter top again.  They seemed perfectly melted.

Placed cookie sheet and pan in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

Not long enough.

Placed cookie sheet and pan BACK in refrigerator for 20 MORE minutes.

Pushed out of the pan without breaking the pan.

Next I tried putting only 3 wafers in each heart well as the other ones seemed too thick. (You counted them, didn't you!  And found one was missing.  Yes, that was me. I should have asked Dear One to try it. Oh well. He will have a chance.)

This batch I only put in oven for 2 minutes.  They were ready to go into the refrigerator with a few whacks on the countertop.

After 10 minutes in the ready to come out of the refrigerator.

There was some breakage here so I decided to try 4 wafers on the next batch...but that will be the last batch for now.  I can't keep getting up from the computer to check.  The timer is such a help but the time goes by REALLY fast when you are trying to do other things....

For the 4-wafer attempt...I put them in the oven for 2 1/2 minutes.  They could probably have used another few seconds.  I used the end of a spoon handle to stir them around a bit.  I had started house a toothpick when I remembered the instructions : use no sharp objects with silicon pans!  I was able to stir in the last of the slightly unmelted wafers then whacked them again and put in refrigerator for 10 minutes.

Food Friday: Quick and Easy Biscuits

The idea of quick and easy biscuits is one I can buy into since biscuits are a nice treat every so once in a while.  These really are quick and so easy.  And they come out pretty well in just a few minutes.

These are a variation on King Arthur Flour's Never Fail Biscuits.

Quick and Easy Cheese Biscuits

1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream, or a little more
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup grated sharp or extra sharp cheddar cheese

Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees F.

In bowl, stir flour, salt, cheese, and cream together until it holds together well. If it does not glob together to your satisfaction, add another bit of cream, one tablespoon at a time, stirring after each addition.

Use a portion scoop to divide into biscuits or just use a solid spoon.  Probably a tennis-ball sized plop of dough should be placed on a parchment-paper-lined pan.  With your hand, flatten slightly then bake for 10-15 minutes.  Check at 10 minutes, then every 2-3 minutes until the biscuits are golden brown.

We liked them.  They make a nice foundation for Eggs Goldenrod.

Mission: Haircut

The scraggly hair has been getting on my nerves for quite a while.  The other senior missionary sisters all have nice hair which they take great care of.  They look really nice and neat and finished every day.  I have tended to just wash my hair, pull it back from my face either is combs or in a rubber band.  Looked rather hag-y for the most part but since I have been so busy I have not had time to grouse about it.

Around Thanksgiving I think it was, I was speaking with some of the ladies my age at Relief Society. They always look put-together and nice, especially their hair. I asked if they had any recommendations for haircuts and they did!  The same lady!  They gave me her number so I called her up.  I was not able to get an appointment until January.  I asked for a consultation which she freely gave.  Two weeks later I had an appointment for a cut.  Dear One kindly took a picture for me.  This is what it looked like the evening I came home.

The hairdresser took off somewhere between 2 1/2 and 4 inches.

In the background you can see our green onions growing, a stack of flour tortillas we had just purchased and which had not yet been put away, clean dishes which Dear One removed from the dishwasher for me, and my maroon 'tablet apron' which I wear when I don't have pockets to hold my phone or iPad when I want to listen and work around the house or when I go for a walk.

Also in the background, further out, you see the stack of lovely little pie dishes I purchased for gift-giving filled with either a sweet or savory pie.  So far they are still sitting there!  Plus the silver flask is a wonderful 2-quart container that really does keep ice water icy and probably also keeps hot things hot, though I have not tried that.  The smaller versions do a fabulous job of both.  The big one is a Yeti and the little one is an insulated Klean Kanteen which we learned about from Son#1 one summer when I was visiting him and his family.  He told me he could fill the bottle with ice water in the morning, leave it on his car's front seat all day in the fierce sun, and still have ice water when he got out of work for the trip home.  We have found that to be true.

Mission: Learning Spanish

What a great thing it is to learn a new language!  We really want to be able to converse comfortably with our brothers and sisters who speak only Spanish so we have taken on the task of learning.  We have met three times with a tutor at the Missionary Training Center over an application called Zoom where we can both see and hear each other. He is a good teacher and a native speaker. We have met three times also with our coach.  She is a lovely girl who does not speak Spanish but she DOES know how to study effectively and she is helping us set goals and reach them.

This is all sounding very familiar as if I had said it before in this blog.  Well, then, let's get on to something new!

This morning I have been working in The Book of Mormon.  I started (today) in 1 Nephi chapter 8.  My method was to copy the whole chapter in Spanish into a table format on my computer then  I added a second column to the right for notes.  This is what it looks like:

Capítulo 8
Lehi ve una visión del árbol de la vida — Come de su fruto y desea que su familia haga lo mismo — Ve una barra de hierro, un sendero estrecho y angosto y el vapor de tinieblas que envuelve a los hombres — Saríah, Nefi y Sam comen del fruto, pero Lamán y Lemuel no quieren hacerlo. Aproximadamente 600–592 a.C.	Ve—present indicative  ver-to see  He sees Come-present indicative  comer- to eat -He eats Desea- present indicative Desear to want-He wants Haga- present tense Hacer- to have He does in this case Ve—present indicative ver- to see  He sees Estrecho—narrow Angosto—narrow Envuelve—present indicative envolver to wrap up, envelop—It envelops Comen—present indicative co mer-to eat, They eat No Quieren—present indicative querer to want—They want in this case-they don’t want Hacerlo--to do it
1 Y aconteció que habíamos recogido toda suerte de semillas de toda especie, tanto de granos de todas clases, como de todo género de frutas.	Y aconteció que-and it came to pass that Habíamos—haber to have—We had
2 Y sucedió que mientras mi padre estaba en el desierto, nos habló, diciendo: He aquí, he soñado un sueño o, en otras palabras, he visto una visión.	Y sucedió que-and it came to pass Estaba-  he was Nos habló—he talked to us Diciendo—saying He aquí—Behold! He soñado—I have dreamed He visto-I have seen

As you can see, I was much more detailed in the heading part, inserting the verb tenses.  Well, that did not last, though it really needs to continue. I spent almost an hour just doing this small amount of work.  When I got to what I thought was a verb, I typed it into the right column then went to the internet for the forms I did not know.  Which was most of them!  

I have the internet but also my various Spanish study aids.  When I was at the office the computer translated into English directly.  That was great. I cannot figure that out on my Mac. I must try harder I guess.

Anyway,  the assignment from our coach is to speak with two different people in church this week. Yikes!  That is somewhat scary.  After the meeting with her, I had a dream that I was speaking with a little boy in the hallway.  Several other times conversations ran through my mind, and maybe they were good-is, but I was also sleeping and did not wake up and write them down. I remember "having"  those conversations. I just don't remember what they were.  Rats!  Now I will just have to wing it.  We shall see.

One of the major things I have learned this last three weeks is that the old gray cells are not what they used to be!  However, this classwork is a gift from God and I plan to use it to the best that I can.  During the class with Hermano B. I was able to say things that I did not know where they came from. He was so kind about it and said I did great.  People are really kind for the most part, is all that I can say.  Adiós.