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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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I am wishing I had some right now. 1800 is ~smooth~.
(I took my mother to this restaurant 8 years ago. I got to drive home.)
Reynosa the town...right on the border. I dont remember what the bar/restaurant was called...something generically Mexican, like El Monterrey or El Torro. Something like that. NEver did get a drink. Last time I went down there was when I was 14 or 15. We drove down in our diesel-fueled station-wagon! I was SO bored!
Raining here too. It has been raining off and on all day. It is supposed to T-storm tommorrow.
I guess I had one cup of coffee too many today.
Did you ever find anything out about the SS agent?
egads! I just realized I am freezing. We turned the a/c back on over the weekend and *someone* (namely, me) forgot to turn it off.
The more it
SNOWS-tiddely-pom,
The more it
GOES-tiddely-pom
The more it
GOES-tiddely-pom
On
Snowing.
And nobody
KNOWS-tiddely-pom,
How cold my
TOES-tiddely-pom
How cold my
TOES-tiddely-pom
Are
Growing.
No...I don't expect I will hear anything for a few days, if indeed my friend's son was involved. My friend attends the same church as my uncle, so if there is anything to know, I am sure my uncle will inform me. I am not so close to the family as just very familiar. Ms. S's class was my one escape during highschool...and somehow I managed to make a good impression upon her and I have been lucky enough that that opinion has held all these years. I don't think she is happy that I have left the Roman Catholic church, but I told her the whole story of when the first break happened, and she still treats me as a friend. She was definitely a blessing in my life!
I have been meaning to ask you, and keep forgetting. Is your church associated with ECUSA or is it separate? I noticed it calls itself Anglican and not Episcopal.
I am still learning about all of this. I understand it, but have trouble communicating it. We are so similar to both the ECUSA High Church and the RCC Vatican I that its hard to distinguish how we are different, other than the fact that we don't look to the RCC Pope as our authority. We have an archbishop, but I have seen how the Synod works, and it is spookily like that of our own government, with a House (of Lay People) and a "Senate" (of Clergy) and the final veto is reserved for the Archbishop, whose power is very similar to the President of the US. Watching these people at the Provincial Synod last fall in New Orleans gave me the impression of where our Founding Fathers might have obtained their Parliamentary ideas. It was very educational!
Interesting! Does it fall into the hierarchy of the Church of England then?
Ill be right back...all this talk of Mexican drinks/cuisine has made me hungry! LOL
Well, the clean laundry is in the dryer, the dog let out and back in, and I drank a nice tall glass of water. The locks are rechecked, and all lights out (except for my lamp at the desk).
Hmm, if only I had the enxt book in the Master and Commander series to read. Funny, for Christmas last year I got Master and Commander in my stocking. I got around to reading it while I was expecting bittygirl. I finished it THIS MORNING. It takes a while when you only read it in the pick-up line at the school. LOL!
I need chocolate! A Mexican hot cocoa would be yummy about now!
Ever tried *this* recipe?
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
4 cups milk
2 cups heavy cream
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 eggs
3 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler. In a separate heavy saucepan heat the milk and cream on low until hot but not bubbling. When the milk mixture is hot add 3 tablespoons of it to the chocolate and mix well. Blend in the rest of the milk mixture, the sugar, and the cinnamon. In a small bowl beat the eggs and vanilla. Add a tablespoon of the chocolate mixture to the eggs and beat well. Slowly stir the egg mixture into the chocolate. Whisk the hot chocolate briskly in the double boiler for 3 minutes, then serve immediately.
Makes 8 servings.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
the way it was explained to me, as far as the ACC is concerned, is that they were not trying to form a 'new' church per se, but simply trying to 'go back to the roots' of when the Church started in England. For me there was no real draw as far as England was concerned. I was looking for a church home and I felt I was INVITED to be a part of this church. The language of the Book of Common Prayer was so unlike anything I had read in an RCC service that I felt I had found a church that had been hidden for ages. To me, at any rate, the prayers and focus of worship are humble and clearly focused, that I felt was finally able to figure out what my place in the world was. For someone who is adopted and feeling very much at odds with her environment, this was very appealing to me.
Here is the one I like...
I N G R E D I E N T S
2 cups milk
1 disk of Mexican chocolate or (4 ounces dark bitter chocolate)
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
I N S T R U C T I O N S
Warm the milk and chocolate in a saucepan. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and add the seeds and bean to the milk.
Stir with a molinillo or whisk until the chocolate is melted and the mixture begins to boil. Remove from the heat and froth the chocolate with the molinillo or the whisk. Serve immediately in ample sized mugs.
The church that PE and I attend is at odds with the ECUSA. They have joined what is known as the Anglican Communion. I am not sure that it is a church governing body or whether it is within the CoE. I think it is apart from both ECUSA and CoE, but I am not sure.
but I am definitely gonna take note of those to use when I do get a hankering for hot chocolate.
Does your church have a website?
And if I made any sense with THAT last babble, I'll consider myself not drunk yet. But i think i am wrong : I am starting to feel the effects of 1800 Reposado.
I was raised Methodist and joined the Lutheran church in college. Little did I know that my dad's family was traditionally Lutheran, LOL. PE is Episcopal, and we decided to attend the Episcopal church here in town. It still calls itself Episcopal, but the entire diocese is extremely conservative and does not really associate with the ECUSA, except when it otherwise cannot be avoided. The parish is now associated with the Anglican Communion.
http://www.anglicancommunionnetwork.org/home/index.cfm
http://www.faith-church.org/
It is a conservative church, and extremely welcoming. Like you, that was my draw to it. I am comfortable there because the liturgy is very close to if not the same as what the Lutheran church uses. It isn't high-church, but it is just as meaningful. Add to it that it is not some megachurch with all the frills. Okay, there are cookies and juice after the service, but you have to be quick to beat the kiddos. I do not believe that megachurches are necessarily wrong, I am just more comfortable in a much smaller setting.
Another plus is that our priest is a Tolkien fan!
It is 72 degrees in here, 59 outside. Plus, it is humid. I'm pretty cold. While I was downstairs a few minutes ago, I turned the a/c to 77. Hopefully, it won't turn back on tonight.
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