A Sketch of My Little Bro (by me) :)

Religious Freedom

 Our walk for religious freedom from Hancock Maryland Catholic Church (St. Peter's) to the Baltimore Shrine (100 miles) was a fantastically painful week. Haha
We passed so many beautiful sites and got our hands dirty in God's awesome creation every step of the way.
Met tons of new people. Made many new friends. Was on live TV and got interviewed many times as well (yikes. lol)
It only rained once fore about 10 minutes during the entire pilgrimage. The sun was constantly shining (not to mention burning everyone's skin until we looked like apples.... ;)
It was in the high 80's and mid 90's most all week....but a breeze was blowing sometimes to keep us from sizzling too badly.
Handing out rosaries, cards, food and drinks to random strangers as we walked professing our beliefs for Religious Freedom made the walk extra interesting. We received lots of waves and cheers from cars and passerby'....but surprisingly not many negative comments came our way (until we reached Baltimore......a bit worse in that area.)
We camped out at Fort Frederick the first night and slept at generous church rectories the rest of the nights. Everyone was so supportive and hospitable. Such happy folks. :)

All-in-all...I'm really glad I went.
I always felt kinda' useless when it came ti politics or matters of protest but now that I had the chance to get out there and be physically as well as mentally active...I feel like we can all make a difference.
Thanks to everyone who wished us luck and prayed on us...both made it a lot easier, knowing that we were supported in our cause from all around the world.
Our blog link is : religiousfreedomwalk2012.blogspot.com
where all of our updates, photos, and videos of our journey can be found.
We also have a FB page (Religious Freedom Walk 2012). Enjoy :)

.......Right On

COOL!!

I LOVE blue! This beats all! <3 <3 :D

Pool, Sun, Doggies and School :D:D:D:P

Jake and I are going swimming tomorrow at Hancock pool! We haven't gone yet...although we normally go on Memorial Day, but the pool opened late this year. Hmmm. :( (lol)
It's 85' degrees today. I've been waiting for things to heat up. :):):) It was actually so warm out we had to bring our dogs it before they passed out in the sun. Haha!
Anyhoo, I started 12th grade up again today, as I took a 2-3 week break from it for some "sorting-out" time. I'll probably graduate this August, if everything keeps going as smoothly as it is now. (Sooooo excited! Lol ;)

LOL. Yeh!

Finally....someone that thinks like I do! Go, Kitty :)

April Is Here

I love April....
It was 87' degrees today. Perfect. :)
The flowers are budding, the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing...it feels good to be alive.
Vote for your favorite "Coming of Summer" photo in "comments" for April! I vote #3!! :)

#1
"April Shine"

#2

"Bright Color"

#3

"Budding Season"

A Few "Hardy-har-hars" ;)

Got these from a blogging-friend :)
(You might have to click on the images in order to see the captions.... ;)

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 (Me absolute fav' ;);)

KONY 2012

I want you to please do three things for me:

1.) Watch this half hour youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

2.) Share it with everyone, all over the Internet 

3.) Give your own support

My Mom and I have watched a full length movie on this same subject, but this specific one was no less heart-rending for me.

We live our lives, every day, the same as we have always done...we wake up, eat breakfast, do our schoolwork, and complete everything else that's scheduled into our lives...and we have no idea about the horrors that other nations, other people, are going through day after day...year after year....or...we just don't care.

This movie can make people care. It can force them to go outside their own comfortable everyday lives and give something back to the rest of the world; a world that needs every prayer and every form of support that we are able to give. 

When I watched this video myself, I was moved in several ways...

one...I was stabbed with sadness. 

two...I was filled with anger

three...I immediately wanted to help in any way I could

I felt sorry for, not only the children and families of this horror-stricken country...but also for Joseph Kony, the man striking this horror. What entered his heart and made it so heartless? How awful was his own childhood that he would grow up to be the #1 most wanted criminal in our nation?

What about these children? They must hopelessly wonder day and night what kind of life would be so pointlessly hateful that they can't even go to sleep and have the common assurance that they will actually wake up in the morning...or that one of their siblings won't be missing...or that their parents will still be physically intact. They must wonder what kind of God would exist and let this happen to them for over 20 years...  

These people need help. If one evil man, a man such as Joseph Kony, can make this huge of a indescribable difference all over his country...then thousands of Americans today...and people all over the world...can make a difference too.

We can stop him...YOU can stop Joseph Kony.

  





 

Spring Is Coming!!

Vote for your favorite "spring photo" in comments! (It's so close! I see flower buds!!! ;)

#1

Springtime Sunshine

#2

Nest Planning

#3

Washing Winter Away

(I Vote #2)

Vinegar

A few days ago, my Mom and I were talking about....well...I don't really remember what we were talking about, exactly. All I DO know is that somehow VINEGAR found it's way into the subject. From there we talked about how we could use it to make house cleaner and other products, instead of just always buying Windex. Then I got to thinking (aloud, actually ;) what IS Vinegar anyway? Well, we called Grandma (she literally has a book on Vinegar!) and she gave us the answer:

A variety of flavoured vinegars on sale in France (bottom rows)

Vinegar is a liquid substance consisting mainly of acetic acid and water, the acetic acid being produced through the fermentation of ethanol by acetic acid bacteria.^[1] It is today mainly used in the kitchen, but historically, as the most easily available mild acid, it had a great variety of industrial, medical, and domestic uses. Commercial vinegar is produced either by fast or slow fermentation processes. In general, slow methods are used with traditional vinegars, and fermentation proceeds slowly over the course of weeks or months. The longer fermentation period allows for the accumulation of a nontoxic slime composed of acetic acid bacteria. Fast methods add mother of vinegar (i.e., bacterial culture) to the source liquid before adding air using a venturi pump system or a turbine to promote oxygenation to obtain the fastest fermentation. In fast production processes, vinegar may be produced in a period ranging from 20 hours to three days.

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So....Vinegar is a little more complicated than you thought, hu? ....Me too.
They tell you that it's actually REALLY healthy to consume at least 3 table-spoons of Vinegar a day; that it cleans out your system.
That's just not right...........I guess Vinegar is just another version of that medicine to cure all ailments like they had in the medieval days............VINEGAR: Good for Windex, cleaning oven tops, scrubbing toilets, wiping counters, cleaning knobs, shining handles, wiping floors.........drinking.
Sure........why not drink something you scrub your toilet with? Why not?!
(Is it just me, or can someone tell me that that is totally messed up?!)
Go ahead, everyone...go take your dose of fermented acid for the day!

XO

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BY : ME ;)

Feburuary Heart/Picture of the Month

I thought these pics were cute...and that they went pretty well with the season of February :)
Vote for your fav in "comments" and whichever gets the most will be titled: "LOVE PIC OF THE MONTH", for February!!! >>>

#1

Hippy-Hearts

#2

Cupid Angel

 #3

"Love-Pierced"Heart

I VOTE #2 !!! :D

New Miniseries

I really like this miniseries.

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell's classic explores the simmering, restrained passion between two very different people who fall in love in spite of themselves.

Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale, one of 19th century literature's most original heroines.
Played by Daniela Denby-Ashe, Margaret is a privileged, middle class southerner who is forced to settle in the northern town of Milton.

Margaret takes instant offence to the town and its people. She becomes terribly lonely and hates the dirt, noise and lack of civilisation, blaming their new way of life for her mother's ailing health.

Her distaste for the town and its people extends to handsome and charismatic cotton mill owner John Thornton, (Richard Armitage), whom she believes epitomises everything she dislikes about the North.

However, Margaret gradually begins to settle in Milton. Her social conscience awakens and she befriends some of the local mill workers, learning about their poverty and workplace struggles.

As events conspire to throw Margaret and Thornton together, the two spirited characters have to overcome their repressed physical attraction for one another and conquer prejudices of class and circumstance.

Cast

Daniela Denby-Ashe - Margaret Hale

Richard Armitage - John Thornton (<<< one of my favorites :)

Sinead Cusack - Hannah Thornton

Lesley Manville - Maria Hale

Tim Pigott-Smith - Richard Hale

Pauline Quirke - Dixon

Brendan Coyle - Nicholas Higgins

 

 

This little miniseries really get my attention. I have no idea why....sometimes I feel like a 6 year old kid again. Heh-heh...(that's an 'ok' thing, right? I'm not totally insane?)

First it was "The A-Team", next "Robinhood", then "Merlin", and finally "Macgyver", and now...... "North and South" has stolen my attention! :)

There's only four episodes, but, you know...a good movie is a good movie so why not watch it? * * *

Oooh!

This is so cool-lookin'!

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(Eyes fascinate me..... :)