Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

This post is for Ang in Texas at St. Fairsted Farm, well, and everyone else who honors me with a visit here.  She made a post about her chicken & dumplings, and that got me hungry for Grandma Ree’s Chicken & Noddle dish.  Ummmm, so good.   I posted a short version over at her site […]

And so the question was posed to me.
MOM, Can I make pretzels?
What could I say? It’s too hot to cook. But no, I said GO FOR IT.
MilitaryKid went to the net and found the recipe for Auntie Anne’s Pretzels or one claiming to be quite similar to it. And this […]

MilitaryKid loves pretzels. So I wasn’t too surprised when he asked for me to purchase the make-your-own pretzel package when we stopped at our Amish Grocery Store. I suggested though that MK make the pretzels and he agreed.
Once home he happily pulled out the bowls, gathered his supplies, turned on the oven, […]

So here I was, up on a ladder leaning percariously on a tree limb 15′ up in the air, picking cherries. In the tree beside mine was a 70yo woman also up on a ladder filling her bucket with the precious fruit.
“Hi” I called out, “What are you going to do with your […]

ScienceKid is participating in Science Olympiad, for the first time. Last year our hs group went to the National competition at the U of Illionis, and asked ScienceKid to join the team as their only alternate. He would only get to participate if someone got sick or couldn’t go at the last minute. […]