Smoothies from Martha

Found here. (But with minor editing to correct misspelled words.)

Power Protein
2 cups mixed berries, (fresh or frozen)
1 cup silken tofu
1/4 cup pomegranate juice
2 to 3 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
1 teaspoon finely grated peeled ginger

In a blender, combine berries, tofu, pomegranate juice, 2 tablespoons honey, flaxseed, and ginger. Blend until smooth, 15 to 20 seconds. Adjust the sweetness if necessary.

Banana Yogurt
2 teaspoons flaxseeds
1 medium banana (6 ounces)
1/2 cup low-fat plain yogurt
1 to 2 teaspoons honey
2/3 cup ice cubes

1. Place the flaxseeds in a blender and puree for 30 seconds until they are coarsely ground.
2. Add the banana, yogurt, honey, and ice cubes and puree until smooth and thick. Serve immediately.

Stay Young Smoothie

1/2 cup frozen organic blueberries
1/2 cup frozen organic strawberries
1/2 cup chilled green tea, unsweetened
3/4 cup plain low-fat organic yogurt
2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
Turbinado sugar or other natural sweetener to taste

Combine all ingredients in an electric blender and blend on medium speed until smooth, about 20 seconds. Garnish with fresh berries and serve. Note: For a nondairy alternative, you can substitute cultured soy for the yogurt.

Banana Blueberry Smoothie
1 ripe banana
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 cup nonfat plain yogurt

1. In a blender, combine banana, blueberries, and yogurt.
2. Blend on high speed until smooth. Pour into two glasses; serve immediately.

It sounds okay to reference as they have multiple ways to share the recipes.

Very clever Halloween looking foods...

Picky Palate

Witty indeed...

Ann Althouse.

A neat glean from Del Tackett and the Truth Project, tour 5

With respect to the discussion concerning definitions of scientific hypotheses, theories, and laws.... in the current vernacular, evolution (as in Darwin's work) [I don't know why it doesn't have a capital "E."] is referred to as a fact; whereas it was formerly called the theory of evolution. [I should look at this further to confirm this is not just my memory, but is indeed factual. :-) ]

Anyway, the item of note is how it is referred to as a fact in most textbooks today. Why isn't it called a law? Quite simply, evolution doesn't fit the criteria of a scientific law -- and this is what I had never noticed.

An excerpt from ask.reference.com: scientific laws must be simple, true, universal, and absolute. They represent the cornerstone of scientific discovery, because if a law ever did not apply, then all science based upon that law would collapse.

Perhaps it is a biology-thing. Are there laws in Biology? There are laws in Physics and Chemistry: i.e.: laws of thermodynamics; the law of gravity (and other Newton laws); law of Entropy; Maxwell's equations expressing Ampere's law, Gauss' laws, and Faraday's law; Coulomb's law; Boyle's law; Ohm's law; conservation laws (energy and matter); etc.

These laws certainly apply to the matter of which Biology is a study. So are there biological laws? It isn't my field, I'll have to ask the birthday girl this weekend.

So evolution cannot be called a law and yet it is called a fact. Is it called a fact because calling it a theory is problematic? (Similarly to how Global Warming is now called Climate Change?) It is worthy of contemplation.

For some reason Occam's razor comes to mind: pluritas non est ponenda sine necessitate or nature likes things as simple as possible.

Along the same lines... Fibonacci's Numbers appear in so many natural phenomena:

But given enough time this can occur? And this makes sense? to people of science no less?

It's over a month old, but I still get a chuckle...

As they say... "Context is king" I don't think the lady in the first part of the video understands the context:

Not all roads lead to Rome;

apparently many lead to Walmart. I often wondered why Walmart displayed Most Wanted posters. I guess sooner or later even felons need shampoo and deodorant.

Another blog I want to check out...Virtue Alert.

Would Hamlet say get thee to a Workshop-pery?

Precept workshops are so amazing and useful.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 NASB

¹⁶All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

¹⁷so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

Tee Hee... my mother will never believe this...

84 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Superior Take the test!

I should note that a lot of the questions asked about capability, not necessarily practice!

More blogs to review sometime...

Trivium Pursuit (very clever name!)

Mr. Crowder, you make me laugh.

I keep finding new blogs that I want to read!

How on earth do these people manage to do all this [and do it so beautifully]?
Pleasant View Schoolhouse
Just as I am
SimpleMom

Hawk update

Over the weekend we saw 10 hawks. We stood in the garden and looked down the line of trees along the irrigation main. It was incredible -- there were ten birds all in the sky at the same time. We even saw one drop something and its very close neighbor dive after it. I guess it is part of their training.

A book to read sometime...

Just watched Bill Whittle interview Glenn Sulmasy about legal issues concerning Gitmo. Very interesting. I'm keeping an eye out for his book, The National Security Court System: A Natural Evolution of Justice in an Age of Terror. It was just published earlier this month, so I don't see it at the library yet.

Ok, that was a little unsettling...

I stopped to watch a soaring hawk this morning. He was making a wide circle. I watched him come around for a second lap and then he kinda, sorta swooped at me. It was like he was coming in to land on my arm if I held it up. He did this twice as I was exiting the garden and then again as I was on the sidewalk near the house. Weird. After a bit, more of them showed up; they're still screeching at each other.

Maybe they know we caught a gopher and they aren't too happy about that. I guess I didn't realize how things work in this neighborhood. I hope they don't want to make me an offer I can't refuse.

Update: After some reflection, some research, and a couple more encounters, I think this group of 5 is two adults and three chicks. So the good news is that they aren't hawk fellas and they're not mad that I trapped a gopher, and they are just protective parents. The bad news, from what I've read is that they can keep this up for 10 to 17 weeks. So we've had 2 weeks of it which I have been acutely aware, that means only 8 to 15 more weeks.

Got one!

Well Mr. Gopher, I don't think you'll be trying to pull my cantaloupe down through your hole any more.

This guy's teeth were as long as the last digit of my little finger.

Right after I snapped the shot, my DH shook the thing at me. (Such a nice guy I married!)

Some gardening shots

So I was thinking yesterday, maybe the garden isn't a total loss. I was looking at it from this point and I thought it might make a nice shot, but now I'm thinking the lighting was significantly better yesterday! Oh well, this is the shot I can get today; I need to get this recorded so I can remember better what worked and what did not. Asparagus, spaghetti squash, butternut squash, zucchini, melons are on the left. The broccoli, beets, brussel sprouts, cauliflower are toward the right.

This other photo is the cucumber arch. The cukes just didn't grow very well this year. I'm not sure if it was the soil or what, so the plan is to do a soil test and make any needed adjustments. Like a big part of the country, our summer has been cooler than normal and we have had more precipitation than typical. I also probably need to do more that just add a lot of compost to the soil. I should feed each plant the fertilizer it prefers.

This is our second year for this garden. I think there have been some improvements, but we still have a long way to go. There's been an ongoing war with the varmints (rabbits, voles, rock chuck(s), and pocket gophers.) The Blakemore strawberries I planted did not survive; some stuff was planted to closely together. I'm hoping I've learned enough to have more success next year.

In a week or so we'll be putting in the cool weather stuff -- peas, etc. I'm hoping that I can find some local garlic too -- that's been hard of late and I can't mail order it because it can't be shipped in from out of state.

Check out this beauty...

I think (s)he is a Red-tailed hawk.

We've had 5 hanging around the past couple of weeks. I'm hoping they catch a pocket gopher or two.

Oooo some coupons worth linking to...

Univlever stuff... Ragu, Lipton, Hellmans...
Klondike and Breyers
Yoplait Delights

Internet Printables

Loreal Product?