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It’s like butter

homemade butter 3-25-2014

I really like making things with the kids, especially goofy things we do with our hands and that get us exercise.  Add in food, and that’s even better, especially if it’s something we’ll be able to keep doing when we get to Africa.

I’ve made whipped cream with them a few times, and we did that again the other day.  I always enjoy watching it transform suddenly from liquid to foam.  Reminding the kids that whipping it too long can turn it into butter led to an Internet search, a video, and a desire to make butter ourselves.

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St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is here! Time for leprechaun jokes, green plastic derby hats, and an authentic corned beef dinner, along with other things not exactly saintly.

Are those the best we can do in his honor? Continue reading

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Seeking knowledge to bless others with it

Part of TEN3’s dream is to enable Africans not only to follow the model of godly computer training but also to replicate it.

In 2000, a pastor* from another African country traveled hundreds of miles to Jos because he shared that dream.  Continue reading

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Starfruit

Starfruit.

Its very name is beguiling.  I’ve seen it every week at the grocery store and often been intrigued.  It has such an interesting, exotic appearance, with its five peaked lobes stretching along its shiny, yellow body.  I always wondered what it was like, but never enough to try it. The other day, though, Karen noticed it, laughed, and asked what it was.

“Well, that’s a starfruit, and you cut it into slices that look like stars.  We can get one and try it.”

“No, Daddy; I just wondered what it was.  We don’t need to try it.”

It went in the cart anyway.  Continue reading

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