The seeds they are sprouting

My husband has spent the last few months working hard on a new book (which you will hear about shortly I am sure!). He just didn’t have time to make me a proper grow-light shelf. I was searching and searching for a second-hand setup, and amazingly, I found one for sale by a fellow who was downsizing to a condo!

The only place I have to put it is in the living room! (I really don’t want to haul this thing upstairs… )

And now my seeds are already sprouting! These are cold-weather seeds (onions, shallots, lettuce, spinach, beets, herbs, and so on), so they can be growing here (and later in my home-made greenhouse) until planting time without worry.

In a few more weeks I will start the tender plants like tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, and peppers, so that they will be strong and ready to plant at the end of May.

bits & pieces

I want to tell you of a little experiment — I will be posting the sort of thing I would normally post on Facebook or Twitter on a new blog: Happy Despite Them!

My new blog!

I look forward to conversations over there about subjects that don’t naturally lend themselves to a pretty picture (the way we do here). As to social media, I just can’t handle a new platform (like Gab or Mewe), but the old ones are getting pretty insufferable.

On Happy Despite Them I will also post longer pieces occasionally; once the book I’m working on is at the printer* I will probably start posting thoughts for a new book about what to do after feminism. So I hope to see you there! (Of course I will continue to post here!)
*The title is The Summa Domestica and it’s a compendium of what I’ve written here on the blog in three volumes!

A good podcast from my husband who is interviewing Robert Reilly on his thesis about the American Founding: America on Trial.If you are looking for good audiobooks, go to the Catholic Culture site to access great classics of philosophy and theology, narrated by a trained actor!A site I am hoping to explore more soon — on the Catholic literary revival and Fr. Owen Francis Dudley. A long piece on how Marxists wish to conquer liberalism.Tony Esolen on Another Kind of Death SentenceSaying No in Lent — John Cuddeback (ignore all those “dynamic Catholic [sic] articles telling you that you don’t have to deny yourself during Lent)On a lighter (but still abstemious) note, doesn’t this recipe for gordita crunch tacos look good? They would be fine with refried beans instead of meat! I’m going to try it.A Lenten calendar for coloring here, from Liturgy of the Home! and here, made by Lydia, Latin and Eastern! from the archives

Last week I wasn’t able to post here, so I missed linking to my extensive Lenten archive. But there’s always time to “begin again” (one of the most important phrases in the spiritual life!). So here you go: the Lenten archive!

liturgical year

Sts. Francisco & Jacinta Marto

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