About Me
- About Me: Christian, homemaker, wife and mother of two grown sons. I play the accordion (a lost art) and like cooking, flower gardening, rag-rugging, reading, and listening to good sermons. I'm new to the computer and the internet, and it has become an addiction! My other blog site is "Civilla's Cyber Cafe".
More About Me
- Nationality: USA
- Religion: We have been attending a Baptist Church.
- Heroes: Jesus!
- Interests: Homemaking, reading, bible studies, travel, talking on the telephone, gardening, sewing, blogging on the internet.
- Expertise: Recycling old clothes into aprons, purses and rag rugs.
- Occupation: Homemaker.
Food
- Favorite Cuisine: Seafood
- Favorite Dishes: Macaroni and cheese, mushrooms
- Favorite Desserts: Italian cheesecake; Black Forest cake.
- Favorite Drinks: Black tea with milk and sugar
- Favorite Junk Foods: Soft-serve ice cream, Fritos, popcorn
- Best meal ever: Bay Scallops eaten in Sag Harbor, Long Island
- My Original Recipes: Homemade Latte; Shepherd's Pie.
- Favorite Restaurants: Red Lobster
- Foods I hate: Just about anything with mayonnaise
High School
- School Name: Eastport High School
- Class of: 1970
- Attended: 1967 - 1970
- Sports: Archery, Badminton.
- Organizations: Future Nurses and Teachers.
Travel
- Places I love: England, Germany, Long Island, Upstate New York, New England, Disneyland.
- Places I've been: 46 of the United States, three Canadian provinces, Zambia, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Washington D.C.
- Places to see before I die: Hawaii again, Disneyland again, Mexico (maybe soon).
- Dream Vacation: A bus trip all through Europe, or Japan. Disneyland.
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Jesus of Nazareth; The Ten Commandments; The Trouble With Angels; The Rocky Movies; The Godfather Trilogy; Gone With The Wind; Groundhog Day.
- Favorite Actors: Charles Bronson; Haley Mills; Sylvester Stallone; Al Pacino; Talia Shire; Sophia Loren.
- Favorite Directors: Franco Zeferelli; Francis Ford Coppola
- Favorite Genre: Bible movies; movies about New York; movies about Catholic School; movies about Europe.
- Favorite Soundtracks: Sound of Music; The Man of La Mancha.
- Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Adrienne!" from the Rocky movie
- Movies I can watch over and over: Jesus of Nazareth; Ground Hog Day; The Trouble With Angela; All of the movies listed above, really.
- Actor that would play me in a movie: Talia Shire.
Style
- Where I shop: J.C.Penney, Herbergers, yard sales, thrift shops.
- Brands I love: Leslie Faye, Faded Glory
- I like to wear: Shirtwaist dresses, khaki skirts, jeans & tee shirts, dressy clothes, jammies and bathrobe
- Can't live without: My family, my friends, the telephone, the computer, a fish tank, my books (especially my old Time Life Foods of the World); My Simon and Garfunkel albums, my souvineers.
- Prized Possessions: Souviniers from overseas
- Guilty Pleasure: Chocolate, drinking tea all day long, yard sales, stale French bread dipped in my milk-and-sugar-laced hot black tea!
College
- School Name: Abilene Christian University
- Status: Alumni
- Class of: 1977
- Attended: 1974 - 1977
- Degree type: Bachelors
- Major(s): Spanish
- Minor(s): German
- Greek: ΚΔΡ
- Sports: I like hiking, and used to love badminton and archery.
- Organizations: None.
Music
- Favorite Artists: Joel Chernoff and Lamb; Simon and Garfunkel (together or apart); John Denver; The Andrews Sisters; Celtic Woman; Riverdance; Edie Brickell.
- Favorite Albums: Albums by all of the above.
- Favorite Genre: Messianic Jewish music; oldies soft rock; 40's music.
- Favorite Songs: Anything by Simon and Garfunkel; I Am What I Am, by Edie Brickell.
- Favorite Lyrics: "I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains..." from The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel.
- Songs for Roadtrips: "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, If It's The Last Think We Ever Do!" I don't remember the group that did this song.
- Songs I hate: Kumbyah
- Guilty Pleasure: Dipping stale French bread in my tea (which I drink with milk and sugar) and eating it.
- Songs I repeat the most: The "Frito Bando" song. Google it!
- Band I wish I was in: Simon and Garfunkel's or Lamb's.
Books
- Favorite Books: The Bible, preferably the King James Version, but I am not "King James Only"; Alas Babylon by Pat Frank, the ultimate dooms-day novel; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, but which could have been written by my own father, because he was born and raised at that time and in that place; A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich, a classic about the pioneers; The Plums Hang High by Gertrude Finney, another classic about the pioneers; Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly, about a teen in the 1950's, incredibly written when the author was only 20; Fifteen, Jean and Johnny, The Luckiest girl, Sister of the Bride by Beverly Cleary, my favorite classic juvenile and teen author; Ready or Not, Monday the Seagulls Woke Me by Mary Stoltz, books for teens in the 1950's written by a classic, thoughtful author; Azusa Street by John Bartleman, a journalist's personal account of the pentecostal outpouring of the early 1900's; The Seasons of Friendship; The Guilt Free Guide for Pastors' Wives by Ruth Senter, a gentle, thought-provoking Christian author.
- Favorite Authors: Chaim Potok, writer of books about Jewish people; Beverly Cleary; Mary Stoltz; Beverly Cleary; Ruth Senter.
- Favorite Genres: Teen fiction from the l950's and l960's, anything about Jewish people, books about the pentecostal revival of the 1900's.
- Favorite Characters: Francie from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Favorite Quotes: "You have not because you ask not" from the Book of James.
- Recent Reads: Faith Undone by Roger Oakland; Modesty and the Public Undressing of America by Jeff Pollard; Dressing for the Lord by David W. Cloud; Escape by Carolyn Jessop; Whatever Happened to Hell? by Jon Braun. Most recent read: Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Homefront to the Vetnam War by Donna Moreau.
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- Name: mrsgrovine
- Birthday: 4/24/1953
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 4/25/2008
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EGG ROLLS2 packages of egg roll wrappers (found in the produce section)Don't let these egg roll wrappers dry out.1 lb. ground beef or pork2 chopped onions1 tsp. minced garlic2 finely diced, peeled carrots1 tsp. soy sauce1 tsp. Accent (MSG), if you do not get migraines from it1 tsp. Worchestershire s -
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@NewSurrender - thanks! I'll be looking at your site!grovine
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I didn't see your comment on my chatboard until today. It's very nice to meet you :) You have a lovely blog! Be blessed! -
did lots and lots of pruning and other gardening chores today. wouldn't you know...saw another snake....
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@GOINMYNAME - also, gina, you will love this site (maybe you already know about it): type in: http://www.hwelty.com/ or simply type in HARRIET WELTY ROCHEFORT. she is an american married to a frenchman and lives in paris. her site shows books she has written and all kinds of stuff about paris. i thi
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@GOINMYNAME - gina, thanks for replying. yes, my husband and i took a bus tour of paris in 1972, back when he was in the army and we were stationed in germany. it was lovely. wish we could go again. our most recent overseas trip was back to england, where we were stationed and our second son was bor
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The pictures of your house are wonderful! I especially love the iris' in bloom - beautiful!! You must have dirty fingernails, but also a green thumb. Lucky you. I am the grim reaper when it comes to plants. Mine have to be survivors, I think it's called HARDY, to live through my "tending". -
I just read your rhubarb experience. I love the part about the BIG CARVING KNIFE hiding in a plastic bag! You are so funny! Do you think your neighbors are now whispering "did you see how big that knife was? we don't want to run into mrsgrovine in a dark alley!"I agree that bringing a teenage so
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