Day 98: Calzone

You can't really tell from the lousy picture, but we had some tasty calzones for dinner tonight. Ordering a pizza is good, but you just can't beat homemade pizza dough.

Day 97: For the Cure

The Abilene fire department sold these shirts last year to raise funds for breast cancer awareness and research. As several of my coworkers are married to firefighters, most of us bought shirts. I've worn it before, but today I wore it for a new reason, for my mom. She was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of weeks ago and today she underwent surgery to remove the tumor. Prognosis and preliminary reports are good, praise God. But wearing this shirt hits a little closer to home today.

Day 96: Seder

"I am the one," says Messiah, "I am the one who destroyed death and triumphed over the enemy and trod down Hades and bound the strong one and carried off humanity to the heights of heaven.

"Come then, all you families of humanity, and get forgiveness of sins. For I am your forgiveness. I am the pascha of your salvation. I am the lamb slain for you.

"I am your ransom, I am your life, I am your light, I am your salvation, I am your resurrection, I am your king."

The Cup of Redemption is poured with these words at our Passover seder. This cup symbolizes Christ's atoning sacrifice for us, the blood of the Passover lamb. These are some of my favourite words from the Haggadah that my dad has put together. Though Passover officially begins tomorrow at sundown, we celebrated tonight.

Day 95: To Seed

You've probably noticed that I really like taking macro pictures. This blog certainly ends up with a lot of them. The cilantro has gone to seed and these are the flowers mean we better eat as much of it as possible before it's gone. I think the hot weather -95 last week-is confusing our plants.

Day 94: Baylor

Mom and I drove to Baylor today to look around the campus and visit with the museum studies department. It was a good trip and I'm excited about this fall, when I will be back in school. I received my acceptance letter from Baylor last week, which I'm incredibly happy about, though I'm still waiting to hear from Texas Tech.

Somehow I forgot to take a single picture of the campus. The wildflowers were absolutely incredible between here and Waco, so we did stop and take a few pics of those.

Day 93: Puppy Love

My sweet baby. Not a lot of exciting photo opportunities today, so I took another one of my sweet doggy, who I love to death.

Day 92: Cilantro Ice Cream

This time of year the cilantro is flourishing. There's far more cilantro in our garden then we can use, but we've been using what we can. Dad made this cilantro ice cream for us today, and it was tasty! The cilantro flavour was very light, though he used over three cups of cilantro in the mix.