September 27, 2014 Saturday

Did Pilates this morning.  It is called weight loss Pilates and is a Gaiam name brand.  They make very good yoga and Pilates videos, if you are in the market.


1 Thessalonians chapter 4 - Believers Who Have Died.  Those who have been asleep (died) will be the first raised and the living will be joined with them in the air.  This is where your faith comes in, where you trust that God, who only has your best interest at heart will join you with Jesus and take care of you in the next life.  I believe in God the Father Almighty.


On this day:
1992 - I took Aaron, Nicole and Joey from across the street to Blakes apple orchard to pick apples.  They had a ball climbing the trees and we collected a huge bag of apples to take home.  There were hundreds of others there doing the same thing.  If you didn't want to pick your own they had bushel baskets in the store that you could buy.  But, whats the point?  It was a beautiful day and the apples were so good.


1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same. We try to keep peace don't we?


Parenting - My friend told me the other day that I am lucky that I have had so many young people in my life, and still do.  When you have kids it is a given.  I believe though, that if you involve yourself in youth activities ie; sports, programs or clubs that it is a good way to stay young yourself.  You can find schools, church programs or neighborhood clubs that need help with youth programs.  They most often have some type of security check, which is a safety check for them and you. 


Damascus - lets look at food, going to Travelers group tonight.  Think I'm going to get stuffed grape leaves to take.  Lets look at what typical fare there is:

Syrian cuisine

   

The Fetté, one of the most typical dishes of Damascus

Syrian cuisine is a diffusion of the cultures of civilizations that settled in Syria, particularly during and after the Islamic era beginning with the Arab Umayyad conquest, then the eventual Persian-influenced Abbasids and ending with the strong influences of Turkish cuisine, resulting from the coming of the Ottoman Turks. It is in many ways similar to other (Greater Syria) Levantine cuisines, mainly Lebanese, Palestinian and Jordanian and Iraqi.
The Syrian cuisine includes dishes like kibbeh, kebab halabi, wara' enab, hummus, tabbouleh, fattoush, labneh, shawarma, mujaddara, shanklish, pastırma, sujuk and ba'lawa. Syrians often serve selections of appetizers, known as meze, before the main course. Za'atar, minced beef, and cheese manakish are served as hors d'oeuvres. Arabic flat bread is always eaten together with meze.
Syrians also make cookies to usually accompany their cheese called ka'ak. These are made of farina and other ingredients, rolled out, shaped into rings and baked. Another form of a similar cookie is to fill with crushed dates mixed with butter to eat with their jibbneh mashallale, a string cheese made of curd cheese pulled and twisted together.
A spice mixture called baharat mshakale is endemic to Syrian cuisine.


Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable!