Timeline book report

In other news, E recently completed a time line book report using two books on Secretariat: Secretariat by Raymond G Woolfe, Jr. and Secretariat's Meadow: the land, the family, the legend by Kate Chenery Tweedy. She also browsed a few other books and some websites but eventually settled on the preceding two books for her report.




S helped out by drawing the outline of a horse and then E filled in the time line. She received full credit plus some extra credit for her extensive research explained in a well-done report.

If you haven't seen the new Disney movie called Secretariat, we can recommend it (now out on DVD). It's a feel good show along the lines of other feel good sports dramas. The real Penny Chenery has at least one cameo at the end of the movie.

Food Co-op for February 2011

Produce share $10 containing: 1 bag red potatoes, 1 bag onions, 1 bunch broccoli, 1 bag coleslaw, 1 pkg. carrots, 6 golden delicious apples, 5 pears and 6 oranges.

Orders for March are due Friday, March 4th with pick-up on Saturday, March 19th. Find more information at www.foodco-op.net.

Sharing the Workplace: Freegal

This week we want to bring your attention to the new offering of Three FREE Songs per card per week from Freegal through the Salt Lake County Library System.

Yes, that’s right! Free Songs! From artists ranging from Michael Jackson to Susan Boyle to Daughtry to the London Philharmonic Orchestra to Yo-Yo Ma to Bruce Springsteen to many other artists from genres ranging from Alternative to World Music with practically everything in between!

Every week you can download 3 songs from a library of hundreds of thousands of songs.

Here’s some of the fine print:

What do you need to get the music?

A current Salt Lake County library card and internet access with a mac or pc. You can download the songs to your computer and then drag them to a portable player that plays MP3’s. The music never expires and there are no late fees or fines!

The Freegal library features recordings from the Sony Music Entertainment Label. So while many songs are available, you will not be able to find everything that’s ever been recorded. The Freegal Music Site is owned and operated by a company in Fairfax, Virginia called Library Ideas, LLC.

So come to the Salt Lake County library to get your card, reactivate your card or just use your card to be able to start downloading today!

For more information visit the Salt Lake County Library Website at: http://www.slcolibrary.org/ and click on the freegal advertisement or go to the movie and music link and find out more information under Music on the Go.

Disclaimer: While I do work for a library system I have not been paid or given any other form of compensation for my comments and opinions about Freegal and/or the Salt Lake County Library System. This post is purely an informative piece.

Food Co-op January 2011

For $10 we received one bag spinach, one head of cauliflower, a five pound bag of russet potatoes, three tomatoes, five pears, five apples, five tangelos and two zucchini. The tangelos were especially good.

Orders for February are due Friday, February 4th, with the pick-up on Saturday, February 19th. For more information, visit the food co-op site at www.foodco-op.net.

French Onion Soup and Quiche

Recent cooking adventures...

Spinach and Mushroom Quiche. (It was delicious-best warm but good cold.)

The start of the onion soup-browning the onions in butter. (Not looking very brown yet.)

Homemade croutons. (Here's a chance to use the broil feature on your oven!)

Golden onion soup. (Color aided by the addition of beef stock.)



Finished French Onion Soup topped with Swiss cheese and croutons. (It was wonderful!)

The recipe is really similar to a lot of French Onion Soup recipes that you can find on the web. Pioneer Woman has a wonderful version that's almost identical to the recipe we used except we used Swiss and not Guyere and left out the wine, garlic and Worcestershire sauce. As you can see from the pictures we're still fiddling with the camera. These were the best shots out of dozen of tries. Thank goodness we don't have to buy film!

And now for something new...

How much do you remember from your high school education? Test your knowledge with the SAT Question of the Day! Fun, fun, fun!


http://sat.collegeboard.com/practice/sat-question-of-the-day

(hint: for even more fun, sign-up to have them send you the question of the day, each and every day, through your e-mail account! Amaze you friends, Astound your family! Prepare & petrify (I mean terrify) [no, no, I mean thrill and delight! (yes, that's it!)] your children for what lies ahead!

Disclaimer: We actually enjoy answering the question of the day-we're pretty good at the language-not so good with the math at our home.