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Cream
together
½
teaspoon vanilla
2
½ cups sugar
4
eggs
¾
cup oil
3
¾ to 4 cups apricot puree
sift
together and add
4
cups flour
2
teaspoons soda
2
teaspoons salt
1
teaspoon baking powder
½
cup nuts (optional)
Pour
into four, greased, small loaf pans (8 ½ x 4 ½).
A piece of waxed paper cut to fit the bottom of the
pan eases the removal from the pans when they're done
baking.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes (or as long as it
takes to wipe the grandkids' fingerprints from the front
door, the bathroom mirror, the family room window and the
staircase walls but don't try to hurry and sweep the deck
off, too, or I guarantee it'll burn).
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1. On March
24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska, causing
the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Where did this take
place ?
a) Prince William Sound
b) Prince Edward Strait
c) Prince Henry Bay
2. In March of
what year did Eli Whitney patent the cotton gin?
a) 1752
b) 1794
c) 1804
3. What ancient god is March named after?
a) The God of War
b) The God of Love
c) The God of Music
4. What is the flower of the month for March?
a) Rose
b) Daffodil
c) Tulip
5. What is the birthstone for March?
a) Diamond
b) Sapphire
c) Aquamarine
6. What sport is played during March Madness?
a) Basketball
b) Baseball
c) Hockey
Answers:
1)a 2)b 3)a 4)b 5)c 6)a
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| Heaven
Bound: Speed Bumps on the Way to Perfection |
by Lynn C. Jaynes
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Lynn C. Jaynes
delivers another fun and inspiring book packed full of wit
and wisdom for the busy LDS woman. Laugh out loud while
you reflect on joy-filled moments in your own life. This
collection of essays will remind you that though life can
be hard, you can also make it fulfilling. These moving and
entertaining stories about families, overly packed
schedules, the quest for obedience, and so much more, will
build you up, give you strength for the bad days, and keep
you smiling on the good ones. Join Lynn for a humorous
ride along the bumpy road toward heaven.
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Discussion Questions: Heaven
Bound
1. If
you were to write your own "Nephi's Psalm", how
would you begin? "O
________________ man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth
because _______________; my soul grieveth because
_______________. I am encompassed
about, because of the temptations and the sins which do so
easily beset me-things like,
_______________________."
2.
If you had "five loaves and two
fishes" to offer the Savior to use in building up the
Kingdom of God, what would you consider your five loaves
(blessings) and two fishes (talents) to be?
3.
If you were going to set three specific
goals to achieve every day (spiritual, physical, cultural,
social, service, educational, etc.), what three categories
would you choose and why?
4.
Has your life been touched by the
magnanimous act of another-someone who served so
graciously that it changed your attitude or inward
commitment to serve?
5.
Lately, has anyone made you really, really
mad? How did you handle that?
Did you apologize? What was the
affect?
6.
Create a "story jar". What
will be some of the memorabilia items you will include?
Why will you include them? Is
there a story that could be passed on to your posterity
which is represented by an object small enough to fit into
a gallon jar?
7.
Have your parents or grandparents ever been
incorporated into your household? What
was that experience like for you? What
did you gain by it? If you haven't,
could you see yourself having a parent or grandparent live
with you? Why or why not?
8.
Which part of your "natural man"
do you wish would die? What kind of a
"funeral" would you plan for your "natural
man"?
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Get Personal with Lynn C. Jaynes
How
do you get your ideas?
Writing
is my therapy. I usually write when I'm
frustrated, upset, giddy, charging ahead with a project,
or exclaiming, "I can't believe that happened"!
I should actually thank all of my readers for
letting me "dump" all my thoughts, frustrations
and dilemmas on them. I'm sure they'd
rather just charge me a therapy fee-but fat lot of good
that would do them! Sometimes I prepare
talks or lessons and they end up as chapters. Sometimes
I just "theme" it, such as, "I wonder what
would happen if I tried to write about . . . (that great
PBS show I saw or the climbing wall I crawled up . . ).
What
authors have influenced your writing the most?
That would be my
sisters-Jane, Chris, Marcia and Rachel. They're
not published but they should be. Their
writing is honest. They write like they
talk-very expressively, with lots of CAPITAL letters and .
. . ellipses . . . and em dashes and throwing all grammar
rules out the window. It's over-the-top
grammatically speaking, but it's so easy to
"hear" the author's voice in the reader's head.
Other than that, I read many authors and try to
glean something from all of them. I especially like the
easy, conversational styles of Garrison Keillor and BYU
Professor Sandra Rogers.
What's your writing
process like?
It's
painful-like chewing my fingernails too short.
Therapy is painful; it's way too honest.
However, if I can keep my derrière in the computer
chair for at least an hour, then it generally evolves into
something good. I usually let an idea
or two simmer for a few days or weeks-and longer if I can
possibly postpone it. I gather
information. I research the topic
looking for scriptures and quotes, then think of
experiences or analogies that might apply. But
that's the hard way. The easy way to
write is to just be mad and vent. Then
later I clean it up, soften it and make it fit reading.
There is one more thing that I'll share if you
promise not to laugh - I have conversations with myself.
This is part of the writing process. I
pretend I'm giving a talk; that way, if I hear it aloud,
ideas seem to come more readily.
Any
last words?
An author should
never be asked if they have last "words".
We have last ones, and first ones, and second ones
and in-between ones and, in fact, have a hard time
shutting up. But IF I DID have last
words, and in the sincerity of my heart, it would be to
say that an author is nothing without the editors, the
illustrator and the audiotape reader. An
author is only cake. No one buys a cake
without frosting. Editors, illustrators
and audiotape readers are the frosting which makes it all
palatable.
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