Who would had thought. Edmonds’ banana cake is my most popular google searched post on my blog. Glad you too love banana cake! There’s nothing quite like the old edmonds’ cook book!!

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A couple weeks ago the cub scouts in our ward did a service project doing yard work (and now that I know how well my son can clean windows I’ll put him to work on ours). I went along to document the boys working (their mothers should be very proud of their sons because they worked very hard and did a great job!). Here are some pics from the service project beginning with our very beautiful and devoted den leader:

Our ward’s Trunk or Treat was the perfect opportunity to get my camera out and practice using my flash. I used it off camera with pocket wizards and placed it on the ground or around objects in order to light specific areas or to create a certain mood. Here are a few that I liked for their compositions (with more on my facebook account).

Don’t gang up on me now, I didn’t say that, he did.

No, I’m not disappointed that McCain didn’t win. I’m disappointed that Obama won. Like I’m still scratching my head as to what it is that the people think he’ll achieve for them as their president. Do we really know? I seriously doubt his adoring fans were prepared for the part where he asked them to work a little harder and to sacrifice more. But then why should they be. They were spell bound.

Read more of Obama’s Magic here (which should had been the lead up to his victory speech). Enjoy!

Calandria posted a link to MPRs discussion on civic literacy. The question posed is whether it’s important for citizens to demonstrate civic literacy prior to voting. If you think it is, you’ll be shocked at the failing civic literacy rates of college students. Here’s the test they took and their results.

On that note I was listening to a local radio station where studies were done on liberal professors politically indoctrinating their students, with a recent survey done to show that professors, whether liberal or conservative, have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students. But whether they do or not I would be cautious still which college my child chose to attend. Ironically I encouraged our daughter to look at Sorbonne University in Paris until Olivier reminded me that if I think schools in the US are becoming liberal then don’t bother considering Sorbonne. I still think highly of the French school system. (more…)