Sacred March Ritual

Time for the Annual Gladstone NCAA Basketball Tournament Pool.
$10 Entry

If interested send an email to the pool man: chris.santoro@novartis.com
for access to cbssports.com website to make your picks by game time Thursday!

- Cort

Its Kind of Like "Bring Your Child to Work Day," but with a 21st Century Twist

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/army_holds_annual_bring_your?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

Holy Week and Easter Events

The following events will take place at the Peapack Reformed Church as we lead up to Easter Sunday. All are welcome to attend.

Passion/Palm Sunday, March 16:
10:00 a.m. - Worship service
4:00 p.m. - A special performance of the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine by Fauré and Gilbert Martin’s arrangement of When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. This event will include the Peapack Reformed choir as well as choral voices from Pottersville Reformed, St. Brigid’s, St. Luke’s, Basking Ridge Presbyterian, and harpist Mary Elizabeth Young under the direction of Henry Repp.

Maundy Thursday, March 20
7:30 p.m. - Commemorating the Last Supper, we will celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion at the table in the Community Hall of Pottersville Reformed.

Good Friday, March 21
Open all day for prayer and meditation, the sanctuary, following tradition, will have been stripped of all liturgical dressing. Beginning at noon and continuing until 3 p.m., every half hour a portion of the Good Friday scriptures will be read, a hymn sung and prayer offered.

Easter Sunday, March 23
6:30 a.m. - Community Sunrise Service at 6:30 a.m. on the hilltop at the Matheny School.
10:00 a.m. - Worship service at the Peapack Reformed Church. The sanctuary will be adorned with spring flowers and the service enriched by special music for choirs, trumpet and organ. All are welcome.

Riddle

Why did the peace activist disconnect his doorbell?

Answer in a couple days.

If you are the first one to correctly solve the riddle you win a roundtrip all expenses paid vacation to disneyworld for you and your family.

good luck!

Willow Ave.

24 hrs. & Counting...

3/8/08

We had a little weather yesterday in the boro:

also had a nice power outage here in gladstone. 7 hrs. of lites and TV out.

One more photo....

I was going to put a portion of the video up on the blog, but there is a notice not to upload any infringing or obscene material, so I better not.

Infusino Party

So I am annoyed I can't figure out how to rotate the pictures of Luke and Cort. Sorry. Hope you enjoy these pictures from the party last week. We were glad you could all come and big thanks to DJ Santoro for bringing the Karaoke to the party. I feel terrible because I wasn't a very good hostess. I got too drunk at my own party, which, I never thought I'd do. I didn't make sure you all had dessert, coffee or tea, so I hope you did. I was too too busy having a blast and singing, which I had no business doing. NO more solo or duets for me. I will stick to group sing-alongs.

What's Your Beef?

So our freezer is now filled with our local meat purchase.

Since it was the focus of many of my recent conversations, I thought I'd let you all see for yourselves how much meat a 1/4 of a cow is. Keep in mind, this freezer is just taller than I am and I'm no shortcake. Everything that you see is from the cow except for the large wad on the lowest shelf (that's the ham left from our pig). The bottom basket is filled to the gills with roasts. The top and 3rd shelves are ground beef and a few small pkgs of beef cubes, and the second self down is steaks. That's the my beef. What's yours?

Anyone recognize these young ladies? They better be getting residuals...

http://www.peapack-gladstone-nj.gov/

Billy C's DC Legacy

Snow Day in Gladstone

It was an old-fashioned snow day in Gladstone (and Peapack). Big snowflakes, no school, kids sledding. Not even a near breaking-and-entering arrest could dampen the fun... Here are some photos from sledding. Post your own - I'm sure many great pictures were taken today.

Morangie Farm CSA Update

Well, just heard from the gentleman managing the Peapack CSA I mentioned earlier, and he is moving forward with the program. He has 20 - 30 families who are signed up, and he's raring to go. He's also planning a farm stand, and perhaps selling wholesale as well. So, if a weekly deliver of veggies isn't your bag, you can at least shop local.

So, in case you were interested, he's still accepting members. Here's his proposed list of veggies to pique your interest...

• 2 types of early peas, sugar and snap
• 12 varieties of pepper (Green, orange and red bells, 3 hot types, frying, round, and sweet banana
• 5 different potatoes (Yukon, red, 2 fingerling types and one deep blue variety)
• 2 pumpkins (jack-o-lantern and pie types)
• assorted small decorative gourds
• 2 radish
• 3 zucchini
• 3 fall squash (butternut, spaghetti and acorn)
• 4 types of sweet corn (white and bi-color)
• 2 onions (red and yellow)
• 4 lettuce (romaine, ice burg, green and red Boston)
• 2 types of leeks
• 3 eggplant
• 2 cucumbers (slicing and pickling types)
• 2 carrots
• 2 cabbage (red and green)
• 2 broccoli
• 4 beans (lima beans, fava beans, green and yellow wax beans)
• 9 types of tomatoes (big beef, 2 commercial medium sized, 3 heirloom types, 1 plum, 1 red cherry, 1 gold cherry)
• 2 watermelon types (red seedless and yellow)
• Bok Choi (same thing as Pok Choy)
• Arugula
• Swiss Chard
• Kale
• And more herbs than you can count

If nothing else, Sama and I will have lots of recipes to try on all of you.

Explaining Voting to Kids

“Mom, are the presidents tired from running?”

Yes, a question from today. Today, we voted. I say “we”, because anyone who knows me knows that where I go, usually there are two little boys trailing behind. One climbs and clings; the other has a million questions. They behaved… bribed by some candy… and together, we voted. I like to think they are more experienced, educated for having been with me, although from Elliot’s question later this afternoon, I wonder what they thought we were even doing there. And, of course, the ultimate 4-year old statement as we were leaving the polling place, “That’s it… that was boring.” Exasperated, I said, let’s go home and watch TV...

A Star is BORN...

In case you missed it on TLC the other night, this is Chuck and Nicole's TV debut. A star was born, Ayla, a little while later.