[Magdalen] Meatless, but definitely NOT penitential

[Grace Cangialosi]

No, no, NO!!! I did NOT put that apostrophe into its at the end of the post!!!!  For some reason, that's the default here, and I forgot to correct it. That's one of my pet peeves, and I do know better!

> On Feb 12, 2016, at 5:58 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> LOL!  I wonder how long it will be before "Yuge" or even "Yuuuge" makes it into our daily speech...
> It's definitely on it's way!
> 
>> On Feb 12, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In the end I have no self-discipline and, on my own, food is a pretty haphazard business.  I've made a YUUUGE fruit salad to be some or all of my dinner this evening, maybe some greens with it so my teeth don't fall out.
>> 
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>> 
>>> On 2/12/2016 5:20 PM, Ann Markle wrote:
>>> The older I get, the less I mind giving things up for Lent, and find it a
>>> useful exercise.  I'm already so virtuous that it almost makes my teeth
>>> hurt; but Fridays in Lent I tend to go meatless, as I have/am today.  For
>>> lunch I make a meatless chili out of refried beans and diced tomatoes with
>>> chili powder, heated in the microwave, and for dinner we'll have salad and
>>> a frittata with cooked veggies added.  Sigh, not even any bacon on my
>>> Friday breakfasts out with the girlfriends -- but it makes me glad when
>>> Easter comes.
>>> 
>>> Today we got about 4 inches of snow.  More was predicted, and it looked
>>> like a whiteout sometimes, but not much accumulation, as it turned out, and
>>> light -- could almost have been cleared with a broom, but I used a shovel
>>> this early afternoon, and not much more collected after that.
>>> 
>>> Ann
>>> 
>>> The Rev. Ann Markle
>>> Buffalo, NY
>>> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>>> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Our group of four goes out for a pint after running the Food Bank on
>>>> Tuesdays and they are all giving up alcohol for Lent and one who is
>>>> vegetarian is going vegan.   They've already said they'll sit and watch
>>>> me.  I used to do all this so strictly and am now an elderly backslider. :-(
>>