What Shall We Bake Today?

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Since Easter is at the end of the month, I thought I’d post a carrot cake recipe!  It uses grated carrots instead of baby food carrots so I like this texture better.  It takes a bit more prep time, but it’s better in my opinion.

Ingredients

Ingredients For Cake Layers:
2 cups Carrots, grated
4 large Eggs
2 cups Granulated Sugar
1 cup Canola Oil
2 cups All-Purpose Flour, sifted
2 teaspoons Ground Cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg

Ingredients for Cream Cheese Frosting:
1/2 cup Butter
1 8 oz package of Cream Cheese
1 teaspoon Vanilla Flavoring
3–3/4 cup Confectioners Sugar
2 to 3 Tablespoons Milk as needed
1 cup chopped Walnuts, optional

Instructions

Make the layers:
Grate the carrots, set aside.
Place eggs in a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and the canola oil. Mix on low-medium speed with mixer.
In another large bowl, place the level cups of sifted flour. Add the cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Whisk all the dry ingredients together until combined.


Gradually add the dry ingredients into the egg mixture, beating just until combined.
Fold carrots into batter with a spatula or large spoon.
Prepare your two 8-inch cake pans with cooking spray.
Divide batter between the two pans.
Bake at 350F degrees for 30-40 minutes or until done.
Remove from oven. Place on wire rack and cool for 10 minutes.
Turn the cakes out of the pans, place layers on wire racks. Let cool completely.

Prepare the frosting:
Place butter and cream cheese in mixing bowl. Cream together until smooth and fluffy. About 4-5 minutes. Add vanilla flavoring. Mix lightly. Gradually add the confectioner’s sugar. Add enough milk to reach desired spreading consistency. (Add chopped walnuts if desired.)
Spread frosting over layers and decorate as desired.
Store any leftover cake in the refrigerator
Enjoy!

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94 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

  1. Blessed Good Friday morning, Miss Pat.

    Looks like the perfect carrot cake recipe. I like the grated carrot version of carrot cake best. Down in the deep deep South, we use pecans. 

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    1. Morning GA!
      you have definitely turned me on to pecans!
      I bought bags since you told me how good they are! I eat them right out of the bag and i toast some for ice cream and brownie toppings. thanks!!!

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      1. One of the restaurants in Athens, GA, home of UGA (GO DAWGS!) made Good Morning muffins with grated carrots, pineapple, coconut, pecans, raisins, bran and other good stuff… oh man they were good!

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          1. I tasted both batches of cookies this morning (my breakfast getting ready to go back to the Village) and I liked the crispy eggless ones best. So I brought both batches, wrapped individually to put in her freezer. Sally tasted one of each and liked them both. Now she has a ‘stash’ of treats with chocolate and pecans.

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        2. i found a recipe called Good Morning Sunshine muffins…here’s the list of ingredients…if this close?
          1 cup all-purpose flour
          1 cup whole-wheat flour (or substitute another cup of all-purpose flour)
          1 cup rolled oats
          2 teaspoons baking powder
          ½ teaspoon baking soda
          ½ teaspoon salt
          1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
          1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
          1 cup whole milk (can sub unsweetened almond milk or soy milk)
          3/4 cup applesauce
          3/4 cup packed brown sugar (use 1/2 cup if you prefer a less-sweet muffin)
          1/3 cup vegetable oil (can sub melted coconut oil)
          1 egg
          2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
          1 1/2 cups carrot (grated (about 3 medium carrots))
          1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons sweetened flaked coconut
          1 cup fresh pineapple (cut into 1/4-inch dice or “tidbit” size -or- use canned pineapple tidbits, drained -or- 1 cup frozen pineapple tidbits)

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          1. Awesome!!! Saving this recipe! Thanks!

            My next muffins will be cornmeal with fresh cut corn, cheese, onion and sweet peppers. To go with all the vegetable beef soup I made out of the frozen vegetables we used as cold packs when we thought Sally’s knees were sprained – before we knew she had broken bones. It’s good soup, but needs some cornbread. Muffins freeze well.

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          2. I might use tidbits or crushed pineapple instead of applesauce. Almond flour might be ok in this. I might use 1/4 cup dk brown sugar and 1/4 cup monk fruit (erythritrol-sp?)

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          3. It’s a really good muffin recipe – and depending on what I have on hand, and how much fiber we want, I would possibly try these optional variations:
            -Exchange crushed pineapple for tidbits and leave off the applesauce
            -Whole wheat flour
            -Ground flax seed
            -Wheat Germ
            -Wheat bran
            -Chopped fresh apple
            -Cranberries
            – Pecans, of course! :8->

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          4. Duh – I had just scanned it and missed the fact that – it’s already got whole wheat flour – and of course, pineapple and coconut do have fiber!

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  2. Morning All!

    not sure why the picture I posted didn’t appear at first, so i changed it. I prefer 2 layers to three–but to each his own.

    it’s about 26* this morning…gonna be a busy one for me…got some cleaning and do ahead cooking to do.

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    1. Good morning, Pat! Went to sleep too early last night and woke up at 2:30; finally hauled my ass out of my recliner around 5:30 and I’ve been entertaining myself watching some of Kea’s videos. It was 38 when I got up and down to 36 now; we may hit 60 today! Remind me what plans you’ve got and whether you’ll be around or with family this week-end, please?

      I’ve always loved carrot cake but it doesn’t taste right these days. My favorite used to be German chocolate layer cake – every BD when Mom asked what I wanted it was that – but carrot cake supplanted that.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        hubby just noticed that the raccoon visited last night. it avoided the sprayed area instead it dug into the ash bucket we left on the side deck! nothing in there but ashes from the wood stove. it left ashy footprints all over the side deck and furniture outside!
        sigh…
        hubby wants to set out traps again

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          1. no…it was really cold so we did the side with the grill…and it rained lightly after that–i think we should blanket spray the whole dang thing before he goes to the hunting phase

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    1. I’ve been watching parts of that expose on ID. I have always put a lot of blame on the parents but I saw one interview with a Father – IDR which young Nickelodeon male star it was – who told his son over and over again to avoid a certain person but caved to allowing him to take the reins with his son’s career at the steadfast insistence of his son. I think he was 14 or 15 at the time. Poor man was in tears.

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        1. Oh, yeah, we’ve known that for years with women; but I have to wonder if kids were treated like that way back in the ’50’s and 60’s? I seriously doubt it. I’m sure it happened but it wasn’t as rampant as it is now. ‘Course, EVERYTHING has been sexualized now for nefarious reasons.

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          1. i’ve often wondered to myself why soooo many stars and musicians, etc get into drugs. is it to forget what they went thru? what happened to them? i know the $$ flows freely but $$ doesn’t ruin everyone.

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            1. I think it’s mostly about trying to belong, to be accepted in the group, to be successful. With no strong influence by their side, they are very susceptible to that pressure – “Ah, c’mon, man – everybody does it! What’s wrong with you?” What young ego can withstand that on it’s own?

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  9. so they let this lunatic out early and the VERY NEXT DAY he stabs his ex girlfriend and her 11 year old son who was trying to protect her. the boy died. it’s not the GUNS…

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  10. TwoLaine

    TwoLaine

    March 29, 2024 8:08 am

    New Jan. 6 Scandals: Julie Kelly on Destruction of Evidence and the DNC Pipe Bomb
    By American Thought Leaders
    28 Mar 2024
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/new-jan-6-scandals-julie-kelly-on-destruction-of-evidence-and-the-dnc-pipe-bomb-5611442

    “Think about this: If you’re going to do an investigation into January 6, who’s one of the first people you would call to testify, even behind closed doors? FBI Director Christopher Wray—they never interviewed him. They never interviewed Steven D’Antuono, who’s in charge of the Washington Field Office who oversaw the entire January 6 criminal investigation.”

    In this episode, I catch up with investigative journalist Julie Kelly to get an update on what we know, and still don’t know, about what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.

    “Why did the January 6 Select Committee—why did they destroy evidence that they collected? Why are they hiding transcripts from witness interviews at the White House … and at the Department of Homeland Security? How possibly could text messages belonging to more than two dozen Secret Service agents and officials, including the director, just vanish?”

    What are the charges defendants are facing? What was the level of government and law enforcement involvement? Why hasn’t the mystery of the D.C. pipe bomb been solved?

    “If you would have told me that two years later—I think that was when we recorded that interview for the [Epoch Times Jan. 6] documentary—that we would still be talking about people being rounded up, investigated, arrested, charged, and convicted now in early 2024, even I would have had a hard time, I think, grasping that that would be the reality. But here we are, in February of 2024. The Department of Justice is now on pace to arrest one January 6 defendant a day this year,” says Ms. Kelly.

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  11. https://apnews.com/article/race-ethnicity-census-bureau-hispanics-0b2c325b683efd95e8e8e24235654abd

    “For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage.

    The revisions to the minimum categories on race and ethnicity, announced Thursday by the Office of Management and Budget, are the latest effort to label and define the people of the United States. This evolving process often reflects changes in social attitudes and immigration, as well as a wish for people in an increasingly diverse society to see themselves in the numbers produced by the federal government.

    “You can’t underestimate the emotional impact this has on people,” said Meeta Anand, senior director for Census & Data Equity at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “It’s how we conceive ourselves as a society. … You are seeing a desire for people to want to self-identify and be reflected in data so they can tell their own stories.”

    Under the revisions, questions about race and ethnicity that previously were asked separately on forms will be combined into a single question. That will give respondents the option to pick multiple categories at the same time, such as “Black,” “American Indian” and “Hispanic.” Research has shown that large numbers of Hispanic people aren’t sure how to answer the race question when that question is asked separately because they understand race and ethnicity to be similar and they often pick “some other race” or do not answer the question. — AP News

    Our Take: “We talk a lot about narratives, and the role of the media in creating the false reality. That’s the communication part of the communists’ public-facing strategy. The change management part is to redefine the underlying infrastructure – the people, their beliefs, and the rules, norms, and metrics associated with the desired change outcomes.

    Those desired change outcomes are obvious. As George Carlin once said, ‘The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.’

    From this announcement: ‘You can’t underestimate the emotional impact this has on people… It’s how we conceive ourselves as a society.’ It also happens to support societal segmentation and create new grievance categories. They admit as much:

    ‘To be able to disaggregate can really be helpful to distinguish different kinds of discrimination, the ability to enforce laws around discrimination and do research on public health and economic outcomes,’ said Allison Plyer, chief demographer of The Data Center in New Orleans.

    Then there is this: ‘The changes also strike the terms ‘majority’ and ‘minority,’ because they fail to reflect the nation’s complex racial and ethnic diversity, some officials say.’

    Wait, what? How does removing the term ‘minority’ impact the law? In Google Scholar, there are 10 pages of cases referencing ‘minority’ litigators and their specific rights. Did the Office of Management and Budget just open a massive can of worms?” — Ashe in America

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    1. further segregating the population. pretty soon a chinese person who marries an Indian person and then their child then marries a hispanic person –the baby of THAT couple will want a new category for themself.

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  12. https://amgreatness.com/2024/03/28/disney-faces-accusations-of-misleading-shareholders-with-left-wing-agenda/

    Our Take: “The Hollywood Reporter ran this header on Wednesday, ‘Bob Iger’s Invincible Era Is Over.’

    While they’re pinning the tail on the Igerian donkey for now, the rash of media panic pieces and about-faces coming out this week regarding the Disney empire are both seismic and delicious to many in the truth community.

    As for what kicked off the latest Narrative Crisis Cascade for the biggest entertainment company in the world, it comes on the back of twin deployments: namely, the announcement that billionaire Nelson Peltz now has sizable support to actualize his planned seizing of a seat & some control of the Disney board next month, right on the heels of his announcement that he would be supporting Donald Trump in the 2024 election …

    Along with Disney being forced to settle with the State of Florida on its ongoing special status disputes, reducing the company’s legal autonomy considerably. Politics IS Culture, and the Culture War has turned decidedly on the establishment.

    Oh … and if this wasn’t enough, former Trump senior advisor and America First Legal head Stephen Miller has now sent a letter to Disney ‘accusing the company of unlawful discrimination, as well as forcing political messages that have resulted in damage to Disney’s brand … by management’s manufactured misalignment between its woke political and social agenda and the vast majority of the Company’s customers.’

    So, to recap, we’ve got:

    • Bob Iger being thrown to the wolves in a media he once dominated as a Dem presidential hopeful
    • Billionaire investor and Trump supporter Nelson Peltz on the verge of seizing power on the Disney board
    • Disney settling special status suit with Florida, cutting its losses
    • Elon Musk supporting Gina Carano’s suit against the company
    • America First Legal (a totally, definitely civilian outfit and not at all part of a larger plan) taking legal aim

    Disney WAS a distraction.

    Now, it’s demise has become the very entertainment it used to peddle.” — Burning Bright

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  13. The other states need to do this, too, if need be!!!

    Just The News: “The Republican-led Kentucky Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would mandate a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat and strip the governor of the power to appoint a temporarily replacement to finish a term.

    The Senate approved the measure 34-3, sending it to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s desk, the Associated Press reported. The state previously approved a plan restricting the governor’s choice of replacement to three candidates selected by leaders of the same party as the senator who held the vacant seat. Both chambers passed the law with veto-proof majorities, Politico noted.

    The measure comes after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced in February that he would step down as party conference leader following the November elections. He does, however, plan to complete his Senate term, which is set to expire in 2027.

    But the 82-year-old’s health has been the subject of scrutiny ever since multiple on-camera freeze-ups last year and a fall in March 2023 that inflicted a concussion.”

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  14. T. Turtle

    March 29, 2024 9:14 am

    It really says a lot about a man whose dogs repeatedly bite unsuspecting staff and Secret Service agents. And, it’s not good.

    “Sick: Biden Cracks Joke About His Dogs Attacking Secret Service Agents”

    “Harry Truman said if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. I got one and it bit a secret service agent.” ~ FJB

    Excerpts:Judicial Watch announced today that it received 269 pages of records from the U.S. Secret Service related to incidents of aggression by President Biden’s dog Commander, including at least 23 biting incidents. After one incident, East Wing public tours were stopped for approximately 20 minutes due to the blood on the floor from the attack in the area of the “Booksellers.”

    Judicial Watch reported in February on the Bidens’ dogs attacking Secret Service agents, noting that a source claimed Joe Biden punched and kicked the dogs (excerpt)

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/sick-biden-cracks-joke-about-his-dogs-attacking/

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  16. Friday Funnies: Free Rent! More big Government picking winners and losers

    ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS, MAR 29, 2024

    NF: Malone supports RFKJ, I believe.

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    2. never heard this before, did you? maybe it’s made up?

      Joe Nobody

      Joe Nobody

      March 29, 2024 12:34 am

      Truth or Fiction?

      (From PJ Media)

      Why Aren’t Dems Talking About RFK Jr’s Dirtiest Not-So-Secret?

      STEPHEN GREEN | 3:30 PM ON MARCH 28, 2024

      https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/03/28/why-arent-dems-talking-about-rfk-jrs-dirtiest-not-so-secret-n4927737

      “We’re going to read the sex journal RFK Jr. kept in 2002 where he documented and rated 1-10 37 women he cheated on his wife with that year which she then found and read before she ended her own life. it is 100% real and horrifying.

      If a wife driven first to booze and pills and then to suicide isn’t enough to take down a presidential candidate — and I’m aware that these days that maybe it isn’t — then I’m not sure what would anymore.

      What I’m forced to wonder though is, if Kennedy’s candidacy is such a threat to Presidentish Joe Biden’s reelection, why they haven’t brought out the big gun against him.

      Theories?”

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      1. No, IDT he blames him but he does comment about his continuing silence about the issue. And he says a lot of good things about Trump. Personally, I think he’ll vote for Trump, not RFKJ, especially with that lunatic VP he chose – he only put it out now so he can register in the states that require both names in order to accept a non-affiliated candidate on their ballots.

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  24. Well, bye-bye sunshine….I was hoping it would stay sunny longer but, oh, well. Rain doesn’t bother me. I had thought about going to Norfolk late so I could take my camera and take the backroad home for some sunset pics but there won’t be any decent pics with clouds. And I don’t take that road when it rains – all the trucks turn it in a slippery mess!

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      1. I’m back – my road was ok when I left and I took the main road, which is all cement. But as I was turning into my road coming home, he was in the process of grading the road, which uncovered all the moisture. It is a little muddy but not bad and I had no issues.

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          1. I took my time – went into Salvation Army to see if they had any recliners and something to use a cover for the Oriole feeder – didn’t find anything. And I wandered around Menards for a bit.

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  26. smacking down the maggot’s administration

    article

    A federal court struck down a Biden administration rule Wednesday night requiring states and cities to set climate targets for transportation.

    Judge James Hendrix, a former President Trump appointee, agreed with the Republican-led states that sued over the rule that the Biden administration did not have the authority to require them to set the targets.

    Hendrix argued that the administration was not authorized under law to include environmental benchmarks in states’ assessment of highway “performance.”

    He wrote that the law referring to the “performance of the Interstate/National Highway Systems” refers to “the infrastructure’s effectiveness in facilitating travel, commerce, and national defense—not environmental outputs of vehicles using the systems.”

    The rule, from the Federal Highway Administration, required state and local transit authorities to set targets for decreasing planet-warming emissions and report on its progress. It also set up a national framework for measuring and reporting transportation-related emissions.

    A spokesperson for the highway administration, which is part of the Transportation Department, said the agency was reviewing the decision and figuring out next steps. The spokesperson stressed the administration’s commitment to combatting climate change.

    Meanwhile, congressional Republicans cheered the court’s action.

    “This was a clear case of blatant overreach by the Biden Administration from the beginning, and we commend the Court for its ruling,” Reps. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) said a joint statement.

    They described the rule as an “unlawful attempt to circumvent Congress and force this one-size-fits-all burden upon every state and community across the country.”

    https://sg.news.yahoo.com/court-strikes-down-biden-rule-220109030.html

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  33. so this chinese illegal gets on a military base and REFUSES to leave?????

    FTA
    🟦 The border is open. The vast majority of refugees are given court dates and just let in. Including vast numbers of military age, fit, Chinese men. There is no vetting, we have no idea who these people are.#GenghisFloyd riots just in time for the election? pic.twitter.com/I42gX7qT3a
    — Resist CBDC (@Resist_CBDC) February 1, 2024

    Now, there’s a report that a Chinese illegal alien was arrested by the Border Patrol after he breached a military base in the El Centro sector of California. He was there without authorization and refused to leave. His purpose & intent behind his actions are still being investigated.

    NEW: Border Patrol in California’s El Centro sector report they arrested a Chinese illegal alien who breached a military base without authorization and refused to leave. His intentions are being investigated. https://t.co/Im36sEjo3t
    — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 29, 2024

    If he refused to leave, I think we can assume that there was something wrong here. How did he even get on the base to begin with? Someone’s going to have to answer up for that as well. And once they found him there, they just ordered him to leave, and only arrested him after he wouldn’t? Were they just going to let him go without wondering or investigating what he was doing there?

    We don’t know what this man’s specific aim was.

    But we know that there’s a problem of Chinese nationals being found at military bases. The House Oversight Committee raised the alarm in October 2023 about Chinese nationals accessing military bases.

    “According to a recent report, Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have repeatedly accessed, or attempted to access, U.S. military bases and other sensitive government facilities as often as one hundred times in recent years. These efforts to access U.S. military bases and facilities raise concerns about what these Chinese nationals are seeking to access and for what purpose,” wrote the lawmakers. [….]

    “These reports of Chinese espionage activities on U.S. soil underscore the Committee’s deepening concerns. It is imperative that our government is fully apprised of the breadth and depth of these activities, which pose significant threats to our national security, and our military personnel,” continued the lawmakers.

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/03/29/illegal-alien-at-military-base-n2172075

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  34. “Bless that driver for being brave enough to make a controversial statement in the cesspool that is California…”

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  35. “I always thought people talking about the government controlling your brain and putting voices in your head was a stupid conspiracy theory… Then… This is crazy!”

    [NF: 2+ page PDF titled: “Directed Energy Weapon/Targeted Individual Patents” — WTH??? The first 2: “Pulsative Manipulation of Central Nervous System,” “Method and Device for Producing A Desired Brain State via magnetic waves”]

    https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Torture/Call/NGOs/VIACTECAnnex.pdf

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  38. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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