My spouse sent me this and it has to be about the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Pioneer Press held it’s third annual Pioneer Press Marshmallow Peeps Diorama contest. Basically, it’s a contest to use Marshmallow Peeps (that’d be them marshmallow thingies that come out about this time of year over Easter…you know, the ones that whack your children with such a sugar high you have to scrape them off the ceiling) in the most creative diorama settings. The imaginations of these people is pretty impressive. Now we just need “Peeps Blogging” to finsih the set! If you want to see all the fun of the contestants in the Pioneer Press Marshmallow Peeps Diorama contest, just click this link HERE.

For those of you who remember the infamous Potato Salad Showdown last year (to read that link click here) well it’s here again. The first words out of my family’s mouth? “Please don’t make the Salad of Science”. Guess I’m down before the 2006 showdown even starts!

You can get the [Potato] Salad of Love recipe at this link here
Oh you can also persuse over 143 Potato Salad Recipes and have your own showdown. Click this link here at The Food Network for all those yummy recipes.

Techie Diva’s site is truly fun site to visit if you like techie toys. And you can occassionally find a bargain there too

So the work is moving along slowly but surely on the new Beck's Cafe If you want a sneak preview click to this link here to see. I have to say, the importing from Typepad on both links and posts was amazingly easily. I just had to do some clean up here and there. Some images didn't like the move, but I'd say overall it was about as easy as it gets. And I like the way things are turning out, the look, feel and style of the new Beck's Cafe. The WordPress 2.02 software is nice. It feels easier and simpler to use but with all the same power as Typepad had. So far whatever I've posted to it or done to it hasn't made it flinch I won't switch over from Typepad for a while as there is lots of tweaking I'd like to do and I just want to be sure the whole platform on A Small Orange/Wordpress is at least as stable as Typepad is now.

There is an amazing essay at Jade Catherine’s site that is well worth reading. The link to her essay is here. This exerpt gave me pause to think:

There is an immense crisis in the world. Where does helping the miserable and the helpless fall in the priorities of Jesus’ people? If you go around churches and Christian circles and listen to what’s being discussed and watch what’s being done – what will that say about our priorities and our passion? What do we truly care about?

“He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.”
- Deut 10:18