Just A Busy Day
Jun 5th, 2008 by admin
Whew, I am taking a break. Everyone is. My granddaughter came today to spend a little time. We had the best time just playing with her red ball and reading books. She is walking so well and talking a bit too. I have a lot of projects on my “want-to-do-list” ! I don’t know if I will get them done or not, I may need to pare it down. With Camp coming up next week, I certainly won’t be here working for at least 5 days.
Everyone took a walk out to the gardens where we spread out a few handsfuls of hair to repel the rabbits. I gave both the girls a haircut yesterday and had a ton of hair when I was through! They both had about 8 inches cut off. I saved some of it to make 19th century style “rats” for hair dressing. Sounds gross I guess, if you’re not into reenacting.
I need to go out tomorrow and stake three more tomatoes that I forgot to stake the other day. Tonight as soon as Mark gets home with a load of dirt we are going to finish filling up one more bed and plant some okra. Then I won’t be in the garden much more til Friday week. I am going to leave a list of garden chores for Sarah to do while I am gone.
Wardeh reminded me of a lovely book the other day, What Jane Austen Ate And What Charles Dickens Knew. I really thought that book to be interesting and while I was attic cleaning, I found it again. So, along with this book I am also reading Homemade Is Best Made and The Virginian. I have been slipping outside before the children awake each morning to read, pray and just generally enjoy my morning!
In the Homemade/Best Made book, I am studying how to make a rustic fence for my gourds. I would also love to make a rustic pergola that is pictured in the book. There are very easy to follow instructions too. We have already cut down some juniper trees to use for the main part of both structures. We are just in the planning stages but I think this is something I can do by myself when Mark isn’t home.
Time for some tea and relaxing before bedtime….
Sylvia,
I like the projects you’re considering from the Homemade is Best book. I hope you’ll take pictures… I’m curious what these rustic fences/pergolas will look like using juniper trees!
Well, the 4 corner posts will be juinper, the rest will be most likely small hardwood trees we have trimmed out of the woods. Will definitely be taking pictures!
I have been reading the Jane Austen/Charles Dickens books in snippets, too. Someone from the T2CHK board just gave me the book; I’ve never read it before. The first thing I looked up was what Michelmas is, but I still don’t really understand.
I’m not sure I do either. I know it is a Feast Day in the Catholic church celebrating Michael and the other angels and Lucifer’s expulsion from heaven. The sessions at private, parochial and boarding schools (maybe even public schools) in the UK are divided up into terms, one of which falls in the Autumn and is called Michaelmas term.
So there you go, everything I know.
Your time with your granddaughter sounds very sweet. What a treasure to have a little baby around the house! I really, really, really miss those days and now I guess I must wait for grandchildren. That will be awhile, with my oldest only 11 right now! I don’t really think I’m ready to be a grandma, although I am always ready to hold babies!
Love, Wardeh
Its some of the sweetest times I have ever known. I can hardly believe how precious that baby is.
Love
Sylvia