The Simple Woman's Daybook . . .

 

FOR TODAY, September 25, 2018

Outside my window ...

I am watching the sun rise.  I have missed that during the summer months as the sun gets up far too early then. Also looks to be a dry day, so I might actually get out and do a bit of shopping today. We will see. 

I am thinking ...

Got to see my toe yesterday and it looks fine.  The toenail is just a tiny bit narrower than it was before. It appears to be healing very well, in fact they have discharged me and sent me home with a shedload of bandages to do my own bandage changes from now on. They showed me how to do it. I should be able to resume normal shoe wearing in about 3 weeks time.  Yay! 

In the kitchen ...

 

Quick & Easy Chicken Parmigiana for Two. This is really tasty and comes with tiny roasted potatoes. 

On my "To Cook" list ... 

 

Bumpy Cake by King Arthur Flour.  This looks like a great chocolate cake! 

Good to know ... 

 

My Life From Home.  Putting together a household/housekeeping binder. I like this idea.   

I am creating ...

 

Ravelry. Remember these?  I used to knit them for my kids and myself years and years ago.  I think I will knit some this winter for us.  

 

Caught on a Whim. Crochet Mitten Garland.  

 

Crochet Christmas Lights, Jean Herman on Ravelry.  

 

Being Genevieve.  Carseat Canopy. I love this.  

Creativities.  Self fastening flower scarf. 

 

Inklebores, except it is in Spanish.  I can just get Ariana to translate for me.

Oh my goodness ... 

  

That darned Maple Cake I baked last week.  Its just too good for my own good.  

I am reading ... 

The Book of Air and Shadows, by Michael Gruber 

A clever, pacey thriller set around the search for a lost Shakespearean play. Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the centre of a deadly conspiracy and hunt to find a priceless treasure connected to William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer-or killers-unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began when a fire in an antiquarian bookstore revealed the hiding place of letters containing a shocking secret, concealed for four hundred years. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move.

 What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one – not family, not friends, not lovers – is to be trusted. Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, ‘The Book of Air and Shadows’is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare's life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery . . . or self-destruction.

Only just started it, but it had good reviews and so far is a cracking good read.

Looking Forward to ...
There is a pot luck lunch at the chapel today, not sure if I will go or not, but I am kind of wanting to. Also General Conference is coming up in just a few weeks time.  I love LOVE General Conference!

Dreaming about ... 

  

Antique French Tulle Swags  . . .   

Ireland  . . .  The Quiet Man  . . .

 

Wish I could  . . .  except in black  . . . 

  

This too . . .  I love this  . . . even at my thinnest I always felt fat . . . I wonder why that is . . . I'd love to be that fat now  . . . 

 

Stained glass leaves . . .   

Something to watch . . .  

 

We watched this last night and it was really, really, really good. Plus it had Brian Dennehy in it.  I love Brian Dennehy.

Makes me smile ... 

  

I love this photo of my son. He sent it to me yesterday as we were chatting. He was mushroom hunting in the woods.  I think he is a really handsome man.  I know I am a bit biased.  I love him.

A Quote for the day ... 

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The path of modern pioneers is not easy.

Burdens carried in the heart can be

just as heavy as those pulled in a handcart.

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Corners of my kingdom ... 

 

Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, also known as Old Moreton Hall, is a moated half-timbered manor house. The earliest parts of the house were built for the prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08, and the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the family until about 1610.   

And that's my daybook for this week!



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⋯ ◯ ⋯ Take time to enjoy the small *´¯`.¸¸.☆
  ⋰ ⋮ ⋱ blessings in life.*´¯`.¸¸.☆ 



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Have a beautiful day!  Don't forget!  

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And I do too!