The Simple Woman's Daybook . . .

 

FOR TODAY, August 17, 2021

Outside my window ...

Its cool and calm. The sun has not long since been up.  Its 11 degrees out there this morning and I have already walked to my post box and back. It is supposed to go up to 26 today. I don't mind hot days when combined with cooler nights.

I am thinking ...

Occasionally I get an e-mail/comment/message asking me to explain what happened all over again.  I am sorry but I just do not want to rehash what happened again and again. If you want to know or need a reminder,  you can go back into my archives from November/December 2020. Rehashing the events is painful for me and counterproductive, and very much not where I am at now. I am in a good place now and I don't want to backslide into sadness. 

I am looking forward to ...

Thursday when my babies come home! Today my sister and I are going to PetSmart to pick up what I need in the way of supplies. I have been losing sleep worrying about if my house is kitten proofed enough! 

I am thankful for ...

Faith, family, friends . . .  

In the kitchen ... 

Easy Baked Mac and Cheese.  This is so simple. You just stir some things together in a casserole dish, cover and bake in the oven for about half an hour.  Add some cheese, stir again, bake for a few minutes longer, top with toasted panko and serve.  Easy peasy!  A delicious small batch recipe.

On my "To Cook" list ... 

Food 52.  The most famous cake on the Amalfi coast. Looks delicious!  Its a hazelnut sponge filled with an almond stuffed cream.  Looks fabulously tasty to me! 

One of my favorite things ... 

My living room.  I just love it. 

I am wanting to create ... 

Miss Mustard Seed, watercolor tutorial/study of Berthe Morisot's "on the cliff." 

Melle Blossom.  Easy crochet dish cloths.  Free pattern.  Love the bright colours. 

The Whoot.  Crochet Hydrangea.  Pretty. 

Ravelry, Theodore the little bear.   Cute! 

Redwork embroidery. No source. Just eye candy. Love it. 

I am reading ... 

Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan 

There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. They need her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. 

She is just a teenager when her little brother dies in her arms. That same year she marries Hank and moves down into the valley where fire and visions visit themselves on her and where con men and drunks come calling. 

 Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. With Julie, Robert Morgan has brought to life one of the most memorable women in modern American literature with the same skill that led the Boston Book Review to say that he writes "with an authority usually associated with the great novelists of the last century." 

 In this novel, Morgan returns to the vivid world of the Appalachian high country to follow Julie and Hank in their new life on Gap Creek and their efforts to make sense of the world in the last years of the nineteenth century. Scratching out a life for themselves, always at risk of losing it all, Julie and Hank don't know what to fear most--the floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters who insinuate themselves into their new lives. 

 Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of marriage make this a powerful follow-up to Morgan's acclaimed novel, The Truest Pleasure. 

I have only just started this book. 

Dreaming about ... 

 

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Patchwork quilts  . . . 

 

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Spindle beds  . . . 

 

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Flower sprigged dresses  . . . 

 

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Maybe next year  . . . 

 

 

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Blueberry tarts  . . . 

Something to watch ... 

Cooking with Paris, Netflix.  Good for a laugh. 

Makes me smile ... 

This is so true . . . 

Corners of my kingdom ... 

Waterfall in Margaretville.  Photo by my sister in law.

A thought to carry with you ... 

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*Do something today that your future self

will thank you for.•。★★ 。* 。 

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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I am way behind on my comment responses, blog reading, etc.  This is a super busy week. I promise to catch up!!! Have a beautiful day and don't forget!  


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And I do too!