The Simple Woman's Day Book

 

FOR TODAY, August 21, 2018

Outside my window ...

Its very overcast and somewhat cool. I don't mind in the least. We have had a beautiful summer weather-wise, but we need rain. I can tell we had some in the night which is good.  All the leaves are starting to change on the trees and everything is looking dry and tired. 

I am thinking ...

Sorry about all the kafuffle about going private. Turns out I wasn't, in the end, able to do it. I had way more readers than blogger allowed, and they needed google e-mail addresses, etc. it ended up being far more complicated than it was worth, and I felt in the end it was going to cause too many problems for all of you, not to mention me.  So after laboriously putting in every single e-mail address several times yesterday, only to be rejected, I said, what the heck!  I will just leave everything as is.  I hope I haven't caused you too many problems, or nonsensical e-mails, and I hope you will still want to read me. I will just have to grow thicker skin and ignore the nastiness out there!  You are all worth it!

In the Kitchen ...

 

Home Style Cream Corn.   A delicious option for a fabulously tasty side dish during Corn season.  I was gifted with a lovely big bag of fresh sweet corn and I used some of it to make this!  Its been 18 years since  I have indulged!  YUMMY! 

On my "To Cook" list ...

 

Aunt Bees Recipes.  I need to know what makes it the world's best baked chicken!

Good to Know ...

 

From Craftivity Designs.   

I am creating ...

Designer Trapped.  Photo Transfer Tutorial. 

 

No source, just a pattern.  I think this baby lamb is really cute. If you could figure out how to put it together. 

  

DIY Candy.  A complete tutorial. Love this. 

 

Martha Stewart.  Crafty Cork Stamps.  

 

And I am working on a new blanket.  Love the colours for this one. 

Oh my goodness ...

 

This is what I had for my supper last night. (We eat our big meal at noon usually.)  Its a bowl of plain oats with half a sliced banana, and some sugar free peanut butter drizzled over top. GORGEOUS!

I am reading ...

 

Flight of the Sparrow, by Amy Belding Brown 

She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way.... 

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson is captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the on-going bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open and straightforward way of life, a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her.

Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the reader to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meaning of freedom, faith, and acceptance. 

I discovered this on Barb's blog and was so intrigued by what she said about it, I had to read it for myself.  It is taking a bit longer as Todd is reading it at the same time, and I keep having to steal it back from him.  Its taken on even more interest since I discovered people in my family tree that came over on the Mayflower, one of whom was called Elizabeth Tilley, who came over on the Mayflower along with her parents, John Tilley and Joan Hurst Rogers Tilley.  What brave people they must have been.  I have even more reason to celebrate Thanksgiving now! Oh how I love geneology!

Looking forward to ...

We are having lunch at Tina's and Tony's on Friday. I always love going to see them.

Dreaming About ...

 

Floral Bedspreads  . . . 

  

Bee Pillows 

 

Silver Birds . . . 

  

Yes please  . . . 

 

Sign me up! 

Something to watch ... 

  

We just started watching this on NOW TV and are hooked! 

Makes Me Smile ...

 I love LOVE all my children, but our Doug is always making a special effort to contact me, and to make sure his boys know who I am.  Yesterday he video called me from work on his break.  That really made me smile. He calls me every weekend and I am not sure if he knows it or not (I do tell him) but it means the world to me.

Corners of my Kingdom ...

The Remote Kirkstone Pass Inn, Kirkstone Pass, Lake District National Park, Cumbria

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!