Daybook :: Fully October

FOR TODAY
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Outside my window...dark and, umm, where is the moon?  Not perched outside my window where I like it.  Holes are dug for the chicken pen expansion.  A few new cold weather transplants are tucked into the garden. I am feeling the itch to get some autumn color installed very soon...hello mums!  Springtime seeds go in this week  (see you on the flipside Bluebonnets, Poppies, and Larkspur!)

I am pondering:  

"..ask the Lord to point out each negative thought or word. Then cry out to Him for His strength and grace to replace those words with positive ones that express gratefulness and thanksgiving. How much better it is to praise than to murmur. May we be women whose joyful words and attitudes cause others to want to be around us."

- Teri Maxwell (via Starry Sky Ranch)

I am thankful  that Firstborn got a couple of real jobs in the neighborhood this week.  Hope he gets called back for more!.

From the learning rooms...History is so often a string of wars.  Trying to think of ways to lighten the subject a bit.  C'mon, Human Race, enough with the fighting already.  

From the kitchen...Keeping pretty strictly to my thirty day menu planning.  It is so nice to know what is for dinner and not keep reinventing the menu-wheel each month.

I am wearing...denim (maternity...sigh) skirt and dark pinkish rose (?) long sleeved shirt

I am creating...menus at Plan to Eat. Plans for our Gathering of Hallows later this month and an invite for a camp-out next month!

I am going...to the airport, maybe out to lunch, perhaps even a haircut.  Or just staying home. 

I am reading...Farmer Boy for the younger set.  Past the half-way mark in Shaking the Nickel Bush for all the clan.  Food Rules at dinner time--just a couple of rules at a time.  Great conversation follows.

I am hoping...for complete healing for a dear friend's tiny babe. 

I am hearing...the hum of the computer and the occasional random noises of an indoor pet. We have a new bunny!  Unlike Tulip (RIP) our first--and short-lived bunny---Prince Gonff is accustomed to indoor living so I am trying to get accustomed to hearing a bunny banging around in his cage at night.

Around the house still sorting through lots of stored clothing.  And, of course, tidying as we go!

One of my favorite things...telephones!  Ours was out of service for two full weeks.  I am not really a cell phone kinda gal.  No matter how many bars, I never feel like I can hear very well.  And, I'll admit,I've fallen victim to all the brain cancer-cell phone study scares.  Anyway, as if to celebrate the return of our phone service, a very dear, very distant friend surprised me with a call tonight.  Still feeling the love!

A few plans for the rest of the week:  Making lists for our end of the month party.  Organizing saintly recipes.  Purchasing supplies for saintly crafts. Trying to be carry my own small crosses with the courage and good cheer of a saint.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

{dear blogger:  why have you turned this photo sideways?}