Today was a wonderful day around here! Rhiannon had the day off. After a couple of weeks of 12 hour days, this was welcome! She and I headed to Kalamazoo to do some shopping. I had a few items to pick up for my speaking engagement on Saturday.
I had intended to do applesauce today, but when I found out this was the alternative--you guessed it--I went to town! Actually I hurried and canned 6 quarts of the best applesauce after we got home. I fixed a good main dish for supper and made it to church on time--all this was done between 4:30 and 6:45 when we headed over to church! I was pretty happy about that!
Yesterday I got the first pictures of the cover for my new book, "A Sturdy Fence." This was very exciting! I really like it! After all the hard work of writing a book, choosing and approving the cover is like the icing on the cake! This book picks up where "The Fields of May," left off, but deals with lots of little things that can go wrong in a courtship! I hope you'll all want to read it. I think there are several encouraging things that anyone can glean from this story.
I want to comment on a scripture that I've been meditating on. I'm going to include it in my talk on Saturday. It's Proverbs 21:5 "The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty." This scripture reminds me that if I want to prosper, I have to make good plans and goals and stick to them. It is a rare person that gets rich by accident. Of course, getting rich is not the goal here, but you don't even make a decent living by accident. It takes work. It takes plans and diligence. It's another one of those things that only time will reward. You do all this little stuff day by day and eventually you look back and say, "wow, I accomlished all that!" (Things like making applesauce year after year or saving in a bank account!).
Today I held in my hands some of the "other materials" that will go along with the "thing" that is coming to my house. I found out it will be in tomorrow. I will not get it until Friday, most likely. It comes from a long ways away. Some assembly required! Do you have a guess what it is?
Today's recipe suggestion: The other night we had chips and salsa. We had some leftover cheese sauce and added our own cheese to it for a taco bar last night. I made taco meat as well. Tonight I took the leftovers--the taco meat, the cheese mixture and added it to boiled macaroni. I added a little milk for consistency and had the most wonderful homemade hamburger, taco, macaroni stuff you could imagine. It's a great quick dish for using leftover taco stuff! Try it! We had a little of the leftover applesauce as well. I didn't have quite enough to fill a 7th jar and that went well with the homemade taco macaroni.
Hope you enjoyed today's scripture thoughts, recipe and CLUE! Baa, baa black sheep, have you any wool?! Blessings, LORI
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
TIDBITS OF NEWS AND ANOTHER CLUE
I'm taking a short break today from posting anything very deep! I had a big, tiring day. After getting two loads of laundry hung out, a friend and I went to the apple orchard and we purchased fruit. I bought two bushels for making applesauce plus a few grapes and some squash. Will probably start canning the sauce this week. We also ended up going grocery shopping and getting in on some really good deals. It was two o'clock before we got home.
I started right in on outdoor work once the groceries were put away. Clint ran the tractor and we got most of the rest of the lawn furniture in plus all the dishes that I put in my English garden. I washed them, although not real well and put them in baskets for the winter.
Clint and JT had quite a morning. They went out hunting first thing and didn't see any deer. They came in for breakfast and then took the tractor back out to the back of the woods to set a ground blind. As they stood there working two big, nice bucks jumped out of the cornfield just across from where they hunt and headed for the neighbors' property. Talk about two disheartened guys!
After the yard work was done I baked banana bread and tried to can some stewed tomatoes for which I had no recipe. They all sealed but I don't know how good they'll be. Just an attempt to use the very last of the tomatoes. I got 5 pint and a half jars. I had already put a chicken stew made from leftovers in the crock pot in the morning and so supper was basically ready. JT, Kori, and Emma stayed and we ate chicken stew with dumplings. Seemed it took forever to get the kitchen cleaned up. Everyone around here is complaining of tiredness, backaches, and sore muscles. Rhiannon's been putting in 12 hour days for a couple of weeks with the harvest and she's got sore muscles from sorting corn. In addition to all the normal duties of a week, we are pushing to get outdoor work done before the snow flies. It seems like summer turned into a very cool fall overnight. It's been damp and kind of dreary.
I'm getting ready for my little talk on Saturday for a local ladies' chaplaincy group from one of the factories. I am excited, but am pushing each day to get everything ready for Saturday morning. I wish the sequel to "The Fields of May" had been out before then, but that just won't happen. A lady asked me about it today. She had just finished the first book and was wanting to know where to get a copy of the sequel! That thrilled me! Praise the Lord for the book being something that people can appreciate. I hope it ministers to many folks before it's all said and done!
Today's clue: The thing that is coming to my house would have been appreciated by the woman of Proverbs 31, although I don't think it had been invented yet then. Read the chapter carefully and think about what she was doing. She used a different method to accomplish the same task! Care to guess?
I started right in on outdoor work once the groceries were put away. Clint ran the tractor and we got most of the rest of the lawn furniture in plus all the dishes that I put in my English garden. I washed them, although not real well and put them in baskets for the winter.
Clint and JT had quite a morning. They went out hunting first thing and didn't see any deer. They came in for breakfast and then took the tractor back out to the back of the woods to set a ground blind. As they stood there working two big, nice bucks jumped out of the cornfield just across from where they hunt and headed for the neighbors' property. Talk about two disheartened guys!
After the yard work was done I baked banana bread and tried to can some stewed tomatoes for which I had no recipe. They all sealed but I don't know how good they'll be. Just an attempt to use the very last of the tomatoes. I got 5 pint and a half jars. I had already put a chicken stew made from leftovers in the crock pot in the morning and so supper was basically ready. JT, Kori, and Emma stayed and we ate chicken stew with dumplings. Seemed it took forever to get the kitchen cleaned up. Everyone around here is complaining of tiredness, backaches, and sore muscles. Rhiannon's been putting in 12 hour days for a couple of weeks with the harvest and she's got sore muscles from sorting corn. In addition to all the normal duties of a week, we are pushing to get outdoor work done before the snow flies. It seems like summer turned into a very cool fall overnight. It's been damp and kind of dreary.
I'm getting ready for my little talk on Saturday for a local ladies' chaplaincy group from one of the factories. I am excited, but am pushing each day to get everything ready for Saturday morning. I wish the sequel to "The Fields of May" had been out before then, but that just won't happen. A lady asked me about it today. She had just finished the first book and was wanting to know where to get a copy of the sequel! That thrilled me! Praise the Lord for the book being something that people can appreciate. I hope it ministers to many folks before it's all said and done!
Today's clue: The thing that is coming to my house would have been appreciated by the woman of Proverbs 31, although I don't think it had been invented yet then. Read the chapter carefully and think about what she was doing. She used a different method to accomplish the same task! Care to guess?
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