Good Reads

September 9, 2010 by Debbie.

I found this in a Grace Chapel Inn book - “Aim at heaven and you’ll get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you’ll get neither.” C.S. Lewis.
And from Patricia Sprinklers book, Hold up the Sky- “I wish someone had been able to make me understand, back when I was 18, how much a married woman’s life is shaped by the kind of husband she marries.” THANK GOD for that is all I can say!

and “We get what we’re willing to put up with.”

What profound words from a novel! Thank you, Gina, for loaning this book to me! I’m going to have to add it to my own bookshelves as soon as CBD.com has a free shipping offer. I’d forgotten about Patricia Sprinkle. She wrote Carly’s Song and The Remembrance Box I’d blogged about a last summer. I’d love to spend some time with this woman and ask her how she became so wise. And as I type that a quote from another great Book comes to mind - the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I’d still like to visit with Patricia some day.

I’ve had a wonderful morning. It’s rained the last 3 days. We desperately needed the rain. Now our pastures may recoup from the drought and over grazing damage the neighbor’s cows have done. The cows are off the property now so our land can heal. This rain has been a healing salve.

Today’s rain came early and blew through by 10:00 so I was able to get a couple of loads of laundry on the line. I’d woke up at 3:30 and I was glad I didn’t get called in to school today. I wanted to play in the kitchen today. I’d made cookies for John’s lunch yesterday and that just wet my appetite for baking. I decided on herb bread for today and mixed up ricotta cheese with Italian herbs as well to spread on the hot bread at lunch. I’d made mozzarella yesterday along with spinach balls - cooking both on the outdoor grill until our gas line is repaired. It was thrilling, out in the rain with wind driving blasts under the carport every now and then - I felt so rustic!

Well, enough blogging for now, who can write when there’s hot, homemade bread and a good book awaiting them??? Not me!

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