Tonight will be the second new-to-me recipe for the week. We've had the downstairs furniture moved up and the upstairs furniture moved to the basement. There's a world of difference in the quality, the downstairs stuff is clearly lower-end. But it has lots of reclining capabilities and the knee to rear-cheeks length works better for the both of us. So it is staying up here.
We saw a play at Hale last night. Sad but with a good ending. We both loved it. Non-fans of true country-style music might not enjoy it quite so much. The banjo, violin, bass, and piano players were extraordinary in their contribution to the evening. From the play, I noted a couple lines:
"Do you want to hope or to know?" and "With people anything is possible."
I want to know and have hope at the same time - in pretty much every instance. And I love the thought that people can change, can learn, can grow and can decide - all ways to improve. I want to be all of that.
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| Thursday's Sunset. It's prettier bigger. Click on it. |
I think I might have managed to work through the issues with my crocheted tablecloth. I returned the unopened balls of crochet thread to DMC - they should have received them yesterday. It cost me as much to ship them as to outright pay for 2 1/2 balls. But I don't want them around and I need the credit toward the other ones. I went with a less premium thread and this way I can buy all 26 of them I need at once and won't have the off-color issue. I've been so anxious to get going on it. It's difficult for me to be sitting in front of the tv without having something to do with my hands. I hope it turns out ok. Someone told me this will be an heirloom. Nah, don't think so. But I will enjoy doing it.
We've celebrated in our own quiet way our oldest son's birthday. He isn't big on fanfare and mostly rejects attention and fuss over birthdays. But we still sent him a card. He's dealing with the impending demise of his much loved dog. It is a struggle for sure.
We stopped at Waffle Love with our buy-one-get-one-free coupon. I tried their breakfast sammy for my dinner and The Husband went with their sweet nutella one for his dinner. I half-expected him to fall asleep during the play. We both felt well-fed.
We've received our mission name badges. I'm still working on being excited about the whole process. If we can just make it through the mostly off-camera voice-droning videos I think that might help. We have a training meeting next week and have both done the security training and passed the "test" with scores of 100% - way to go us!!
And I read a nearly 400 page book that just enthralled me. I amazed at people's talent/ability to string together a bunch of words that not only make sense (and in some cases make me laugh out loud, or eye-rain) but are beautiful to boot. I have recommended this book to just about everyone I talk to. The title is "This Is Happiness" by Niall Williams. It was clean and uplifting and I loved it.
How grateful I am for the library where I can explore and find great literature with such ease. I mostly even get my books hand-delivered from our daughter. 💖 Words are such a treasure. I get so sad when I misuse them - lash out at someone. I'm sure that is also a disappointment to our Creator. I'm grateful for today's sunshine and that I finally managed to get out on the trail for my morning walk. An extra plus was having The Husband walk out to greet me. We've another "free"(meaning non-scheduled) weekend. Nothing new beginning at the movie-houses so I suspect we'll try to wrap up the missionary videos then dabble in Amazon Prime or Netflix for some entertainment. (We watched the first episode of the newest version of "Just Add Magic" the other night. The Husband is a big fan even though he isn't the target demographic!) We'll have to find something out-of-the-ordinary (translate: fun) to do.
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