Saturday Sundries

A little of this and a little of that once again describes my day. I will say that one thing got a little more than a little bit of my attention and that was the Sunday School lesson. I have managed to get my notes organized and they are now printed off...so tomorrow's lesson is "on paper" and hopefully ready for me to share what is in my notes in Sunday School. I did some planning for something I will be involved in tomorrow afternoon...something to do with my stitching. I know that I have mentioned something that I enjoy watching on my iPad...something on YouTube. The stitchig YouTube videos are known to us stitchers as flosstubes. I follow quite a few stitchers who periodically post "flosstubes" on YouTube. One of the stitchers I follow gave an opportunity for 12 of us who watch her flossbube to meet online for a zoom meeting tomorrow. I was one of the ones she chose to join in this zoom meeting. I have been deciding what I can stitch while the group of us chat. What I usually stitch on, I need to use a magnifying light...so I am trying to decide what I have to stitch on that I can see with just my reading glasses. I think that I have found what I am going to do. At these meetings the ones attending stitch and chat about stitching. I am looking forward to it. I anticipate a pleasant two hours making new stitchy friends, and, maybe, do a little stitching! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

A Very Full Friday

It has definitely been a busy day. I got up and got ready to head to McMinnville, TN for my six-month appointment with my personal care physician. The appointment went very efficiently...even to the point that as I was walking to check out and as I got there my appointment sheet was handed to me over the counter. It still took a total of three hours to get there, see the doctor, and get home...so much for the morning! Oh, and when I was about 3/4 of the way home, I got a call from the Dr. office...they had forgotten to do part of the labs...so I have to go to a lab here in town on Monday to get the rest done...so maybe not as efficient an appointment as it seemed! I made the cookies last night so only had to get them ready to take mid afternoon. After lunch, I worked some more on the Sunday School lesson. A little before three I headed off to deliver the cookies. I got them delivered and headed back home. After I got home, I talked to Cheryl for a little while. After catching up with her about the AZ family, I finished reading a book. After supper, I went back to working on the Sunday School lesson. And, that brings me to this point of the day...ready to settle in. I think that it is time to do a little in the kitchen and then hopefully I will feel like doing a little stitching. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! Looks like the new bird feeder has been discovered...I prefer bird visitors!

Thursday Doings

Melany gave up one of her Spring Break days to come spend it with me and do some work in the yard. She planted three kinds of onions, garlic, and ginger root. She also cleaned out several bird houses. I filled up a couple of bird feeders with seed and also put out a suet cake and put out hummingbird food for the first time. The word is out that folk are starting to see hummingbirds in Tullahoma. She also cleaned out leaves from a couple of the beds and planted my shamrock plant they gave me for my birthday. She got all that finished before lunch. It was a very warm day...got into the lower 80s today...and, I will say that humidity is up...feeling more like Tennessee! After Melany left, I got cookie ingredients together and mixed them. The dough is now in the refrigerator. I think I will attempt to bake them tonight so I won't have to think about doing it tomorrow and can just take them to the funeral reception tomorrow afternoon. I will be heading out the door fairly early in the morning to go to my 6-month check in with my doctor...that will take about three hours out of the morning. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Wednesday

I have donek a little of this and a little of that today...a little cleaning, a little reading, a little work on the Sunday School lesson, etc., etc. I did a little picture taking and tonight's photo is one of them. This one is using a feature on the camera to choose if the camera focuses near or far from you. By pusing a button that controls the far focus, I was able to take this cardinal through the window and get beyond the screen. I think that it did a pretty good job of getting a picture of this pretty cardinal. This evening I went to Bible study and am home, hoping to get a "little more" done this evening. Melany is coming for a visit tomorrow. I am making cookies for an after-funeral gathering on Friday...so sometime between now and Friday afternoon I'll need to get them made. Today I looked through recipes to decide what kind to make. And, I think that I have made that decision...so a step closer. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Welcome, April!

It's April 1...and, I have not heard "April Fool" even once...must not have had any grandchildren around!!!! I'm pretty sure that there were probably one or two or...pranks, at least, attempted at Nathan and Kathy's house! The turning of the calendar page is how I can distinguish the new month. The thing that I just can't believe is that 1/4 of the year is behind us. Zoom! Zoom! This morning I made a tuna casserole that is a "tried and true" recipe in our family...literally it is in my notebook of favorite recipes that I titled, "Tried and True." This particular recipe came originally from a Better Homes & Gardens Casserole Cookbook. When I remodeled the kitchen, I got rid of a lot of old recipe books (fodder for one of Nathan and Kathy's yardsales). Before getting rid of them I went through the cookbooks and copied recipes that I had made in the cookbook and that we really liked. That is pretty much what my Tried and True Cookbook notebook is made up of...Dorrell family favorite recipes from many, many sources over the years. This notebook lets me have one major source to get recipes. Of course, I didn't get rid of all my collection of cookbooks. I still have many cookbook notebooks to choose from along with many favorite recipe books...two shelves full...still. But I did pare my collection down by many during the kitchen renovation. Today's recipe is called Company Tuna Bake...no telling how many times I have made this recipe over the 56 years since Woody and I married. One of the things I have been doing over the last couple of weeks is look a year back in the blog and see what Woody and I were doing on that particualr day. I sometimes wonder who I am reading about...sometimes hard to realize that we went through certain things...sometimes it is almost like I am reading about someone else's lives and other times I can't believe how Woody went through what he did...and at other times...the same about me! I am glad to have the blog to look back at...like a diary and/or journal. After lunch, today I headed to church to meet up with Donna to do some work in the library. We discovered that quite a bit of activity had been happening in there while we have been out of pocket over the last few weeks! Just because we haven't had work days, didn't stop our readers from enjoying the library...checking out and returning books. Donna came up with a system to get the stacks of books organized so we could get them checked in and reshelved...without as much as one library mystery today! We got everything back to rights and will start work on the new book order our next work day. I didn't sleep the best last night and when I got home from the library, I couldn't keep my eyes open,when I sat down to rest my back...feeling more refreshed, I have gotten the garbage out to the road and have had my supper...enjoyed that tuna casserole for supper. Now I am ready to work a little more on the Sunday School lesson (I got a few teaching helps from the library) and hopefully do a little reading and stitching before my eyes close again for the night. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Good-bye, March

And, just like that...the winds of March have blown the month away...and it has been a very windy month...so perhaps that is the reason that the month of March seemed to pass by so quickly! I guess it can be said that March went out like a lion, as we did have some storms in the wee hours of today...but not really bad storms...just quite a bit of rain (I'm so sad that I forgot to put my rain gauge out, oncr again.) and some lightning and thunder. This storm did pass through leaving us with much colder air. I have felt chilly all day. I have kept busy around the house doing a little of this and a little of that...mainly putting some things away and straightening up the downstairs a bit. I received the latest book order for the church library in today's mail, so I did the initial work on those books and will take them to the library when Donna and I plan to meet at the church to work tomorrow aftenoon. I think we may have our work cut out for us after taking several Tuesdays off! I have just returned from the Monday night prayer meeting and plan to settle in...do a little studying on this coming Sunday's Sunday School lesson and then stitch and/or read for a while. I did stitch some in the night when the storms awakened me. I also read a little this afternoon. Time will tell if my book or my stitching will get my attention. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sunday Favorite