Can You Spot It?

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Can you spot the Leaf-insect in the above photo.  This is one of the many tropical creatures that we saw in The Butterfly Garden in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada…our stop just before Butchart Gardens.  

Today has been a pretty low-key day.  I knew that I needed to dedicate most of the day to getting something on paper for Sunday's Sunday School lesson.  I interspersed my studying and filling in the outline for the lesson with a little stitching, reading on my latest fiction book, and a nap…or maybe two!  I have plugged in information for a first draft for the lesson.  I always like to be at this point, as if something happens and I can't get back to it to refine it a bit, it is at a teachable point! I am through for today with working on the lesson.  I plan to do a little more organization and adding a little more to the points of interest.  I’ll do that tomorrow morning and then get it printed off and gather materials into my tote bag that I need to take with me on Sunday.  

I got more information…like specific month and days for the trip to northern Georgia that I go on with Marie.  So there is a trip on my calendar to look forward to!  We will find a way to photograph a few barns on this trip…I am sure!  Anyway, we did last year!  I will perhaps run out of Alaska photos to share by that time…and you will be ready for a change of scenery! 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Photos, Photos Everywhere!

Melany came to spend some time with me today.  Our goal for the day was to work through both our photos.  I think that we both can say that we have looked at all the photos that we took on our Alaska cruise!  That's a lot of pictures!  We had fun looking through them and thinking back on our trip.  I still can’t believe that I have been to Alaska!

Before she left, we both went out to the blueberry bushes and picked a goodly amount of blueberries for her to take home. And, that picking still isn't the end of the blueberries…give it a few more days and there will be another good amount to pick.  The blueberry dessert that I made for us to enjoy today was very good.  There are so many good ways to use blueberries!  I’m happy to have the blueberries that I have in my freezer. 

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

Stay-At-Home Day

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The Wednesday night Bible Study is taking a break until school starts back up, so I didn't have anything "scheduled" that would take me out of the house today.  So…I stayed home.  Melany is coming tomorrow for us to look at each other's photos from our Alaska trip…we started looking last week…didn’t get tremendously far!  I made a seafood salad for our lunch tomorrow and some blueberry-cheesecake bars.  So I spent some time in the kitchen.  I’m almost finished in the kitchen…still a little more clean up…but I’m taking a break.  I have made multiple trips up and down the stairs today putting away clothes from my yesterday wash day.  I got the clothes dried and folded or hung up by the time that I went to bed last night, but put off getting them upstairs until today.  My reading for the Sunday School lesson is almost done…now to get something plugged into an outline!  I finished another book last night.  Today while I cooked I listened to an upcoming Cottey Bookclub pick. I have put in a few cross stitches, but not many. 

Marie texted with information about the annual get together of some of our friends who are former members of our church…the one where I have gone the last two years with Marie to northern GA for a few days in the Fall.  Something to look forward to!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Dandelions Grow Big in Alaska!

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Donna and I worked in the church library this afternoon.  Our one library mystery of the day got solved fairly quickly!  Funny how that there always seems to be something that needs solving before we leave from a work session!  This time it was finding a book that a patron had asked for and it showed that it wasn't checked out.  We found it where it should have been, but we had changed where we put the series name and number and it wasn't obvious that this was the book that our patron was looking for…now to get it to our patron! We are still getting used to the new computer.  I haven't signed in on it as often as Donna and for a minute today we thought that we weren’t going to get in, but I shut it down and started over again and the sign-in problem was solved for THIS time. I reversed something in the password…that will hopefully help me to remember the correct order from now on!  Time will tell. Due to not having a computer to process books, we haven't purchased any new books this year.  We spent a little time looking for new books we need to add to some series and then just looked at new stand-alone books.  Always fun to "shop" for books.  

The morning I spent reading…both for pleasure and for preparation for the Sunday School lesson for Sunday. I managed to get a load of clothes washed before I left to work in the library.  I just remembered that I need to go out and transfer them to the dryer.  After getting home from the library, I gathered all the trash from wastebaskets in the house and got it taken out to the garbage can and the garbage can rolled to the road…a bit warm out there and quite humid. I got things to recycle out to the curb, also.  And, then I spent more time studying for Sunday's lesson and then did some more reading for pleasure.  I cooked myself some chicken for supper.  Am about to go out and finish loading dishes in the dishwasher.  I think it is time to run it again. Going to relax this evening and read or stitch…we'll see which wins out…or perhaps the time can be shared between the two activities!  

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! 

One of Those “Always a Good Day" Days

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Tonight's photo is some of the moss topiary statues that were scattered throughout The Butchart Gardens in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  If you have read the blog for a while, you will know that tonight's blog title refers to a hair cut day!  I headed out midmorning to get my hair cut and then stopped at Kroger on the way home to get a few things that I needed and didn’t get on Friday.  Of course, once I got home I remembered one more thing that I needed.  I need to go Walmarting so can get that item there.  I may do that errand on the way home from working in the library tomorrow.  I just returned from the Furnace Room Prayer Meeting.  So settling in for the night.

I had a very good Fourth of July weekend.  We had a good time celebrating Elijah's birthday along with our country's.  Elijah's real birthday is tomorrow.  All of Nathan and Kathy's children were accounted for which made it nice to double celebrate. These days it isn't always easy to have all gathered together at the same time.  Elijah opened gifts, we all ate delicious 4th of July eats.  Elijah had some cupcakes and a blueberry dump cake made with fresh blueberries either from the bushes on my back lot or from their farm bushes.  Very good!  

Speaking of blueberries, there seems to have been a bumper crop this year.  It seems like we have picked and picked and there continue to be more ripening.  I keep meaning to make one of my favorite blueberry desserts…but so far my energy level hasn't matched up with when I have time to make it! 

I have been doing more reading in the last week or so…finished a book Saturday and then finished another today.  Reading means that I’m cutting into stitching time!  And, I need to get back to stitching as there are still quite a few ornaments to be stitched for Christmas gifts this year…and…we are into the second half of the year…need to get busy stitching, again! Plus I need to include study for this coming Sunday's Sunday School lesson.

To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

Sunday Alaska Photo Favorite + Poem

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This photo made me think of the following poem:

The Fog by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes on

Little cat feet.

It sits looking

Over harbor and city

On silent haunches

And then moves on. 

Happy 17th, Elijah! Happy 250th, USA!

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