Busy Thursday

Woody and I have both stayed busy most of the day.  I started off by deciding that it was time to get everything back into the dining room.  I had left the dining room chairs out of the dining room after I shampooed the carpet because I wanted to dust and lemon oil them before putting them back.  I also wanted to lemon oil the table before the chairs got put back...so...I did the polishing this morning. They do look nice...it had been a while!  I still need to do the same to the china cabinet and buffet...but...another day!  After I did that I came upstairs and worked on Joy's Native American princess dress.  It is completed except for fringing the sleeves...a job for tomorrow.  I sat for a few minutes after getting that done and then headed downstairs to make our supper.  I made two dishes for tonight's supper which entailed also making homemade cream of chicken soup...getting pretty good at making that...can "almost" remember all the ingredients and amounts.  I only needed half of what I made so will freeze the rest...that will make it easier the next time that I need some.  I have attempted to get the kitchen cleaned up.  The dish washer is loaded, but...at the moment my back is rebelling about bending over to put in the dishwasher detergent.  Perhaps my back will allow it before bed tonight.  But at the moment my back is saying that I have done a bit too much today.

Woody headed off this morning to the Post Office to mail a couple books to publishers that requested them when he got their permissions to use quotes from books by their authors. Then he went to the Tullahoma News office to see about putting a blurb in the paper about his book.  Then he headed off to Shelbyville to their newspaper office to see about getting one in their paper.  The lifestyles editor interviewed him at the Shelbyville paper.  Now, our Shelbyville friends will have to keep a watch and see if something gets printed (hint, hint, Doyle and Linda). Woody also helped me out with supper preparations by skinning the chicken.

Now we are settled in for the evening resting after our busy day.  I think that I am about done in for the day...I'm not sure about Woody!

Hawking His Wares

Woody has been out and about today arranging for several stores in the area to carry Prayers From God.  Yesterday he received two boxes filled with his books via UPS and when he came home from his wanderings of the day he had only one box of books left. He has arranged for Tullahoma Drugstore and Hastings Bookstore here in Tullahoma and for New Covenant Christian Bookstore in Shelbyville, TN to sell his books (at this point).  He found out that he is in "the system" when he went to Hastings and they are in the process of ordering some of his books.  I guess that you can tell by the fact that he has books that the soft cover book has been corrected so now ready to sell.  For the soft cover the best price is $15 for those in the Tullahoma and Shelbyville area...at Tullahoma Drug and New Covenant.  Hastings we are sure will be charging what the publisher has listed: $24.95.  And, remember...that still the best bargain (what Woody suggests you buy) is the e-book at 99 cents at Amazon. Amazon does discount the soft cover a bit ($22.46).  Barnes and Noble still doesn't have the new price on their e-book.  Here is the link for Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Edward+Woodville+Dorrell%2C+Jr

By going to the link you can get a "look inside" the book and read some of the prayers.

I have continued to work on Joy's Native American princess costume.  It is coming along.  After lunch I headed off to the church library and worked for a couple of hours.  Today Donna and I sort of tied up some loose ends (there are always loose ends in library work!). It is now raining AGAIN! The rains of the last couple of days have cooled down temps once again...it's that back and forth time of year...short sleeves one day and long sleeves + a sweatshirt the next.

Didn't Get Washed Away

Not long after I posted the blog last night, the internet went out...so I was right in posting early!  We never got the severe weather that had been predicted, but boy did we get rain.  It rained just about all night long...anyway any time that I woke up it was raining...quite heavy at times.  I wish that we had a rain gauge to know exactly how much...but I would guess that it would have measured inches.  The ground was really boggy when I walked outside this morning.  I continued with my carpet shampooing that I had started last week.  I needed to finish up an area in the family room that had been blocked by the couch when I did it last week.  I also decided that since the shampooer was out that I would go on and shampoo the dining room...it is a high traffic area.  I just got finished vacuuming after it dried.  So now it is time to move the dining room chairs back in...that job may wait till tomorrow.  Woody made cornbread this morning to go with the French Market Soup that I made over the weekend.  This afternoon I continued working on Joy's Native American costume.  She now has a neat little fringed pouch.  Now to get on with the dress itself! Again...a job for tomorrow...I think. A while ago Woody walked to the prayer room at church and has yet to return.

Fall Break!

We're having a break from school this week.  So I have been trying to do some things around here that I don't get around to when we are having school.  Today I made a pot of soup and have been making our birthday present for Joy.  Joy turned 9 yesterday.  We gave her the materials for me to make her a Native American Princess costume at her request. I fit the pattern to her the other day and got underway with cutting it out today.  I started making the pouch/bag that goes with the dress after getting part of it cut out. I machine embroidered a thunderbird design on the pouch fabric and then did a little hand beading.  It is ready to be put together.  But it will have to be put aside as I need to unplug the machine due to storms in the area. Woody ran a couple of errands this morning and then walked four-miles this afternoon.

I'm posting early and minus the photo because we have storms coming.  I had my iPad downstairs because I was using it for a recipe for the soup I made earlier...so decided to post from it and then perhaps add a photo later. Hopefully we won't blow or wash away! (Before I could get upstairs and post a photo, the rain arrived. Now if we could only have rain and a little thunder and lightning...no high winds or tornadoes!)

Drizzly Saturday

We have had off again, on again drizzle during the day which cooled the temperatures back down.  It rained in the night, but I slept through it so I don't know how hard it was or how much we got at that time.  We have had quite a bit of rain in the last couple of days. Woody did his Saturday Walmart errands.  A while after he got back, he walked to and from the library.  I have done a little of this and a little of that.  I have gotten "bogged down" in working on my iPad...trying to "clean" it up some...mainly trying to get some files deleted (easier said than done).  I was going to do some sewing today, but never did...perhaps tomorrow? 

Divide and Conquer?

As you can see God is beginning to dress the hills of Tennessee in all His splendor!  I took this out the car window as we were coming back from Vanderbilt on Tuesday.

This morning Kathy needed a bit of help with school as she needed to be away for a little while.  She took the two littlest with her.  Woody took the two middle children with him on his four-mile walk.  And, I stayed at their house with the oldest and monitored and helped with their school work.  I had to get my 4th grade math brain working...not always an easy thing with me (math was never my strongest subject...even 4th grade math!).  But the three of us dividing up the children made all our tasks easier to "conquer!"  When Kathy got back, Isaac wanted to play a game on Grammy's iPad and then he wanted a story...which "of course" Grammy happily obliged him with...especially since he was so patient while I finished timing Abigail on a couple of math quizzes.  I came home and at some point had some lunch and did a few things around the house and then had a good nap this afternoon!  Woody finished planting his garlic bed.  And, I caught that new chair working again...Woody did a bit of napping in "his" chair this afternoon (though he doesn't "think" that he did!). I have prof this time as I got the camera and took a movie of him!  Mean aren't I!?!  But, one has to have proof sometimes!

Busy Day!

Woody went for a four-mile walk as school got underway this morning. We had good school times with each of the children.  Elijah was thrilled when he finished his first BIG Dick and Jane book...193 pages!  Joy and I started working on her birthday present from Goosey (Woody) and me...a Native American princess costume.  We checked out the pattern fit and I showed her about patterns.  We found all of the pattern pieces. I will be making most of this but thought that it would be good for her to see the start of a sewing project.  The middle of the afternoon we both went next door and took care of four of the seven while Nathan, Kathy, Graham, Isaac and Joseph went on a little trip. They got home at supper time and we went home to our supper. It has been a busy day!