This morning when I went to toss out scraps to the chickens, I noticed that the tulips are starting to bloom, red ones. Hooray! It's Sunday and I am making it a lazy one.
Sabbath schoool class: This week read 2 Chronicles, chapters 8-14.
Last week I took Mabel to her book club, she wasn't thrilled, everything since the stroke has been difficult for her to face with the difficulty in speaking and expressing her thoughts. But I had a wonderful time. One of the ladies had a talk about china, porcelain and earthenware. The history, types and how made and she showed us examples from her own collection. And if you know me I have a thing for American made china around 1930-1950. She had a piece of Majolica so I finally got to see Majolica in person, the brilliant colors and to hold it in my hand. Each women shared about their favorite woman author and a book they had recently read by a woman author. Thus, I heard about the author Jodi Picoult. So I went to the libray and checked out Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult. It is about OI (osteogenesis imperfecta). It is about a disease when the bones are malformed and break very easily and usually the baby is born with fractures. They have to be delivered by C-section. From what the bookclub lady told us each of Picoult's books covers a different disease or illness. I haven't finished it yet but it is good and she writes well. While I was there I looked over the new books display. I found the Pioneer Woman Cooks by Ree Drummond and realized after I peeked inside that she was the woman who wrote the blog about marrying the Marlboro man the I have read quite a bit of. So of course, I checked that out and read it already. A good cookbook for the basics with step by step pictures. It also has pictures of the ranch life. Then I picked up a book called The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths. It was a mystery and the heroine was an archaeologist. I put the book back on the shelf and then thought well, I've never read a mystery with an archaeologist so picked back up and checked it out, too. Guess which book I read first and couldn't put down, yup, it was this one. The heroine considers herself and atheist which always bothers me. But the character and location were English and the English have some interesting words. The heroine had some doubts about her maternalism and found out in an unusualy ways the she did have maternal feelings. I emphathized with that. Then Friday I stopped at my local thrift store to find some new books for Rachel, she's three but she loves books. And of course, while I was there I had to look over the knick-knacks and kitchenware. I found a large Crooksville china platter with a bit of a well used stain but not a chip or crack. The price sticker said $1.99 which was right in my price range. When I got to checkout, it turned out it was a green sticker and green stickers were 25% off! Yippee! Now I have to figure out what pattern it is and I fear my antique identifying books are still out in Pat's shop from moving here 6 years ago!
Watching Rachel yesterday looking at the pictures of the children's picture Bible and asking her mother what things were or what was the story about. Rachel points the the burning bush beside Moses and asks her mother what was that and her mother says the burning bush was God. I could almost see the wheels turning as Rachel asked what the glowing sun was or anything else that looked bright. Then, I think it was the Egyptians drowning in the Red Sea after the Israelites had passed through and mother told her that these people were bad and hadn't listened to God. And Rachel loudly whispered, "I would save them." I had never thought about how vile and vicious God can be portrayed in the old testament stories to a little child. Oh, how careful we must be to emphasize the tender love and mercy of God to our little ones. How eagerly God forgives them when they admit they were bad. That He does not make a list of their failures, and that when they say they are sorry He doesn't remember the wrong anymore. That was one of the hardest things for me to accept and believe as an adult that God truly did not harbor remembrances of our sins if we had asked His forgiveness. But it's a liberating fact once you find out God is so forgiving. I marvel at the wisdom one needs as a parent and we should pray for each parent with little ones for God to give them wisdom.
I got a package from my brother Paul yesterday, mostly school pictures of me, but there was some others as well. One of me and Darlene in a metal wash tub getting cool in the summer time, that I didn't remember seeing before. There were a few of me as a young woman and I was shocked, I was pretty and I didn't think so at the time. Sad. There were some of Grandma Grant and Uncle Bill. Uncle Bill helped teach me my ABC's and numbers to 100.
so when I entered first grade, I was way ahead of the game. I could read, too!
Have you ever tried drawing the earliest house you can remember from your childhood? Childhood memories aren't always accurate. But it's fun to see what you can and can't remember and the things that are most vivid to you.
Roubideau Canyon (some say Ruby dough, I found out)is gorgeous, the trees are leafing out and that pale green is so pretty against the canyon walls. The river is running swift and a lot higher that last week. The water is brown from the runoff of the Uncomphagre Plateau melt.
Edna and Bill are doing great and don't want anymore food but we went and saw Julie and Bill Rea and they are not doing well, I asked Julie if they would be offended to receive some prepared food once a week and they would be grateful. Julie has fallen acouple of times this week and has skin tears and bruises. I guess a tooth filling fell out and she will need a root canal now. She continues to have much pain and Bill is not getting any younger. So we will fill out the remainder of Edna's food delivery to Julie and Bill. Then reevaluate their needs. Thanks for all you do!
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