Summer Reading Program: The Simple Woman's Daybook

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For Today: Sunday, August 16, 2020

Looking Out My Window ... More beauty from my surroundings.  

 

These are from outside the Women's Imaging Center in Aurora:

 

  

These are from a plant stand at King Soopers:

 

 

These flowers are on the corner of Wadsworth and West Virginia by the Belmar Library every year.  This is the first time the light stayed red long enough for me to get the shot.

 

 

I am Thinking...

• I think this has been a week of thinking too much.  It's just one of those times when my mind is racing with so many things--mostly good, but some not so good--that it's hard to concentrate on any one thing.  
  

I am Thankful...

• For real closure on a very painful part of my past.
• For coffee.
• For hugs.  Yes I hugged somebody this week.  FIGHT ME!
• For my church finally being open to limited seating.  Today, I attended services at Colorado Community Church for the first time since early March.  It was glorious.
• For a library that allows adults to participate in the summer reading program. 
  

Hey, we get prizes too.

From the Workshop... 

I'm working on the fifth Dollar Tree Challenge.  I'll let you know when it's finished.  

Last week, I talked about not knowing what baby blanket to make next.  I decided to do a familiar shell pattern.  It should work up quickly.  Maybe by the time I finish, I can chose a new pattern to try that speaks to me.

I had an epiphany when contemplating my next art challenge.  Clara and I were having our monthly Christmas crafting day and I also had a friend come over and join us.  We got to talking about artists and crafters we admire and how they brag about leaving so many projects undone.  Clara said, "I hate to leave so many projects undone."  Laughingly, I said, "I'm going to be a hypocrite and say that I don't either."  Why?  Because since I started crafting again, the ideas have been flying around like mosquitoes at a blood drive.  I've started way too many projects and not finished them. 

Yes, I know, bad Auntie.  

So, my next challenge is going to be finishing all my projects without starting anything new.  No, I haven't thought of a cutesy name for it yet.  I thought about calling it the Get 'er Done Art Challenge.  What do y'all think?

From Auntie's Test Kitchen... Nothing new this week.

I am Reading...
 

Never Give Up by Joyce Meyer

If I Had Lunch With C. S. Lewis by Alister McGrath

Favorite Quote(s) of the Week ...

"Don't stop short of knowing who you are, valuing who you are, and encouraging yourself to be and do everything God intends for you." - Joyce Meyer, Never Give Up, p. 26.

Now For Something Totally Different ...

Five Minute Friday Word of the Week:  Progress.

Rick Bragg explores whether the South will have a football season here.

 

 

Roll Tide!

Stuck in the Middle: The Weekly Hodgepodge

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Come on over to 

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for the Hodgepodge link-up!

August 12th is National Middle Child Day...are you a middle child? If not, where in your family do you fall in terms of birth order? Do you hold true to the typical characteristics of oldest-middle-youngest-only child? (a quick list can be found here) Elaborate.

No, I'm not the middle child.  I'm the youngest.  The "traits" of the last born on the website were quite insulting, not to mention inacurate.  Things like:

 

"Lastborns generally aren't the strongest or the smartest in the room..."  How would you feel if some snooty children's magazine writer assumed that you were weak and stupid simply because you were born last? I don't know who Jocelyn Woo (the author of the article) is, but she can kiss my butt!

"Lastborns also learn to use their role as the baby to manipulate others in order to get their way"Are you freaking kidding me?  My parents didn't brook any nonsense, so manipulation was the last thing on my mind.  Trying that mess would have put my rear end in a sling!

These "traits" speak more of bad parenting than bad children.

Yeah, I know this doesn't have anything to do with what I just wrote, but it's cheery. 

 

Tell us about a time you felt like (or you actually were) in the middle of nowhere.

I would consider Salina, Kansas the middle of nowhere.  Actually, I'd consider Kansas the middle of nowhere (no offense to my Kansas peeps).  I ended up breaking down in Salina on my way to Denver from Alabama.  I chronicled the trip and mayhem here.

What's something you're smack in the middle of currently?

I'm right in the middle of a hermeneutics class. Our final project is a huge one and finding appropriate resources has been a booger, so I'm also in the middle of trying to not get a headache.

What's a food you love to eat that has something delicious in the middle?

Hamburgers (well, any sandwich really), hotdogs, tacos, cream horns (though I haven't had one in probably 15 years), peanut butter filled pretzels, and cream filled cookies.  I'm sure there's more, but those were the first ones that came to mind.

Now Miss Joyce has made me hungry.

Share a memory from your middle school days, or junior high if that's what your school dubbed kids somewhere between grades 6-8.

The best memory from that time period is in 8th grade when my English teacher, Mr. Gosdin, introduced the class to the works of Lewis Grizzard.  I continue to read and reread his works even now.  He's a hoot.

Insert your own random thought here. 

A couple of pretties from my trip to Aurora Monday:

 

In case you're interested:

* My latest Simple Woman's Daybook is here

* My latest Five Minute Friday post is here.  

* My latest Auntie's Workshop post is here.

Nerdy Nummies: Simple Woman's Daybook

If you would like to join in and post your own Daybook, please head on over to visit Peggy at The Simple Woman's Daybook

 

For Today: Sunday, August 9 , 2020

Looking Out My Window ... More beauty from my surroundings.  These pictures are from the flower beds around the medical building that houses my dentist.  Yes, I found beauty in the midst of a dental appointment.

 

 

I am Thinking...

• I'm pondering the question as to whether people buy art based what the art looks like or what the artist looks like.
• Thoughts of winter are riding me hard.  I want to enjoy summer and fall and deal with winter when it gets here.  I don't want to spend this season in dread.
• I'm thinking about my church.  In trying to follow all the rules and guidelines, our church will resume live meetings next weekend with very limited reserved seating.  As I said in my Wednesday Hodgepodge, I was going to wait until we could come back in full force, but I need the fellowship now.  I'll try it once and see how it goes.  Psalm 122:1 (MSG) - When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.
  

I am Thankful...

• For a brand new week to start over with.
• For friends who care.
• For the gift of creativity God has trusted me with.  May it always bless others and honor His Name.
• For YouTube.
  

From the Workshop... 

Finished my fourth Dollar Tree Challenge.  Read about it here.

I'm thinking about what baby blanket to make next.  I was making patterns I'd saved earlier but never made, but none of the ones I've looked at seemed right or spoke to me.  I may have to make a couple of old favorites before I tackle something new.

From Auntie's Test Kitchen...

 

I bought myself a little something for the kitchen  to cheer myself up.  I enjoy watching Nerdy Nummies on YouTube and thought these were cute, plus they were very inexpensive.  They may not help my cooking any, but I'll smile while using them.

 

I am Reading...

If I Had Lunch With C. S. Lewis by Alister McGrath

Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch by John Webster

Theological Interpretation of Scripture by Stephen Fowl
Christian Apologetics by Douglas Groothuis

Completed volumes since my last Daybook:
The Bluebird and the Sparrow by Janette Oke (a reread)

Favorite Quote(s) of the Week ...

Psalm 119:88 (MSG) - In your great love revive me so I can alertly obey your every word.

Now For Something Totally Different ...

Five Minute Friday Word of the Week:  Progress.

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