Some good things
Lila slept in her own bed every night for the past week, and last night she didn’t shoot straight up in bed like a stepped-on plank screaming MoOOM as if her very life depended on gettiing that word out and getting me into bed with her. I expect to hear it any minute now.
Chris painted her room, a light violet on 3 walls, but the alcove where her bed is tucked into he left the dark blue and painted stars and moons in white. It’s quite pretty and her bed is like a little faerie nook with the gauzy green arbor hung over it.
I made a Vegetable Bread Pudding for supper last night, so golden with our fresh eggs! The girls are giving up 5 a day right now in the warm weather. Served it with a big green salad and we all groaned yummymmmmmthisissoooogoooood while we gobbled. I’ll do some sort of omelette tonight. Trying to lay off meat a bit because Chris is having some issues with The Gout. Such a crazy, old-man sounding illness, that. The Gout. But I made a potato soup with collards and keilbasa on Friday and he hobbled around all weekend on achy feet. So lots less pork and beef.
I got a gold USB cord and my printer works.
The temperature is finally dipping to the freezing mark and snow is on its way. Or so they say. I felt the chill in the air yesterday while out doing the shopping and enjoyed the feeling of having on the wrong coat. Brrr.
The cough is less today. A lot less. Amen.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
January 8th, 2007 at 11:16 am
I would love the receipe for the vegetable bread pudding if you feel like sharing.
January 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I’d like to second the request for the recipe!
January 12th, 2007 at 11:03 am
It sounds like you are on the mend and everything’s improving.
Snow! I LOVE snow!
Do your hens lay all winter? I kept expecting mine to stop, but they’re giving us 3-5 a day (we have five hens). Very curious.