Rough ride

I guess last nights drive was more stressful than I thought. My shoulders have been really tight today and they aren't loosening up. Bother...

Monday

I got done early today! 2 Samuel is easy to read. I'm going have time to read the other two books that have been sitting on my bedside table for the past week. I haven't had time to crack them even once.

The cellar way has a roof!!!! La de da! *hums happy song* I helped Cay cut the metal in around the logs. Tedious work.

I'm eating a sot peppermint stick. I LOVE soft peppermint. =D Luke shared with me. I'm drooling over a 5lb bag of them on ebay....

Pasta

Jer and I made tortellini last night. Most of it is for a soup tomorrow but some of it we ate. Yum, yum!

Reading

Right now I am reading through the Bible in 90 days, with a friend. At least I think I am. I haven't heard from her since we started. (hint, hint friend) I am also rereading The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston. It's a sweet little book, a young reader, but I still like it. I love how she mixes fantasy and reality, so well it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. The setting of the book is around Christmas. I've started reading it every year around Christmas time. I read a few pages at a time and make it last as long as I can.

I joined a book club last month. And forgot to read the assigned book! I went to the meeting anyway. I had a delightful time!! It was half a dozen older ladies sitting around in a lovely old house, snacking and talking about books. Bliss! The book was People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks. (There's a tongue twister for you!) It sounds very interesting! I brought a copy home with me. So I will be reading that one very soon.

I like older people. They are walking history. I love hearing them reminisce. They are comfortable with who they are. I find that restful. One of the ladies is 92. Her son-in-law was my voice teacher for a little while. We also hayed her fields at one time. We were both delighted when we made the connection. Hearing her talk about people who have past set me musing. How are people going to remember me when I am gone? Please God, I pray I can leave pleasant memories. It was a very nice day.

Snow

Winter is here for real. We are working on 6 inches of snow on top of the tad that hadn't melted from a few days ago. It also hit the teens for the first time and hasn't broken above that yet. We had a few last minute things to do this morning. We were done and cozy inside before the first half inch had accumulated. I'm really proud of the family. God's been gracious. We have come a long way from ten years ago. We would still be outside scrambling to get two days worth of snow prep done, in the snow. Now I'm kinda twiddling my thumbs. :P I should go do some bible reading so I don't have all 15 chapters to read tonight. I should make bread too. I guess I just need to sit down and make a to-do list...and do it.

Grand day

It's been a great day!

I drove escort to Dixfield this morning. Nice folks, easy job.

We had a yummy lunch! Worte Sticks. *giggle*

And *major happy dance!* Tom and I got the perimeter fence all checked and working! The hop over the hill doesn't work so I'll have to look at that tomorrow.

The boys and I laid out and watched for shooting stars. We saw some and just before we came in we all saw a really big long one! It went across half our field of vision. :D

I found a very, very, very old cookbook, in pdf online. It's from the 15th century written in Middle English. I've been having a BLAST figuring it out. Once you get the hang of it it's not at all hard! I've only read a few of the recipes. They sound good so far. Here's a very easy one in the section, Potage Dyvers.

"Caboges. Take fayre caboges, an cutte hem, an pike hem clene and clene washe hem, an parboyle hem in fayre water, an þanne presse hem on a fayre bord ; an þan choppe hem, and caste hem in a faire pot with goode freysshe broth, an wyth mery-bonys, and let it boyle : þanne grate fayre brede and caste þer-to, an caste þer-to Safron an salt ; or ellys take gode grwel y-mad of freys flesshe, y-draw þorw a straynowr, and caste þer-to. An whan þou seruyst yt inne, knocke owt þe marw of þe bonys, an ley þe marwe .ij. gobettys or .iij. in a dysshe, as þe semyth best, & serue forth."

Take fair cabbage, and cut them, and pick them clean and clean wash them and parboil them in fair water.
That's the first bit. :) By fair I think they mean clean. The this dohicky, þ , says th. So þan = than. It's very much like the Latin capital letter thorn. You can type it on your keyboard, hold Alt while typing 0222 and let off the 2 and Alt at the same time, so Þ!

I just bumped into another new letter. I haven't figured it out yet. It looks like a cursive z.

Finding the old cookery book was the result of hunting up the oldest wassail recipe I could find. I found several I want to try. :)

*yawn* It's past time for bed now.

Oh wait! The other wonderful thing! My dear daddy helped me solve a printing dilemma. Did you know you can't print only odd or only even pages from your web browser? Well, you can't. I only have about 100 pages of a website to print and I need them double sided. There was NO WAY I was doing it one page at a time. But I googled and googled and couldn't find any help. My genius brothers didn't know what to do. It took the daddy genius to solve the problem. And so simply! I "print" to a PDF first! Then I am able to print double sided to a real printer. I'd never heard of doing such a thing. But it' working beauuuutifuly! It even saves the little bit of tweaking I have to do in the print preview mode.


Oh, it's been a good day!

Night is a time to sleep

I have had my dose of NCIS for the evening. Now to go to bed earlish to be ready for the long day ahead.

I got to chat with Cay tonight. That was nice! I haven't talked with him, really, in over a month.

Menu

I just finished making my menu. I thought somebody might find the ideas helpful. If any of the recipes interest you let me know.

Heat wave!

Heatwave! It's 43 degrees! Woohoo!

Nice!

WooHoo! I had a great morning at work! I should be able to finish the project I'm working on next week. I've been at for the past three months so this feels really good. =)