A Simple Woman's Daybook

FOR TODAY

Outside my window... 60°F, 16°C, sunny and expected to reach 84 today....Squirrels are scampering, the grass is green and there's  no rain in the forecast for several days...

I am thinking...I might as well do a blog post while I sit with my breathing machine for the next 30 minutes

I am thankful...for sunshine and green grass and birds on my feeder....friends and family and the love of God...

From the kitchen...a veggie tray, Tuna Salad, Croissants ready for lunch

I am wearing...jeans and a purple shirt

I am creating...laundry bags for the girls at Mercy Ministries

I am going...to host a workshop this morning

One year ago today...It was 71 degrees and we were expecting sunshine and a high of 82....we were getting lots of Zucchini and Spinach from the garden...I was working on the Best Friends block for My Favorite Things Quilt.....I was reading: Cutting For Stone....

I am wondering...how much longer this chest congestion is going to linger..I've been doing the nebulizer twice a day for over a week...I'm much, much better but not 100% yet.

These days I'm reading...And She Was....not a great book but has a lot of history of the Analaska Island people

I am praying...for my son and his family.....my sisters....Shorty Bear....some of my friends' issues with family members....for our workshop this morning.....

I remember when...I used to have allergy induced sinus infections instead of allergy induced asthma

I am looking forward to...getting lots accomplished at the workshop

A verse for today...
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Discovering that....time is getting away from me...workshop starts in 25 minutes

I am hearing...just this machine

Around the house...Smokey is asleep on my bed.....coffee is brewing

Song that stays on my Mind...Always Loved by Me by Reba 

A favorite quote for today...God is big enough to care for the smallest needs.

One of my favorite things...shopping online

A few plans for the rest of the week: nothing planned but I'm sure something will come up

From my photo file....

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

A Simple Woman's Daybook

From Mama Bear's Journal
FOR TODAY: Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Outside my window...It is 65°F,18°C and sunny...Expected to reach 83 this afternoon...after a few days of extreme Summer like heat and humidity, we reverted back to Winter and finally to Spring...It has been quite pleasant out these last few days, everything is green and growing like crazy.....I"m cooking our first picking of Spinach today from the garden, the tomatoes are up and doing quite nice if we can keep the Cut Worm from chopping off anymore, potatoes are up as are beets and some new type of Spinach which is a vine, also there will be Strawberries soon.

I am thinking...its been too long since I've posted or visited my blog friends....but I really need to be doing my 20 minutes on the treadmill...

I am thankful...that I managed to lower my cholesterol and will not have to take medication

From the kitchen...Pinto Beans are soaking before cooking and Spinach is washed and ready to cook, there is leftover cornbread and casserole in the fridge

I am wearing...pink pajamas and robe

I am creating...the finishing stitches on my cross stitch project....scrapbook pages

I am going...to the Princess' concert tonight

One year ago today...it was 61 degree, cloudy and wet after a rain shower....I was attempting to clean house without help.....the Princess was coming after school and was going to make dessert....reading Homecoming by Kathy Kelly......planning a workshop to make pillowcase dresses....there were radishes and strawberries from the garden....

I am wondering...what's up with Smokey this morning: he usually meets me when I get up and wants to sit in my lap and be loved on but this morning he was already asleep in the chair in the guest room and there he remains...

These days I'm reading...Alice I have Been by Melanie Benjamin and also Fall of Giants by Ken Follet

I am praying...for motivation to work on my crafts.....family....friends....

I remember when...time didn't pass quite so fast

I am looking forward to...getting on the treadmill so that I can shower and dress for the day

A verse for today..."I will look up to the mountains ...does my help come from there?  My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth".  Psalm 121: 1&2

Discovering that....the pine tree pollen count is low after so many days of very high...perhaps I will not have anymore problems with my asthma this Spring

I am hearing...a motor somewhere in the distance....birdsong...........silence

Around the house...beds to make and floors to vacuum

Song that stays on my Mind...for once, there isn't one

A favorite quote for today..."The earth laughs in flowers." ~ E.E. Cummings

One of my favorite things...walking barefoot through the grass

A few plans for the rest of the week:

From my photo file....

the chickens finally graduated to there pen outdoors

Funny Friday

Good Friday Morning, Everybear

Wil here

How was your Easter?

I helped decorate some eggs...

and got my very own Easter pail of candy

Mama Bear kept saying: Its the Great Easter Bear, Charlie Brown

Whatever could she mean.

Happy Friday!

Wil

Answers to your Questions.................

Its a raining day here again......

Yesterday I invited you to ask questions so I will try to answer them as best I can.....

First: Willow wrote: What would you credit as your most helpful tool for centering to appreciate a simple well lived life ?

I had to ask Honey Bear exactly what being centered meant.....He said to remain calm and unruffled in most circumstance......First off, I feel inner peace which I contribute to my faith....I do not like conflict or confrontation and would ideally want everyone around me to be happy and at peace, too. I like my home to reflect the comfort and hospitality which I wish to share with others and not look like a photo spread in a fancy magazine....I like to surround myself with the things that bring me pleasure: good books, good food, a view of nature.

Anni asked: A question? Okay...what's your favorite dessert?

I wish I could pick just one......I love cheesecake, key Lime Pie, Creme Brulee and I am more a fan of pound cake than cake with icing.

Kathy wanted to know: "What color are your chicks now?"

The chickens are 3.5 weeks old and are mostly the color of cream with a little gold tint except for the one who appears to be a rooster and he is white.  We didn't intend to have a rooster but you take what you get, I guess. They are certainly growing and seem to respond to my voice when I cluck like a hen.

Thanks for the interest.

Mama Bear

No Wednesday Hodge Podge

Joyce is on break, Spring Break.... so no Hodge Podge this week. We had Spring Break last week here in Huntsville. I went to two movies: Admission on Monday with Movie Club and then Oz on Friday with Wonder Boy and his Mom. We messed around with getting advanced tickets to that one until Friday morning and so ended up sitting on the second row. Now normally I like to sit in the very back, way at the top of the theater seating and in the middle. There is extra leg room there and the screen is far enough away to be perfect. Not so on the second row, one almost has to crane ones neck back into an altogether uncomfortable position or look through the top on ones eye lashes to see the screen and then it is so close that some things just blur. But I enjoyed the film, anyway.

Easter Sunday was chilly, around 56 degrees when we left for church and then raining when church was over. We had a lovely lunch with Daughter and the children then napped.

Those pesky Pear Trees are about to lose all of their blooms and I hope this means I've skipped my annual Asthma attack which they cause every year.

Since there are no questions to answer for Hodge Podge, I invite you, my readers to submit a question you'd like answered about me or my blog. Yep, you can ask one question and if it isn't too terribly personal I'll answer them all here.
Have a good day,
Mama Bear