love my new mug

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home again

We're back from our week of vacation in the north. It was a very good time. We shared a cabin with my family and our dear friends had the next over, right on the edge of Burntside Lake. We were on either side of the point, so our cabin faced the sunrise, and theirs the sunset. It was wonderful to spend time with my people. There was much fun and talking and music and food. We kept busy...boiling water on the stove to wash dishes, making tons of food in two tiny ovens and handwashing any laundry. Heaven must be a teeny bit like this...close fellowship, joy in working together, singing...only perfected, and with Jesus!

Will and Silas

We got in late Saturday evening, after a great day of riding with my family in a big van that we borrowed from friends. Greta did very well with the longish ride in her carseat. Mama had sloppy joes to warm up, and we settled in. We had a different cabin from last year, and we loved this one even more. The air was just cool enough to have a fire every morning and evening.
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mama loon feeds her baby as the sun rises

our cabin

and the tree root steps to the lake edge

early coffee with Motherdy, watching the sunrise

Pa was Greta's morning buddy

from the window we watched

the early risers, canoeing with the loons

(Will, Kyle and Ben)

Greta watched the loons from the breakfast room with Pa and Mimi.

(When I came back inside she told me

all about hearing the loons and tried to

imitate their call to show me. :) )

Lots more pictures to come!

rainy day

Picture books to look through,

and a new button necklace!

waking up

morning's pickings

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Wealth of green peppers, a meal of green beans, summer squash to slice and fry for dinner

ready to go

Well, almost...

when we come back from vacation we'll wet sand and buff it. Shiny, shiny. ;)

a weekend job

Big P,
little p,
what begins with P?
Prep-work for painting a pickup truck
P...p...P

a family enterprise :)
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(been reading Dr. Seuss)

a place to read

Because some people like to know all things...

Our little room upstairs where Greta sleeps is just the place to have our books. It gets a pleasant amount of sunshine, and the low eaves cozify it. I rock Greta Rose here before her nap and bedtime, and have gotten more reading done since bringing a book up with me to these times.

I mentioned to Mama that I had decided to categorize my books a bit and had printed out bits of paper to tape on as labels, and she wanted to see. :)

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<- Greta's story books

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My happy little paper labels:

for daily life...a good tale...for our edification...poetry...memoirs...journals & notebooks

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kitchen wall

the new order

novus ordo furniturum

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Mama (et al): here are the results of my Thursday afternoon c'mon-Rosie-let's-rearrange-the-furniture-again time. We had a good time. Bookshelf moved upstairs, end table and mattress moved downstairs, books carried upstairs. Good for a hot afternoon with the a/c on. It's nothing particularly magnificent, but it works a lot better. I can get at the books on my shelf (a great concept), and they're even divided into general categories and alphabetized. The couch is less crowded, which does help the room be more relaxing.

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Greta Rose and I are having a late-ish breakfast this morning.

Scrambled eggs and milk.

My eggs turned out almost as good as yours, Olivia! (woohoo!)

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LISTENING: pandora radio...Frank Sinatra :)