Had tea out the with the chickens, and listened to the men talking and hammering on a new roof a couple of houses down. That's an encouragement, knowing a vacant house is being restored. Wild birds about, chickens not eating the banana I cut up for them (go figure), greening trees, blossoms falling off of the Dogwood that hangs over our fence....just a quiet morning. My legs got cold, even though I was sitting in the sunshine.
And I got out two books to look into for the spring. One is At the Still Point compiled by Sarah Arthur, it's one to read once Ordinary Time begins on the Liturgical Calendar, which is Pentecost (June 8th). Looking forward to this one. She puts together a devotional using Scripture, poems, and literature and while I've saved the book and hardly cracked the cover, still, it looks dishy. I'm making myself wait before reading too much of it. Bonnie, it makes me think of you. :)
Will read more of Breathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home by Lauren Rosenfeld and Dr. Melva Green as well. I'm reading that one in fits and starts. They talk about the emotional attachments we have to our things, and explain how to peel off some of the baggage that causes us to retain items we really ought to let go of. More than any other book on the subject, I'm understanding how to decide which things are keepers and which are better tossed. And why a radical throw-out isn't the best idea. You have to deal with the sticky parts of our saving....the why's....or we'll just save more stuff we don't need. It's about getting to the bottom of our issues.
So...
For the rest of the day will make a batch of peanut butter cookies, put on a dear little chicken to simmer (shhh, don't tell ours...remember, we don't eat our friends) in my cast iron pot for Chicken Curry tonight. And will help the least one get down the steps out back. She twisted her knee the other day and is having to hobble around on crutches. Thankfully she's better and we already had crutches. No doctor visit necessary, just rest, ice and the like.
Will go now. Nothing pressing, but a quiet day of home doings.
