Mid Week Post

I hope your week has been a nice week. It has been hot but very nice to get my work done outside and then come in and have lots of projects to do.

One of my blogging friends that I love to read and visit with is Pom Pom Ponderings She always introduces me to books and thoughts and I love reading about her life, which always encourages me. The week she sent me a book that she has found dear to her heart. I love books that are inspiring to others. I think if I was going to have another blog I would name it after this book. The book is called, " The Pace of a Hen." Isn't that wonderful titile?

 

This week I have thought lots about the pace of a hen. I have watched my hens as they go about their daily little routines. It has made me slow down and think.

The book has this quote that I loved. " Mark Twain once observed that no couple could begin to know the bliss of being married, short of twenty-five years together. In the presence of a companionable middle-aged pair, young romance seems a feeble reed in comparison to the strong plant of their devotion how they weathered the storms and reached such a mature affection that their shining joy in being together is a blessing to all who touch their lives."

 

The book has a copy right of 1961. I find the thoughts and the quotes and the words to be uplifting.
I remember standing in the grocery store line when I was turning 30 and one of the titles of the magazines there said something, " How to have good sex after 35" I thought to myself, " Gosh, what happens to you when you turn 50? or 60 or goodness 70? Being now married 34 years, I keep telling the girls, that yes, you will go through hard times, times when you would love to kill your husband times as I often did, or get in the car and just keep driving and never look back. Boy howdy, am I glad I stuck around to be here right now.

 

I would say being married is the hardest job I ever had, but much more rewarding than I ever dreamed and at the age I am now, so very thankful for each day. I will tell you a bit of truth, being married to me has been no picnic. :)

I took some pictures this morning of a baby luffa sponge.

They will get much bigger and then you let it dry and peel off the outside and you have the nicest sponge that is so good for scrubbing from skin to even using it to scrub the sink and tile with. They are very durable.

Here are some little bird house gourds. I was so surprised to see these too, I need to set them upright on the bottoms so they will sit flat.

This is how they look when the start forming. Aren't they cute with their little bits of fuzz?

 

I am not sure what kind of gourd this is going to turn into. I like its shape. We planted so many different kinds
 of gourds it is nice to be surprised with the different kinds.

Well day is a wastin' I have been reading some old books and one of the characters always says that.

Have a wonderful Wedensday,

~Kim~

 

 " So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
go throw your TV set away!
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall."
---Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl, 1964