daybook
may 4

Outside my window...clouds and rain...wet and mud...predicted for the next week...we got a taste of sunshine only to have it snatched away. But, on the bright side, my little lovies in the garden are very hydrated.





From the kitchen....mexican food. We had awesome Mexican food while we were with Chris in Prague and it has left us with a hankerin' for it. I am making chicken burritos, refried black beans and chips with salsa.



I am wearing...a long brown broomstick skirt, butter-yellow t-shirt with green leaves on it, a long strand of green beads and brown strappy stilletos.





Pondering these words... Isaiah 6:5

"Doom! It's Doomsday!

I'm as good as dead!

Every word I've ever spoken is tainted—

blasphemous even!

And the people I live with talk the same way,

using words that corrupt and desecrate.

And here I've looked God in the face!

The King! God-of-the-Angel-Armies!

"Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me.

He held a live coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.

He touched my mouth with the coal and said,
"Look. This coal has touched your lips.

Gone your guilt,

your sins wiped out.

"And then I heard the voice of the Master:

"Whom shall I send?

Who will go for us?"

I spoke up,

"I'll go.

Send me!"

I am thankful for... lilacs...the Czech national flower. They grow wild here, both the purple and white varieties. I have been cutting them for vases in the house. I love their fragrance, their blooms and their delicate leaves upon vine-like branches.





I'm going...to get really muddy today. There has been so much rain and so little drainage (a problem in our neighborhood) that the mud makes that super cool sucking sound as you lift your foot up. Sometimes your shoe even gets stuck leaving you little choice but to do a little yoga dance for the neighbors or get your sock muddy. Anyway, gardening waits for no man and veggie beds must be dug out.





I am reading...Monsters:History's Most Evil Men and Women by Simon Sebag Montefiore. I am already up to Robespierre...It is a good book and an interesting history lesson.
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/simon+sebag+montefiore/monsters/6626023/



I am hearing...the washing machine dutifully sloshing awaz dirt from our clothing. Thank you Mister Inventor for making our lives much easier.





Around the house...many afternoon hours spent together around our dining room table playing a slew of new board games courtesy of Chris. Thanks Uncle Chris!!!





I am hoping...for a few days of sun in a row...I am jonesing to lay out in my bikini!!



One of my favorite things...gathering large stones to outline my veggie beds. I thought I would have to buy them, but I went behind our house to the field at the entrance of the forest and there embedded in the mud (mud!) are stones of every color, size and texture. So I made my family come out with buckets and we made many sucking sounds with our feet as we gathered stones for FREE!! Hooray!!!





A few plans for the rest of the week: finish digging out the squash bed and plant my little pumpkin, squash, zucchini, and tomato plants that I have carefully and lovingly grown from seeds.





A picture thought I am sharing:

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