Local Sculpture Garden

Hello, friends.  I hope you've been doing well.  Since my last post, I made cookies and a sweet potato pie.  Some of the cookies were shared with our mail carrier.  A 30% coupon code and 4% cash back was used on a food order.  All laundry was dried on the line.  I mended the hem on a long wool skirt, and cut a long holiday table runner in two, removing the damaged portions, turning it into two runners.  I made a GF version of Staci's eggless blueberry lemon cake.

The two pepper seedlings that came up have died, so J suggested I try planting the core of some store bought ones, which happily has produced many, healthy looking seedlings.  I've begun watering the Amish tomatoes, and started more varieties.  A neighbor gifted us several packets of seeds she wasn't going to use.  Of the wintersown seeds, bachelor buttons, borage, and tansy are coming up.  

Our holistic vet came to give the pups their annual check ups, and pronounced them doing great for 14 years.  Especially since McNibs had his "walk-about" a little over a year ago, I've been more conscious that every day with them is a blessing, and daily try to shower them with love, as if it might be their last.  Though it hurts my heart to think of it, I've been praying that they leave their bodies without suffering or illness, and not need outside intervention.  I do hope we have many more months with them both, and we get to enjoy some great skoolie adventures with them. 

A friend and I went to a couple of local shops on Saturday, as there was a special event going on.  I bought local honey, two plants (witch hazel and lavender), and a small hanging tile for the skoolie.  In our small town, there is a fine arts foundry, which has placed installations throughout the country, as well as some others around the world.  They have a sculpture garden, and after lunch, we headed there, for a stroll around the pond.  They invite other artists to contribute work to the garden, so some pieces are finer, while others are not.  Though I've said it before, I'm thankful to live in an area with so many creative folks.  

Knowing it would soon be lighter in the evenings, with longer nights gone for some months, I wanted to enjoy some of the Angel Studios movies these past evenings.  My favorite so far has been Cabrini.  I may be biased because my grandparents were all immigrants, and my maternal grandparents Italian, but I thought it was a wonderful story.  The Last Rifleman, with Pierce Brosnan, was also a favorite.  Though some of the subject matter is difficult, it's really nice to know there will be minimal violence, and no highly sexual content in their movies.  I do feel they're an organization doing good things, and worth supporting.  May you be surrounded by light this week, and share any overflow with the world.