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Happy Wednesday and a (very) belated Happy Easter! We had a wonderful, fruitful Holy Week and Easter Octave and I’m just now getting back into the swing of things. I scheduled our Spring Break for Easter week, so I was able to spend full days working outside, finishing a few projects and making progress on others. I’m exhausted, but so proud of how things are shaping up around here. More details soon.
A QUOTE
One thing I know for sure: we are meant to enjoy each day we spend on Earth, which happens quite naturally when you nurture a garden. – Barbara Pleasant
TABS OPEN IN MY BROWSER RIGHT NOW
- this recipe for sourdough chocolate chip cookies
- this post on raising friendly ducks
- these adorable feast day candles
- this list of camping food that requires no refrigeration (I stumbled on this and want to save it for this summer)
- this video from The Minimal Mom
A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART
“Fisherman’s Friend” by George Hillyard Swinstead (found here)
ON MY NIGHTSTAND
- Fiction: The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
- Nonfiction: Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
- Religious: The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life by Fr. Charles Arminjon
FIVE THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY
+ puttering around the garden
+ listening to the kids laugh at some joke only they understand
+ warm sunshine on my face
+ a room freshly tidied
+ summer vacation on the horizon (just a few more weeks to go!)
Happy Easter! Sourdough cookies? I wonder whether I would like them or find the sourness weird 🙂
I made these cookies yesterday, so I have an update! My sourdough starter is not particularly sour yet (which I think is a good thing!) so we didn’t taste anything weird in the cookies. They did have a more cake like consistency. We liked them!
just about opened all the tabs that you have open in your internet browser. HAH! Thanks for always including links that are somehow exactly what I need in my life. and that painting!! so gorgeous. xxo
Oh good! So happy to hear that they’re helpful for someone else too.
P.S. Did you get my reply to your email? I’m having trouble with my email actually getting to the recipient, which is super frustrating and makes me look so rude, ha!
I love the picture of your front porch. So dreamy for a good book and a cup of tea.
I also love the quote you shared!
It’s so exciting to watch your farm taking off- the animals, the gardening… it’s all so fun!!!
Wish you lived closer so we could rock and chat on the porch!