How is your handwriting? After so many hours at the computer keyboard, I have to admit my handwriting is not as good as it once was. I’ll have to work on that.
A lot of children are not taught to write by hand any more. They only learn to print or to use keyboards. I think it’s a shame. How will they figure out our history if they can’t read handwriting?
A little bit of patience, and the hardest task is done; a little bit of cheerfulness is brighter than the sun.
A little bit of courage and the burden lighter grows; a little bit of sacrifice and the stream of friendship flows.
A little bit of happiness and off goes black despair; a little bit of kindness will soothe a troubling care.
A little bit of thoughtfulness will ease another’s pain; a little bit of giving will help him rise again.
A little bit of sympathy, a little bit of love, will banish clouds of darkness and set the sun above.
A little bit of humour, a little bit of song, these are the best of tonics when everything seems wrong.
–from Homespun, by Wilhelmina Stitch
Cruising down the river in the Adventureland Park. Some of the scenarios made me wonder if this really was a park designed for children. 🙂 More than a little scary, also funny, like the people who have climbed the tree to escape the rhinoceros. But don’t those snakes look real?
I made a big batch of squash soup today. It is just cooling now so I can put it in containers and freeze it.
Two years ago, I bought three acorn squash plants from a local market. However, when the squash appeared, they weren’t acorn squash. Last year I bought plants from a roadside stand along a country road. But when the squash appeared, they weren’t acorn squash. This year I bought three plants from a garden shop. Thankfully, they turned out to be acorn squash. I have a ton of them.
You wonder why I insist on acorn and don’t use a different squash for the soup. But the acorn squash has it’s own flavour. The recipe I use is from the Butchart Gardens website and everyone who eats it loves it.
What did you get from your garden this year?
The new buds on the branches of the fir trees are bright green this year. That’s not always the case, but it has been a slow spring, still very cool. It is 6 to 8 C degrees/ 43 F in the morning, rising seldom past 10 C/ 50 F in the afternoon. All the colours seem more vibrant.
Even the azaleas are stunning in their intensity. I don’t know if it is the cool weather or what is affecting it.
What is it like where you are?
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