Grateful Friday
| October 27, 2006 | Posted by nancy under FAMILY |
We are finally having some nice fall weather again. We’ve been outdoors alot playing and enjoying some much needed cooler weather; especially for me the pregnant one. I thought I would share some things I’m grateful for these days:
- living in the country
- a hand-stitched quilt made by someone else with that worn in used look
- chickens to chase
- campfires during the day
- baking cookies and then seeing them in the jar looking all yummy and homemade (update: eating them of course)
- fall weather
- a completed project
- lists
- an organized junk drawer
- living close to family
- healthy boys with great imaginations
- a little baby girl on the way
Here is proof I can’t bake bread from scratch. I can make alot of things, which I do share on this blog often. But, bread baking is not one of those skills I have mastered. Not sure I will ever get it! This was supposed to be a hearty oatmeal bread. Instead, it was a hard oatmeal loaf.
Beautifully put, those are wonderful things to be grateful for. Not to worry Nancy, I have yet to succeed at baking bread with a bread machine…which is suppose to make it easy.
Today I treated myself to a little b-day gift – the November issue of Martha Stewart Living & flipping through some of the projects I immediately thought of you & all the neat projects you’ve shared on your blog. By the way…if you don’t have that issue yet, its worth a peak – real neat wool sweater projects (recycling the wool fabric)…of course, I imagine there’s not a huge surplus of wool sweaters down in Florida, but you’d enjoy the projects!
I love your list. I will think all day today of the things I am grateful for and post them on my blog as well. One of the most wonderful things we can cultivate is a grateful heart toward the One who gives us all things to enjoy.
I can bake bread, but I cannot sew…except for buttons on clothes. I am going to search out the recipe for a sourdough starter that I use, for you. The bread is easy and delicious…lots easier than yeast bread. Love you!
I found a starter recipe that sounds like mine. I am emailing it to you as it would take up too much room here. I never actually had to “start” from the beginning as I got mine from Aunt Lois. I will email the starter recipe with instructions plus the recipe for the bread. It is not as much work as it sounds like. The teacher’s in my building are making it now and love it.
Love you.