Gorgeous

The rain is gone and it is gorgeous here just like 
Melissa wrote yesterday:

Hope all is well in your world.  If you're on the east coast, you should be getting this wonderful breeze in a day or so.  Enjoy.


I am on the East Coast.
SO glad to get  heads up from Tenn!


The ground is still soggy.
Perfect for  digging in the garden soil.
Planting cool weather veggies.
My favorite kind~ veggies who love cool weather. 


This is not my garden but there are similarities.
I am not planting this much.  I do have marigolds 
still basking in the sun. May have to do some design 
work with my rows!

Catching up

Catching up since last week:

~got caught up with reading for my class and history
~heard several chancellors and presidents of seminaries 
on friday. 
~ was thrilled to hear these  theologians who are as Derek Thomas said are infectuous for theology! 

~Did hear and catch up with  George Grant  at the above Inauguration, who will be a Ligonier
Conference in Florida this weekend. Surprised by God is the theme. This looks good:

Saturday, September 22 2012 : 9:00 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.

Inklings of Wonder This talk will explore the great British Christian tradition of defending the permanent things, and how this in turn has spawned God-honoring literature that explores and recovers wonder as the only appropriate response to His glory. ( George Grant)

wish I was doing this..........

We started this book during lunch and I wanted to go.
Go across America as Autumn starts. To travel in a single season ~~ this most colorful season. 

Teale paints the landscape , even the sounds, so you can see and hear. 

I am familar with the part of the country Teale and his wife start from: New England but not this particular island:

Monomay Island, Mass

It is right below Nantucket.

" broken pieces of summer can be found scattered into the shortening days of fall.  Only on calendars and in almanacs are the lines of division sharply defined."

Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge shore

celebrating Autumn

My first Pumpkin Spice latte yesterday. 
Cool air at last as Autumn is booting out the heat.

Pool closed today. (It has leaks and they don't make the liner any more. Not sure what will be next summer)
(as my oldest says: first world problem. )

My students are  writing Current Event blogs this year.
Their personalities shine in the decor and the articles they find note worthy. Wouldn't our high school years have been so different with this machine instead of typewriters?!!!
( I hated typing class! I did fine but no extraordinary speed. I thought: what a boring job this would be! Who would want to be a secretary?!)


Trying to come up with a poet for the siblings of my class  to study this semester. Not sure why noone is making me sing yet. 

Update: kitchen walls almost done with new paint. Slow process now that school has started.

DNC stories still trickle in as this week starts. It is over. A 
sigh of relief is over our household and my son's! 

a few days without a computer

When the fan dies in your computer, it could melt the whole insides. Mine died Tuesday. Now on a new computer after always checking emails on other computers  but  I was  not in the blog world or FB or checking news. We did watch the DNC and RNC ....hmmmm.............. the first was in my city. Today I took a friend to the airport. The radio said to get there 3 hours early! I got her there 2 and a half. No problems. I was impressed how organized the traffic and signs were. She got to her gate in 30 minutes.

 Quieter now. Protesters should be gone too. The one that impressed me the most was a priest leading the way on the main street with 100 prolifers behind him praying. Thanks for praying for our city this week!

And of course this...

Downton Abbey Season 3:

have this book out from the library now:

 

The beginning........

I am listening to BBC-Radio  3 with Eric Whitacre while tying up ends for the beginning of Humanities Class tomorrow. 
This year Eric fits right in ~ Modernity: 1800's to the present.
My daughter's choir will be singing SLEEP this year:

Commonplace journals were started with quotes from the Jane Austen books they picked to read. Summer reading.
Notes from a Tilt A Whirl by ND Wilson is our slow read throughout the semester. It is to get us ready for Chesterton's Orthodoxy next semester. Here Eric Metaxas on both here ( 3 mins) .  Our next novel is A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. It was the best of times , it was the worst of times......This 200th year anniversary of Dickens will be fun! It was back in Feb., then the Queens Jubilee , then the Olympics. The Brits have had quite a year of celebrations! 
 I think about  our whole country celebrating our leader like they did the Queen. Little trickles of their  celebration even arrived at my house! ( tea , napkin, and a kitchen towel of the Jubilee)

The week also begins a discussion group of Vol. 6 of Charlotte Mason's volumes. Vol 6 and a stack of books ~~ to share at the meetings. A stack of books of a favorite author: now doesn't that sound fun! Tell you who after Thursday!


So many movies coming out this year of this time period: The Hobbit, Les Miserable, Anna Karenina, what else?