Wednesday the 5th: new chores

 *I've added chopping some suckers off our dead tree stumps and piling them up every day. Last night I hung up the hammock on two hooks I found.

*The three week cycle of cleaning rooms is going well, but I probably need to add running over the main room floor every Saturday and going over the kitchen counters a few times a week.

*Bread making is still going well; today I'm trying a rustic Italian loaf we can use tomorrow for bruschetta. Tonight will be apricot stir fry.

*Well, it's off to fold laundry! 

Tuesday the 4th: Selling and waiting

 *We spent a lot of time out of the house while the house was showing, but had less offers than expected based on the amount of showings. We still came through just fine in the end.

*Does anyone else send their young adult comic strips that seem appropriate? 

 

 

Monday the 3rd: Saint of the Week

 *Tomorrow is the memorial for St. John Vianney. From my saints doc:

Dates:  August 4

                1786-8/4/1859

Place:  Born in Dardilly, France; died in Ars, France

Importance:  shows impact of one good priest on a parish; difficulty in studies

Name means:  God is gracious

Symbol/Food:  lamb cake

Patron:  parish priests, confessors

Prayer/Reading:  Matthew 9:35-10:1

Quotes:  I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the Cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.
You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.
We must always choose the most perfect. Two good works present themselves to be done, one in favour of a person we love, the other in favour of a person who has done us some harm. Well, we must give preference to the latter.
We should consider those moments spent before the Blessed Sacrament as the happiest of our lives.

Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there; if you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames.  But gather these straws into a bundle and light them and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

 Picture from https://www.flickr.com/photos/41583834@N03/4441227402/lightbox/?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic

 

 

Wednesday the 29th: setting routines

 *So far we've settled in well, keeping in the same laundry and grocery routines; right now the Son has Wednesdays off, so shopping for groceries on that day has worked out well.

*We have a three week routine for keeping all the rooms dusted and swept; it's possible we'll need to shorten that down to a two week schedule but for the moment it's working.

*We voted today and got a shipment of CD holders from UPS, so those settling chores are continuing.

*Left for the week is building a bookshelf for the husband and oiling the new cutting board. That's good because I need to go to my great aunt's funeral on Friday out of state, so I should still be able to get everything done. 

Tuesday the 28th: Pots and cleaning

 *I might have already posted these pictures when we were prepping the house, but all of these plants have survived and been replanted at my new house so far. Some are better than others but I'm happy to have all of them with me. The begonia in particular is still going strong!

 

 

Monday the 27th: Saint of the Week

 Wednesday is now the memorial for Sts. Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, but until recently it was just St. Martha. Here's her information from my saints document: 

Dates:  July 29; died c.80    

                Place:  Israel

                Importance: sister of Lazarus (raised from the dead), symbol of the active life

                Food/Symbol:  kiddie crescents, keys or a ship. Broom, ladle

                Patron:  cooks

                Quotes:  Lk. 10:41-42, Jn. 11:17-27

“Martha and Mary were sisters, related not only by blood but also by religious aspirations. They stayed close to our Lord and both served him harmoniously when he was among them. Martha welcomed him as travelers are welcomed. But in her case, the maidservant received her Lord, the creature her Creator, to serve him bodily food while she was to be fed by the Spirit.

“No one of you should say, ‘Blessed are they who have deserved to receive Christ into their homes!’ Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh. He did not in fact take this privilege from you. As he says, ‘Whatever you have done to the least of my brothers, you did to me.’ --- from a sermon by Saint Augustine

(St. Martha from the Isabella Breviary 1497, found at https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=79) 

 

 

Friday the 24th: Six Flags

 I pretty much hate roller coasters but I love my students, so when they asked me to go on monsters with them I went. It was terrifying and I would definitely not choose it on my own.