"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down."
-T.S. Eliot
"People have to know what relaxes them, and not feel guilty about using a piece of time when it is necessary for them, or when they do not use it exactly as somebody else would."
-Edith Schaeffer
I have been outside more this week because of the lovely spring-like weather...before the cold arrives again this weekend. It is that time of "spring tickling".
Anyway, just like Andrea I have been pruning back bushes in my yard, especially the hydrangea and butterfly bushes. My Lenton Roses are blooming, fuchsia and white lovelies.
Also, since I am such of fan of healthy eating, I am enjoying Andrea's food buying reports on her blog.
Home front News:
*I finished sewing Breanna's dress. Good thing since the dance is this Saturday night.
*I am beginning my thorough "spring" cleaning of room by room. Usually this will take me several weeks to complete. Fun fact, I enjoy housecleaning. But these days of all the children being out of the home I now do all housecleaning alone, especially the deeper cleanings, therefore, I take my time and do not stress it.
*My own book reading challenge of 2025 has kept me reading at random times during the day. David Copperfield is a wonderful novel; I know why Dickens deemed it "his favorite child" and "best" of his novels. I am also reading ABC Murders by Agatha Christie and as my local library only had the large print version, I believe I might be enjoying reading this mystery even more so!
