Taking a Break

 

Weekly Musings of the 27th

 This will probably be a short blog as it was one of those super quiet weeks that come with both winter and retirement.  Sure we ran our usual errands and we did take a trip to the reserve to fill up Sparky who is running just fine now and we didn't get a new battery yet.  Hubby feels that it is only when it gets below 20 that Sparky won't start but so far the temperatures have been well above that.

I finished my bible books summary notebook and did add those books that are treasured in our Catholic bible.  It really made me focus on how to summarize the two books of Maccabees which has so much going on in it that it was a huge challenge to just pick out key points.  Tobit, Judith, Sirach, Wisdom and Baruch all needed to be done as well.  After I had them and more in my Pinterest bible folder I had to sort out all the extra that I had collected without meaning to.  I had a 100 pins in what should have had 73 pins.  Once I weeded out the double and triples I had 72... great... who was missing, well that was Romans, found it and tucked it in my folder.  I will say one thing that all this going back and forth, printing and pasting and the like made me know the names of the books in the bible way more than I had ever in my life.  Which of course is wonderful to learn new things as we get older, actually important to never stop learning.  

Oh, I have to share with you a new discovery on YouTube, you may or may not have discovered yourself but if you like Agatha Christie and the like there is a great one to check out - Warm Pages

The YouTube ones are anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours but I also found Warm Pages on Spotify too.  Those are longer but of course, you can take your time.  So far I have found on YouTube Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence as well as Sherlock Holmes on Warm Pages.  So if you like listening while you are doing something else, this is a really fun find.  

Anyway, quiet week and wishing you a lovely weekend. 

 

Weekly Musings of the 20th

 Well, here we are in Lent already.  Feels like the Christmas season just finished but we were in Ordinary times so...

Anyway, such a warm start this week and I got out for walks in the sunshine each day knowing that freezing rain was coming soon.  

Ash Wednesday was suppose to be the day and school boards cancelled buses ahead of time, which ended up being silly in our area as no freezing rain came... yet. 

But I am getting ahead of myself with all of this.  On Valentine's Day we stayed home and together we made the meal and dessert.  This was a big deal because I learned from my mother to have no help in the kitchen and to do it all yourself.  I made myself think differently and saw that she missed out on a lot of fun and friendship because hubby and I had a lot of fun together in the kitchen.

First we made our favourite lemon meringue pie and both of us were pleased how well it turned out.

After we made the lasagna that we both enjoy too. 

 No wine in that glass, hubby and I enjoy the non-alcoholic cider from the Apple Place.  This one was cranberry apple.  Anyway, I have to remember to pause as through this week hubby asked if he could help making the supper and I answered the default - no, I am good.  But remembering how much fun we both had on Valentine's Day I need to pause and say yes more often. 

It is amazing how little prayers are answered.  During the day I prayed that the freezing rain would hold off until after we returned from the Ash Wednesday Mass in the evening and we had just got home and changed after and there was a flash of lightening and then the fast downpour of freezing rain.  The parking lot and cars were within 10 minutes completely covered with ice.  I said - thank you in my heart as the lightening continued for nearly an hour.  

Now my favourite hobby is that I make books, I have done so with my favourite magazines in my teens and on and off it has continued.  Most of those created books stay around for a time until I don't need the articles or whatever and then they are gone.  This time I saw this picture on Pinterest and an idea came to mind. 

I could make a notebook with these summaries of all the books in the bible.  It would be really handy with my bible in a year study (I am on my 5th year of that) 

Now of course much of these pictures are from the protestant bibles and are missing those others from the Catholic bible.  I know because I did some major searching when I got to the Book of Tobit.  This is a wonderful book with a great deal of information that is important.  Then it hit me, I could make one for those that are missing and put them on Pinterest with these others that I saved.  So, when I got to books that had not been created in these summary forms, I made my own.  Here is my first one.

After creating it I was able to convert it to a jpg file and put it in the folder with the others so that if any one searches like I did they will find mine.  

It is a fun project that I am really enjoying and am looking forward to having this kind of summary sheet on every book in the bible.

It will really help when I am looking for stuff. This is because the depth that I get into now that I am reading the bible for the 5th time has really grown.  I am finding so much in it that relates deeply to today's world.  

Anyway, time to get moving as I need to pick up my prescription that is ready.  I got the notice during the freezing rain and sorry, I don't go out in that ever now that I don't have to.  A few more errands as working on this new notebook has given me an idea for a few more books and I need a new package of notebooks which I get from the Dollar Store. 

If it wasn't for ticks and mosquitoes I would be there. 

Anyway, that is it for me today!

Have a great weekend!