Good Morning! It Feels Like Saturday

 Good morning, friends!  It has been a busy couple of weeks.  My grandson is volunteering his time to a local piano competition and we are his transportation to the event.  So, since the first week of June we have been driving him to the venues.  It has been nice spending some one on one time with him and I think he has been enjoying himself even though his duties include carrying lots of boxes of programs and souvenir items. 

In addition to chauffeur duty, I have been doing lots of reading and needlework.  I just finished the last book in the Mitford series by Jan Karon.  I started these books years ago when they first came out — I received the first three in a box set for Christmas.  They were purchased from BookStop which tells you how long ago it was!  Last night I finished #14 — “To Be Where You Are”.  It took me awhile but I didn’t want to rush through, I wanted to enjoy it because it is rumored to be Karon’s final book in the series.  I loved how it ended — it closed NO doors and only opened up a way to future books.  Loved it!

I have also been working on some needlework pics for Bean’s birthday.  She is very much into the Marvel movies — apparently a “thing” amongst her school chums.  So, I have purchased a gift but I discovered a magazine at Target all about Marvel and I have done a couple of little cross stitch pieces — one of baby Spider-Man and one of Thor and Loki.  The Thor and Loki is finished but not framed, the baby Spider Man is giving me grief because I really don’t like stitching in black but it is getting there.  Both are going to be simply framed in hoops with ribbon hangers because I don’t think this is going to be a permanent part of her decor. Actually, I am surprised she is still “into” it — I figured she would have lost interest long before I finished.  I will post photos when I am done framing.  

Now, I have to find a new book to read.  I have bought a couple that are non-fiction — ‘Little White Houses —How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America”.  I am interested in this book because I grew up in a neighborhood of those little white houses which were, literally, white, in a neighborhood that was geared to be white also.  Of course, at the time, I wasn’t aware of this, I just thought we lived in these little square houses, white asbestos shingles and various colored roofs and matching shutters.  But, apparently there was a deeper meaning and I am learning about that now.  It is rather dry reading though, I will say.  My daughter is reading a book for her certification course titled “The Hemminges  of Monticello”.  Also, non fiction but apparently very engaging.  It will arrive today and I will start of it.  Unfortunately I bought the physical book and not the kindle edition so I won’t be reading it in bed — it is a chunkster.  But, I am looking forward to it as well.  I had previously read another book about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings and it was also very interesting.  The thing about this book that my daughter is reading is there is mention of several people bearing the surname “Cocke”.  I am a Cocke descendant and I believe the people in this book are cousins somewhere down the line which means it is going to take me down the genealogical rabbit hole once again.

So, yes, that is what I have been up to.  It is hot as hades here in Texas and now we live in fear of our power grid going down.  I am beginning to believe that politicians want us to live in fear so they create all these fearful things to surround us with doubt and discomfort.  There was another shooting in our area but thankfully the only one that was injured was the shooter.  I certainly hope some changes are made soon.  This can’t go on.  

Well, have a wonderful Wednesday! Stay cool and safe!