1) My bread machine arrived on Wednesday! It came late in the day so I wasn’t able to get supplies until yesterday which means baking will commence later on today. I already have an order for white bread in from a co-worker and will make a sourdough starter in the morning!
2) Rain has been our companion for about the last week (with the exception of yesterday) and boy did we need it, although that much at one time was kind of tough, hey, I can’t complain too much. No flooding and it is drought relief.
3) I am so excited for our vacation in June! I did have to make one minor adjustment. I originally booked for Father’s Day weekend, but Jeff has 2 job fairs that weekend, so we decided to have our own Father’s Day weekend. We are so excited to be going to one of our favorite places in the whole world, that happens to be just a couple of hours from home!
4) Beach Days are here! Wednesday during one of the breaks in the rain, Jeff got to take the boys to the beach. Since Will was born last May, he has not ever really gotten to experience the beach at all. He was enthralled taking it all in as a standing and walking little person.
5) Although our tomatoes still have a way to go, Jeff, knowing I am an impatient wife about food, went and got some vine-ripened ones so I can have a few sandwiches and salads until ours are more in. We will have a green tomato to fry up this weekend though!
6) Joey got to be our green bean collector this week. We had a ton ripen up and he was very proud to help Daddy snap them off the plant and put them in the big bag. Will is turning into a veggie eater and loves our garden veggies. He is also our first to love black-eye-peas. A staple for Mama and Daddy not embraced by our other two kids!
7) I just finished reading this week Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. While a few characters and a very few events are depicted in the film by the same name, it is largely different from the film with the differences becoming apparent in the first two pages. However, I loved toward the end how Mayes began to view and fall in love with the Church. Especially dear to my heart was the mention of my confirmation saint Juliana (or in Italian Giuliana) Falconieri who rebelled when her parents wanted her to marry by starting her own religious order and who requested on her death-bed that the Host be placed upon her chest. When it was, it was absorbed into her heart. This book also reminded me we need a Saint Lorenzo statue for our kitchen. Lorenzo is the patron saint of cooks/chefs/ bakers who famously, while being burned on a rack, told his persecutors to turn him over, he was done on that side. Jeff always laughs at that story and apologizes saying, he knows it’s not funny, but thinks if it didn’t turn those persecuting Lorenzo into believers, nothing would!
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Fun to find your comment on my blog so quickly after I posted. I love fresh garden veggies. Good luck nurtuing a wonderful crop!
I was curious about the book Under the Tuscan Sun but the movie upset me so much I never picked it up. Are the objectionable parts of the movie in the book? I love Italy so much and now you’ve reignited my interest in the book but I’m still a little concerned about those aspects of the film I found objectionable….like fornication followed by joyous celebration at the image of the BVM.
Most of those things were completely fictionalized. Ed, the man she meets at the end of the movie, she is already married to and they buy the home as a summer house. Her previous marriage did end in an unexpected divorce but there is no Sandra Oh character, no Chiara and Pawel storyline. There are Polish workers who do put Polonia on her wall, but that was the closest storyline to follow from the movie and it was still pretty far. Whoever optioned the book for the movie, evidentally had it in the contract that they would take the title, the house name, the setting and her name and run wild with it.
Ah ok. Thanks. Now I’ll look into getting it. I hate when they do things like that to books. I mean, that movie made me NOT want to read the book. Such a shame!
Thanks for stopping by the blog and for the weaning advice! It does help! I have a about a month before his first, but am hoping that I can just start introducing milk and letting him lost interest in me. Great idea about having hubby take over feeding!
I am SO jealous of your garden. Tomatoes! YUM! I was just wishing for tomato plants and a yard and a garden today. Our little balcony just doesn’t cut it. I dream of having so many tomato plants that I can can my own sauce and have tomatoes for salads to boot!