What We're Reading

Well, what I'm reading anyway.

I'd like a round of applause sent my way because I (finally!) finished Les Miserables. Unabridged. 1232 pages.  I have dozens of page corners turned down telling me to come back and take note of something powerful. Some pages have a fold on both sides. 

Free-Range Kids- refreshing and hilarious. I'd like to distribute copies to a few folks.

Daring Greatly- Our book club pick. It's really thought-provoking so far. 

p.29 "The greatest casualties of a scarcity culture are our willingness to own our vulnerabilities and our abilities to engage with the world from a place of worthiness." 

 or 

p.177 "We can't give people what we don't have. Who we are matters immeasurably more then what we know or who we want to be."

Have you seen her TED talks?

What are you reading?

A Package Full of Love Letters.

I have a package full of letters on my desk. 

Some handwritten letters (neatly folded), inspirational quotes (clipped and saved) and a notebook of individual entries. (Yes, a notebook).

The first one is dated January 27, 2013 and reads like a conversation with an old friend.

Transported across the provinces I am seeped in deep thoughts, honest questioning and assisted introspection. A little peek into the life of a kindred soul I miss so much.
Hardly able to keep my eyes on the sentence before I'm skipping to the next one, ravenously consuming her ponderings and kind, kind words.


xo.

 

(Photo by E)

ow did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
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Freakin' Eh.

 This is it, exactly.

 Why do you waste your life? Dance, dance, dance.

Tell me.

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater

Instead of our regular Saturday jobs getting done on Saturday, we spent the morning carving and painting these pumpkins.  Then we entered them in the local horticultural society contest.

It was entertaining to see the forty or so entries, as we looked around after the judging. 
There was a pumpkin "family'", a pumpkin "snowman", pumpkins painted to be minions, I could go on.

I entered a pumpkin we grew in our garden into the "largest pumpkin" category.  As I struggled to carry the 40-50lb pumpkin into the gymnasium, I passed two absolutely gigantic pumpkins on a trailer, weighing hundreds of pounds each. 

How does one grow such pumpkins?  What purpose do they have other then winning contests?  Imagine cutting it up for pumpkin pies!

Remember Almanzo in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book "Farmer Boy"?  He fed his winning pumpkin milk through a slit in it's vine while growing it and had tremendous results.  Mmmm, maybe we could try that next year!

Do you prefer the classic jack o' lantern carving or the new fangled ?

Can you match the carver to the pumpkin?

Check your Flight Log

No, the sky is not full of aliens or meteors. That is dust on my sensor. Gross! I blame the beach. I took it to the doctor last weekend, so next flight should see clear skies!


A couple weeks ago, these 3 had the awesome opportunity to spend part of the afternoon flying over the city with a family friend............ who happens to have his commercial pilots license. 

 What a charmed life!