It's good to be busy!

Enjoying the Oriole's orange !

A peaceful, rainy day today.  After a great weekend and a fine week of sunshine and 'just right' weather.

We traveled north of here an hour on Sat. afternoon to visit my sweet friend and meet her husband for the first time.  My daughter and husband were invited as well and the ride was nice as we hadn't been this way for some time.  VT is always so beautiful in any season!! (Well, maybe not so much during a snowstorm unless you are home beside the fire just looking out the window!)   We had a wonderful time, cookout with fresh picked corn on the cob YUM! and played a lawn game that kept us in stitches. Dessert was a fantastic lemon cake with a zippy lemon glaze and a big delicious fruit salad.  Best of all was the great fellowship.  At the end of our evening, we watched a very full, most beautiful harvest moon rise higher and higher as we traveled on home.

This is a busy month around here.  Lots of the towns in our area are celebrating the 250th anniversary of their Town Charters.  SO many things to do.  We have our celebration on this next Sat. with a parade, booths of all kinds, an art and quilt show, chicken bar b q , dance, pie baking contest and a quilt formed by many 8X8 decorated cakes put together on a very large table and as a grand finale..Fireworks.  That's a great lot of activity for a town as small as ours.  I am working on the quilt show and hope I have time to enter the pie contest.  Will have more to say about all this later.

Went to a great concert yesterday afternoon in a neighboring town.  This was a part of their 250th  celebration.  Wonderful music by many of the church choirs there.  Then a song by the combined choirs that rocked the building !!  What a testimony and acknowledgement that God surely is still a big part of the lives of so many in our small towns !!  The grand finale to this concert was an ice cream social where all who couldn't resist were invited to make their own sundae.  Of course I had one!  Didn't even want to resist!

Now I guess I'd better take advantage of this rainy day and do some much needed housework.....inside stuff.. OR maybe read more of my new book.  

"Whatever you can do,

Or dream you can...

Begin it!

Boldness has genius,

Power and magic in it! "

                                      Gothe