Summer Bouquet on the woodstove

What a beautiful evening it was last night with the near full moon and some big puffy clouds floating around.  The neighbors invited us over for a campfire and some-mores.  Also our neighbor up the street.  We sat and visited, laughed and toasted a few marshmallows.  It was just cool enough so the fire was a welcome radiance of warmth.

This was a fine end to a great day.  A good friend from our early school days phoned in the morning hoping to find me home and came down from a few miles away to have lunch and spend some time catching up on things.  How precious our friends are !   The weather was so perfect that we decided to have our lunch out on the patio, it is usually kinda warm there at noontime, but today it was just right. Also a great chance to pawn off some more pole beans !  The little cherry tomatoes are flourishing too but they go pretty fast as they are so sweet and good.

I even got around to sewing on a quilt I am making and putting a 'sleeve' on another one so it can be displayed as a wall hanging.  Even the mailman was good to me today!  Brought a newly published book written by my husband's grand niece who is not even 20 yrs. old yet!  It is going to be a good story if the rest of the book reads like the first chapter which I found time to read while supper was cooking.  She is a Scottish history buff and writes her stories around old Scotland.

And today we are meeting the cousins for lunch at a new restaurant in town before they leave to return to North Carolina.  Just now the Harvest Fly is singing his long drawn out song and a couple crickets are chirping.  Oh, yeah... there ARE more pole beans to be picked !  So life here 'in the sticks', is full and very rewarding this summer.  I am praising God for his great goodness to us.  Don't forget to stop and just enjoy your day wherever you may be.