March 9, 2009

• The Simple Woman’s Daybook Monday 9 March 2009

   

  Outside my window……rain!!!!! It is raining so hard that it is difficult to see anything out there.  And it has been raining like this since Saturday evening.  When we went to Mass yesterday morning we had to take a detour because the road was closed due to flooding.

  I am thinking……maybe my husband needs to build us an ark.  Maybe not, we have a deep valley beside our house, it has to fill up before we are in any real danger of flooding.  The pond is running over and the creek is out of its banks already. 

  From the schoolroom……bet you can’t guess….Matthew and Brett are studying Spanish then they will be dissecting a sheep’s brain for Biology.  This is the reason that they wanted to do Biology in the first place.

  I am thankful for……..a wonderful son who took pity on his stiff mother this morning and helped with the housework before we left for Mass.  It was nice to come home and know that the house was done.

  From the kitchen…….leftovers for lunch.  Pork steaks for supper.  Jason is home for the week and is doing some work on the house, he will be hungry.

  I am wearing……..jeans, burgundy long-sleeved top with a grey sweater over it and slippers.

  I am reading…..still working on The Valiant Woman.

  I am hoping…….that the rain lets up so that some work can be done outside this week.  There is a list.

  I am creating…….some reuseable word search and maze books for a friend’s children.

  I am hearing……..Spanish being spoken and the clock ticking in my sewing room.

  Around the house……there is an air of expectancy while Jason is gone to Lowes to get the materials to enlarge the pad under the wood stove.

  One of my favorite things…….thinking about spring coming and making lists of things to do and then actually seeing them come to fruition.

  A few plans for the rest of the week……the usual classes and holy hours along with seeing to it that Jason is provided for so that he can get the work done.  Keeping up with the laundry and attacking my own list of things to do that spring prompts me to do.

  Here is a picture thought that I am sharing with you……

  

  The pipe has been disconnected and the stove has been removed.  The diningroom stands in waiting for Jason to start making the pad larger that the stove stands on.  Our homeowner’s insurance requires that the pad be made bigger and that there be stone underneath the cleanout for the pipe and that the stove stand even farther from the wall even though the wall is covered with cement board and has a 6-inch air space between the cement board and the wall board.  Who are we to say that it isn’t safe the way it is.  It has been that way for about 10 years.  Oh well.

   

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