June This And That

1.) Man, I keep forgetting to ask if you saw the videos from the 50th Reunion of the Little House on the Prairie tv show in Simi Valley. So did you?  ヅ

During that March weekend, I watched the videos while attendees uploaded them. Fun stuff which brought back many memories.

A few favorites to get you started are here. And here. And here.

2.) Did you know you can use castor oil as a before bedtime facial moisturizer? This was recommended by Homestead Tessie and I really like the results.

3.) Been meaning to show you one of my oldest binders, one from back in my collage-making days. I like the way this cover page turned out:

4.) I'm rereading An Enemy Called Average and if you're feeling stuck these crazy days? I highly recommend it. Always I find it hard to sit still while reading this book! I want to jump up and be excellent, instead.

You can read this, free, at Open Library.

Speaking of Open Library, whenever I discover 'books with potential' there, I click on the 'currently reading' button. That way they remain on my personal list and I don't forget to later try reading them.

I seriously love Open Library, partly because of my desire for expensive funky, vintage books. There, I can read them, free, sometimes choosing to buy them elsewhere only if it's a book I'll read many times over.

5.) What I've also forgotten? To show you my new dining room curtains and tablecloth. The old curtains were getting on my nerves: too bright, too cheap thin-looking. I still loved the tablecloth my friend, Anne, gave me, but it clashed with the new curtains so now it remains a 'petticoat' (along with another one) beneath the new tablecloth.

Someday I'll share not-so-dark photos of each, but for now, for an idea--

(Got the curtains, free, with credit card reward points.) 

Because I want our main level to declare 'we love Autumn' I've added more harvest gold lately for balance. And love the way things are turning out.

6.) Some movies we've enjoyed lately:

Arthur The King (starts slow, gets better)

The Boys In The Boat (same)

Living (very, very slow, but good)

I Can

And we finished the Chips episodes which, honestly, were comfort tv for me these past 3 months. We're actually now watching a few over again. ('Free' via Prime/Freevee.)

7.) I never tire of stories where you know an angel was involved:

8.) The books I've finished reading so far in June:

A Widow's Walk, Off-Grid to Self-Reliance by Annie Dodds

How To Age Without Getting Old by Joyce Meyer

The Wind Blows Free by Loula Grace Erdman

The Wide Horizon by Loula Grace Erdman

Mystery in Longfellow Square by Mary C. Jane

The Good Land by Loula Grace Erdman

Eat the Cookie .. Buy the Shoes by Joyce Meyer

Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own by Erma Bombeck

Come Be My Love by Lavinia R. Davis

(And I'm nearly finished with A Kind of Paradise by Amy Rebecca Tan)

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9.)  If you enjoy dollhouses and dioramas you may love this as much as I did!

Here's a Minnesota couple who are choosing a different style of retirement. Interesting!

Embracing a New Definintion of Luxury

If you love antiques in old houses you'll probably appreciate this tour of the Gertrude Smith House.

10.) Truth!

Therefore, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord, your labor is not in vain.

---1 Corinthians 15:58.

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Please remember: My posts are always about more than they appear to be. 

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 "For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ... Matthew 6:14,15