Saturday at Home.....

I went to bed on Friday night at 10:30 and did not get up until 11:30 Saturday morning!

Of COURSE, I felt so much better today!

My sweet Louis Dean brought me coffee in bed - a PERFECT way to start a great day!

While HE went off to do a couple of errands, I watered and tended the back yard.

If I water the back in the mornings - or around noon since it's in dappled shade - that means I only have to water the front at night.

Since I enjoyed hanging laundry so much yesterday, I did that again today!

While Louis Dean is a tall big man, he loves flimsy thin towels - and even wants to keep the ones with holes in them!

Being outside - even in the shade - is sweaty business!

I make up fresh infused water each and every morning......

today was thin slices of cucumber and lemon balm.

The Crazy Water no.1 is from Mineral Wells and tastes extra good - plus it is so good FOR you!

I was out there next to the gazebo taking this pic of the wall - with the addition of that cute plaque under the welcome sign that I got at Goodwill this week - when I had visitors come through the French door!

Amber and Logan came to call!

Just the two of them!

When I asked Logan what she wanted for lunch, she said, "How 'bout some grilled cheese?"

It was fun having one on one time! 

I with Logan and I with Amber and Amber with Logan and Amber with me.

I think Amber is wise to do this.

I know I certainly enjoyed their visit!!

Logan is probably the easiest of the quads in many ways.

After lunch I tucked them both into my bed, turned on the window A/C, sound machine and ceiling fan, then shut the door so they could both get a much needed nap!!

Louis Dean came back from his errands ( feed store and grocery store) and he was totally exhausted!

SO I put HIM in bed in the guest room.

With everyone else asleep, I went back to work in the den on my new secretary.

First I used Bri Wax and shined it all up, then I decided what I wanted to put where.

Bibles and hymnals are on the top shelf.

The other two are stuffed tightly with my journals.

I'm filling the desk part with vintage things like the ephemera I've collected over the years.

I have letters from the 1800's and one from the 1700's as well as a whole series from the 30's and 40's. There's one special group of letters I collected all to and from Miss Kathryn Krueger.

She was a school teacher, unmarried, and the letters are the correspondence between her and her aunt.

I'm loving the way it looks!

I intend to gather other antique books from around the house and display them here.

It was fun to pull these letters from a box and out to where I can see them!

This is dated 1882 and is from a farmer/minister to his 'girl.'

It's late and I need to get to bed.

I like to journal at night, at the end of my day.

It helps me to set it all in order - in my mind and in my photos and with my words.

Words are important.

I think of this when I read these old, old letters.

These people have been gone a very long time and yet here are their words, still living on.