Hello There. . .

Finally! I have found some time to sit down and write, once again. I am perched on a chair in the kitchen with a wonderful, cool breeze breathing down my neck. It is so nice to have the windows open even if it isn't yet that warm. I smell the beauteous aroma of *many* things being baked and cooked just a couple yards away in the hot oven. Yesterday, my mother and I and our dear neighbor, as well, went to Watkins Mill State Park where there was a special event called "Spring on the Farm." We got to tour the well-preserved house of Waltus Watkins along with the wonderful Woolen Mill with all of the original machines still there. It was wonderful to see everything. We spent a fun five hours here yesterday. We also explored the old church and one room schoolhouse. Here are many, many pictures of our wonderful day. Be prepared. :o) Settle down, make yourself comfortable, come along on this journey with me.

Rag Doll Making



Rope Making



 

It was a fantastic day! The only thing we had to pay for was the tour of the Woolen Mill which was well worth the three dollars per person. We brought home rag dolls, wooden tops, rope, flattened pennies (for my collection), seed balls (the seeds were for wildflowers!), and happiness. :o) Along with many pictures, as you have seen. I hope you enjoyed the pictures just as much as we enjoyed going.

 

 

"A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me." So some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and, 'because I am going to the Father'?" So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about." Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'? Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her house has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you."

                                                                           ~ John 16:16-22 ~

Currently I watched after finishing the wonderful book, Jane Eyre :

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
                                                                ~ Jane Eyre ~