Adventures in housewifery: Cooking, crafting, and not a lot of cleaning
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Gardening is cheaper than therapy, and you get tomatoes.” – Unknown
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” -Sigmund Freud
“Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.” – Helen Mirren
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it” —Mark Twain
“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.” – Thomas Aquinas
“You know what I’m sick of? Using my brain. All day long it’s people and words and stress and meetings and books that you don’t remember you’re not really into until you open them on the train home and compromise and sometimes I just want to look at a picture of a dress. Followed by a picture of some cupcakes. And then a kitten.”- Robyn Wilder
“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.” – Seneca
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― George Gordon Byron
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare
“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals remind us of nature’s impossibly varied schemes for survival, all the strategies that species rely upon for courtship and mating and protecting the young and establishing dominance and hunting for something to eat and avoiding being eaten. On a good day, zoos shake people into recognizing the manifold possibilities of existence, what it’s like to walk across the Earth, or swim in its oceans of fly above its forests—even though most animals on display will never have the chance to do any of those things again, at least not in the wild.”
― Thomas French, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
I thought that I had posted a picture of my birthday rose, but it was apparently eaten by the interwebs. The featured picture this time should be it. My poor Dad was very sad not to have seen it. Sorry Dad!
We did some more gardening prep today. Fancy was extremely excited to help us dig and is currently passed out next to me, simply exhausted by all the smells. Here’s some gardening quotes to go along with our projects.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
— Carl Linnaeus
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
“I’ll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.”
― E.V. Fairfall
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
― Anna Quindlen
“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
― Dr. Seuss
“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
The Husband is an excellent and took me to a book sale for my birthday (although some of these are for him.) 🙂 I’m definitely keeping him. And also getting three new bookcases… Because I don’t have too many books, just not enough bookshelves. 😉
“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.”
—Gilda Radner
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
—Roger Caras (photographer and writer)
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
― J.K. Rowling
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Friendship,” said Christopher Robin, “is a very comforting thing to have.”
― A.A. Milne
