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What I am reading right now…
What I did today…
What I saw today…
And then, there was me… and My baby.
This weeks question for our Blog Meme was,
What book would you like to see made into a movie? Describe the cast and if possible, why you chose them.
This is a difficult one as I know my mother did my first choice but the more I thought about it I came up with,
Camellia By Ginny Aiken
The story is about a pregnant widow who runs a boarding house. The youngest of three and her little “Mutley” get wound up in a mystery with the new town Dr. a budhist in desperate need of reformation.
My cast would be;
Camellia – Katherine Heigl
Dr. Stephen – Anthony Howell Matthew McConaughey
Sophie- Kali Rocha How on earth did I geta young girl for her??? Umm… Mia Dillon? (Gods and Generals)
Willie- Michael Gambon James Earl Jones
Myrna- Sophie Thomson
Magnolia- Bridgette Wilson
Lark – Nicole Kidman
Wiggon the policeman-
Louella- Julie Andrews or Helen Mirren
Girl Student- Emmy Rossum (cause I like her 
)
ETA- see what happens when you only watch British movies???
There are many ways we enjoy the first fruits. In this respect it’s our first Fruit enjoying the first fruit of the garden…
One yummy tomato… no, we didn’t really let her eat it..yet.
I found some pictures online that I thought would be a nice reflection to think on. Pictures are worth a thousand words
Yellow rose, for memorial
With small exceptions this is what will usually go on in my household.
5:30-6:30 AM (depending on Emma) wake up, feed the baby and slowly creep out of the comfy bed.
6:30-7:00 Eat breakfast, make husband’s lunch.
7:00-7:30- Get ready to leave for work (hubby) Make bed (me) Drink some water after eating breakfast (Emma)
Now it’s time for Mommy and Daughter devotions. Mainly because I need a bit more time.
Emma has Bible time too.
By this time all of us are usually dressed. Usually we would be going for a walk but this day the wind was going to hard so we contented ourselves inside for 1/2 hour. Not exactly sure what we did but soon enough it was time for Emma’s nap. Down she went.
It was then about 8:30, my time for being in the garden. Today I must transplant some poorly looking tomatoes and weed out some of the garden. The tomatoes will go into the row that the peas were in. We harvested em all and ate every last one of them. Next year we will have many more rows of said peas.
On my way in I just took another picture of this gorgeous plant.
Today I had a few letters to get sent. This lil lap desk was a gift many years ago from my dear mother and father. It has served me faithfully. I often think of a burning candle and a old feather pen and ink. But anyway, I set myself to work.
It is about 9:30 now so I will spend the next hour on the computer. I check email, blog some, check other blogs, check my message boards, check any auctions, check this and that, do some research, chat with my friends. Emma usually will wake up about 10:30-11:30
Then it is time to do some other things. Play time is now. While she will play;
I will be busy sewing….
That there became this;
Usually by noon we are anxiously awaiting Daddy’s daily lunch call. Emma knows the telephone will ring and will light up with smiles when it’s her turn to gurgle to Daddy. Not sure what breathing code they have going between them but I know it’s something special.
The afternoon is pretty much our school time. Yes even 7 month old Emma has her school work to do. Here you see her studying about critters from her Usbourne book. She is such a smart lil thing that usually she completes this within 45 seconds of recieving her work.
Emma REALLY loves her Usbourne book.
Next is her Math. Here she is learning subtraction.
“If Mommy gave you 6 cherios and you eat 4, how many will you have left?”
Here Mommy had to do a few errands and didn’t get back home til about 4:00pm.
Now we also mustn’t forget our music lessons. Here we are teaching her Beethoven’s 5th.
Approval from the pianist Daddy is always a must. Daddy gave the thumbs up!
Dinner!
On a hot summer day we like the cool meals in life. Sandwhiches and Cantelope. Can’t go wrong with that!
Euphemia is enjoying her carrots, beef, and rice
After dinner is our quieting down time. Mommy will do the dishes. Euphemia will “content” herself on the floor, Daddy will do various gardening tasks or in the case of last night work more on the cooler electrical. It is time again for devotionals. Euphemia sits nicely on Daddy’s lap sucking her two fingers, while mommy concentrates on Daddy’s reading while her needle goes up and down on the cloth she holds.
8:30 Emma goes down for the night. I am making apple butter tonight as we are running low. I so enjoy the smell of apple and cinnamon cooking. IN the morning the fresh smell helps us get up better. And tomorrow we will have toast and fresh apple butter.
Compost!
mmmm, can you smell it now?
And then we retire. I write a bit in my journal. Hubby will read another few pages from his Louis L’ amour Novel and we will head off to sleep….
When a “country night” is mentioned I think of a swaying porch swing, crickets and frogs singing, full moons, a sky so black that the stars seem bigger and brighter than ever. Well, here in our little area we experiance all that in the day. Well, the frog and cricket songs anyway. AS I type this my windows are open to let the summer breeze come in. I have no curtain fluttering in the wind because soon that breeze will turn into a dust devil. I hear the crickets chirping all the time all day here. Our neighbor has some very large and very full Oleander bushes (BLECH!) that seems to grow not only bush wise but bug wise. We have thousands of cockroaches, and other such things. But its the cricket songs that remind me of the Country LIfe dream.
The other night it was a beautiful cool evening. So my husband and I pulled out the old kitchen chairs and put them on the front porch and talked like we did back in the courtin’ days. We talked about the life we dreamed of (real farm!) the “pets” we someday would have (chickens, goats and horses) and all that. The crickets sang (or scoffed at) for us that night too. It was not long before the child emerged from my husband when I pointed a frog not to far away. With a leap (like the frog) he was after it. I took his picture
That’s no frog! That’s a Horney Toad! He must have been tryin’ to court Molly Mouse. For those of you that are a little confused, type in “Froggie went a courtin’” on google search. Sung only by the Brothers Four. The best group out there. And they are still living! Imagine that!
Tomorrow I plan to post about a day in the life of sodbusters…Chas blog (see right hand side) has really interested me enough that I wanna do it too.
I couldn’t think of a more snatching title and since I have some ladies that love my garden updates I thought I would appease them. 
Today will only be the garden up by the house. Mainly flowers but there are some tomatoe plants and herbs.
Snapdragons, Alysum, Volunteer Black-eyed-Susan we think.
More snapdragons, gladiolas, Pansy, and not sure what the other one is…
Tomatoes
More tomatoes, gladiolas, dying tulips, marigold, and alysum
Flower bed up by the house
After hollyhocks the African Daisy is my hubby’s favorite flower. Although he doesn’t know it, but its one of the first flowers he eyes and buys. More tomatoes and you can see the herbs peaking in their pots. I think the cilantro is going to go to pot though… no pun intended.
And our budding gardener… She is planning to compost the left over herb soil and replant. What a helper!
Saw this on another blog (kirky!) and thought I would do it;
1. One movie that made you laugh:
Columbo
2. One movie that made you cry:
Victoria and Albert
3. One movie you loved when you were a child:
Sargeant York
4. One movie you’ve seen more than once:
North and South (E Gaskell)
5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it:
ummmm, honestly, I can’t think of one.
6. One movie you hated:
African Queen
7. One movie that scared you:
The Birds
8. One movie that bored you:
Casablanca
9. One movie that made you happy:
Wives and Daughters
10. One movie that made you miserable:
Mayor of Castabridge
11. One movie you weren’t brave enough to see:
Two for the Money or something like that. We walked out of the theatre’s. Nothing scary but we weren’t brave enough to sit through the language.
12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with:
Stocky from Victoria and Albert, Roger from Wives and Daughters, Thorton from North and South. Honestly, there is just too many to name. Knightly from Emma, EEEK!
But, I have always had a desire to be Fanny from Mansfield Park.
13. The last movie you saw:
watching, Cranford, on youtube
14. The next movie you hope to see:
The new Anne Hathaway movie…
15. Name a book you would like to see as a movie.
hmmm, Sophie’s Heart by Lori Wick
Now tag five people:
Anyone that wants to chime in…feel free.
I love Taco Bell’s Mexican pizza. So I thought I would make a GF quick and easy version.
Ingredients;
organic refried beans
salsa
Shredded cheese
Olives
corn tortilla’s
taco’d ground beef
Heat your corn tortilla’s either on the stove top or microwave. Heat up your refried beans and your taco meat.
1 layer, 1 tortilla, refried beans. I used about 2-3 spoon dollups.
2 layer, 1 tortilla, thin layer of refried beans, taco meat, salsa, cheese, olives.
Voila. Add a bit of cilantro (or parsley) for an extra zinger.
1. place… BunnyB!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please contact me, c.neipp@gmail.com on what you would like and where to send it. Thank you for participating and I hope to see you here more often!
2. place goes to… Jennifer!!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS! As the runner up you recieve the unclaimed prize. So if #1 does the book you recieve the necklace or visa versa. Please contact me at, c.neipp@gmail.com for a shipping address for your prize and thank you for stopping by! Hope to see you around!
Thank you all for participating. This was the most comments I recieved and I enjoyed everyone and stopping by ya’all’s blogs too.
