Our Christmas tree lights are LED, blue-white, and very bright. I like them. I also like our live tree, about 5-feet tall not counting it's potted roots.
Earl Grey and Panattoni bread go wonderfully with black-and-white Robin Hood episodes.
This is turning into a thankful post. Why ever not?
Our cat, Bella, was meowing very insistently to be petted, and proceeded to be quite lovey, without a bit of her usual propensity to lovingly bite.
Oh, and books! How could I forget?
There's Dickens, for starters. I just finished Great Expectations yesterday, and though I still liked Bleak House better, any Dickens novel is bound to be brimming with hilarious, lovable, ridiculous, and despicable characters, not to mention such writing and wisdom!
Though tempted to go straight into A Tale of Two Cities next (on Muglin's recommendation), upon studying my bookshelves my eye landed on Five Children and It. I read somewhere recently that Lewis or someone else I admire was fond of its authoress. I love a good children's book, so into its pages I fell. What a treasure! A bit of slight language is all I've seen wrong with it so far. The sparse, naratorial style of children's experiences reminds me much of Lewis, with plenty of common sense tucked into the tale of five siblings and their encounters with the sand fairy. Hilarious, charming!
And whilst my dear mother finished a project, I found it a perfect opportunity to read aloud to us both from Lorna Doone. Now there's a good book! A whole post, or series of posts, ought rightfully to be dedicated to this epitome of the manly virtues. It doesn't take us many pages to grow heartily attached to the refreshing, honest, young English farmer, and I for one want my boys (if I am so blessed with them) to grow up to be very much like John Ridd. But the merits of the story go far beyond even that of its main rough-but-humble character. Adventure, romance, and humor of some sort leaps from every page. We've been eating this one up.
Aside from devouring good stories, I have been so blessed to have brothers come home, and to be able to help cook for them, and fix their coffee (almost regularly) in the mornings, and to be able to drive to the duck pond with Little Big Brother in an attempt to catch "wee beasties" in a jar of water for his observation under the microscope. One a quiet day, I never imagined how much noise scores of lively ducks could make only by thapping the water with their feet!
About time now to get the Next-youngest Brother from work now. Littlest just called, and said the airport is crowded. I'm thankful the Lord of all Mercies is watching over all the travelers this
night. 
(Added Later) Because I hate posting without a picture, and I'm woefully inept at keeping batteries in a camera and said camera handy along with necessary card reader and all such accouterments... here's another lovely old painting from my computer files. Isn't it pretty? To tie it into this post, I'll add my long hair to my thankful list. Mine may be just a hair shorter (ha ha, that was painfully lame) and sometimes wavier, but as often as I've been bemoaning it's sameness, I should just be nicer to it and thankful it can grow this long. :-)
I too am a huge fan of books and Dickens! Reading is so fun! I also love to write.
ReplyDeleteIt was athors like Dickens and C.S. Lewis who inspired me. Bleak House is another book I want to read. I have seen the movie, and well..it is very bleak!
I have compleated an ebook and am still working on three other half-finished books. My imagination goes wild afer reading books.
Great post!
I've never actually come acrosse "Five Children and It", but it sounds interesting. As far as I can remember, Lewis said of his Narnia books that he wanted them to be in the tradition of "The Railway Children" by Edith Nesbit. Did she perhaps also write "Five Children and It"? Anyway, thank you for letting us get a glimpse into the everyday comings and goings in your home and bookshelf! I have G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" lying on my table right now, though I don't get around to reading in it much due to my thesis...
ReplyDeleteI think Nesbit did also write The Railway Children, Muglin. I read it ages ago, so I don't remember much of that one. Orthadoxy is stupendous, and I'm sure every sentance you have time for is worth it. Hope your thesis is going well!
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