Too Nice
Today was too nice of a day to stay indoors. While Dennis was still asleep this morning, I took a cup of coffee and sat in the early sun on the east patio. Peaceful does not even begin to describe it. The morning doves gave quite the serenade. Looking to the far east of the acre, the Hackberry tree was alive with squirrels. Early morning church bells could be heard at various intervals.
There wasn’t a heavy agenda for us today. There is always a load of laundry to start. Push several buttons and it’s a go. Oh so different than the wringer washing machine that Lena had. A bar of lye soap along with Duz laundry powder as a length of hose filled the wash tub. By the way, for a time, there was a dish inside each box with the hope of accumulating somewhat of a matched set. A set of twin rinse tubs were on a rack that allowed the swivel of the wringer on the washing machine to go from wash tub to first rinse to second rinse. Sorting of the clothes was paramount. First batch was the delicates. From there each batch progressed down to the work jeans and last were the rag rugs. With a huge wash day, Lena would take out some of the machine’s water and add fresh as the loads took its toll on the color of the water. Not like the laundry of today, where fresh water from a faucet treats each sorted load. Aren’t we spoiled.
We have been limping along with our suppers since the leftovers from Mother’s Day have been used up. Tonight there is an Alfredo chicken pasta dish for our oven meal. Yum. We spent just enough time in the house to swap out the laundry and put the oven meal together. I worked on raking out the dirt in what was the Koi pond and Dennis is giving some of our lawn chairs a fresh coat of paint. I need to search the internet as we will be putting in one or two miniature shrubs into the new dirt.
Always busy here on Stauffer. It makes for a sweet life being stewards of more than either one of us could ever have anticipated. Thanks be to God.