Drazannshire

Sound like fun? It should! I have been planning for it. *grin*

I got my first fedora in the mail today! It’s chocolate brown with pinstripes. I’ve wanted to get a fedora for a long time, so when my brother needed one for a part in a play, I finally had a good excuse to buy one! Now my siblings are jealous. 🙂

…I am already out of things to say. And to think that I actually used to be really good at this! Oh well, when all else fails post a quote! Since I forgot to include one with my last post, I get to post two!

“We are each of an unsocial taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb.” ~ Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“I know what you’re thinking about, but it isn’t so, nohow. Contrarywise, if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be. But, as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” ~ Lewis Carroll

Today has been good.  The women’s Sunday school class started a new study today, and I’m a bit excited about it!  It’s a study on the Sermon on the Mount written by Angela Thomas. The book is called Living Your Life as a Beautiful Offering.

My gardening has gotten off to a good (albeit slow) start.  We’ve had some unusually chilly weather for Texas which has delayed things some. Oh well, it gives me a chance to really plan things out how I want them.

Piano lessons are also going well.  I’m really enjoying them!  It feels good doing something I’ve been planning for years to do.

…in other, not so interesting, news…  I’m currently reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.  I love English literature, and I’ve started working through some of the classics.  I’m really enjoying this book.  It has plenty of mysteriousness and suspense along with that good old English style I love so much!

…and um…I’m going to end here.  I know this was boring, but it’s necessary to get into the habit of blogging again.  I need to go to bed, but I hope to write more tomorrow. And hopefully I’ll have more interesting things to say!

Ok, so I’m a bit slow getting back into this. Life has been a bit busy lately, and it’s hard to remember to log in and write when I’ve gotten so out of habit. I think I’m going to need to start out small and work back into writing. One has so many more things to say when they’re used to writing on a regular basis.

The past two days have been fun. Yesterday I finished reading The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman. It’s a fascinating story about Polish Christians, who ran a zoo in Warsaw around the time of the Nazi regime, and how they saved over 300 Jews by hiding them in their zoo. It is a fascinating book, and I highly recommend it.

Reading that book caused a spark (actually more like a blaze) of interest to find other books recounting other stories from that time. So, for that past two days, I’ve been sitting for hours researching and making lists of all the other books I want to read. My list is currently 7 pages (double spaced) and…I’m not done. When it comes to books, I can be rather fanatical. However, in the long run, I think it’s good to have these lists for reference in the future. I may find myself using them for college work or even for my own kids someday.

And I shall cease typing for now. I must get to bed, for I have church in the morning.

A parting quote:
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” ~ Mark Twain