No phone ~ therefore no internet connection

Good afternoon Folks ~ Just a note to let you know I'm taking more time off from blogging not because I want to, but because we lost our phone Tuesday morning, and when we reported it we were told someone would be out sometime before next Monday evening. This is our third day without. I'm at work right now and just wanted to send a quick note.

Hope you all are surviving the end of this hot and horrible summer. It seems like the worst one ever and I've barely had the energy or drive to do much of anything outdoors. I'm thankful for each day, but truly am looking forward to cooler weather, which unfortunately for us probably won't happen until the end of Oct. or into Nov. September's can be pretty brutal down here too, so summer isn't over for us yet. Although in September I usually get tiny little hints of fall coming and it is always a delight.

I've been reading, cooking and baking, and finished my last embroidered piece.

I love going to the library to see what jewels I might find in the books I choose. I walk up and down the isles looking at titles to see what might speak to me. This past visit to the library I found some good books, fiction, spiritual and for healh.
One book that is really touching my heart and spirit as I read is a book by Sue Monk Kidd 'When the Heart Waits'. For health there is a book called Optimal Healing, I think that's the name of it and it's about Chinese Herbal medicine.

Here is a thought from Sue Monk Kidd's book "One rule of life that keeps us from waiting, is the notion that we must make life happen rather than simply let life happen.

Waiting is the in-between time. It calls us to be in this moment, this season, without leaning so far into the future that we tear our roots from the present. When we learn to wait, we experience where we are as what is truly substantial and precious in life."

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The picture below is one I took earlier this year of my friend Nanci's orchids. Pictures are here in my folder at work. These orchids now reside in our screened room at home, 5 of them, and I hope they keep surviving for me.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL