This is the Day the Lord Has Made

 Catching up on blogs today, I caught a thought to look for an app to create watercolors. And of course I found them. So...                                    Happy Birthday, brother! From your sister and I. Today, I go to your care plan meeting, and  hopefully tomorrow you will be going home from your seven week stay in nursing homes. Enjoy your day today and give God the glory for the things he has done.

  C.S. Lewis wrote: "The trouble is that  relying on God has to begin all over again every day  as if nothing had yet been done." How true these words from Faithful Grace's blog this morning. I am thinking and praying for friends and family who are beginning again each day trusting God: especially niece Angela with newly discovered cancer throughout her body, sick from the radiation treatment on her brain. Lord, have mercy.  And her mother, Pat, struggling to see at work after macular and cataract surgery. Father, have mercy.  And brother Ed, three weeks in short term rehab, 4 weeks in long term, hoping to come home safely next week. Amen to his prayers.  And brother Don who has arthritis in one shoulder and a torn rotator cuff in the other, who is persevering to keep their home going (46 years there). I'm thankful it already has a ramp Ed can walk up. Father, help them both stay safe. And friend Karla who hit a deer on the way to work. She loves animals. ...

  I found this lovely image on Marie Raymer's blog, "And Then We All Had Tea" this morning. She had reposted it from  Buttery Planet . I find it very soothing, although my lake friends are sick of the rain and the damage it has caused. Today, so far, I have caught up on blogs, pulled a bag of dandelions, and made 5 cards to mail out. I think it costs a lot less to print a pretty picture and a few words than to buy cards now days. I have made peace with dandelions this year. I just go out and top them in the morning, as many as I can stand bending over to do. My sister and I call the menu calendar I keep "Moose Point Cafe." So today at the Moose Point Cafe there will be asparagus on toast for lunch, apple slices with peanut butter for a snack and Eckrich turkey sausage with cabbage and potatoes for supper. Today, an answer to prayer I'm hoping, Andre will come to give an estimate on weekly lawn mowing. A friend says he is reasonable and does a good job. He...

 Today I wanted to take a treat to my brother in the nursing home and his room mate. I followed a few links on one of my favorite food blogs,  The English Kitchen , by Marie Raymer. I'm out of vanilla right now. I've been to the store several times, but those little bottles are so expensive. I put it off. So I was looking for something without vanilla. I found a recipe for Applesauce Spice Cake and I thought the spices might cover the lack of vanilla. It was delicious. My little flip phone does not allow me to upload pictures to the internet or I would have shared one. When I went back to make a comment, I could not locate the recipe I had made: not by bookmarks, not by searching the site. I know I was on her site as she always uses asterisks around the title like so: *Applesauce Spice Cake*       Serves 10 to 12 This is a lovely cake that the whole family will enjoy. Deliciously moist and full of the wonderful flavour of spice, studded with soft rais...

  Today is National Pet Day in the U.S. which focuses on the joy pets add to our lives. I have had many pets in my life, but now I enjoy feeding the sparrows, blue jays, grackles, nuthatches, mourning doves and an occasional woodpecker in our backyard. I’m glad spring is here, and they can add bugs to my meager offerings. I still think often of Angel, our tuxedo cat, who passed in 2020 at the age of 20. She was a stray adopted by my friend Sandy’s parents until her dad passed and her mom could no longer care for her. Here she is the first Christmas in our little house. This picture was taken in 2017 while I was again living with my sister in what had been our grandmother’s, and then my mother’s home. One of her chief joys was trying on shoes. Angel always told my sister and I it was time to go to bed. After our evening devotional reading, we always sang “This is the day the Lord has made.” Then Angel would head up the stairs, stopping at the point where the wall bloc...