Tuesday: Friend's visit, wonderful tea, quilt progress, reading and reading DE Stevenson

 I made muffins! I felt that the molasses overpowered the spices put in

(ginger, cloves, cinnamon, cardamon, black pepper)

 so I want to do a 'redo' with this.  

One nice thing about them though is that they are not overly sweet. 

I read another DE Stevenson book,

Charlotte Fairlie

which I discovered is also the book The Enchanted Isle

both of which I recently acquired! So I have 2 copies... for now I will keep them merely

because both are not in the best condition... but later when I get a better

condition of one of these, I will give the others away, DV. 

Right now I am reading Stevenson's Shoulder the Sky 

A local friend came again for lunch and tea!

I was pleased to have a lunch of pizza and salad,

with muffins and tea, she brought the tea, a newly acquired

Earl Grey Supreme that was most lovely.

We talked about how tea, esp. teas that are flavoured,

such as Earl Grey which has bergamot oil, 

loses some of it's pungency as time goes on.

So, since she has a lot of the tea and it would lose it's pungency before she was

through it all, she gave a good amount to me!

I look forward to having some again tomorrow!

(I am also wondering if I should purchase, in the future, 

bergamot extract to use in tea (like to flavour a lot of loose tea

that has lost it's initial pungency)... 

In other news, I finished my quilt top... my friend helped me carry up

our longer table... now I have to refresh myself on how to do the

rest of the quilt... I really hope to keep going on this!

Well, tomorrow is another day... 

I am slowly feeling the move towards the Nativity Fast...

and am thinking of what I will read...

Still doing some spiritual reading of course, but will try to add more...

always so much to think about and seek to do.

May God help us all and have mercy on us!