The Day after the Nativity Fast Tea...

Cleo as always, sitting a top of one of the white chairs!

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PS: Happy Saint Nicholas Day to all who celebrate it today!

Mr. Husband are off early to church for Liturgy 

and the handing out of cookies!

Cleo...

Some thoughts that I wrote before

we became homeowners and are in the two weeks of busy

{preparing our new place to move in and moving in!} ~ Enjoy!

My beloved Cleo Cat...

I was writing out some cards the other day

and I looked up and there was Cleo

on the chair next to me... :)

She will also sit like this when I am sitting in the same chair...

Pretty cute, eh? 

~gentleness nourishes mercy, mercy gives flower to beautiful fruit in our lives~

Some thoughts that I wrote before

we became homeowners and are in the two weeks of busy

{preparing our new place to move in and moving in!} ~ Enjoy!

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Cleo has started sleeping on the dining room table, 

though she knows she is not suppose to do so.  

She is ‘acting out’ a bit because of the disorder that our current home has become, 

with so many boxes everywhere.  

I just grab her gently by the scruff of the neck 

and tell her not to do so.  

Gentleness ultimately is what will get results, 

with Cleo a Cat but also with others and even with ourselves. 

Monday Packing in Pictures ~ {Cleo, Madeleine L' Engle books and how you know if you are Orthodox and a knitter}

Cleo guarding our books with her frightening cat-powers....

I means cuteness....

Curiosity killed... ;) 

You know you are a knitter when

skeins of yarn are used as padding. 

You know you are one 

geeky Ortho-knitter when the yarn 

is next to part of 

the Philokalia and Marriage as a Path to Holiness. :)

By God's mercy on Monday

I packed 6 of these boxes full of books.

I recently got L'Engle's cute children's book

the other dog at the Strand in NYC... 

these are all safely packed now... 

Friday in late September 2013 ~ Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Mr. Husband and I were at liturgy for the
Feast of the Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross
this morning. 

I made bread yesterday!
Details next week, DV.

We had this for dinner ~ Martha
kindly let me know that it is called
caprese salad.
The Heirloom tomatoes were so good with it.

I also fried up some mushrooms and onions,
to be eaten with some sour cream.

It was a simple meal,
but filling.
We hope to eat left-overs tomorrow...

 

Cleo as you can see wanted this dinner too!
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We went to a great book sale today!
I got a whole stack of cookbooks.
The only problem?
Where to put them...
I will be doing some weeding
of my collection of books soon...
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One of the cookbooks I got is
the new basics cookbook
which I think is the one that caused Mr. Husband to ask
how many general cookbooks I need...
Clearly we have differing points of view :)
And I saw some bread recipes in it that I want to
look at further...
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Most of my cookbooks were either gifts or
found used for a few dollars at most.
I got the facsimile of the original Fanny Farmer Cookbook
and one cookbook that
is for cooking for big groups,
published in 1962;
some others also... they are all wrapped up
for now in storage to be sure no creepy crawlies are in them.
Oh NJ and their bug problems; le sigh.
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But boy am I excited to read these and
try some new recipes!
I was looking through an Italian cookbook
the other night was getting some ideas as well...
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I finished up 1 and a half wash/dish clothes in our
2 hour plus trip to church
and I must try stockinette soon,
for my upcoming knitting class.
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So that's it for me,
what are you doing today?

A quiet Friday evening with Mr. Husband (plus cute Cleo pictures!)

The cake is now finished...
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We are dreaming of Pascha.
I told Mr. Husband that my hope is to do the following in Bright week:
~change out the Lenten icons for the Pascha icons of
Christ's Ressurection and Bright Friday's icon
~switch out the table cloth for my all white one
~use my Grandma's dishes that I use for Pascha
~change out the red lampadas for clear glass ones
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I am dreaming of baking chocolate cookies for
Pascha again...
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Mr. Husband is very practical and discussed taking
probiotics the week before to help
digestion when suddenly eating Festive Food...
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Speaking of Mr. Husband,
he has this quirk of not wanting to get
rid of old tee-shirts...
so apparently one year he had one that was especially bad
and he wrote this ditty to his Mom and
gave it to her...
She mailed it back to him this year for his Birthday,
which has given us much amusement: 

Knowing that the shabbiness 
of my attire
In my Mother loathing dost
inspire
I decided this shirt to 
retire
Her heart with rapture to
inspire
She'll probably throw it
in the fire. 
~ A Mr. Husband exclusive :)

Cleo the Cutest Cat Ever...

:) See, she knows it too! :)

In the past I made a lot of cookies
for Pascha...
We will see what I can do this coming time...

 

St. Nectarios of Pentapolis and the Island of Aegina: The Monastic Ideal
I got this book in January when I was visiting
my beloved Ottawa Parish...
I am starting this one now that I am doing reading the one
on St. Luke...
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My husband is a little mad but over all not to bad
is what he just said to me
when I read him the above section about his shirt.
The other thing things he is saying are not mention-able on my blog...
he's a bit on the (non-offensively) scatological side... :)
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Between you and me,
and him if he reads this post,
I do love his little poems :)
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I am almost done with the pear section on my
baby blanket and
hope to make fried potatoes for lunch tomorrow...
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What has your day been like today?