The New Homemaker Newsletter for December 02, 2008
Dear Readers,
Some seasonal musings and a contest!
Fall has arrived in Oregon. Tonight the first serious cold front moves in, and I expect the rainy season will start in earnest by Friday. I'm ready. I just finished the sweater I started in February, and I've got one of the girls' scarves done--just need to cast on the second so they each have one. I suspect it's going to be a cold winter.
We lost our apple tree yesterday to rot. After the treecutters brought it down, John and the girls got it ready to chip and I picked up apples still good enough to use. I filled a big soup pot with them and there are many more still out there waiting for me later today.
Apples say autumn more than almost anything to me, and I'm sad I'll have to wait a couple of years for the new trees I'm getting in a couple of weeks to start bearing. But I'm glad we found the rot before the winds came. One good wind storm, or heaven forbid an ice storm, and that poor old tree would have come straight down on our fence.
I'll be taking some of that applesauce to church tonight for the first of the month potluck. I still feel weird talking about "going to church." It's not something I've done in a long time, not since before the girls were born, and a lot of my friends raise their eyebrows at me in surprise. Once I explain it's a Unitarian congregation the eyebrows come back down. We go to the UU group, I say, to be uncertain about the nature of God together. :)
The girls are loving church, especially Sunday School--Religious Education they call it these days, but I'll always call it Sunday School. Louisa was telling me about her teacher, Miss Mabel, a lovely grandmotherly lady. I said, Lou, your great-grandma, Mama's grandma, was named Mabel. Her full name was Mabel Lea and she went by Lea, but her name was really Mabel. "Oh!" chirped LouLou. "That's where Mister Rogers goes--the Land of Mabel Lea!" I think sometimes I had kids to give me good stories to tell.
And on that note, TNH is having a contest! I recently got to interview the authors of The Complete Organic Pregnancy on the recent Mother Talk blog tour, and they gave me two books to give away! Leave a comment saying "I want the book" on this diary entry and if there are more than two of you, into the hat you go and we'll pick two winners.
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