A good day! I've been busy as a bee since getting home -- one can see the top of my desk again! Well, not every inch of it, but a big improvement there! I've finished the financial updating and got some of my photos transferred from the old computer to the new one. I'm not too knowledgeable about doing things like that so it is slow. There is probably a faster way to do it but patience is a virtue and I worked on a lot of virtue-making today!

Read another blog -- Pieces From Me -- enjoyed it. The writer's mantra for 2009 is...

"Aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your own hands." I Thessalonians 4:11

I like that! It is something good to think about, especially minding one's own business. Not doing that usually gets all of us in trouble!

Another blog -- Coolrue -- posted some old, Irish, homemaking tools. A most unusual laundry pot and dasher. I've never seen one like it. Not at all like the big cast iron pot my Grandmother used to do her laundry. She would set it over the fire and boil the clothes clean. then rinse them, and then hang them up to dry. Of course, she did the laundry AFTER she made the laundry soap! Ladies, we do have it easy!!

My "Cozy" was bored one day, while her mother was doing the laundry, and she ran by and threw a kitten into the rinse water. (It was cool, of course.) Her description of being chased around the laundry by her mother was priceless. Yes, I've had days like that -- have you?

I had a lovely e-mail from a former student today. She is back in Brazil and is still hoping to continue her education -- next on the agenda is PhD. Such a sweet person -- I only had her a short time but learned to love her.

There is a party at the library tonight, for all the ESL students and teachers. I will go and take some banana pudding. Each student will bring something from their own country so our dinner will be a lovely variety of foods. I think all of my students will be there - one has already called to make sure I was going. I'll resume my classes on Feb. 4.

It is getting late so I'll say good-night and go hang up my dry laundry from the dryer. Such a blessing. I am not sure I would have made a good pioneer woman. Think about it -- would you like to go back to the days of yore?