March 2, 2011

  • Today was sewing day at my house.  Mary couldn't come and Heather is now teaching on Wednesdays, so it was just Beth and I.  We had a wonderful time though and we spent several hours cutting out material, padding, and old jeans to make into pot holders.  We now have several patterns and stacks of pot holders to sew next week when we get together.  We decided it would save a lot of time to make them "assembly-line".  Of course, we don't want to get too assembly-line like, (doubt we'll really have to worry about that!), but we do have a lot of things to make and once warm weather, Spring and Summer arrive, the time we have to make things will be greatly curtailed.

    I get an e-mail newsletter from Susan Branch http://www.susanbranch.com/ every month or so, and today I had a pleasant surprise as she wrote about one of her all-time favorite authors, who also happens to be one of my favorite authors, my sister's and my mother's.  The author is Gladys Taber and she has brought me many hours of pleasant reading.  There are times in all of our lives where we need a quiet place of retreat, a time to go back to a simpler era and read about country life, animals and the farm.  Her books fit the bill.  I remember my mother reading them while I was growing up and I'd ask her about them.  "Oh, you wouldn't like these books", my mother said, "they are just simple, quiet little essays about Gladys' life, nothing really happens in them".    So, imagine my surprise when I grew up and started reading my mother's old copies of these books, to find out that my mother was wrong!    I fell in love with these books and have read them over and over.  Wouldn't it be lovely if there were other Gladys Taber's waiting to be discovered out there?