Last Day of July...

If I could choose a perfect day, today might be it...  Lurking clouds, low temperatures, gray skies...  the kind of day that bounces me awake at early pre-dawn and informs me to get ready...  

I, like many of you, really enjoy the art of puttering.  I was recently talking to a woman who had retired from teaching math for 30 years..  She said she carefully planned a vacation to Cape Cod to coincide with the first day of school.  Another friend took the day a few years ago and went to the Casinos to celebrate her freedom...  I have a different plan if that day is free...  I will have to see what emerges, but I do dearly know what my ideal day would be...  Any guesses?

 Today's lunch was fresh corn on the cob, a fancy-cut tomato with a scoop of tuna salad...  Not too shabby, if the cook is allowed to say so.  Then a quick trip to the grocery with Mom riding shotgun...  I'm hoping my son comes this afternoon to help me move some boxes and do a little "rearranging."  Shhh...  Mom thinks it is only boxes!

I'm working on some ideas for either Etsy, online, or something shoppe...  I don't really know which venue is best.  I see some of you have both a regular online shop and an etsy shop...   Any help and advice is going to be soooo appreciated...

Have a super end of July...  Tomorrow is the Feast of Harvest, the ancient Celtic Lughnasadh or Lammas.  Tomorrow, August 1st, or tonight is the night set aside to burn a bonfire and dance, dance, dance...  I saw the famous movie Dancing at Lughnasadh with Meryl Streep...  Oh, my..  slow and quite sad, hauntingly so...  One year I thought it would be wonderful to watch it on the actual day...  Well, I think I'd rather have been outside with my chiminea myself...  but it has its place.  My son always says, "It's an Irish tale," when movies don't end all tied up in a pretty box as we love them to in America...  

For this year's "feast" I decided it would be fun to set the table tomorrow with Mom's pretty wheat china, purchased years ago piece by piece from the IGA Grocery Stores...  I have set the menu as a large crock of Navy Beans and homemade cornbread...  Come on over and we will celebrate together over steaming bowls of Harvest Beans and our family cornbread baked in little corn muffin molds...