Bookstore visit

Posted on December 30, 2005 at 02:31

I LOVE the book store!  It's my favorite place.  I took my oldest (step son) Chandler there today, he loves the bookstore also and I had promised that he and I would go alone without the little ones.  I bought a gardening book called Practical Gardener:  Kitchen Garden by Lucy Peel.  I also bought the CUTEST book called Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping by Miriam Lukken.  It's written in a 19th Century Southern woman's style and has sections on The Art of Homekeeping, Directions for Laundry, the Art of Entertaining, Formality, Marriage and Family, the Garden and even instructions on how to properly make a bed!  I love it.  I bought it for me and my daughters and the best thing was it was only $6.99 from $22.00, it's a nice hardback, but I guess it wasn't selling well. 

Last night I took notes from a gardening book that I had checked out from the library and put it in my garden journal.  I'm aleady excited about the garden and I have quite a few months to go before I can start it.  I'm going to start everything from seeds this year, most of them indoors.  Usually we do half seeds, half seedlings from the garden store, but I'm going to save money this year by growing my own seedlings inside. 

The children are enjoying the sun and 40 degree weather today, tomorrow we are supposed to get rain/snow/sleet, so I'm glad they're out getting some fresh air.