Reading and Baking

Thank you for all the comments on my collage.  I was surprised that I managed to create it because I am just not technologically gifted :)   For those who wondered if those were all flowers from my garden, the answer is yes.  Now, in an effort to post something other than flowers I thought I'd mention what I've been reading. The first book, Appalachian Song , I found through Elizabethd's blog Small Moments.  I enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

 Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she’s tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But soon Songbird is forced to make a heartbreaking decision that will tear this little family apart.

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Moonlight and Linoleum is a true story.  This is a heartbreaking memoir and I hope there's at least  some happiness in store  for the author.( I haven't finished reading it).

 

 The captivating memoir of a young girl forced by her mother’s instability to care for her siblings.

Besides reading I have done some baking. We've had some lovely cool days and I even cleaned my oven. A job I only do once a year and I try to clean it on a day when it's cool but not too cool since it's nice to be able to open doors and windows as the oven does its 4 hour clean.
 I baked 2 strawberry/rhubarb pies ( I'm glad I thought to bake them on a cookie sheet so they wouldn't dirty my newly cleaned oven when they bubbled over). I also made lemon scones for the freezer. Once the heat arrives I won't want to bake.

So that's what I've been keeping busy with.  Let me know in the comments what you've been doing.

 

 Thanks for visiting.