To Delight and be Delighted in

I've been reading Captivating. This book is an excellent read for woman! I can't recommend it highly enough. At one point, they discuss that deep down feeling all woman (at least as far as my knowledge goes) have to "delight and be delighted in". The words were easy to read, but the concept ended up being more difficult to understand. I passed through taking my notes, I'm reading this and keeping a journal with a good friend, and thought no more of it. That was until this past Sunday.

 My husband spoiled me and took me out to take pictures this past Sunday. We made our way back out to the Parker Mill Park. If you are in Michigan, you should really visit this park. If you are there during the right time (Sundays 1-5 during the fall it seems) you can get a tour of the mill and see how it worked when it was opened. We were lucky enough to find the mill open. Normally we take our dog with us out on these "Picture walks", but it ended up being a good thing we didn't have him with us this time.

 Now, after we visited and went on the mill tour, we once again got rained out. The skies thundered and rain poured on us. I'm really beginning to feel like it's tradition to get rained on when we go out to take pictures. As we, with a few other people, ran under the car bridge (there's a walking path that passes beneath it to get to the other side of the park) we found a heron snacking on the fish the rain was washing down stream. It was amazing! We spent an hour or so under the bridge taking pictures as the storm refused to let up. The majesty the bird had while eating was spectacular. This was the first time I've ever seen a heron before. Once the rain began to lighten up (only slightly) we continued on the path in the rain.

 

 Here are the pictures from my trip

 The first thing we found when we arrived at the pavilion, (It's a really neat set up, the pavilion is designed with plants growing on the top.) was a massive rainbow spreading through the nearby trees. Much to my surprise rainbows are in all actuality very difficult to photograph. (I've had very few chances to try and capture rainbows on film to this date). As the rain stilled, my husband reclined and began to write in his journal. I moved to and fro around the small pavilion, called Poppy's Place, taking pictures of spiders and flowers and the beauty surrounding me. I couldn't help but to drink in each beauty in it's own turn. It was marvelous. It was glorious.

 I took my time taking pictures of these little marvels and when I had collected a few, I would return to share them with my husband. Being surrounded by all these little blessings filled me with joy and sharing them with my husband only furthered that. It was then that I understood what the book had been talking about.  I felt so happy looking at what was around me and in turn I was even happier sharing it and seeing the joy on my husband's face.  I think this is what the book meant.  It's hard for me to describe in words, but the fact that I was able to share something so precious to me with him and please him with it as well felt inexplicably good.

I just really wanted to share this with you all :)  That being said, my impatience is driving me insane.  I can't wait for my Scentsy shipment to be shipped and I'm still waiting for my ion bracelet to be shipped.  Overall, I'm disappointed with this purchase.  It was free, so that is the plus side still, but when I ordered there was nothing stating a time range before the product would ship out.  Normally, this means that the order will be processed and shipped in a few days.  Two weeks after I placed the order and had heard nothing, I contacted the company only to very rudely be informed that there is a 10-14 BUSINESS (yes they capitalized it) day processing delay.  That in it's own wouldn't be upsetting, but the manner and tone the response was given really soiled the transaction.  This Friday will be their fourteen business days, so we'll see if they redeem themselves, but I have this bad feeling I will be contacting them via email once more.
So, if you are ordering one of these, it might be better to find a different place to order from than http://www.powerbands.tv/ .  I most likely won't be ordering from there again.

Well, that's it for now.  (At least all I can think of).  Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Weather, Weather, and more Weather

Well, I believe the zucchinis have produced their final fruits.  The other thing I learned this week in gardening is that honeydew plants are cousins of cucumbers.  So that cucumber disease that I couldn't find a treatment for online spread to my honeydew :(  I've gotten a handful of melons, but I don't think I'll be getting many more.  The tomatoes are growing well as well as the bell peppers and jalapenos finally started taking off.

The weather around here has been crazy!



This is from a storm near my mother in laws house.  We kidnapped her puppies so our little  guy would have playmates for a week.  It ended up being alot of fun for us and the dogs :)  But when we went and picked up the pups, she was going on day 2 of no power.  That being said, adding extra puppies to my schedule (it's already been pretty packed) made internet and pictures all but impossible.  For the pictures it didn't really matter though.  It's been drizzling rain here.  No cool lightening or thunder where we live, just rain.  I'm sure the garden loves it though! 

That being said, I have been working on reading Captivating and taking notes.  It's such a good book!  Other than that, I've been working on LARP rulebook pieces.  I finished a pair of socks.  The yarn is really awesome.  It's a Hobby Lobby home brand, but it's a wool mix (I tend to be allergic to wool occasionally) that I can wear!  They are so nice and soft and warm.  I'm going to have to pick up more yarn so I make me some more!  My current knitting project is a pair of Norwegian mittens.  My hubby picked me up a book called Norwegian Handknits that's full of awesome designs.  The only sad part is that it looks like my first pair of mittens will be too small for me.  Well, it's a good Christmas gift in the making then, right? 

I just got a group of my good friends together and we're making a knitting circle.  I'm really excited about this and we're going to meet for the first time next Wed.  I hope everything goes well because this will  be fun if it does :).  One of my friends is going to pick up Letters to Juliet (I think that's what it's called) for us to watch while we craft!

Now, I did want to take a minute and mention this.  I've recently discovered Scentsy and the woman who's introduced me to it is super nice.  I'd like to take this chance to direct you to her and encourage you to look around.  her website is here.  She does a scent of the month club to let you sample things and is over all just really nice.  I'll let you all know how we like our products (we loved our samples) when they come in!

Well, I know it doesn't seem like much, but besides running around this has been what I've been up to.  Today we're getting NomNoms (awesome cupcakes by us) to take to my husband's step brother and I'm sure we'll visit with them all for a little while before coming home.  Next weekend we go to the Ren Faire so I'll take lots of pretty pictures to share ^.^  Have a blessed and safe week everyone!