‘Ink Re-Cap 138: Back From Vacation

‘Ink Re-Cap 138.
Sketches and inklings of our week:
back from vacation (sigh)
and catching up with business.

What is it about coming home from vacation?

While you’re away and enjoying life your mind buzzes with everything you want to do when you get back home.

Then

you get home, and everything goes flat.

You lost the inspiration for some of the ideas

and can’t get the supplies for others.

So, it takes half a week to get back into the swing of being back home in the reality of true life and when you do get into the rhythm, you get disrupted with stormy winds and mini fires, and all you want is the adrenaline of dreaming you had when you were on vacation.

I’m sorry, you people who’s orders were affected by this little rebellion at kimenink. I think it’s vanquished now.

Now, how was your week?

And what are your plans for July 4th weekend?

We’ve been seeing fireworks in the different towns nearby for days now. Or rather evenings. They kind of take turns with their celebrations, I guess so the pyromaniacs can spend a week attending displays of shock and awe.

We’re relaxing in our recliners in the evening, and suddenly gunshots go off nearby. Then we remember it’s July 4th week, and realize our neighbors bought some pretend flashbangs.

I totally sympathize with our Nextdoor Chat people who beg everyone to tone it down for the vets and pets. I’m about to duck and take cover sometimes, too.

‘Ink Re-Cap 138 Random Inklings

The week’s blog posts:

Vacation seems so distant this week of back-to-the-races work.

The only thing that helps is that we have so much fun doing what we do!

The Invisible Three Fold Cord of a Godly Marriage

Sunny Honeybee Keepsake Calendar for Baby’s First Year

Lettered Wooden Spoons DIY No Laser Necessary

Quick and Easy No-Sew Phone Pocket

Choose Facts Over Feelings: Emotions Can Lie

A Friday Evening of Feasting and Friendship

Last Sunday someone reminded me to look at a list on the Church Bulletin Board.

Yes, this was the week I chose months ago to take a meal to a couple from our church

whose lives changed a little over a year ago.

Even before Covid, he spent 3 months in the hospital,

hardly expecting to ever go home again.

Their life went from normal to semi-housebound in a few short months.

Some kind soul made a list where we can volunteer to take them a meal,

so they don’t have so many, many lonely days.

This week our turn came up, and they chose Friday, and eating in instead of going out.

Here’s the menu we chose:

Poppy-seed Chicken and Rice
Watermelon
Hot Blueberry Muffins

Dessert: Cherry Cream Cheese Bars

‘Ink Re-Cap 138 Most Read Posts:

This week’s most read post happens to be our newest Monday post.

I’m honored it got read so often:

The Invisible Three-Fold Cord of a Christian Marriage

The Invisible Cord idea was inspired by this children’s book we talked about last week.

Next in line for the week, and not surprising for this time of year.

(Did you hear about the extra hot temperatures in Canada this week? Unbelievable.)

The Handmade Ice Cream Recipe You Can’t Live Without

Note:
There’s a side bar on all blog pages that helps you get to the topic you most want to read about.
The main topics are Weddings, Babies, Kitchen, Crafts and Inspirational Stuff.

Top Sellers This Week

Our top product this week is this event calendar.

Inspiring Inklings for your week:

Appalachian Trail Angels.

Summer is the big time to get onto the country’s trails.

And as the hikers trudge along, they get wet, hungry, and sometimes cold.

Then they come upon a stash of food a trail angel has left, or other staples the hikers might need along the way.

I’ve never seen or heard of that happen on the Grand Canyon trails, but they don’t traverse a whole country.

Inspiring Books, Writings, etc: 

Adult Book Choice: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. A fascinating report of doctors taking advantage of a black woman’s illness, and why she has an immortal life. It will surprise you.

Children’s Book Choice: In light of Friday’s post about my niece’s experience with her son, we picked this book. Please note we have not personally read this book, but if it’s as good as it’s promise, it should be a worthy read.

I immersed my ears lately in a certain author’s Regency novels. Not so much for the story lines as the great writing style. (I get so weary of all the exaggerated misunderstandings on the way to true love. Is that anything like real life? Maybe that’s why I prefer novels written for men.)

This author has more believable mindsets the characters have to work through, rather than blatant wrong conclusions based on what the MCs think.

Anyway, another thing that bothers me about novels written for females is the concept that it’s good to be a disrupter. Couldn’t there be a heroine who actually enjoyed learning to stitch in the schoolroom, then went on to be a successful milliner or something, without scandalizing society?

Oh, well, I guess no one would read that book, would they, now? (Spoken in a Regency British accent.)

Interesting Fact

Our totally useless factoid for the week.

We picked this one for three reasons: the country is special to our family, it’s a natural phenomenon that emphasizes God’s awesome creation, and thirdly, we love useless facts.

Inspiring Quote

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