I had today off from work to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and spent much of it watching events in Washington, DC, including an airing of the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from 1963. Mid-afternoon Morgan called. She drove down to DC yesterday afternoon with friends, to stay until after the inauguration. She was out walking amongst the crowds, and I could hear one of the commentators both on television, and through the phone at one point, although I couldn’t spot Morgan. She told me that she plans to get out on the mall around 4 a.m. tomorrow morning when it will be opened for the day’s events. What an exciting day for her, and for all of us!
On the homefront, I wanted to keep busy and make the best of this at-home day.
I made buckwheat pancakes for our breakfast. Any other weekday it is cold cereal for me. Lesson learned….the box of buckwheat flour from the grocery store currently sells for $3.80/lb. and a bag of the same from the Mennonite bulk food store sells for .72/lb. I’m still using up what’s left in the box, so those were pretty expensive pancakes!
I threaded a string of peanuts for the titmice and chickadees and George hung that outside the back door.
My sewing project was a new bed for Martha. I bought the fuzzy material for the outer layer at Christmas, and she has been very patient using just that for the past few weeks. Today I created the inner pillow, stuffed with cedar, and she seems to like being nestled in.
Finally, I mixed up a batch of homemade laundry detergent. It’s something I have wanted to try to do for awhile, so we’ll see how that works out. I’ve always hated all those plastic detergent bottles as they cycle from manufacturing to my grocery store to my laundry area and then into the bin.
And through the day there were the birds, always faithful, always putting a bright spot on my day.
