Around OakMeadows

Our sweet Angie. 

We drove to Fort Worth to the Kimball Museum to see the Phillips Collection which is mostly the Impressionist painters. It was very good. But I really enjoyed the rest of the Kimball just as much, especially the Asian and European collections. We decided to drive straight back home rather than spend the night in a hotel and drive back the next day. Nice to get back home. 

We have seen a couple of new butterflies in the garden recently. The American Lady and the Hackberry Emperor:

That's all for now.  It's late and I am tired. More tomorrow. 

June Cooking -- Basic Vinaigrette

Basic Vinaigrette 

3/4 cup olive oil

3 tablespoons red or white wine vinegar 

2 teaspoons minced shallot or red onion

1/2 teaspoon each dried tarragon 

1 garlic clove, minced

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

Shake all the ingredients together in a jar. Refrigerate for up to 7 days. Bring to room temperature and shake well before serving.

Raspberry Vinaigrette 

Substitute raspberry vinegar for the wine vinegar.  Increase the minced shallot or red onion to 1 tablespoon and the dried tarragon to 3/4 teaspoon. 

June Thoughts

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
     Mahatma Gandhi

June Poetry

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bed in Summer

Goals for the Week of June 25 - July 1, 2017

Spiritual 
     Spiritual Reading

Physical
     Exercise DVD 
     Healthy Snacks

Quilting
     Work on strips for scrap Quilt 

Reading
    A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger 

     Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 

     The Sum of Small Things by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett 

     Delivering the Truth by Edith Maxwell

Cooking
     Saturday -- CB Hash, CSC, Veggie Tray

      Sunday-- Slow Cooker Chicken Stew

      Monday-- Tuna Salad

      Tuesday -- Oven BBQ Chicken, Beans, Cole Slaw

      Wednesday -- Spaghetti and Meatballs 

      Thursday-- Leftovers 

      Friday -- Out

      Lemon Sours 

Home
     Put out July 4th decorations 

Personal
     Trip to Kimball Museum in Fort Worth
     🔥Resistance.Every.Day.🔥

🔥Resistance. Every. Day.🔥

🔥Resistance. Every. Day.🔥

Sent an email through the Sierra Club website to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, opposing the elimination of protection of the Bears Ears National Monument. 

Sent emails to Senators Cornyn and Cruz and Rep. Pete Olson opposing the elimination of protection of the Bears Ears National Monument. 

Sent email to Senator Mitch McConnell opposing the secret dealings on healthcare. 

Sent thank you to Senator Kamala Harris for her tenacious, focused questioning in Sessions' hearing. She persisted!!

Sent a thank you note to Rep. Mike Quigley for sponsoring the COVFEFE Act which will make a permanent record of Presidential tweets. 

🔥Resistance. Every. Day.🔥

Called Senators Cornyn and Cruz and left message opposing closed door discussion of the AHCA. 

Sent thank you to D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and MD Attorney General Brian Frosh for filing a lawsuit against the president for emoluments violations.

🔥Resistance. Every. Day.🔥

Called and left message with Senators Cornyn and Cruz urging them to oppose S335 which would relax federal oversight and allow corporations to extract natural resources from our public lands. 

June Poetry

A something in a summer's Day
As slow her flambeau burn away
Which solemnizes me.
A something in a summer's noon --
A depth -- an Azure -- a perfume --
Transcending ecstasy.
And still within a summer's night
A something so transporting bright
I clap my hands to see --
Then veil my too inspecting face
Let's such a subtle -- shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me --
The wizard fingers never rest --
The purple brook within the breast
Still chafes it's narrow bed --
Still rears the East its amber Flag --
Guides still the sun along the Crag
His Caravan of Red --
So looking on -- the night -- the morn
Conclude the wonder gay --
And I meet, coming thro' the dews
Another Summer's Day.

Emily Dickinson, A Something in a Summer's Day