Window Cleaning and Cocoa...


How do window cleaning and hot cocoa come together?


they meet on a rainy day!


we got the bottom part of a tropical storm that went through north of us the other day...
and it left us some hard rain in the night...
and some gentler rain through the day as the tail of the storm wagged it's way on



Pip and one of his hens came up to visit briefly in the morning
I let them visit through the screen


and when the rain started coming down again...
the hen had sense enough to seek shelter under the cottage...
and Pip forgot his senses and didn't make a big deal of the wet



during a rain pause...
I went down to the garden to pick some herbs for tea...
and saw this pretty little bug
the Lord has His artistic reasons for painting these tiny creatures as He does...
and it's beautiful
I don't know if this is a good bug for my garden or a bad one...
maybe I will look it up



it was the kind of evening that called for hot cocoa


my electric coffee grinder took a permanent holiday...
so, now I just use the hand grinder which works just fine for me...
and I ground enough roasted cocoa beans to make two large cups to relax with, after day's end



and the rains brought a chance to clean the windows on the inside...
where I take a damp cloth with a bucket of vinegar water and...
and wiped down each and every wooden slat
we have no glass in the windows; just screen and wood slats that close and open
these windows are our "air conditioners"...
and I love the way the cool breezes flow through the slats and keep the cottage comfortable 


Hearken, ye heavens, and I will speak:
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
My doctrine shall drop as rain,
and my speech shall still as the dew,
as the shower upon the herbs,
and as the great rain upon the grass.
For I will publish the name of the Lord:
give ye glory unto our God.
Perfect is the work of the mighty God:
for all his ways are judgment.
God is true, and without wickedness: 
just and righteous is he.
Deuteronomy 32:1-4

May your day or night find showers of blessings in the grace of Jesus Christ.