Wind

Yes, the wind blew the smoke in our eyes, but it was such a lovely day with friends.    

My husband was asked to be Godfather!

And I prepared + baked an election day cake! There's still plenty of time for you to bake one.

I used sourdough starter.  In the small measuring cup is sorghum molasses, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, ginger...

I soaked dried apricots, plums, dates + raisins in white wine for 24 hours.  I mixed the sourdough starter with milk + flour and let it ferment for 12 hours at room temperature.  Then mixed the butter, sugar, eggs... Let rise 2 hours.  Baked.  And the end result:

The whole recipe, from Old World Levain, can be found here.

Fire

Being outdoors is great, when it's not too hot and not too cold, often this time of year, with the exception of days like today, it's raining.  About a week ago, we went camping.  This was the roaring fire we sat by with friends and sipped on wine and felt the warmth of friendship.

Spent most of the day indoors yesterday, however, with the recent rain.  Little mechanic here.  George will be 2 in 2 weeks.

A friend and I went hiking.  This meadow with all the goldenrod was beautiful.

Just before Communion my husband started a fire to get lunch going.

Outdoor Liturgy!  Have you been having services outdoors?  It's a beautiful place, surrounded by His creation, with the trees in green, yellow, orange and red.