The Saturday Six

One.

I've talked on here many times before about my talented friend Brent Vernon - who can pretty much do it all. He sings, plays the piano, writes children's books, illustrates children's books, and is a ventriloquist. 2020 hasn't been the easiest year for artists like Brent, who depend on the ability to travel and appear in concert for their livelihood! But he did say this week that he's composed some original piano pieces for this YouTube channel. I took a listen and really enjoyed it. I like having music play in the background while I work, but if I play music with words that I know, I end up singing along and thinking about the words. Sometimes it's good to just have regular, wordless music going. This is a great track (four hours!) of calming music. Check it out!

Two.

A few weeks ago, I posted a link to a local news interview about David Henry, a teacher at a school near where Ryan and I lived. He had a severe case of Covid early on and nearly died from it. CBN picked up his story and did a feature on him. It's not too long and really well done.

Three.

Our adventures in growing tomatoes this year went really well - until our move. Even though we had plant sitters at our Kokomo house while we were in transition, the plants didn't do as well from the time we made our move forward. We did successfully harvest from both plants and I do plan to try again next year - hopefully with more success! But this was a tour of one beautiful garden!!! Even if you have no gardening aspirations, check this out, because it's so pretty!

Four.

You know, our tenants make us laugh SO MUCH. One day this week, one of them said something (I wish I could remember now her exact wording) that left a heavy insinuation that I'm old. While that is true, especially in comparison to her age, I decided to have some fun with it and suggested she rethink that statement because I'm most certainly NOT OLD. She scrambled and blurted out, "No way are you old. You're legendary!" I just cracked up. I'm pretty sure that's even OLDER, but it was still funny. But if you are feeling old today - or maybe you just feel like you've squandered too much time, read this advice. So wise. And so true. (I know. I'm legendary.)

Five.

I haven't made a fall bucket list yet, and I have no idea how challenging it might be to make one this year in comparison to years past. But I thought this post had some pretty good ideas that might be feasible in the middle of a pandemic year.

Six.

Since a new month starts next week, here is the September reading plan for the read-through-the-Gospels-in-a-year plan I did last year. I also don't think (due to our move and the printer not being set up) that I ever listed the full plan for August, so for the sake of posterity, I will list that here as well!