We have  had the most wonderful  yard sales this year.  I bought this gorgeous lace cloth from a lady who bought it in Italy.  She charged me only $7.00  It was so pretty on a 30" round table in our guest room....but I longed to use it where I could see it often...so here it is on a square table for the time being, and I'm loving it.

This English bone china teacup was from another summer sale...and I believe it was $2. or $3.00.  Can't remember for sure.  And I've had the little teapot....coffee pot? for ages, since way back when we had only been married a few years.

We spent the evening playing horseshoes and croquet, then finished up with a 300 piece puzzle which went together really quickly.  I love to make time for things that are fun.  Because,  the housework is never really all done...its peat and repeat of course.  I think, as a person ages, she appreciates the little things so much more.  Rather like the contentment that Gladys Tabor puts forth in her writings...or Miss Read.

Reading is contentment too...'The house was low and white and rambling with lemon-colored blinds and a green moss roof. There were frills of daffodils all down the garden walks and around the edges of the white picket fence......but the story began away back the summer before..'

 Taken from 'April Gold' by Grace Liviingston Hill.   An old fashioned story, which I find so easy to slip into and enjoy....and be thankful for.  One that points me to the Lord and values that build character.  I'm thinking about things I enjoy. Old and new....