Mon 3 Jul 2006
We have been busy doing our school’s-out cleaning. Our attic had gotten pretty bad over the last couple of years. I always say I will wait until it is cool to clean it out but then I am always busy with school when it is cool.
Christopher comes home today. Then Emily leaves for a couple of weeks. Then James and Nathaniel go to Florida for the big tournament. I am happier when everybody is at home. I miss my children when they are not around.
We have a bully day planned for tomorrow. We are invited to a local party early in the afternoon, a church picnic late in the afternoon, and I hope we get over to Athens for their firework display around dark. The Athens display was terrific last year. Plus my parents will be visiting.
I bought fresh cantaloupe, watermelon, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, clementines, corn, tomatoes & avacadoes this week. The eatin’ is good around here. Tonight we are having grilled chicken with guacamole.
Tim never got around to getting our raised beds in but the children planted where we turned the soil over anyway. It was a low pressure, lots of fun experience and the fruits are beginning to roll in. We have cherry tomatoes ready and the big ones are almost ready also. Andrew planted corn and plans to eat it all by himself. Emily has a lovely stand of sunflowers with one gracing our dining room table.
Tim was told his job will be ending July 21. That is a normal situation for a contractor but it is a bit harder to bear since we have fallen in love with our town and Alabama. We aren’t sure where he will go next. ( read with a slightly panicked voice)
Timothy and Nicholas weighed in on the comments to my last post. Also my friend, Mrs Bennet….I mean…Karen, weighed in with funny comment about P & P, the novel to end all novels.
Karen wants to know if Mrs Bennet had a first name. Kelly thinks it was Fanny.
I want to know what Mrs. Darcy (Darcy’s mother) was like.
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I will take a guess that Mrs. Bennet’s first name is Jane, although her name is never told. Also, I think Darcy’s mother was very much like Georgiana and that Lady Catherine De Bourgh’s tale of Darcy’s cradle match with Anne is merely a figment of her imagination.
Comment by Mrs. Happy Housewife (July 3, 2006 @ 8:24 am )
Well, that is better than what I thought. I was afaid Darcy’s mother might be like Caroline Bingley.
Comment by Cindy (July 3, 2006 @ 8:27 am )
Move near us!
I’m glad your garden is doing well. I’m anxious to see mine again. We’re out of state right now but will be returning home today.
Comment by Jeannine (July 3, 2006 @ 9:02 am )
Jeannine, years ago, when we lived in NJ, I would have given my eye teeth to live in Peach Bottom. It is really beautiful there.
Comment by Cindy (July 3, 2006 @ 9:11 am )
Oh Cindy! Even though we don’t see one another, I like you living near me. : ) I keep thinking we will get together.
How shall we pray? Is there a possibility that you could stay here? Maybe you could move near one of your sons.
Comment by Laura in Alabama (July 3, 2006 @ 1:22 pm )
What an interesting question…
Darcy says that he was raised well…and that it was his own doing that he became proud…so I thing his mother must have been like his sister too.
Comment by Miz Booshay (July 3, 2006 @ 1:42 pm )
Darcy actually says that his parents gave him good principles but left him to figure it all out for himself… apparantly they didn’t check his pride and family pride was apparantly a big thing for them. I’m not one to think that all pride is sin, but if unmoderated it can certainly become sin as it did in Lady Catherine’s case. Lady Anne Darcy loved her family enough to give her son her maiden name, which seems a good thing, but apparantly she died when Georgiana was quite young, and their father was perhaps too occupied to notice what attitudes were being cultivated in his son, the way Sir Thomas neglected his daughters’ character training without meaning to.
Comment by Kelly (July 3, 2006 @ 3:37 pm )
I added the Books and Reading category to this post for its indepth analysis of P & P.
Comment by Cindy (July 3, 2006 @ 4:32 pm )
Hey, since people are putting in dibs on where you should live (!), I’d like to plug for Chattanooga. It wouldn’t be too far from your present house, same weather conditions, still in Dixie, and Soddy-Daisy is beautiful, as you know! There is also Watts Barr which is only about 40 or so minutes north of here.
Comment by Linda (July 3, 2006 @ 7:05 pm )
Watts Bar is # 1 on our list.
Glad to see you are home. I have been wanting to call you.
Comment by Cindy (July 3, 2006 @ 10:30 pm )
Call then! :lol_wp: And move to Watts Bar!
Comment by Linda (July 4, 2006 @ 7:17 am )
I’ve always imagined that Mrs. Darcy was like her son. Everyone liked Darcy’s father, so I assumed he was a great deal like Georgiana: shy and sweet. Therefore Darcy had to get his pride from somewhere, and Lady Anne certainly had a perfect reason for class pride. Or that’s what I imagined, anyway.
I am glad that I am not the only one to speculate about the backgrounds of literary characters. It’s a great tribute to Jane Austen that we think her characters so real.
Comment by MerryK (July 5, 2006 @ 6:38 pm )