Reading Under a Tree

 

Here's my Temperature Tree with February finished.  I find it very blue with just a couple of peeks of green. February was very cold but it was February and it's supposed to be cold in February in Michigan. 

I don't mind the cold but I don't like the snow. When the sun came out this week you could see it in people's faces.  Smiles. In these very trying and troubling days we need something to smile about and in Michigan in winter it can be something as simple as seeing the sun.  

Everyone needs to sit under a tree and read a book don't they?  These are this week's books I read to the kids on Tuesday.

This is the one I talked about in the last post.  The one that left me blubbering as the author signed it. The pup isn't the one who did that to me, it was the other dog in the story.

Kate wakes up one morning realizing she needs to share her bed once again.  Her cat died and now she announces "let's get a pup!"  Off the family goes to the shelter and come home with Dave. Dave is 100% puppy energy but the family can't get the sad look of the older dog they left at the shelter out of their minds. So, next morning the four of them go back to the shelter and bring back Rosy, the old dog that is eternally grateful for a home. 

This one is just plain giggles on every page.  The kids, the teacher, everyone was giggling.

Prudence wants a pet.  Mom and Dad give her every reason why not - cost, trouble, mess, etc. She persists in her imagination.  She finds a branch but after dad tripped over it and broke it into bits she went for a stick, then an old shoe named Famous Footwear (the name is right inside!) then an old tire.  She keeps trying and finally, finally mom and dad relent.  Even on the last page there is a giggle. 

I'm following along with Kathleen Tracy's March Civil War era little project.  Each Friday she is posting a new little and I was trying to think of something to do with the Little Women towel thing in my head. So I thought "the squares are little, they finish at 3 inches, she did the math, they are quick to make so I'd do something Civil War-y because that's the time of Little Women, too. 

                                                                        Still auditioning.

Kathleen made 4 squares, I made twelve because I was thinking border.  This is NOT how I'm going to use them, they are too much for the softness of the picture but laid them out this way to show you. And if in the end I don't use them at all, they will make a good pillow.