If you have today off, I hope you will find time to do something fun or at least outside your routine.
Walk around your yard and look for bees and flowers. Take a drive and go find some ice cream and yard sales. Head to the library and flip through magazines or see if there are any car shows or events happening nearby. Is there a local small business you’ve been meaning to check out? They would love to see you!
Go see what the world holds even if it is just in your own back yard. It will do you good.
This is a nice little corner of the world. The flag, bicycle and tub full of flowers make an inviting tableau. A bench in the shade invited me to escape the sun and rest my weary self for a bit. Unfortunately, I had places to be and a schedule to keep so I walked right past this downtown Chillicothe, Ohio antique shop with plans to come back another day.
While paying for our treasures at Riverstone Books, we asked the nice employee who was ringing us up if there was a good bakery nearby. He referred us to Gaby et Jules, a patisserie specializing in French macarons and some other fancy little desserts. It was just steps down the street from the bookstore and a logical place to pause for nourishment after a strenuous morning of book browsing.
Before we proceed, I just want to point out that macarons and macaroons are not the same thing. They’re both little cookies made with basically the same base ingredients but a macaroon is a drop cookie and is relatively easy to make. The macaron is a more challenging frou-frou little sandwich cookie that is filled with buttercream or some other confection and are almost too pretty to eat.
Almost. But I digress.
Truth be told, I’ve never been a huge fan of either cookie but that clearly was because I’ve never had one of Chef David Piquard’s specialty.
Not only are they beautiful, they have been voted the best in the city. They taste positively heavenly and are worthy of the recognition.
Friends, we have made it to Friday. Not just any Friday, mind you, but the start of Memorial Day weekend.
Take sometime this weekend to go for a ride, visit a small business that’s new to you, explore a hiking trail or do some other thing that makes your heart feel good.
Life isn’t meant to be survived. It isn’t meant to be spent on a dull treadmill. It’s meant to bring you joy and learning, new horizons and fresh opportunities
This is a good day to start acting like it.
What are you waiting for? The door is open. Go explore now!
Remember when I told you about the National Museum of the American Coverlet and how it’s in an old school in Bedford? Well, they have done a fantastic job of preserving that old school and some of its unique features.
The front hallway features a folk art mural of the town as well as this mural of the Big Bad Wolf spying on the pigs. Isn’t it fun?
Here’s a bigger picture view of the history mural and the pigs.
These odd and random things we run into out in the world are more or less what I live for. The coverlets in this museum are amazing but I found myself sometimes distracted by features of this old building. How fortunate were to get a peak inside!
