You can read my latest column at Inside Catholic today:

For the Love of a Balloon

Not here, anyway.

Some of the kids and I are staying with my parents for a few days while Dan completes the floor refinishing project that never seems to end and man do I ever appreciate my generous parents’ hospitality and my hardworking husband who slaves away with a sander in this heat while I spend my days lounging lakeside beneath a shady tree.

But today I wanted to check in here to be sure you don’t miss Hallie Lord’s (aka Betty Beguiles) excellent feature article about What Our Grandmothers Knew at Faith & Family Live.

And now, until further notice, you can find me here:

Juliette wows the crowds.

My husband, he is vacuuming.

Vacuuming.

It’s a shop vac of course. And he’s using it in our living room which he has stripped bare of all its contents in anticipation of sanding and refinishing the floors in the next 3 days.

But it’s vacuuming nonetheless. And my husband is doing it. And beggars can’t be choosers now, can we?

Just for fun:

But it’s not pollution either.

It’s a circumhorizontal arc. Cool!

(Thank you, Michelle R.!)

View from our field yesterday:

(Some grump in the house called it “pollution” but I’m sticking with “rainbow.”)

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
– Cecil Frances Alexander