Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s to read others’ faves and link up your own.
Here are five of my favorites from the past week:
1. Finally visiting our library. I pass by the building often and thought it looked so warm and inviting. I’ll gladly take a warm and cozy library over a sleek, modern one most any day. We finally stopped in last weekend.
The front wall of the inside is made of the same brick.
This intriguing little sculpture was out front:
2. A shiny new library card! I didn’t check out anything for me on mine yet — I let Jesse check out a couple of things on mine for a research paper. When you get a new card you can only check our four things at first, so we put a few books on my card so he could save his for a field trip with his class to a different library. I have too many books stacked up to read to be checking out any more right now, anyway, but I enjoyed perusing the shelves.
3. A favorite leftover lunch is a grilled cheese sandwich with leftover meat loaf or stuffing burgers. Kind of like what a restaurant calls a Patty Melt except without the limp, droopy onions (bleah!).
4. A little color still left on the trees. The great majority of leaves are gone, blown off with rain and wind over the past couple of weeks. But there are still bits of color to enjoy here and there, like this tree in the neighborhood:
5. Sweet messages…in more ways than one. 🙂 When Jason heats up a couple of Toaster Strudels for himself and Mittu, he usually writes little messages with the icing. I’m doing good to just get the icing on there when I make them.
Have a great Friday!
Stray Thoughts 
That IS a pretty looking library! I like the looks of it. And I love the colors on that tree!
I hope you have a great weekend AND a FABULOUS time with all of your kids this week!
What a lovely library! It looks so welcoming. I have such a backlog of my own books at home to read, too, that I have been self-limiting how many I check out at the library. But I usually can’t resist checking out a couple more every time I go anyway.
those are some very sweet toaster strudels…
Looks like a great library. Love the strudels :0)
Have a wonderful weekend and great Thanksgiving Barbara!
What a beautiful, inviting library! Love it.
The tree picture is lovely, too. Don’t see that in South Florida — I miss it!
Have a happy holiday week!
Any day is good that you get to go to the library! Having access to the internet has changed my library habits a bit. When I first started writing, I would max out 4 cards with 10 books each. Now I don’t need as many but I never cease to have that same excited feeling I had as a child when I walked into one.
Love the “his” and “hers.”
Wow! the library! Honestly I didn’t know some libraries look like that. I am used to, like you say, “sleek and modern” ones. It would be nice to be inside such a lovely place and be with favorite authors for hours (my bucket list is growing)
I love the his and her messages. Strudel reminds me of Sound of Music 🙂
This is an interesting library for sure. Nice bear.
Strudel messages how romantic. I’m with you, put it on and spread it. Your cheese grill looks yummy, we had a can of beans on the tail gate of our truck tonight, maybe we can eat out tomorrow night, ha ha ha. Our road trip is almost over we are heading home, day 32.
Really cute message on the strudels! I like the look of the library and I’m happy you’re a member. The place looks so inviting!
Ha Ha love the icing messages…..my kids love those toaster strudels….I will have to try that. 🙂 Love the new library….can’t go wrong with a library. 🙂
Thanks for your sweet comment and prayers….means a lot to us!
Ditto on loving your little library–how cute! I’m excited to get to the point where I’m settled enough to try out the library in my new town.
Love the strudel messages — and the library does look inviting. That tree is a beauty, too!
Great post! I love spending time at the library! Enjoy your new card 🙂
Awww, such a sweet idea to put messages in icing. Love that library! I like most architecture and it’s interesting to see how different libraries are all over the world.
Well – I hate to tell you this – but I love the limp, droopy onions!
I’d go to any library but that one looks very cozy and inviting, like somewhere I’d spend lots of time in.
The strudels are are sweet. And that sandwich looks good, but I’ll take mine with those limp, droopy onions please.
Oh, your library looks like a cozy place to hang out. I once visited the Los Angeles library — a combination of sleek (four sets of escalators take you four stories underground) to familiar shelves of books with old fashioned wooden tables and green-shaded table lamps.
Your left-overs sandwich sounds lovely — like Ann (above), I also like the “limp, droopy onions”!