Welcome to our monthly collection! This space is our collection of links and ideas for you to explore, and things we might want to revisit and remember. Brew yourself a cup of tea and savor a quiet moment while you read. May you be inspired this springtime! It’s so fun to see the grass greening, perrenials popping up and calves frolicking in the pasture across the railroad tracks from us.

If you know, you know! I love playing Wordle and I got lucky a couple weeks ago and go the right word on the first try. For years I have started with the word SPARE (a nod to Prince Harry’s book), so now I have to find a new word. It’s weird, but not starting with SPARE has almost handicapped me. Creature of habit, I guess. Anyway, winning on the first try sent me down a rabbit trail of chances. Check this out:

There are 12,972 five letter words in the wordle dictionary.

That is FIVE YEARS WORTH OF WORDS!

That means the chance of getting it on the first try is… I actually have no idea what the chance is, but it’s not very high. Even my un-mathematic brain can see that. I wonder if that happens to anyone more than once in a lifetime?

I have a friend who loves spoonerisms. I have been there when they were hilariously funny and sometimes a tad embarrassing. This article tells a bit more about how they came to be. The most astonishing one I have ever heard is a preacher (I hope he doesn’t read SSR) on a beautiful Easter morning. He kept saying “my redeemeth liver” and it was a credit to the congregation that they kept it together. I do think his wife was convulsed on her bench, though. Shame on her!!

Are you looking for easy meals for the coming summer! Me too! I found this skillet meal and it was so good! I usually feel like casseroles and skillet meals aren’t very gourmet, but I didn’t even care about this one. I used homemade sausage instead of keilbasa, which I’m sure upped the game quite a bit. What are easy meals at your house?

I love the sentiment in this poem, and I am very convinced of its truth! Expect to find good people and you will find good people! Notice that the first traveler held himself aloof by using the pronoun they. He also was a traveler and needed to rest implying that he was traveling with more weight than was easy to carry. The second traveler (a pilgrim) called the city yours and implied that it was a beauty by called it bright. He only paused because he was a pilgrim and took with him only the things he needed. He also wasn’t carrying extra baggage of mistrust and aloofness.

This article caught my eye one day and I have read it a few times already. Are you the one easily offended? This articly may help you work through that. You do know it’s not every one else’s fault, right? I thought the example of two lanes merging into one really was a good example. Who hasn’t been irritated at that?

Are you wanting something clean for little aches and pains, sniffles, tummy aches and headaches? I have you covered! Try Earthley’s Feel Better Fast. It truly does make you feel better fast! We use it a lot in this household.

The proverb “March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers”, first recorded in 1886, and the shorter, trochaic version “April showers bring May flowers” (originally “Sweet April showers/Do spring May flowers”, part of a poem recorded in 1610, are common expressions in English speaking countries. The phrase is referenced in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales: “Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote”.

That’s a wrap for the month of April! Can you believe it? School is out next month. Long lazy days of summer with sunshine and swimming and tall glasses of lemonade. I’m ready!

-Eva