Author Archives: amytyndall

I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church, attending missions classes: Mission Friends in preschool, Girls in Action (GAs) in elementary, and Acteens as a teen. These graded missions classes fell under the leadership of Women’s Missionary Union (WMU). Because of these classes, and also because of having family members on the mission field, IContinue reading “Annie Armstrong”

Hello faithful Amy’s Garden readers! What have you been reading lately? I have been steadily working on my Scholé Sisters 5×5 reading challenge. I originally wrote about my plans in this post and later wrote a detailed review of the book Miracles, which is one of the books for the challenge. In this challenge, a readerContinue reading “5×5 Reading Challenge Update”

This weekend, my book club met to discuss Miracles by C.S. Lewis. Our group has read most of Lewis’s major works (and some of his more obscure works), and we agreed this is one of his hardest! The reason this book was so hard was because it took Lewis forEVER to get to the point.Continue reading “Review of Miracles by C.S. Lewis”

A few months ago I joined the online membership with Scholé Sisters. Each year they promote the 5×5 reading challenge. The idea is to choose five categories (read widely) and five books in each category (read deeply). I’ve never been good at completing reading challenges in the past (a year is SUCH a long time),Continue reading “5×5 Reading Challenge”

Winter might just be the best time for gardeners. We sit in our cozy homes, poring over seed catalogs, feeling like we can probably go ahead and grow ALL THE THINGS. My two favorite seed companies are Baker Creek and Johnny’s. I had actually already ordered some seeds from Johnny’s, including THESE snapdrogons. I recentlyContinue reading “Garden Plans for 2023”

This blog has been a bit quiet lately, since the primary person who had been posting here has started her own blog! And not only has she been blogging up a storm over at Life of Lydia, she has been writing Jane Austen fan fiction as well. Lydia wrote and illustrated Ferrars Family Christmas, whichContinue reading “Ferrars Family Christmas”

Hello faithful readers! Lydia has been writing so much here on Amy’s Garden that her wonderful father suggested she get her own blog. He helped her set it up last night, and it is live! Check it out and subscribe: lifeoflydia.com

Hello my dear Amy’s Garden readers! This is your humble servant Lydia Tyndall. I recently finished reading the book Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I thought it was pretty much the best thing ever. I have a friend at L.C.A. who shares my love of literature. We decided to have a book club togetherContinue reading “Sense and Sensibility”

Hello my dear readers!! For my creative writing class at L.C.A. I had to write some Haikus. I chose to make them all be about my illustrious hound, Jacques. I wanted to share them here because I love my little beast. Haikus inspired by Jacques By Lydia R. Tyndall Jacques rolls in the mud ObliviousContinue reading “Haikus inspired by Jacques”

Hello my dear Amy’s Garden readers! Today’s post will be rather short. All I am going to do is share a photo of our family’s new cat.