O Thou who canst not slumber,
Whose light grows never pale,
Teach us aright to number
Our years before they fail!
On us Thy mercy lighten,
On us thy goodness rest,
And let they Spirit brighten
The hearts Thyself hast blessed!
E.H.Bickersteth
11/10/09
Just a little poem........
O Thou who canst not slumber,
Whose light grows never pale,
Teach us aright to number
Our years before they fail!
On us Thy mercy lighten,
On us thy goodness rest,
And let they Spirit brighten
The hearts Thyself hast blessed!
E.H.Bickersteth
11/6/09
11/4/09
Just a thought............
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Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ~Author Unknown
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Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ~Author Unknown
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11/3/09
Room at the Cross
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I just got off the phone with my mom.....before we hung up, I told her what a blessing it was that I could call her and ask her to pray for some things going on in our life. Not too long ago, I couldn't even DREAM of asking her to do so. She is now a Christian.....and she does pray. For some reason this song came to my mind. There were many sad years waiting for her to become a Christian....there's always room at the cross for one more. Even my mom.
The cross upon which Jesus died,
Is a shelter in which we can hide;
And its grace so free is sufficient for me,
And deep is its fountain as wide as the sea
There's room at the cross for you,
There's room at the cross for you,
Tho millions have come, There's still room for one
Yes, there's room at the cross for you.
Tho millions have found Him a friend,
And have turned from the sins they have sinned,
The Savior still waits to open the gates
And welcomes a sinner before it's too late.
There's room at the cross for you,
There's room at the cross for you,
Tho millions have come, There's still room for one
Yes, there's room at the cross for you.
The hand of my Savior is strong,
And the love of my Savior is long;
Through sunshine or rain, through loss or in gain,
The blood flows from Calvary to cleanse every stain.
There's room at the cross for you,
There's room at the cross for you,
Tho millions have come, There's still room for one
Yes, there's room at the cross for you.
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I just got off the phone with my mom.....before we hung up, I told her what a blessing it was that I could call her and ask her to pray for some things going on in our life. Not too long ago, I couldn't even DREAM of asking her to do so. She is now a Christian.....and she does pray. For some reason this song came to my mind. There were many sad years waiting for her to become a Christian....there's always room at the cross for one more. Even my mom.
The cross upon which Jesus died,
Is a shelter in which we can hide;
And its grace so free is sufficient for me,
And deep is its fountain as wide as the sea
There's room at the cross for you,
There's room at the cross for you,
Tho millions have come, There's still room for one
Yes, there's room at the cross for you.
Tho millions have found Him a friend,
And have turned from the sins they have sinned,
The Savior still waits to open the gates
And welcomes a sinner before it's too late.
There's room at the cross for you,
There's room at the cross for you,
Tho millions have come, There's still room for one
Yes, there's room at the cross for you.
The hand of my Savior is strong,
And the love of my Savior is long;
Through sunshine or rain, through loss or in gain,
The blood flows from Calvary to cleanse every stain.
There's room at the cross for you,
There's room at the cross for you,
Tho millions have come, There's still room for one
Yes, there's room at the cross for you.
10/29/09
Colossians 3
We were told last night (4th night of revival services with Brother Hudson from Alvin) that Colossians 3 covers just about everything we need to do....to be what we ought to be.
My favorite Bible chapter has always been Romans 12 for that very reason.
Present your bodies a living sacrifice....be not conformed to this world.....think soberly.....prefer one another....rejoice in hope....be patient in tribulation......rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep, mind not high things.....abhor that which is evil....recompense to no man evil for evil.....overcome evil with good.
This is a great list of things to do.
Some people I have spoken to about the Bible get very defensive and say the Bible is NOT a book of lists. It isn't a book of do's and don't's. The Bible may not be written in list form, but you can surely make a nice list of things FROM the Bible.
Lists are good things and can do many things for us.
They can help us pack for a trip, to go camping, and a list is always good to have when you're shopping. Lists give us purpose, goals and something to work for. It's always nice to check things off that have been completed. Lists help keep us on track, prevent unnecessary trips, and to stay busy when we'd rather be toodling around. Lists can be as simple as eggs/milk/ bread OR as complicated as a chemist.
I am a list person. I write all kinds of lists. My lists are all written for one reason. Please get SOMETHING done Michele. I feel better when things are written down. I sleep better.
I need to remember to do the important things. Just because something is important doesn't mean I will remember it.......so I write it down.
Why go through your days without a plan.
So, as I look through Colossians 3.....I see many things the Lord wants us to do and apply to our daily lives. The Bible isn't something you can mark through after you have done something once.
It isn't a grocery list......or a Saturday 'to do' list.......it isn't a one time or random thing. This is maybe our biggest problem.....we want to be kind ONE time. To forgive ONE time. OK, I'm thankful. I'm done now. And just how many times do I have to be humble?
seek those things which are above
set your affection on things above
mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth
put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication of of your mouth
lie not one to another
put on therefore, as the elect of God, hold and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering
forbear one another
and forgiving one another
put on charity
let the peace of God rule in your hearts
let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord
do all in the name of the Lord Jesus
giving thanks to God
wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands
husbands, love your wives and be not bitter against them
children obey your parents in all things
fathers, provoke not your children to anger
servants, obey in all things your masters
and whatsoever he do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
There's something we can start the day with! Christians should never be bored. This gives direction. It isn't confusing.....we make it confusing because it is hard to apply. This chapter WAY covers enough to keep us busy every day. If the Lord told us to do these things.....they must be possible. Realistic expectations.
We may ask the Lord what He wants us to do. What is your will for me? We can start here.
Don't piddle your Christian life away doing things that are not profitable.
My favorite Bible chapter has always been Romans 12 for that very reason.
Present your bodies a living sacrifice....be not conformed to this world.....think soberly.....prefer one another....rejoice in hope....be patient in tribulation......rejoice with those that rejoice, weep with those that weep, mind not high things.....abhor that which is evil....recompense to no man evil for evil.....overcome evil with good.
This is a great list of things to do.
Some people I have spoken to about the Bible get very defensive and say the Bible is NOT a book of lists. It isn't a book of do's and don't's. The Bible may not be written in list form, but you can surely make a nice list of things FROM the Bible.
Lists are good things and can do many things for us.
They can help us pack for a trip, to go camping, and a list is always good to have when you're shopping. Lists give us purpose, goals and something to work for. It's always nice to check things off that have been completed. Lists help keep us on track, prevent unnecessary trips, and to stay busy when we'd rather be toodling around. Lists can be as simple as eggs/milk/ bread OR as complicated as a chemist.
I am a list person. I write all kinds of lists. My lists are all written for one reason. Please get SOMETHING done Michele. I feel better when things are written down. I sleep better.
I need to remember to do the important things. Just because something is important doesn't mean I will remember it.......so I write it down.
Why go through your days without a plan.
So, as I look through Colossians 3.....I see many things the Lord wants us to do and apply to our daily lives. The Bible isn't something you can mark through after you have done something once.
It isn't a grocery list......or a Saturday 'to do' list.......it isn't a one time or random thing. This is maybe our biggest problem.....we want to be kind ONE time. To forgive ONE time. OK, I'm thankful. I'm done now. And just how many times do I have to be humble?
seek those things which are above
set your affection on things above
mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth
put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication of of your mouth
lie not one to another
put on therefore, as the elect of God, hold and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering
forbear one another
and forgiving one another
put on charity
let the peace of God rule in your hearts
let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord
do all in the name of the Lord Jesus
giving thanks to God
wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands
husbands, love your wives and be not bitter against them
children obey your parents in all things
fathers, provoke not your children to anger
servants, obey in all things your masters
and whatsoever he do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
There's something we can start the day with! Christians should never be bored. This gives direction. It isn't confusing.....we make it confusing because it is hard to apply. This chapter WAY covers enough to keep us busy every day. If the Lord told us to do these things.....they must be possible. Realistic expectations.
We may ask the Lord what He wants us to do. What is your will for me? We can start here.
Don't piddle your Christian life away doing things that are not profitable.
10/26/09
I LOVE this song...........
If We Never Meet Again
Albert E. Brumley\\
Soon we'll come to the end of life's journey
And perhaps never meet anymore
'til we gather in heaven's bright city
Far away on that beautiful shore.
If we never meet again this side of heaven
As we struggle through this world and its strife
There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven
By the side of the river of life.
Where the charming roses bloom forever
And where separations come no more
If we never meet again this side of heaven
I will meet you on that beautiful shore.
If we never meet again this side of heaven
As we struggle through this world and its strife
There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven
By the side of the river of life.
Albert E. Brumley\\
Soon we'll come to the end of life's journey
And perhaps never meet anymore
'til we gather in heaven's bright city
Far away on that beautiful shore.
If we never meet again this side of heaven
As we struggle through this world and its strife
There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven
By the side of the river of life.
Where the charming roses bloom forever
And where separations come no more
If we never meet again this side of heaven
I will meet you on that beautiful shore.
If we never meet again this side of heaven
As we struggle through this world and its strife
There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven
By the side of the river of life.
10/22/09
Granny's Old House
This is my Granny's old house in Kansas. I love this house. Wish we could buy it.....I remember she had daisies underneath her clothesline. She always had red jello and pork chops in the fridge. She loved glass wot-nots. She had a wooden case (with sliding glass doors) full of them and when she walked in the house they moved around....her house was on bricks and I guess it was kind of shaky. As a young kid, I thought it was pretty neat. She also never minded when we opened up those glass door and played with her pretties.
She had orange slices, Wrigley's gum, the round pink mints with x's on them in her candy dish. I don't think Granny knew about cavities. She LOVED it when we got into her candy dish.....I can still see it inside her cabinet door. Even though we had full permission to do it, we were still in the kitchen and nobody could SEE us getting her candy!
She had jewelery boxes full of costume jewelery. Her drawers were full of scarves and fancy nightgowns. We were welcomed to that stuff, too. I never remember her telling us to get off of her bed. And her bed was always made.....with a pretty quilt or something.
She had pillows everywhere in her frontroom. Her sister crocheted, knitted and quilted so there was always an interesting pillow on the back of her couch.
Her kitchen table was by a window....but nobody ever sat there. There was always a bouquet of plastic flowers in a huge glass vase taking up most of the room.
Granny had pens and pencils everywhere. She laid pens that did not work on top of her heating stove to make the ink warm up so the pen would work.....she had a water cooler too. I would sit in front of it in the summer and let it spit water on me.
She layered different colored kleenexes in see through plastic containers. White kleenexes were not going to work for her. Her bathroom was purple and she had painted mermaids on her wall. I used to think they were not very nice......mermaids just are NOT nice. Everything in her bathroom had a light sprinkling of powder on it. Just think back to the day when you bought powder with puffs for presents!
She would sometimes get her hair dyed the light purple as grannies did back then. Or, her hair would just be brushed and kind of scary.
She went to yard sales and bought old clothes and tore them up for rag rugs. I still have the very wooden crochet hook she used.
Granny didn't read, she watched game shows. But she never hollered if you got in front of the TV. I know we went in and out and in and out and I never remember her getting onto us for anything.
There was a big yellow rose bush right outside the front steps. You had to edge around it or you got poked and scratched.
The steps you see are the steps that caused Granny to make this statement every time we left.....
"Don't Fall Down and Go Boom!"
I know I've probably shared all of this with you before....I was just looking at pictures and a flood of Granny Memories came to me.
We have a song that says........if you still have your Grandma, give her, a hug, for me.
10/21/09
A challenge
It is your mission, tested and tried one, to walk out on the stage of this world and reveal to all earth and Heaven that the music is not in conditions, not in the things, not in the externals, but the music of life is in your own soul.
If peace be in the heart,
The wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty,
The midnight flash but shows the path of duty,
Each living creature tells some new and joyous story,
The very trees and stones all catch a ray of glory,
If peace be in the heart.
C.F. Richardson
10/20/09
Purple
These three purses belong to my daughters. How they all ended up with the same color I'll never know......cimc
One I did buy for myself, then gave it to Lydia.
One I bought for Kim and I wish it were mine.
One I actually had in my hands to buy, then decided against it, then Olivia ended up buying the exact purse later on.
Honk if you love purses.
10/15/09
Good Morning Thursday
I love to see different grasses in the different places we find ourselves. And to see dry grass in snow.......well, that's pretty neat to me.
Hebrews 11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, (34)Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
(and we think we have been persecuted if there is a LONG line at McDonalds.......or if somebody looks at us wrong)
10/7/09
A trip to Colorado
We left Thursday night and got back the way next Saturday evening. If we would have stopped to take a picture every time we wanted to....we'd still be there I'm sure.
I saw sooooo many little houses......poor little houses. The roofs were caved in, the walls were crooked, nobody home anymore. That's what was impossible to take pictures of. Maybe next time!!
We listened to Louis L'Amour books read on cd.....cd's we haven't listened to for a long time and drank coffee on our way there and back.
The weather was perfect the whole time. No rain on our picnic, snow came at a very welcomed time. The kids played off and on in it all day Thursday. When we were asked to go, it seemed so impossible and so far away. Now it is just a memory. And a good one.
Tuesday
There was always a little spot on the road to stop. There was always something to look at!!
We watched some candy being made in a factory....it was just like Unwrapped and Modern Marvels! We ate some marshmallows coated in carmel....then went to Casa Bonita's for lunch/dinner.
Monday
A couple of my favorite shots.......
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This was on the 7 mile senic route. It was really 20 some miles going ONE way, UP, dirt/gravel road that causes scary dreams.
On a mountain somewhere........
Thursday
This was taken on a Thursday morning walk. It was beautiful out!
Kimberly? in a coat?
Building a fire. Dangerously.
Foreign objects. Coats.
Winter Park Balcony
From Thursday night to the next Wednesday evening, the weather was sunny~~~bright~~~warm. Wednesday evening it started to snow. It was perfect because we all planned to stay at the 'place' the next day anyway. We drank coffee, played games, started a fire and took walks in the snow.
our trip..............Wednesday
Wednesday we drove to Boulder.......on the way we stopped at Red Rock and took some pictures there. It was a nice drive and a beautiful day. This is the day we went to Celestial Tea factory. I will enjoy that tea even more than I did before!!
Our family on the beautiful bridge.......
Our Texas Friends on the Colorado Bridge!
Bubbling stream.....small river? babbling brook?
A park outside of Boulder.........out of nowhere, people came crashing through the woods on bicycles. It was a good idea to keep an eye out so you wouldn't be involved in an accident~~~~and the bike won.
Wednesday Afternoon
Our family on the beautiful bridge.......
Our Texas Friends on the Colorado Bridge!
Bubbling stream.....small river? babbling brook?
A park outside of Boulder.........out of nowhere, people came crashing through the woods on bicycles. It was a good idea to keep an eye out so you wouldn't be involved in an accident~~~~and the bike won.
Wednesday Afternoon
10/6/09
You are what you eat...........
OK, I don't look like a carrot, or a piece of celery. I look more like a donut or a plump radish.
We are what we eat. We just got back from a state where everybody wears hoodies and hiking boots. I didn't see anybody eating granola, but I bet they do.
We can't hide this. Unless there are serious circumstances involved, we pretty much ARE what we digest. I can ponder all I want, I can wonder and try to figure it out and be in a quandry.......but I am what I eat.
In this day of computers.......we are also what we blog.
I came across a lovely blog the other day......you know how it happens. You go to a blog, then you click on another one...then another.....
and you find yourself adding it to your favorites. That is the case with this blog:
http://buttonwillowchronicles.typepad.com/
Every picture I looked at was whimsical and fun, every quote I read made me smile. It was a very enjoyable experience. Like a good book. A good book with very good pictures!
I have been challenged by other blogs.......women who know how to do things I do not have inspired me to do better.
All blogs are different.....just like people.
Some people have more than one blog. That's who they are. They can't fit it all into one! I have more than one.....
Some have lots of random topics, some have just one.
Recipes, landscapes, home-schooling, sewing, raising children, modesty, devotionals, pets, a family business, trips, gardens, messages, baby stuff, movies, healthy eating, technical stuff, herbs........the list is as long as people are unique.
I probably go to more blogs of people I have never met, than people that I personally know.
The people I know, their blogs fit them to a T. Whatever that is?
Grandchildren, flowers, beach pictures, tea-pots, babies, home-schooling, recipes, sewing.....
I visit blogs of people I have never met.
They have the same sort of blogs, I don't know them in person....but sometimes I feel like I do.
Blogs are a fun thing.
I remember the first time I came to KNOW about blogs......I thought the lady meant CLOGS. Then I thought.....blog.......blog? what in the world is that? I doubt I can ever figure it out to have one. Oh. What is ONE?
Do you remember the first time you heard or saw the word BLOG?
What made you name your blog what you did?
What is your goal? your intent?
Just like real life......we don't put our worst foot forward,
we don't blurt the ugly things in our lives, we don't announce our failures and show people pictures that we think are bad.....when our hair is fried*** Why would it be any different with blogs? Everybody tends to put up the cropped and fixed up pictures and the lovely words....don't be surprised or put off by it. What's wrong with trying to be positive and provoking others to think on lovely things?
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clothespins
biscuit recipes
kittens
baby feet
snowmen
funny signs
verses that edify
sweet poems
Anne!
fun facts
Zote soap
cilantro
aprons
*************
I am Mobunny........I have a bosom buddy that called me MO for many years.......I like rabbits...so I put the two together. I change it up a little bit sometimes, but I am really Mobunny in the end. SadBunny.....PiddleBunny.....SewBunny........
I named my blog Rabbit Trails because I knew that is what it would turn out to be. Lots of random thoughts. And pictures. I love to post pictures to make others smile. That's why it's been so hard on me lately not to be able to freely do so.
I want my friends to come down the trails with me......to ponder the paths of their feet, to maybe do something new, to see something that makes them smile, to be encouraged.........and maybe even use one of my pictures for a screen saver!!!
Happy blogging to all of you......
I will probably never meet most of you.......until We All Get To Heaven...
We are what we eat. We just got back from a state where everybody wears hoodies and hiking boots. I didn't see anybody eating granola, but I bet they do.
We can't hide this. Unless there are serious circumstances involved, we pretty much ARE what we digest. I can ponder all I want, I can wonder and try to figure it out and be in a quandry.......but I am what I eat.
In this day of computers.......we are also what we blog.
I came across a lovely blog the other day......you know how it happens. You go to a blog, then you click on another one...then another.....
and you find yourself adding it to your favorites. That is the case with this blog:
http://buttonwillowchronicles.typepad.com/
Every picture I looked at was whimsical and fun, every quote I read made me smile. It was a very enjoyable experience. Like a good book. A good book with very good pictures!
I have been challenged by other blogs.......women who know how to do things I do not have inspired me to do better.
All blogs are different.....just like people.
Some people have more than one blog. That's who they are. They can't fit it all into one! I have more than one.....
Some have lots of random topics, some have just one.
Recipes, landscapes, home-schooling, sewing, raising children, modesty, devotionals, pets, a family business, trips, gardens, messages, baby stuff, movies, healthy eating, technical stuff, herbs........the list is as long as people are unique.
I probably go to more blogs of people I have never met, than people that I personally know.
The people I know, their blogs fit them to a T. Whatever that is?
Grandchildren, flowers, beach pictures, tea-pots, babies, home-schooling, recipes, sewing.....
I visit blogs of people I have never met.
They have the same sort of blogs, I don't know them in person....but sometimes I feel like I do.
Blogs are a fun thing.
I remember the first time I came to KNOW about blogs......I thought the lady meant CLOGS. Then I thought.....blog.......blog? what in the world is that? I doubt I can ever figure it out to have one. Oh. What is ONE?
Do you remember the first time you heard or saw the word BLOG?
What made you name your blog what you did?
What is your goal? your intent?
Just like real life......we don't put our worst foot forward,
we don't blurt the ugly things in our lives, we don't announce our failures and show people pictures that we think are bad.....when our hair is fried*** Why would it be any different with blogs? Everybody tends to put up the cropped and fixed up pictures and the lovely words....don't be surprised or put off by it. What's wrong with trying to be positive and provoking others to think on lovely things?
****************
clothespins
biscuit recipes
kittens
baby feet
snowmen
funny signs
verses that edify
sweet poems
Anne!
fun facts
Zote soap
cilantro
aprons
*************
I am Mobunny........I have a bosom buddy that called me MO for many years.......I like rabbits...so I put the two together. I change it up a little bit sometimes, but I am really Mobunny in the end. SadBunny.....PiddleBunny.....SewBunny........
I named my blog Rabbit Trails because I knew that is what it would turn out to be. Lots of random thoughts. And pictures. I love to post pictures to make others smile. That's why it's been so hard on me lately not to be able to freely do so.
I want my friends to come down the trails with me......to ponder the paths of their feet, to maybe do something new, to see something that makes them smile, to be encouraged.........and maybe even use one of my pictures for a screen saver!!!
Happy blogging to all of you......
I will probably never meet most of you.......until We All Get To Heaven...
10/5/09
Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Kansas...AND a FAVOR
This picture wasn't from our trip........but it was taken in Kansas. We got a new computer and there are still a few bugs to work out, so pictures will come soon. I hope.
We had a wonderful time with our friends and it was good to see my parents and sister also.
Home again
Home again
Jiggity Jig.
Back to humidity. It was so humid today I didn't go outside. That is not like me. And here.....I was telling everybody I would rather have humidity than wind. Well, I think I said it when it was windy......
Since we got a new computer, I lost all of my favorites. I did save my pictures and some documents off of my desktop.......but I didn't save my favorites. If you are reading this, just leave a comment so I can COOKIE you into our new system.....and have your blog address where I can click in to it.
I know that might sound lame to all of you computer savvy people out there....just humor me and leave a comment.
One of these days I will be real smart, just like YOU are, and I won't need your help. But until then.........
9/24/09
A Time For Change
THE WEATHER IS ALWAYS CHANGING
I'M GLAD FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR
ENJOY IT WHERE YOU ARE
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Loire Hartwould
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus
"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"
- Humbert Wolfe
"The milkweed pods are breaking,
And the bits of silken down
Float off upon the autumn breeze
Across the meadows brown."
- Cecil Cavendish, The Milkweed
I'M GLAD FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR
ENJOY IT WHERE YOU ARE
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Loire Hartwould
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus
"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"
- Humbert Wolfe
"The milkweed pods are breaking,
And the bits of silken down
Float off upon the autumn breeze
Across the meadows brown."
- Cecil Cavendish, The Milkweed
9/22/09
just in case.
I hardly ever have comment moderation in place.......but since we will be gone for a while, I'd hate for some thoughtless person leave an ugly comment that I didn't get to right away. I'll undo it when we get back.
from Colorado. !!
quotes
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Earth laughs in flowers.
I love Spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden. Ruth Stout
One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you're in charge.
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower is a tethered butterfly.
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.......
The tiniest garden is often the loveliest.
Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.
I have never had so many good ideas, day after day, as when I worked in the garden.
What a pity flowers can utter no sound. A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle--oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be.
Anyone who has a bulb has spring.
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.
And yes, the neighbors across the street DO have a pool. And no, that is not our green house. And no, the neighbors did not paint it that color to go with my gardens. And yes, that is corn you see to the left.
9/21/09
A Legal Blog
I know it is fixing to be winter for some of you........but around here, we can have flowers all seasons if we plant and plan right. I do enjoy the flowers year round where I live.......I also enjoy cool fronts, but that is another post.........so this blog is legal because of where I live. We have flowers instead of snow. It is fun to see which flowers will make it through the winter? season.
I never know what is going to grow and bloom........!!
This red flower is always a surprise. They are random because that is how they were planted.
This is where Zephyr hides. She probably wouldn't want me to tell you all that....but she's in there all the time so dogs and other cats won't see her.
It's always a nice surprise too, to get a white? flower.
These Shamrock plants are in the garden by the doorway. I did some changing around of that spot in late Spring. I hope they continue to thrive. They are from my Great Grandma's garden that lived in Colorado. I guess they can take harsh winters. I also guess mine are spoiled!
This is mid Spring. The blue-bonnets are a horrible sight after they bloom. If you don't wait for them to go to seed, you lose next year's flowers. I threw seed ALL over the front yard from the plants this year. Our yard should be filled with pink and blue bonnets come March 2,010. We'll see.
This had to be one of the biggest surprises of all. I try to throw seeds from vegetables/fruits in places that they might happily take root......and this one did! I didn't know it until it got this big. But can I PLANT one of these things and get fruit? no.
This is a Shrimp Plant. They will grow like weeds if they are in a happy spot. I don't have any big ones right now.....most of them got plucked and pulled when I fixed the garden they were thriving in.
Sometimes the 24 hour garden is filled with sunflowers........
Flowery snow.........this was ONE beautiful day.
I never know what is going to grow and bloom........!!
This red flower is always a surprise. They are random because that is how they were planted.
This is where Zephyr hides. She probably wouldn't want me to tell you all that....but she's in there all the time so dogs and other cats won't see her.
It's always a nice surprise too, to get a white? flower.
These Shamrock plants are in the garden by the doorway. I did some changing around of that spot in late Spring. I hope they continue to thrive. They are from my Great Grandma's garden that lived in Colorado. I guess they can take harsh winters. I also guess mine are spoiled!
This is mid Spring. The blue-bonnets are a horrible sight after they bloom. If you don't wait for them to go to seed, you lose next year's flowers. I threw seed ALL over the front yard from the plants this year. Our yard should be filled with pink and blue bonnets come March 2,010. We'll see.
This had to be one of the biggest surprises of all. I try to throw seeds from vegetables/fruits in places that they might happily take root......and this one did! I didn't know it until it got this big. But can I PLANT one of these things and get fruit? no.
This is a Shrimp Plant. They will grow like weeds if they are in a happy spot. I don't have any big ones right now.....most of them got plucked and pulled when I fixed the garden they were thriving in.
Sometimes the 24 hour garden is filled with sunflowers........
Flowery snow.........this was ONE beautiful day.
9/20/09
Where are You?
There is a process that can happen in our life. It is not upward but downward.
You might be somewhere in this progression and don't know how you got there.
EXPECTATIONS
DISAPPOINTMENT
DISCOURAGEMENT
UNBELIEF
DISOBEDIENCE
We all have expectations. If you start counting them, you won't be able to go to bed tonight. In fact, you might not be able to go to bed for a week or two if you try to think of everything you expect in your life.
can openers, computers, pets, cars, emergency rooms, gardens, friends, Taco Bell, banks, thrift stores, books, seasons, ball games, cameras, jobs, family, marriage, bosses, tires, heaters, pens, neighbors, doctors, vacations, church services, birthdays................
Be careful of your expectations for they drive your life. If we live life just waiting for all of these things to fall into place and be perfect, we are living way too close to the edge. Life is very unpredictable so it we are very subject to disappointment. Things are easily altered.
We expect certain things and if they don't happen, we can be disappointed. If we do what Barney says......we'll take life a lot better. Nip It In The Bud. Don't let things snowball on you. You might think 'how silly' it is to be concerned about such a little thing as a can opener........just be sure to never be guilty of throwing one across the room because it won't work. Come out of McDonald's after standing in line for 35 minutes waiting for a cup of coffee and see how important it is to nip things in the bud.........even more so for things that ARE not so trivial as can openers and McDonald's.
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is my flesh........dwelleth no good thing. If We can be described as having no good thing within us, other people are in the same boat.....meaning they can easily irritate, and so can we.
If we don't take care of things, large or small, we become discouraged. We are not quite where Solomon was when he said all is vanity. All is not vanity at this point, but if it isn't taken care of, it soon will be. Disappointments can come in a consistent way and in a big way. When we can't do a thing about something, then we begin to weaken and become disheartened. We are feeling low and not too happy about things, but we will still listen to reason. You are hindered but not hardened.
Discouragement that isn't taken care of properly can turn into unbelief. This could be when you start to doubt God and what is in the Bible. Things are hard, so you start changing your mind on things. Things you would have never changed your mind on had you been in the right state of mind......which is humble and thankful. Now you will be hard to deal with. Now you can't be reasoned with out of the Bible because you are in a state of mind that doubts God's Word. You see everything dimly. Through eyes of little faith and great doubt. You can be told that you are in a bad state, but you no longer believe those you used to trust. Your unbelief is a product of you not taking care of disappointment and you let it go too far. There is nothing worse than a believer not believing.
Your next step is disobedience. You start to act on your feelings instead of reasoning out of God's Word. You start doing things your own way. Actions ready with excuses. You think the Lord's Way did not work. You ,seemingly on purpose, forget the things that you have been taught. You slight the things you used to believe as true. You have to slight them else you would have to admit that you are in walking the other direction. Irrational thinking abounds. Your decisions are based on what YOU think is a good idea. You are convinced that it is the best way.
We've all seen people in this state. We all think we will never be there. We all think we are above it. But we all have disappointments. Just how often and to what degree are you disappointed? Nip your disappointments in the bud while you have a spiritual mind about you.
God is good all the time. Not just when you are pleased. Or me. God is good all the time. Are you clay in God's hand or a stone?
DISAPPOINT: To fail to satisfy the hope, desire, or expectation of.
DISCOURAGE: to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
EXPECT: to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of
UNBELIEF: the state or quality of not believing; incredulity or skepticism, esp. in matters of doctrine or religious faith.
DISOBEDIENCE: lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
9/18/09
pretty rain............
It was such a pretty rain........I love to hear it splashing and pitter-pattering on my old pans and pitchers.
9/17/09
time for tea
I must further advise you Harriet, not to heap such mountains of sugar in your tea, nor to pour such a deluge of cream into it. People will certainly take you for the daughter of a dairymaid!
To Think of Tea
Agnes Repplier 1932
9/16/09
Autumn is coming........
(if you already need a quilt at night where you live.......you can say so.......I can take it)
9/12/09
The Rabbit Hutch Store
http://www.therabbithutchstore.blogspot.com/
go here to see things I just put up for sale........
go here to see things I just put up for sale........
9/9/09
just a little bit funny
The Tinkerbell effect describes those things that exist only because people believe in them.
.........not that I admire Tinkerbell or anything she does .................
it could pertain to my vision of a perfect puppy
it's not good to be out of touch with reality
now, is it?
.........not that I admire Tinkerbell or anything she does .................
it could pertain to my vision of a perfect puppy
it's not good to be out of touch with reality
now, is it?
9/6/09
9/3/09
yay and happy September
Here is a fun recipe for breakfast......I made it for lots of people, you can adjust it for your own family........
8 cans of biscuits the cheap ones from Wal-mart worked well
2 sticks of margarine
brown sugar
pkg. of butterscotch pudding mix
whole package of cream cheese
powdered sugar
mix the cream cheese and powdered sugar together in a bowl
smash the biscuits so they're big and flat
put some of the cream cheese mixture in the middle
fold them up so they don't ooze
put them in a big pan that you melted the margarine in
sprinkle them with brown sugar and the DRY butterscotch pudding mix
you can turn the loaded biscuits over so they get covered with everything
move them gently
you don't want them to ooze
these are some kind of YUMMY.
Yesterday I found 24 pieces of sea glass on the beach.
I have never seen so much of it since I started the collection.
My little glass jar is filled to the top.
also........the bus barn said YES!
We get to go to Colorado.
We are starting school on Monday.
don't anybody try to stop us.....................
9/1/09
Lemons
When I think of a lemon, I think of many things.
I think of how special lemonade used to be. Now we drink it by the gallons and don't think a thing of it. Just run to the store and buy a big old lemon. Easy.
But I don't think it used to be so easy.
Just ask Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables. And Laura Ingalls.
And just to think, sometimes it even had ice in it.
We don't appreciate ice any more than we do lemons.
Do YOU remember the first time you heard this? When life gives you lemons, make lemonade? I was in high school in an art class. I thought it was corny then, and I still do. Sorry.........
I also think of pirates. Pirates? Yes. Just think, if pirates, a long time ago, had lemons like they needed them, the world would be ran by pirates today. All those long sea voyages caused so many pirates to weaken and they could not fight like strong men could. Their lack of vitamin C brought on their demise. So, lack of lemons has probably saved the world from pirates. Of course, it hasn't saved the world from terrorists and liberal democrats, but at least there aren't very many pirates. But then, maybe we would be better off?
You can buy lemon perfume, shampoo, air freshener, candles, laundry soap and LOTS of lemon scented cleaners. The girls have always enjoyed Lemon Joy dish washing liquid. I have always enjoyed the girls doing the dishes..........
One of my favorite perfume/oil/lotion is lemon-grass. I love it in essential oil form and from Bath and Body. Lemons and cleaning just seem to go together. I prefer a lemony smell over bleach any day!!
I have heard some say that the lemon is the perfect food. I wonder if they meant Lemon Lush, or Lemon Pie, Lemon Poppyseed Cake maybe? Maybe they just meant a plain lemon? I've also heard that an egg is also the perfect food. Honestly, I think a good old cake donut is pretty perfect myself.
There is nothing more fun than adding lemon ZEST to a recipe. I purchased a really neat retro zester not too long ago. It really does the trick. Of course it works on limes too.
(do this:
zest a lime, a little honey, chopped up jalapeno and some bbq sauce.........add it all together. Yum)
There also wouldn't be anything more fun than to pick lemons off of your own tree. That would be right up there with having an avocado tree that had fruit every year. That hurricane winds didn't blow to Smithereens. In the middle of September.
When we eat out, I always order water. I honestly prefer water......and I really like a lemon in the water. I judge the waiter/waitress by this. Did they even take a second to plop a lemon in my glass? Most do not. I don't ask for one because then they bring you a whole bowl....like I might be part pirate and need my vitamin C.
And whose idea was it to squeeze lemons on fish? OH! I know! Long John Silver!
I will NOT drink lemonade Kool-Aid. Actually I won't drink Kool-Aid at all...........especially not lemon. How fake is that? If I'm going to drink 'fake', give me a diet caffeine free Coke.
A LONG time ago, when I was still a kid, I had my best friend over for the night. My mom warmed up some Dr. Pepper and squeezed a lemon into it. UGH. I don't recommend it. Sorry mom, don't make us any more treats like that please.
On a negative note.......who wants a yellow car? Where did that start anyway? Ha! Looks like you got a lemon!!
Lemons will also take the enamel off of your teeth. That makes them feel really nice.
Lemons are also bitter and nothing like an orange when it comes to just eating one. You can't even peel the silly things.
I read somewhere that lemon drop candies are the most swallowed candy. They are slippery and just right to swallow, I must agree. I don't eat them. I have never liked tart or sour candy. So, I'm safe from this problem.
"I can't live without lemons." Martha Stewart
Poor Martha.......lemons are nice, but I can live without them.
[She probably can't live without her 3 houses either.]
Remember this song from long ago?
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
I would love to smell a lemon flower!!
To end my little discourse on lemons, I will give you a couple Bible verses:
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Don't be like a lemon......all pretty and shiny on the outside........bitter on the inside.
Leave a comment............what do YOU think about when somebody says 'lemon'?
I think of how special lemonade used to be. Now we drink it by the gallons and don't think a thing of it. Just run to the store and buy a big old lemon. Easy.
But I don't think it used to be so easy.
Just ask Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables. And Laura Ingalls.
And just to think, sometimes it even had ice in it.
We don't appreciate ice any more than we do lemons.
Do YOU remember the first time you heard this? When life gives you lemons, make lemonade? I was in high school in an art class. I thought it was corny then, and I still do. Sorry.........
I also think of pirates. Pirates? Yes. Just think, if pirates, a long time ago, had lemons like they needed them, the world would be ran by pirates today. All those long sea voyages caused so many pirates to weaken and they could not fight like strong men could. Their lack of vitamin C brought on their demise. So, lack of lemons has probably saved the world from pirates. Of course, it hasn't saved the world from terrorists and liberal democrats, but at least there aren't very many pirates. But then, maybe we would be better off?
You can buy lemon perfume, shampoo, air freshener, candles, laundry soap and LOTS of lemon scented cleaners. The girls have always enjoyed Lemon Joy dish washing liquid. I have always enjoyed the girls doing the dishes..........
One of my favorite perfume/oil/lotion is lemon-grass. I love it in essential oil form and from Bath and Body. Lemons and cleaning just seem to go together. I prefer a lemony smell over bleach any day!!
I have heard some say that the lemon is the perfect food. I wonder if they meant Lemon Lush, or Lemon Pie, Lemon Poppyseed Cake maybe? Maybe they just meant a plain lemon? I've also heard that an egg is also the perfect food. Honestly, I think a good old cake donut is pretty perfect myself.
There is nothing more fun than adding lemon ZEST to a recipe. I purchased a really neat retro zester not too long ago. It really does the trick. Of course it works on limes too.
(do this:
zest a lime, a little honey, chopped up jalapeno and some bbq sauce.........add it all together. Yum)
There also wouldn't be anything more fun than to pick lemons off of your own tree. That would be right up there with having an avocado tree that had fruit every year. That hurricane winds didn't blow to Smithereens. In the middle of September.
When we eat out, I always order water. I honestly prefer water......and I really like a lemon in the water. I judge the waiter/waitress by this. Did they even take a second to plop a lemon in my glass? Most do not. I don't ask for one because then they bring you a whole bowl....like I might be part pirate and need my vitamin C.
And whose idea was it to squeeze lemons on fish? OH! I know! Long John Silver!
I will NOT drink lemonade Kool-Aid. Actually I won't drink Kool-Aid at all...........especially not lemon. How fake is that? If I'm going to drink 'fake', give me a diet caffeine free Coke.
A LONG time ago, when I was still a kid, I had my best friend over for the night. My mom warmed up some Dr. Pepper and squeezed a lemon into it. UGH. I don't recommend it. Sorry mom, don't make us any more treats like that please.
On a negative note.......who wants a yellow car? Where did that start anyway? Ha! Looks like you got a lemon!!
Lemons will also take the enamel off of your teeth. That makes them feel really nice.
Lemons are also bitter and nothing like an orange when it comes to just eating one. You can't even peel the silly things.
I read somewhere that lemon drop candies are the most swallowed candy. They are slippery and just right to swallow, I must agree. I don't eat them. I have never liked tart or sour candy. So, I'm safe from this problem.
"I can't live without lemons." Martha Stewart
Poor Martha.......lemons are nice, but I can live without them.
[She probably can't live without her 3 houses either.]
Remember this song from long ago?
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat
I would love to smell a lemon flower!!
To end my little discourse on lemons, I will give you a couple Bible verses:
Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Don't be like a lemon......all pretty and shiny on the outside........bitter on the inside.
Leave a comment............what do YOU think about when somebody says 'lemon'?
8/25/09
What I Bought Today
O.K.
I have been bummed out about not being able to post pictures........but I ought to just blog anyway. You my blogging buddies will just have to use your imagination here.
I bought some fun things today........most of them being very useful.
I finally found my HIT cookies at our Wal-Mart. Since they remodeled, they got rid of animal crackers and now they have HIT cookies. It is a sort of a dry biscuit with 'calm' chocolate frosting sandwiched in between.
I also bought a beautiful mango. I hope to use it when we have tilapia. I put two recipes together and came up with: red onion, jalapeno pepper, mango, pineapple, olive oil, garlic, cilantro and fresh lime juice. Mix those ingredients altogether and put them on top of the tilapia, wrap it in foil and cook on the grill. If I can do it, you can.
Instead of turbinado sugar, I got certified organic sugar. I can't wait to see what it does for coffee. I hope the absence of pesticides doesn't ruin the taste.......
In the '75%' off baskets at Kroger, I found two packages of decaff coffee. It is Explorer's Bounty, Expedition Adventure, Sumatran Single Origin. It is also certified organic. I'm sure whipping cream and my pour coffee stuff will make up for the absence of pesticides.
I also got some stuff to clean with. Ajax with bleach. I love that stuff. I wish I had a white bathtub to scrub, the old kind of tub that could take Ajax......not the new kind where abrasive cleaners are off limits. Like my kitchen sink. Thankfully, there are still a few things in our house that aren't sensitive to Ajax.
I also got some multi surface cleaner. Guess what sold me? vinegar. It has vinegar. Now how clean is that? I hope it's organic. I'm on a roll here.
I got the clumping kind of cat litter. No more cheap stuff.
I also got a box of diamond matches. I will never again buy store brand matches. They just are not worth it. I love big old kitchen matches. 250 in each box times 3. That's a lot of neat little fires. I especially need them to start the grill. I had my husband buy me one of those chimney things where you don't NEED lighter fluid. Well, if I don't use lighter fluid, I use matches. LOTS of them. I hope I'm still saving money somehow. I also bought some charcol today. I would love to just buy the self lighting type stuff, but since I have my little chimney, I can't do it with a clear conscience. It would just be a luxury.
When I enter our newly remodeled Wal-mart, I feel like I am on a scavenger hunt. I can't find the light bulbs or the plastic table cloths. The school stuff is where the cosmetics used to be, the cat food is where the towels used to be. The pharmacy is where the coffee pots used to be......the rice and the hot dogs are where they belong. Guess what's for supper tomorrow night.......
I got some face scrub, EQUATE brand. I was looking for more EQUATE brands, but I guess they moved them all too.
And of course, I bought the buy one get one free VIVE pro shampoo at the wrong store. HEB was higher than Kroger, but too late. I got the orange bottle....smooth gloss Anti-Frizz shampoo. It has camelina seed oil. That's a new one. I guess camels really are useful. If nothing else, the bottle sure is a pretty color. The other is FOR MEN. 2-in-1. I love 2-in-1 stuff. It smells really good. The bottle is a bit depressing.......it's black with red and gold writing.
I remembered the candles!!!!! Amber will be with us next Friday and it is her birthday. We are going to the beach and will hopefully make a fun day for her. I don't know if we will have a cake or not, but we have the candles.
You know that Chex mix? They have salty, pretzle, nutty, turtle, crackery type mixes. I usually buy the sweet kind. Well, we like it with extra m&m's. I bought a large package of dark chocolate ones. I debated back and forth about it and then finally put it in the cart.
Well, here is the really fun part!
I found Lydia some thermal wear.....we will be going to Colorado at the end of September (if all goes as planned) with some friends and I have heard that SOME places get cool/cold that time of year. Very unlike where we are so we don't have warm play clothes. Our cold days are very random. Then I found some Polar Edge snow boots. They are size 8. Surely they will fit somebody! I also found Lydia a cute little purse. It is black with two short straps. The front has the bottom part of a girl in a skirt and jacket. The bemittened girl is holding bags and a leash with a poodle. The zipper has a dog bone on it. I hope she likes it. It was a whole dollar.
I also found something I have been looking for.....a ten inch pyrex glass pie pan. YAY. It's not for me. I use 9" pans........
I got some really cute kid books.
I got an old Huckelberry Finn book. Too bad I can't read Roman numerals so I could see just how old it really is.
MCMXXXIX
I will sell it somewhere.
Sam's Big Worry. Looks like a book about a bear and his woodland friends getting ready for winter.
Thimble Summer.
First sentence: Garnet thought this must be the hottest day that had ever been in the world.
Where's My Share? I don't like the sound of that title at all, but the pictures are really pretty.
Where is the forest? covered in snow.
For me I got The Pocket Book of Quotations. They are conveniently arranged by subject.........
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have injured.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
And 'tis remarkable that they
Talk most who have the least to say.
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
(that was straight out of Bonanza!)
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Then, a red and white decorated book named A Box Of Peppermints. This is a jabbing hilarious book..........uneven poem type......
Aunt Ella
Gave me a box of Peppermints
The other day.
First thing I did
Was peep under the top layer,
To see if they were
All there.
Starting on a trip
In the wee dark hour of the morning
Is like everything loves you.
Even the moon doesn't want you to leave
and tags along
Over your shoulder.
Once
I kept my sunday clothes on
All day long,
And no one came to
See us.
This book one of the girls will really enjoy this next year.....Grammar and Usage. Basics of English.
It is a pretty red and yellow and a very nice size.
It is a fill in the blank type book.
Don't you just love trying to make the word ECHO a plural?
THEN, I bought a REAL book from a REAL store. All of those other books cost dimes and quarters..........this one caught my eye and I just had to have it!
A is for Apron.
25 fresh and flirty designs.
If you know me at all, I will skip the flirty part, don't worry.
There is a pattern for one that you wear over a t-shirt. I can't wait to make it.......but somehow I have to figure out how to make my own pattern by looking at a little picture. ho-hum. at least the book is fun to look at and dream.
"A good apron becomes like a second skin; you forget you've got it on."
And then sadly, I bought a sympathy card for John and Sara. They lost their baby last week. It was a little boy with the cord wrapped around his neck. They are so sad. They buried him in their church cemetery and now must go on without him.
The card says:
~~~~~~~~~Some gifts you hold in your hand........
~~~~~Some you hold in your heart.
I always call newborn babies little presents.
This one will be in their hearts and never their hands.
Pray for them.
I have been bummed out about not being able to post pictures........but I ought to just blog anyway. You my blogging buddies will just have to use your imagination here.
I bought some fun things today........most of them being very useful.
I finally found my HIT cookies at our Wal-Mart. Since they remodeled, they got rid of animal crackers and now they have HIT cookies. It is a sort of a dry biscuit with 'calm' chocolate frosting sandwiched in between.
I also bought a beautiful mango. I hope to use it when we have tilapia. I put two recipes together and came up with: red onion, jalapeno pepper, mango, pineapple, olive oil, garlic, cilantro and fresh lime juice. Mix those ingredients altogether and put them on top of the tilapia, wrap it in foil and cook on the grill. If I can do it, you can.
Instead of turbinado sugar, I got certified organic sugar. I can't wait to see what it does for coffee. I hope the absence of pesticides doesn't ruin the taste.......
In the '75%' off baskets at Kroger, I found two packages of decaff coffee. It is Explorer's Bounty, Expedition Adventure, Sumatran Single Origin. It is also certified organic. I'm sure whipping cream and my pour coffee stuff will make up for the absence of pesticides.
I also got some stuff to clean with. Ajax with bleach. I love that stuff. I wish I had a white bathtub to scrub, the old kind of tub that could take Ajax......not the new kind where abrasive cleaners are off limits. Like my kitchen sink. Thankfully, there are still a few things in our house that aren't sensitive to Ajax.
I also got some multi surface cleaner. Guess what sold me? vinegar. It has vinegar. Now how clean is that? I hope it's organic. I'm on a roll here.
I got the clumping kind of cat litter. No more cheap stuff.
I also got a box of diamond matches. I will never again buy store brand matches. They just are not worth it. I love big old kitchen matches. 250 in each box times 3. That's a lot of neat little fires. I especially need them to start the grill. I had my husband buy me one of those chimney things where you don't NEED lighter fluid. Well, if I don't use lighter fluid, I use matches. LOTS of them. I hope I'm still saving money somehow. I also bought some charcol today. I would love to just buy the self lighting type stuff, but since I have my little chimney, I can't do it with a clear conscience. It would just be a luxury.
When I enter our newly remodeled Wal-mart, I feel like I am on a scavenger hunt. I can't find the light bulbs or the plastic table cloths. The school stuff is where the cosmetics used to be, the cat food is where the towels used to be. The pharmacy is where the coffee pots used to be......the rice and the hot dogs are where they belong. Guess what's for supper tomorrow night.......
I got some face scrub, EQUATE brand. I was looking for more EQUATE brands, but I guess they moved them all too.
And of course, I bought the buy one get one free VIVE pro shampoo at the wrong store. HEB was higher than Kroger, but too late. I got the orange bottle....smooth gloss Anti-Frizz shampoo. It has camelina seed oil. That's a new one. I guess camels really are useful. If nothing else, the bottle sure is a pretty color. The other is FOR MEN. 2-in-1. I love 2-in-1 stuff. It smells really good. The bottle is a bit depressing.......it's black with red and gold writing.
I remembered the candles!!!!! Amber will be with us next Friday and it is her birthday. We are going to the beach and will hopefully make a fun day for her. I don't know if we will have a cake or not, but we have the candles.
You know that Chex mix? They have salty, pretzle, nutty, turtle, crackery type mixes. I usually buy the sweet kind. Well, we like it with extra m&m's. I bought a large package of dark chocolate ones. I debated back and forth about it and then finally put it in the cart.
Well, here is the really fun part!
I found Lydia some thermal wear.....we will be going to Colorado at the end of September (if all goes as planned) with some friends and I have heard that SOME places get cool/cold that time of year. Very unlike where we are so we don't have warm play clothes. Our cold days are very random. Then I found some Polar Edge snow boots. They are size 8. Surely they will fit somebody! I also found Lydia a cute little purse. It is black with two short straps. The front has the bottom part of a girl in a skirt and jacket. The bemittened girl is holding bags and a leash with a poodle. The zipper has a dog bone on it. I hope she likes it. It was a whole dollar.
I also found something I have been looking for.....a ten inch pyrex glass pie pan. YAY. It's not for me. I use 9" pans........
I got some really cute kid books.
I got an old Huckelberry Finn book. Too bad I can't read Roman numerals so I could see just how old it really is.
MCMXXXIX
I will sell it somewhere.
Sam's Big Worry. Looks like a book about a bear and his woodland friends getting ready for winter.
Thimble Summer.
First sentence: Garnet thought this must be the hottest day that had ever been in the world.
Where's My Share? I don't like the sound of that title at all, but the pictures are really pretty.
Where is the forest? covered in snow.
For me I got The Pocket Book of Quotations. They are conveniently arranged by subject.........
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom you have injured.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
And 'tis remarkable that they
Talk most who have the least to say.
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
(that was straight out of Bonanza!)
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Then, a red and white decorated book named A Box Of Peppermints. This is a jabbing hilarious book..........uneven poem type......
Aunt Ella
Gave me a box of Peppermints
The other day.
First thing I did
Was peep under the top layer,
To see if they were
All there.
Starting on a trip
In the wee dark hour of the morning
Is like everything loves you.
Even the moon doesn't want you to leave
and tags along
Over your shoulder.
Once
I kept my sunday clothes on
All day long,
And no one came to
See us.
This book one of the girls will really enjoy this next year.....Grammar and Usage. Basics of English.
It is a pretty red and yellow and a very nice size.
It is a fill in the blank type book.
Don't you just love trying to make the word ECHO a plural?
THEN, I bought a REAL book from a REAL store. All of those other books cost dimes and quarters..........this one caught my eye and I just had to have it!
A is for Apron.
25 fresh and flirty designs.
If you know me at all, I will skip the flirty part, don't worry.
There is a pattern for one that you wear over a t-shirt. I can't wait to make it.......but somehow I have to figure out how to make my own pattern by looking at a little picture. ho-hum. at least the book is fun to look at and dream.
"A good apron becomes like a second skin; you forget you've got it on."
And then sadly, I bought a sympathy card for John and Sara. They lost their baby last week. It was a little boy with the cord wrapped around his neck. They are so sad. They buried him in their church cemetery and now must go on without him.
The card says:
~~~~~~~~~Some gifts you hold in your hand........
~~~~~Some you hold in your heart.
I always call newborn babies little presents.
This one will be in their hearts and never their hands.
Pray for them.
8/13/09
hmmmmmmmmm
http://www.crosswalk.com/careers/11606719/
something to think about
information overload
just cause it's there, doesn't mean we have to gulp it down
something to think about
information overload
just cause it's there, doesn't mean we have to gulp it down
8/3/09
A Post With No Picture
I bought a book that is titled: OUT ON THE PORCH, An Evocation in Words and Pictures.
I have seen sad movies and read sad books, but this one little paragraph really struck me.
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The nursing home was stranded in the country, in an old cotton field, on a square of dead grass. It was rambling and squatty with a black shingle roof and not a leaf of shade. On the porch old women were rocking in the glare--white and black together in thin bathrobes. They watched me like birds as I climbed the steps, and the nearest one said "I can leave this minute if you find my shoes."
(Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price)
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When one is admitted to a nursing home, they don't come home. They are put in there for a reason, and the reason will not go away. We don't grow younger every day. It is a final living place.
So, here we have an old woman that would prefer to be somewhere else. She wants to live again. Run through fields, hug her babies that are now old themselves, eat ice cream and maybe even do some dishes. But she can't. She's not going home. She's not going to get any younger.
Why is she there? No family? Or just no family to love her? Did she live a meaningful life? Did she enjoy every day and make every moment full? Did she waste her time on things that did not matter? Is she tormented by thoughts of what she should have done? Is she wanting out of there to do things she never did, or does she want to go back to her life that was full of doing things for others?
Chances are, you are not in a rest home as you read this. Chances are, you CAN live. You may be hindered, but at least you're not in a rest home to live out your final days on a porch in a rocking chair. (Then....you won't even care that you finally have a porch.)
Surely you are not waiting around for somebody else to make your life bright and fair. Surely you are not wanting somebody else to assure you that your days will be merry and bright as in the Christmas song! There are some things we cannot change, but there are as many things that we CAN. If you are in a rut, it is of your own making. Don't wait for somebody to pull you out, they may not come. Don't whine, that same somebody might not be listening.
Ask the Lord to help you find your shoes and put them ON.
If I should ever find myself in a rocking chair in a rest home (there ARE worse things), I hope that I can look back and say I gave it my all. Every day.
He Giveth more Grace
He giveth more grace as our burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength as our labors increase;
To added afflictions He addeth His mercy,
To multiplied trials He multiplies peace.
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
Our Father’s full giving is only begun.
His love has no limits, His grace has no measure,
His power no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.
7/12/09
7/2/09
fixing up
Kim and I re-did the purple shelves in the kitchen. We have been enjoying this kitchen for almost a year now. I'm thankful every time I walk into it.
random shots
So, I took a picture of them.
pink or brown. Horse brown.
in a thrift store
I went to my favorite thrift store one day right before they closed. Here was this cabinet. Talk about neat. It was very old and very real and very $200. I was short about $190. Rosa said the lady that bought it didn't even blink an eye. I imagine she didn't. I hope she's happy........taking 'my' cabinet.
deco
see the little picture in the back to the right? it is Lydia from a LONG time ago. I caught the sun behind her head and she is just glowing.
the picture to the left was hand painted by Olivia
remember?
this was one of my favorite candies
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