Feline Friday Pink Saturday

 Cats speak only to those who listen. Sigmund Freud Feline Friday

Click on this image you and can see for yourself.  Pink Saturday

They sure don't make cars like this anymore. Today cars are make so cheaply and cost so much money. It is sad plus they have gone to mundane stylrs. Look in a parking lot. You will see rows and rows of identical car style. I love anything unique.

Pink Saturday

A cool pink VW Bug. 

Oh My Goodness, I saw this at google. I have this sitting by my kitchen sink! I love this little rings and things holder.

I have been missing as I am trying to work in my home and get things organized. We work in the yard and garage on weekends so it has been crazy business. I appreciate everyone who has taken time to stop by . Thinking of all of you.

Nehemiah 8:10  "Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. "

I have had my nose stuck in scripture too. I am trying to remain strong as difficulties are coming to our country as they have already to other ones. God has His hand on this world and He will send Jesus sooner I believe, than many will be ready for. I see things happened and it makes me sad and than angry. I need to stop and breathe and pray. I can not change anything, only GOD can handle evil spreading over the world. So I am trying so hard to be more positive and stay strong. I need to remember His Joy and His words. His plans are not mine to know right now. So I pray and would like to ask for prayer:

My sweet friend MD lost the love of her life Harold. Oh I am so broken for her. He had been terrible ill for a short while but God had other plans for him . I am sad because he was a history buff. He knew history particularly the Civil War history. I learned so much from this amazing man. Please pray for my sweet friend, married over 61 years and their loved ones too. I hear my grandmother's voice inside my head when a kind soul passes away. She would always say, "God takes all the good ones." 

Pray for Megan. She is the daughter of my husbands cousin. She had open heart surgery and is convalescing. She needs prayer please. 

Pray for sweet Janna and Brian. They are getting ready to welcome their firstborn child into this messy ole world.

Pray for Sarah and Evan, Jack and baby sister Emersyn Jeanne who both are born the same date. She is barely one day old and Jack turned 2 yesterday.  They will need lots of prayer in this ole world too.

Pray for Jayden, he is 10 and celebrating his birthday this weekend. I think kids in schools today have a huge burden I never knew. I pray for all the kids attending schools. The littles and the big littles too.

Pray for Jess and Joe. Recovering from the virus. One has the jab, the other one does not. 

I could use extra prayer too. Heading to my annual eye appointment and than off to the specialist for catarac surgery when I get an appointment. I can not see as I onc did so I need to have this taken care of.

Prayer always welcome for my sweetheart Avery. Dealing with the stresses of the office and busy days for which the work is always grateful to have. 

Prayers for the world, for Australia, for Canada, for all the countries under attack and for my friends in Arizona and Texas.

I am grateful to know all of you and will be visiting you as quickly as I can. Please take care.

"Rejoice in hope,  be patient in tribulation,  be constant in prayer."  Romans 12:12

Thankful Thursday

 To be thankful is a gift we should all cherish very much. Things I love right now were easy to list. Being thankful is something I try to do every day, no matter how small or how large it is. 

1. Thankful for the evening walk we took. It was so dark and Zach had a ccol little flashlight to help us see where we were going.

2. Thankful for Avery cooking up a batch of hamburger meat for tacos and tostadas.It was a quick and easy meal.

3.Thankful for Lulu who comes to us every night and sits and watches the baseball game with us when they are on.

4. Thankful I can pray. My grandson drives a truck and he was heading to North Dakota today.

5. Thankful I have an appoitment for my labs tomorrow. I pray all willbe well.

6. Thankful my cat has a built in alarm clock and wakes me up every morning to be fed.

7. Thankful the weather is cooling down somewhat.

8. Thankful for friendships here.

9. Thankful for the cute little succulent plants gracing two of my window sills.

10. Thankful for people who are kind and can agree to disagree and still smile with you.

11. Thankful our car repair for the Kia was not too excessive. Thankful we had a little cushion to cover it.

Thankful Thursday and remember to be kind, adopt a rescue pet and S M I L E !

Wordless Wednesday

 

Li River near Yangshuo, China

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday 4

I am joining Tuesday 4  today. I have missed so many great memes and want to get back into these blog hops. These are in memory of Toni Taddeo. May her memory live forever.

1. What Makes A House A Home?

My house is a very nice house because of the people who live in it and make it a home. This is a street view of our home. I am sure some realtor wanting to buy our house took this photo in the winter. I think Love is the key to having a house become a home.We all pitch in and do things and try so hard to keep it up. There are tons of things we would like to improve but since the roof is newer and the furnace, water heater and a/c/ are all in great order we are tremendously grateful. Your own home offers you better security. It gives you a better peace of mind and good neighbors, they always help. We wtach out for others. 

Example: When my broke  Kia down down Carleen up the street said I can give you a ride. Where do you need to go? She and I are each others sounding boards about lots of things we do not discuss in general.She is the person who remebered Grandparents Day this weekend and sent me a GIF. She sends me messages about all the holidays ans I love her kind heart.

I think home is where I always prefer to be because I feel comfy here. 

2. How do you keep your house neat tidy and clean? Do you find it difficult?

It is a full time job. As I grow older I find it harder to do many chores I use to breeze through. But my husband is a tremendous help. Neither of us are as quick as we once were. I would have someone clean my house weekly if I could. That way I could keep up on laundry and projects we never seem to have time to get to. The dogs leave their hair everywhere and the cat is messy with his scratching pad. So the vacumn gets a workout. It seems we need to run it 24/7 to keep up.

3. Are plants important in your home..or collections or wall art? Is there a theme you like to create?

I started to buy succulents. They are tiny and they  seem to be happy in window sills.  I do want more live plants because they get rid of bad air indoors. I love phamily photos and am looking into a different type of frame to add to a wall. They frames would be smaller so I could share more. We had black and white canvases in the living room with our gray walls. It is sort of modern and I like comfy and that cottage look or farmhouse style. 

Our youngest daughter in Western NY has an etsy shop and she makes art and beautiful shadow boxes. I have several pieces she made for me including my sign which hangs above my side of the bed. It says Life is hard, pray harder. Her shop name is Cherry Creek Creations.

4. What is a typical day/evening like in your home?

Since I had to take an early retirement, I stressed for a long while about it and not finding other comparable work. But I took the advice of my dear Bea who is 93 years young. She said enjoy your retirement! Sleep late, don't keep a schedule! Ha Ha - so I took her advice. I sleep in some mornings, others I am up with my husband at the crack of dawn. He is up at five a.m. and gets ready for his work day. He leaves the house by 6:15 and if I am up I start to empty the dishwasher, straighten up the living room and kitchen. I make our bed and flip on the TV. Leave it to Beaver or Perry Mason. Oldies, no interest in much modern day TV. I do watch MLB baseball if my Colorado Rockies are playing. I do laundry about three times a week as Nick and I wear so much clothing that has to be washed in cold water and hung to dry. Avery and I hit the sheets by 10 and often he sleeps even earlier. We do play Gin Rummy and watch some shows I have taped, like Perry Mason and we watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. Nothing else.

I do not always participate with Hodge Podge at  from this side of the pond.com . The blogger system is not allowing me to input the info here but rather saying error error error but recently one question was name 10 of your favorite right now things:

My husband Avery

My kids and grands

some of them anyway :-)

My Minky blankets this one is the promo from their site Banana Sorbet Crepe

My LuLaRoe leggings and other clothing

My favorite teas

My favorite Brie cheese

My favorite rosemary crackers

MLB Baseball

Music

Hint Raspberry water

My fur babies

I had 11 like Myra! I guess we are troublemakers!

Thanks for stopping by. I am really trying to catch up with everyone. I seem to visit a blog and find myself still there for fiftene or twenty minutes. But it means a lot to me when folks stop by so I like to catch up with them. It is how I roll.

Have a wonderful evening, hoping your week is going well and any thoughts you may have, please do share them here.

Happy Tuesday and Maxine Cracks Me Up

 Happy Tuesday

> >>> I fall into the "dirt" category!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Someone asked the other day,,,,,,,,,,,,, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'
> >>> 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,
> >>>
> >>> I informed him, ' All the food was slow .'
> >>> 'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
> >>> 'It was a place called 'at home ,' I explained!
> >>> 'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, & if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
> >>>
> >>> By this time, the guy was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
> >>>
> >>> Here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood, if I figured his system could have handled it:
> >>>
> >>> Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
> >>>
> >>> My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
> >>> We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 11:00 p.m., after playing the national anthem and a poem about God. It came back on the air at about 6:00 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people ...
> >>>
> >>> I never had a telephone in my room.
> >>> Our only phone was on a party line.
> >>> Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
> >>>
> >>> Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was & so was bread.
> >>>
> >>> All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers
> >>> -- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. He had to get up at 5 AM every morning .
> >>>
> >>> Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies! There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
> >>>
> >>> If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Don't blame me if they bust their gut laughing.
> >>>
> >>> Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
> >>>
> >>> MEMORIES:
> >>> My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

A friend shared these "old as dirt" memories with me. I thought I would pass them along on this Happy Tuesday to you.

Oh Maxine, I understand how you feel. Totally. Completely. 100%

Aw...Mondays

 

Aw....Mondays

The words appear to be grainy for whatever crazy reason.

Let your gentleness

 be evident to all.

Philippians 4:5

The cooler months are approaching us. I do have my very own personal hot water bottle. 

I will be caqtching up with everyone these next few days. It seems I lose track of time and I want you to know how very much I appreciate each one of you. All your kind comments make me happy. I hope you all have a wonderful week.

A Blog Break

 I took a short blog break and now I am going to ease back into it. I have been walking with my son-in-law Roger in the A.M. and with Avery and Rebekah and Zach in the evening when they walk  Finn and Thor.  Roger tripped and fell and hurt his back and his knee so no walking for us tomorrow. My little Kia had a breakdown and waiting to see if the auto shop can find the source of this annoying problem. Thankful that we live a few minutes within walking distance to the auto shop. Say a prayer for us.

I will be here tomorrow ro post for Aw....Mondays. We had an exciting and busy weekend so heading to bed. I will post tomorrow, God willing. Hoping everyone is well and I will see you soon.