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. 

SATURDAY THOUGHTS

 Our Saturday morning started out nicely. Avery and I went out to breakfast. When he says, hey how about breakfast at the Delectable Egg? I hop up and make a quick dash to the door, after I am properly dressed and all that good stuff. 

Roosters Surprise and my cute new Morgan I won from LuLaRoe Sandra Hicks just for answering a question. I would see everyone winning everyday and wondered , would I ever have a turn? Yes, I and I was excited.

Avery's Fiesta Skillet with an extra side of yummy green chili. Oh, it is getting to be chili season and chili weather. Sigh....time to fill our freezer and visit LuLu's Farmers's Market and Palumbo's farmer's Market. They roast 'em, we peel and freeze them. But always wear gloves!  It is a messy process but all winter long we have chilies for all sorts of dishes.

1 Corinthians 11:11-12

New American Standard Bible

11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman [a]independent of man, nor is man [b]independent of woman. 12 For as the woman originated from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.

Strong?

Oh no my friend, I am far from strong.

What you are seeing is 

simply a weak person

With a very strong

GOD.

Soooooo....this is from Joni. She is a LuLaRoe friend too. She loves birds and lives in an area in Pennsylvania where the birds seem to flock to her home. Sometime people would be annoyed that she shared beautiful bird photos and would tell her so at social media! I guess we know what not to buy for those naysayers at CHRISTmas. No Birds and Blooms magazine subscription for them!

As a child growing up my parents had two canary birds. They were Oliver and Elmer and they lived very long lives. They sang so cheerfully and at night they were so quiet in their little covered cages. They brought us great joy and they loved my mother. When she cleaned out their cages they were so kind to her, never pecking at her and she use to have a little porcelain bathtub. They would furiously wash themselves. I wish I had the technology we have today so I could have shared them here. I remember so clearly how hapy they would be when mom would bring them a bathtub filled with fresh water.  

I would rather listen to Joni tell me about birds than to listen to the constant hateful battles going on at social media. Sing me a song Birdie! Are you a fan of birds? We attempted to save birds who fell out of their nests when the kids were small. We never had the success but I admire those who care for wildlife. 

Being raised in the Catholic faith I learned so many wonderful stories of saintly men and women. Francis of Assisi was one of them and he loved all animals. I still have books about saints. For a special occasion my mother would take to the downtown store that sold Catholic memorabilia. I have many volumes of books about saints and could probably pass a quiz about their lives if I had to. My mother made sure I read during the summertime. It was to be expected where I attended school. So by the end of high school, I had ran all of the classics, Don Quixote,  The Catcher in the Rye, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Little Women. There were dozens of them and I am always very grateful I was asked to complete a summer reading list. I still love reading to this day. But my all time favorite book, in the history of books, is To Kill A Mockingbird. Many years ago when I had a very successful postcard giveaway I met a blogger from Alabama who lived in the same town as the author of that book Harper Lee. She sent me many postcards of the courtroom where the trial was held and many other notable postcards. I still have them and treasure them. I also loved the author Pearl S. Buck. My Uncle Louie had a large classics collection and he let me borrow and read her book The Good Earth . I purchased my own copy years later and still love that book. My friend Iggy a/k/a Karl told me Pearl S Buck lived up the road from him. I was so jealous! Karl went thrugh some difficult times. First he lost his dad, than his mom and than his health became very poor. He says he is better but I miss him blogging as he was a real history buff and could tell so many wonderful stories. I still pray for Karl and hope he stops by someday to visit here.

Three wonderful ladies participated in my postcard giveaway (right hand side bar). I have been collecting little gifts to send to each one of them and hope they know I have not forgotten but was wanting to put some fun into those gifts. One gift I had hoped to send each one of them, was a delicious toffee from a small company in Nederland Colorado. I see they are no longer on line and it made me very sad. I am guessing they either went under during 2020 or simply gave up the business. Years ago a fellow in Evergreen, Colorado sold potica loaves. I found him quite by accident and he used the recipe where my two sets of grandparents came from in Ljublana, sLOVEnia. I would order from him and two Christmases ago he posted that he was going through a rough divorce and had to close his business.

As for the postcard giveaway I suppose many people were not getting out and about when I started it and it made me really sad. I found out tons of great info from various bloggers and even received cards from abroad. I have saved every single postcard and have a bound notebook where they all reside. Our son Jeremy took his phamily to the North Pole a/k/a Santa's Worksop which sits at the base of Pikes Peak. He sent me a postcard from there last SONday but alas, still traveling through the mail system, although we are about 70 minutes away from there.

Feline Friday

 Feline Friday

  One is permitted to assume an attitude of placid indifference in the matter of elephants, cockatoos, H. G. Wells, Sweden, roast beef, Puccini, and even Mormonism, but in the matter of cats it seems necessary to take a firm stand. The cat himself insists upon this; he invariably inspires strong feelings. He is, indeed, the only animal who does. From his admirers he evokes an intense adoration which usually finds an outlet in exaggerated expression. It is practically impossible for a cat-lover to meet a stray feline on the street without stopping to pass the time of day with him. I can say for myself that it takes me considerably longer to traverse a street in which cats occur than it does a catless thoroughfare. But so magnetic an animal is bound to repel when he does not fascinate, and those who hate the cat hate him with a malignity which, I think, only snakes in the animal kingdom provoke to an equal degree. ~Carl Van Vechten, The Tiger in the House, 1920

Rose always had this look if you bugged her:  "My attitude is none of your business."

She was her own feline. She was strong willed and her piercing green eyes melted our hearts. We miss you Rose. She was a tough lil tiger.

 November will always be a difficult month, Roxanne left us, Rose left us, Bandit left us, my mom left us on her own mother's birthday. Oh how I miss them both. 

A pink house in Winter's white snowy days.  Say hello to Pink Saturday

I love Brie Cheese and lately I have found some funny puns about it. 

Grandpa putting the trike together.

As Shea would say "Ta Dah!

Blake and Brody opening the Blippi Eggs. The trike was late arriving so we took his gifts to him tonight.

Blake and Mommy with his new trike. What fun those boys will have. He was so happy to see that John Deere Trike!

Sweet Dreams! 

Thankful Thursday

 

Thankful Thursday

 Just some words to share here. I thought these two worded statements went hand in hand. 

 

Ellen and Lorianne These ladies each decide on two of these statements. COme join the fun. 

1. ________________is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

2. One should take time to _______________everyday.

3. I hesitate to____________because_______________.

4. Is it time for _____________yet?

Remember to visit and also to participate in this fun blog hop.,

Be thankful, be kind, be courtesy and most of all, be happy. Thank you for stopping by and visiting and commenting too. Have a blessed day.