Wordless Wednesday...here comes the sun...

 It's time for Wordless Wednesday at 2 locations in Bloggersville...

Be sure and visit both of these great ladies...

Check out the Millers Racing Family here

 To day I'm joining Wordless Wednesday @ Embrace the Chaos

2d time around and a great week-end...

It is time for 2nd Time Around Tuesday, hosted by Diane @ A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. be sure to drop by Daine's blog and check out the other 2d time around items.........

This past Saturday, I kept my Grands while them Mom and Dad where at the Hospital with her Dad, who had a stroke and had to have a pacemaker put in to help his heart pump properly.
I really enjoyed their visit..they are two sweet little ones who you never know are here...

Levi, loves where MooMoo is here, she loves him to death...

There Mom dropped them off at 6:00 AM, around 7:30, we went to several yard sales and I found several nice 2d time around items...

look at this, crocheted blanket, isn't it beautiful and I only paid $2.00....I found 1 small hole that my Sis said she could fix.

this little cloche was a big old .25 cents...

I found this silver plated vase for .20 cents

I just love this little glass thingie, have no idea what it was used for but I plan to use it to hold a pot plant on my patio table...2d time around...

I found this little honey pot and plan to use it to keep honey in and leave sitting on my table. I washed the pot in the dish washer and added a new cork...it cost me 1.00...

After we shopped some and both kids found a couple of items a piece and I forgot to get pictures before they took them home...we can home and I cleaned my car port and did a little work on the patio..while the kids did this...
They are so hard at work...lol..too bad they don't study and concentrate this hard...

They get along so well and loves to watch each other play games and they are always laughing together...

That night we decided to fry fish in the fish fryer on the patio and we all set outside and watched DH fry the fish..don't you just love how interested they are in what is going on...lol...can you tell my babies are like their Granny; pure country..no shoes...lol...

Even outside they have to play their computer games...and watch movies..

Even into the night they play and watch...

We had some guest drop by, even after dark and with us sitting on the patio.

All in all we had a good, long full day, their Mom came and picked them up about 9:30...and they were so exhausted from all the hard work, they went home and went straight to bed....

and I'm sure I wasn't far behind them, I was wiped out. I woke up Sunday morning around 7:30 ready to take my shower and get dressed for Church, ...but no power..so I reported it and crawled back in bed..lights came back on about 10:15 and I woke up at lunch, we ate left over fish made into Cajun fish sandwiches and then I went back to bed and watched movies and dozed all evening...CAN WE SAY, GETTING OLD?

Blue Monday..Blue night sky

It is Blue Monday over at Sally's house. Well maybe not blue times, but time for some great blue items...Please visit Smiling Sally by clicking here.....

I love to set on my patio when it starts getting warm and just look at the moon, I have been know to light the fire pit and sit out when it's cold. I have always been fascinated by the stars and night sky...last week I captured these shoot while setting on the porch...I love how the moon seems to just stand out on the blue sky backdrop.

Hope you all have a Happy Blue Monday

A-Z on Mondays J is for Jelly Beans

This week I am joining the meme A-Z on Monday ~~ blogging our way through the alphabet~~ All About Food! at Unglazed, check out her blog for other foods starting with J this week...
My favorite Easter candy is the Jelly Bean, well, heck I like jelly beans year round, the red and black ones are my favorite...hummmm

 The gummy interior of the jelly bean may trace its origins back hundreds of years to Turkish Delight, while the outside shell is essentially the same as that developed in the late 17th century for Jordan Almond candies. The earliest known appearance of the modern jelly bean was during the American Civil War when William Schrafft of Boston promoted sending the candy to soldiers in the Union Army.^[1] It was not until 1930 or so that jelly beans became an Easter candy, presumably from their resemblance to Easter eggs.^[2] Their egg-like shape was then associated with the Easter Bunny, who gave out eggs on Easter.

Scenic Sunday...I am blessed...

Scenic Sunday is a photo meme of the scenery. It can be landscapes, buildings, flowers, or anything you feel it's a scenery photo. This meme will be held every weekend. To join, just post your scenery shots on your blog and link back to Scenic Sunday.

Today for Scenic Sunday I am showing what is scenic to me, I wake up to this scene every morning and give Thanks to God for giving me the pleasure of living here for 40 yrs. I never tire of this beautiful sunrise and when spring is in the air, seeing the changing of the trees and the beauty of the new growth in the pasture...and in the evening I get to enjoy this beautiful sunset....it may not to beautiful to some. but to me it is paradise on Earth...

Sun Rise over the back 2 acre woods

 Sun rise over my neighbors pasture and new growth on the trees and pasture..

 New life in the pasture

 Mr squirrel playing in the yard, last count there were over 15 who call my 2 acre woods home...

 new growth on the oaks...and the sun makes the new leaves shine like gold...

 While snapping pictures this morning, Mr Crow set on a limb, way off in the woods and fussed at me...lol...

 Then when my day is ending I get to watch this beautiful sunset..how much more could I ask for...

Yes I do believe I have scenic beauty every morning when I look out my window...God is the greatest artist of all.

Sunday Devotion....Sunshine Suddenly...

I wanted to post a Devotion my Niece wrote this week, she has a Ministry called about the Masters Business

and sends out a daily devotion..called Coffee Break this post really hit home with the way the world is today

"Sunshine Suddenly"

"And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm." Mark 4:39

When I got out of my vehicle to go into the recovery center yesterday, it was raining, the clouds were very grey and it was stormy. An hour later when I started to leave, the rain had stopped, the clouds had rolled away and the sun was shining brightly. How amazing, the day looked totally different than it had only a short while ago. As I noticed the transformation, the thought came to mind that our lives are often like this. We can be in the midst of a "storm" one minute than have "sunshine" the next.

The day itself was a beautiful reminder to me that the storms of life don't last forever. They do come to an end, and they can come "suddenly" like the physical weather changed yesterday. I thought the weather had set in and it was going to be like that all day, but it wasn't. Often when we look at our storms, especially if we have been in them any length of time, we begin to feel as if they will never stop or let up. But I have good news for you-- they don't last forever and they can cease when you least expect it.

The other good news is that Jesus is with you in the storm. More good news- Jesus still speaks to the storms and they have to obey. He still knows how to turn the situation. He can still change storms into sunshine. Don't be discouraged or fearful, don't lose hope or faith there is always sunshine after the storm.

Have a great day. It may be stormy now, but sunshine can come suddenly.

For further reading:

Mark 4:35-41

Psalm 118:24

Psalm 107:29

Luke 8:23,24

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Good Morning

I just wanted to stop by and tell all my friends that I maybe missing in action for a little while longer.

First....I am really getting in my yard and reworking flowerbed and cleaning up The 2 Acre Woods...

 wish I had Pooh Bear and the gang to help me..

I have been unable to do much in it for several years, over 10 to be exact..just a little here and a little there and it looks like ...well let's just say a big empty spot with a house on the back side. I am now able ( due to losing all that weight... still got more to go) to do so much more without giving out or having to set down every 5 mins to breath. I plan to work one area at a time. Don't know how much I'll get done this year, everything is so expensive...but at least I'm getting my front flower bed and around my patio fixed this year and maybe will get more done in the fall. I will show pictures when I get a chance.

Secondly...I will be helping with my 2 Grands that live close to me for awhile, Their Mom has gone to work full time..well... averages 40 +hrs, but 3 part time jobs. She is a Beautican and works 2 days a week there, then she took on the Secretary's job at the Church that is Tues, Weds and Thurs from 8-12, then she is working as a Secreatry at the Funeral Home as needed to fill in for the lady who works there on week-ends.

Busy lady, but with the Economy like it is, she had to add more income, Most of her Customers have been with her for over 25 yrs and some where pretty old when she started, so they are either passing away or too old to come regularly. She decided to do another line of work, she is just tired of doing hair. She's having alot of trouble with her shoulders, not good when you have to have your arms raised all day. So please keep her in your prayers.

Also please pray for her Daddy he was hospitalized Yesterday with a stroke and they are really worried about him. Pray for his speedy recover.

Got to run talk at you later, will visit my blog friends tonight, love y'all.

Have I told you lately how very much I appricate your support and friendship..If I haven't I'm telling you now.

Finding Beauty Friday..God's Artwork

Today for Finding Beauty Friday, I have made a slide show of shoot I made this morning after last nights rain...Everything was so fresh and beautiful that I just had to grab my camera and get some snaps of my new plantings... sit back and enjoy God's beautiful Artwork...
Be sure to scroll over and turn my player off...

Personalize a free digital slideshow

I'm linking this post to "Friday Finding Beauty" event on Claudia's blog Dipity Road. Today all the participating blogs can post whatever they like on their blog that touched them in some way and made them feel, see, or appreciate a moment of beauty in their lives.
I believe beauty is anything that makes you smile or warms your heart.

Hershey's Blog Hop

 

Thank you Angela at West Virgina Treasures  for tagging me to become part of the Hershey's Blog Hop to benefit the Children's Miracle Network. Hershey's will donate another $10 to CMN for each blog post -- and they'll keep on donating as long as the blog-hopping continues, up to $5,000 to benefit kids. What a wonderful thing for Hershey's to do for the children! Thank you Hershey's!!!!!

The rules are easy:

HERSHEY’S BETTER BASKET BLOG HOP RULES

~Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.

~Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want.

~Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.

~Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.

~Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #better basket blog hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.

~Hershey’s is donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to total of $5,000 by blog posts written by April 4th, 2010).

~Please note that only one blog post by each blog url will count towards the donation.

Now, I need to pass this virtual Easter basket on to others: 

Dorothy at Counting my Blessing

Cherie at Bakow Babble,

Southern Lady At Southern Lagniappe
will you join in and keep the basket hopping on your blogs?

Rednesday...well it's red...

Today is Rednesday over at, It's A Very Cherry World, stop by and visit with all of our red lovers by clicking here...

I was deep cleaning my bedroom one day last week, one of the few days that we had a warm sunny day.

As I was stripping the bed I kept hearing a faint, tapping and just couldn't figure out what it was. I looked everywhere, nothing, so back to work I went...then in a few minutes I heard tap, tap, tap...ok, now I was curious and kept listening and it sounded like it was coming from the window, so I opened the blinds and guess what was tap, tap, tapping on my window, like it was saying open up and let me in..well, I don't think so....

  aww, come on open  up and let me in....

It had warmed up enough and he was looking for a place to build a nest...

I can hear you now..what has this ugly bug got to do with Rednesday? Well it is a Red Wasp...