Day 69 in the Year of Our Lord 2012

I guess you are wondering why I have the end of this celery sitting in a saucer with water?  Glad you asked!  One of the designers at Digitals had this reposted on her FB page (from another source) as being the way to start another stalk of celery rather than just throwing it away (which I had just done and promptly pulled it back out of the trash).  It starts by letting it stand in this water over night and then digging a small hole in the dirt, fill the hole with water and set the celery in it.  Add about an inch of dirt and in no time I should see some new growth begin!  I'll let you know how this experiment turns out!  :D

This same designer also reposted that you can put the root end of a green onion into water and it will begin to grow!  I'm going to try that, too.....next time I have some green onion!

Nothing to report from today's activities, so until tomorrow.......

Day 68 in the Year of Our Lord 2012

Today was thrift store day!  Only found one item, even though we went to the 3 regulars and then 2 more downtown.

I got some pictures this morning to scrap with my new kit that will be released tomorrow, so I will show those to you.

Other than that, not much happened today.  Tim and I are now the proud grandparents of baby guppies!  I will inherit the babies since all of my older fish (raised from babies last January) died.  I think keeping them for a year was a record!

Enjoy the pictures and pages from today's activities!  Until tomorrow.................

These are old hot pads of mom's.  They are today's decluttering items because.....

.....I found these for $0.55 each at a Goodwill we found on our way to WV last Thursday.  Out with the old and in with the new.

I tried to capture a few bird pictures this morning, but it was pretty cloudy, so the pictures are dark.  I cannot even tell what kind of bird this is.

There are two baby guppies in this picture.  Can you see them?

Here's some more white and pale yellow daffodils beginning to bloom at church.  These are the smaller variety.  Not nearly as pretty as the bright yellow ones.

Zoomed in to get this picture of a robin in the top of the tree in the front by the road.

My choice for lunch today.  Chicken sandwich with bacon and cheese, potato wedges and a drink.  YUM!  Tim had the same except that he always orders a side of cole slaw.

I love taking pictures of the American flag blowing in the breeze.  You can see how cloudy it was for most of the day.  This was taken above the Goodwill on University Parkway downtown.

By the time we got home this afternoon, some blue sky was beginning to show through the clouds in spots.  So, I took advantage of it and took some pictures of the budding trees on the church property.  This is the maple tree near the practically dead tree in the back of the parsonage.  Near the clothes line.

These blooms are from a tree between the church and fellowship hall.  Some sort of Flowering Pear tree, maybe (I looked up flowering trees and this looks like the bloom on pictures of Flowering Pear trees, anyway)?  I just know there are no real pears.

This is a bigger tree right behind the other one.  Same type of bloom, but with black stamen.

I'm always amazed to see the pretty little blooms of the grass!  A very pretty bluish purple color and only four petals!

Here's the only thrift store find of the day.  It was still wrapped in the store plastic.

From Big Lots, Tim and I got these mouse pads.  I needed to do something to try and alleviate some of the problem I have with my fingers going numb on my right hand from using the mouse so much.  Hopefully this will help.

Some of the cloud cover with sun trying to break through and brighten our day!

Day 67 in the Year of Our Lord 2012

If you have a squeemish stomach, you will NOT want to view the bottom pictures of the turkey vultures feasting in front of the house today.....fair warning!  :D

When I saw those turkey vultures, which Tim pointed out to me, I immediately thought of how they pictured life and the necessity of death so they could have life.  The death of the animal in the middle of the road will not impact anyone or anything else in life but those vultures.  As unimportant as that death is to us, there was one death that IS important to ALL humanity.  If that death had not happened, no one could have eternal life.

I am so glad that Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was willing to leave heaven and enter our physical realm through the virgin birth for the sole purpose of living to die.....for us!  "and without shedding of blood is no remission."  Hebrews 9:22  You can't be good enough in and of yourself to get into heaven.  If that is all it takes to get into heaven (being "good"), then Jesus died in vain!  But, that is NOT possible!  The Bible clearly tells us that "there is N.O.N.E. righteous (good), No!  not one."  Romans 3:10

So, someone without sin had to die in our place.....someone who had no sins to be paid for.  The only person who fits that category is Jesus.  I pray you have recognized you are a sinner (we all are) and have asked Jesus to forgive your sins (we all have not) and have put your full faith in His death to pay for your sins.

OK, so life meets death in the physical realm AND the spiritual realm!

Since it has been a week since I posted anything, let me share some pictures with you.  Enjoy reading the captions!  Until tomorrow......

Here's the outfit I made for Abigail!  Fits her perfectly!  So, we did a photo shoot!

I love this picture!

She found the lady bug button on the flower.

She was done with the hat!

She was REALLY done with the photo shoot!

Ryan sure loves his baby sister!

Thad is as big as Abigail!

Sawyer NEVER stops!

Ryan (#8 in center of picture) is headed for the goal!

What a sweet little boy Thad is!

Out with the old.....in with the new (to us new, anyway!)

While I had everything out of the drawer, I decluttered these items.  The little grill belongs with the white drip catcher.  It is going, too!

Hyacinths in beautiful bloom!

What I thought were tulips turned out to be daffodils, DUH!

These hyacinths are bloomed before getting very far out of the ground!  ???

And old griddle that the recyclers would not take.

 WARNING!!!!!!!!!  Following are the turkey vulture pictures.

The vultures walked back and forth from the road carrying pieces of the dead flesh from the road kill.

YUMMY!

Day 60 in the Year of Our Lord 2012

As I mentioned yesterday, since we are going to WV tomorrow morning, Tim and I did our regular thrifting today.  I found several yards of material in a mauve/dusty pink pattern.  Very pretty!  I'm hoping I might have enough to make a matching outfit for all of the granddaughters!  Something for summer time, perhaps!  We will see!  Also found a few other goodies, but nothing worth mentioning here!

However, I received a special goodie that was waiting for us at the back door when we got back from our thrifting.  I was pleasantly surprised!  The sweet lady that sent this to me is one of the designers at Digitals that I became friends with several years ago now.  She asked me, and a few other gals from the Digitals team, what flavor of cake we liked and she listed a few.  Mine was the German Chocolate.  I asked her what she had up her sleeve.  She said she could not tell me.  Well, today I found out.  For, the pictures are of the package that we found at the back door.

In the box is a delicious (we know because we sampled it tonight after church!) coffee cake type of cake with the pecans, a Mardi Gra book, some Mardi Gra beads and a pack of coffee.  Did I mention that my friend lives in Louisiana?  :D

Here's a close up of the book, beads and coffee.

Here's a close up of the very colorful coffee cake ring!  It is HUGE!  We will definitely be taking it with us to share with the family this weekend!  Perfect timing on receiving it!  If it had come tomorrow, it would have sat outside for 3 days!  Thank you, LORD!  Your timing is always on time!  AND, thank you, Sharon, for your thoughtfulness!  BIG cyber hugs to you, sweet lady!

Not sure if I will be posting while gone or not.  If not, have a great weekend!

Day 59 in the Year of Our Lord 2012

Before I stop to read my book this evening, I wanted to catch you up on the days events, which will take all of about 2 minutes!  :D

Went to bed after reading until 1:30.  Woke up at 8, but laid there until almost 9 a.m.  Took my shower, dried my hair (which takes FOREVER since it is longer) and sat down to read my Bible while my PC was booting up.  That, too, takes some time since I have soooooooooooo much stuff on it!  Just something else I need to declutter!  :D

And, speaking of decluttering, I haven't done any!  :D  I have, however, been finding all kinds of SQUARE picture frames at the thrift stores!  I stopped in one today to look for shelf liner, but, OF COURSE when I'm looking for some I cannot find it anywhere!  But, I did find another nice square frame!  I have several now!  Now I need to get some pages printed so I can frame them and hang them!

Since we are not going to be around on Thursday, we are planning to make the thrift store runs around here tomorrow.

I can't wait to see Liz and Jessica this weekend as I have not seen them since Christmas!  It will be fun to see how much the babies have grown, too!  You can bet I'll have some pictures after this weekend!  :D

If when you ask for something
God seems to hesitate,
Never be discouraged -
He is asking you to wait!
~Helen S. Rice

Until tomorrow.......

Day 58 in the Year of Our Lord 2012

Well, my dearly beloved peeps!  I have nothing to report today!  I began my new book, Mama's Way, last night but was in bed by 11:30!  So, I was up by 8:00! 

I read my Bible, cleaned up the kitchen, changed the church sign, cleaned up my e-mail and before I knew it, it was noon!  I did some more computer work and the next thing I knew, Tim was wondering when we were eating supper!  Did I mention it was only 3:00! 

We are eating left overs this week since we will be in WV from Thursday - Saturday.  He decided to wait for awhile and by 3:45 he was back to eat!  He heated up the vegetable soup and stirred my appetite!  So I stopped to eat, too! 

Since then I've been working on an old kit.  I reworked the papers by adding more texture to them and got rid of a couple of them.  Got rid of basically all of the elements except about 3 and have been creating new ones.  But, I'm calling it quits for the night and will get dressed in my jammies and do some reading.  I'm yawning, so I probably won't get much reading done!

Until tomorrow......

Day 57 in the Year of Our Lord 2012

For those of you who are interested in the new boy kit items I just made but you were unable to look at the other day, here is the link to all 7 product items:  Thaddeus Cooper.  Thanks for looking!  I thought everything turned out really cute!  :D

So, I started reading my book last night and totally forgot to post on here!  Sorry about that!  But, you didn't really miss anything as we didn't do much yesterday.  We were going to visit the man who thought they were going to cut his leg off (remember that from earlier in the year?), but he woke up sick yesterday and just went back to bed.  He ached all over.....sounds like the flu to me!  Please say a prayer for him when the LORD brings him to mind.  The leg they put a stint into so he wouldn't loose it is giving him more trouble and just doesn't want to heal properly.  He still is not allowed on it and it is depressing him that he cannot get up and about but has to have that foot "floating" all the time.  His name is Gary.

Besides going to Walmart to pick up a few things (he wanted BLT's for supper) and then going to visit a lady who had toe surgery, we really didn't do anything yesterday.

Well, I finished reading my book, Papa's Daughter, this afternoon.  It was not quite as good as Papa's Wife, but I still enjoyed it.  Next, I will be reading, Mama's Way by the same author, Thyra Ferre' Bjorn.  As soon as I finish this post, that is what I intend to start reading.  Here's a picture of the cover of Papa's Daughter that I just finished reading.

And, here is a page I did today of our little Miss Abigail.  I saw this picture on Liz's facebook page and just had to "steal" it because I had the perfect kit to match her little dress!  Hey!  A grandmother's gotta do what a grandmother's gotta do!  :D

Until tomorrow............