Farewell for now

What a beauty.  What wise eyes.


Time to give up the blog for awhile.  I sold my desk and my dining room set.   I have a mickey mouse set up not conducive to long writing .   Once settled in new digs I will come back and let you know all about my new and exciting adventures.   Meanwhile, stay healthy and happy as you continue along your pathway which I hope is bright and beautiful.    Live each day as if it were your last.   Be good, be kind, be gentle, be YOU. . .Love and Hugs to all.   Jean.

Wonders

the wonder of flowers poking up in the snow.

The seven most important wonders in our lives.

A good idea. . . let's work on being pretty.

Here it is Thursday ,  time flies like the weather which changes by the minute.  Our days of bragging are over as we are back to cold and fog again. It is more natural this time of  year but hard to adjust to as you are hot one minute and cold the next.   Probably a storm brewing.  

I found Winston Churchill's "Araprosdokians"  (figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is a surprise. I thought you might get a smile or two out of  a few.

"Where there's a will, I wan to be in it."
"The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my  list."
"If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong."
"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
"Behind every successful man is his woman, behind the fall of a successful min is usually another woman."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with."

So I am leaving  you smiling.  I'm off to have my coffee and wake up.   Go and do 'your thing' and make someone smile today.  Be good and be pretty today.  Hugs to all.

Fast Changes

Up in Nevada they had two very big wind storms this spring.   A fence blew down. . . work to do.

I am not sure about this huge tree. . . work to be done, chain saw work, not easy and noisy as well.   I am happy to see  there is very little damage to the house.   Yes, Nevada does get a lot of heavy duty wind., but  two hurricane style winds are unusual.   

Daughter Christine came up with a new picture, yes . . . another one who thinks being organized is the way to go.

So today be organized.  You will be amazed at how much you will get done.   You might even create time to go out the door and have lunch with a friend.  The new Yard Man came over yesterday and worked in the yard for two hours.   He is a good worker, a bit on the slow side but I noticed he takes time to  do the job right.   He cleans up as he goes  and he hauls the debris away which is included in the price.   Hopefully all goes well and he stays on .    I had a surprise visitor yesterday, Sharon was in town so stopped in to say hello.   She is my  very talented friend who paints and creates beauty and has a band as well so makes beautiful music.   She is going to give a class in which you do that doodle we all do so well when you take your pen or pencil in hand and just follow your pen around the paper making fancy inroads . . . well, she does that but makes the pattern so  you come up with a picture in the end.   The one she showed me turned out to be a flower in a flower pot and two big fat sitting cats.  It  was amazing.  I sat and doodled in my book where I draw faces all the time.   My doodle came out fine, filled the page but there was no  flower pot or cats but a dozen little animals and even a lady howling to the wind.  I'll  have to practice and see if I can come close to a real picture.  It was fun though  and shows your imagination  is at work, and you don't fall asleep through  your favorite television show.   Try it, it is fun.

Today, Wednesday, starts the Lenten season.  What are you going to give up?   I haven't made up my mind.   Maybe nothing this year.  I have given up sweets for many  years but this year I am cutting back but  not out.  I'll have to come up with something .  Getting this old has taken away a lot of things any way, so maybe I'll just rest on my laurels.   Stay healthy, wealthy in the good deed department and enjoy today.  Make your seconds count in  positive ways, be kind, be gentle and share YOU with those you love.  Hugs to all.

Presidential

Vote for me!!

The President's cars.    Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman  enjoyed riding in a Lincoln.  Eisenhower liked a 1953 El Dorado and a 1950 Lincoln first bubble car.  1961 John F. Kennedy rode in a 1961 Continental , the car that he was shot in.  Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan liked the  Lincoln during the seventies.   1983 Ronald Reagan chose the 1983 Cadillac to ride in.   1989 H.W. Bush liked the 1972 Lincoln.  1993 Bill Clinton chose a Cadillac and in 2001 A Cadillac DTS was the car for George W. Bush.    As for the last  one....Obama.....I wonder if it is true and what kind of a car is it?   A show piece would most likely be something he would want to ride high in but I think he is more at home in a golf cart.

I've told the tale of sitting on the running board of President Roosevelt's car until chased away.   He was attending his son's wedding over in Nahant, Mass. and three of us hiked miles to see him.  I wish we had a camera with us to show our claim to fame.

I hope you are out riding around in your 'caddy' today enjoying the weather.  Some of you are still shoveling snow so take it slow and easy so you do not overdo the heart.     It is hard work and requires a bit of rest between shovel fulls.    We took advantage of warm sunshine and walked the pathway over at Lone Ranch Beach.   There were lots of folks out and about watching a calm ocean and hoping someone would catch a ling cod or two and share.

Stay safe and enjoy your seconds today.   I'm off to have my coffee and wake up.  I'd share if you were here.   Share what a nice word. . .  make good use of it today and share YOU with those you love.   One good deed deserves another.    Hugs to all.

Lemons!!

Strange world isn't it?    

How beautiful the snow is in Rhode Island.    

Sheila Mary has a way with  her green thumb.   She also has her house painted inside and out and is one very happy young lady.

I think this should be on our mirror to remind us that we really truly can succeed;  it just takes a lot of hard work and the desire to succeed.

Monday morning, three o'clock in the morning . . . the song comes to mind quickly.   It has been awhile since I opened up the computer at three a.m. and dusted the cob webs from the brain.    I went to bed  after reading a small card that must have put the brain in gear as I woke up thinking about it.   "There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven.  A time for giving birth, a time for dying: a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted.  A time for killing, a time for healing: a time for knocking down, a time for building.  A time for tears, a time for laughter. a time for mourning, a time for dancing.  A time for throwing stones away, a time for gathering them  a time for embracing.  A time to refrain from embracing, A time for searching, a time for losing:  a time for keeping, a time for discarding.  A time for tearing, a time for sewing:  a time for keeping silent , a time for speaking.  A time for loving, a time for hating:  at time for war, a time for peace.   (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)    Now that is quite a description of LIFE!!!

Our seconds disappear quickly over our life span and how you choose to live them is something only you can decide for you.   It is nice to be reminded that we have  the freedom of choices as these events occur in our lifetime.   Each life span is unique, so make sure you live your life to the fullest, participate in living .   The start of a new week of seconds, now what are you going to do with yours?   Live well I hope.   We are living in precarious times right now  so pay attention to what  time offers. Hugs to all.

Sunday . . . All Day!

Mike Amacker sent this beautiful picture along of the ranch in moonlight.  It looks like a winter sky and it is cold up there.   

As each day this man was given the trust and support of so many, only to be let  down on a daily basis.   I wonder what they think of him now.

Here it is Sunday and the week flew by.   Our spring weather is coming right along and the trees are budding and the flowers starting to bud as well.    Son John wrote to say it had gotten colder and the new storm has arrived with snow to shovel.   Listening to the weather forecast on television last evening, I was wondering how the folks back in Boston, Mass. are doing with another new snow storm to top off the several feet they are still shoveling from the last storms.   It must be tough going, but then those New England folks are hardy and used to  long hard winters.    Hopefully they have good furnaces and carpet on the floors.   I remember days of linoleum flooring and rushing to a heating register to get dressed for the day.   I shiver thinking about it.   Each area has its own weather.  Here we have the dampness that settles in your bones and rain for weeks on end, along with fog.   We change as the seasons change and make the best of it.  Not much anyone can do about weather but enjoy it for what it is. 

I wish I had lots of interesting topics to cover today.    There just has not been anything on going that is exciting enough  unless you want to hear about my firing the professional gardening outfit.  The men were great, the boss was not.  He was going to have it all his way or not at all;  so...he got not at all.   From words of wonder to 'extra' on the bill. . um, I was to be a silent partner. . . me, silent....I don't think so.

Enjoy your Sunday.  Don't forget to say a prayer or two for those who are suffering.    Extend the good deed to encompass a couple of more in need of a good hug.    Sunday is a good day to be 'good' . . . 'better' . . .. 'best'. . . go,  you can do it.   Hugs to all.

Be My Valentine!!!!

This is not our Emma, but sure looks just like her.   Those eyes get you every time.    Our Emma comes in the door ready for all the hugs and kisses she can get.   the more she gets the more she gives.   Smart dog!

yep!   they are good judges of  humans.   If you dog does not like someone be sure you show them the door in a hurry.

Valentine Day . . . brings up a few memories of years gone bye.    Remember the big box on the teacher's desk. . . some mothers shopped for a valentine for each child in her child's room.  No one was left out . . . how wise.    Thoughts of heart shaped boxes of chocolates, your favorite of course, you know the ones without calories . . . we wished.   Flowers were a boon whether they came from a florist or the garden.   Hugs and kisses made up for all the unspoken words.    Yep, Valentine day is a great day to share with those  you love.  So today, look forward to a valentine be it a card, a hug or a kiss as someone special reminds you how special you are.  Go, enjoy your day today, the rest of our weekend and share  YOU with those you love.  Hugs to all.