Rabbit Trails

Cool weather is here. It is sooooooooo pretty out today. I love FREE cold air. It is very expensive in the summer, but free right now.

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  Never bite off more than you can chew.

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I found this while I was looking for something else...........it is a devotion I gave a long time ago. It still applies today. For me. The drying of your bones...... A Controlling Spirit Remember, you are not a pilot in a plane. You are also not the air controller at the airport. You are not the president, a foreman, the head cheerleader OR Smoky the Bear. You do not have to take care of everything. Your role, whatever it may be, is to one, trust God, then to trust those that are over you to take care of matters. Keep your place and you will have peace. There is a difference between controlling things and keeping your place. Keeping our place does call for actions and commands , but it should not dry our bones in the process. We all have responsibilities to take care of, it is when we step over the line that we become a controller. We just cannot let things go, we have to have our finger in the middle of everything. We want the last word, the last...

You can tell me, I won't laugh. I LOVE old suitcases. You can store all kinds of things in them: diapers from long ago (well, 20 years ago) pictures seasonal wot-nots/decorations old children's books old Ideal magazines

somebody threw away a perfectly good boy.

Not very many people have a best bosom buddy.......then that bosom buddy's daughter marries your son.....then they have a baby........then this baby has FIVE living grandmothers.........of one kind or another! my mom -great grandma Kim's mom -great grandma my husband's mom - great grandma Heather's mom- grandma ME! -grandmother I wish my mom could have been at the shower today........her presents were there, but not her presence. Kim and I share the same GRAND-DAUGHTER . I am just tickled.

This is such a lovely picture. Lots of us have waited for this day to come. A baby shower! Today was the big day. I know that the birth of a baby is celebrated, but somehow in my mind, I wanted to be able for all of us women to come together to celebrate! And we did! Alisa is such a precious present from the Lord.....I think Theresa's face says it all, don't you? Alisa's birth was rather windy, IKE will be part of her birth story.........the members of our church were scattered all over Texas right after her birth.........we waited 6 weeks for the party........I can hardly put into words how thankful I am to the Lord for seeing fit to give Caleb and Heather such a sweet blessing......

purple! Olivia got me these beautiful carnations....... We got Alisa a Bumbo seat...........purple of course. How about a baby quilt with purple splashes here and there? If you have a choice, why not go with purple?

I got all of this solid free the other day. I had three free bucks at CVS and all of this was 90% off regular price. I just get so tickled when there is a whole cart of 90% off stuff.

Here we are all ready for Autumn.......but there have been no REAL cool fronts. Kind of like false labor. You think it is going to happen THIS time.....but it doesn't. OK, we've had a couple of cool days.......but we need some freezy breezy winds! Well, Happy Autumn to you that live in areas where there IS frost on your pumpkins.

IT CAN ALWAYS BE WORSE From the day you were born, Till the day you die, There is nothing that happens, Which couldn't be worse. They never taste, who always drink' They always talk, who never think. Matthew Prior While you are doing one piece of work don't be thinking of another. Another good way to get tanned is to roll up your sleeves and hoe the weeds in your back yard. Boston Globe "You've been a great traveller, Mr. Bunsby." "Yes; but I wish I had travelled less and seen more." In beauty, faults conspicious grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow. John Gay "Always pay as you go," said and old man to his nephew. "But, uncle, suppose I have nothing to pay with."-- "Then don't go." DO IT NOW If ever you find yourself where you have so many things pressing upon you that you hardly know how to begin, let me tell you a secret: take hold of the first one that comes to hand, and you will find the rest all fall into f...

I have a new book that is called The Best of the Old Farmer's Almanac.......this was off of poetry and anecdotes, 1870: (Life would be intolerable) If for every outburst of hasty temper, And for every rudeness that wounds us, We were to demand an apology... Daily intercourse would be impossible. If we are always waiting for somebody to apologize, we are most miserable. If we can't make it through a day without reminding somebody of their rudeness......we are most miserable. If somebody did by chance have a hasty temper, an outburst, what are we REALLY supposed to do? Carry it around with us until our heart stoops? Wait in vain until we can somehow reveal to that person just how awful they were to us? Do you know how long that could take? Go ahead, demand an apology.......wait for a confession.........hold on until everybody admits that you were right. One of these days you just might be right.........and nobody will care to hear it. So why not just overlook, forget it, forgive...

This is what happens when order an iced Americano and then add cream to it. Everyone says I get this kind of coffee so nobody will want drinks of it, but I really do like it. It's strong, but not bitter. It's fun but not expensive. I don't need the doublemochablackandwhitemooooofrappacappa type stuff anymore.

Good morning everybody. Time to take a nap.

Looking South to the ocean.........this all used to be sand, sand plants, and a parking lot. Now it is a small salty lake with a crumbled shore...... See the little building to the left.....kind of under the big building? It is (was) the cinder block bathrooms. They were not very nice, but they were bathrooms. Closer shot of the tilting bathrooms. Closer shot of the parking lot that no longer exists. After taking a drive through Surfside, I was even more thankful than I had been before...........to see the destruction so close to home reminded me again how the Lord put a hedge around our city. We are about 5 miles from this place as the bird flies.........and I'm thinking hurricanes take routes that birds do, they don't stay on the highways. This building you see is the place we would 'go to the beach'. We would park in this lot and walk to the water, or park on the beach, with the building behind us. Probably not long from now, the whole place will be torn do...

This was in my Aunt's back yard. The camera lens got all foggy because it had just rained or something........or maybe we brought humidity up with us. That's probably it. IKE followed us too. We lost power in KILGORE and had power when we got home. Ain't that crazy?

One cat is IN, the other is OUT. I think they're both o.k. with where they're at. I just wish they wouldn't meOWWW so much in the morning. They want to be fed the second I walk down the hall-way. They care not if I have a cup of coffee first, or start a load of clothes. Yesterday morning I decided that they would get canned cat food. While opening the can, I sliced my hand somewhere in between my thumb and pointing finger. I saw how deep it was, put the food in the dish outside, came inside and fed the inside cat, poured soap on the wound and washed it up..... then went and got Olivia. She was my nurse. I needed a nurse. There is nothing that makes me weaker and sicker than a cut or a loose tooth on a kid. I proceeded to break out in a cold sweat and all sorts of other unpleasant things. I didn't want to go for stitches. I guess we will see if my diagnosis was a good one or not. Now I can't get that hand wet without extreme pain. That means I can...