Rabbit Trails

I guess I'm glad that I don't have time to blog.  I really like to, but I really like to be busy, too. I save boxes to put weeds in.  They're easy to cart around the yard. I put spent candles and smelly sticks in Blue's Room for one last hopeful sweet smell. I hang old cards on the garage wall, so I can see them all the time. I need to take my egg-shells to my mulch pile..... Breakfast dishes this morning were fun.  Daniel came to eat with us.  I fixed biscuits, sausage patties, sausage gravy and eggs.  I didn't burn anything. So, if I'm not blogging, my days are just packed..........and there's treasure everywhere. And I am BLESSED. Now I'm fixing to use my new little cart and gather up yard trash. Then I will shuck some corn for supper. Earlier....we went to the post office to mail some flower seeds to a friend. Went to Girourds to look for some paint and bought ac filters. Went to Salvation Army and James bought a concordanc...

    Summer suns, shine gently here; Summer breeze, blow soft and clear: Keep my garden fresh and fair So the hours run smoothly there. Summer stars, shine softly down; Evening, trail your perfumed gown. Fairy fingers, gently stray: Elfin pipers, softly play.   Misty haze of summer dawn, Gently touch this velvet lawn. May this spot a haven be For bird and butterfly and bee.   Elizabeth Oliver Leichliter

Repent of your vain thoughts. These swarm in your minds as the flies did in Pharaoh's court (Exodus. 8:24). What bewilderings there are in the imagination! If Satan does not possess your bodies, he does your imaginations. "How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?"    O you saints, be humbled for this lightness in your head. Exodus 8:24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? Thomas Watson

 I like to change things around....and I do like to get rid of things that I don't enjoy. I do enjoy this duck....and my water buffalo.  Dad gave me the little brass pots.  They fall over easily, so I try not to touch them. I love this little reading mouse.  I have her positioned so the sun comes in on her book, that way she doesn't have to squint. My little wire cat may have spent her 9 lives.  The pitcher is full of marigold seeds.  The mama cat is a planter.  I ought to get some catnip. Here's my cilantro.  I have two tiny plants coming up.  It's going to be a long time to wait for pico at this rate.  I love old cook books because they have pictures of women in aprons, their old stoves and dishes. Here's mom's pot of Kansas Cactus.  Lydia keeps watering them and now they're trying to be tall.  I told her, NO NO. No more water. My beautiful pans.  You can collect china, I will collect old pans. I'm ...

  All I can think of when I see this ice cube tray is: KRANKY If you are part of the group that wants to go back to the good old days, be sure to buy one of these for ice. No more plastic trays, or freezers that spit them out when you're asleep in bed.  No more stopping at the store for bags of ice. square, chopped, chipped, crushed No more ice in your favorite Sonic drink. It's up to you to make the ice in the good old days. These are the ice cube trays that you do NOT want to put your tongue on. It would hurt just like a flag pole. I bought this at my favorite thrift store. It was hardly a bargain, but I thought it would be worth the $$ to show everybunny what it was like to have ice in the 60's. If that's all you know, then you don't mind. Well, I do mind. I'm glad for the way we get ice today. How about you?

  It finally rained.  Now I will remember that our new Burger King opened about the same time that it finally rained.  I was kind of afraid to walk across the yard too fast for fear I'd start the grass on fire.  It was nice to hear my rain music again!  My flowers were droopy because of the rain.....  But they will perk up again!  Sara's rose drinking up the rain-drops. A sky full of happy sunflowers.

1 Kings 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?   18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim. I read this passage this morning and found it rather humorous. Ahab asks Elijah, the man of God, is it YOU that is troubling Israel? It's funny how Ahab couldn't see past his own nose to know the trouble he was causing.  Psalm 11:2 For lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

no snacking no sweets no seconds EXCEPT on "s" days --- special days Special days include holidays saturday sunday birthdays

cooking is not one of my favorite things but eating is I have a kitchen because it came with the house..... and *if* I'm going to enjoy cooking it will be when the weather is cool outside and the windows are open not when it's 103 and the ac is on turn the ac on light a fire? well, this is a very cool supper I think adding something interesting in the way of sauce really helps these things I like Ken's honey mustard dressing James likes a tad of mayo they're fun to make fun to eat fun to put different things in them like NO tomato on mine please and thank you I get my tomato in the form of hot sauce. OK, I like to cook some things. Like pumpkin bread and popcorn. and hot sauce.

Don't put fashion before modesty.

This little song/poem has more verses to it.........but this will be sufficient for what I need: With feet to take me where I'd go, With eyes to see the sunset's glow, With ears to hear what I would know; I'm blessed indeed--the world is mine, Oh, God, forgive me when I whine. I made a little tune to this chorus and taught it to the girls in my Sunday School class.....I know I've posted it before, but it speaks to me every time I see it.  I have a paperback book called 365 Sunrays of Help by Albert Garner..... This is from page 133 and called Number 120: "Any man can spoil himself, he can allow himself to grow so sensitive that he lives in constant pain. He can nurse his grudges until they are an intolerable burden.  He can think himself insulted until he is apt to be.  He can believe the world is against him until it is.  He can imagine troubles until they become real.  He can hold so many persons under suspicion that no one believes him. He can ...

Lydia and I used to play Yahtzee ALL the time....time passed and we kind of left it off. I got a zip-loc baggie with score cards and dice for a quarter at my favorite thrift store, so we started it up again.  Games are a good way to help your kids learn how to count and add.  It's also just a nice way to spend time with them.   I remember playing Yahtzee with my mom on our old kitchen table.  It was (still is) fleck black and yellow, which made it dizzily blinding to look at when you were playing.  The dice bounced on that table like popping popcorn.  We made a lot of noise I'm sure. What games do you play?  What games did you play with your mom or dad? Or cousins? Or friends?  

so, my sister wrote me a real letter and sent me a picture now I owe her one

Taken from a prayer of Lester Roloff....... When all we can see is thee, we do better.

Two years ago I got a new phone.  It was a grasshopper green Gravity from t-mobile. I remember when I got it and the first text I texted. I was in Wal-Mart........and I texted this: hello desi I proceeded to take lots of pictures, but never knew that I could save them on the little memory card and then download them onto picasa. Well, I know now, but it's a bit late for the pictures I deleted. I won't make that mistake again. I still have a few memories caught on camera phone from the past two years. I'm sure there are some beach pictures that got deleted, because the first pictures show us in Colorado.  We went in September? It was one of the funnest family/friend vacations we have ever been on. We met the Kelly family in Winter Park, Colorado to spend a short week with them.  We walked, we looked at mountains, we were awed at the dry air, it snowed while we were there, we listened to Lester Roloff cd's and we watched Twilight Zones.  We made real cinnamon roll...