Rabbit Trails

"If you don’t have time to do it right,   when will you have time to do it over?"  - John Wooden

Well, I got the doilies all fixed up in their rightful home in the *Quilt Closet*.  Before I put the doilies up, I dusted.  When I dusted I was reminded how this quilt closet was put together.  Part of the wood is from ammunition boxes.  We paid $5 for it at a sale when we lived in Mesquite, Texas.  It has housed a lot of different things. When the doilies and things were in a drawer, it made it really hard to see what I would like to pick and use.  This is really nice because I can see all of them.  I tried to pile them together in * like kind*. All of our cd's fit nicely into this little drawer.  Are we the only ones that have empty cd cases? now where did those cd's GO????? Who has them and wonders where the case is? Got me a new (old) rocking chair, too.  Covered it with a pillow sham.  It looks just right, beside the quilt closet.  

My dad said he wanted a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich.  I told him I would make it for him. He said he wanted to make it. I said I don't mind. I told him that I knew how to make one. He said I didn't know how to make one. He said he had better do it. So I watched. I'm glad I took pictures. Come to find out, I really do NOT know how to make a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. Not like my dad anyway. Next time I go, maybe he will make an onion sandwich.

OK, it fell.  Now what should it do?

I stand upon the mount of God With sunlight in my soul; I hear the storms in vales beneath, I hear the thunders roll. But I am calm with thee, my God, Beneath these glorious skies; And to the height on which I stand, No storms, nor clouds, can rise. O, THIS is life! O, this is joy! My God, to find thee so; Thy face to see, thy voice to hear, And all thy love to know.

So what kind of pickles do you like? What kind of salad dressing do you buy? Do you ever use shampoo from the past? What kind of tea do you enjoy? If you picked out a kind of juice for yourself, what kind would it be?

I have never seen this product before in Kroger.   LET THIS BE A WARNING TO ALL OF MY MILLIONS OF READERS, THIS IS *NOT* A DIET FOOD.

This is James and Daniel in deep thought about taking the legs off of the *big brown eating table* We've had it for almost 18 years. It was old when we got it.......and if IT could talk, I would finish the sentences.  I DO know the stores it would tell!  Six kids, holidays, friends, missionaries, visiting preachers, Sunday afternoon dinner, pizza, *the works*, cars, ponies, school books, birthdays........ The top of it hung onto the furry stuff on the backside of plastic table-cloths.  Nice?  Not. Well, the new one is all slick and that won't happen again. This is the new one......... We will make good memories on it, too. Days where my husband gives BOTH of my Snoopy coffee cups to somebody else. birthdays, holidays, pizza games, coloring, toys family friends

I'm from a little dirt road town called Seward.  My parents bought a house from my dad's sister after their moved off to California.  Before my cousins left....they named a street----Heaven. I loved to walk down that street....and play.  There were mulberry trees, lilac bushes, rocks to find, anthills to step on, cottonwood trees to look at......for a pretty long stretch there were no houses...only a sort of forest and a pond.  The pond would freeze over in the winter and we would play. and play. and play. I don't know why they named that street Heaven....as a little kid I sure enjoyed it. I have learned a few things since then.  It was NOT really heaven......and there is a hell. Do you know where you would go if you died today? Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:15  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15...

If you don't want anybody to know something, then don't tell anybody. Sin and failure to repent causes a close walk with God to be far, far away. We can know about God and forget about Him at the same time. Instead of complaining of your lot, use that energy to be closer to the Lord. Do you have trouble keeping the main thing, the main thing? You are the world's #1 expert on what the Lord has done for you. Deny your flesh, it wants you in the dark. Reprove! Rebuke! Exhort! 2/3 negative.  

As you all know by now, I prefer old things over new things.  This glass knob is in the house I lived in for a short while as a little girl.  I wonder if I could ever even reach it? One of my favorite colors is silver.  Silver on white is best. Remember old furnaces on the floor?  If your shoe had something on it and it dropped into the grate....you could smell it burning for a while....or if you dropped a color down the same grate.  Now how fun was that to smell a burning crayon all day long?  I remember standing on a furnace like this and having little grate melty marks on the bottoms of my shoes. OK, if somebunny wants to buy me a new quilt for my bed, I'll use it, but I'd rather have an old one. This is the gate to the city cemetery...........look at how somebunny put an old door-handle on it.  I wonder if it was my dad.  Looks like something he would do. Dad had this tape in his little workshop.  He's got stuff like this...