Get Ready For A Friday Laugh.....

Although I did not laugh at this, I feel that it is completely necessary to fill you in on a short time in my Friday afternoon.....here goes.

To give you a bit of "reason" for the events, my Mother, who is legally blind from Macular Degeneration (a wretched disease) needed her medicines picked up from the pharmacy....I gladly did this, as I am always willing to help my sweet Mommy out when she needs me. Home form work I come, with said meds in hand....I leave my house to walk over to my Ma's (a name of honor in our family) and take our two little dogs with me.....and so it begins......dun, dun, dun!!!! I left said animals (notice they are now animals and no longer referred to as our family pets!!) outside to do their "duty" while I spend a precious 5 minutes with my Ma discussing our Saturday plans.

I leave her house, walking out to the road to retrieve my mail, when what to my outraged eyes appears!!!!!!!!.........one Manchapooka (bread of animal that we have) named Susie (such a sweet name for such a retched dog) COVERED IN SEWAGE that she had gleefully been rolling in while I spent 5 very short minutes with my Mother!!!!

Susie is tan. Now she is striped with black sewage from the neighbors yard. AM I A LUCKY GIRL OR WHAT???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Yep, that is NOT what I thought either! Oh, and of course, the neighbors were out and actually had the audacity to FEEL SORRY FOR POOR SUSIE!!!!!!!!!! WHAT????????? They were alone in their thought pattern for sure!!!!!

Well, I brought the dog in, used 5 times the recommended dog shampoo to simply clean her (I scrubbed her with a hair brush while bathing her...good enough for her, I say!) and THEN THE DOG, WHILE YET GRUBBY, SHAKES IN THE TUB! Have I mentioned I have a white tub with white ceramic tile surround? Yep. Sigh.

All is clean now, but I just thought that I would share the pictures (you knew I would take pics, right!) of the dog and the carnage in the tub.

Now, have a blessed weekend and keep those dogs in the house!!!!!!

M.I.A. Yes, I Have Been

Sorry for my time away, life seems to take some crazy, un-expected and sometimes un-wanted turns and I am not immune to these turns.

So, as I have sat at my desk, pondering said un-wanted turns, the Lord seems always to bring in these little bright spots that will make me smile. He is so good that way!

Here is my "today's" bright spot, silly as it may seem, it is an e-mail from a well know company called BETTY CROCKER! I saw the picture and had to smile.....these just look like fun on a stick!!!

And here is the link for you! Make some fun today with these Smore Pops!!!!

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/smore-pops/afbcfbd8-5325-44b0-b241-3816154e4d76?itemId=05ef81d2-1c41-4684-b222-cf87f59118dd&sc=Treats+on+a+Stick

What's Growing????????

Two fold, "What's Growing" 1) Me 2) Herbs & Flowers

Confused? Me too. God is stretching and growing me, yet again. More on that in a bit.

My flowers and herbs are shooting up like crazy!!!

You can see Thyme, Rosemary, and mixed in with the flowers are Cilantro and Mint......Love it!!

I have started to work on the "treasures" that were found in Door County, and should have info on that by the weeks end.

Now, to God growing me....I think that I had this "Norman Rockwell" thought pattern about how life should and would be. As our children have grown, moved out of the house and started serving the Lord faithfully in their desired places of living, I thought that life would be, well, a sigh of joy in having faithfully shown our children a fairly stable picture of faithfulness and servant hood and peace in serving the Lord, and their following that brings the most wonderful joy to our hearts and of course to the Lord's. I believed, I think, that there would no longer be struggles in our lives, other than the choice of where to go for vacation! Wrong!! God has chosen to allow us to sit in limbo over something very important, not knowing how He will prevail or even when, but I know this one thing, He will!

Strange how things so mundane can be so necessary. How God can take something that we take so for granted, as in, it always BEING there, give us the possibility that it may not be there and have us pray for it to be there, even tho we have NO control over it at all!!!

Growing my husband and I will do together......growing, depending, loving and knowing better, the provision of a loving, giving, knowledge providing, listening Lord of all lords.

Have a blessed Wednesday!!!

We Are Back!

Just popping in to say "hello" and glad to be back. Wellllllllllllllll, not all that glad, as it is back to a dirty house, laundry needing to be washed and meals to be cooked.

We had a wonderful time up north, I will fill you in another day on all our finds and antics...I will leave you today with the cutest picture that I took while we were up there.....enjoy!

I'm Leaving......You With.....

This! http://www.homemadesimple.com/en-US/HolidayandParty/Pages/Think-Outside-the-Box-Gifts-Fathers-Day.aspx?utm_source=Email%2B&utm_medium=Single%2BFocus&utm_campaign=Fathers%2BDay&TID=ea233ccc-6a32-4df4-9d00-be82e8b33953
A link to HomeMade Simple. Why? Because Father's Day is only 2 weeks away and this is a Father's Day gift idea page!!!
It has great ideas, and the cutest wrapping idea ever....for a guy!!!
Check this pic out! Cool, right?!!!




Have an amazing weekend, I know I will!! Off to the north, where cool winds blow across the lake and the bay and I will enjoy every second of it!!!

I'm In Love!

With this picture!!! (by Kristyn Hogan)

This is a bit surprising, as all the mirrors and empty frames are hung above this fireplace mantle in a very symmetrical fashion and that is soooooooooooo not me. But it is the framing of the mirrors and the empty frames themselves that I am in love with!

My husband and I, along with our Daughter and Son-In-Law are leaving on Sunday for Door County and it is now my mission to go into every single antique shop we drive near and forage for old, unwanted frames that make me fall in love with them, bring them home and paint, paint, paint and hang, hang, hang.

That way, I can fall in love with my own walls that look so wonderful with my new flooring!!

Sounds divine, simply divine.....slow pace, family love and treasures to be found...ahhhhhhhhhh!