WIPED OUT!

Stayed home from church today.

Drank a gallon of COLYTE.

Busy day.

Colonoscopy in the morning.

'Nuff said?

CHORES

FINALLY!

  Vacuumed and wiped down the interior of my car!

I certainly don't mind washing the car, and I keep it wiped down, but vacuuming the interior is a CHORE!

(doesn't that word even sound like something you don't enjoy - CHORE?!)

I scrubbed some spots off the carpet.

another CHORE

I just finished up some laundry.  Love doing the washing,  drying & folding, just not too fond of hanging and putting the clean laundry away.

another CHORE

I think I'll go to bed and read.

Nightie Night!

THE SOUND OF SILENCE

My girls are gone for the weekend...

Peace

Tranquility

I can hear myself think

it's TOO quiet

Lonely

Can't wait 'til Sunday evening!

Cutest little man in front of me at the checkout in Wal-Mart was such a happy guy!  Indeed he was a gentleman, and I think he was flirting with me.

Sad, isn't it that I really wasn't sure!

Well, never fear,  'cause

 TOO!

If the cashier hadn't been so talkative and  S  L  O  W , I would have caught up with him in the parking lot.

But, alas, I couldn't find him. 

O, well.  He must not have been worth it, or he would have waited for me!



A long time friend had this pic on face book today - I love it - I stole it!

It conjures up so many memories ~ of youth and the knowledge that your freedom to play all day (without your mom really knowing exactly where you were), still came with the assurance that you were safe & secure and all was well with the world!

Why is it so hard to just let yourself run with that sweet abandon now?

Remember those warm wonderful feelings of childhood when you felt so free and filled with enough energy to power a nation - well, at least the neighborhood?!

So many trees to climb.

So many fields to run in.

So much sunshine to soak up.

So many clouds to watch while laying on your back in the cool grass.

So many night games to play;

hide & seek

red rover

ghost stories

star gazing.

Playing dolls, jacks, marbles.

Cops & robbers.

Cowboys & Indians.

Climbing haystacks.

Riding horses.

Eating citrus and dates and blackberries 'til you were sick.

Drinking from the hose so you didn't have to go inside when you got thirsty?

Mud pies.

Swimming.

Eating watermelon warm off the vine in the field.

aah---

Didn't that feel GREAT?!



The Pecan Tree

My next door neighbor has a pecan tree in their front yard.  It is beautiful, BIG, produces fabulous shade and plenty of nuts.  I've made pecan pies with those lovely morsels.

  It also produces sticky sap all over my drive way, or when that isn't happening it drops nuts all over my drive way that get run over and squished into messy wasteful splotches.  It provides a roost for the largest black birds I have ever seen that love to leave HUGE globs of waste on my drive way. My daughter used to park in the driveway, but after all the above mentioned pelted her car she no longer does.  In the fall most of the leaves drop on my drive way, roof, and blow with every breeze into my side and back patios!  A few weeks ago, I got on the ladder and got the leaves off my roof and out of the rain gutter.  The neighbors still had tons of them on their roof, however.  Well, we had a really big wind storm that transported all the leaves from their roof to - yep, you guessed it - the side and back patio of my house!  Well, thank goodness for the yard maintenance guys that show up every Tuesday with their handy-dandy leaf blowers in our little neighborhood!

 
My patios are leaf free! 

[And, today I also washed my daughter's car, and the windshield of mine and got the last of the bird stuff off!  So, we're now all sparkly! ]

 I'd say that is a pretty good Tuesday!

A GOOD PERSPECTIVE

...and that's the way I need to always see it!

~  (no matter how tough it may seem some days)  ~

It's been a MONDAY!

My Mom Said...

You know those things that you do automatically that make life a little sweeter ~

Those little things that set you apart from the rude and common ~

Those things your Mom's friends complimented you on when you were little ~

Those things that you taught your own children and hope that your grandchildren will also do and pass on ~

Those things that make us civilized ~

Things that you notice when others don't do them~

?

I think some of them are simply good manners and my mom said they were

RULES to live by.

Well, when I saw this  ~

I just had to share ~ 'cause my mom SAID!

MOVIE NIGHT

I haven't been out to a movie in -------------AGES!  Thanks to our sweet home teacher and his awesome wife (a gift of 3 movie tickets for Christmas), my girls and I went to

see this tonight ~ 

and LOVED it!

Man in the Moon

This is the image I saw last night.  Glowing ~ Beautiful ~ Peaceful ~
Shedding benevolent light on all.

But, I do believe at least one little girl and possibly two must have been influenced by

this guy!  What an afternoon!  Talk about moody!

I TOTALLY prefer the first one!