We didn't get but skiff of snow but we still have right much snow from 2 weeks ago lying about. The wind and temperature are very wintry so I decided to do my valentine project. I had copied and cut out some vintage valentines from online and decided to glue them onto card stock, then cut them out again and create a stand to stand them up! So cute and nothing to it!!
Replies to some of my sweet comments:
Linda, I was surprised and pleased that starting Feb 1 the Uk is opening some restrictions on travel.. they re not requiring fully vaccinated tourists to show a passed covid test at entry. And I guess this also means we wouldn't have to take a covid test upon entry and quarantine a day as well which would be nice no to waste a day of the trip. The Uk has always been quite strong on their restriction and we can only pray that if God wants us visit Scotland He will make a way.. He chose not to make a way for us to go to Ireland 2 years ago and we lost quite a bit of money on our flights.. Our only hope is that our daughter and son in law will travel within 2 years to use the flight voucher and then pay us back We cannot use the voucher this time because we are not fling same airlines We actually saved a 1000 dollars on each ticket by flying Iceland air with a bit of a layover in Iceland which is pretty cool! NO pun intended! .. They may be planning to go to Germany soon for a wedding of a friend. But so far for our trip this summer things are getting better.
Willow, At my last talk with my endo doctor he told me things looked so good on the cat scan that surgery at this time was not warranted. If I were to see my surgeon and he were to say that I now qualify for a laparoscopic surgery I would jump at the chance .. take it while the getting was good because since my g b has been compromised there is no guarantee it will stay healthy for the long time! A surgery with a diseased GB for me would be very risky becasue of the huge incision not only across my body and up and down to connect my large intestine to the liver or some such thing they were telling me before Christmas. We all agreed to try to anything we could to save my g b. to tell the truth I do not understand why this time I wouldn't qualify for laparoscopic surgery. But anyway, I take things one day t a time.
Lisa, I heard on the news last night about the shortage of oranges in Florida due to a blight on the trees. that OJ would go way up. We went to Krogers this morning and bought a bottle of their juice which is made from Mexican and Brazilian oranges, but I am sure there could be a shortage of all brands if this is the case. I suppose the Bible relates that these thing will happen and to be prepared. We live in a very different world than we did even 2 years ago. All we can do is lean on the Lord for His provision and help!
Ellen, I am so happy when I see a comment from you... I have followed the Happy Wanderer for so many years and loved your travel posts so much.. Finally, I am able to actually do a trip with our family that means so much to us and I just pray we actually get to go this time. The plans are working out so well, I feel like God is in the detains this time! I love your trip across the midwest and west.. to photos of the landscape and the way of life.. They speak volumes about the wholesomeness of the state and the simple way of life.So enjoyable!
Louloudou, I have finally made my decision on the paint colors.. I am going with the palest blue I can find.. I was sitting in the living room with my swatches and realized pale is the only way to go. So see. You and I both know best.. we agree PALE!!!
1. January 25th is National Opposites Day. 'They' say opposites
attract...do you agree, and if so is that a good thing? Or do
you subscribe more to a 'birds of a feather' philosophy? I ascribe to
opposites attract for sure, Hubs and I are definitely opposite He is left brained and I am right. He is fussy about everything and I am satisfied with if it looks ok. He is not too adventurous and happy to stay home, If it weren't for me we'd never go anywhere or do anything! I think we were meant to be together!
2. Something you're glad to have behind you? Something you're
glad is ahead of you? I am so glad to have my gall bladder
ordeal behind me, and my Scotland trip ahead of me!
3. Your favorite hot food? Chinese, Cold food? Chicken salad,
Are you a fan of breakfast for dinner? Breakfast is a favorite
meal so yeah, bring it on anytime of the day or night!
4. Are you someone who always arrives to appointments
/events early or do you tend to run late? I am always early
or on time. Last thing you were late for? I truly cant think of a
time!
5. "What good is the warmth of summer without the cold
of winter to give it sweetness?" John Steinbeck....Your
thoughts? Well, I actually despise the warmth of summer if
it is a prolonged heat wave with humidity, so I long for the respite
of cool weather, I even like the cold of winter to offset the arid
days of August. I enjoy spring and autumn best!
6. Insert your own random thought here. I think the very best
thing about our hoped for trip to Scotland is that we are
going with our daughter's family and the grand girls. I, so, look for-
ward to seeing them explore castles, and enjoy the trad music in a pub,
or the highland dancing at the games. To enjoy these firsts, because
living so far apart we missed their firsts growing up!!
Welcome friends! This week let's talk about music and entertainment shall we?
Hosted by Annie!3. What do you think of the music played in restaurants or stores? I loved the
elevator music we used to hear, music much like what my parents played so
much at our house, Montevani, 1001 Strings, I rather miss that music it was
so much of I heard growing up. Now many of the restaurants we frequent play
Oldie Goldie music because we frequent restaurants that serve good ole comfort
food along with the aging crowd. But I, also, love to go to upscale restaurants
where the piano player plays nonstop cool, smooth jazz.!
Do you find it relaxing or annoying? Unless it is rap or country, I find music
relaxing.
4. What part has music played in your life?My mother made sure I had piano
lessons from first to senior year , and she also made sure we had beautiful
music playing at home all the time... and a lot of it was classical and movie themes.
What kind of music played at your wedding or at parties you have been to?
We hired the pianist from a nearby church whom we knew was quite talented
in playing all kinds of music, and I went out and bought the music books re-
quired that he didn't have, or sheet music to mainly standard love songs
from my parents generation to ours. I loved the Carpenters and had Close
to You, and We've Only Just Begun, -one sung at the wedding, and one sung
at the reception. Since I was married in 1972, they were a resounding hit at that
time! Top Forty hits were always played at parties in high school, but in college
it became a bit heavier. I loved the Moody Blues, and Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd,
Jackson Browne, and the Eagles, but in the dorm, I loved the lady singers,
Carly Simon, Grace Slick,. Joni Mitchell, and Judy Collins.
Monday cloudy 47
Tuesday cloudy, 47
Wednesday sunny,34
Thursday cloudy, 40
Friday overcast, 41
Saturday, partly cloudy ,29
Sunday, partly cloudy, 39
I am glad it will be clear and a rather normal January week this week. We do have some places we need to be!
Hosted by Susanne
I love snow but I have learned from the error of my ways.. at our age, I really cannot enjoy snow days like I did when I was teaching we did get 8-10 inches of super powdery snow , and that following day I told Lynn to let the sunny day help it get going, as you could tell it was actually settling not starting to melt, and it created a icy layer on top. Well, by the second day, our driveway was pretty difficult to shovel. I felt very guilty, but Lynn persevered and got it done. The worse part was the ridge of snowy ice the plow had pushed on the street and partially blocked our drive. I kept wishing a band of young men, teens, would come by offering to help a 72 year old shoveler, but I do not think they exist any more.
Well, Lynn wouldn’t see reason and went ahead and shoveled our pretty long front walk! I can not tell you how many times I stood at the door praying God’s blessing on him. And feeling guilty for enjoying all that snow come down. Times have changed for us, we aren’t the same people we were 20 years ago when snow days were welcome and prayed for. But, God is still in His heaven and He supplied Lynn with the knowledge he needed to take breaks when needed, and the strength to take care of business. God is so faithful and we are learning that we can rely on His goodness and mercy in all things!
I have so much for which to be thankful. I have to say in my flesh, I am very tired of this gall bladder ordeal that started back in mid October.
I was horribly ill for a couple of weeks, and went to the Urgert Care twice, but they were treating me in error, based on their best information. In truth I had pancreatitis from a huge ping pong ball sized stone blocking a duct. But I never exhibited gall bladder trouble, per se. . No attacks as is the usual onset.When I went to the emergency room I was jaundiced and very sick. Photo taken end of October in triage.
I am feeling so much better and was able to go to Boston in November for two weeks to celebrate with our daughters family, and was able to celebrate a wonderful Christmas here at home even entertaining my charcuterie dinner party knowing that the end of January I would continue the quest for hopefully finalizing this journey I’ve been on.so the c scan is over, next week, I see my doctor, and following soon I will have what I pray will be my last endoscopy to remove stents, so, thereafter the only thing on the table is the question about my gall bladder. I’m praying it is so good the doctors will agree no surgery! Again, God has been so very good to me. He has brought me through each step of this long process and I think it is all for my good …to teach me more about Him,, maybe for a new purpose in my life. I only know , I love my Lord and am ever willing to be led by His Spirit into whatever assignment He has for me! praise His holy name!
I am so thankful for leftovers. Last weekend I did a lot of really great cooking. It was as if something came over me that I hadn’t felt in a long time and I cooked a wonderful dish for every meal. Maybe it was the snowfall, but I made a delicious soup, a fantastical Chinese chicken stir fry and rice, a fabulous pan seared steak, baked potato, salad dinner. Well, because we haven’t done that much this week, and at our age we just do not eat like we used to, we have lived off of those delicious leftovers all week. Tonight is the first time I have to cook again and I’m sure we will have left overs again. I’m making homemade tacos with all the trimmings.
On the world stage…I am so thankful for what is happening with Roe vs. Wade..as a prayer warrior in prayer groups for many years we have prayed about this atrocity that has twisted our culture into a culture of death.. It has affected crime, health, well, everything related to life because of the groundswell of evil that abortion opened the door to for our nation. I am only expressing my right of free speech here but it is sprinkled with the truth of heaven as I know that we cannot kill over 2000 children ever day and not have God’s hand lifted off of our nation. But praise God truth is finally streaming throughout the land. Young people have taken the gauntlet and were in huge numbers at the March for Life rally today. Judges are coming around realizing how much more technology we have today than in the 60’s when people actually thought abortion was ridding the body of an unwanted mass. Today in just a few weeks of gestation, we know the child is formed and fully able to feel what happens during abortions. We have good reason to believe judges will be ruling to dismiss Roe vs, Wade and turning the matter over to the states which it’s a giant step toward godliness in our nation.
And for # 5. I am just full of thanksgiving today! It is a day when everywhere I look .I see God’s Hand supporting me and extending grace and supply for all our needs. Praising God the king of the Universe! The photo taken in Boston the week of Thanksgiving.
Hosted by Joyce!
1. It's National Popcorn Day-my favorite! Are you a fan?I am a fan
and I love it salty, or sweet like Cracker Jack. Sweet or salty?
A good or great movie you've seen recently (at home or in a theater, either one)? Gee, we just don't go to movies anymore.. too expen-
sive, but I did see a great movie on Youtube over Christmas with James Garner and Julie Andrews.One Special Night! It was a
really good.. They have great chemistry!
2. What's something you didn't realize was going to take so much
of your time as an adult? Ironing, praise God Lynn took it over
from me. He is really picky about his shirts.
3. Your favorite yellow something? I love yellow flowers, but
Ive also really loved little girls yellow slickers and yellow rain
boots. I bought myself a yellow slicker to take with me to Scot-
land. YAYA!
4. Why do you write? I find writing so relaxing. I think some-
times I am more fluent and have more to say when I am writing.
I loved teaching writing to my students and even they, when I
retired, told me to find a way to keep writing . So I started blog-
ging.
5. Share a favorite memory associated with snow. Being an
only child when I played in the snow it was pretty lackluster.
I would most of the time trudge around through the yard pre-
tending I was on a long trek through the wilderness. But one
season my cousins from NC were visiting when a great snow
came and we all went out and made a snowman family together
even the parents. I cant find the photo but it was so cute and
vintage 1960!
6.Today I have my c-scan and I am just in the middle of drink-
ing the contrast.. not exactly the worst thing Ive ever thought
about drinking but it gets pretty bad down to that last gulp.
In 18 minutes I drink the second half of the bottle! 😟😟 Then 45
minutes following that we leave. I will be glad when this part
is over.. Should be all done by noon.. To reward myself we
are stopping at Lowes to see about getting some paper white
bulbs to plant.. That's all folks!
NOte:: Report.. can't believe the report from the scan beat me home.
Main thing first. NO malignancies Praising the Lord!!
Everything else looked pretty good. I will be seeing my endo doctor next week prior to my next endoscopy Feb 2 and I am still praying if they have to take out the GB may it be laparascopically
I didn't feel that great coming home from the scan so Lynn dropped me off and went on to the grocery stores. It took 3 stores for him to find such regular stuff as o j and distilled water for the humidifier. Goodness!! So no paper whites yet. I do hope to be able to plant some bulbs soon.
I discussed the dilemma regarding paint choices for the living and
dining room. But that is not the entire story! We plan to paint the
entire downstairs (except the bath, which was recently redone).
The library and kitchen are also on the plan!
In the library, there is a bookcase and window seat across one wall,
the walls are painted a deep red.
The kitchen was redone in 2015 and was painted this same color..
The cabinets a putty color..
the granite is a white with black and putty and an occasional deep
red fleck. So finding a color to paint the walls will depend mainly
on coordinating with the cabinets. I do want it to also coordinate
with the rest of this floor. but I am thinking a deeper tone of a
blue green color.. I have some thing in mind. Of course, the
border will be gone! So old school as Amanda will say! I loved
that border!
Heehee, I am actually thinking of paint that is almost dead ringer
for the text in this post!
I have actually loved
Aegean Teal since last year, but it is Benjamin Moore... I'll have to see if
I can find it in Behr..... NO matter what, upon reflection sitting here
in the kitchen looking at this color, it would not go at all. But I do
think it would be perfect on the bookcases in the library! BTW, the
sofa in the library will be moved, even if we have to chop it up to get it
out of there. Really, we did have to take the door off the hinge to get it
in. I detest this big ole sofa!
Thank you, to Sandi, Dandelion Tea for sharing a paint she got from Behr..
Oarsman Blue
.
The paint is always lighter on the wall than the paint sample. I think this would look nice on the shelves. Thanks, Sandi!
When Lynn painted our new cabinets he told me that was it.. So I must be happy with this color.. and I am.
Where Do You Want to Go?Welcome to Tuesday 4 kept up in memory of Toni Taddeo. Another Tuesday and a little list of questions.
Where would you go? Where do you want to go?
1. Is the farm for you? How about a ranch, a village or a city? Which is your choice and why? When we travel to Massachusetts to see our family, I love to stay at The Inn at Westwynd Farm in Hershey, Pa.
It is a beautiful horse farm. I love being out in the country. The quiet is such a pleasant respite after busy hectic
town life. Now that I only have memories of being on grand-
pa’s or going to the country to see mom and dad, I choose any
opportunity to be in the country.
2. A short auto trip for the weekend with friends or a long vacation? Where would you go?I love to go on trips with friends. Sometimes
we go to Cherry Grove Beach, north of Myrtle Beach with our best
friends. They own a condo there and go often to keep things up and
going. Sometimes we rent a place in their same complex and it is
great fun! I love that particular location .. right on the point of
Cherry Grove.
3. The quiet life at home with a cuppa and TV or a good book or a
night out with friends? Which sounds good today?well, with our
cars still snowed in, I guess that cuppa and tv takes the prize.
Poor Lynn has to shovel the cars out today, hopefully the sunshine
will help a lot!
4. You have a choice of dinner and a movie or a game of cards and
snacks at the neighbors. Where are you going tonight? I would
love to play cards with snacks with friends. My parents had be-
loved friends with whom they would play canasta, or Pay the Man,
every weekend, taking turns at each other’s house. They loved it
and sometimes we joined in! Those were the good ole days. Lynn
h movies either. He is sports all the way, which is a drag. But in
a perfect world, I would invite friends over and play cards.
I am going to share what I think about all the time. I don't know if you noticed over the holidays on Hallmark movies the rooms in the movies were so beautifully decorated, but what drew my attention was the paint on the walls. I fell in love with that pale blue and blue-green color with the soft white trim . All of my favorite movies had that color going on.. I found this one on line to show what I mean!!
now without fail these rooms in those movies were always trimmed in white,, white shutters, white fireplace surround etc. ok
We are painting our downstairs this winter. but I cannot paint my fireplace . the gum wood is just too beautiful to paint. plus it is very ornate it would be a pain to paint. Everyone says do not paint it.
So now comes the tricky part. paint colors look so different in different light. I am anxious to get rid of that golden cream that has been there for a couple of decades. Yikes. It was really good paint! ha! Hubs said only look at Behr Paint.. his favorite so I have!
And then there is In the moment
so I revert to barely blueish..
There are three I like when I visualize online which I cannot add here. but they are
Misty Morn
Permafrost
waterfall
and streetwise as seen above.. so there is my dilemma.. How do I choose!
ALL THE WHILE HUBS KEEPS SAYING BUT ISNT THAT THE COLOR OF OUR BEDROOM.. OR ISN'T THAT A BATHROOM COLOR! WHAAAA!
I would love your comments!
