Happy Homemaker Monday

Hosted by Sandra!

♥ ♥ Weather ♥♥
Today, Sunday, is a gorgeous day.. fair weather cumulus clouds scattered across the sky and the temps are milder with a lovely breeze!!! And oh, boy, if we can make it through this week, next week looks fabulous. much cooler temps!!!

Monday -rain,90/67

Tuesday - rain, 88/68

Wednesday - cloudy/ stormy, 89/69

Thursday -cloudy/ stormy, 88/72

Friday -cloudy, 89/72

Saturday- cloudy, 86/66

♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥
It is a lovely morning and I look forward to working in my nature journal!!!


♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥
Working on this post and and hoping t hat it will be received with the same love with which it is written!



♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥


Now it is very early Monday morning, it is still dark in our bedroom with the shutters closed, but dim daylight is sneaking in , in-between the slats. Cars are starting up around the neighborhood , leaving for parts unknown, even though it is only 6:30 am. I suppose there were mornings when I hit the road, driving the 25 minutes to work…to school. There were days that it was beneficial to arrive 30 minutes before the first bus. But I must admit, I am glad those days are over! I am so very glad I do not teach in this political climate.. all the evil mandates. Well, I would have had to resign!







♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥

My allergies are kind of going wild this morning!.

♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥

My delicious fruited yogurt topped with crumbled walnuts with coffee and a glass of water!

♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥

Didn't get to the market so I made  WW   Chicken salad with grapes,  cooked seasoned tomatoes with  melted Monterey Jack cheese,   corn on the cob.. pretty good  stuff!!

♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥

I am still in my pjs, I may remain in them awhile. Thus seems like perhaps a slow morning!

♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥

Chapters from Joshua, Acts, Jeremiah, Matthew. Btw, I am following the Gospel Coalition , Read Thru the Bible schedule for the year. I like to do it online, that way, it will read it to me, as I follow along. It really help, especially in the Old Testament with people and place names!

♥♥On my TV this week ♥♥

YouTube treasures I happen to run across! I do enjoy some home and food shows. And I have enjoyed some of the Hallmark Christmas movies. But what I really love has been listening to Gary Hamrick’s preaching on YouTube. He is speaking truth about the evil in our world and his sermons are very refreshing. Look him up! I think you’d you glad you did! A link is provided below!

♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥

As I look in the dining room, I realize it is time to change up the dining room table.. Yay , that is a favorite thing to do! I think I may go green in there!!!

♥♥A Favorite Vlog ♥♥

Ok, for my friends who are concerned about what is going on in our world I highly recommend this pastor who isn't afraid to preach the truth. Gary Hamrick is the pastor of Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia which is right outside of the Capitol . He has many videos online and I find myself listening to him every day. All of my friends love him, as well!!!

♥♥ To Do List ♥ ♥

Do my exercises/ stretches/ and recumbent bike
Plan menus
Go marketing
daily Bible reading
Prayer group meeting
Bible Study group
laundry


♥ ♥♥ From the camera ♥ ♥

I really miss looking out at the bird feeder and tracking the various birds who visited us.  But hubs is adamant about not putting feed out regularly so maybe I can get him to do so today in between our rain days. 




Not too clear through the screen,  but you can see  the birds were prolific and I miss them!!!

A Good Word:What Do we Believe?
This is from Pastor Hamrick's church. I really like it very much!!!


We believe there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons:

 the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in power and glory; that this triune God created 

all,

upholds all and governs all;


We believe in God, the Father, an infinite, personal Spirit, perfect in holiness, 

wisdom,

power, and love; that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men; 

that He

hears and answers prayer; and that He saves from sin and death all who 

come to

Him through Jesus Christ;


We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by 

the Holy

Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and teachings; His

substitutionary atoning death; bodily resurrection; ascension into heaven;

perpetual intercession for His people; and personal, visible return to earth.

We believe that He is one and the same as God. He was fully human and

fully God;


We believe in the Holy Spirit, who came forth from the Father and Son to

convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment and to regenerate,

sanctify, and empower in ministry all who believe in Christ. We believe

the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is an

abiding Helper, Teacher, and Guide. We believe that Jesus Christ baptizes

the seeking believer with the Holy Spirit and power for service, either

at the time of or subsequent to regeneration, which is a separate

work from the indwelling Spirit for salvation.


We believe that all the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments

are the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original

manuscripts, and that they are the infallible rule of faith and practice;


We believe all people are by nature separated from God and responsible

for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are

freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a

person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as his/her personal

Lord and Savior, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately

born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all of his/her sins are forgiven,

and that person becomes a child of God, assured of spending eternity

with the Lord;


We believe in the universal Church, in the living spiritual body, of which

Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members;


We await the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church, and we believe in

the literal Second Coming of Christ with His saints to rule the earth,

which will be personal and visible. This motivates us to holy living,

heartfelt worship, committed service, diligent study of God’s word,

regular fellowship, and participation in baptism and Communion;


We believe the Lord Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to

the Church: 1) baptism, and 2) the Lord’s Supper. We practice baptism

by immersion and regularly celebrate Communion according to the

Scriptural guidelines found in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34;


We believe in the laying on of hands for the sending out of pastors and

missionaries, and in conjunction with the anointing of oil by the elders

for the healing of the sick;


We believe that marriage is exclusively the union between one man and

one woman in a lifetime commitment to each other (Genesis 2:23-24;

Matthew 19:4-6). Marriage reflects the relationship between Christ and the

Church and provides for procreation, intimate companionship, and we

believe is the only basis for any form of sexual expression. We believe that

any intimate sexual activity outside of marriage is sin (1 Thess. 4:3;

Ephesians 5:3).
We believe that God disapproves of any attempt to alter one’s gender

 (as revealed at birth) through surgery, medicine, appearance, or otherwise
and such an attempt violates God’s creative order. Sex and gender are
inseparably determined by God at the moment of creation and may not
be legitimately changed by human action (Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:18-22;
Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20). AMEN

Friday Fave Five

Welcome to FFF!  Hosted by Susanne!

 Good evening..    It is   5 pm, on Friday and Ive been so  busy today,  I should have done this last evening!!

I'll get right to    things!    This week  has been a good week.   I  got very into my new Nature Journal.   I am using  great  quotes  and  my own drawings   of the nature that comes to our yard!  Unfortunately,  I was getting very inspired by the birds coming to the feeders,  but  alas, because  many unwanted critters were  almost taking the feeders over..   Hubs is  rationing my  feeding the birds  as  he really thinks,  anyway, birds have  plenty of food in the summer.   We were spending quite a bit on having to fill the feeders every day!.. and   the squirrels and deer were getting the greater share of the food.  But I do  have a great list of the kinds of birds  who were  previously  attending the feeders,  so  I can  still  keep up with the journal.

I had a great week  on weight watchers this week.  I lost   2.4 pounds this week. .. which brings me to 17.2 pounds in 6 weeks.I think this is pretty good, because  better  slow and steady than to lose it too quickly.  I all too well,  know I gain it all back  so  easily that way!

Today my  prayer  pals  took me  out for a birthday luncheon at our finest restaurant. It was so wonderful to get back together..  Like so many things   when covid hit   all the great things of life seemed to slam to a close.. as  did this group..  And then  it seemed we had all  gotten older and had issues,,  but praise God we are doing well  and getting together has  ignited  a flame of  prayer revival in us.   We all had missed each other so badly  but  it seemed  the world and its  problems  were  keeping us  from  getting back together !  Yay,  today we were victorious!!

Speaking of prayer,  I  am dealing with an issue that I will not go into   but it is  strongly on my mind and    really needs resolution.  I really need  direction prayer    for    what the Lord has in store for  us in the coming days..  It seems I am at a crossroads    about  an issue and  I really am seeking God's direction  for  which  way to turn.  This would  be  a family    decision    so  it is between hubs and myself..  regarding   a church issue.  The enemy  is seeking to rob, steel, and destroy     and he must not win..   I  just really  desire to the Lord's will in  this issue!!!

I am so thankful for the  lovely rain , even the storms  we have been getting.  It has  been so dry and hot here. ..  the  gentle rain all night last night  was  heaven sent.  Everything looked so  beautiful this morning!  Thank you,  Lord!

I am so blessed  to  be  a  member of the Intercessors of America Prayer   team from our city.. Plus, a new  prayer initiative has come to Roanoke called  Pray Now America..  I think 15 cities in Virginia  are   meeting once a month in  the towns best restaurant to    eat lunch,  get to know   the others  who  show up..  anyone can  come   if your hear about it from a friend  who knows you are serious about praying,    and there is still  plenty of room for  twice as many more.   The food is  served buffet style usually an Italian  dish, salad and dessert..    and  then   prayer warriors  leave a donation at the end..  I  am so  over the moon that these cities are participating  across  our state and I do hope this  starts in every state!   After we eat,  we  pray for  about 45 minutes  corporately and  it is powerful!!!

   This  is a huge blessing  for me and   all who  get connected!!!!

Tuesday 4. Old Times

 

Tuesday 4 hosted by Annie

Hello! Welcome back to our weekly question fest begun by Toni Taddeo and kept in her memory.
Let's talk about old times.....

1. My town had an old-fashioned strawberry festival, a summertime picnic and carnival and the local church went caroling at Christmas time. What did/does your town do?  Our city holds a Dickens of a Christmas every year with carriage rides, costumes,  specialty foods and dramatic events.  It is very well done, but we have never participated. What about your family? I grew up going to the country with my parents to enjoy old time events, reunions, Decoration Days,  old- time picnic with home made ice cream and roasted corn on the cob! I love my memories at both grandma’s! I particularly enjoyed Christmas at my Grandmas’. One was rather genteel.  Baking the most exquisite food , home made cream custard, chantilly crème with fruit on homemade chocolate pound cake, everything was grand and gloriously decorated and sublime, while down at grannies, folks sat around the wood stove after a delectable, huge country dinner telling funny tales of the past, then at midnight we’d go out and shoot of fireworks.

2. What things in your life did you love about the past?I addressed  some of this in my first answer. One memory that really popped up that was very dear to me was being down at grannie’s , I mean way down in the country, with my fiancé’ at Christmas, when my Uncle June, my dad, and Lynn and I  walked way down into the woods looking for mistletoe in the trees. Uncle June shot the mistletoe out of the tree. I will never forget that day.  Our  frosty breaths, the red plaid  lined jackets,  holding Lynn’s cold hand in my mittened one!  The resounding echoes of the gunfire, the crackling branches falling through the trees and the romantic branch of mistletoe that we got to bring back home with us!  Another Christmas memory took place  at my other Grandmother’s.  One year at the Community Center which was actually the old elementary school my mother and grandmother attended ,  put on a play one year, called an Old -Fashioned Christmas.  The refreshments were all old time foods,  with Christmas custard instead of egg nog.me oh, my good!  The evening ended with a hayride not only along the country roads of the community, but,also, a 4 mile trek on the Blue Ridge Parkway, where all along the way we sang Christmas Carols. It actually spit a bit if snow for special effect.  It was wonderful!

3. What would you like to bring back that are no longer as popular as they once were? Would you talk to friends about perhaps reviving old traditions? Hayrides are a wonderfully fun thing to do.  Also,I wish  we honored our dear families who have passed by celebrating Decoration Day again.  Every year growing up , the end of May, my parents went to grandma’s we kids walked the country road picking Queen Anne’s lace , sweet peas,  chickory, everything that bloomed.  Grandma picked her garden clean, zinnias, snap dragons, dahlias,  roses,  and grandpa brought the many floral baskets up from the cellar. Thus would begin the compilation of  scads of beautiful baskets of flowers to place on a myriad of graves at the family cemetery.  Some of the dates in the graves were from the 1800’s. I always asked to pick the basket for my great aunt who died  as a child around the turn of the century! 

4. Do you belong to an organization of any kind and do they have outings, picnics or pot lucks?what special events did they do? Over the years I was  a member of a teacher’s sorority, Alpha Delta Kappa.   We did many fund raising events to help several area missions, like Ronald McDonald House, for one.  For a couple of  decades at two consecutive churches I was the chairman of the social committee where we planned dinners,  showers,  picnics and other personal type events for the pastors, etc. I was a member of the P, Buckley Moss Society where we worked to raise money for charities and other  philanthropic institutions important to Miss Moss. We regularly did pot lucks to share at our meetings which were held at Ronald Mc Donald House. We’d bring 2 dishes, one for our dinner and one to leave for the guests staying at the House.   Later in my life I was a member of the local Garden Club which I enjoyed  but   I found that to be a true functioning member, meant spending more money than I really wanted to do. But I enjoyed the outings and associations with all of my endeavors.

By the way, I looked up the usage of 'old- fashioned vs old- fashion and old-fashioned is the correct usage. and must have a hyphen as well

Happy Homemaker Monday

Hosted by Sandra!

♥ ♥ Weather ♥♥
I was hoping for a cooler week,  but now I see it will be brutal!   Extremely humid and hot!  The air will be thick and my sinuses are already feeling it. I have a horrid sinus headache today!  I  couldn't go to church!!!

Monday -rain,87/63

Tuesday - cloudy, 89/67

Wednesday - cloudy, 91/67

Thursday -cloudy, 92/69

Friday -cloudy, 92/71

Saturday- cloudy, 93/71

♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥ 
It is pouring rain  and it is very dark  at 11;30am

♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥ 
I am cooking lunch while I type.  Actually it is  a breakfast for lunch.  Boiled eggs,  and  sausage patties  with  English muffin.

♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥ 

 I was rather sad yesterday even though it was my birthday!   I wasn't  hubs fault.   One thing,  MY  special birthday  gifts  I ordered from Amazon were due to a drive yesterday but they didn't!  That was disappointing. Then a situation occurred  later in the day which   sort  of sent us into a downward spiral.  I couldn't sleep last night because of it!    Just not a good finish for  my  special day!  😞

♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥ 

As I mentioned  before  I have a horrible sinus headache which  makes me feel miserable.. I  probably will not get dressed today,  I will be watching church services on line!!!

♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥

 My  delicious   fruited yogurt   topped with  crumbled  walnuts  with  coffee  and a glass of water!    

♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥

Lynn took us to our favorite restaurant for lunch yesterday  and I brought half of mine home for dinner tonight.  It is an avocado, tomato, bacon  and  green  salad with grilled chicken and  delicious  Green Goddess dressing!

♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥ 

In my  terry robe and pjs    and will be through  to tomorrow!  I mean why, not,  I do hope to nap some today!!!

 ♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥

Chapters from Joshua, Psalms, Jeremiah,  Matthew.  

♥♥On my TV this week ♥♥ 

YouTube treasures I  happen to run across!

♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥

   I'd say things are presentable..  And that shall remain for the foreseeable future!!!

♥♥A Favorite Vlog ♥♥

   

  A  new favorite,  Randi Lynn Reed and her art!!!

 ♥♥ To Do List ♥ ♥

Do my exercises/ stretches/ and  recumbent  bike
Plan menus 
Go marketing
daily Bible reading
Prayer group meeting
Bible Study group
laundry

Belated  Birthday luncheon with my prayer pals

♥ ♥♥ From the  camera ♥ ♥

A purple finch at our feeder yesterday.

  

A Good Word:

• Scripture makes it clear that God is a bird watcher and He loves and cares about all birds. That is an awesome thing for us. God provides for the cardinal birds, the ravens, and the hummingbirds. If God provides for the birds when they cry out to Him, how much more will He provide for His children! Psalm 11:1 “ I take refuge.

  “Our sorrows are all, like ourselves, mortal. There are no immortal sorrows for immortal souls. They come, but blessed be God, they also go. Like birds of the air, they fly over our heads. But they cannot make their abode in our souls. We suffer today, but we shall rejoice tomorrow.” Charles Spurgeon

  
  

Friday's Fave Fve

Welcome to FFF!  Hosted by Susanne!

 Good evening..  It is Thursday  afternoon,  and it  has been a very hot  week.  The kids  have been  with   Josh's family in the next county this week..    but this morning they boarded  the  Amtrak for  home. We had such a marvelous  time with  them last week and  we look forward to  time with them

over the  holidays!

This photo  was sent to us yesterday...  when they  visited their university nearby by ...  This photo was taken in the chapel where  they were married over a decade ago! The girls really enjoyed  revisiting    the     history of  their  precious  family!

Sunday,  we  really enjoyed church, as  we always do.  We are very fortunate to belong to such fabulous Bible believing and teaching  body!

We  then enjoyed  a wonderful Chinese  lunch with our  buddies, Gerri and David!  Gerri and I  have to be careful where we dine  because  we are both  doing Weight Watchers.   I think I have had a pretty  good week this week.  I look forward to  weighing in tomorrow!!

This week has been pretty low key.   No where to go  , and since it has been so hot   we enjoyed staying home..  getting a few chores accomplished!I always  just  love  sitting in the garden room  watching the birds at the feeders. 

This purple finch has been a lovely companion all day!

 I keep awaiting the rain that is always forecast  but, alas,  it never  appears.  This evening I must water the garden .We  enjoy  listening to the  Fair fireworks each night around    bedtime..  honestly they re much later  than usual this  year!. 

Wednesday, we  went as usual to our  Bible Study class.  We  are  doing a n amazing study of Ephesians,  and  are  studying the  elements of our warfare!   We learned this  in conjunction with the  section in Luke  regarding the temptations of Christ.  This added a great dynamic to  what  we  already knew about the  weapons  at our disposal.   The Word of God is so powerful and   when your teacher is a scholar of Greek and latin  so much is  added to what the actual  reading provides!    I  love our  Study !!!

Last night Lynn went to the Fair  with  a group from our church to pass out tracts and speak to anyone interested in growing  their faith.    He teamed up with a good friend, Ernie,   and    it was a great  first time  for Lynn  to put himself out there.  Actually, the church , I think , has been  pretty lax in   sharing the gospel   and  it is something  we all need to do more!!!

So tomorrow, Friday,  I look forward to  checking in at Weight Watchers and  then I look forward   to  actually starting my Nature Journal.  I have been  practicing   some drawings and  I have been   writing my prose statement  in the forward of my journal.   I  am really excited about  this  project.   I  am hopeful taht it will  be a real blessing to continue  with the nature journal throughout the whole  year!!!   My inspiration is  Edith Holden's  1905 Journal.

"Edith Blackwell Holden (September 26, 1871 – March 16, 1920) was born at Kings Norton, Worcester, in 1871, one of seven children of a Midlands paint manufacturer. The family lived in the small village of Olton in Warwickshire and it was there that she wrote and illustrated her book, The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady. After attending art school, she worked as an illustrator, with her drawings (often of animals) being published in several books.

She later moved to London, and in 1911 met and married Ernest Smith, a sculptor; they lived in Chelsea, and had no children. On March 16th 1920, in her 49th year, Edith died tragically by drowning in the Thames at Kew, while gathering buds from chestnut trees."

Online source

My  edition  is the 1989  version  still rather  old,  so I do need to take care  reading it,     I purchased my copy from Amazon  last winter,   and I do love  perusing it cover to cover..   her work is so exquisite, the drawings and the  text. So very inspirational!  

Tuesday 4. Independence Day

 

Independence Day, July 4, 1776

Hosted by Annie.

Happy 4th of July and a warm welcome to Tuesday 4 from the land of the free and the home of the brave!


Let's talk about the day....



1. What is your tradition for July 4th? Do you read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights? No, we do not review our national documents.  I did teach 4 th grade and as a history teacher, I love the founding of our nation.  Over the years celebrating the holiday was very important to us, but now that it is just the two of us, we don’t do so much anymore. Today I did  cook hamburgers and fried onion rings  along with  watermelon for dessert.  We ate on blue paper plates.  I suppose we celebrated our liberty!  

2. Does your town do it up big for the holiday? I am not aware of anything our town did.  The community next to us has had their yearly fair going on this week with nightly fireworks we can hear!  Our previous church had a fabulous Fourth of July celebration Sunday evening where a Major  from Washington was present to present honors to anyone who served during  the  Vietnam Era. Hubs did serve during that time so a friend from the church invited him to attend and receive honors. The premiss  is that as the vets returned to the US under such foul reception from the nation, it was high time to show honor to those who served well, yes, Lynn who actually served in Europe during the Vietnam War,  was warned to be very vigilant on his return  to the US as many soldiers in uniform had been attacked!

3. Do you fly the flag? We do, proudly! 

4. Have you visited Philadelphia, Pennsylvania our first capital? What did you see there? We have visited Philadelphia when our daughter was young. .  We visited the Liberty Bell,  the State House,  toured the National History Museum.  

Here you can hear the real liberty bell rung in Liberty Square, Philadelphia Pa.

 N

Happy Homemaker Monday

  



Hosted by Sandra!

♥ ♥ Weather ♥♥
I am dreading this coming week.. will be hot, humid, and miserable!

Monday -cloudy, 92/71

Tuesday - cloudy, 91/ 69

Wednesday - cloudy, 90/70

Thursday -cloudy, 89/71

Friday -rain, 87/70

Saturday- rain, 87/69

♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥
The sky is quite hazy and    I  don't think I even want to venture out today.  Thank goodness I  have no where to go anyway!

♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥

I have  just finished my mid morning  snack, and  cup of coffee so I am  ambitious to  finish this post!    I am listening to Pandora,  the David Arkenstone station!  If you love  Lord of the Rings music you'll love this!!!

♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥
I was so looking forward to last week with Amanda   and the girls ,  but it was over in a flash!    

 Our oldest  requested a tea party so we had a tea party breakfast!

                          Baa Baa loves to read to the girls!!!Why does time go by so fast when you are reveling in the  joy of life,   then every other day is  so mundane and   slow!.  Ok,  I know  that  life isn't really mundane.  I suppose I  am just complaining and  over exaggerating,  but I miss  them so much the other  49 weeks of the year.Not counting a week of vacation and  the other two  weeks  I hope to spend with family!  It is just hard to have your only family    living so far away!  Oh, I will   see them for a week before the year  is out, so I must  learn to be satisfied and find joy in  what  life has to offer  ...  I  am trying to find joy in the endeavors I am doing..    I am planning my food  in the effort of losing weight and I have lost  15 pounds since the first of June. I have finished my first sketchbook and am starting a couple of new ones...  a nature journal and a regular  sketchbook!  So  I have  very pleasing endeavors ahead of me, aside from keeping  house and home and  time with friends. Praise God,  recently my prayers sisters got together  again to pray.  We used to before covid and   it just sort of fell off the grid of our lives..  We are all older and  dealing with our own  infirmities  and  troubles,  but finally things are looking up for us all so   we plan to meet every week again to pray.  Our next time together will be  to celebrate my upcoming birthday...  We will be dining   out at my favorite  restaurant!!.  YAYA!

And I mustn't  leave out  our   very dear friends,  Gerri and David..  We are so glad  to attend church with them and    it is so much fun dining out together afterwards!  That is  a very special time of the week!!!

                This couple is a huge blessing to us!!!!

♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥ 

Except   for my  lower back pain that is a result of my fall last week.. I am doing  good.  Loosing  3 bags  of sugar off my  body helps.   Now only    another 3 bags,  then another,  then another..  even perhaps then another !!! 

♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥

My  early,  easy breakfast  is  a serving of probiotic yogurt with fruit and a 1/8 cup of  crumbled walnuts.   with a  cup of coffee.  Then  mid morning   I  fix myself an egg and 1/2 English muffin.  A later lunch includes  a fruit  or veg salad.     

♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥

Tonight I am making vegetable stirfry with  a few  cashews  mixed in  with a    bit of  brown rice!  Watermelon for dessert!

♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥ 

Navy shorts, a plum colored tee,  and  Clark sandals

 ♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥

Chapters from Joshua, Psalms, Isaiah,  Matthew.  

♥♥On my TV this week ♥♥ 

Youtube channels,  for example , Location, Location, Location,  Escape to the Country,   and The Food Network, and HGTV, This never changes  because  usually there is nothing on the  regular channels that interests me!!  I haver been   looking for new  YouTube channels  as  many of my faves are    not  operational this summer.   When I find a great one I'll share!!

♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥

Things  are still looking good..  after  all the work we did getting ready for the kids.   Thankfully,,    only the laundry to do this week!!  We  went through  so much bird feed last week.    Unfortunately,  the  house wrens and yucky sparrows  took them over..they  over fed  so much the chickadees, bluebirds,  woodpeckers, cardinals, and thrushes   couldn't get their  ample turn. Hubs  is tired  of feeding the squirrels and   other  varmet types that frequent the area so no bird watching for me   for the next  while!  We need to replenish our  feed supplies!!   I guess it is  rather too hot this week to enjoy the Garden room anyway,  but we had so much fun in there last week!   I love our new garden room!!

                                                                                                                                                                                    

                     

Our daughter, Amanda,  enjoyed sitting out there  as we   reminisced  about  the good ole days

♥♥A Favorite Vlog ♥♥

 We  enjoyed  trying our hands at painting  peonies!  

 ♥♥ To Do List ♥ ♥

Do my exercises/ stretches/ and  recumbent  bike
Plan menus 
Go marketing
daily Bible reading
Prayer group meeting
Bible Study group
laundry

♥ ♥♥ From the  camera ♥ ♥

   My dear prayer pals  celebrating my birthday in 2018

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