Happy Homemaker Monday

Happy Homemaker Monday  

Hosted by Sandra!

 The weather in my neck of the woods:::

Monday -79/60  cloudy

Tuesday -70/58 showers

Wednesday -75/59 few showers 

Thursday - 82/60  partly sunny

Friday - 85/61 partly cloudy 

Saturday -82/59 cloudy

Sunday - 76/56 showers

We are so enjoying the fall like weather and  look 

forward to the actual change in the season coming 

soon.  we certainly do need the rain that is coming 

this week! 

Right now:::    Besides working on this post., I have 

been working on a homeschool project for our youngest granddaughter. As a retired teacher,I love honing my skills and  I   have written up   detective style  lessons  on  books  that are read  and reported on. Today I have been working on TheMouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary   for our fourth grader.

Something fun to share (a blog, a video, a tip)::: 

I love to watch shorts on Youtube..   this one gets me 

every time!   

 https://youtube.com/shorts/2L3klo9Akbo?feature=shared

Thinking and pondering:: I was thinking about what's for supper.  That is the hardest task I think I have at this  stage of life.  By the end of the day, I am just not that into  cooking, planning or anything of the like. And we do usually like to go out to eat except  with dear friends usually on the weekend! It just hit me... tonight we will have  fish sticks,  baked French fries and cole slaw!

  

On my tv:::   last time I wrote about old movies,  but  over the weekend  I enjoyed watching really old movies..starring Ginger Rodgers , like I'll Be Seeing You! It was so  sweet!!

On my to do list::: 

Monday:  work on   my Investigation project for our  sweetheart, Viv! .... typing up  the  letter,  the files and   compelling the questions and activities!

Tuesday: go to Community Bible study meet  hubs for a brief lunch and come home and start on  this week's study.

Wednesday: continue working on files and case work 

for the  next series of questions.   Our granddaughter 

its an avid reader...  must stay on top of this !!!

Thursday: Take a break from  the paper work and  do

 a bit of purging upstairs.

Friday:  free day.. I have no idea

My simple pleasure:::Because I am at the age of  having memory issues  I  have found that  giving a bit of time to

some  online memory games  have been a good help for me.  

I  enjoy crossword puzzles called, classic words, and

and vita mahjong.  

Looking around the house:::  I will be so glad when all

the charities  we  send to will be  finished.  My dining

room table has been piled high with items for various

groups.. our last group  which we love to  do is  Operation Christmas Child  which we highly recommend.  But next

time we will not  use the dining room table for our  

project  table. We are awaiting our boxes to fill and 

we do so much joy  giving, but, also,  I love to set a lovely autumn table and that isn't happening until things 

are squared away!

From the WORD!

 

Have a great week!!!

Friday's Fave Five

Hosted by Susanne!

It is so  wonderful to finally be in September... the summer heat/humidity  was  just about more than I could bear! I am sure many can agree.  But  finally, we are enjoying  such beautiful temps and skies...I feel like I can breathe again!

This week has flown by.. I can hardly believe it is Friday. .. and now that it is September,  so many things in my life are starting up,  I find that now the days will go by faster than ever.

Sunday was a great day.  We  so enjoy our church..  the teaching is  wonderful,  anyway, but this week  we had  one of our favorite missionaries  preach and he is so dynamic and  motivating  ....the time whizzed by.    And then it was so wonderful to have our  very good friends, Gerri and David  back from their week at the beach....  we have a standing date every Sunday to dine out together after church.... we were all on the same page  Sunday....  we were off to  Texas Roadhouse.. I love their Herb Crusted Chicken...   and this week it was  especially  good.    Thank you, Lord   for a wonderful  time with our dear friends!  

Monday was a rather quiet day  as we  worked around the house.  I have been purging  things like books, magazines,,  and other  collections  that  seem to have taken over   several spots in our home.  One of these days  we have to  put  our home on the market and downsize into something easier  for both of us.  Poor Hubs  has so much to tackle every week..  our 3/4 acre  yard   is  a lot for him,  and  there are so many things to be done outside  as  fall and winter approach!  I have enjoyed  scouring  Zillow  looking at  new neighborhoods and   homes that  may suit our needs.  as much fun as it is to  dream, but it is also. rather  gloomy to think  we are entering into what I suppose you can call  our  last days...  giving up  the home where we raised our family and  made so many friends  is a daunting thing, indeed!

Tuesday  was a busy day..  Thank you, Lord for giving me the strength to attend to all that has to be done.. My  poor knee is 4 years  into   waiting for  a knee replacement,  but health   problems have    pushed   me  into  this situation where  walking is not only treacherous,  but quite painful. I will be so glad  when at the end of the month I will be released  by my heart doctor to  be able to attend to the knee,  but the   surgeon is quite booked.. so   I  trust God has  a plan for it all!  One night a week is always a fun relaxing  time with  a set of precious  friends and buddies from a previous church...  we meet at various  scheduled  restaurants  on the designated  evening. This time it was my favorite..  the deli! My goodness, there are about 20 of us who show up each  time.  But,  that is  20 of  about 50  who are in the list. Not every one makes it there each week, including us,  so  it is a joy to see who shows up!

Wednesday  This week  two birthdays were celebrated..  two very special  birthdays...  One is my  dear friend, Vicky,  who has been tending to her precious husband for a few weeks and hasn't been able to attend church.. thank you Lord,  he got a release from the doctors  to be able to  move forward with a coronary procedure he  has been needing.  The other    birthday  peeps  are my  Connect Croup ( Sunday School) teacher and his wife...  can you believe it,  they have the same birthday.  Well,  I am so pleased to be able to create the most  beautiful birthday cards online  using  Jacquie Lawson cards.  And   using these you know they receive them exactly ontime!  I love sending cards..  but the cost of mailing  just keeps going up , so creating my own cards is a great joy for me..  and everyone seems to really enjoy getting them!

Thursday.  I heard from our daughter  who lives in New England about my grand daughters.I am so proud of them all.. The oldest grand  is 12   and has enrolled in a Christian school  very well known for its high caliber  of education.  And she is  enjoying it so much all ready...  This was exactly  what she was needing.  The joy on her face tells it all! And our youngest  grand daughter is being home schooled this year... and I am so proud of her mom! There are so many extra curricular offerings to  add on to each  week,  I think  this is going to be a great  adventure for them both!  You know, it is so unfortunate that curriculums and  unions  have  in my mind corrupted  what once was a great  educational system.. I taught school during the good ole days  prior to  the crazy testing  that  was the sol's  which  was the start of dictating  a much lower level of  academics   and finally merged into  what we have today   with all its wokeness,  especially in  their area of the country!  It makes me so sad to see this decline,  but am so grateful for  the options families can utilize.

Today, as usual, I will lead a prayer group... Intercessors for America.  where we pray for the nation,  our  cities and communities and each other!  We always open with a praise song or hymn.  Tonight it  will be  a beautiful  song  performed by  Terry Macalmon..   Name Above All Names....

 You can copy this link into the url bar to hear  it.

https://youtu.be/Rp2Ldnh18XI?feature=shared

  Have a blessed weekend and  we'll be back next week!!

Friday's Fave 5

Hosted by Susanne!     

                                 

Does time seem to be flying by? I am getting so I cannot keep up... sos I am doing this post earlier than usual Actually,  in my dotage  I  cannot work at the same pace and  remember  everything that you do to post on blogger.. so I  try to  get at it  so my memory does not fade away.  That is what happened earlier in the week  when I failed to update  what I had written before posting and it was all erased.. 

Bummer!!!

well, it is Wednesday, the 27th of August  and I am  so pleased with the  lovely days the Lord has given us.. I have always dreaded the dog days of summer..  with the  searing heat and  super humidity. these days have certainly been a gift from on high!

Therefore it is time to share our blessings... On Monday I had been missing our  daughter and her family so much.  They live 7 states away so  any time we can spend online is a real treat. but their summer has been hectic with trips,  camps and  establishing our oldest  granddaughter in a new school  that  our Facetime has been extremely limited.

So Monday we  did  get to visit on the computer and it truly seemed our 9 and 11 year old grands had grown  so much.  

Of course,  now the they had added  dear Hugo to the family,  life  gets even a bit more complicated.  But joyful, as well!

I am so thankful  that even  as my  poor knee   has been in a state of decline for up to two years now,  the Lord has  given hours of reprieve  following  ice bagging it  so I can  still get some things done around the house. You might ask  why have I waited so long to take care of it,  but  unfortunately  I have had one  medical  problem after another.  even now I am  hoping to get released from my cardiologist   regarding my ablation I had  almost 2 months ago.  I have one more month to go  before I see the surgeon and get released for my next great adventure.. a knee replacement!even at that.. I was told when I see the surgeon don't be surprised taht he will say  we can't do it for another 6 months.. my schedule is full!  Bah!!!!

So I am reprieved  to  do some  cleaning  around  the lower lever so I can still have my prayer group here instead of going to  the other homes that unfortunately have such steps that I cannot negotiate.  Another  great reprieve was a dear friend offered to bake a lovely dessert for us to serve tomorrow!!   I will offer the tea and coffee! Our prayer group has been meeting  twice a month for well over 10 years.  Praise God  for  special friend- (sisters), who truly  love each other and  love to spend time together with the lord!!! 

The Lord gave me  the will and ability to do some reading yesterday. I used to love to read,  but over time  my eyes sometimes fail me, but  Lynn got me a portable book light  that  absolutely  makes reading a joy!  I was able to  purchase some fabulous books form Thrift Books online and  have found them to be  such a solace and really fun thing to do..I enjoy cosy mysteries  and  now I am rereading Pride and prejudice as well as   a book form my bookcase, I didn't realize was a historical novel  It is entitled Glencoe

a Scottish Romance..I bought it three summers ago while at the Glencoe  information center and assumed it was a historical volume.  And well,  the time frame is  the time following the horrible massacre of Glencoe,  Well, to my surprise it is  the most  beautifully written novel and is described so majestically, I feel like I am right back there entranced by God's  beauty of creation! I feel certain the Lord  allowed me to wait  for just the right moment to pick it up and enjoy reading again!

 Today is Wednesday  and  I must praise the Lord for my dear husband without whom I would be  completely  lost and unable to even survive.  I do so look forward to the days when all my troubles are behind me and we can enjoy our endeavors together. 

Tomorrow will  be  our wonderful prayer event..  we meet at 9:30 and so enjoy our time with  the Lord that we go until after 12! we always begin with a song. I love the time  spent coming up with  the perfect song. 

https://youtu.be/OIahc83Kvp4?feature=shared

Is He Worthy by Andrew Peterson  

and I will end    this week's  post  by  adding.Jesus is  the one and only  Worthy one..

Praise the Lord for his love in sending Him to and for us11

HHM

Happy Homemaker Monday  

Hosted by Sandra!

 The weather in my neck of the woods:::

Tuesday - 53/67    partly cloudy

Wednesday - 74/50  cloudy

Thursday -  77/53  partly sunny

Friday -  80/55 sunny

Saturday - 79/58 sunny 

Sunday -  76/57 partly cloudy

 Another beautiful week..   I am loving how green  the grass is and how much the plants have revitalized after the fiercely hot summer!

Right now:::   Besides working on this post, I am listening to  music...  I've been checking out theme music from Youtube  to listen to while I read.

Something fun to share (a blog, a video, a tip):::

I am reading the Puffin published   Pride and Prejudice book... and am loving it..   I can't  say about the others in the series,  but    this   edition is just like watching  the  previous  film with 

Thinking and pondering:: 

Hoping all have a glorious week and enjoy this wonderful  gift of  fall  during these  dog days of August!  Thank you, Lord!      

OH, my goodness. I    didn't get the rest of  the blog updated..   and I  am already late.. so I will see you next week... hopefully on time!

                           
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On my tv::: 

 

On my to do list::: 

Monday:  

Tuesday: 

Wednesday: 

 Thursday:     

Friday :

My simple pleasure:::

Looking around the house:::  

Happy Homemaker Monday

Happy Homemaker Monday  

Hosted by Sandra!

 The weather in my neck of the woods:::

Monday -87/68  cloudy

Tuesday -82/68 cloudy

Wednesday -84/68 cloudy

Thursday - 80/68 scattered storms 

Friday - 79/67 passing storms

Saturday -80/65 scattered thunderstorms

Sunday - 84/63 partly cloudy

I am thrilled with this  weather report.  I am so very 

ready for cooler weather,  and hopefully the humidity

 will break and  things will be looking up.. the storms 

we have had  this summer have really helped the veg-

etation.  our  flowers are looking  very nice compared

 to other years!

Right now:::   Besides working on this  post,  I am 

cooking dinner.. tonight we are enjoying  chicken

 veggie stir fry and rice.I love to fix this meal..  so 

 easy!!!We cut up  chicken strips  into bite size pieces

 and first of all, stir fry them in  a bit of oil and  our

 favorite spices, then take   them up  into a small bowl

  while  we  get out the frozen vegetables  for stir 

fry  from the grocer,  and  add a bit more oil to the 

pan,  place on  medium heat  while everything 

 simmers and the  flavors meld together! Below is a

 tip I will share  about the rice!           

Something fun to share (a blog, a video, a tip)::: Yes, 

I  figured out since  there was  a bit of water in the 

 pan from  the veggies  thawing,I added  a bit more  

water 1/3 of a cup  then  added 1/2 c  of the dry  

minute rice to the pan  put on the lid and let it  all 

cook together. It works like a dream and makes

it so easy  and less to wash up after!

                               

Thinking and pondering:: I enjoyed  starting  my 

fall decor.. I said last week,  that I had read how to 

 decorate a blue and white room ... add green and a

 bit of   deeper colors.  So I ordered some  green and

 white plaid  pillow covers and  some  feather  fillers

 and  I love how they look.  especially since there is

 quite a lot of green in our rug!

      

I love my Staffordshire  spaniel I got for my birthday

 in July!  

  

                           

The cabinet top in the hall is a perfect place to create

  a country village  for autumn. my dried  hydrangeas

 look like  gigantic oak trees.

On my tv::: I have been enjoying the old  movies that

 have been on YouTube this last week. The Quiet Man

  is a real  favorite,  but  the newer ones are great, as

 well. Today I watched  You've Got Mail!

 

On my to do list::: 

Monday:  My bad knee has really been bothering me

 lately  so I spent  most of the day   sitting   with my

 leg up and  applying ice.  Good time to watch those

 films!         

Tuesday: we need to  shop tomorrow  for items to, not

 only fill our Christmas knapsacks for our children's  Guatemala bags, but also,Christmas  boxes for Oper-

ation Christmas  Child.  Tomorrow is set aside  for a

 Walmart haul!  Tuesday evenings we  go out with  a

 group of church friends  for  dinner  at various  rest-

aurants.. This week it will be Wildwood Barbecue.

What a great way to really get to know  our friends

 even better!

Wednesday: My 6 sisters group from church plans 

 a gathering each month and this week  we  are  all

 going to  a really nice restaurant that just recently

 started  serving breakfast. Lynn and I go  often and

 it is so good! My favorite is  Belgium waffles loaded

 on top with  fresh cut up strawberries. So yummy!!!

 Thursday: Catch up day for getting tasks accomp-

lished.  It takes me longer to get things done these

days  and I do  hope to get  some  purging done.

I am working on books and magazines now.. getting

 those parred down will make a big difference!    

Friday :Nothing planned... yet!

 

My simple pleasure:::

I love to  read these days, since Lynn bought me a

 clip on battery  light to read by.  I am enjoying 

several new books I purchased from  Thrift books. 

 Right now I am reading  84 Charing Cross by 

Helene Hanff.  It is a book of letters  backh and forth

from NYC to a London bookshop through the years.

Looking around the house:::  some rooms look great 

 others  are in disarray,  especially, the sunroom 

which is the  purging and packing  room.  Soon we 

can load up the car for  the library and  the goodwill!

 

From the WORD!

 

Have a great week!!!

Tuesday 4 Reading Opinions

Your Reading Opinions

Hosted by Annie!

Tuesday 4 welcomes you and hopes that you are enjoying the questions we ask each week In spite of moves and television, reading is still a popular way to spend time for many people all over the world.

All kinds of people read all kinds of books.   I thought maybe we could talk about it a bit this week and get your personal opinions on the subject.

Sorry to be a day late... but I have been decorating for autumn and  baking for a tea tomorrow..  but I love this topic so I  have to  share!!!

1. What are some essential classic books that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?  Being a Christian there are some great classic  books of that genre  that I figure should be on  the list.

Anything by C.S. Lewis,  especially the Chronicles of Narnia,  The Screw Tape Letters, Mere Christianity, and if you have had these I  imagine  you would  make  more  op your mind to choose many more of his titles Elizabeth Elliot's books on her  mission experience are   great classics!

J I Pack, Knowing God is  amazing! some other classics I have  loved  were written by Jane Austen,  To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee,   Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.  For lighter reading,  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Shaffer... a very  smilier book  which I love  and am reading now is  84, Charing Cross Road  by Helene Hanff.. Only 112 pages.   and very engaging! Both these  books  are written in letter form...  I  loved reading them.  quite  easy  and very touching  stories.There ae so many more, but these are my faves from the classics!

2.  Monday September 22 is the first day of Autumn.

Would you make up a list for us of books that you think would make great Autumn reading? I love cosy mysteries...  There are so many of them,  so I will name a few  authors...Ellery Adams,Merryn Allingham,,  and her British  stories, and one of my favorites is Laura Childs Tea Shop Mysteries series!

3  What genre will we find most in your library? Sci Fi, Romance, adventure, biography, non fiction, mystery?  What do you like most about the genre?  Historical romance, TimeTravel romance...  especially  Lynn Kurland's books.. love them!!!   and cosy mysteries.

4  What book would you like to see made into a movie? Any idea on who should be cast in the rolls?One of my favorite Lynn Kurland's books is 

Scotland, 1311. James MacLeod was the most respected—and feared—laird in all of Scotland. He loved his men like brothers and his land with a passion. And he allowed no women to cross the threshold of his keep...

New York City, 1996. With an indifferent fiance and a stalled writing career, Elizabeth Smith found passion and adventure only in the unpublished romance novels that she wrote. Until a Scottish hero began calling to her...

Elizabeth longed for the man of her dreams. But she knew she was overworked when she began hearing his voice—when she was awake. To clear her mind, she took a walk in Gramercy Park. She dozed off on a bench—and woke up in a lush forest in forteenth-century Scotland. A forest surrounding the castle of James MacLeod, an arrogant and handsome lord with a very familiar voice. Elizabeth would turn his ordered world upside down and go where no woman had ever gone before: straight into his heart...

I love these  very romantic books  yet  the smut is missing..  which  is s greatI  I also love that  each book    has  some of the same characters  as history  continues and  we do not lose our favorite   characters in the  continuing timeline!

Happy Homemaker Monday

Happy Homemaker Monday  

Hosted by Sandra!

 The weather in my neck of the woods:::

Monday -79/ drizzle

Tuesday -84/ storms

Wednesday -85/ storms

Thursday - 87 storms

Friday - 86/ passing storms

Saturday - 86 /partly cloudy

Sunday - 87/ partly cloudy

And  most definitely HUMID!!!!!!!!  As always.. it has been a  glum summer111

As I look outside my window:::   It is rather dark,  but thankfully, I do 

see some blooming flowers  due to all the rain we have recieved  Thank 

you, lord1

Right now::: I am working on this post and listening to pandora..I 

have missed it for quite a while.. so   pleased to  have it back1

Something fun to share (a blog, a video, a tip)::: ON  the  YouTube  

decor programs  I enjoy,  I've been particularly  interested in fall 

decor. Since my living room  is blue and white  it  looks  great in 

every season but, fall,.. Now I have seen where a rustic green adds an 

autumnal  blast of color. So I ordered  these pillows from Amazon.

 

I received the feather inserts  today. I cannot wait to get the covers1

Thinking and pondering:: I have been absent for over a month due to 

some health issues which kept me under the weather.I had been having

a-fib for several months, until in June, I had a cardio version which, if 

you are ever told you need one,  it is  very easy.. if you don't mind

being put to sleep. I got over my fib and  I regained so much energy

and well being1

But  on July 3rd I went to UVA Hospital for an ablation. to settle the 

business of the fib.. and it has worked quite well.  I did this because I 

am looking to have a knee replacement in the fall. Hopefully, after that

I will be good as new11

On my tv::: 

Hallmark mysteries, I really like Diagnosis Murder and Matlock and esp;

Christmas movies, I was sad to see them end.YouTube videos on home decor

I love the British  realty shows. Phil and Kirstie are favorites!  These

shows never change.  I, also, enjoy some YouTubers like Kirsten and

Jeorg.

 On my to do list::: 

Monday:  I have been purging  things around the house.. I have,  over 

time, been an astute hoarder of  china. I have about 8 sets...I now 

have 5...  still too many1   I purged my desk area, went through old 

papers and it looks so much better. Today I, also,  went through 

my cards to send and  organized them  for future  use.  I have, 

also,  been  trying to purge books.. I have  several bookcases and 

so I have been  trying to pull, for now,  the  beautiful picture books 

of  home interiors and  nice quality hard cover books to take to the 

Discovery Shop.

         

Tuesday: I need to work upstairs on the bookcase in  our daughter's 

old room. There are two bookcases in her room..  I  need to choose

books  too young for my grands  and  send them to the Goodwill.  

And purge  many  old folders of my  work I did several years ago

that are loaded on those shelves.   I would love to  take the shelves

downstairs  to use as  our pantry. 

         

Wednesday: I hope to spend some time purging old papers from my 

desk drawers, from which I am typing this  post. The drawers are 

stuffed and not one bit organized. I also  need to bake  a cake for 

my prayer group who meets here on Thursday morning.I forgot 

where I laid the. recipe I found online  (AHH)  but just looked it up 

online and found  it. …...easy lemon cake.!

video

Make sure  the  house  looks clean whether it is or not  oh,, bad, mama1

well, if you squint and don't concentrate too much it looks pretty 

good1

Thursday:  Host a prayer group here in the morning and probably sit 

and watch a film on tv in the afternoon. It has been a hectic week!

       

Friday : I am not one bit sure about Friday so Im leaving it blank!  Oh,

 I remember the senior group at church called the Joy Ministry is having 

a luncheon. I think I will take coleslaw and baked beans. 

My simple pleasure:::I love to listen to Pandora. I find it most relaxing to

lie in bed  in the early evening , listen to music and watch the reels on Facebook,.especially the babies1

Looking around the house:::I had a grand notion after my precious Leila, 

my Oldest granddaughter age 11, had made me the most gorgeous table-

cloth,,  to  order from Amazon. you guessed it  6 nice green plates to

finish off the  green transfer wear plates I  already had that I had 

only used for  teas and such.  Well,  now I can  use them for dinner, 

too.  

from the camera is above11

 

From the WORD!

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