Saturday, September 24, 2011

I Love This Face!

I love this face! It belongs to my grand-nephew, James Eugene. He is 2 years old and I think he is just the most handsome boy I have ever seen. I love it when I get to go watch him while his mom and dad are working. He is getting to be such a big boy. But he still likes to give hugs and cuddle. He is really into dinosaurs right now and I gave him the movie, "Dinosaur" for his birthday. His mom warned me that it is all he wants to watch and she wasn't kidding. When I sat with him a few weeks ago we watched the movie three times! I love to take his picture and this one just melts my heart. The smile (or is it a smirk) is just beautiful. His hair being messed up from taking a nap. Those brown eyes are like dark pools you could just lose yourself in. He is just a handsome boy. What do you think?
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Antique Find

This little beauty was purchased by me a week ago today. We were on our way home from San Antonio and using the backroads to get home. We came to the small town of Poth, TX and I saw this antique store as we were driving through town. I asked my husband if we could stop just to look around. He turned around and we went in. I wasn't really looking for this in particular but I have been wanting to find a desk to use with school pictures. My husband walked into the back room of the store and then yelled to me to see what he found. There were two of these back there. This one was in better shape than the other. The price on the desks was $110 each! I knew there was no way I could afford to pay that much for it. My dear husband asked the girl running the store if she thought they would take $50. She said she would have to call the actual owner and find out. She called and the woman agreed to sell it to us for $50! We went on Thusday to pick it up.
I have washed it with Murphy's Wood Soap to clean it up but it really needs to be restored somehow. I am not sure how to do that or what I should use.
Hopefully I can find something online that will tell me what I should do and what I should use. I can't wait to get it looking good and using it in pictures. Stay tuned......

Friday, July 1, 2011

Chloe

This is Chloe. She is a new member to our family. We got her a little over a month ago after rescuing her from a local animal shelter. She was scheduled to be put down the next day. But we brought her home and she became a member of our family.
She is such a sweet dog. She loves to go for car rides and if she is outside when you get in your car to leave she will most likely jump in and look at you like, "OK. I'm ready! Let's go!"
She knows what the words "out" and "outside" mean. And if you ask her, "Do you need to go outside?", she jumps up and starts to run around in circles and bark.
She loves our chickens. Especially the baby ones. When we first brought her home she wanted to chase the chickens. But I scolded her and she hasn't chased them since. She walks up to them and you can tell she would love to take out after them but she holds herself back. The little ones she tries to herd together.
She broke her jaw at some point in her life and it healed crooked. It adds character to her face and actually looks like she's smiling.
She loves to be brushed. She doesn't mind getting a bath or being blow dried. She loves to sleep on our bed right in the middle.
She loves dog bones. And don't try to move it or take it away from her while she's chewing on it. She'll take you hand off.
She loves to go for walks.
She is just a sweet dog. And I am so glad we have her.
The vet couldn't tell us how old she is exactly but guesses she is between 6 and 8 years old. She has had a hard life up until now but is still sweet in spite of it.
I'm glad we adopted her.
She's pretty too!
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Monday, June 20, 2011

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

I Love Purple!

Have I ever told you that I love purple?

Well, I do. Anything purple. Clothes, pens, papers, flowers, anything that is purple.

I especially love lilacs. We don't have lilacs down here in Texas. I miss their smell and their beauty. But we do have some beautiful purple flowers down here. This is one I found this morning when I went out to get some pictures of the cows. I'm not sure what plant it is from or what it will become after the bloom fades. But right now it's beautiful.

It amazes me that God provides us with this kind of beauty so that we can enjoy his creations and the nature around us. Take time today to look for the beauty around you.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Gardening





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Gardening

Every year my husband plants a garden. This isn't just your ordinary little plot in the back yard type garden. This is a 1/4 acre piece of land that he plows with his tractor and uses a planter to plant the seeds, if the seeds are big enough. If they are too big or too small then those have to be planted by hand.

Every year it's the same thing. We plant all these seeds and wait to see what will actually come up and what will produce some produce for us.

This year he planted okra, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, peas, string beans, onions, sweet corn, peppers, and fennel. Oh, and carrots.

We have a pretty good stand of everything except the corn. The chickens went in and ate the seeds that were planted so we only have a few stalks that have come up.

Of course the okra, which I hate to pick, came up in full force and is producing so much we have to pick it at least every other day. The yellow squash is also producing more than we can eat. I have made squash casserole, steamed squash, anything that a squash can be used in. And still we have more than we can use. We have taken bags of produce to church, to work, to neighbors, sharing our bounty.

Actually, it's kind of nice. It's nice to be able to go out into the garden and pick a few things and make a meal. God certainly has blessed us with our garden this year. If you need some squash or okra, come on over and see us!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Can You Put Your Mouth Around This?

One of the perks working in the business office of a deli franchise is that I get free lunch five days a week. Working here for over five years, I think I've tried just about everything on the menu. Some days it's hard, though, deciding what I want for lunch. If I am going to be eating at the restaurant most of the time I get a salad bar. But when I'm going to bring my lunch back to the office to eat at my desk I go for a sandwich or 1/2 a sandwich and a cup of soup.

Yesterday I decided to have a New York Yankee. I haven't had one in a while and I thought it would be a nice change from my usual. The sandwich is hot pastrami and corned beef, with mustard and swiss cheese on rye bread. The deli always puts enough meat on their sandwiches that you could make two other sandwiches with the extra and most of the time I take half of the meat off. But yesterday I decided to go ahead and eat the whole thing!

Boy, was it good!
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Saying Goodbye












It's always hard to say goodbye.

On Wednesday, my step-father-in-law passed away. He would've been 89 next month. He was a sweet, gentle, caring man who loved his family and his country. He served in the US Navy during World War II and was part of the clean-up crew at Pearl Harbor after the bombing.

He was married to his first wife for 61 years and they had three daughters. She passed away in 2008 and his family wasn't sure he would be around for very long after she was gone.

In August 2009 he married my mother-in-law. He wanted to live again! He was proud to show my mother-in-law off as his "hot wife" to all of his friends and family. He began to lose ground a few weeks ago and finally passed away last Wednesday.

His funeral was yesterday and he was buried with military honors. I don't know how many times I heard from his family at the services that my mother-in-law gave them a few more years with him because of her love and care for him.

We will all miss Grandpa. And we are waiting for that day when we will be together again in the world to come when Christ comes in the clouds to take all of us home with him to live eternally.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Spring Has Arrived!

The sun and flowers have arrived in South Texas!

A few weeks ago I made a trip to Goliad to see if there were any bluebonnets out. Boy were there! All around the Fannin Monument there were bluebonnets with yellow daisy-looking flowers interspersed among them. Every once in a while there would be a purple wine cup mixed in. It was beautiful!


My son, Thomas, and I walked the nature trail at the Mission Espiritu. I caught a moment of thought as Thomas crossed a bridge and looked at the nature all around him.



We also went to the Aransas Wildlife Refuge. We didn't see a whole lot of wildlife but there were purple thistles out all along the sides of the road and the butterflies were just covering the thistles. I stopped and got a few pictures.


All of this points to the fact that spring is finally here!