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Charlotte tagged me a few days ago with a cute little picture and this is the only way I can figure out how to get it on my blog. Now I don't even remember what I was supposed to do to "earn" the tag but, by golly, I believe I will be able to put the picture on this here site.

Have a great one ya' all. As for me, I have another doctors appt. Regards to my knee. I will let you know how it turns out.

Nuttin Honey

Today is Sunday and as Sundays always go, it was a good day. On all 5th Sundays of the month we have a Singspiration and potluck. Many of you know what a Singspiration is. I grew up with them. In "those" days, a Singspiration involved the youth group of many different churches and each church hosted the Singspiration in turn. It was a great time to meet new boys (girls too) and some long time relationship came out of those meetings. We loved those times as teenagers. I enjoy the Singspirations here in Beautiful Downtown Marana also. It gives us church members time to get more acquainted, where as on the normal Sundays, we greet each other in passing, smile, shake hands, some share hugs but then there is no more until the next meeting.

I was selfish this Sunday. I, as choir director, claimed the solo part in the special number the choir sang. It was called, "He'd Do it all Again". It spoke to my heart. The whole idea of the song is that if Christ had to come to earth again, even if the only one that claimed the wonderful gift he came to give (his life for our sins) was me, he'd do it all again if he had too. I love the song, both the words and the music.

Today starts another week. I don't have anything special to share except some more Roseville Pottery shelves to clean and an appt. with a podiatrist. Hopefully he will be able to help with my knee. My knee? you say. It there is a solution thru the podiatrist I will let you know.

Maybe I will find a picture to share just to keep this a tiny bit interesting.
FOUND ONE. The attachment is a picture of my firstborn. He will be 48 y/o in May! How did I get that old?

I FOUND IT

Remember that old saying from the ?? 70's ? It was to mean I found Jesus, I found the Way, whatever term you wanted to use.

I FOUND IT, this time meaning I found my lost energy yesterday. Right after I had breakfast it came back. I finished another group of shelves, vaccuumed and Roseville Pottery all shiny. Only 2 bedrooms and one bathroom left to go.

Whoops! I put two of the same picture in, just a little different angle. 1st & 3rd. and I don't know how to get them off.

Now, off to the dermatoligist ofc. My once a year marathon of dr.s visits. First the GP, the dermatologist, this time a new one: podiatrist, then to Pnx for eyes. Then, all finished for another year. I go once a year whether I need to go or not.

Where did it go?

I believe two days of excess energy (for me) is all that is going to happen this week. I may leave the ladder where it is to remind me that I have more shelf vaccuuming to do, I may leave the shovel stuck upright in the ground to remind me that the Burmuda is growing, I may even leave the breakfast dishes in the sink. I believe for just a while, I will knit. That energy is all used up... for today at any rate.

Jackrabbits, not bunnies

Yesterday I whomped up enough energy to "tie into" some housekeeping that I have put off for three years. Vaccuuming the tops of the ....whatever they are and wiping down the Roseville Pottery. When I saw this house I decided that it was the one I would choose because it would feature my husbands collection of Roseville Pottery perfectly. Of course I never thought of the task of cleaning. In three rooms there are walls that don't go all the way to the ceiling and make perfect places for the Roseville. In each bedroom the closets don't go all the way to the ceiling and are shelves above instead. (It is hard to describe but hopefully a picture or two will show you what I mean. I climbed up on a ladder to vaccuum the landings? (maybe that is what they are called) and wipe down the Roseville. After working in the garden a while, digging up Burmuda grass, then coming in the house when it got too hot to work in the sun, I started chasing the dust Jackrabbits. I cleaned the ceiling fan, blades and light globes then attacked one of the landings. Up and down the ladder I went (not very fast) and I got one side of the one in the picture, hopefully to finish this particular landing today. It is in the kitchen and the other side is the entertainment room. In the days coming, I will show you the collection of Roseville. That is, if my energy holds up.

There is also a picture of a nice sunset a few evenings ago.

Some success

I got some of the dust pushed outside and then went into the garden and moved more. I am using this mediam to share a picture with Sweet Last Child. I am having to learn to use my new e-mail provider and have, as yet, failed to learn how to attach a picture on e-mail. At any rate, Beffer Baby, here is one of my favorite pictures.

Blog visiting

I love blog visiting. Clif (former minister at LHCC in Phoenix) encouraged me to start a blog long ago but I resisted. After Charlotte (His lovely wife) started hers I decided to join the blogging crowd. Coffee and bloging is a great way to start the day. So much better than the newpaper with all those names I will never...whatever.

1. The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know they've been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

What I was doing 10 years ago:
I was in Iowa with my husband. He had accepted a job there (which he resisted for a while. Long story) I was able to join him for about a year and a half then life's circumstances required me to go back to our home in Scottsdale. He was able to move back home within the year and then the Lord took him home.


Five things on my to-do list today:
As alway, try to catch some dust and push it back outside. I don't do that well. Too many much more interesting things to do, related with fabric and yarn. I had a house keeper once a week for many years and when I moved to Marana, AZ after my husband died I thought I had other ways I would rather spend that money. Right now I certainly wish I had those house keepers once again.


Snacks I enjoy:
Oh my, Orville Redenbacher(I know, the spelling is not correct and I don't care) popped the old fashioned way is my first choice. If I had home made pie I would have it for each meal of the day until it was finished off. Apple, custard, cream, NOT berry. A little candy now and then but preferably with no chocolate. Nuts and caramel.

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
I told one of my grand kids that if I had unlimited money I would buy each one of them a RED JEEP. Middle child Becky told him that there was not chance of that happening of course but I sure would enjoy doing that. Of course there are missionaries that I have helped support for most of my adult life that would see a huge check. AND I WOULD HAVE THAT HOUSEKEEPER ONCE AGAIN.


Three of my bad habits:
You know that already: ignoring dust
and of course, poor eating habits. Easy to do when no one is watching.
and ignoring dust once again.


Five places I have lived:
Thayer, MO (my starting place)
San Jose, CA
Danbury, CT
Boulder, CO
Tucson, AZ

Five jobs I've had:
House keeping and cooking once a week for an old couple when I was in Bible College
Telephone company/ long distance/information/teletype
Diet Center (yep, I know how to do it, I just don't right now)
Worked at a little hot dog stand in CT. holding the job until my son got out of school for the summer and then, silly me, stayed along with him. Not a good place to be. No problem with him, just the crazed owner of the business.
Front office in a dentist office while my husband was away in Iowa

Five people I want to know more about (a nice way of saying TAG!):
Anyone who reads this and is interested in responding.

BASS VOICE

BASS VOICE. NOT BASE VOICE. DURN I WISH I HAD A BRAIN. ME AND THE SCARECROW

Too exhausted

Friday, after going to the Doc's and spending time rambling home, taking pictures for you, I started a marathon of sewing. I made 4 robes (3 costumes for Middle Child's church's play) 3 head dresses and one at home comfy robe for grand son who was not in the play and feeling a little left out. One robe and head dress was completed on Friday, the other 3 on Saturday. After the sewing marathon I made a huge double batch of hot rolls to go to Middle child's in-laws for a much enjoyed Easter celebration.

Middle child's play was a resounding success. Middle child had to step out of the play at almost the last minute and put her daughter in her place as an understudy. My daughter is an interpretor for the deaf and learned of a deaf guest that would be coming on Easter morning, so... sweet, brilliant grand daughter stepped up to base, learned her mom's part and the play went on.

My choir did an outstanding job today. Most are unable to read music, but all love music and learned the music just by listening and much practice. I was so pleased and proud of them. What a wonderful group of Christians they are. We did only 4 songs with the entire 53rd chapter of Isaiah read by a person who has a wonderful, melodious base voice. it was a wonderful service. I can't wait to get down to my music library and start choosing new and exciting music to work on.

Hope you all had as wonderful a celebration of our Lord as we did.....Connie

Good, good Friday

Yesterday my official end of child care duty was over. My "kids" arrived home from New Orleans safely about 1 a.m. on Friday. I went for my once a year doctors visit. As expected, I received a good report. I believe I will live and live well another year. On the way home, it being Friday, I went the long way, looking for garage sales. My trip took me the long way home, up and over a small pass that I enjoy taking because it is a little two way road (all paved, thank goodness) that is very scenic. I believe it is called "Gates Pass" I took 3 pictures for you. I found that if you click on the pictures they will zoom in. You will be able to see the Suguaro Cactus. In the foreground you will see some of our spring blooms here in my desert. The yellow blooms are on the Creosote Bushes. When we first moved to the desert all those many years ago (close to 35 years ago) our real estate man gave us a little book called "What Kind of Cactus Izzat?" the Suguaro is discribed as "The Lord of the Desert". I like to call it "The Queen of the Desert". In the spring she gets a crown of heavy waxy bloom right around the top of her head.

Today I plan/must finish three costumes for an Easter play for the church meeting my daughter and family goes to. I finished one yesterday, one got half finished and then I started having problems with my surger machine and was too tired to find the problem. I hope to/must finish today and then make the hot rolls for the Easter holiday gathering I plan on attending tomorrow after church. I may have a picture for you of the finished costume on the models/play members/my very own family.

Tomorrow, remember what the Lord has done for all of us.......Connie

Grammy duty calls

This week I will be careing for 2 of my grand children while their parents are in New Orleans. My hubbie and I were there many years ago. Talent is just ooziing from the cracks in the sidewalks, from every door of every establishment, around every corner. If you enjoy music, especially jazz and blues, you gotta go there. Attached are pictures of the two I will be careing for this week. Danica is 15 and Mike will be 14 this month.

MEME

I have been invited by Charlotte to play a game called "meme" and I must tell you eight things about myself you might not know. Then invite eight bloggers to play. Well, I am very sorry but I don't know eight bloggers. I know three personally and one of them, Clif, I don't believe will play. So, I will try to tell you the eight things and Charlotte and Kala will perhaps respond. Kala and Charlotte will know some of these things.

1. I was married for 40 years before the Lord took my husband home to sing with
all the best basses that ever were.

2. While the Lord allowed me to have him we did some wonderful things.
Thankfully we didn't say, "When we retire we will do thus and such".
Thankfully because he didn't get to retire.
I believe the most wonderful and exciting thing was: We bought twin 850 Suzuki
touring motorcycles, packed a sleeping bag, a change of clothes and took a
5 week trip from CT to CA and back. The next
trip was from CT to Nova Scotia. There were many smaller trips in between.

3. My first boyfriend was in the 5th grade and I kissed him while hidden in the
corner of the school house. Many years later, across town, he ended up
attending the same high school. It was a large school, I saw him but he
didn't see me.

4. Popcorn is my favorite snack. I sometimes have it for supper.

5. When I go outside into my garden early in the morning I enjoy it so much
I work until I almost drop with fatigue, but all the while I am enjoying
what I am doing.

6. I think I may have been hyper when I was a child. My mom had to call someone
to pull me down from the roof when I was just a very small kid. One time
I must have escaped (once again) and was in the middle of Hwy 60 (at least
I think that was the Hwy that ran right in front of my grand parents house
in Thayer, Mo. At the time it was only a two lane road.

7. My baby brother and I loved to play/dance in the summer rain. My son who is
10 years younger that BB just stands under shelter and shakes his head at his
mom and his uncle.

8. I wear a size 11 shoe. I will not let anyone tell me I have big feet, just
long. They are very narrow. Used to be 11 AAAA. A bit wider now but still
narrow enough that it is not easy to find shoes that fit. When I was a teen
and my shoe size was a 10, I came home complaining because I couldn't find
a pair of shoes, my dad said, "That's OK kid. Just think how funny you would
look if half your leg wasn't turned down for foot".

That's my meme. Connie

Come ona my house

Yesterday I went "to town" to have the oil changed in my car. I also did a little garage sale-ing before I headed home. I decided to take you on the trip with me. I will try to get the pictures in order. I took a picture of my house then the little street on which I live. My street is a country style of a city cul-de-sac. It has my drive way, my daughters drive way and ends with an entry into someone else's drive. Each picture will be another road that leads to my house. There is a picture of the bank of mail boxes. My mail box is about 5 miles from my house. My BB (baby bro) picks up my mail each night on his way home from work. I took a picture of the pretty wild flowers. Lupins and a daisy type flower. I took a picture of where the pavement ends and then there is about 5 more miles of dirt, washboard road before home. The last picture I took is of the frontage road (on which I have to travel to get to the series of roads to get home) and right across to the left is Hwy 10 heading to Phoenix. There is a very busy railroad track that is about 5-8 miles from my home as the crow flies. A nice engineer just happened to be passing by when I was taking the picture so I had to take a picture of the train as it passed. I hear the whistle many times a day and night. I wondered how many trains passed by there each day and I believe I learned that there are appx. 65 trains in 24 hours. I don't "do" numbers well and my have forgotten the correct number. At any rate there are a lot of trains in a 24 hour period.

Left out

Checking out Charlotte's blog early this a.m. I found that:

I had not been chosen
I had been left out
I am feeling really rejected
I....I.......I......doesn't the world revolve around me?

Just teasing of course but I had to "take cuts" and get into the fun.
Here is what it is all about. The following is what copied it from Charlotte's blog.
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Yesterday I was tagged by Ginger http://enchantingcottage.blogspot.com/ to do a six word meme. Here are the meme rules: 1. Write your own six word memoir 2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like 3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible, so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere 4. Tag five more blogs with links 5. Remember to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

Here’s my six word memoir: “God has blessed me beyond belief.”
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Charlotte's words could be my own but along with the other things I learned in grammer school, I learned it was not a good thing to copy from others so...below are my own.

My six words are:

Check 2/28 for my six blessings.

Will that work? And ain't it just like a grand mother to do something like this?

By the way, I don't remember many people's blog address so I will just let the people on Charlotte's blog read this one.

S-----h-----e's------b------a------c------k

I simply haven't had anything of interest to share with anyone but me lately so I haven't been on here. Today, I have a little thing to share. Some time back I found a wonderfully clever pattern for crocheting a rug. It is clever in that it takes two strands of yarn and the instructions end up making a rug that is a full
1/2 inch thick! It is not relaxing to make. It is so heavy and cumbersom that it is simply hard work. The first rug I made came out all whopperjawed so I kept it for myself. It is still a very nice rug to step out of the shower on but UGLY! The rug I finished yesterday came out much improved. Middle Child has claimed it. She has Pfaltzgraff dishes with the grey and blue pattern called Yorktown. It will go very nicely in her kitchen. I will take a picture of the first rug and let you groan along with me and then you can see the second rug. I will probably make more of those rugs to put in the craft sale at church but I will finish some of the other projects I have waiting patiently for my attention.

What is this?

Does anyone know what this tool is used for? It came to me via a goodie bag from a thrift store. I love finding those bags. They usually have all kinds of treasures in them that I can use in my sewing room but this is one I can't figure out. Can anyone tell me what it is and what it is used for?

Gatorade, resting and just breathing

I, once again, didn't have anything to share early this a.m. I finally got up a little "go" to go with my "get up" and went outside. All it takes to get that go
a-goin' is just to get outside. The first thing I found were these beautiful yellow flowers growing, took a picture and then saw that my whole desert is covered with a mat of these beautiful tiny blue/purple flowers. Those beautiful tiny things will soon turn into tiny little monsters. They will soon dry up and have either burrs or goat heads all over my desert. Goat heads are a tiny little things about the size of a match head with one very sharp, hard thorn. Little monsters. After a while, my veggie garden started calling my name. It said, "I am in danger of strangling because of the bermuda grass coming in, HELP" So, I started digging out the roots of the bermuda. I had hung the camera on the gate so I wouldn't forget to take it inside when I wore out and along came BB and he took a couple of pictures of the ugly-ist flower in my garden. ....oh yes, the other picture is of the lettuce coming up.

HE never sleeps, HE never slumbers

Sometimes when I get up very early I make the comment, "I woke up before God this morning". I know, I know, He never sleeps, He never slumbers, I just try to make a comment that will make someone laugh. At any rate, I was up before 5 a.m. this morning and I have nothing to share. I will just try to find a picture you might like to see. I won't know what it is until I take a look. I have started carrying my camera in my purse all the time in case I find a good picture.

OK, the picture I chose is a picture of my two oldest grand kids. When Grammys run out of things to share we can always show you the pictures of our grands. This picture was taken last Summer in Cleveland, TN at Kala's school. She will be 21 this coming Sept. and Spencer will be 18 y/o. I know, I know, they look like bro. and sis. Can't make a mistake on that observation.

One of my favorite things to do

Yesterday I didn't have much energy. Even tho' the energy was not there, I simply cannot sit with my hands folded. The picture is of a tiny pair of baby slippers I made. They are only about 3 1/2 inches long. The pattern I have claims it takes only about an hour to make a pair. Well, perhaps the second pair. It takes me several mistakes while learning a pattern. It also claims that this is what the creator of the pattern found to do with "walnut size balls of yarn". I suspect that is a bit of an exageration. Hummm. What is the opposite of exageration when something is smaller ? Anyway, the slippers are made from verigated yarn and each slipper will be a bit different. I will probably make several slippers and then try to match the pair to the closest in color.

My desert

One of the many things I love about living in my desert is the view. Sunrises and sunsets are sometimes awesome. The picture I attached was taken last night as I bid my baby brother goodnight.

Fri. & Sat. way too long

Friday and Saturday were too long and too much away from home. Garage sale-ing were the good parts, delivering two 150+ lb. dogs to a destination about 40+ miles one was was not a good part. NASTY, ALL OF THE DOG PART. Becky (daughter and I) were doing the delivering and I will not discribe the nasty part but it was good to get home and out of that car. The picture attached is of my baby brother taken Sat. evening. Son-in-law Bob had dinner waiting for us dog deliverers and BB. That was also a good part.

WHO IS that old lady?

Often, when passing a store window or a mirror and see my reflection I wonder who that old lady is that has taken my place. As I get older, I am still the 16-30 y/o inside and I don't care for what the years has done to the outside. I am blessed that I am in good health and am not often limited in what I choose to do so shouldn't complain about the outside but...WHO IS THAT OLD LADY?