The Rains Came Down…

…and the puddles came up! What a miserable day for a garage sale. Thankfully we live in the Northwest and weather does not deter people from heading to garage sales. People here are used to doing anything in the rain. Dear created a amazing tarp canopy for us so we were able to put some [...]

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Stretch Out Your Hand ~ Hymn

Stretch Out Your Hand Stretch out Your hand And heal this nation Stretch out Your hand And bring restoration Let Your mercy overflow us Like a never failing stream By the blood of Jesus cleanse us O Lord it’s You we seek Cause Your face to shine upon us again Breathe On Us O Lord [...]

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Memorial Day Tribute ~ Home on the Range ~ Dickenson

Memorial Day Greetings to you.  God bless our Troops and Veterans! For Memorial Day weekend I’m posting this quote from Home On the Range ~ A Century On The High Plains by James R. Dickenson. Home on the Range chronicles the epic drama of the settling and development of the High Plains, as viewed through the [...]

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FFF ~ Memorial Day Weekend

Time to think about our favorites from this past week. Please visit Susanne at Living to Tell the Story to join in this great exercise. Canada celebrated Queen Victoria Day last weekend and we in the U.S.A. are getting ready for our Memorial Day Weekend. This is a time to reflect and remember those who [...]

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Yard Art ~ Peaceful and Bazaar…

Well I just couldn’t resist posting some more yard art with Mary at Work of the Poet. Thanks Mary for hosting this… Hope you are all having a great week and looking forward to a long weekend here in the U.S.A. We will be remembering those who have and are serving our country. God bless [...]

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A Little Sleep, A Little Slumber…

Why is it that some lessons have to be learned over and over again. You would think in my many years I’d learn that moaning about a task, over thinking a task, avoiding a task is not the way to success and peace. We decided months ago that we would have a garage sale on [...]

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I Would Rather…

…be thinking about celebrating like this… …then getting all our crap stuff ready for our garage sale on Saturday! We have the stuff all piled in the shop and I’m suppose to get out there and organize it onto tables to pull out bright and early Saturday morning. It’s hard to get motivated with the [...]

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The Rhodora ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Rhodora On being asked, Whence is the flower? In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay; [...]

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Ruby Tuesday ~ Pears

My pears are just beginning to grow and at this stage they are a nice ruby color. They will end up being green with some golden added in but for today they are just right for Ruby Tuesday. Please visit Mary at Work of the Poet who is the hostess for this weekly meme. For [...]

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Blue Monday ~ Armed Forces Day with the Sounders…

It’s time to visit Sally at Smiling Sally and show your blue! At the Sounders game on Saturday the men and women of the Armed Forces were honored! It was a privilege to give them a standing ovation. The game started at noon so we met up at Voulas Offshore Cafe for some brunch before [...]

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