Happy Turkey Day!

What are you thankful for? I am thankful for:

my friends online and IRL
my family
that I have a job still (as of today)
My hubby has a job
Alex isn't sick today (yet)
Turkey and all the fixins
Our freedoms here in the USA
the beautiful weather we've been having

Enjoy your family and friends today!

Dear Annette

It was a year ago that we finally got to meet in person. What a joy to finally get to hug you and your family!!! Ryan was every bit the doll he was in his pictures! You were too, yet you were so frail. I didn't want to acknowledge it though...I just wanted fun and happiness -no thoughts of disease.

Because of you, I got to meet so many of my long time on-line friends. So many, that if I start listing, I'd miss someone and hurt feelings. I don't want that. I don't want any other friends lost to me.

Because we lost you in December. To that ugly disease, cancer. It took a beautiful mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend way too soon. Way too soon for those of us left behind to even understand. Some days I still ask why.

I wanted to let you know I was thinking of you this weekend, wishing we were all back together on Jan's back deck.. laughing and sharing wine and stories!! But I know in our hearts, we are all together again with you...

Gone but not forgotten dear friend!

A Farewell to Summer

Goodbye Summer. I am hanging onto you with a white knuckled death grip, but I know I'll lose in the end. The days are getting shorter, the temps are dropping every so slightly, the flowers and annuals are beginning to look tired. Pumpkins and ghosts are in all the store fronts, the apple orchards are bursting at the seams.

I don't like you Winter.....I really don't. Maybe if you weren't so cruel, we could be friends. But just when I think I can tolerate you.... BAM... thirty below wind chills coming blowing in!!!!

So Summer... if you could just hang a few more days??? Give me that warm sunshine, melting ice cream and mosquitos (ok maybe not the mosquitos) for a little while longer......pul----LEAZZZZZZE???

Love is.....

Love is patient, love is kind.

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 New International Version Bible

A reminder for those of us who might need it right now!!!!

Sunflowers Galore!!

The sunflowers in Nebraska right now are gorgeous!!!! Yes to all the farmers, they are weeds... unless of course they're growing them for crops!!! There's nothing prettier than a field of sunflowers!

We had tons of rain at the right time this year to cause them to bloom so beautifully. I wish I had planted some myself, but I am enjoying them all around the corn fields and ditches!!!

Welcome to Nebraska in the Fall!!!!

Well played John McCain!

well played!!!