Struggling To Find Ourselves

With August upon us tomorrow, and school starting again in a couple of weeks, I have made the realization that the holidays are right around the corner…again.  With that realization, we have to look into getting holiday cards and any gifts on the budget, gotten and sent in the next 3 or 4 months, which, in one way, sounds like we have plenty of time, but in another way, isn’t really all that long.  I guess I need to start pulling the holiday plans for meals and get-together’s together, also, as I figure that we will be “entertaining” at least a couple of times during this coming holiday season.

God Bless!

….EVERYONE is promoting themselves with promotional tote bags. I hate to say it, but tote bags at the grocery store is an OLD story for us. We lived in California better than 15 years ago, and stores there were already doing the tote bag thing AND giving us a credit of like $1 for every tote bag we brought with us to reuse.  The stores here in Kansas are just NOW hitting on the tote bag idea, and I have yet to see more than ONE store offer a credit off of your total when you use the tote bags.  What can we say?  Some parts of the country are just a LITTLE behind other parts.  Such is life, I suppose!!!

God Bless!!

….some projects….some thoughts….

This is basically going to be a list of things that we have finished in the last couple of months….sort of a pick-me-up-type entry to show what we HAVE accomplished in amongst ALL of the things that are going on right now that seem UNfinished.

1 - I finished reading The Courage To _____in February!!!
2 - We finished the “3rd” run that is actually now the 2nd run, except for a better gate, yesterday!!!
3 - We finished our cross-fence for our back pasture the day before yesterday!!!
4 - I finished the book of John in March!!!
5 - I will finally get a letter in the mail to a friend tomorrow that I have been neglecting to mail!!!
6 - I finish NUMEROUS jobs every week to increase my paychecks!!!!
7 - I FINALLY got my second blog approved a couple of weeks ago!!!

It’s funny, sometimes, how the number of things that are UNfinished seem to outweigh the number of things that ARE finished!!  Sometimes it’s just good to step back and take a look at what has been accomplished, so those accomplishments don’t get lost throughout the days and unfinished projects!!

God Bless!!

Well, maybe only for some.  It’s icy and cold and wet outside at the moment.  I am sitting here wondering if the big tree outside the window is going to finally have some of it’s branches break off tonight with the ice and the wind.  It would be kind of good if it did!!!  It is one of MANY things on this list to take care of this Spring.

I haven’t really done much so far today.  Run a load of laundry earlier, as well as dishes first thing this morning….downloaded some job information for this week….checked my on-line sources to see if I could make any extra money today…..cleaned the bathroom, to include mopping….swept the backdoor entryway and the kitchen….Not much really, so far.  Have to go to town here in about 4 hours, and then come home and get my boy and myself ready for tomorrow.

What have YOU done today?
God Bless!!!

….VERY slowly for furniture for the house that we moved into a few months ago.  We want it to be decent furniture that adds to the place.  Alot of the furniture that’s out there is what we call “modern furniture“, but we are looking for something a bit more….old fashioned…rustic-looking. We’ve got hardwood floors in most of our rooms, and we would like something, furniture-wise, that will compliment the floors, as well as the curtains I am making that have a nature scene on them.

Have a BLESSED weekend!!!

….When we bought our newest refrigerator here about 4 or 5 months ago, I was a little upset that the ones that we liked all had ice makers in them.  I had never had an ice maker in my fridge before, but I had gotten GOOD at making ice the old fashioned way….in ice cube trays.  I saw no need for an ice maker.  They just take up space in the freezer that I could and would RATHER use for food or homemade ice cream or something like that.  But, as it turns out, when we got our new fridge a few months ago, we ended up getting one with an ice maker in it.  And, wouldn’t you know it?  It was one of those models that’s not designed to be taken out.  Soooooooo, I decided that it was there…taking up VALUABLE freezer space, so why not put it to use?  So we did.  Now, I still don’t know much about ice makers, other than they make ice, and some take a MWF filter and some don’t, but I DO like the option of having ice ALL the time!!! We’ll see if the ice maker can keep up with our ice useage this Summer, though!!!

God Bless!!!

…my Mother’s birthday, and they are supposed to be taking a friend of mine off of life support about this afternoon.  It has been a long Summer for her, and her husband, as she has been in the hospital for a MOST of the last half of 2009.  Now she has an infection in her blood system that they haven’t been able to get under control yet, her blood pressure is low, her heart rate this morning is dangerously high and she needs the ventilator to help her get enough oxygen to survive…and here I sit at home.  We AREN’T stopping our prayers for a miracle just yet, but in the natural, it doesn’t look all that promising.  There seems to be a small possibility that her body will continue to function after they take her off life support, but the chances, in the natural realm, are EXTREMELY small.

More later….maybe….Blessings in 2010!!

Did you know that the word “tuxedo” originated in 1889 in Tuxedo Park, New York?  Tuxedo Park was the site where a tuxedo was first worn in 1886, from what I have been able to find, but the term for “tuxedo” didn’t originate until 1889.  Apparently, the term at THAT time meant that it was a semi-formal way to dress.  In my opinion, a tuxedo means that it is a formal party.  It’s AMAZING what kind of information you can find, IF you are willing to do the research and take the time needed to do some digging!!!

Blessings in ABUNDANCE!!!

Well, it’s raining….AGAIN!!!  I’m not complaining though, because at least we DID have SEVERAL days of NICE weather, so it pretty well was all but completely dried out from the last rain a couple of weeks ago.  The temperature isn’t bad tonight, either….just right for a walk in the rain, if it wasn’t dark and so late.

We’ve had ALOT going on here the last couple of months!!!  LOTS of changes, and different things happening!!!  We moved into a new house, for one.  It’s on a quiet, country road, with only 4 other houses in the mile stretch that we live on, and none of those are super close, so I am happy!!!  LOTS to be done, even though we’ve been working on it for a couple of months now.  Frankly, I figure we will have ALOT to do for another 11 or 12 months or so…then it will hopefully taper off to just maintenance on what we’ve already accomplished!!  It has been SOOOOO nice to actually have things to do, both inside AND outside!!!  So, whether I am inside the house, or outside enjoying the weather, I can ALWAYS find something to fill my time with (as if my schedule wasn’t full enough!!).  What can I say?  I LOVE the property!!!  And I’d like to say “thank you” to the person/people that made this place possible!!!  Words cannot express my gratitude at this point.

Okay, I think I’ve run out of rambling, so we will close for now….maybe see about going to bed for awhile?  Blessings to you and yours!!!

Well, well….it seems that I remember what I was going to write about on my other site just after I logged out.  Oh well, such is life, I guess.  Gives me a topic to write about over the weekend or early next week, I guess!!!

Fall has come to our part of Kansas a bit earlier than normal.  I am having a difficult time believing that we’ve had the heat on for almost a week now!!!  It seems like we have been needing heat closer to November the last few years.  Oh well, we need a wet, cool, damp Fall and Winter, and a wet, warm Spring!!!  It is rough on farmers, though, because of all of the rain, as they haven’t all gotten their corn, soybeans, and milo harvested yet.  Maybe they can get some of it in this next week?

Got some bread in the oven.  Yeah, I know it’s a bit late to be doing things like baking, but it seemed like the thing to do at the time, and we needed bread.

You will NEVER guess what I saw coming home from picking my son up from school yesterday.  Take a guess and leave a note with your guess in it, and I’ll try to remember to answer this “quiz” in my next personal entry.  It was DEFINITELY something that I didn’t think I would ever see in Kansas!!!

Read up to Ezekiel 30 so far today, as well as reading Psalm 15 and Psalm 91.  Just a FEW more chapters and I will only have fairly short books of the Bible left to read before the New Testament!!!

Well, enough babbling in here for now, so take care and God Bless!!!