tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65592274614843446552024-03-12T15:03:26.712-07:00Fresh Fixins I talk about AnYtHiNg, gardening, food, faith, family, you neva do know what y'all will get.Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.comBlogger626125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-50672832207002044782016-06-10T19:51:00.000-07:002016-06-10T19:51:10.976-07:00Just Drive A Little Farther....HUNNY!If you have known me for any amount of time you know I get lost. I have no sense of direction. Sometimes I think its because of my ears. Well that's a good excuse anyway, maybe. I have more confidence now because I have an IPhone 5 and it has a GPS program called Waze.<br />
This week we had our first guest in the new house. A friend of ours we have known for 30 years. We have not seen him in 18. He came from Nairobi Kenya.<br />
Last time the family came to see us we lived in Felton, CA. This was his first trip to Mississippi and he requested to see the great Mississippi River and eat catfish.<br />
Ok that's a good idea. The river is in Vicksburg on the Louisiana border. I figured we could find catfish in Vicksburg so I typed in catfish Vicksburg. I got Catfish Alley Vicksburg; lets GO.<br />
Our first hint that things might not be right was when we got off the main interstate going West to 61 going North and we were in the COUNTRY!!!!! I mean there was nothing except Gods green earth, water, and blue sky. Then we turned again on to<br />
465 getting into deeper country, low lands and swamps......<br />
About this time my husband was seething. He kept asking me WHERE to go and the GPS kept saying just a little farther.....<br />
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Finally we got to a road that said Catfish Alley. We had been driving for 2 hours and we were at Eagle Lake.<br />
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Eagle Lake was gorgeous! Technically it used to be a part of the Mississippi river. But looking down at my phone I was in absolute horror. We were just going around in a circle on Catfish Alley. Just HOW was I supposed to tell the uptight driver who knew good and we'll we were lost; that not only were we lost but there was no catfish!<br />
Kayla and I were in the backseat and I was pointing to the phone & freaking out. I guess the guys figured it out because they pulled over and asked a man if there was a place to eat around here.... Yeah go down the road to the lo stow. Ok thanks<br />
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WADDDDDIDDDDHHHHEEESAY??????<br />
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He said the Lo Sto. We found it. We thought he was talking southern but the place was actually named the Lo Sto. Turns out it's famous.<br />
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But no fish on Catfish Alley. We had burgers, fries, and the BEST fried dill pickles ever. Health food right? Our waitress was stinkin adorable. I should have videoed her. She plays fast pitch soft ball and she pitched us right into a happy mood. We were all smiling. Did you know girls have 6 more pitches? She demonstrated right there how with a flick this way and a twist that way you could send a pitch across the plate at 65 miles an hour underhanded. Just as good as an overhand 95 mile an hour fast ball but with more tricks. If her game would have started right then we would have gone to watch. She was Southern charm at its absolute finest. ADORABLE.<br />
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Once we got full and relaxed we noticed what a truly beautiful place we discovered. I was cool with being lost and on an adventure; because shoot fire I am the only woman I know who could stop for the night in Piccayune on my way to Florida.<br />
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We did go to Vicksburg.<br />
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And I lived to tell the story. Later at home that night before we went to sleep I thought about the whole thing and had a fit of giggles so bad I gave myself an asthma attack.<br />
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Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-9194068912155729382016-06-02T13:11:00.000-07:002016-06-02T13:11:08.701-07:00Catching Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bitsie<br />
This little spoiled rotten baby.....if you aren't on Facebook then she is new to you. Crazy how time flies. My Facebook memories said yesterday that I made friends with Farmlady 6 years ago. I got news its been longer than that!!!!<br />
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We moved to a cute little house in the country on 4 1/2 acres. We have trees all around us. You can't see us from the street. We have been going to a sweet little church in town here. Its a full gospel small church. The pastor is passionate and young. I have some friends from We Will Go there. This town is sweet and laid back everything we need is 10 minutes away. I love being back in a place without sidewalks. Its awesome.<br />
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The house has an awesome front porch. The view is amazing. I started keeping finches in Madison. Heather left me her two. Its all her fault that I got into birds. Smiling.....birds are adorable. My socies are sitting on a nest. When they lay eggs its called a clutch. This would be my first "batch" of babies if they laid fertile eggs. The mama is a chocolate crested and daddy is a white pied. We have 50% chance of crested babies. I love those little Beethoven hair do's. Socie's are easy to keep. I have no idea where they will winter. Summer is perfect for them on the porch.<br />
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Kayla waving hi. Gurl has lost a ton of weight! We both are doing well on the #Whole30. Round 3 for me.... I would like to get back into a 10/12 pants. Yeah I can do that. If I look old and ugly I may beg the Hunny for a face lift. Yah.<br />
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My tablet makes it so hard to do this that I lose my train of thought. Anyway. Got up and did a big cook up of veggies for a couple of days. There is so much fresh fruit and veggies now. Perfect time to do #Whole30 again. My body will thank me. I should elaborate sometime on all the non scale victories. Did I tell you I have lost 7 inches? Around my back, waist, & hips, not bad right? Kayla wears my clothes & I got a few when I started walking out of my jeans. I didn't get many because my closet is small and I'm not finished shrinking. The cool thing about #Whole30 is weight loss just happens but that is a secondary benefit. Feeling better is the primary benefit.<br />
Like feeling freakin amazing......<br />
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That's enough for today. Maybe your curiosity is piqued. Maybe not. The plan works like it is. Change nothing. 30 days. You got this.Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-65571650417039095762016-06-01T11:11:00.000-07:002016-06-01T11:11:17.666-07:00Once Upon A Time I used to blog every day. I made about a dozen friends that I think about when I lost to Facebook. Since I started Facebook any daily discipline of writing, reading or creating has died. I now speak fluent cyber slang. As I type "u" instead of you, because it's faster, I have to wonder. What are we losing as we quickly scroll down and hit the like button? We hit like even when we don't like.<br />
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In my life it seems I am always the last to figure out the obvious. Hindsight shows that some women used blogging to promote their products. That's fine, it's smart. I think Ree has probably made millions. I am happy for her. That's not why I blogged. I blogged because I wanted to write. I had stories to tell. Ideas and pictures to share. I blogged for COMMUNITY.<br />
Neighbors are becoming something lost. We have other people in close proximity but do you know them? There are about a dozen women I got to know blogging. They are who I read on Facebook for the most part. But here is the pitch; ready?<br />
I don't know you like I did when I read your blogs. You don't know me as well either. We are operating off of past intimacy.<br />
Let the scooters scoff, you can get to know someone's heart by reading their writing. I miss it. So much has changed in my life that hasn't been written it's hard to know where to begin?<br />
We moved. We remodeled a little cottage in the country. Thats a whole bunch of stuff. I have been following a "diet" #Whole30 where weight loss is a byproduct not the goal. Restoring health and breaking food addictions is the goal. It works. That's something to talk about.<br />
I am not promising anything. I am embracing a lot of disciplines right now. I am just saying I would prefer to be here. It takes more effort. I have to actually write sentences. Attempt grammar and punctuation, and fail miserably; but you still come. You come because you too desire community and neighbors. You long to connect to share ideas to stimulate each other to more. Better art, delicious food, caring for children, taking pictures, we like to share. The process inspires us to do more and do it better. It also reveals limitations. I will never bake like Katie Diers. The best I can do is applaud her talent and affirm to her how amazing her talents in baking are!<br />
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That's what we do. We share. We comment. We are neighbors. Lately some of you have learned of life threatening illnesses. Some have had major surgery or are facing major surgery. After all my experience in health care I realized that if we can't cut you or drug you we have nothing else to offer. I have watched myself and people I love eat their way to chronic illness. Yes we have heriditary tendencies, yes their are diseases we have no control over. Bad things happen to good people, also good things happen to bad people. I believe that an optimally macro nutritious diet gives us an immune system that can fight disease off. Most pharmaceutical treatment has adverse effects that need to be dealt with. That is an even MORE important time to eat the best you can and avoid food additives that make us sick. Right?<br />
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I am preaching to myself. After two rounds of #Whole30 I learned I am very sensitive to high fructose corn syrup. It makes my joints hot, sore, and stiff. How do I know? When I finished the #Whole30 I was pain free and energetic. I felt like moving. I felt younger, happier, calmer, more even keeled. I could go for much longer without eating and not experience a blood sugar crash. Wow. Food has so much power over us though. When we moved I ate a couple things a little at a time and discovered exactly how they made me feel. I know what I can eat.<br />
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I have food addictions. I have a sugar dragon. The other day I wanted some chocolate so bad I upended the Hershey syrup from Mothers Day and swigged it down straight. My joints paid me back within 10 minutes.<br />
I am beginning round 3 of #Whole30. I am working up to my official first day. I have some hand made corn tortillas I want to eat. Just getting off chocolate is a big enough task. Reading labels again and getting the stuff out of here that can tempt me is a tThere is corn syrup in sausage and tuna fish. Read labels your in for a doozy of a shock.<br />
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That's what I am going to be talking about. #Whole30, healthy eating, the struggle to go to the GYM, and whatever else I am thinking about. Because this is Fresh Fixins where you never do know what your going to get!Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-71412878291497951942015-11-27T08:25:00.000-08:002015-11-27T08:25:10.277-08:00The Day After----oh no I ATE it ALL :(THANKSGIVING!!! I am thankful!! I also went on a terrific food binge at my daughters house. I ate it all. The clam dip, spinach dip, stuffing, sweet potatoes, her amazing baked caramelized apples in pie crust and pecan pie.<br />
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I think I almost killed myself. All the pain I have been free of came back. I think I have a food hangover because I feel just terrible. I wonder how long it will take to recover? I am NOT doing this again. I thought to myself it is only one day right? One plate.. one pig out...<br />
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OOOWWWWWWWW my hands burn, I hurt all over, I am burping, bloated, exhausted and stiff.<br />
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Food has power. Food can bring life or bring sickness and this diet has really proved that to me. The proof really is in the pudding.<br />
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I think I am just over FB. I am tired of selfies and scrolling for hours at pictures of food and whatever and nothing really substantive to read. I think that maybe FB makes me dumb and dumber like bingo speak in texting. "Can I c u b 4 lunch"? Bingo right? I get it, we don't have to type as much, but my spelling has always been bad and now it's atrocious.<br />
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Back to blogging. I have become a little lazy and need to get my camera out and start thinking of something to actually WRITE about. It's good for me to exercise some creative thought. My attention span is shorter with a habit of one liners. I need the discipline of reading and writing to maintain my brain function at this age. How about you? I really enjoy reading blogs.I think maybe I have my New Years resolutions during Thanksgiving but what difference does that make? We can eat dessert first and make resolutions anytime, right? The only dessert I may eat will have to be paleo....<br />
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Birds to be precise, finches. I am getting so interested in these little birds!! Maybe obsessed is more like it. They are charming funny little creatures and so fun to watch. I have dreams of aviary's and acquiring more species and and and....lots to write about. Coming soon.<br />
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Sounds to me like it's time for pages and categories and all the different ideas to be set up here for easy browsing and that will take a bit of effort on my part won't it? But nothing worth having comes easy right?<br />
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OK so now your job is to hold me accountable for this bit of rambling, and to turn it into something of substance.<br />
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I am grateful too. I am very grateful for life and everything I am blessed with in this wonderful at times chaotic world we live in. I am finding a need deep in my soul to get away from the mess of news and fear, instead focusing on the good gifts from the God I love who will care for me. He has always cared for me. He is a good good father. Fear is from the enemy. My life today is full of blessings and I want to enjoy, create, thank, bless, and be blessed.<br />
<br />Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-30955531304172021802015-11-24T08:24:00.001-08:002015-11-24T08:24:22.385-08:00Thanksgiving Paleo Whole 30 Style and YUMMMMMMMMMYWow what a ride the last two months have been. A friend of mine told me about a book called "Whole30 by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Whole30/?fref=ts">Whole 30</a> is available but the book has the best pep talk ever and also about half of it is recipes. It's about getting well and getting free.<br />
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I also bought a cookbook "Well Fed" by Melissa Joulan <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MelJoulwan/?fref=ts">The Clothes Make The Girl</a> she is an awesome cook!!! Rarely in my life have I followed other peoples recipes because no brag here I can cook. If you can cook then when you read a recipe the ingredients speak to you. You can imagine that this combination is going to be very good! As I read the books I thought to myself this food sounds really delicious. i followed her recipes and learned some great new dishes like Chocolate Chili! I just needed to get new habits that don't incorporate the inflammatory foods that are making me feel bad.<br />
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Can I tell you for just a minute just how bad I had been feeling? Chronic bursitis in both hips, back pain, whole body aches, plantar fascitis , awful stiffness, unable to walk up and down stairs without major effort and pulling the handrail with both arms.....crippled up!!! In the South they say, " I am jes stove up". I didn't want to do anything but eat. Which is crazy.<br />
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Food addictions can sneak up on us. We are not infants that need to be fed every two hours. The feeling of "wanting something", is not normal for adults. We ought to be able to go four hours easily without eating and without thinking about eating. Now that I have finished two rounds of Whole 30 I no longer think about food all the time. Guess why. I am not addicted anymore, except for coffee. Who doesn't have a serious love affair with coffee? I drink it black and enjoy it which makes me a real true coffee junkie. I have found ways to flavor coffee if I want. Add a little cinnamon or allspice to the grounds before brewing, or some cocoa....yummmmmmm<br />
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You may be thinking about now; "I thought this is about Thanksgiving" don't worry we are going to talk about food. Thanksgiving is also about being thankful!!! In our household we go around the table and say what we are thankful for before we eat. This year I have so much to be thankful for!!!!<br />
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We all have life changing experiences and some are more powerful than others. Some experiences are unforgettable. I will never get over going to Haiti. Having running water all I want when ever I want is something I will never again take for granted. There is so much that is a part of our culture of excess that we don't need and that we already have. When you see people who are naked or almost naked and starving and thirsty it wrecks you. SEEING in real life has an impact that media can never impart. Flesh and blood humans in your reach in deep need is shattering when you have way more than you can ever use up.<br />
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Whole30 has been a life changing experience. I am ready for Whole365.<br />
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That brings me to a philosophical issue about food. We in our wonderful land have way more than we need. Our materialistic consumer driven society has created a culture of not only waste but excess. If you do the Whole30 one of the first things one sees that is absolutely mind blowing is how much "food" in grocery stores and even health food stores, is NOT food. I won't sugar coat it. Whole30 is strict. If you cheat with even one bite you start at the beginning. The concept is to follow the plan exactly for 30 days and give your body and it's taste buds a reboot. IT WORKS!! I think it works because it's strict. I am not sure how they got to the 30 day formula because at day 21 I was still thinking about the stuff I was missing. Something happens in the last week that is pretty profound, and I would call it deliverance.<br />
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Not all diets are about weight loss. We are crazy nuts here trying to make invisible women. Voluptuous women trying to be beanpoles, women who have just given birth not giving themselves any reasonable amount of time to get back to their pre pregnant weights. Give me a break we need to get a life and ENJOY LIFE! I have lost weight 15 pounds. but let me tell you what I have lost that means so much more to me! I have lost chronic fatigue. I no longer wake up exhausted wishing I was just dead already. I sleep GREAT. I wake up rested and have a little pep in my step. I have ENERGY. I can walk up and down the stair without holding on like a normal person. I have lost the glue that stuck me to the couch. I no longer have cravings. I eat when I get hungry and I eat good food.<br />
I have lost digestive problems. Ummmm I am a nurse how graphic can you take it? How about this? My tummy though still large is flat. I don't bloat. I don't make embarrassing and odoriferous noises. I do go to the bathroom every day. I no longer support Miralax. I don't burp, belch, and wish my stomach would quit rebelling; because it is quite happy :)<br />
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I could go on. Completely downsizing in my clothes. I am wearing stuff I couldn't even get my arms into or thighs for that matter. My actual body size looks like a lot more weight loss than the scale says. I think for the first time in my life with any diet that my body is shedding fat; not water and not muscle. WOWZAS if that isn't an endorsement....go buy the book.<br />
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OK now let's talk about FOOD! Thanksgiving and holidays and oh no what about pie?????<br />
You are going to think I have lost my mind but I don't care about the pie. If you scroll down in my blog you will see lots of pictures of PIES. Don't get me wrong there is no denying that pie is delicious and lovely to look at; BUT I don't want to hurt. The slice of pie has too high a price to pay for me!<br />
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However, I love the flavors and seasonings of Thanksgiving. I didn't want new recipes. Stuffed mushrooms and all that. They are good yes but not Thanksgiving! I began experimenting. Sorry I got caught up in the creating and didn't take pictures. Next time I cook I'll snap some photos. Just engage your own imagination OK?<br />
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I still remember waking up early to the smell of sauteing onions and celery in butter. My mama cooked such a large bird usually 25 pounds she would get up at 6 am to start the stuffing and get the bird in the oven! The aromas were so heavenly. We used sourdough croutons and she was an amazing cook. My Danish grandmother was also an amazing cook. My mama started me helping out in the kitchen by standing me on a chair in the kitchen and put the knife in the hand of the 5 year old girl and taught me how to safely chop, mince, and slice. I am forever in her debt. We buttered the bird and seasoned it with salt and pepper. All the gizzards and neck would simmer in a saucepan for extra broth to make lots of gravy....mouth watering right?<br />
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Ok challenge! Taking out what isn't whole30....the bread and the butter. Putting in something else....how about diced veggies and fruits? Which veggies would be good inside a bird? Hummmmm<br />
ok so starting with a skillet and you can use ghee or clarified butter or refined coconut oil. Refined coconut oil does not taste like coconut. I keep both types on hand. It is available at Sams/Costco for a reasonable price and it's organic. Ok so first thing into the skillet to saute is the large whole onion chopped finely and the celery and why not use the whole thing? Apples would be delicious so a couple of those chopped and into the skillet; make it a BIG skillet!!!! How about some nuts? Walnuts or pecans or both...raisins.... and all the seasonings you like sans junk. PURE sage etc.. I like Mrs. Bells. and sage. Lots of sage. Guess what? THIS can go into the bird. I have experimented with eggs in this and I don't like the outcome. I think the best stuffing is just these ingredients seasoned deliciously into the bird. They will swell up and stick together. You can also add diced sweet potato. In fact you can put any vegetable you like in there!!! I wouldn't use broccoli haha.<br />
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Lather the bird in ghee or coconut oil and season it. Salt,pepper, and sage. Bake it like you always do smiles right? Now here is where I do a Whole30 NOT approved departure. BECAUSE I finished my 1st Whole30 without cheating! I do make gravy with a flour and water thickener. I don't want tomato paste in my gravy. I don't want anything in my gravy but the taste of gravy. I am a purist about some things that cannot be messed with! For me it is a sin to ruin gravy. You can have potatoes but not milk so how about making them differently? I have sliced, chopped, mixed and roasted. Seasoning is the key. Coating them and roasting them is almost a divine experience. Change it up with the seasonings. Salt and pepper only or salt and pepper and rosemary, or salt and cinnamon on a sweet potato. The other thing is to invest in fresh seasoning and good salt. I use pink Himalayan fine grind. I ground up my own black pepper in a coffee grinder and WOWZAS what a difference. You can have 2 coffee grinders or just clean it without submerging it. OK so we have meat, potatoes, gravy and now we need some kind of sweet potato thing. Guess what? You can whip them, roast them, or candy them without sugar. You can use pineapple, packed in it's own juice or fresh. You can use orange juice. You can use a small amount of dates or raisins and if you dice them up finely and simmer them in a bit of water until plump that is a heck of a sweetener! It is after all a holiday.<br />
You can decorate the top of your sweet potato casserole with diced up pecans or halves and some shredded coconut and pumpkin pie spice. Oh yes mam it is good. I found ONE kind of bulk trail mix that does not have sugar. It is almonds, cashews, raisins, pumpkin seeds & sunflower seeds, it's tasty. I like to add unsweetened coconut to it. I have played with this stuff and added a diced apple, pumpkin pie spice (not a lot) and melted coconut oil to mix it together and then stuff it into squash halves. YUM. it could be dessert it is THAT tasty.....<br />
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and finally..ta ta da da...CRANBERRY sauce/ relish........can not have a thanksgiving meal without it right????? OK brain think hard because cranberries are so tart tart....how to make them with no sugar. You can NOT use anything artificial so forget about splenda and all those other nasty chemicals and no stevia either...jes fuggettabowtit. What is sweet in nature? Apples are sweet. Apple cider is sweet. Ok lets use apple cider instead of sugar and water. Next...what if that is not enough sweet? Mince up some plump, soft and fresh majool dates and add the cranberries; put all this into the saucepan to bring it to a boil. What else might taste good? I love orange in my cranberry relish but this was my first experiment and wasn't sure I needed another acid, but I have some Williams and Sonoma mulling spices for that holiday flavor. I added 1 tsp of mulling spices into a cheesecloth bag and put the whole thing onto the stove, brought it to a boil, turned it down to simmer and let it simmer for a short time about 10 minutes and set it to the side to set up. Remove the bag of spices before serving. This stuff is amazing!!! I need to bottle it, sell it, and make my fortune for real. I shouldn't share it but I just can't be like that..<br />
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Next...well that's it, menu complete. There is a lot not here yes...I did experiment and cook this whole meal and try it on my family. It was the first time my grandson ate the vegetables and cranberry sauce and he LOVED everything. He is our pickiest eater. No one complained about no dessert. Everyone felt very satisfied and surprised that they LIKED it. Everyone commented on the FLAVOR. Now it's your turn. Put your thinking cap on and recreate your favorite foods without sugar and without junk. No dairy, no grains, no soy, no peanuts, no artificial anything. If you can't say it don't eat it. Concentrate on what you CAN have and what you will GAIN; freedom from food addictions and pain. It is so WORTH it. Get cooking.<br />
<br />Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-44822337715814530312015-03-02T08:43:00.004-08:002015-03-02T08:43:48.935-08:00Moth Balls---and dog talesSeriously Facebook is a major time suck. I used to blog every day!!! I need to pull myself up by my two finger typing hands and start blogging again! I mean it! What should I talk about? For starters how about the friends I made blogging years ago and have started to meet in "real" life? Funny how a few comments and reading about other peoples homes, kids, pets, and jobs makes you feel like you know them and they become your friends.<br />
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Recently I met Flea of The Good Flea who has moved on the dog blogging and working for Jones Natural Chews. <a href="http://dogtreatweb.com/dog-writers-giveaway/">http://dogtreatweb.com/dog-writers-giveaway/</a> She came by with two dogs mind you on her way to an event and spent the night. A good thing that I had one dog at that time so I didn't mind the dogs on my furniture routine. She brought my big ole hound dog who rescued me some TREATS which she salivated over in a big time way and we had a great visit.<br />
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I have posted so much of my life on Facebook instead of her so I think I'll start at the beginning. Actually I have been thinking about writing a book.......<br />
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Mercy was found in an abandoned squatters crack house in one of our ghettos. You ask of course what was I doing there? Well, not scoring crack rest assured. I was there helping a young woman with two small children get out of there and I saw this dog. Pathetic look on her very unhappy face.<br />
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She was a rack of bones and had been kicked the day before by her "owner". Her diet was scraps chicken bones anything he could find to feed her. I offered to take the dog and a friend of mine who knew the owner worked it out. My husband does not go for adding to the family easily but there was no way I was leaving her there.<br />
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Before bringing her home I took her to my vet and wallah she was pregnant!!! Her first heat probably about 8 or 9 months old. Short story she had 8 beautiful puppies.<br />
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I had a lot of fun raising those pups. It was an absolute TON of work!!!!! From grinding up dog kibble in my food processor to make puppy pablum which they ate a huge amount of, to taking them outside to potty, to introduce them to water, to cars, to people, to cats, to little children.....oh my stars!!!! But the end product was super well socialized beautiful puppy babies. I was seriously attached to every single one of them.<br />
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I found good homes for all of them. I charged $100 for each pup to cover expenses and also to make sure the family was willing to commit to the dog. I asked them to spay and neuter but not being a rescue I couldn't require it. I received promises but who really knows. I wish I knew how they were doing. Two puppies found homes right here in my neighborhood!<br />
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One of male pups who is a humongous beastie of a boy!!! and the runt which was first born.<br />
She doesn't come over to play but she is right next door and we seer her through the fence. She is gorgeous!!! Her coat is dark chocolate brown and her body is solid but her head legs and tail are brindled, beautiful. <br />
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Once the puppies were gone I had a lot of work to do with Mercy. I named her Mercy because I had mercy on her.<br />
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She just wanted to run. Even though she had a good home her beginning gave her trust issues. She was digging giant holes in my yard, not winning points with my hubby. We have a lovely yard. He takes pride in it. Mercy actually dug a trench across the back part chasing a mole. She is probably a block cur hound mix and she was determined to get that mole! It took time and infinite patience which I seemed to always be in short supply of. More than once i went online and begged for someone to take this dog off my hands.<br />
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But not anymore...not ever. This girl has my heart and I finally got hers...she doesn't try to run away anymore and she is a nice calm relaxed dog. She is actually the best dog ever, so smart. She is worth all the work, holes and the yard, and chasing her around the neighborhood; to have her like she is now. My big ole hound dawg.....<br />
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Tomorrow I will tell you about our latest addition another adoption....<br />
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Meet Bitsie Bella boo boo a little maltipoo female puppy about a year old. She has her charming ways!!!!<br />
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Today they posted their last minute need to get more medical personnel together for a mission trip into two remote villages of Haiti. The villages selected have never had any medical care before. They need any type of medical personnel and they need nurses. <br />
I prayed, said yes and have <u><i><b>TEN</b></i></u> days to get this together including airfare and the trip expenses. After talking to them $2000 should cover it.<br />
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If you want to help hit my donate to paypal button.<br />
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We will return every night to sleep in a tent at their Love A Child village. I have permission to take one extra duffel bag of donations for their children and babies. I will leave everything there that I take and come back with just the clothes on my back.<br />
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I am so excited I can hardly sit still. I hope I can see baby Elijah and pray for his healing. <br />
I hope God will use my hands to bless, to heal, to bring the love of Jesus to the poorest of the poor. Jesus break my heart for what breaks yours...that is a good prayer.Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-49448359095377521222014-08-07T18:48:00.000-07:002014-08-07T18:48:00.313-07:00APRONS!!!I have been sick with asthma for a month. We can't figure out why, no infection but I am having a hard time getting over it. I'll feel better one day and the next day I go backwards again. CRAZY.....<br />
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But to not go stir crazy more than normal and I am on steroids...I gotta try and do something!! I decided to sew, why not?<br />
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I have been making aprons. I would like to make a bunch and sell them. I have even been thinking about offering custom ones for people made out of a man's shirt that is sentimental. My husband has a niece whose father passed away, I am going to make her one out of his clothes. Isn't that a cool idea? Since they are made with recycled shirts it's not too expensive and that can keep the cost down.<br />
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So take a look tell me what you think. I am going to make some grocery tote bags and little girl aprons too.<br />
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This is for my girlfriend. Her husband wore this for their wedding! How sentimental is that? <br />
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What do you think of these pockets? Actually one of them has 2 sections and they are lined on the inside so they look really nice.<br />
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All done I did a lot of embroidery top stitching on this one and french seams on the inside. It's sturdy should last as long as the marriage!!<br />
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This one is going to be a gift someone special is getting married. She likes sunflowers so wahlah we got sunflowers.<br />
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This one I am keeping at least for awhile I like the combination of fabrics, some denim some stripe some quilting, yep it's cute.<br />
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My daughter likes this one. I told her she could trade hers from Christmas for it if she wants too.<br />
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I added a button to the pocket. It's a wooden one. So now onto discovering cheap sources for notions always a challenge! But I think I can do a lot of this recycling.<br />
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I am going to ask $28 for aprons where you provide the fabrics. Can make them from men's shirts. The bib takes 1/3 yd. The piping takes 1/2 yard. If your shirt is not a large or extra large have to make the ties out of a different fabric. I can get them done in less than a week. Shipping shouldn't be bad they are light weight.<br />
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I'd love to make you one do you have a special shirt that is just dancing in the closet waiting to become your favorite apron?Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-40247581069819530742014-08-07T10:32:00.002-07:002014-08-07T18:26:56.580-07:00Golden Delicious Soup!!!I made a new soup this morning. One of those what is in the refrigerator concoctions but it is da bomb!!!<br />
I have to write it down quick because I want to make this again. I took a picture and then misplaced the camera cord...what do you expect? I am out of it on prednisone, albuteral, etc...etc... and I have the shakes so you just have to use your imagination.<br />
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Trust me this soup is outrageous. Also full of anti-inflammatories and super good for you.<br />
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Start with a chopped onion, 4 stalks of celery and a bell pepper all sauteing in some olive oil. Next chop and add 2 fresh yellow beets. Everything is cooking on medium heat just stir it now and then while you are chopping the next vegetables. 4 carrots, 1 sweet potato, 2 inch piece of ginger finely minced, 3 small roots of tumeric peeled and finely minced, a few springs of fresh thyme about 2 cups of red lentils, salt and fresh cracked pepper. Cover with water.<br />
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Wow folks I know it's hot but you just gotta try this.<br />
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Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-68752307291021833122014-07-20T17:30:00.001-07:002014-07-20T17:30:10.592-07:00Reboot---the next chapter.What happened after my snot slinging cry? My new found friend took me under her wing and I knocked 24/7. I was a fragile piece of wreckage. Five years of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse had taken their toll. What was left was on shaky ground. I was ready to follow. For the first time in my life I wasn't rebelling.<br />
My friend spent hours with me, which turned into months and then years. She is my best friend the one who lives in Florida. There isn't an end to that story. BUT there was a weaning...of course.<br />
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We spent every day together. We went to church together and it was a growing thing but not quite right. Finally at one church she decided that "this is for you", but not her. <br />
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Firmly she told me to stay there and meet people. I did. I met the love of my life my sweet husband Jimmy.<br />
I also met the Baptist potluck.<br />
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My first sight of it was GROSS!!! I have never felt such revulsion. Junk food everywhere, packaged, processed sugary piles of sweets...gluttony. I was sick looking and my new friend said, "but it tastes so good try some". It did indeed taste good.<br />
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Why did I take the first bite? What part of me was ready to abandon all I had learned? For all of my faults diet and exercise were not one of them. I was in the best shape of my life. I was an athlete. I rode a bike, roller skated, went to jazzercize three times a week. I was fit. I had learned about nutrition and I didn't eat food LIKE THAT. Why did I take the first bite?<br />
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In Mathew chapter 23 Jesus lets the pharisees have it with both fists. The heading over the battle is called "8 woes". Here is a little of it, listen to the anger.<br />
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe (give a portion) mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness;<i><b> but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.</b></i> You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! Woe to you, scribes, and pharisees, hypocrites! For you <b><i>clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but the inside is full of robbery and self indulgence.</i></b><br />
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like white washed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.<br />
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WOW. Talk about <b>show don't tell</b>. Jesus has that down doesn't he?<br />
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From the beginning since I was now "saved". I assumed that the scriptures that taught about scribes and Pharisees were about someone else, not me. In fact anytime there was a mention of someone not doing the right thing it wasn't me. I was the good Samaritan, the good soil, the pearl of great price....but there came a moment when I questioned that.<br />
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What if I am not good soil? Truthfully don't I let the thorns and briars in? Don't I let the worries and cares of this life take precedence over <i><b>everything else?</b></i> If I live like there is no God where is God? If I worry about houses and land, cars and bills, the daily grind of life, what to eat and what to wear; where is my faith?<br />
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When I drive by the homeless and look the other way to avoid the sign asking for food, when I throw the mail in the trash unopened with pleas to feed the starving; am I the good Samaritan? Am I loving my neighbor as myself?<br />
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I think not.<br />
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All of a sudden the Bible began to be a whole new book. I stopped assuming that I am the good guy and started really looking at what Jesus says and I have fallen miserably short. In fact I would go so far as to say I have done it all wrong. Seriously.<br />
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I have studied, preached, and explained, all from a distance. When you speak with authority and proclaim and admonish...you are in effect above and out of reach. Just like a Pharisee. I am not too harsh with myself, don't freak out, just listen to me. Do you like being preached at? Didn't think so.<br />
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What did Jesus do and how did He do it?<br />
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He walked, talked, served, ate and told stories. He connected with people. He showed them with stories the truth about God. He revealed the kingdom of heaven to men. He showed great mercy, he healed the sick, made friends with the outcasts, and lived among them...the poor, the sick, the disenfranchised. Wow he was a freak really; and we would strongly object to his methods. Which is why we are like we are, isn't it?<br />
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Did Jesus define following Him as saying a little prayer and asking him "into your heart". so that you could be once saved always saved for repeating a little ditty?<u><i><b> Did He say that ever?</b></i></u><br />
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Actually he said,<span style="color: red;"> " Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to <i><b>life, and there are few who find it. </b></i>Math. 7:13. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord ," will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is heaven will enter. <u><b>Many</b></u> will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform miracles? And then I will declare to them, '<u><i><b>I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' </b></i></u></span><br />
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<b>Ok</b> alrighty then. I have a little expression when I teach, it's "you can always trust the red letters, that is Jesus talking. These red letters are scary. I don't now about you but I have not cast out demons or performed miracles. That seems like credentials for the upper eschalon of the church and indeed it very may well be. Jesus doesn't call us to potlucks and platitudes. He calls us to pick up our own cross and die daily. Why doesn't He know them? What does it mean to know?<br />
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What does that look like in real life?<br />
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Does it look like the church?<br />
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Does it look like me being all about myself, my plans, my desires,my goals, my vacations, my savings accounts, my all about me agenda? <b>I AM ALWAYS ON MY MIND.....</b><br />
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Why am I talking about this?<br />
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A revelation that back in the beginning instead of being transformed I picked up new junk. I dropped the behaviors that I was told to drop. Don't smoke, eat or chew; or go with boys that do. Without inner transformation of the soul dropping one list of don'ts results in picking up a new list of do's. My new list had food. The new list had only one acceptable vice gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins.<br />
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Here I am. Asking and still knocking. Seeking, fasting and requesting deliverance from this most deadly sin.<br />
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I no longer want to be a tomb full of dead men's bones. I am seeking the narrow gate. The good news is that transformation HAS INDEED been happening since that first morning on my living room floor. Step by step Jesus has been guiding me and teaching me. But now He is taking it to anutha whole level. Jesus wants to bust out of the "religious" box and take over me life. I have been just wrecked lately again, coming to the end of myself again, and realizing that the greatest gift is LOVE. Not man's love, God's love....He loves us.<br />
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I have been singing, "I want MORE of YOU God!!! I have been asking ,"BREAK every chain"!<br />
I have been admitting how I fail, "Help my unbelief". I want to be so radically different so full of God's love that it is irresistible. I want to be a light in a dark place to share the love of God.<br />
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God is answering.....to be continued.... Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-22542891201156130682014-07-18T03:19:00.001-07:002014-07-18T03:19:28.121-07:00Rebooting---juice fasting--really?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How did I get here? Really?<br />
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This was me? The woman who was so into health food. NO SUGAR allowed! The girls ate halvah for a treat. Halvah is sesame candy made with honey. My daughter went straight to the junk food section of the store when she left home and bought everything in sight. I guess I was too zealous.<br />
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But this...is me. Half the weight I am now.<br />
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I have been praying some short and powerful prayers. Prayers I mean with all my heart...like; "I want more of you God---BREAK every chain".<br />
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Who is Jesus anyway and WHY did He come?<br />
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Good question.<br />
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Jesus was authentic, accessible and vulnerable. He was constantly coming against the authority of the religious of the day; the Scribes and the Pharisees, the makers of rules of men. He called them a lot of names; snakes, vipers, tombs full of dead men's bones, sons of hell, the blind leading the blind. Not exactly politically correct. His courage to take on the phoney was without limit. He asked a lot of questions. Jules Verne said something about questions and men, that once asked it has to be answered even if it takes a hundred years. Something like that. It seems that really good communication happens when we ask questions. People feel valued when we ask them questions about themselves. They are valued when another person stops thinking about themselves long enough to consider what is going on in the life of another. Does asking questions then also work for us about ourselves? They might.<br />
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I have been asking. How did I get here? Simple question really, but the how lead to a why and a when and there you go we are off onto 17 rabbit trails of inquiry. I have been thinking a lot lately because I haven't been eating. I have eaten a little. Some days I have eaten nothing. It is AMAZING how much of our lives revolve around FOOD.<br />
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Last week we had a little get-together with the women who come to my church. I had invited my friend Amy Lancaster from We Will Go to come and visit with them. Originally we were going to have a retreat but no one wanted to sign up except the leadership. That was a reality check. How effective are you at leading if no one wants to follow? I go to We Will Go every week most of the time. It's a revolution in the heart of inner city Jackson what we call in the south a "hood". It's a revolution because it's people living like Jesus, talking like Jesus, being the hands and feet of Jesus and changing their world; one precious person at a time. Most of the time those precious people are drug dealers, crack heads, thieves, prostitutes, homeless, and stinky. The affluent refer to them as the outer circle or fringes of society. Jesus called them sick. Those are the people he chose to hang out with. He included tax collectors which was very generous of Him don't you think?<br />
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At my little party Amy shared how We Will Go started and how God unwrapped the whole thing one step at a time. None of it was really their idea, it was all God. He orchestrated everything. It took incredible courage to follow Him into the hood. It's cleaned up now to a fairly "safe" level, 7 years ago it was deadly. It was as rough a ghetto as you can imagine when they moved in with their little kids. An amazing story you should hear the whole thing sometime...but to cut to the chase I want to get to one particular part. Amy said from the very first night people knocked on their front door 24 hours a day they knocked and they asked.<br />
To demonstrate she knocked on the arm of my rocking chair and I was transported back into time.<br />
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I met her at a hair appointment. I was a traveling hairdresser. I had arrived at an elderly clients home and she had a new sitter. We introduced ourselves and I went about washing and rolling my customers hair. When I put her under the dryer we began to talk. ACTUALLY I began to talk because this woman was lit up. Not like drunk, like light....real light. I was thinking in my head, "Is this an aura"? What the heck? As I looked at her I began telling her all of my horrible secrets, you see I was living a lie. My family thought the wayward black sheep had finally married and was in a good situation. Everyone was so proud of me. I made a lot of stupid decisions starting in high school and one after another led me to nothing but trouble. I am not sure why. Someone could say it was my parents divorce or yada yada yada, but NO I was simply stupid, irresponsible, and heartless. I followed one code of conduct, if it feels good do it. No thought to anyone else ever. I hurt a lot of people. When I got married and actually had 2 jobs my family was ecstatic! But behind closed doors I had married a son of satan himself, an evil man who hurt us. I was ashamed of it, so ashamed that it was a secret no one knew except those who were tortured behind closed doors.<br />
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Sitting in front of the lady of light I couldn't shut up, I started crying and telling her everything. I told her I was in trouble, really bad trouble. She listened. I am not sure what I would do if someone did that to me. What would you do? Really? Don't most of us RUN as fast as we can from STRANGE crying people?<br />
She worked for an agency. She could have said nothing. She could have asked for a job transfer to get away from me. She could have told me I was a disturbed person who needed counseling. She could have called the cops! She didn't chose any of those options. She chose to follow Jesus into an unlovely, wretched woman's life. She said, "You need God".<br />
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So simple. Some folks do say that religion is for the weak, the opiate of the masses and all that. I remember. If I would not have been so broken, so frightened and so sorry I probably would have scoffed at her. I had a taste of religion as a child and really wasn't looking for that. I was looking for a RESCUE. <br />
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I went to her church. I wish I had a picture of us. I have one in my head. Having gone to church I knew we needed dresses. I didn't own one so I went to the Salvation Army and bought a little red calico cotton dress someone had made for $3. It had short sleeves an empire waist and some piping. I thought it was cute in a Little House on the Prairie kind of way. The girls had on cute outfits their clothes extended beyond jeans and t-shirts. I showed up in that, bra less and in flip flops. Early on being a single parent I discovered that underwear was expensive by opting out we had more to eat. I could have it then, but had decided it was a waste of money and stupid. So much for reasonable thinking. There we were in a church. The music was kind of fun but it made me want to cry. Then a man stood up and began talking. He was pretty passionate about his subject and unbelievably WE were his subject!!!<br />
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Have you ever had an experience where someone you don't even know is describing your life like they have been spying on you?<br />
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It was freaky. We looked at each other with the deer in the headlights eyes. One of the girls whispered to me, "How does he know"? I shook my head no. I didn't know the answer to that question.<br />
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Once a question is asked.<br />
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Do you remember, "Question authority"? Now it seems like we have flipped to never question authority but that is a rabbit trail for another question.<br />
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How did he know? He didn't. He didn't know us from the man in the moon but GOD did. It was God who was showing us their were no secrets. He laid everything out open and bare. I was shaken. They handed me a visitors packet and I went home. I don't remember anything about the rest of that day. I have a feeling I was just going through the motions on auto pilot. It was the next morning when I picked up the packet and started reading that everything fell into place. I read a tiny booklet. It had some pictures that showed a man's life without Jesus portrayed as a circle with the man in the center chaos all around. Then a contrasting circle with Jesus in the center and order around the circle.<br />
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Another picture. Two cliffs facing a deep ravine, the bridge across was a wooden cross lying on it's side. Darkness on one side and light on the other. The journey from one side to the other could only happen by crossing that bridge.<br />
It clicked. I got it. As tears started flooding my face I went into my living room and got down on my knees and began to talk. I poured out everything. All of my regrets, all my shame, all my fears. I don't know how long I was there but it was a long time. My eyes were swollen and I had been slinging snot when I got up. I wasn't pretty but I got up from that floor reborn. <br />
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All the things that happened after that could fill a book. This has turned into a lengthy introduction! I was talking about something else all together really, remember? I started out with how did I get here? Twice the size of my true self. I couldn't answer the questions without setting the stage because this was the turning point. When did I get off track? How did it happen? How am I getting back on the track?<br />
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Jesus simply said "Follow me". He spent a lot of time "dissing" the rules of men. Outward form of godliness without inner change. He hated the lists of rules, the do do do and don't don't don't. Jesus came to transform not conform.<br />
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How do we follow Jesus then? Not like I did.<br />
After thirty years I realize I have been doing it wrong.<br />
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to be continued.... <br />
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Flash from the past. This was when I graduated from nursing school in 1994. I pulled these pictures out for Father's Day. That's me with my Dad when I was a baby. <br />
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It has been the BEST year so far. These pictures are of my daughter and her daughter together!!!<br />
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I am so loving this.<br />
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They had these made for mothers day. Heather and I sat for a picture at her church they were free, a gift on Mother's day :)<br />
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I did use rocks around the front of the bed and as you can see I need to be doing some weedin again!!<br />
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We have had so much rain, and HOT sun!<br />
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Which makes everything grow double time. One of my most favorite flowers is in this pot. Want to guess?<br />
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Do you remember that I said I wanted to make a sign for my shed that said, "Garden of Weedin"? <br />
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Heather painted it for me<br />
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I love it. This "shed" just looks adorable! Inside there is nothing but junk, haha.<br />
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This kitchen is done. The smell of paint is gone the doors closed and the floor is not mopped. Got ya. I took a day off today. My back is really tired and threatening to have a hissy fit. Once in awhile I need to listen.<br />
I boxed up packages and went to the post office & UPS. I spent $60 shipping stuff around the globe how crazy is that? Did you ever see a 5cent stamp? I remember them they were blue and a head on them. I think it was George Washington. I also remember gas for 21 cents a gallon. Now that I have completely dated myself I can move on to another topic.....<br />
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Which is why we do all this house keeping and gardening in the first place. We make homes for family and friends. We make homes for people to gather together and sit around the table and rejoice. I love having a home and keeping a home; it is a privilege that all of us can at times take for-granted. I think there was more meaning in the words housewife or homemaker back in the day. It seems now it's more like buying the biggest house making it look like a magazine and then eating out because everyone works. It's fine if that's the life you chose, I am not dissing anyone personally. It's just that as I get older and think more about what kind of example I leave to my family and friends I want them to remember my home, not my house.<br />
I want them to remember meals around my table.<br />
Evenings on the patio. Dancing to the boombox outside or picking vegetables from the garden. I hope they remember the work of my hands and the love in my heart. <br />
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All of the cabinets are clean now. I am very grateful that I do not have a ginormous kitchen. This much kitchen wore me out!!!<br />
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But it was so worth it. <br />
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The bottom ones needed paint badly, in and out. Amazingly the wall paper that I took off had protected the paint and those with paper in them were just fine with a good scrubbing.<br />
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See these were just washed not painted. Are you wondering how I matched the paint? I wondered if I was going to get into trouble with that. I had a quart of semi gloss exterior cream color paint from the outside of the house. I figured it would work for the inside of the cabinets. I used it and as it dried I realized I really had a match!!!! I must love this color white. I couldn't have matched it this well if I tried! <br />
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The amount of stuff I have purged from this place makes me wonder if I am getting hoarder tendencies. All of this junk came out of the little bitty store room.<br />
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I organized it too. You could hardly walk in there. How much junk does it take to maintain two people?<br />
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How many cups? All of this did NOT go back in. I am proud to claim some empty spaces and my intentions are to leave them that way.<br />
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Seriously? All of this is going to the garage sale.<br />
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And the room is so much better for it.<br />
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Pantry organized. Nothing to throw away from there except for 2 snack bars that got lost in the shuffle.<br />
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Sometimes my consumerism just slaps me upside the head! I get a lot of stuff for free but that doesn't mean I have to keep it. A couple of weeks ago I found a rusty Schwinn bike in the trash. It's not as bad as it sounds I am not jumping into dumpsters. YET! Out here people set things out on the curb.<br />
I brought it home and checked ebay. Nice and clean they sell for about $90 it looked like a 70's model. So I put it on craigslist for $20. It sold asap not bad for a little trash recycling. I think I need to do more recycling and less keeping. I have such a hard time leaving perfectly good things on the curb for trash day.<br />
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In-spite of my dumpster inclinations and my cupboards getting over stuffed, I think my ability to toss and recycle may yet keep my kids from going through an awful ordeal when I leave this earth. They wouldn't have to much trouble right now should I awhhhh suddenly expire for some reason; just sayin.<br />
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Like I said cleaning out Bob's place has made me think. The way I was saving up by the time I hit my nineties I'd have as much for my family to do. It's been a good experience and given me a fresh picture about accumulating. It takes everything I have to keep up with my place. Two buckets of weedin a day, vaccuming, washing, filling in the holes the dawgs dig.....and on and on. I used to do this and work full time!!!!<br />
How did I do that? I don't know really, I marvel when I think. It's incomprehensible to me that I worked 12 hours a day and kept house.<br />
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The good news is that I am moving around well enough to take care of my home and have not been able to do that for a long time. I am so grateful! Grateful for health and grateful to this guy.<br />
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He has stayed through the good and bad, sickness and health, pack rat or minimalist; he is mine; and I love him more than I can say. I get mushy like that when he wears a pretty shirt :) <br />
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Tomorrow I will close the cupboard doors (they have been airing still) mop the floor and move up into the attic! Then it will be back to the yard because I am behind on weedin.....Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-11770928266904062912014-06-11T20:05:00.000-07:002014-06-11T20:05:49.809-07:00MOVING OMG<br />
I am always talking about moving. I really don't know why. I just get ideas and talk about going other places. It really drives my family nuts especially since the one time I actually made a move; it was huge like from California to Mississippi.<br />
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Recently I have been working on moving. For the last month I have been packing, boxing, organizing and wearing myself out.<br />
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It has come to this. The last of the stuff for sale. HIS stuff!!<br />
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Because we moved him to be closer to his family. It's the best thing for him and he moves into an assisted living apartment near his sons this weekend. You would think that would be enough to do right?<br />
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But noooooooo. Actually it freaked me out about stuff. You would not believe how much stuff people accumulate A lot of it was just trash too;sooooooooo.....I decided to start CLEANING.<br />
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When we first got here wall paper was so IN. It was also cheap and I thought I was so brilliant using wallpaper for shelf paper in my kitchen cabinets.It was a lot less than contact paper which is so retro now.<br />
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It has stayed right where I put it because I glued it on. Yes indeedy! Brains I tell ya!!!<br />
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I have a lot of cupboards to clean and remove the paper. The only thing good about it is the paint is in pretty decent shape underneath. I thought about painting but then where would I stop? Everything needs paint.All the paint is the same age if I repaint the cabinets I'll repaint the trim and then the moldings and the doors and....you SEE? It would end up with me doing all the woodwork in the whole house! I want to live so I decided not to paint.<br />
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So no on the painting. Yes, to the cleaning and yes to some purging. We all collect stuff. It's scary when you move to see how much there is to do. Just in case I really decide to go somewhere else it won't be so bad when I finish this.<br />
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This entire side is finished including the drawers. It looks so clean and nice. I am worn out. But I have the rest of the kitchen to finish. Then the laundry room and the pantry. <br />
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If I am still alive I will just stay put and enjoy it. <br />
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Pretty impressive right? Or maybe just crazy.<br />
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Truthfully I am really grateful to be able to clean my house again. It really needs it. I won't tell you how many years it's been since it's had a good, "going over". Spring is for cleaning, gardening and basically working yourself to death right?<br />
I hope I can move tomorrow morning.Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-28816267926973452722014-05-20T21:25:00.001-07:002014-05-20T21:25:22.423-07:00Entertaining Out of Town Friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What do you do when you have company for a week? You have to find something for them to do right?<br />
Even best friends can't sit around all day every day and just jaw, eat, and drink beer. Where we live there are a few attractions that guys would like. One day we decided to go check out this place.<br />
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I have to admit I was impressed. I even tried on a back pack. The real kind. I immediately took it off too.<br />
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Out here they have some fun slogans....<br />
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This is a toy shop for grown up kids.</div>
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Like <br />WOW.<br />
OK I would not want all the animal heads in my house but I am so into this fireplace and the SCREEN! <br />
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This couch, I want this couch. Who knows what a couch trimmed in real cowhide costs. The cushions were buttery soft and the color perfect. I love country. I didn't know that until I came into this place. When I saw the couch it was love at first sit. Looking at that gorgeous fireplace and that sculptured fireplace screen.<br />
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This is a closeup of the detailed metal sculptures on the screen. Amazing.<br />
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The top corner talk about 3D,how about some gorgeous leaves and branches? <br />
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He's your little Huckleberry, such great artwork. The day was coming up roses and then this!!!! They had my truck! The first vehicle I ever bought for myself and paid $200 for it. Those really were good old days.<br />
I LOVED my Chevy truck. It was this color too, and it was a 3 speed on the column just like this.<br />
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So I posed in front of it.<br />
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and got some sass goin on....<br />
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Hey baby wanta ride? <br />
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I tried to get in it but the door was locked. <br />
I woulda just borrowed it.<br />
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They had a lot of exhibits, like this coyote.<br />
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live fish<br />
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The store has so many lights it was impossible not get reflections from the lights on the glass. These fish were huge. They are intended to make guys who like fish go for the gusto and buy out the fishing gear department.<br />
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They make it look good.<br />
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This is my toy of choice. These are FUN. They just are. Yeah I know they are dangerous but they are also fun.<br /><br />
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Meeting him would be dangerous.<br />
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Nice boats.<br />
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and my guy. What a sport he jumped up on this boat to put the SIZE of this motor in perspective. Seriously I feel like a part of the dark ages. When did this size motor come out and wow you should have seen this $22,000 boat! The seats looked awesome like you could sit in them comfortably all day long. It had a hard deck for people to stand on while fishing. Me? I loved the motor I gotta need for speed. I wish we could have taken this baby out onto the reservoir and just borrowed it.<br />
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Today started out really lazy for everybody. We just could not get started! Mercy was in sync with me. Let's just lie down mom. Yeah Merc let's just sit here, my arms feel like lead pipes. Move over that dog bed is lookin real good to me.<br />
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I din't fit on her bed so eventually I at least started walking around and checking the areas where I am fighting rain water erosion. What looks like a foot print here is actually soil loss. I still have some work to do here. You can see how there is an edge about an inch high or low depending on how you would describe this.<br />
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This is a lousy picture. This is supposed to show you that I worked this area and planted my tomato seedlings. I see a big fat weed smack dab in front of a rock. HOW did I miss THAT? <br />
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This one looks bizarre! Look at the optical illusion created by the angles. Photography intrigues and surprises me. One of these days I'll take a class. <br />
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Trim is happening people. The man on the ladder can paint! Just a little FYI it rained before it dried. He will most likely have to paint some more.<br />
While inspecting and walking I meandered out front. <br />
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I love the light in the afternoon before sunset. I decided to experiment and photograph my house from a bunch of different angles. I started on the far right of the lawn and worked my way over to the driveway. The sun is coming over the far left corner of the house. <br />
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I also changed how far away I was standing. Here there are more angle illusions, weird huh? The arbor has an odd effect from this position. This isn't a place I would usually select to take a shot. I am experimenting.<br />
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Hmmmm this one is pretty good. Still weird angles and not great light. <br />
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I like this one the best. I am so grateful for digital photos so you can shoot a lot and pick one or two. This one does it for me. I wish I had a picture to show you of the house before we painted and made new shutters. All those pictures were lost with the last computer blow up. There are some in old posts, somewhere. I am too lazy to go looking. HA!<br />
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This one focuses more on the beds. It doesn't capture the light as well. What do you think? Some of you have learned a lot about photography.<br />
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My rock work here is a success the driveway is clean and my neighbor did not receive a cubic foot of topsoil. YEAH! This made me so happy I went and painted some doors and made a salad for dinner.<br />
Life is good. Everything that has been transplanted is uber happy too. I need a plan for this bare patch. It was solidly filled with ajuga which obviously did not make it threw the winter. My husband will veto rocks even though that would look good because of weed whacking. Any ideas?<br />
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Tomorrow is Mother's Day.<br />
I hope you are blessed. Everyone has a mother, some of us are mother's, some want to be and aren't, and some have lost their mother's either recently or a long time ago. I pray that God bless, comfort, and encourage each of you wherever you are in that journey. My mom is smiling and hugging her twin who just recently joined her in heaven. That is the best place to be. One day I'll be there and missing my mom will be forgotten. In the mean time I get to fully embrace and enjoy being a mother and a Nannie; and I LOVE IT!<br />
I have 12 grands and counting one of these days there will be the great grands. Like I said life is good I am abundantly BLESSED.Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-72188228111020251772014-05-07T10:46:00.002-07:002014-05-08T09:09:50.735-07:00Spring Fever---A very intense case.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have it. Spring fever it comes so suddenly and when you get it you just can't stay in the house another second. Mosquitoes don't stop you, wasps, don't stop you, beetles don't stop you, not even heat. The flaws of the outdoors don't even exist with an intense case of spring fever. All I can see is beauty everywhere.<br />
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I love to sit here. I never used this little slab of concrete before. I don't why. I have no excuse. It is a cozy little spot. I am thinking about painting the concrete with that new stuff I've seen advertised that repairs decks and concrete. You just roll it on. <br />
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I am getting more into containers for things. It's just easier than dealing with our soil and all the diseases and bugs. These little pots of herbs are happily growing in potting soil. Good stuff. You know you can't compost here it is an invitation to huge cockroaches. I dunnnot like em. GO AWAY<br />
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It's spectacular there must be a thousand or more flowers on this. Each year it blows my mind it's probably 20 feet wide now. Time is always on the side of a garden and ours is 13 years old now.<br />
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This is the last of the roses over my dog Rasmus's grave. Think it's about to peter out. It's a hybrid rose and they just don't thrive here. But it's a sweet reminder of my faithful friend.<br />
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A very happy southern grape. I can't spell it but it sounds like suckinon. Don't go there ok. <br />
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Looks like a park doesn't it? We have almost a half acre and that is a big garden to work. I could be out here 8 hours a day. I almost have been but not quite. I sit down, take breaks, and use ice. I am working on my own rehabilitation plan. Strengthening unused muscles slowly but surely. I am so grateful that nothing has broken for quite a long time!!<br />
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Back fence, what is it about blue flowers? I love blue flowers!<br />
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Little teeny white rose next to them that has nasty hooky thorns so it does what it wants too!! I ain't touchin that bugger it will snag you so fast. <br />
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This is actually a sad picture. Hairy my weeping willow is dying. He was my birthday present about 10 years ago. I read that willows have a short life span and it looks like Hairy is at the end of his. He was the cutest baby tree ever. So tiny with a "head of wavy hair" that's why I named the tree Hairy. He looked like Einstein.<br />
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This rather boring shot shows how many boards Mercy broke to get out of the yard she is one dominant alpha female. That black cur hound knows what she wants! Good thing our neighbors didn't object to free fencing. Our entire yard is now hot wired. Mercy respects her collar. She doesn't respect much. She is one bull headed female hound. You should see her down at the lake when she sees geese or ducks. She jumps in the water and swims as fast as she can after them. It doesn't matter if they can fly a little she just increases her speed. She WANTS A DUCK!!!!<br />
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Side yard, lots of work still to do here but it is so pretty.<br />
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A perspective shot so you can see how large the New Dawn rose is.<br />
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Nellie Moser clematis. <br />
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The work I need to do this needs to be cleaned up and the rotor tiller is broken. I have tomato seedlings to plant. <br />
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A different clematis I love those vines.<br />
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This is what I have been doing. Moving rocks. We have a bunch of rocks in the back next to the fence and I need them up here. When we first came we put rain gutters all the way around the house. I wondered why no one had rain gutters. We found out the hard way that your trim will rot. It really RAINS here. How do you spell gully washer?<br />
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Knock out roses love us.<br />
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All my top soil has been washing out of these beds so I have been diggin up rocks and toting them in a bucket to arrange here and hold the soil in. I hope it works. I am blogging today because I couldn't sleep last night when I posted 2 other posts, because I worked too hard yesterday. I couldn't find the hubbins hand truck. I carried medium sized buckets of rocks. THAT is aerobic exercise. I nearly killed myself. Today is going to be a rest day even though I'd like to work that area my tomotoes are going into. Fuggedaboutit.<br />
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Pot on the porch. OMG I was working a pot the other day and pulled out a weed that was full of FIRE ANTS and yes I got bit and no, I did not cuss. <br />
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My rock work. I also moved plants from the side yard over here. We lost a tree so I planted banana palms and in the back where the soil had washed completely out I transplanted some rubekia, the common name is Black Eyed Susan's. My hubbins did the actual labor that is way to heavy for me. <br />
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Front door from a toddler's perspective. Squats are strengthening, as long as you don't fall on your keester. I am working on the balance too. That is a challenge with Menier's disease in both ears. <br />
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RANDOM---Walked in the house and shot a quick pick of this. I painted it. What do you think should I try and develop some painting skills? Other than houses and sheds?<br />
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There she is Miss Merciful Minerva. in all her hound dog glory. She is drying off from her swim in the lake. I kinda worry about it because it;s full of turtles and snakes but I guess they are more afraid of her. The ducks are definitely afraid. I actually love her tenacious spirit. She makes my hubbins and my granddaughter mad. I like her. If she digs up my pots of flowers I will be mad. She better not!<br />
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These are the tomato seedlings I need to get into the ground in a big ASAP hurry. Why does the rototiller not start? It's a Mantis don't fall for the ads it's always been a pain in the neck and it is NOT EASY to use.Jumps off the top of the ground and it's a mutha to hold onto! They show old people walking with it in potting soil. I fell for it. Hopefully you are much smarter than me.<br />
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Can you tell I am sittin here? I keep shooting thses pics from my chair but it's that spring fever thing. I can't help it I have a very bad case. If there is a cure I don't want it. How about you? Are you outside yet? Hopefully no one has snow! By the time yawl shed your jackets and sweaters I will be neck deep in sweat, or glistening. You still here? Good night nurse put your computer away and get outside!!!Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-30463893895241315572014-05-06T11:36:00.001-07:002014-05-06T11:36:34.630-07:00Flat Stanley or in my case Flat Maya--Vacation Adventures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just a few weeks before I left for Florida my second grade granddaughter mailed me this little paper doll she made at school. It came with instructions about a little boy named Stanley who got flattened. At first his family was upset but when they realized that Flat Stanley could travel in envelopes he set off to see the world. So this particular one is Flat Maya. Mays drew it to look just like her and she hoped I would have a good time with her. <br />
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My trip was after the 2 week deadline for the class. But being the homeschooling Nannie that I am I thought that surely the teachers still do "show and tell".It is second grade after all. <br />
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Wirh a little tape on her back Flat Maya got to do a lot! She was held by an alligator<br />
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Hugged and astronaut.<br />
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Went for a ride to go surfing at the beach in a cute car. <br />
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Maybe this beach or perhaps where this weird mermaid was perched, or octopus or whatever it is!<br />
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Flat Maya rode the ferry to Fernandina Beach.<br />
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These are all the cars on the ferry. Nannie had to get out of the car not to get sea sick. Nannie and boats do not mix.<br />
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Out of all the pictures Nannie took she thinks this pelican is the best shot.<br />
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Flat Maya learned about whales.<br />
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She saw cute things for sale.<br />
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Nannie had a truck just like this when she was in her twenties, those were the days when you could pay $200.00 for a truck. <br />
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Wow guess who Flat Maya got to get her picture taken with? Captain Jack Sparrow!!!! <br />
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Some people decorated their bikes.<br />
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Nannie did not send this picture to Flat Maya. Nannie laughed at this and then realized that the message is about breast cancer awareness. For a home school Granny what do you expect?<br />
Nannie put real pictures in a folder and added maps and brochures and packed it all up for the real little second grade granddaughter to enjoy. It added a little bit of whimsical fun to the Florida trip. At the visitor center the people there said that many flat children come in with their parents and grandparents. The day before they were visited by Flat Lola. What about you have you heard of Flat paper children traveling in the mail?<br />
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<br />Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-74239174272904529662014-04-28T15:19:00.003-07:002014-04-28T15:19:56.166-07:00Beautiful Beaches<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is nothing quite as calming as walking in sand. I don't know why it just is.<br />
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I don't know this child but he was so happy on his board had to take a little picture of him. <br />
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Isn't it lovely? Perfect day there was a breeze and it wasn't too hot mid eighties. Sigh....<br />
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ADORABLE beach house just filled our eyes with beautiful sights.<br />
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Love the cape cod and craftsman styles the best.<br />
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Even the grass in the dunes made me happy!<br />
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What a glorious day!<br />
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I will lift up mine eyes to the hills! and Praise my God for His handiwork.<br />
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ok silly yes but cruiser bikes mean all things beachy to me, so very Santa Cruz. <br />
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GORGEOUS I'd like to stay a week yes please.<br />
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Great place for Italian eats, they specialize in pizza I had eggplant Parmesan it was good. <br />
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Just too cute another beachy little place.<br />
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A lot of these I just snapped while driving by. <br />
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Such a cute window display.<br />
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Part of a shopping area only around beaches are there street gardens....love it!<br />
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More bikes! Cute signs can you tell that I liked EVERYTHING?<br />
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Went back for a better shot of the pond. Squatting is a better angle but I have to work myself up to the idea.<br />
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Cuteness overload. I would have liked one of those shell hanging thingies but not for $25.<br />
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and to leave with you a bit of beach wisdom. Enjoy.Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-80318739908437546992014-04-27T10:51:00.002-07:002014-04-27T10:51:24.989-07:00Coming Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been gone for two that is 2 weeks and I came home to flowers! Is that all I had to do? Just leave for awhile?<br />
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Everything changed a lot. Spring here is like that. One day it's bare and a few weeks of sun and rain and wowzas you have a garden again.<br />
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My house looked gigantic. It looked like home too.....sigh.<br />
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The irises are blooming. They are a bit droopy this morning because we had a thunder storm last night. <br />I know that from the severe weather alert warning on my cell phone that happened last night while I was in a coma. Driving 12 hours will guarantee you a good nights sleep. I didn't even get up once to go to the bathroom. My bed felt great. I slept on a temperpedic in Florida not shabby at all but there is nothing like your own bed.<br />
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Hi dogs, good morning. I brought them back home made dog biscuits from a farmers market in Atlantic Beach. As soon as Axel saw me he started beggin for a cookie. They know I<br /> am a sucker for a cookie. "Cookie cookie for youuuuuu". Whoofda.<br />
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A little worse for the wear. It is also too sunny right now so my pictures are not as colorful as they can be with softer light.<br />
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Full bloom.<br />
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Tomato in a pot and it has little maters on it. I just planted that puppy 2 weeks ago.<br />
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Ummmmmm be it ever so humble there is no place like home.<br />
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Dark purple cherry tomato seedlings from heirloom seeds.<br />
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A few herbs that got happy while I was gone. I could however get very used to Florida!<br />
Talk about some insanely beautiful places!!!!!! So here is a little taste of what is to come.<br />
Everyone has been so tired of winter so here is a little summer fun for you. There is nothing quite like the beach and sand dunes, to lift ones spirits.<br />
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The scenery was enough for me to really get some bliss going on. Enjoy.Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-24122475143128296742014-04-23T14:55:00.001-07:002014-04-23T14:55:24.559-07:00Technological LimitationsI left my HDMI cord in Mississippi. I bought a 16G chip and have been shooting pics like a photo nut on triple shots of espresso. Camera out the car window, camera on the ground shooting up, camera held high over head, camera pointing straight up to the sky. Click click click set on shoot fast action, just going for broke. Light this way, light that way, morning light, evening light, I have the fever.<br />
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I've been so busy this last year. To busy to blog, to busy to snap pictures and this trip; even though prompted by sorrow, has been just the ticket to get my creative side awake. It's sad to me that mama had to die, and Susie had to lie in bed and weep because she had taken care of her for 12 years. When you are a caregiver it consumes your life and your world becomes small and often overwhelming. But God works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Mama's death made me take time for Susie and in doing that my own heart is getting rejuvenated. It's like this, "the cook always eats".<br />
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We have been riding around and laughing. We went to the beach today and walked on the sand. I would have stayed out there until I got a 3rd degree burn but we made it quick. Susie has photo sensitivity and can't be out long. I was wearing my slimming suit and a wrap. We were the only "white" people out there among the Florida tanned. Their was a young couple and she looked 9 months pregnant, tan as a little brown berry and sunning her baby belly, adorable!!! Made me want to be a midwife. I want a job. It would be just awesome to live in a little coastal beach town again. My daughter and I could run a great little gift shop she has the magic for that. The air smells so good and the breezes are heavenly, it's hot but no mosquitoes.<br />
I may design a head to toe mosquito net suit for myself, those things may steal my sanity yet; it's CLOSE! Just the thought of those blood suckers makes me want to run screaming. You see? It's time for mama to move and bring everyone along to a nice new place with breezes and fun things to do. Because southern summers are going to make me a nut case, a certifiable nut case and I don't want to experience shock treatments. <br />
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I have so many stories to tell you and pictures to share but it all has to wait till I go back to my land locked southern home. That is quite all right it is nice to have something to look forward to. What are you looking forward to, anything wonderful? Any breezes blowing your way?Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-64007118589912341142014-04-21T09:28:00.000-07:002014-04-21T09:28:17.484-07:00 Morning Reflections of GoodnessAnother morning in Florida. I woke up first and did something I rarely take the time to do. I went into my picture files and watched slideshows. It was so enjoyable, it reminded me of my grandmother rereading her treasured saved cards from friends; which I am also guilty of sentiment can be genetic.<br />
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Lots of my files are from our trip to Texas last year. When my computer crashed I lost a lot of files. Susie and I went over to San Marcos day before yesterday and I LEFT MY CAMERA AT THE HOUSE---WAILING and wringing hands over all the fabulous missed shots of exquisite sights. We will remedy that this week. I won't be leaving my camera behind again.<br />
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Until then some favorite pics from the past. <br />
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It's been a year since my niece married and this little darling girl was so adorable in the wedding. My niece has known and loved her from infancy so she was excited about the wedding. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A tender moment between Pa and his girl. Weddings last into the evening and we were all feeling the love. Last year we were all together in Texas for Easter and for some ranching fun.<br />
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Love me some sissy-in-law, always wanted a sister and don't give a hoot if it's an in-law she is all mine. Talk about fun, and charming, and knowledgeable. <br />
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Like how to just kick back and enjoy the moment anywhere! Pure joy she is a Marlboro woman, pure country and laughter.<br />
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How my brother got her is pure mystery. I hope he blesses the Lord every day of his married life for finding this woman. She brings him nothing but goodness and blessing. You know how we are we can ignore the good and focus on minor irritations and forget the blessings our mates bring to us.<br />
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My hunny is in love with this porch. The view is incredible.<br />
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1000 acres of just sky and land. Being there makes me sing at the top of my lungs. Being in wide open empty spaces like this brings joy to my soul in an unspeakable way, no words; just loud happy singing. Praises to the creator of this amazing land, and requests for rain as the drought is serious.<br />
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This is my happy place on the ranch. I would like to live here when I am a little old widow lady. I'll need to learn to shoot rattlers and rats but still it's so cute I think that is a small price to pay.<br />
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and the beauty of life, God's incredible creatures and the sweetness of a baby looking for some ninny.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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it was a feast of the best type, no caloric intake just pure soul food.<br />
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Friends, family, horses, dogs, fun, laughter, songs, and sweetness. My first introduction to a black cur hound dog.<br />
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OR they can come south and visit us we have country lands too. I wish we could share some rain. We have so much and they are so dry. It makes me think. We have so much of life and love, food, homes, clothing, joy; in our gratitude for all these gifts do we spill over into those who are dry? That is my prayer that living waters would so fill me that I cannot help but spill joy and hope into others. Like singing in the wide open spaces. Sharing the hope that lies within me. We don't need to share drop by drippy drop but like fire hoses of gushing waters. We are green trees planted by waters full and lush and able to stand.<br />
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Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul. Psalm 143<br /><br />
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Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-29955984280453095662014-04-19T09:23:00.000-07:002014-04-19T09:28:01.500-07:00ResurrectionsDo you ever stop and take an inventory of what you have been doing with your life? We get so busy with routines and technology all the stuff that sucks up our time and steals our lives. It helps to just stop, to think, to take a few days to look at where our time goes because we only have one life here and good stewardship requires that we do not waste it.<br />
I have been thinking a lot about stewardship. I need to get my life in better order, keep my checking account straight, control my spending control my eating; share with the poor, feed the starving. It's important because why do I assume that I'll always be free and fed and have a few bucks to spend? We take that for-granted.<br />
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It's the week we reflect on the passion of Jesus Christ his death, burial, and resurrection. I am praying for resurrection power in my life and in the life of my friends and family. Jesus didn't come to leave us in chains. We wrestle with a lot of different kinds of bondage, unforgiveness, inferiority, guilt, greed, malice, coveting, depression, anger, lust; we get stuck in our past, we lose today because we are so busy tightening the chains like Marley and Scrooge forging heavy steal links that can drag us to hell. It's all so stupid. I get why humans are metaphorically referred to as sheep in the Bible, because sheep are really stupid animals. They really need help. Without a shepherd sheep just get picked off and killed. They die easy, they die of fright. They will follow each other around right off cliffs if they happen to be in a stampede of fear, or they will die of thirst if they can't find still water because they are afraid to drink out of water that moves or splashes. We are sheep. We don't get to even be dogs who are intelligent and capable, loyal and lovely; it seems so unfair. I don't want to be a sheep but everything I do points to it. The only way I can steer clear of trouble is by following my sweet shepherd. It is so easy to get side tracked and follow other sheep around! It is so easy to fall into stupid ruts.<br />
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This week I am away from home. I am visiting my bff and we are consoling each other because two months ago mama went to heaven. We know where she is but it's sad that she is not here only because we love her. We wouldn't bring her away from Jesus for two seconds but it's so strange how her presence permeates this place. I keep thinking I'll hear her call my name or turn the corner and see her smiling in the bed with her little hat on.<br />
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So funny and precious this lady had more personality than you can imagine she was a riot. We told her our pain pills would sell on the street for $20 a pill and she said ,"I'll drive." Pretty funny and of course we didn't but it isn't your typical old lady response, because she wasn't typical not in any way.<br />
Grief is a tough valley to travel through and my friend has been having a rough trip.<br />
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Recently I packed up little Bob and sent him home to his family because it's time.<br />
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He just turned 90 yesterday and he needs more now than his neighbors can provide. People get more like babies as they age they need mama's again. They need someone to care for them, feed them, tell them what to do and hold their hands when they cross the street. They get afraid when their mama's aren't there and they need help when they take a bath or go to the bathroom. They get so precious and little again. The very old and needy pull my heart right out of my chest, I am compelled to mother them. My little friend Bob is getting where he needs a mama round the clock now and I have a family, a husband. It was time for him to go to his family and be cared for by them. So we packed up everything he needed in two suitcases and put him on a plane which is a story in itself. I told the attendants he is deaf and he can't hear you. She said, " he's fine he knows what I said". So I demonstrated that I know what I am talking about because Bob just smiles so cute at everything and agrees with whatever is going on. I asked him, " Are you flying to China"? He smiled ,"YES! fine let's go". The SWA lady cracked up and admitted that she better use the tablet and large pen he was carrying to communicate with him. I got an escort pass to take him to the right gate to make sure he didn't go to China. I'll miss him my little baby papa.<br />
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I rested one day and got in the car and drove 620 miles to the valley of grief. My girlfriend has been crying for 2 months and stress starving. I did the same thing when my mom was sick and died. I weighed 103 pounds when I came home knowing I wouldn't see her again HERE. We have been having a relaxing time, watching movies, reading blogs, drinking tea, and talking until the wee hours of the morning.<br />
I told her I would come and she could boss be around to her hearts delight. She loves to fix me up, tell me what to wear and how to do my hair. "I have to admit it's been a big improvement. She really ought to make people over it's a gift and it's her art. I am so stubborn it takes a lot for me to admit that I don't know everything; one of the things I have been praying for---to become an ex-knowitall. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up.<br />
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Here we are and this has been rich time with thought, reading good writing, reminiscing and delighting in life. I feel a spark kindling in my heart that I want to use life well and richly. To leave behind the time wasters, like Facebook and TV. To connect in meaningful ways and develop the art of living well. It truly is Resurrection weekend. Tomorrow we are going to go to church and worship and pray. My prayer is for hope to be renewed and for comfort for my friend. I am so very thankful for the shepherd of my soul. I am so very thankful for this life.<br />
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I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; the life which I now live in the flesh I live by FAITH in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Gal. 2 :20.<br />
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We love because He first loved us.<br />
<br />Karen Deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892103639142471595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559227461484344655.post-64320853196245540202014-01-03T19:30:00.001-08:002014-01-03T19:30:04.411-08:00Happy Holiday had by all<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We decided to celebrate this year with family and feasting. Feast we did. I pulled out all my goodies to set the table pretty and cooked it up BIG. Turkey, and dressing, gravy, green bean casserole from scratch with portabella mushrooms and white sauce, sweet potato casserole and a gelatin salad mold that I totally forgot to serve. I made fresh cranberry salsa, fresh cranberry relish, and clam dip. We had about 6 dozen cookies and a pumkin pie that nobody wanted. We were too FULL. <br />
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The Midge in blissed out anticipation of holiday fun, it did not dampen her spirits that we didn't put gifts under the tree. We placed all the childhood Christmas books under the tree for reading and walking down memory lane.<br />
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The cookies were endless. These are snowballs. I made Danish butter cookies, thumbprints with raspberry jam, bourbon balls, and snowballs. I used up 4 pounds of butter.<br />
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This is sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top and the huge white bowl behind me was full of clam dip. I quadrupled it.</div>
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some girlfriends couldn't do it and they gave me presents.</div>
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This is a little painting from my good friend who went to Pennsylvania and visited in Amish country. I teared up because I just love it.<br />
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Gorgeous measuring spoons from another girlfriend. At the top of each spoon there is a little bird each spoon has a different bird.<br />
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AND YET ANOTHER girlfriend sent these "cray cray adorbs," Franciscan Tiempo Lime Green dinner ware that goes so perfectly with the Franciscan apple dishes from my grandmother. She started something. I have always wanted to have solid color dinner ware and get my OWN dishes. Guess what I'm going to be looking for deals on?<br />
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Do we look like brother and sister? Ya think? Christmas morning horsing around.<br />
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Come here FATBOY ya wanta wrestle? Somethings never change, at least not me :) Actually I am showing him that his salami is authentic.<br />
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I gave him food. What do you give somebody that doesn't need anything? Delicious food.<br />
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My hunny and he just gets sweeter and sweeter.<br />
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This is Bob my little neighbor that I adopted. I love grandpas. He is 89 and deaf. We get along great. All his family lives out of state so he ate with us.<br />
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Feelin the love.<br />
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and more love<br />
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and they are so full of love they are getting silly and ridiculous. <br />
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But not Bob he will take all you will give him.<br />
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just beautiful.<br />
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an awesome picture of Kayla she came for 2 weeks of break from college. <br />
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We had play days with the puppy! THIS is Mercy's baby boy who is the same size as her at 6 months and he is a mess. What a boy super sweet happy pup. I love it that two of my neighbors adopted pups and we can see them. Mercy loves to play with her babies and they love her.<br />
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She is such a different dog now so beautiful, he is sayin, "hey wait up ma!!"<br />
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Hound dawg nose!<br />
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After feasting we had to make some veggie soup because how much rich food can people eat? <br />
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I had two piles of bananas to make banana pudding with and they over ripened because with all those cookies the pudding got axed. I couldn't even look at more sweets. But Kayla had neighborhood kids over to make gourd art. I gave each of them a loaf of hot banana bread and they sat down and copied the recipe. Homeschooling at it's finest. I was so happy with my home full of people.<br />
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Learning what "cream," means and asking questions about the recipe. Told them to save some black bananas and we will make it together. Sweet kids in our neighborhood.<br />
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And the craft/laundry room is in full swing with dogs, and kids and painting!!!<br />
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My husband and I kept marveling at how happy we were over this Christmas. I can't say it was for sure avoiding the consumerism, but I think that was a big part of it. We did give our grandkids a few things they need like coffee, deodorant, toothbrushes; things college kids would like to save money on. We really celebrated life, people, and the birth of our Savior. it was a beautiful time. I was so relaxed. I just watched the shopping frenzy from a mental distance and told myself how many days until it would be over. The result of that decision was so peaceful. Our family was relieved not to have to buy us gifts. We were relieved not to have to buy a really LARGE amount of people even a small gift. It was great. Next year I am going to plan a more reasonable feast. Four pounds of butter is excessive even for the Danish. I am looking forward to the future holidays and how I can find even more ways to take the consumerism out, and put the joy back in. It was so worth it. Jesus is worth it all.<br />
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