Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Sneak preview..

This second project for the summer is almost complete. 
First project was getting John's Vegetable garden ready for him to enjoy.  I should have taken his pic...he was out there yesterday in his pj's watering :)   That's my John...I won't tell you what time of day it was.  LOL
Yippee!! I found some 3 gal roses at a really good price.  Placed them this morning ... these roses grow quickly so it won't be long before there are red roses hugging the evergreens (Yews) and I so hope it is what I see in my mind's eye.  
I need to run across more of the peach ground cover roses.  I've found red ones but I want this contrasting color.  
By the time this is full grown most all the mulch will be hidden in the Summer and Fall seasons. 
Enjoy!  









Sunday, May 26, 2013

In all their glory...

 I started a project yesterday at the entrance of the drive way.  It needed some color against the large yews. Brenda suggested  using Knock Out Roses like the red ones you see in this photo.  I think it's going to be gorgeous one day.  I will add more when they go on sale but I have started it with a few Knock Outs and also added some peachy colored Drift ground cover roses to go around the edges.  It's going to look a little off for a season or two but hey! Gardening is a process.  Be Patient, Linda (and wait on sales!)
Here are some pics to give you an idea of my plan.  You can watch it grow with me. :)


The New Dawn Roses I shared the other day when not quiet in all their glory.  They are now!

Cherry Red Knock Outs
New Dawn


Friday, May 24, 2013

Art at it's best...

I have this wonderful sister, Patsy, that has started painting again. I can remember years ago wondering how she could be so artistic and I can't draw a stick man to look right.  I ask myself that same question about Kelly, Travis, Gracie...and who knows who else will blossom in this family.
Patsy, this blog is to honor you and your paintings.  I'm looking with great anticipation to many more.

Her first painting since she picked up the brush.  I'm so glad she has started this chapter in life again.

A Walk through Charleston (Sister Trip) She's going to do one for each of us. She captured many of our memories of our Charleston trip.


She's just finished this one today.  I think she called it AFTERNOON

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Yes, Yes, YES!!


What a tragically beautiful story Pastor Swindoll shares. 

 Reminding us of the powerful truth of God's faithfulness!
 I think we sometimes focus on all of our shortcomings when we could be swimming in all of His attributes and the fact that He delights in us.  (just because that's the way He is) What a concept!

July 10, 2012   

God's Faithfulness amidst Our Confusion
by Charles R. Swindoll
Elie Wiesel gives readers a tragic perspective on the horror of the holocaust. Wiesel's book, Night, will grab you and not let you go. In terse, tightly packed sentences, he describes those scenes and his own confusion as he witnessed (in his teenage years) a chapter of life we would prefer to erase.
This young Jew saw it all. Fellow Jews from his village were stripped of their possessions and loaded into cattle cars, where a third of them died before they reached their destination. He saw babies pitchforked, little children hanged, weak and emaciated men killed by fellow prisoners for a single piece of molded bread. He even saw his mother, his lovely little sister, and all his family disappear into an oven fueled with human flesh.
Wiesel's God was murdered at Birkenbau. Something dear and precious within his soul also died as all his dreams turned to dust.
Francois Mauriac, the Nobel-prizewinning French author, in writing the foreword to Wiesel's book, describes the time he first met Wiesel:
It was then that I understood what had first drawn me to the young Israeli: that look, as of a Lazarus risen from the dead, yet still a prisoner within the grim confines where he had strayed, stumbling among the shameful corpses. For him, Nietzsche's cry expressed an almost physical reality: God is dead, the God of love, of gentleness, of comfort, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, has vanished forevermore, beneath the gaze of this child, in the smoke of a human holocaust exacted by Race, the most voracious of all idols. And how many pious Jews have experienced this death. On that day, horrible even among those days of horror, when the child watched the hanging (yes) of another child, who, he tells us, had the face of a sad angel, he heard someone behind him groan: "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?"¹
Confusion. Tragic, horrible confusion. Experiences like those we've just read will do that to you.
But the vast difference between Elie Wiesel and those like Corrie ten Boom cannot be ignored. Servants like Corrie ten Boom, who endure hard consequences victoriously, testify of God's precious faithfulness, even during days of confusion.


1. Elie Wiesel, Night (New York: Avon Books, 1969), 9.
Adapted from Charles R. Swindoll, Improving Your Serve: The Art of Unselfish Living (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1981), 186--87. Copyright © 1981 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Used by permission.


 

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Hot July Day

A nice time with family yesterday.  All the cousins had fun playing in the water and all the adults had fun staying indoors or by the fans! Whew...a hot day.

Josey and Evva

Josey and Evva

Evva...where is the other sock?

Emma, Linda, Ken, Travis
Josey and Evva



Emma
John, Travis, Lacie
Travis, Evva, Lacie

Emma, Elle, Josey

Kelly

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

All Righty! Good job!!

All finished!
 A big Thank You to Green Hills Construction! Randy and the subs did a fantastic job and were so considerate and on top of every detail in a timely matter.  
Porch and carport cover...looks like bead board. We love it and it's cooler. We are going to put a couple of fans next.
New roof, gutters, window wraps...NICE!

Monday, July 2, 2012

Where you be, little Dove?

The guy finished with the carport and porch cover today.
It's looking so much better outside. We are so pleased with everything...
especially that strange big black thing
 (maybe a cloud??)
 that blew in and dropped a little rain.
 I think I started humming
 "Happy Days Are Here Again" . 

Now the bad news is that I haven't seen my little Dove at all today. 
(humming Bye, Bye Love) 
Her egg is still there??
 Well, I did all I could do. I hope she comes back. 
Hard to believe she would hang in there all throughout the installation of top and then leave the last day. 
She was there last night.
 :(
The painters back in the morning, then the windows and gutters. 
 Ta-Da! The end.
Pics another day.  Too busy with inside work today.
Hope you are staying cool and having a great day.



Sneak preview..

This second project for the summer is almost complete.  First project was getting John's Vegetable garden ready for him to enjoy.  I s...