This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 31 - Celebrate!
Well, this is it. The last day of the month long blog challenge and the last day of 2013. What do I want to celebrate? That I posted all month long (only missing 2 days). I stuck to my goal and while I missed 2 days, I think it is okay. I followed through on my plan and completed the challenge. I can't tell you how important that is to me.
I'd like to thank the wonderful participants in this challenge. It was nice to meet some new people. And a huge thanks to Jamie and Shannon who created this little challenge and were able to keep it going despite losing their internet connection during an ice storm.
This has been fun and it has made me remember why I liked blogging. So, bring on 2014. There is a lot I want to accomplish in this coming year and I hope to be able to get through it with the fun and patience that I did this blog challenge.
Here is to a wonderfully magical, creative, inspiring, fun filled 2014!!
blessings
~*~
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30 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 30
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 30 - Recipes
Today we are asked to share on of our favorite recipes. I'm going to share one that I only have once a year (at Christmas). It isn't my recipe so I'll just share a link.
I saw this on an episode of Tyler's Ultimate several years ago and it looked so good that we ended up trying it for Christmas one year instead of having our usual Turkey and Ham. It is soooo delicious!
Horseradish and Garlic Prime Rib
(we don't use the wild mushroom part of the recipe. we have a different mushroom recipe we use.)
Okay, now I'm hungry. ;-)
blessings
~*~
Day 30 - Recipes
Today we are asked to share on of our favorite recipes. I'm going to share one that I only have once a year (at Christmas). It isn't my recipe so I'll just share a link.
I saw this on an episode of Tyler's Ultimate several years ago and it looked so good that we ended up trying it for Christmas one year instead of having our usual Turkey and Ham. It is soooo delicious!
Horseradish and Garlic Prime Rib
(we don't use the wild mushroom part of the recipe. we have a different mushroom recipe we use.)
Okay, now I'm hungry. ;-)
blessings
~*~
29 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 29
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 29 - Sunday Selfie - Future You
Now that we've shared our wee little selves and ourselves at the beginning of this month we are asked to share who we will become.
This is a hard one. How to share a selfie of who I hope/want to be in the future. Well, I guess I could photoshop an image of myself, but that just didn't seem right.
(source unknown)
I hope to be a full fledged artist one day.
(source unknown)
And I hope to live in a country home, where I can relax and experience nature instead of traffic and noisey (nosey) neighbors.
Do you have an idea of who/what you want to be in the future?
blessings
~*~
Day 29 - Sunday Selfie - Future You
Now that we've shared our wee little selves and ourselves at the beginning of this month we are asked to share who we will become.
This is a hard one. How to share a selfie of who I hope/want to be in the future. Well, I guess I could photoshop an image of myself, but that just didn't seem right.
I hope to be a full fledged artist one day.
And I hope to live in a country home, where I can relax and experience nature instead of traffic and noisey (nosey) neighbors.
Do you have an idea of who/what you want to be in the future?
blessings
~*~
28 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 28
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 28 - One Sentence Saturday - Word for 2014
I think I've finally settled on my word for 2014 - health: the state of being free from illness or injury.
Yes, please.
blessings
~*~
Day 28 - One Sentence Saturday - Word for 2014
I think I've finally settled on my word for 2014 - health: the state of being free from illness or injury.
Yes, please.
blessings
~*~
27 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 27
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 27 - Final Friday
It's the last Friday of 2013 and Jamie and Shannon have asked us to answer a couple of questions.
1. What will you remember about 2013?
Honestly, I don't know. I suppose I'll remember it as a year filled with illness. But that is the same as the last several years so it doesn't really stand out. Or maybe I'll remember it for making the decision to put the cottage up for sale - the year my health broke me.
2. What are you ready to leave behind?
I would very much like to leave behind my ill health. I wish it was that easy.
3. What is something you learned in 2013?
I learned that there is a limit to what a body can take.
4. What would you like to celebrate about this past year?
That I survived it.
I wish I could have had more cheerful answers. I spent all day thinking about these questions in an effort to find something good to share. Oh well.
Here is to a better year in 2014.
blessings
~*~
Day 27 - Final Friday
It's the last Friday of 2013 and Jamie and Shannon have asked us to answer a couple of questions.
1. What will you remember about 2013?
Honestly, I don't know. I suppose I'll remember it as a year filled with illness. But that is the same as the last several years so it doesn't really stand out. Or maybe I'll remember it for making the decision to put the cottage up for sale - the year my health broke me.
2. What are you ready to leave behind?
I would very much like to leave behind my ill health. I wish it was that easy.
3. What is something you learned in 2013?
I learned that there is a limit to what a body can take.
4. What would you like to celebrate about this past year?
That I survived it.
I wish I could have had more cheerful answers. I spent all day thinking about these questions in an effort to find something good to share. Oh well.
Here is to a better year in 2014.
blessings
~*~
26 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 26
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 26 - 10 things in my fridge
I would have taken a picture - but my fridge really needs a good cleaning. ;-)
Instead, I have a list:
1 half gallon of whole organic milk
1 quart of apple cider
1/2 hunk of parmesean
2 dozen organic free range local raised eggs
1 5 lb bag of organic carrots (for juicing)
1 lb of ground beef
1 package of bacon
4 20oz pepsi bottles
1 small jar of homemade peach jam
2 anjou pears
What's in your fridge?
blessings
~*~
Day 26 - 10 things in my fridge
I would have taken a picture - but my fridge really needs a good cleaning. ;-)
Instead, I have a list:
1 half gallon of whole organic milk
1 quart of apple cider
1/2 hunk of parmesean
2 dozen organic free range local raised eggs
1 5 lb bag of organic carrots (for juicing)
1 lb of ground beef
1 package of bacon
4 20oz pepsi bottles
1 small jar of homemade peach jam
2 anjou pears
What's in your fridge?
blessings
~*~
25 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 25
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 25 - Holiday Traditions
Today we are asked to share a holiday tradition. Growing up we had quite a few traditions. Every year we would celebrate Christmas Eve with my Dad's family. We would all gather at my Grandparents for a meal and gift exchange. After the festivities my Mum, Dad and I would get in the car and drive four hours to my Mum's family home. I would lie in the back curled up in my yellow Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy sleeping bag and we would listen to the radio play holiday music and Santa progress updates from NORAD.
These days it's really just my Mum, brother, sister-in-law and I. We have taken to having our visit on Christmas Eve with yummy h'orderves and gift exchanges. This year we had our dinner on Christmas Eve instead of snacks.
I wish you all a wonderful day!
blessings
~*~
Day 25 - Holiday Traditions
Today we are asked to share a holiday tradition. Growing up we had quite a few traditions. Every year we would celebrate Christmas Eve with my Dad's family. We would all gather at my Grandparents for a meal and gift exchange. After the festivities my Mum, Dad and I would get in the car and drive four hours to my Mum's family home. I would lie in the back curled up in my yellow Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy sleeping bag and we would listen to the radio play holiday music and Santa progress updates from NORAD.
These days it's really just my Mum, brother, sister-in-law and I. We have taken to having our visit on Christmas Eve with yummy h'orderves and gift exchanges. This year we had our dinner on Christmas Eve instead of snacks.
I wish you all a wonderful day!
blessings
~*~
24 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 24
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 24 - Holiday Disasters
Today we're asked to share a holiday disaster. I've been thinking about it all day and I really couldn't think of anything, until I started to type this post. Then I remembered something that happened not once, but twice. And while it isn't really what I would call a disaster, it was quite disappointing to me.
I'm a very particular cook when it comes to feeding others. I am very careful to keep everything clean and to go through recipes piece by piece. Several years ago, I volunteered to make the dessert for holiday dinner. I had found a cookbook that had old fashioned pioneer recipes and wanted to try a recipe for a Snowy Mountain Cake.
It was the first time I'd made a cake from scratch, all other cakes I'd made had used a box mix as a starter. I remember being so very proud of getting the cake to rise like it should and having the finished product be so pretty. (This was before photos were taken of everything!) We went to dinner and I presented the cake for dessert. Everyone had a slice and then we started to eat. I think it was my Dad who spit his bite out first, but we all ended up gagging and spitting out our bites. I'd left out the baking powder. The cake tasted horrible and our lab who would eat soap, aluminum foil and cat poo (in addition to everything else she could get her mouth around) wouldn't eat it.
I think I cried when I got home. I was so upset and embarrassed!
After crying it out, I decided I would try again. I wasn't going to let one mistake keep me from making this cake. Do the next holiday I made another one. Guess what? This time I left out the baking soda. Yes, another failure! I couldn't even wait until I got home to cry about that one.
Sadly, I have never attempted this cake again. I have wanted to because I don't want to have failed completely. Maybe some day I'll make it and be able to get it right. :-)
Happy Holidays!
Hope Santa brings you something good!
blessings
~*~
Day 24 - Holiday Disasters
Today we're asked to share a holiday disaster. I've been thinking about it all day and I really couldn't think of anything, until I started to type this post. Then I remembered something that happened not once, but twice. And while it isn't really what I would call a disaster, it was quite disappointing to me.
I'm a very particular cook when it comes to feeding others. I am very careful to keep everything clean and to go through recipes piece by piece. Several years ago, I volunteered to make the dessert for holiday dinner. I had found a cookbook that had old fashioned pioneer recipes and wanted to try a recipe for a Snowy Mountain Cake.
It was the first time I'd made a cake from scratch, all other cakes I'd made had used a box mix as a starter. I remember being so very proud of getting the cake to rise like it should and having the finished product be so pretty. (This was before photos were taken of everything!) We went to dinner and I presented the cake for dessert. Everyone had a slice and then we started to eat. I think it was my Dad who spit his bite out first, but we all ended up gagging and spitting out our bites. I'd left out the baking powder. The cake tasted horrible and our lab who would eat soap, aluminum foil and cat poo (in addition to everything else she could get her mouth around) wouldn't eat it.
I think I cried when I got home. I was so upset and embarrassed!
After crying it out, I decided I would try again. I wasn't going to let one mistake keep me from making this cake. Do the next holiday I made another one. Guess what? This time I left out the baking soda. Yes, another failure! I couldn't even wait until I got home to cry about that one.
Sadly, I have never attempted this cake again. I have wanted to because I don't want to have failed completely. Maybe some day I'll make it and be able to get it right. :-)
Happy Holidays!
Hope Santa brings you something good!
blessings
~*~
23 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 23
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 23 - Books we love
I'm all about books. Having a chronic illness keeps me from being very active and so most of my time is spent reading. I love movies but I have to be careful cause of the noise. I can't take loud sounds, so reading lets me get into these wonderful stories which takes me out of my pain a bit.
I read mostly fiction. Sometimes I can get into a non-fiction but rarely. It's hard to pick out what books to share. I read fantasy, historical romance and lately contemporary romance. I like mysteries and thrillers.
Some of my favorite authors are Anne Rice, Nora Roberts, Sarah Addison Allen, Julie Garwood, Diana Gabaldon, Monica McCarty, JK Rowling. I like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver.
Really, there are just too many to name. I've started keeping a list of the books that I read and I also have a list of the books that I want to read. It is overwhelming sometimes, how many books out there need to be read by me. :-)
I'm not feeling well today so this isn't a very good post. Hopefully tomorrow's will be better.
blessings
~*~
Day 23 - Books we love
I'm all about books. Having a chronic illness keeps me from being very active and so most of my time is spent reading. I love movies but I have to be careful cause of the noise. I can't take loud sounds, so reading lets me get into these wonderful stories which takes me out of my pain a bit.
I read mostly fiction. Sometimes I can get into a non-fiction but rarely. It's hard to pick out what books to share. I read fantasy, historical romance and lately contemporary romance. I like mysteries and thrillers.
Some of my favorite authors are Anne Rice, Nora Roberts, Sarah Addison Allen, Julie Garwood, Diana Gabaldon, Monica McCarty, JK Rowling. I like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver.
Really, there are just too many to name. I've started keeping a list of the books that I read and I also have a list of the books that I want to read. It is overwhelming sometimes, how many books out there need to be read by me. :-)
I'm not feeling well today so this isn't a very good post. Hopefully tomorrow's will be better.
blessings
~*~
22 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 22
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 22 - Wee Me
Little old me back in the day...
I think I was three when this photo was taken. It's my favorite photo of me as a child. :-)
blessings
~*~
Day 22 - Wee Me
Little old me back in the day...
blessings
~*~
21 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 21
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 21 - Favorite Quote
I have two:
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all." ~ Emily Dickinson
Happy Winter Solstice, my friends!
blessings
~*~
Day 21 - Favorite Quote
I have two:
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." ~ Joseph Campbell
Happy Winter Solstice, my friends!
blessings
~*~
20 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 20
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 20 - Firsts
Today is a list of firsts...
My first job - ice cream scooper at Baskin-Robbins. I hated the uniform - but ice cream.. oh my!
The first thing to my left - my cat, Lyli.
Something I remember about First Grade - my teacher's name, Mrs. Mahaffey.
The first book I ever read - I have no idea, I can barely remember what I read yesterday much less forty years ago, but I know one of my favorites as a child was The Giving Tree.
The first thing I do in the morning - check my blood sugar.
The first food I knew I didn't like - again...stretching my memory - greens?
My first memory - my very elderly friend that used to tell me stories when I was alone.
Sheesh, that was hard. I used to have a good memory but my illness has taken its toll.
Happy Winter Solstice eve!
blessings
~*~
Day 20 - Firsts
Today is a list of firsts...
My first job - ice cream scooper at Baskin-Robbins. I hated the uniform - but ice cream.. oh my!
The first thing to my left - my cat, Lyli.
Something I remember about First Grade - my teacher's name, Mrs. Mahaffey.
The first book I ever read - I have no idea, I can barely remember what I read yesterday much less forty years ago, but I know one of my favorites as a child was The Giving Tree.
The first thing I do in the morning - check my blood sugar.
The first food I knew I didn't like - again...stretching my memory - greens?
My first memory - my very elderly friend that used to tell me stories when I was alone.
Sheesh, that was hard. I used to have a good memory but my illness has taken its toll.
Happy Winter Solstice eve!
blessings
~*~
19 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 19
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 19 - 10 Things In My Bag
What's 10 things are in my bag?
This is just one of my many bags. I admit it, I'm a bag whore. Some people go for shoes, some for clothes. But me, I'm a book and bag whore. This is my current favorite bag. I'm always looking for just the right one. I still haven't found it, but I'll keep looking. :-)
These 10 items are always in my bag.
My new wristlet (I got it in the mountains in November and love having a small little thing to carry into stores with me when I shop instead of my large purse.)
Behind that is my fabric pencil case. Inside it I keep those thin sticky notes for marking pages, lots of pens and pencils, lip gloss, eyeliner and glucose tabs.
The black bag on top of the stack is my glucose meter. I have to take it with me everywhere.
Below that is my tarot cards in a pink fairie bag.
A note pad for taking notes/making lists.
My new 2014 weekly planner.*
2013 weekly planner.*
Sketch pad.
In front we have a little bottle of hand sanitizer cause you just never know.
And last but not least a little compact mirror.
There you have it. 10 things in my bag.
What do you carry with you that you can't live without?
blessings
~*~
*No, I don't keep two planners in my bag all year, but this time of year I have to keep the old one so I know where I'm going and the new one for planning appointments for the coming year. :-)
Day 19 - 10 Things In My Bag
What's 10 things are in my bag?
My new wristlet (I got it in the mountains in November and love having a small little thing to carry into stores with me when I shop instead of my large purse.)
Behind that is my fabric pencil case. Inside it I keep those thin sticky notes for marking pages, lots of pens and pencils, lip gloss, eyeliner and glucose tabs.
The black bag on top of the stack is my glucose meter. I have to take it with me everywhere.
Below that is my tarot cards in a pink fairie bag.
A note pad for taking notes/making lists.
My new 2014 weekly planner.*
2013 weekly planner.*
Sketch pad.
In front we have a little bottle of hand sanitizer cause you just never know.
And last but not least a little compact mirror.
There you have it. 10 things in my bag.
What do you carry with you that you can't live without?
blessings
~*~
*No, I don't keep two planners in my bag all year, but this time of year I have to keep the old one so I know where I'm going and the new one for planning appointments for the coming year. :-)
18 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 18
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 18 - Wishing
Today we are prompted to make a wish. And to support each others wish with the following words: "As you wish for yourself, so I wish for you also."
I wish all the time. I think I make wishes every day, several times a day. A lot of time I don't even realize I'm doing it. It can be something small (oh I wish I hadn't had that second slice of pizza) to something big (I wish I'd win the lottery). Wishing is as natural as breathing to me. But I think I take it for granted a lot. I need to be more cautious with my wishes. After all, we must be careful what we wish for (or in my case careful what we witch for).
So today, I wish for peace. Peace in my head, peace in my home, peace in my spirit, peace in my soul, peace in the world and peace for you.
blessings
~*~
Day 18 - Wishing
Today we are prompted to make a wish. And to support each others wish with the following words: "As you wish for yourself, so I wish for you also."
I wish all the time. I think I make wishes every day, several times a day. A lot of time I don't even realize I'm doing it. It can be something small (oh I wish I hadn't had that second slice of pizza) to something big (I wish I'd win the lottery). Wishing is as natural as breathing to me. But I think I take it for granted a lot. I need to be more cautious with my wishes. After all, we must be careful what we wish for (or in my case careful what we witch for).
So today, I wish for peace. Peace in my head, peace in my home, peace in my spirit, peace in my soul, peace in the world and peace for you.
blessings
~*~
16 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 16
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 16 - Favorite Songs
Woah, boy! This is impossible. I love music. Music let's me recognize and acknowledge my feelings when I can't find my own words. I have more songs in my playlist than I could listen to in a day probably.
I like all kinds of music. Except for bluegrass, I don't know why but I don't like bluegrass.
Since I have no idea how to pick a favorite or even a few favorite songs, I'll share some that I'm listening to lately.
Some of my favorite bands/artists: Eminem, Florence & The Machine, Adele, Duran Duran, Adam & The Ants, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, John Williams Orchestra, Evanescence, Kate Bush, Marilyn Manson, Tori Amos, Fleetwood Mac, just too many to list!
So here are some of the songs that I've been listening to lately and some that I listen to a lot (in no particular order):
Maroon 5 - One More Night (love Adam!)
Rhianna - What Now (don't really like the video, but the words just really speak for me right now)
MGK - Invincible (love this)
Florence & The Machine - Heavy In Your Arms (I don't think I've heard a song by them that I don't like)
Miley Cyrus - Jolene: The Backyard Sessions (Ok - I'm not a fan of this girl. She can sing - no question, but I really think she is just gone too crazy with this whole fame thing. That said, this song is amazing.)
I'm gonna stop there, because I could seriously do this all night.
What are some of your favorite songs?
blessings
~*~
ok just one more! this is the best Grammy performance ever!!
Day 16 - Favorite Songs
Woah, boy! This is impossible. I love music. Music let's me recognize and acknowledge my feelings when I can't find my own words. I have more songs in my playlist than I could listen to in a day probably.
I like all kinds of music. Except for bluegrass, I don't know why but I don't like bluegrass.
Since I have no idea how to pick a favorite or even a few favorite songs, I'll share some that I'm listening to lately.
Some of my favorite bands/artists: Eminem, Florence & The Machine, Adele, Duran Duran, Adam & The Ants, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, John Williams Orchestra, Evanescence, Kate Bush, Marilyn Manson, Tori Amos, Fleetwood Mac, just too many to list!
So here are some of the songs that I've been listening to lately and some that I listen to a lot (in no particular order):
Maroon 5 - One More Night (love Adam!)
Rhianna - What Now (don't really like the video, but the words just really speak for me right now)
MGK - Invincible (love this)
Florence & The Machine - Heavy In Your Arms (I don't think I've heard a song by them that I don't like)
Miley Cyrus - Jolene: The Backyard Sessions (Ok - I'm not a fan of this girl. She can sing - no question, but I really think she is just gone too crazy with this whole fame thing. That said, this song is amazing.)
I'm gonna stop there, because I could seriously do this all night.
What are some of your favorite songs?
blessings
~*~
ok just one more! this is the best Grammy performance ever!!
15 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 15
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 15 - Who Do You Love?
This is Lyli aka lylibelle. She is my last remaining furbaby - saved from a rental property where the renter was going to let her dogs kill her (she was just a tiny kitten). I took her with the intention of finding her a home. Well, I did...MINE! She never left and keeps me company after all the others have passed. She turned 14 this year.
blessings
~*~
Day 15 - Who Do You Love?
blessings
~*~
14 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 14
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 14 - One Sentence Saturday - from a book
Today we are asked to share one sentence from a book. Not just any book and not just any sentence. We are to go to our bookshelf, pick the third book in from the top shelf and share the first sentence.
Easy peasy you would think, except I have six book shelves! Hard to decide which book shelf to use. I opted for the one closest to me at the time.
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
From: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
blessings
~*~
Day 14 - One Sentence Saturday - from a book
Today we are asked to share one sentence from a book. Not just any book and not just any sentence. We are to go to our bookshelf, pick the third book in from the top shelf and share the first sentence.
Easy peasy you would think, except I have six book shelves! Hard to decide which book shelf to use. I opted for the one closest to me at the time.
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
From: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
blessings
~*~
13 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 13
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 13 - Share a First
Today we are encouraged to share one of our firsts. A first car, first day of school, first job, etc. I've been thinking about this for a few hours now trying to decide what would be an interesting first to share.
For my share a first today I'm going to share my first art retreat. I wrote a little about it here after I returned home last year. But I'll share more now.
In February of 2012 I signed up for my first art retreat. I was really nervous as I'd never been on a retreat before and my "art" was minimal at best. In October of 2012 I went to the Blue Mountain Retreat Center in Knoxville, Maryland to attend the first Red Thread Retreat. Being quite a shy person, meeting new people and going to places I've never been is a bit much for me and I tend to not do it.
But I will never, ever be sorry that I went on this trip. I met so many wonderful ladies. It was so wonderful to experiment with different forms of art making.
An 8 hour drive was spent holding up the camera with one hand and just snapping pictures. It was fun to see what came out and I was surprised by how many pictures were pretty good.
Despite all the fun, we had to end the retreat a little early due to Superstorm Sandy. I couldn't head back home as I'd planned to spend a day visiting a couple of nearby towns and also had an appointment with a tattoo artist.
So I headed out looking for a place to spend the night. I ended up in a hotel in Hagerstown for three days while the storm raged through, while I watched the coverage on tv, painted my nails over and over and occasionally played on the computer.
Finally on Wednesday, October 31st, it was time to make my appointment and head home. I left the hotel with a few hours to spare. I drove to Boonesboro where I was getting my tattoo. I chose Boonesboro because I'm a fan of author Nora Roberts. It was really neat to see a town she'd written about in her books. I found the shop and still had lots of time to kill so headed off to Antietam which was just a little ways down the road. I walked around some of the battlefield, listening to the rain and the spirits that wander there. It was an interesting place to be on the day when the veil is thinnest. I could hear the sounds of rifles and cannons, the groans of the wounded. A very intense experience that was heightened by the weather. I really hope to get back there again someday and take a tour.
(Robert E. Lee statue at Antietam Battlefield.)
Anywho, off I went to my appointment and after four hours left with a permanent reminder of my experiences.
The skeleton keys represent the connection to the spirit world and for Papa Legba, the color purple in the eyes of the keys is for Maman Bridgete. The red "thread" represents the retreat and my stepping outside my comfort zone to open up to new experiences. This was my second tattoo and I have many more that I'd like to get. :-)
I hope you have enjoyed my little story of my first art retreat. It was a wonderful experience that I am so happy to have had the courage to do. I also hope to be able to experience another at some time.
blessings
~*~
Day 13 - Share a First
Today we are encouraged to share one of our firsts. A first car, first day of school, first job, etc. I've been thinking about this for a few hours now trying to decide what would be an interesting first to share.
For my share a first today I'm going to share my first art retreat. I wrote a little about it here after I returned home last year. But I'll share more now.
In February of 2012 I signed up for my first art retreat. I was really nervous as I'd never been on a retreat before and my "art" was minimal at best. In October of 2012 I went to the Blue Mountain Retreat Center in Knoxville, Maryland to attend the first Red Thread Retreat. Being quite a shy person, meeting new people and going to places I've never been is a bit much for me and I tend to not do it.
But I will never, ever be sorry that I went on this trip. I met so many wonderful ladies. It was so wonderful to experiment with different forms of art making.
An 8 hour drive was spent holding up the camera with one hand and just snapping pictures. It was fun to see what came out and I was surprised by how many pictures were pretty good.
So I headed out looking for a place to spend the night. I ended up in a hotel in Hagerstown for three days while the storm raged through, while I watched the coverage on tv, painted my nails over and over and occasionally played on the computer.
Finally on Wednesday, October 31st, it was time to make my appointment and head home. I left the hotel with a few hours to spare. I drove to Boonesboro where I was getting my tattoo. I chose Boonesboro because I'm a fan of author Nora Roberts. It was really neat to see a town she'd written about in her books. I found the shop and still had lots of time to kill so headed off to Antietam which was just a little ways down the road. I walked around some of the battlefield, listening to the rain and the spirits that wander there. It was an interesting place to be on the day when the veil is thinnest. I could hear the sounds of rifles and cannons, the groans of the wounded. A very intense experience that was heightened by the weather. I really hope to get back there again someday and take a tour.
Anywho, off I went to my appointment and after four hours left with a permanent reminder of my experiences.
I hope you have enjoyed my little story of my first art retreat. It was a wonderful experience that I am so happy to have had the courage to do. I also hope to be able to experience another at some time.
blessings
~*~
12 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 12
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 12 - 10 things I know for sure...
1 - I will always be grateful for the fur-babies i had/have.
2 - I will try very hard to never take my gifts for granted again.
3 - Gardening will always soothe me.
4 - I'll never stop believing in love and hoping that it finds me.
5 - Sometimes you just have to let it go.
6 - Each moment should be cherished.
7 - Things are rarely what they seem at first sight.
8 - Magic happens.
9 - I have to keep trying no matter how much I feel like giving up.
10 - Things can always get better.
blessings
~*~
Day 12 - 10 things I know for sure...
1 - I will always be grateful for the fur-babies i had/have.
2 - I will try very hard to never take my gifts for granted again.
3 - Gardening will always soothe me.
4 - I'll never stop believing in love and hoping that it finds me.
5 - Sometimes you just have to let it go.
6 - Each moment should be cherished.
7 - Things are rarely what they seem at first sight.
8 - Magic happens.
9 - I have to keep trying no matter how much I feel like giving up.
10 - Things can always get better.
blessings
~*~
11 December 2013
Kickin' It Old Skool - Day 11
This month I'm joining Jamie Ridler and Shannon Ridler
in their Kickin It Old Skool Blog Challenge. It's a month long
challenge that will encourage us to post every day. If you want to join
in, click here or on the button on the left side bar.
Day 11 - What makes you weepy?
This one is easy for me. Everything makes me weepy. I cry at TV shows, at movies, books, commercials, news stories (good or bad). I cry when I think of my grandparents or my baby brother that I never really new (stillborn). I cry when I think of all that I wanted to do with my life and haven't accomplished. Really, I never know when I'm going to tear up. It can be frustrating. But a lot of the crying I do nowadays is from my chronic pain. I've become very good at putting on a fake smile and acting like I'm fine. But I always come home, crawl in bed and cry for a while.
Yesterday's show and tell had me going through all my old (digital) photos in a search for something as a topic. One of the photos I came across ended up making me cry. I almost used it but decided that I needed to use something more happy. So today it seems so appropriate for the prompt to have to do with tears.
This is the last photo I took of my baby boy, Dylan. I spent that morning knowing what was coming and I just couldn't stop holding him. I took this photo (and several others) the morning he passed. It's been over 3 years since and it feels like yesterday. He was my constant companion for almost 13 years and being diabetic for more than half that my life rotated around his. I would come home on breaks and check on him, he had a special diet and required insulin shots at specific times.
He was a wild child. One of those labs that chew on everything and never really grow out of the puppy stage. Where ever I was, he had to be there too and I was always warm when he was with me because he had to be plastered to my side. I miss him so much.
Well, now you know what makes me weepy.
I'm off to find out what makes the other KIOS participants weepy. (and to get a kleenex)
So tell me, what makes you weepy?
blessings
~*~
Day 11 - What makes you weepy?
This one is easy for me. Everything makes me weepy. I cry at TV shows, at movies, books, commercials, news stories (good or bad). I cry when I think of my grandparents or my baby brother that I never really new (stillborn). I cry when I think of all that I wanted to do with my life and haven't accomplished. Really, I never know when I'm going to tear up. It can be frustrating. But a lot of the crying I do nowadays is from my chronic pain. I've become very good at putting on a fake smile and acting like I'm fine. But I always come home, crawl in bed and cry for a while.
Yesterday's show and tell had me going through all my old (digital) photos in a search for something as a topic. One of the photos I came across ended up making me cry. I almost used it but decided that I needed to use something more happy. So today it seems so appropriate for the prompt to have to do with tears.
He was a wild child. One of those labs that chew on everything and never really grow out of the puppy stage. Where ever I was, he had to be there too and I was always warm when he was with me because he had to be plastered to my side. I miss him so much.
Well, now you know what makes me weepy.
I'm off to find out what makes the other KIOS participants weepy. (and to get a kleenex)
So tell me, what makes you weepy?
blessings
~*~
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