The movie is called, “Megan Leavey.”
“The true life story of Megan Leavey, a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with a military combat dog saved many lives during her deployment in Iraq.”
It stars Kate Mara.
We watched it last night. It’s a movie well worth seeing, based on a true story. Don’t watch without a kleenex or two.
Filed under Book - Movie - TV Reviews
“Red Tree in Fall” – Paul Militaru Photography
I WISH our trees looked like this. We had a lot of rain this spring and summer compared to what we normally have followed by an entire month of August with not one drop of rain. This caused the trees, in survival mode, to shed their leaves early.
We do have a lot of leaves in the yard now, though, and I’m HOPING that they are dry enough that I can use the leaf blower to pile them up and then run them through the shredder this afternoon. It’s on 44 degrees out there now, but it’s supposed to get to high 5o’s or low 60’s this afternoon. It would be good if I could clean up the yard, making good leaf mulch for my flower planters in the process.
It seems like the yard work is neverending around here. I still need to do more weed whacking, plus prune and clean up the flower planters. I need to harvest the lettuce in the garden, too.
Since my to-do list is much longer than my energy supply, I’ll choose one thing to try to accomplish outside and see how it goes.
I hope the weather is nice where you are and that you’re planning something fun for the day.
Filed under Mother Nature, Paul Militaru Photography
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“I’m most thankful for my mom and dad… What? Am I missing somebody? Oh yeah, I guess my sister, too.” — Ella, age 8
Source: “Kids respond: What are you thankful for?” by Christina Holt
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I have two hangers together here,
And two more here –
and one on the door to my closet.
I gathered a large plastic tub full of jewelry for donation or jewelry making. I have some fine tuning yet to do, but I free up a lot of space, can actually SEE and get to the pieces I might wear. I’ll give it 6 months and then purge what I haven’t worn between now and then.
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This is me – except for her youth, beauty, and lack of clothes…
I’ve been up in our master bathroom trying to organize my jewelry. I have FOUR nice wall-mounted jewelry holders.
I brought in a purse from my art room that was filled with jewelry and turned it upside-down on the step beside the tub. I reasoned that one holder would hold ‘silver’ jewelry, one ‘gold,’ one primarily for holiday stuff, and one miscellaneous. (The quotes around silver and gold are because I mainly wear costume jewelry.) I have a few REAL pieces; but I decided long ago that the more something cost, the more nervous I was wearing it. I also had a stroke if a stone were lost, or I actually LOST the piece. I decided that the few really valuable pieces I had would mainly be put away for safe keeping. The jewelry that is in-between in value I wear, but more carefully.
I stopped in the middle of trying to add the jewelry from the purse to the holders, because the holders were getting full. I KNEW I needed to purge, putting the pieces that were still good in the donation pile. The ones that have stones missing will be put in the “if I ever get serious about trying to make jewelry’ pile.
I’m down here typing this because, though I’m making progress, I feel pretty overwhelmed. I have a lot of jewelry I really like – more than one woman should have, I suspect. (think Imelda Marcos with shoes). I’m trying to become more and more ruthless, thinking when it was I last wore something. If I haven’t worn it in a LONG time, it gets purged.
This was becoming agonizing, so I decided to take a break. I’ll gather up all my RUTHLESS motivation and go up and purge a bunch more stuff. Hopefully, at the end of it, I’ll not only be able to hang everything up, I’ll have some room left to buy more stuff!
Filed under Challenges, Changes, Organizing/DeCluttering
This is like the two jewelry holders I ordered recently from JewelryHoldersForYou on Etsy. Mine are a nice cherry wood finish.
I’m going to go up today and see what sense I can make of my completely unorganized jewelry. If I get enough accomplished, I’ll take some pics and show you.
Yesterday I didn’t feel well. I slept all day long, rousing only to eat or go to the bathroom, moving from my recliner to the couch and back again. I then slept all night long, awaking feeling much, much better!
I had called and told my Lunch Bunch friends that we wouldn’t be there today. I called them again this morning and said we WOULD! We had a good time, as always, catching up on what was going on with the three of us. We did our errands on the way home and are now in for the rest of the day.
It’s a much nicer day than we’ve had lately. We’re supposed to get to a high of 61 degrees F. and the sun is shining brightly. My spirits soared when I saw such a beautiful day. Amber did her ‘run like a mad thing’ act when we went out earlier. She LOVES the cooler weather.
So – I’m up to the master bath to start trying to bring some kind of order to my jewelry.
I hope you have something fun to do with your afternoon, too.
Filed under Challenges, Changes, Organizing/DeCluttering
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“Blue Purple Bells” – Paul Militaru Photography
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“I’m thankful for my family and Thanksgiving feasts.” — Peyton, age 5
Source: “Kids respond: What are you thankful for?” by Christina Holt
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This photo of the Greenwood Memorial Park in the center of our square was taken in 2013, but the park looks much like this today, Veterans Day 2017. The main thing that is different is a very nice custom wrought iron fence with gates that go around three sides of the perimeter of the park.
Stones like this line the park and the walkways honoring many men and women of Greenwood who served their country. It’s an awe-inspiring sight. I wanted to get one for my husband, who served in the USMC from 1965-1969. He is classified as a Vietnam veteran, though he never had to fight there. He was offshore in all the hot spots during the four years, most notably Cuba during the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam, but never had to actually be in combat. That fact makes him think that he shouldn’t be honored. I respectfully disagree.
I’m not sure if it’s volunteers or the employees of the park department who make time to put out all the flags for days like this. I think it’s wonderful, and it makes me choke up to see it each year.
I hope that the families of all the men and women who served, and are currently serving, know how much their sacrifice means to all who love our country. There is no way to ever thank you enough.
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I’m feeling puny today, so I’ll share something with you later. Hope you have a good day.
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Filed under Creativity, Embroidery/Sewing Art
“Trees in Fall 2” – Paul Militaru Photography
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“The zoo and the monkey bars… and breakfast bars.” — Bennett, age 3
Source: “Kids respond: What are you thankful for?” by Christina Holt
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When Amber and I were walking this morning, I saw a beautiful sight – everything in the yard was covered in stunning drops of water. It was completely still, so the water beaded up as if all had been waxed. I tried to get a couple of pics to give you an idea of what my world looks like right now.
Even the GRASS had droplets of water sitting on the blades!
Like a fairyland, except a bit too cool – at 42.
Filed under Arkansas, Delightful Surprises, Greenwood, Mother Nature
We ALMOST had deja vu last night while we were watching TV.
This time my husband motioned to Amber to come sit with him. She readily came over and walked right up into his lap, smiling happily. I looked over, careful not to say anything, and barely met her eyes.
I glanced over – our eyes met – and I saw something flash in them.
I immediately got up out of my chair and went over to sit on the couch. She bounded off my husband’s lap and came right over to me, planning to walk right up onto the couch! I said “NO!” sternly and then started to hug her. We spent about 5 minutes intensely hugging and licking (Amber, not me) and then she was finally satisfied. We got our close time in for the evening without her bounding into my lap and removing more skin from my arm in the process, a thing I really don’t want to repeat.
In many, many ways, we are seeing that Amber will become a wonderful companion, a fun addition to our family, and a great dog. We’ll be happy each day we put behind us on her ‘puppy-dom,’ though.
Last night, her stick fell between the huge dog bed she and Molly share and the wall. We have a heavy screen gate my husband made protecting the wall, so the stick became wedged. She instead ate Molly’s little dog bed that sat on top of the huge bed. We awoke to a whole utility room filled with the stuffing from the little bed and a totally un-remorseful puppy grinning at us, impatient to go out.
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Paul Miners-minerswildlifeart.wordpress.com
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“I’m thankful for my parents’ ability to discern that one grunt mean yes and another grunt means I’ve gone #2 in my diaper.” — Dad on behalf of Finnegan, age 2
Source: Christina Holt – “Kids respond: What are you thankful for?”
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books rock my world
I’m having a really good time reading lately. I’m in the middle of enjoying two authors that were new to me, plus re-reading books of a long-time favorite:
I feel rich, being able to enjoy the work of three great authors at the same time!
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We’re having a quiet, wet, cool morning here in Arkansas.
It’s 50 degrees, and there is either a ‘heavy mist’ or a ‘light drizzle,’ making it feel a bit raw if you’re out walking the dog.
Speaking of the dog,
Amber is 8 months old today. Last night she was doing her “lap dog” trick, climbing up onto my husband while he’s in his recliner.( This is pretty impressive because she weighs around 70 lbs now. ) I looked over at them and said, “Oh, you look like a happy girl!” and suddenly she JUMPED from my husband’s chair to MINE! Her paws or toenails grazed my arm as she landed; so, not only was I sitting, completely squashed by a dog desperately trying to lick my face, but I was yelling for my husband to bring band-aids! I wasn’t hurt badly, and I’m used to wearing band-aids as a fashion statement, although it doesn’t happen often anymore. Needless to say, we will discourage this ‘trick’ in the future.
In a couple of hours we’ll meet our good friend, Carla, for lunch in Greenwood at the new restaurant that just opened, called, “Shipwrecked.” They specialize in fish and chicken. I’m excited to visit the new place!
This afternoon I’ll be up in my art room, working on making Christmas presents for friends.
NICE day. I hope yours is fun, too.
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And if you can look at this without mentally ‘singing’ it, my hat is off to you. :0)
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor
Christina Holt wrote an article called, “Kids respond: What are you thankful for?” where she listed answers from kids aged 2 to 12. I thought they were wonderful, so I’ve paired them up with some pictures of cute kids I found to share happy Thanksgiving thoughts with you.
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“I’m thankful that I love everyone in our family and that they love me too.” — Lizzy, age 8
Source: Christina Holt, “Kids respond: What are you thankful for?”
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George Booruiy-www.thisiscolossal.com
Jason Morgan-fineartamerica.com
Filed under animal paintings, Creativity
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Filed under Attitude, Bright Ideas, Childlike Fun, Favorite Quotes, Funny Signs - Humor
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