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Monthly Archives: December 2018
Joke
I Stole This From Another Page via Cindy Basnett Thurman
Filed under Attitude, Funny Signs - Humor
Reflections
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Cat Got Your Tongue?
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Saverio Scoleri Art – Young Girl
Saverio Scoleri – LinkedIn
Filed under Saverio Scoleri Art, Saverio Scoleri Art
Snow People – Take 38
Katrina Kittles Blog
Laughtard
Laughtard
Michael Kroll
Filed under Creativity, Seasons, snow people
The Garden of Pensiveness
The Garden of Pensiveness via Cathy Ruggiero – Image by Ian Plant
“For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.” ~ Jane Goodall
Filed under Attitude, Favorite Quotes, Mother Nature
Full Heart
The Girls With Glasses
I was up, unable to sleep, thinking sad thoughts this morning. There is something about not being able to sleep, up by yourself in the middle of the night that seems to encourage destructive thoughts. Thankfully, this doesn’t happen to me often.
I updated our son on a family situation. He encouraged me to tell him how I felt and we ended up having quite a discussion on life, priorities, the flow of life, and death. We talked a long time, sometimes talking through tears. In my world the parent is supposed to be the wiser one, helping their child see the larger picture. Today it was just the opposite. Our son is really serious about meditation, and will go to a retreat early next year to spend two months practicing in a monastery. He has gained so many insights already, just practicing on his own, that it boggles my mind.
The end result of our talk was that I’m able to see my sad thoughts of this morning in a different, more comforting, calm way.
I can’t tell you how full-to-overflowing my heart feels about how lucky we are to be close to our son. I’ll never be able to tell or show HIM enough, either.
Filed under Family, Good Thoughts
Permission
ABSTRACTS by Sabina via cathy ruggiero
If you’ve been reading the blog, you know that I have devoted myself to going through our over 30-year-old home the past year with determination to go through everything, give stuff away, throw other things away, clean and reorganize what’s left. I’ve made it through the house once and am now on Phase II, of going through it all again. I’m making lots of progress, but the job is far from done yet. Realizing that the job will never be ‘finished,’ I’m ready to change my priorities a bit for the new year.
I’ve found it almost impossible to give myself permission to play in my art room. In fact, it’s still clean and organized from Phase I of what I now call, “The Great Purge.” Before, I had to clean off a spot in order to try out a new idea I had or to paint something to fulfill an order I received. Each time I have thought of going up there, I saw something in the house that desperately needed my attention first. With the “New-to-Me” determination to move more, consciously trying to exercise each day, the day was shot. Added to that was working in the greenhouse or in the yard. The days, weeks, and months have flown past my head, blowing my hair.
I’ve decided that I will try to add another priority in the coming year – MAKING time to play in my art room! I miss being able to close the door up there, start playing some of my favorite tunes, and immersing myself in the joy of experimenting with my ‘stuff.’ I want to try some new watercolor techniques. I discovered a new style of painting note cards and stationery where I mix watercolor or acrylic floral paintings with backgrounds of accent colors with pastels that I found satisfying. I want to expand on that. I have tote bags I’d like to paint. I want to etch some goblets I received as a gift from a friend… And the list goes on.
I closed my shop on Etsy, but I still have one on ArtFire.
I haven’t added anything in a long time, so I’m thinking of some new things with which I can experiment. I keep seeing the work of wonderfully talent people on LinkedIn, a website primarily designed for folks trying to network. I’m not interested in getting a job at this point, but I love living on the same planet as these talented folks and enjoy interacting with them and showing you their work.
When things calm down after the holidays, our son will leave to visit some more folks before going back home to Thailand.
I look forward to getting involved in trying new things for the new year.
Filed under anticipation, Attitude, Bright Ideas, Changes
Older than Dirt
Commander Bill
My husband and I are being dragged – kicking and screaming – into the current century.
We like gadgets, but keep discovering we are living in the stone age on some things.
We had to replace our old land line phones because rats got under the house and ATE through the wiring. Since we didn’t want to crawl around under there trying to replace all the wiring, and couldn’t find anyone willing to do it for us, we bought essentially a cell phone on a base to replace our system. We’ve used that for a long time, adding an answering machine that we liked better than the one provided, and then my husband designed a call screening program that had callers pressing 1 “if they were a real person and weren’t selling anything” in order for the phone to ring here.
This got wonky, not recognizing callers we had put on our list, and hanging up on people after they pressed 1. We’ve been living with NO caller screening for awhile, and I’ve been going nuts.
We got a new phone system yesterday and my husband and son set it up. We’ve ordered two more phones and charging bases so we can have phones everywhere we would like them. I managed to ANSWER my phone last night, patting myself on the head. This morning I actually manged to MAKE a call, after fumbling around awhile. My husband has just finished creating a directory.
We have gotten several reminders that the rest of the world has gone on past us, while we stayed in our cocoon –
- We installed a geothermal heat and air system several years ago. Our thermostats have been misbehaving and we were having trouble getting them set correctly. The guy who checks our system out twice a year tactfully suggested that since our thermostats were older than he was (he didn’t say that) maybe we should get ones that were made to work with geothermal, which doesn’t need ’emergency heat.. He helped us decide which ones to get and installed them for us. We’re now doing fine, able to control the temperatures in our house just fine for the most efficiency.
- We have actually donated several items that were causing havoc and tension around here, rather than ‘helping’ us or making our lives simpler. :0)
- We were even reminded how old we are when we got a Synology – a device that allows us to record our DVD collection, making them available to play on our television and get rid of the physical DVDs. I looked each of them up on Amazon with the idea of selling them. I had DVDs that had the same cover picture – and many were Blu-rays, but the production date on ours was so old Amazon sneered at us and wouldn’t allow me to list them. We ended up listing the ones that were ‘acceptable’ and giving 217 DVDs to the local library for their next fundraising sale…
We may be older than dirt, but we’re still able to kick and scream as we’re forced to enter the current century!
Filed under Are YOU also older than Dirt?, Attitude, Challenges, Changes
Playing with Your Food? – Take 32
babyandchild.ae
BrenDid-Simple-Breakfast-Recipe-Reindeer-Christmas-Pancakes
co.pinterest.com
Filed under Creativity, playing with your food?
Spreading Love
Cavalcantide Souza Augusto Cesar – LinkedIn
Filed under Attitude, Encouragement, giving, Good Thoughts
Comfort and Strength
Smile and Shine via Cindy Basnett Thurman
Filed under Encouragement, giving, Good Thoughts, kindness
Snow People – Take 37
Snoopy – Jupo
Yoda – Scribol.com
Crafty Mommy on Facebook
Funny Pictures on iilikr.net
Filed under Creativity, Seasons, snow people
Escape Into a Good Book
GrumpyCatPics.com via Ar Ali – LinkedIn
An author I really like is W. Bruce Cameron. I’ve read A Dog’s Purpose and now I’m about half way finished reading “A Dog’s Way Home.”
He writes from the dog’s perspective – seeing and experiencing everything from a dog’s point of view. He really makes you look at your dog differently, realizing that much of what you do is confusing and just noise to your sweet pet, with the exception of favorite words and cherished activities together.
I find his books totally entertaining and heartwarming, occasionally making me close to tears, but always glad I took the time to dive into Cameron’s outstanding understanding of dogdom.
If you haven’t read his books, you’re in for a treat!
Indoor Veggie Garden
GrowVeg.com
I harvested the last of my lettuce leaves this morning and moved the plants out to the garden to clean up a bit later. We had a nice crop this year. I was especially pleased with the plants I started in the greenhouse for the first time. When we had our cold snap, I brought in three plants to live in the dining area. That may sound weird, but we have no heat in the greenhouse and the garage is too cold for the plants, too. The dining area is technically too warm, but I was able to keep the plants alive and producing for another month.
Now I have some celery plants still growing. I have no clue what I’m doing, but I found an article on the net I’ll study and see if I can keep the plants alive long enough to actually produce some edible celery, rather than just some nice looking plants.
I’ll share what I find in the article, just in case you’d like to try this.
Happy crunches for us!
Filed under Gardening, Starting - Growing in a Greenhouse
Friends
pexels
We’ve been having a truly wonderful time lately, entertaining friends who we either haven’t seen in a long time or friends who want to come and say, “Hi” to our son while he’s home from Thailand.
Our home is so full of love its bursting at the seams and I couldn’t love it more.
We’re exchanging Christmas presents, in some cases – in others, just enjoying some coffee or a bit of food. In all cases, we’re enjoying hugs, laughs, and good conversation.
SUCH a special time for us. Can you see me grinning?
Filed under Family, Friendship, holidays
Santa is Coming to Town!
We put up this mailbox decorations this morning.
As far as we’re concerned, Santa came to our home December 10th, when we picked up our son at the airport to stay with us for three weeks. We really don’t need anything more – just seeing our good friends. We are super lucky this year, having our son for his birthday AND Christmas before he leaves. Right now he’s in the dining area, working on his computer. Just knowing I can get up and get a wonderful hug makes me smile.
I hope Santa is good to YOU this year, too.
Filed under Family, holidays, Lewis Art, Lewis Mailbox Decorations, metal art
Housekeeping Style
Rebel Circus via Doreen Adamson-Liber
We Love Horses
Joseph Zbukvic via Graeme Stevenson OAM – LinkedIn
R.J. B. – LinkedIn
Catherine Lee – LinkedIn
Elena (Livia) D. – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Catherine O – LinkedIn
Mountains
“In the Mountains” – Paul Militaru Photography
“Mountain Stream” – Paul Militaru Photography
Hahahahaahahah!
Fastweb
Our son got the Wii Fit Plus to work again. (It quit quite awhile back, but I was too dumb to get it to work and my husband had no interest.) We figured out which part of the TV settings to use, put fresh batteries in the board and the remotes and confirmed it worked.
This morning I finally decided ‘today is the day’ and tried it.
Its software remembered me and produced my gray-haired avatar (or I think they call it a Mii). They said it had been some almost 5,000 days since I had been on it. They did welcome me back, and they did notice I’m some 40 lbs lighter that the last time I tried to use it. They said I needed to lose another 28 lbs to be in the right weight range for my height. (I’ve been trying to get taller so I don’t need to lose as much, but that isn’t working).
I did the body test and it said I was ‘unbalanced’ ( big shock)
I then went through all the balance games. It decided I was pathetic. It didn’t actually insult me this time, but my avatar hung her head in defeat after I tried each activity. I left it on, and will go back later and do all the balance activities again.
What I’m trying to do, since I am NOT an exercise person, is vary what I’m doing each day to try to get my body’s attention. I’ve already been doing yoga and abdominal exercises one day, 35 minutes on the elliptical trainer the next. Now I’ll do the Wii Fit Plus another day, (varying which type of things I’m working on) and a walking video the next. I’ll see how that works. I want a regimen I can stick with, don’t dread, and actually helps me.
The balance games show that I really need to do them on a regular basis. Since old ladies like me are prone to getting brittle and frail, losing strength over time, and losing their balance and falling, I’m trying to do all I can to avoid that for as long as possible.
So – now that I’ve actually gotten on the Wii again and survived, I’ll do it again in a few minutes!
Filed under exercise, taking care of yourself
“Make the Ordinary Come Alive”
Waldorf Today via Desiree Angelique Hackett
Filed under empowerment, Encouragement, Family
Philosophy of Management
Oleg Vishnepolsky – LinkedIn
Filed under Attitude, Favorite Quotes, Important Ideas to Consider
Becky Smith Model Making
Mr. Snickelway – Rebecca Smith – Becky Smith Model Making – LinkedIn
Filed under sculpture
Cats’ Eyes
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
Jeff Jett – LinkedIn
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