Alone at last...

...what will we do with these precious moments?  We have two nights and three days to find out and it's almost like a mini vacation.  A time to be intimate or just to relax and be slugs and not worry what the outside world is doing.

It's funny to think that Jimmy and I have had almost 16 years of alone time together but we never really appreciated it, or even gave it much thought, and it took someone moving in here with us to bring it to the forefront. I will never take this time that I have with Jimmy for granted again, because life is just too short.      

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Has anyone noticed the date today? It's Friday the 13th. I don't know where I'm going with that, but when we woke up this morning there was 3-4 inches of snow on the ground and just when my pretty little daffodils were beginning to bloom. I thought today I would go out and get another picture of their progress, but they look a little crispy along the edges and not very pretty...even in the snow.











I have no clue as to how the small pictures of Jimmy are going to line up when I finally publish my post and I also have no clue as to why they lined themselves up in this order, but hey...I can't complain it's Blogger and it's free, and it's Friday the 13th.

The pictures of Jimmy were taken a couple of days ago when our temps were hovering around the 70 degree mark. We were all outside enjoying the nice weather and our hopes were high that the end of the cold weather was behind us now. So much for dreaming....

As you know, I went to the doctor and had my regularly scheduled blood tests done and yesterday the clinic called to inform me that my blood work was all okay...even my cholesterol which is always a surprise to my doctors. Because I'm heavy they always assume that my cholesterol levels will be high, above normal, and I have had a doctor order a repeat second test once because it was so good with the HDL higher than the LDL, but all within normal levels, that he thought that there might be some mistake. I may be heavy, but I do eat all of the right foods....like Strawberry Shortcake ;)

Jimmy is off to Walmart to buy more birdseed. The birds are really hungry this morning and have emptied out everything. Jimmy fills the feeders & socks up every morning but because of the snow we had extra birds stop by for breakfast and are expecting more for lunch. Hopefully by supper time the snow will be melted and gone. Although it's very beautiful, I'm ready to see pretty flowers, leaves on trees and warm sunny skies.

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When words don't matter

Here you go Sharon.
Now you'll have this colorful picture showing up on your blog next to my name.
It's an original too and I got it cheap for only the cost of a laptop, and a cheap one at that.

Today is just another ordinary rainy wet day here in the south. Not a typical winter day, but a good day nevertheless. I had something to say, but it escapes me now that I've logged in to write in my blog...Oh well, that's what happens when you get my age. Maybe I should walk back out of this room and see if I can remember what it was I was going to say here. It must not have been that important I guess.

Sharon emailed me this morning asking me to come over and check her kitten Molly. It seems that little miss Molly is possibly growing some pom poms and Sharon wanted me to come over and check if she's a she or NOT! I emailed her right back and suggested she use the same simple method that I use for establishing the sex of a cat...."wait til it has kittens or grows pom poms," that's how I do it, but the vet always has the final say.

Jimmy's hungry so I've got to go. He says we should go out and get something to eat before the ice storm gets here.

I'm still here...

I'm still here and "no" I haven't died. At least not yet. Lots of things have happened since I last posted. Lets see if I can remember everything....hmmmm.

We had another new great-grandson, Noah James, and my computer crashed and had to be repaired. Jimmy had a birthday and is now as old as John McCain, and my 1991 jeep wrangler had its first flat tire. One of our tabby cats, Daisy, got sick and is now worth a small fortune, but thank our lucky stars she's feeling much better now. That's not everything, but that's enough.

I've spent all day today cooking and getting ready for tomorrow. I baked two large turkeys and if those grandchildren don't soon figure out what causes babies, then we'll probably need three turkeys by next year, hehehe. It's been fun though and I've had plenty of help. While I was busy in the kitchen preparing some of my favorites, Jimmy was busy cleaning the house from top to bottom, and also managed to get all of the laundry washed up. He's such a sweetheart!

Well, I better end my post for now. It's time for another two doses of Daisy's antibiotics. At first we wrapped her in a towel, but now after two weeks she's learned the drill and makes no fuss about taking her medicine...unfortunately she is now back to her old tricks of getting into everything again.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Not just an ordinary day

Today I got up from my rocking chair, put away the yarn, scissors, measuring tape and crochet hook, and went outside. Well actually I did that yesterday too...went outside that is.

The clumps of Daffodils are looking especially pretty this Spring. I think it's because of all the rain that we've had. I walked around the yard and admired all of them. Even my neighbors daffodils bloomed this year. She planted hers along the edge of our fence and someday they'll be crossing the fence line, I hope. We've shared many flowers that way. Half of my iris's ended up on her side of the fence and their gladiolas decided the grass was greener on my side of the fence and have completely moved over. I've planted climatis on the fence and neither of us mind sharing all the pretty flowers. My only complaint is that the sun rises from her side of the fence, and the blooms want to face her house. hehehe


Besides looking at daffodils and looking for plant sprouts, I cleared most of the dead fallen leaves away from the water garden. The cats had knocked over my little Chinese rock house and the little rabbit, so I straightened them up. My little Chinese rock house is made of two ordinary rocks that I found...a square one for the bottom and the curved pointy rock for the roof. I found them in Cynthiana while gathering limestone rocks out of my son's yard. We were gathering large rocks to put around our water garden pool.


These two cats don't like each other, but neither is giving up the picnic table for the other. So they sit as far away from each other as they can get, and still be on the table. That's Jybow & Callie. Callie (the calico) is our non-resident cat unless she's with kittens and we are the place she chooses to bear her kittens. Right now she has two sweet, born on Easter Sunday kittens, hidden in our dog house by the back door. She knows they'll be safe there because of the way we fan the door, all day long, letting cats in and out, and in and out...What tomcat is foolish enough to hang around our back door. When Callie's here we know not to put any food anywhere near the doghouse so as not to attract other animals.


Callie went back to the doghouse and Jybow is just making sure that she isn't hiding under the table....or maybe Jybow is just checking for spiders.

Are you wondering about the blog title? Well to me, no day is just an ordinary day....
They're all a gift and something to be thankful for.

A little Sunday humor

Today the temp has reached 60+º F, the sun is shining but it’s a little wet outside. It hasn’t rained today and Jimmy is trying to convince me that it’s heavy dew, but when does dew leave puddles??? It must have rained during the night sometime.

I haven’t been to Wal*Mart since before Christmas and I haven’t forgotten the crowds, so when Jimmy suggested we needed to make a visit there I wasn’t too thrilled. He said we were almost out of birdseed and cat food, so I suggested we make a trip while everyone else was in church.

I knew that we shouldn’t have gone to our local store here in town and just headed to the store which we had purchased the birdseed in the first place. I tried to tell him that just because it’s a Wal*Mart it doesn’t mean that they each carry the same items in each store. Well by now I know you guessed what happened. They didn’t have the specific type of birdseed that he wanted and the trip there cost us $68. Granted that was less than a trip to that particular store usually costs us, but if we hadn’t gone, we’d still have the $68. The only good thing that came out of that visit was that we stayed in there too long and ran into Sharon & Scott doing a little shopping after church. I invited them over for chili but their minister had just put the entire congregation on a two week liquid fast. I guess so they will be pure & all cleaned out inside when they move to their brand new church in two weeks.

Oh…and I did remember to buy a box of saltine crackers for our chili while I was there, so the $68 wasn’t a total loss.

The chili has been simmering and is now done. I was once told, “Feed them and they will come,” so I’m waiting to see who will come by to eat this pot full of chili that I made for out Sunday dinner. I also have some chicken for those that come and might not like chili.

Later….

It’s 3:30 and I’m still waiting for someone, anyone to stop by while I sip on a hot cup of green tea…Honey Lemon Ginseng to be exact. Who’s the one that fed me that fictitious line…”Feed them and they will come.” I think it was Sharon.

Well, here’s some real Sunday School Humor that I ran across while waiting for anyone off the street to stop in for a nice hot bowl of my famous chili:

Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, “Why is the bride dressed in white?” “Because white is the color of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life.” The child thought about this for a moment, then said, “So why is the groom wearing black?”

A little girl, dressed in her Sunday best, was running as fast as she could, trying not to be late for Bible class. As she ran she prayed, “Dear Lord, please don’t let me be late! Dear Lord, please don’t let me be late!”

While she was running and praying, she tripped on a curb and fell, getting her clothes dirty and tearing her dress. She got up, brushed herself off, and started running again. As she ran she once again began to pray, “Dear Lord, please don’t let me be late…But please don’t shove me either!”

A little girl became restless as the preacher’s sermon dragged on and on. Finally, she leaned over to her mother and whispered, “Mommy, if we give him the money now, will he let us go?”

Three boys are in the schoolyard bragging about their fathers. The first boy says, “My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a poem, they give him $50.”

The second boy says, “That’s nothing. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a song, they give him $100.

The third boy says, “I got you both beat. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a sermon, and it takes eight people to collect all the money!”

An elderly woman died last month! Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, “They wouldn’t take me out while I was alive. I don’t want them to take me out when I’m dead.

A police recruit was asked during the exam. “What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?” He said, “Call for backup.”

A Sunday school teacher asked the children just before she dismissed them to go to church, “And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?”

Annie replied, “Because people are sleeping.”

A Sunday school teacher asked her class why Joseph and Mary took Jesus with them to Jerusalem. A small child replied: “They couldn’t get a baby sitter.”

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to “Honor thy father and thy mother,” she asked, “is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?” Without missing a beat one little boy answered, “Thou shall not kill.”

At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs. Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said, “Johnny, what is the matter?” Little Johnny responded, “I have a pain in my side. I think I’m going to have a wife.”

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CORRECTION…Just a minor correction to my last post if you read it. I was telling Jimmy that I had mentioned that he was helping to put up 33 trusses in a new barn and Jimmy exclaimed, “Thirty-three trusses! We weren’t building a warehouse. There were only 12 trusses.” I stand corrected. I guess he didn’t work as hard as I thought, hehehe.