Monthly Archives: August 2012

Little Red Schoolhouse

  • Have the deck painted..the right brown
  • …a cool and lovely day for painting!
  • Weather now..heat on a.m. and a/c p.m.
  • School starts today…
  • …GPa’s school bus greeting to his “little darlin’s” of  “Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen” :)
  • The little red schoolhouse that is now used for tourism and parties and gatherings
  • Jimmy Durante’s song “…make someone happy..and you will be happy too…”
  • Hearing about someone’s travels on the Glacier Park going-to-the-sun highway
  • The boy getting his hair cut and having gum in his hair:)
  • Belle’s CSW of “Your Spiritual Currency: Investing for Positive Returns”

1. God

2. A complimentary dinner

3. Hundreds of candles lit on the common

4.A bench

5. Rain then sun then cooler air

6. Zucchini

7. Nicoel for her hard work fixing the network which seemed that it simply would not budge

8. The photographer

9. Sandy, cheerful

10. Finding out also that Nicoel is interested in the village green preservation society (well, it’s more a house, really)

11.  And Nancy keeps bringing new things to light

Laughter, Singing…and Naps

Very Grateful for~

God’s healing

Laughter

Tylenol

Getting my sutures out!!

Ice water

The beauty of singing

Naps

My journal

A morning after rain

Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop. ~Corrie Ten Boom

1. God

2. First day of school

3. Music of Jean Sibelius (particularly the 7th symphony)

4. Cassie’s kind words

5.Seeing positive effects of relaxation

6. Plus a walk in the park

7. Pam and Jeanette persevering through heat and erratic technology

8. Young people

9. And people not so young

10. Things Cassie and I do together

11. The Global Sisterhood Manifesto

Monday Gratitude…

1. Rain

2. My mom is visiting for a couple of days.

3. She helped me can salsa and tomatoes ALL day, yesterday.

4. Finding a loose chicken at the farm and helping her return to the other chickens :)

5. Fresh grapes…I’m going to try making grape juice for the first time. So excited!

6. My husband completed his first Ironman this weekend. He made it through in one piece and not too far off of his goal time.

7. Online athlete tracking…We weren’t able to travel with him, and it was a blessing to be able to track his progress, and the progress of his friends. What a celebration we had when we realized he had finished!

8. Buying new clothes…and some new used clothes

9. Watching Logan learn to sew

10. My dog and all her crazy ways

Back-to-School

Very Grateful for~

God’s architecture

Back-to-School

Setting up a new back-to-school tradition with Amelia

The mom, waiting for the school bus, with her daughter

The family down the street, taking back-to-school pictures with their kids

Having some tables to give to Amelia to use in her classroom

Jerilynn’s support

Ongoing recovery

Realizing “it”-a couple of sandpaper people in my life- just isn’t fair and there is nothing I can do about “it”

Reading an article about women who expressed the greatest happiest in their twenties were two and a half times as likely to live to age 85, and five times as likely to live to age 94. http://activehappiness.com/2012/08/five-minutes-a-day-for-a-longer-happier-life/

“Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don’t feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.” ~ The Shack by William P. Young

1. God

2. Giving the bushes a haircut

3. Metal sharpened

4. Electric power

5. Clothes drying outside

6. Open doors

7. Abby and Nathan got engaged

8. Greeting Oliver through the window

9. Hannah got a job at school!

10. Emily found a new apartment

1. God

2. Hannah packed and ready to college

3. An acronym from Chris via Anne Lamott, WAIT Why Am I Talking?

4. Hannah paired with Lily, it appears she will be an excellent roommate

5. Keith at the bookstore welcoming Hannah and encouraging her to apply for a job

6. My colleagues who took Saturday morning to direct the new students

7. Especially Greg, the seargeant, with his collie, he’s my guardian angel

8. Kind words from Steve, the hockey coach

9. A beautiful dormitory and students helping us bring Hannah’s things upstairs and showing us where to go

10. Driving back with Cassie away from the turnpike and finding a place for lunch (and ice cream.) though we had to contend with bees.  We were not stung, others were not so lucky, unfortunately.

11. An eggplant in our garden!

 

1. God

2. Having dinner with Hannah before she goes off to college

3. The waitress wishing her good luck and talking about her experience

4. Eating outside

5. Laughing with Cassie

6. And Chris

7. David hanging in there

8. Getting through a long week

9. though it just seemed that way

10. Not taking things personally