All posts by Jean

  • First day of summer!  Sunny days!
  • Abe showing up bright and early this morning to help GPa with the yard
  • Receiving loving notes that brought happy tears
  • Travis getting info to set up a new computer for GPa
  • The Space Within (Finding Your Way Back Home)  -Michael Neill
  • Appreciating pictures from our newest (3 mo. old) ggranddaughter…oh, and via snail mail :)
  • Key lime :)

  • Happy Fathers Day to Garrett and James and all of the fathers in our WLG families!
  • Fun gathering at our home today to celebrate…lively conversations :)
  • GPa appreciating phone calls from family
  • Happy Birthday David!
  • We shall not cease from exploration
  • And the end of all our exploring
  • Will be to arrive where we started
  • And know the place for the first time.
  • T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • 39 degrees this morning…GPa says it must be that global warming :)
  • Love it when it’s still daylight at 10p.m. and at 4a.m.
  • “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it “
  • Briefly watching a 1927 silent movie…interesting :)
  • Sarah Calhoun, founder of Red Ants Pants…
  • …google Red Ants Pants Festival….fun in WSS, MT !
  • One of the happiest moments is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
  • So grateful for each one of you at We Love Gratitude!

  • Our beautiful blue blue sky in our Big Sky Country!
  • The mountains, some with snow, gorgeous heavily wooded trees….peaceful
  • Lawn care…raking, mowing, watering
  • Luann’s garden
  • Neighbors taking care of each other
  • My cousin escaping the Texas flooding
  • Crystal’s podcast interview with Christa Gallopoulos….
  • …..if it would have been a book I couldn’t have put it down!
  • Our power outage this morning….linemen were here within 10 min. and power was restored within half an hour….bless those great linemen!
  • GPa has the grill all ready for ribs…yummy! :)

  • Crystal’s   Prayers to the Muses !
  • Garrett’s great long list!
  • Mary Ellen sharing her holiday weekend on her daily list!
  • Calls from my granddaughter… always makes my day!
  • Finally had our snow tires removed…noticed how quiet everything runs without those studded tires :)
  • Thankful for the blessing of health and the strength and ability to do extensive Spring cleaning
  • V.A. at Fort Harrison…Todd for being extremely helpful!
  • Looking at the lovely pine cone light yellow buds on our tree
  • Luann going to Wyoming for this long weekend.

  • Rain and more spring rain :)
  • A great day for GPa’s yummy homemade cinnamon rolls…
  • …took some, while warm, to neighbors who live alone :)
  • Computer screen glaring Windows 10 this morning…(GPa went into orbit LOL)
  • …Microsoft forced advertising?…
  • …I was able to read the fine print (GPa could not)….
  • …have a new love for the word “Decline”
  • We are back to what is normal for us…whew!:)
  • Happy Birthday Barbara!

  • Holding our 2-mo. old ggrandaughter…her smiles, laughter, precious baby :)
  • Son and family in Maui
  • Aloha :)
  • Tension rods…many household uses
  • Annual Vigilante Day parade
  • Nice soaking spring rain
  • Harry’s gson playing pro football
  • Refreshing doTerra lemon oil
  • “Never use a preposition to end a sentence with!” LOL

  • Springtime in the Rockies
  • Exhilarating early morning walk …
  • … with snow flurries
  • Winter storm advisories…mountain passes, 4 in. snow above 5500 ft.
  • We have two large passes, south and west of the city
  • Remembering when GPa drove over one of the passes early one morning with a 2WD pickup, lots of snow, the plows had not been out…he rescued a motorist who was stuck and stranded (as he had done many times over the years) :)
  • I’ve always been grateful for his knowledge and ability to travel when we’ve been surprised with less than ideal weather conditions :)
  • Matthew 11:10 – “I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.”

  • Happy Mothers Day!
  • Mothers Day Blessings
  • Variety of celebrations honoring Mothers in our family…in state, out of town, out of state…
  • An annual gathering where the men prepare a great meal…lots of fun :)
  • Long welcome phone calls with loved ones
  • A morning get together…
  • …A lunch and afternoon visit
  • Awesome memories of our Mothers who are no longer with us
  • Very grateful for the time extended by family showing loving appreciation

1440

  • 1440 seconds in a day…
  • …enjoy your 1440 today!  :)
  • A resolution to what seemed to be a problem but was not and all is well
  • Decisions, large and small….are they ever small?
  • Welcome rain
  • Barbara’s interesting and fun friend visiting from England…
  • …bringing her gifts, some of which commemorated Queen’s 90th birthday
  • “Life is not about surviving the storm.  It is learning how to dance in the rain.”