All posts by Jean

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Gorgeous morning walk..60 degrees, blue blue blue sky and sunshine
Secret Garden tours..lovely gardens at various homes
My cousin moving from TX to MT…
…helping her with all arrangements
Awesome video “Fat Sick & Nearly Dead”…and yes, grateful to keep healthy
Farmers Markets
Looking at the graffiti on passing trains and wondering who did some of that fabulous art work
Our neighbor well and home from the hospital…..
…his 10 yr. old gson mowing the lawn on his riding mower
Summer’s joy and abundance… “God’s gracious summer gifts.” -Joan Uda

Song by Eddy Arnold, “Daddy’s Little Girl”…GPa has lovely daughters, lovely granddaughters, and cutezy wootzy lovely greatgranddaughters :)
A silver horse, which appeared to be made from tin, standing proudly outside a gas station.
Jury duty
Ah the fragrance of fresh strawberries
Flathead cherries…the best!
Our Sunday paper not arriving …for a reason?…and because of that I happened to find Wayne Dyer’s “The Shift” and watched all 3 hrs. of it…great messages!!
Our daughter’s vehicle accident..someone ran into her while she was waiting at a light…grateful that she is okay and xrays showed nothing broken..muscle soreness in lower back…she’s fine and such a trouper!
Great recipes from my granddaughter
Great lessons from my granddaughter!!
A vehicle with license plate from Georgia…and several more from Alaska…God Bless America!

www.wagonteamster.com will show you where Bob’s journey has been and is now :)
Ohio man who found those valuable baseball cards in his attic…wow!
Fun picnic at a park in our neighborhood :)
School preserving Native American language, teaching the children their Indian language!
Cartoon showing a woman at the mall collapsing with her hand to her forehead.. “I don’t know what happened..I was blissfully shopping when all of a sudden it hit me – a horrifying moment of contentment with what I already had.” Contentment with what we have…gratitude!
To some people God seems so far away. If so – who did the moving?

Neighbors’ 50th wedding anniversary…
…lovely party in the park on a lovely day
Pepper making friends nose-to-nose with another Schnauzer
A beautiful huge yellow butterfly on a tree branch
A fire “cloud” where the brown smoke looked like a teddy bear for a few minutes
Windy day
So happy for our gson who worked so diligently and passed his parametic exams and is now interning in ER and OR…told that he was at the top of his class
100 + degrees for two days…summer has arrived!
“The Master Cleanser” -Stanley Burroughs

Our son’s milestone birthday celebration
Required preparation: Ax, bucket, shovel
Skill in driving over winding mountain roads and passes..amazing abundant beauty
Streams and creeks of peaceful flowing water
Camp grounds…no other people or vehicles
Camp fire
Ponderosa Pine
Some rocky roads with mountains straight up on all sides
Fly Fishing!!!
Catching Brook trout on the first cast…
…Cutthroat trout, catch and release
GPa exploring the edible vegetation
Wild raspberries
Laughed until we cried :):)

Appreciating this beautiful warm sunny day!
Oranges, apricots, grapes, watermelon
Chipotle black bean “burgers”
Pepper’s new rawhide chewy
A girl who had jewelry pierced in her nose, ears, cheeks and lips…ouch?
Entrepreneurial adventures…business wisdom
A WallaWalla wedding
Want to buy a town? Pray, Montana, is for sale for $1.4million! :)
How the joy of laughter heals!
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, Books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and Good in Everything.” -Shakespeare

GPa receiving a surprise military discount
Michael who helped with my sister’s relocation
A very nice school bus driver dinner
A tall, thin man with a long straight white beard
The wind caught our neighbor’s screen door and blew it off
Boys riding their horses to school on the last day…
…an old law on the books saying that the school must provide food, shelter and water for those horses :)
Remembering hitching posts in front of a law office building
“Mr. Popper’s Penguins”
Antarctica

My precious granddaughter who consistently gives me new and interesting ideas to ponder
The pine tree in our yard that keeps casting off its lush cones
This morning GPa saw half a doz. deer feeding, giving him a sense of peace
A friend who loves animals and recently changed careers to follow her heart at the Humane Society
Five pizza boxes stacked upon a neighbor’s refuge pile waiting for garbage pickup
The cutest little boy riding his little orange/yellow bike
Power outage last night..grateful for the linemen having it back up in an hr. and a half
Crystal Belle’s link to the Hafiz poem
Last day of school tomorrow..everyone looking forward to summer vacation!
Weather trivia: Snowflakes 3 to 4 inches across looking like “the tips of ostrich feathers” fell in Butte America on June 5, 1908.

My sister
Family help with a move
Excitement
Vertigo..and..wellness
“help mate”
Computerized automation that is great, when it works :)
My daughter’s abundant energy!
Talking NFL with someone we just met…there are no “strangers” in GPa’s life :)
Helen’s ocean breezes!
For 2 min. of peace..go to Utube and David Attenborough’s “What a Wonderful World” !!