Shooting Form

Greta and Clayton played their last game today with Upwards Basketball.  Greta is showing off her shooting form in her picture.  Erin says she wants the ball and wants to shoot it!   Wish I could have been there to watch them both today.

It is warm and I am happy.  Thank you, Lord, for a beautiful day.

And here is that smiling boy in his basketball picture.  Tall and handsome!

Bird Watching

 I love sitting on my porch and watching the birds enjoying their food.  Yesterday, I watched this woodpecker eating. 

 After he finally retrieved a sunflower seed from the mesh, he would fly away to a limb and hold it on the wood with his feet and peck it until he could get to the center kernel.  Over and over he worked getting only a small bite with each labor.  He likely used the energy from the seed getting it out! 

I stayed outside most of yesterday and plan to get back out in the sun today. 

Erin said she would try to come Sunday.  We have not seen her since Christmas so we are looking forward to that day. 

Good Deeds

Erin posted this on the Insta site.  I think it looks like Clayton Art.  I was thinking--"good deeds help mend a broken heart".   Clayton is very artistic.

Funeral Today

I went to Icia Johnson's funeral today.  She was 91 years old.  It was a nice service.   Laura took off and drove me.  Both my girls are very good to me.  I am blessed.

She Ran Fast

Sigrid ran around that track with the wind howling.  It was a practice meet.  She was 2nd 7th grader in the mile and first in the 800 meters.  She is following in Astrid's shoes!  The meet was 7, 8th, and 9th graders.  Sigrid was in the top finishers in her two races.  She signed up to try pole vault but backed out of that one.  Greta might be a pole vaulter some day.

The wind came in from Mary Lou's over in Kansas.  Limbs were all over the yard.  It blew the electricity out.  It did dry up some of the water. 

I cooked Mary Lou's meatloaf tonight.  Left the topping off and it was pretty tasty. 

Laura and I are going to a funeral at Ben Hur, AR tomorrow.  Icia Johnson was 91.  She had a long life.

Jonell's Bloom

Jonell sent this by her phone. It is really lovely.  I love the flowers that come up from a bulb as you don't have to do anything but enjoy them.

It is windy today.  Sigrid has a track meet today.  She is a miler.  Astrid was a miler and now Coach Fish thinks all my girls are milers.  I may try to go watch her run at 4:30.  The wind will dry up some of the excess water here.  I am going to start checking MaryLou's Blog for weather....what she got yesterday we will get today and I think she will be better than the weatherman on tv.

Orange She Sweet!!

When Laura took me to Sam's, we stopped by Target to get some hand santizer for Larry.  Laura spotted this outfit and said it looked like Greta Ann.  I bought it and mailed it to her.  I sent Clayton some cash and the scrap afghan to Erin.  It was warmer today and Greta got to wear her new shorts set.  I like the Live, Love Play logo, too!

Vinegar Pudding and Oatmeal Pie

 Ingrid went to Fayetteville with her friend, Avery.   They saw Rent which is a rock musical.    Ingrid got to visit a used book store on Dickson Street.  She said the place was fabulous.  Rooms and rooms of books.

 Laura made oatmeal pie and shared a pieced with Pop and Gigi.  It is sort of like pecan.  Well, not that good but if you did not have pecans and were craving that nut pie it would be a substitute for sure.  Momma used to made vinegar pudding when she had no vanilla.  It was between a cheesecake taste and vanilla.  I recall it being delicious, but we were always so hungry maybe today it would just taste weird.  I worked at a restaurant near Branson in 1966 or 67 that served oatmeal pie.  It was a hit there I remember.  Someday, I would like to go down hiway 76 where I worked and see what it looks like today.  I have not actually been back in 50 years.  I have drove through but not really looked at the area.

Clayton and Greta went yesterday to a nursing home and sang Christian songs.  A group was to go, but only Erin's two made the trip.  Of course, the big boy was shy about singing since it was only he and his sister.  One old Lady (Dorothy Middleton) told him to sing loud as she could not hear him.  After they finished their song, Dorthy sang this to Clayton.  She belted out "Penny Candy" which Jim Reeves made popular the year Sister Helen was born.  Clayton was totally embarrassed but it surely was a sweet gesture by the woman.

 There's a little girl lives on our street 
She's awful sweet and pretty 
The boys stand on their heads for her 
But she thinks they're all silly

Erin's devotional today was about being lukewarm and how our Lord hates that!  Can you imagine your coffee in the morning barely warm or you iced tea turn warm.  Not very appetizing or appealing!  I am heated up for my Savior today and cold to the devil! 

Da Boss

This picture is from when Astrid worked at the boutique.    She was modeling for them.  She has worked at her new job only an a short time and yesterday she was promoted to shift manager.  Comes with more responsibility but also more money.  So, she decided to try it and see how it goes!  Next month, Asrid will turn 18...only about a month from today.  Seems impossible. 

Twelve Years of Blogging

 I started blogging in 2006.  Who would have thought after 12 years, I would still be recording what happened during my boring day!  But here I am Lord still going and still asking for your help daily.

Has Siggie changed much in these 12 years?  The top picture I posted in 2006 and the one below Siggie posted on that Insta site yesterday!    She is still a sweetie!

My devotional today was about being grateful for God's gifts to us.  Do not compare what you are and what you have to others, my devotional warned.  Instead be thankful for what you have and how the Lord has blessed you.  I am so glad the Lord blessed me with excellence of knowledge.  I don't know a lot but daily I can learn and add to my knowledge base.  I love learning about new things and reading about ordinary people.  I am thankful that my Lord made me curious in all things.  I love puzzles and mysteries and one of my greatest joys is solving these.  Thank you Lord for making me who I am and how I am and giving me what I have.  It is enough!

Also, I am thankful that my new Patsy made me a broom end duster.  I can clean the cob webs.  I cleaned the ones in the living room today.  Helen, if I can figure it out I will make you one.  Maybe, I can!

Wouldn't it be great if for 12 years I had been jogging along with blogging!  How much healthier would I be?

Robin Time Of Year

 Robins are all over the Meadow in the early morning and late evening.  They are finding lots of worms in the wet earth.

Our old friends come to the pond each day and glide around.

Phoebe got to hike this weekend with Astrid and Logan.  After it a while it was--carry a dog trip!  Phoebe has short legs is the reason!

New Flat Bird Feeder

I discovered that the little birds really love an open feeder.  I had a plastic flower pot hanging under my tree and I put sunflower seeds in it for the smaller birds.  The plastic cracked and I rigged one up out of an old bucket.  Today, Larry made this one.  It is cedar and I love it.   I don't understand why the small birds are attracted to it and I don't see many bigger birds landing on the feeder.  Sometimes, there are 10 little Finches eating at the feeder.  I told Larry it was perfect!!  Lucky me.

My devotional today was about our soul being like a cup.  The Lord fills it with good things--righteousness, fairness, goodness, and on and on.  When we use these things in our cup, He adds more.   Our cup will never grow empty because He is always standing nearby with His big pot pouring more into our little cup.

No rain today and I enjoyed being outside a few hours.  My chickens laid 6 eggs.  Larry took down more of his fence to no where.    He got the huge stretch post down.  We put them in really good.  One had a ton of concrete under the ground.  Larry always tries to build things to last making tearing the fence down a big chore.