Silver Sunday/ Spiritual Sunday

Thanks to Gypsy Fish  and Enchanting Cottage for hosting this Holy Day.

In my reading for today, I read these words by Norman Vincent Peale…..

What lies beyond the threshold of today, you do not know, nor do I.  We speculate, but we do not know.  Inescapable, however, we must cross that threshold.  And with the golden gift of hope, we can confidently, eagerly, optimistically.

This life is not easy!  It is often fraught with pain and suffering.  But hope gives you a lilting upthrust that takes you above the suffering.  Forty-second Psalm states “….hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God”.  What power in this text! 

I pray today for Sharon who is beginning her journey thru chemo and radiation and who is already sick and unable to eat.

I pray for all who are suffering and in need of God’s healing and unending love.

This is a picture of Sharon and I the day before she began her treatment at a luncheon she gave for her close friends.

I pray you have a blessed day.

SILVER SUNDAY

 

This is my first post for Silver Sunday hosted by Gypsy Fish, so please go and see all the other participants.

I have shown these pieces of silver before, hope you do not mind, if you have already seen them.

The coffee pot, sugar and creamer were purchased for $20.  They were tarnished and underneath a lot of other things when I spotted them.

The tea pot and tray were already mine.

 

Please pray today for all those in need of God’s wonderful healing powers and the  people of Haiti.  Wishing you all a Blessed and Silver Sunday.

Tablescape Thursday/ Winter Wonderland

Time to view some more beautiful tablescapes and they are all listed at Susan’s Between Naps on the Porch.

The dishes, placemats came from Walmart.

The beautiful vase in the center was a Christmas present from Roy and was purchased  in Galveston.

I have had the trees, candles beads for several years.

Glasses by Waterford.

Hope you have a great Thursday.

Tabletope, Vignettes and Favorite Accessories Tuesday!

 

 

Barb at Grits and  Glamour has started a new day for us to display our goods.

I am getting started late today, but I didn’t want to miss it.

This is just an assortment of snowmen I have at the end of my  bar.

This tea service was bought at a thrift shop for $20.00…It came with only a coffee pot, the tray and the tea pot was already mine.

Have a great Tuesday.  WE are off today for a visit with the radiation doctor and for Sharon to get her tattoo .  Please continue to pray for her.

 

What in the World has happened in Texas?

The weather in most of Texas is so cold, it is hard to believe.

I can’t remember the last time it was this cold ( I admit my memory is not real good), but it is 19 degrees and the wind chill is 9. 

This is cold for Texas, at least in our part of  Texas.  Of course, I am worried about my goats and turkeys, but there is nothing I can do other than be sure they have food to keep up their body heat.

Tonight it will be colder, but no wind chill to drop the temp even lower.  I know in the North, you have these temps more often, but I feel you are better prepared.

Of course we grieve for our Beloved Texas Longhorns and worry about Colt’s shoulder.  What a sad thing to happen to this wonderful young man.  We offer no excuses, we were out played, but do think we could have given Alabama a better game if Colt had been in the game.  We do applaud Gilbert for his valiant try.

There are lots of great recipes at Designs by Gollum’s on Foodies Friday.   I have spent an hour or so copying some of the ones I liked.

I am rambling…I know….just needed to post something today to help with the saddest in my heart for my adopted sister/friend, Sharon. Yesterday, we were told they would have to add chemo to her treatments of  radiation.

Yesterday I go some earrings I ordered from Penniwig and they are absolutely beautiful.  If you have not checked out her Esty  Shop….do so.  They are delicate and so dainty.

I have also booked 2 nights Lee’s  Le Shiloh Shabby Chateau in Union Grove, Texas.  If you have not seen this vacation rental, then you need to rush over to Inspired Comblogulations, listed on my Texas list and scroll down until  you see the above Name and click on the picture.  You are in for a sight, you will not believe.  Eat your heart out, Roy and I have it booked for the Valentine Weekend.  Lee and Rick have created a beautiful retreat and you can even have meals catered and delivered to the Chateau….check out the Chef.

Sharon and I are headed to Bryan/ College Station this morn for her to have a Pet Scan, then I guess after they have the results, we will have our treatment schedule. I also found a great recipe for a casserole on Gollum’s blog and I will pick up the ingredients to make it tonight for Roy, when he gets to come home for one night.

Thanks for letting me ramble around this morn.  See you soon and forgive me for now visiting all of you, but know I think of you.

Barbara

 

TABLESCAPE THURSDAY, LOOKING FOR CHARGERS

 

 

THANKS TO SUSAN….Go to Between Naps on the Porch for the long list of beautiful tablescapes to visit.

I have no tablescape today, I need some help.  About 15 years ago , I bought some light tin cream colored chargers with scalloped edges and a design around the edge for my sister-in-law.   Since I have started doing tablescapes, I have been looking everywhere for some like those.

If any one knows where I can purchase some like that, please let me know.  You would think in is age of computers, you could find anything.

Happy Tablescape Thursday…….

Barbara

OUTDOOR WEDNESDAY/ BUT NOT PICTURES!

I haven’t been here for a while, but thanks to Susan, this fun day filled with beautiful pictures is still here.  Visit her at Southern Daydreamer.blogspot.com for the list.

WHAT? how can you participate in Outdoor Wednesday with no pictures?

Well believe me, when you read my post, you will be thrilled that I didn’t show any pictures.

Outdoors at the Bar H  right now consists of leaves that poor Roy keeps fighting because I complain that they get tracked in the house.  BUT..BUTT, we have lots of those around here and they produce lots of POOP is also a big problem that my wonderful husband can’t fix.

With close to 60 goats and 2 large dogs in the pasture, it is hard to walk in some areas out there and not step in something. 

Now we move to the yard, which is 3 acres, so you say, well that is plenty of room for 4 more dogs and 5 cats……not exactly.  But the dogs do have a place way off behind the hedges and the cats do cover it up and confine their poop to the flower beds.

BUT, now we come to Mr. and Mrs. Turkey.  They, my fellow bloggers, I hate to tell you don’t not have a special place nor do they cover it up.

In the summer, they roam around the 3 acres and stay away from the house for the  most part, but since this cold,rainy  winter has set in, they have decided that  my covered patio or the cover on  front of our house barn, (not used for animals) is the place to roost during the day and they can stay dry and  out of the wind.   Now we have a real problem.  Out at the barn is not so bad, they stay on one side and it is not the side we use to go in and out of the barn,  BUT my patio is a different story.  We have tried everything to keep them off and Roy’s last suggestion was to put bull wire around the patio.   Not really an option, since that is one way and the major way we get outside.

It is not a pretty sight, but if you wait until it hardens, you can just sweep it off  into the yard and it turns to powder most of the time. (at least it does not stink).

 SEE, I told you, you didn’t want pictures. , I know by now most of you are saying …Why in the heck did she write about something like that …..POOP.  Well, all of you are talented, creative, good cooks, artist, writers, not me.  I love animals and I am willing to endure things most people would not.  I also thought I would add a little humor to your life (?) or at least make you happy you are not me!

LAUGHING is not happening much around here lately, with Sharon losing her husband and now having cancer and 2 of my other friends finding out their husband’s have cancer, we just haven’t had much to laugh about.

So, I decided to try and make you smile a little, I have been laughing while writing this trying to imagine what you are thinking as you read it.

Happy Outdoor Wednesday!

 

 

BLUE MONDAY/BLUE BIRDS

 

It is time for Blue Monday and it is the first Monday of 2010.

Thanks to Sally for hosting this day.  Be sure you visit her at Smiling Sally for the list of participants for today.

 

In all the cold and nasty weather we have been having here in Texas, there is a  bright note in my yard.   Bluebirds and Blue Jays.

Mr. and Mrs.  Bluebird are making a nest in my bluebird house.   They are so beautiful and I enjoy watching them go back and forth carrying their materials to the house.  Hopefully I will be able to see the little birds when they start coming out and learning to fly.

Happy Blue Monday to you and many more in 2010.

PS  Thanks for all the good thoughts for Sharon, she is not really my sister, we just adopted each other because neither one of us have a sister, but I care for her as a sister.

HAPPY NEW YEAR/ PINK SATURDAY

WELL, HERE WE ARE AGAIN, STARTING ANOTHER YEAR AND BEVERLY IS STILL HOSTING THIS FUN DAY!  

 

SENDING YOU WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND PRAYING IT WILL BE THE BEST EVER!

My projects for 2010 are:

1.Redo the master bath in our home.  This is going to be a major job, I want to change the location of the toilet , take out the tub and make a large shower, redo the cabinets and add tile everywhere.

2. Redo all of my jewelry “stuff”.  Put my beads in containers that are more user friendly and fix a craft place for all of my supplies.  My friend Sharon and I will do this, she is great at organizing.

3. Down size the “STUFF” in the Frou Frou house.

4.  Seriously lose weight.

My Main Project for the Next Several Months is to try and help my  (SISTER) friend, Sharon thru her radiation  treaments for her throat cancer.  She was recently diagnosed  and Wednesday the 30th we met with the Radiation Doctor and now have appointments with the oral surgeon, the chemo Dr. and then will begin 7 1/2 weeks of radiation.

She must travel about 75 miles one way each day and that alone is a task, but with help from family and friends, we will make it and make it standing on our heads.

We are two crazy ladies and with your prayers, we will be just fine and soon back on the road looking for thrift and junk shops.

PURPLE GOAT LADY

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

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