HUGE Thankfulness

Today is National Nurses Day and I think that you would all agree that they deserve our thanks more than ever before. I myself am overwhelmed by their dedication in the face of this pandemic. It's not only what they deal with during their grueling twelve hour shifts, but also the emotional toll this is taking on them and their concern about going home to their families.

So to any of you out there that are nurses..

THANK YOU!

Ole!!

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone!

This year Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday fell on the same day so guess what I had for dinner. I should have made them myself but I did not. I ran to Jimboy's Tacos for a couple of my favorites.

Did any of you do something fun to make the day special?
Nothing else to report. 

Just wanted to send out some happy wishes, so that's a big
ADIOS! from me.

Gratefulness

I am so aware these days of all the things we DO have during this time. I think there are so many things we will no longer take for granted when this is over. 

Just being able to be with my grandbabies. 

To go to church and be with my wonderful church family. 

To be able to visit and spend time with family and friends. 

To have a pleasant home in which to spend this time. 

To have work for my busy hands to do. 

To have a place to shop and the ability to go there. 

Goodness....

Even toilet paper!

I am now aware of how easily and swiftly these things could go away. 

I sit here as I write this post in front of the window that is my world view as I work. 

Green grass, trees full of leaves and spring blooms and the bunny rabbit bunny I wrote about earlier now visits every day. watch him each day munching up some grass for dinner. 

I looked up just a moment ago from my writing and there he was, just sitting up straight and alert at the edge of the shed. I was going to snap a picture but I missed it. So this afternoon I feel a heart full of gratefulness for the window my Lord has placed me in front of that brings a calm and peacefulness as I sit here each day doing something I enjoy.

So today I am grateful for all of these things and also grateful to each of you. 

Thank you so much for your support and friendship.

May the 4th be with you

Well, today is National Star Wars Day.
The rise of these movies began in 1977 and their popularity continues today.
If you have Disney + i they will be streaming all nine films today. 
That ought to fill up an afternoon!
Google has listed 24 other ways to celebrate on this day if you need some suggestions.

I am going to try to finish and kit the pieces for the space card I am trying to add to this month's Round Up class. I began yesterday and then couldn't find my oval dies. So that led to a long search with no results  I just HAVE GOT to find them! Also missing are my stitched shape dies. I don't know how I do these things but I wish I'd stop.
I posted these pictures a few days ago of the cards I made for my grand son's birthdays coming up in August and September (Yes I am a little ahead of the game), but I thought I'd post them again in honor of the day. The one I'm doing for class is very similar.

Here's another I am almost done with. 

I'm hoping that Star Wars Day will bless me with the locating of my dies. In the meantime I'm going to busy myself with other things until they magically appear.

So...live long and prosper, na-nu na-nu, or what ever space age greeting fits.

Peter Rabbit

Today I stepped outside to go to the mail box and when I turned around I had a visitor in my yard.

So I watched him munch on grass until someone walked by and frightened him away. 

 

Quiet, simple pleasures.

Contentment

I did a bit of bible journaling this morning and as I flipped through a page from a daily devotional that I had saved flipped out.
The bible verse that day was Philippians 4:23
"I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content "
Then it spoke of a fellow named Boethius who lived in sixth-century Italy.  He was a politician who served in the royal court. Unfortunately, he fell into disfavor and was imprisoned. While there he wrote these words.
"Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and every state is happy if he that bears it be content."
This spoke to me in my situation.
Yes, I am lonesome and long for contact with my family and friends, but as I sit here at my desk and look out the window at a sunny day and a tree full of spring flowers, how could I not be content.

This is a very pleasant prison I'm in. I have food, work for my busy hands, and I even have toilet paper. 😉💕
So in the midst of this I choose to be thankful. I thank my God for the things I do have and choose not to dwell on the things I don't. I have learned to trust Him so I know that the things I long for will come in His perfect timing.

Thank you Ellen

In case you weren't aware, I have spent many weeks now alone at this house 24-7 and it turns out that I'm very boring company.
Every day though I get at least a chuckle, sometimes an out loud laugh, when I check YouTube. There is always a clip there from the Ellen show, probably because I keep watching them. At first it was ridiculous signs that people sent in, then there were a couple showing what she found while bathing suit shopping. Today as I sat out in the sun on my little porch, a segment came on that I hadn't yet seen. She named it "Clumsy Thumsy"
It was about real life things that happened during text messages and the sometimes unwelcome help from autocorrect. It was either hysterical or I am starved for reasons to laugh cause I set out there by mmyself cracking up laughing. Not quiet little giggles but all out belly laughs. I'm sure all of these young people living around me must think I'm even crazier old woman than I actually am.
Maybe I'd better watch Ellen's YouTube segments in the house going forward. Then only the sweet kids living on the other side of my living room wall will hear me. I'm sure they're used to it by now since they have to listen to me get tickled by a funny television show.

Oh well. I'm old and lonesome  That's a good excuse right?

What can I say? I need laughter.