I’ve got mail!

I’ve got mail!

Hubby and I received the most exciting package in the mail this weekend!   It was from our special little friends up in Alaska!   N. thanked me for his special bowl in his Back-to-School box.    He let me know…
Freaking out!

Freaking out!

Concrete roofing tiles came flying off my roof, from almost 3-stories up  …  landing with a terrible,  jarring,  shattering  crash!  in a metal dumpster-trailer parked just outside my kitchen window.    It was rather unnerving!   Crash!  …  after crash! …
October Joys!

October Joys!

When you take your wife to Home Depot ... you wind up coming out with flowers you hadn't intended on purchasing. Haha! Hubby had needed to pick up a couple of packs of fasteners from Home Depot. So,…
Shattered!

Shattered!

Life leaves us shattered sometimes.   We lose someone we love deeply  …  and we are shattered!   Everything about who we used to be is shattered in a million pieces!    The divorce leaves us shattered!   The pieces of…
Barely a flicker

Barely a flicker

Do you ever feel like your “flame” is just barely a flicker?   This time of year, it’s nice to light a candle  …  because the mornings are dark and cold  …  and the days are rainy and grey.  …
What is Heaven like??

What is Heaven like??

Someone special is no longer here.  Jesus called them to Heaven.  And we shed our tears!  What is Heaven like on the other side??  …  when the breath leaves our body and we’re no longer alive?  In that…
Fighter jets circling overhead!

Fighter jets circling overhead!

It was about 3:42pm on Saturday afternoon ... hubby and I had been outside working, but we had just come inside. Suddenly, there was the roar of fighter jets going past overhead! Whoa!! Hubby hurried outside to see…
Fall Surprises

Fall Surprises

Hubby and I were having dinner one evening this past week when the driveway Ring went off. Lo and behold ... it was a little baby bear! How exciting! I had seen this little bear about a month…
Sunrise in the Rain

Sunrise in the Rain

In the darkness of early morning the sky began to turn brilliant out my kitchen window.  This definitely calls for a walk down the street to see the sunrise!   I pulled on a coat and headed out the…