A place prepared …

A place prepared …

Hubby and I have just recently purchased a condo  …  so that we can move our aging parents to be near us, so that we can help care for them going forward.    Did you know that the Bible…
Springtime joys! – 3.0

Springtime joys! – 3.0

Hubby got some flowers to plant in our daughter’s planter on her back patio.  They all wouldn’t fit, and there wound up being one leftover.   Yay me getting little puff-balls of joyful color for my own back deck!  …
Springtime joys! – 2.0

Springtime joys! – 2.0

When you go to the store to get a birthday present for your son (a flowering tulip magnolia tree), and you wind up coming out with a little something for yourself as well!   Hehe!    Yay for springtime joys!  …
“SOS” signals!

“SOS” signals!

I was standing at the kitchen sink doing the dishes when my attention was caught by a sudden flash of light coming from our neighbor’s front window.   We cannot see our neighbor’s house from ours  …  except through…
Love leaves beauty behind.

Love leaves beauty behind.

When the time came for my friend (who stayed with us following her spine surgery) to go back to her home, in the shuffle of loading everything in the car, her get-well tulips were accidentally left behind.  When…
Squirrelina

Squirrelina

I was sitting at the dining room table having lunch yesterday when there went Squirrelina up the siding and onto the roof!  I was pretty sure she was only eating seeds from off the roof, but a tiny worry…
Sunday joys – coffee with my son!

Sunday joys – coffee with my son!

Hubby and I were headed to church bright and early Sunday morning when a text came in from our son:  “You want to get coffee after church?”   Absolutely!   Hubby and I had never been to Woods Coffee before,…
Springtime joys!

Springtime joys!

It was a rare sunny afternoon, and I was out in the garden tidying up the raspberry vines, when I noticed a little garden snake sunning itself quietly and calmly in the glorious sunshine as well. The very…
Love is peaceable.

Love is peaceable.

Love doesn’t leave prickles in your palms afterwards.   I wrote yesterday about tidying up the raspberry vines.   It was one of those rare sunny afternoons, so I was wandering around the backyard delighting in springtime joys.   I hadn’t…