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Trusting the air traffic controller

Yesterday was the Blue Angels’ practice day. Today is the "real deal.” Exciting! Via my handy dandy flight-tracking website, I zoomed in on the portion of the map where the air show would be … then I settled…

July 31, 2026Life Lessons

It’s practice time!

I was calmly sitting at my dining table working on the computer when all of a sudden … the thundering roar of fighter jets blasted past overhead! Whoa! The Blue Angels are in town! WhooHoo! (for a second…

July 30, 2026Life Lessons

Christmas in July! (part 2)

Here at the end of July, I thought it would be fun to share an update on how the plants from my Christmas Advent Seed Calendar are doing. Christmas in July! (You can see part 1 here: Christmas…

July 29, 2026Lessons in the Dirt

Faithfulness … and “fork support”

With it being the last couple of days of July, I thought it would be fun to share with you how my Advent Seed Calendar is doing. Christmas in July!Today's highlight is the sunflowers!In the last blog post,…

July 28, 2026Lessons in the Dirt

Changing as we age … yet still the same person

Here at the end of July, I thought it would be fun to share with you how my Advent Seed Calendar is doing. Christmas in July!Among the wonderful seeds in my Advent Seed Calendar, there were Zinna seeds.…

July 27, 2026Lessons in the Dirt

Christmas in July! (part 1)

Last Thanksgiving my son and daughter-in-law gave me the most wonderful Christmas present ... a Christmas Advent Seed Calendar! I was thrilled! There were 24 different little flaps to open on my Advent Seed Calendar throughout the month…

July 26, 2026Lessons in the Dirt

There’s a tool for that!

Hubby was at our son and daughter-in-law’s house helping our son to “gut the hut.” Our son was off taking loads of stuff to the dump while hubby was busy pulling up the flooring. However, hubby ran into…

July 25, 2026Life Lessons

I’m in my way …

Hubby had gone over to our son and daughter-in-law’s house to help “gut the hut.” While the guys were busy doing manly things, my daughter and I had planned to hang out together. I was supposed to be…

July 24, 2026Life Lessons

Give us this day our daily salal berries … and apples.

I was getting ready this morning when my attention was caught by the two does in the backyard moseying across to feast on the salal berries underneath the Pacific Yew tree. The verse immediately popped into my mind: …

July 23, 2026Lessons from the forest

How beautiful are the feet …

My daughter recently gave me a pair of pineapple socks. I was delighted! Yesterday, as I was delighting over my pineapple socks, the verse suddenly popped into my head: “How beautiful … are the feet of those who…

July 22, 2026Life Lessons