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Morning Devotional...


Psalm 12:2, 6. "They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak . . . The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."

People's words can sometimes be alarming.  They could even produce fear, and, at times, even shame.  The Lord's words, in tremendous contrast, produce relief from all that fear and shame that's so prevalent in the world, and they often result even in joy! 

The problem is that the vast majority of the people of this world haved lived their entire lifetimes in rebelleion against their Maker. They've actually tried to ignore Him, and their focus has therefore centered around themselves along with the advantages they think they may gain over other people. 

As if that weren't enough, their mad scramble to bolster their own self importance has often resulted in meanness and lying, so, in large part, the world has been filled with the corruption from that  habitual lying.  It's actually become a dangerous environment for all who live here.

Because of all these things, this world has become a dreary place, a place of disappointment and a place of fear, a place that easily produces discouragement and expectation of failure.

In the midst of such negativity, though, there's one thing we can fairly shout about: our thankfulness for the rock-solid truth of God's Word and for the reflection of that purity and truth in the lives and words of His people!  Oh thank God, then, for the complete dependability of God's written Word!  Oh thank Him for an oasis of joy in the midst of this desert because of Jesus Christ our Savior!

The psalmist says, "The wicked prowl on every side, when violence is exalted among the sons of men."  But he is also able to say, "The words of the Lord are pure words!"

Do you need an oasis?  Turn again and again to our Lord and His Word.
Al Moak

Our new member, Shutterbugmom  posted this and I'm moving it here so we can all comment:

Quote from: shutterbugmom on December 31, 2006, 11:51:56 PM
Tonight I remember my sister who died 8 years ago tonight at the age of 44.  She fought Leukemia for almost four years and finally, God called her home.  She loved fall, like me.  She loved horses, like me.  And, like me, she loved photography!  I miss her very much!  Tonight, when I remember her I thank God for all the special times we shared together while she was on this earth.  I'm so thankful we'll be reunited in heaven one glorious day. 

New year's Blessings to all!

Thank you Al for the great devotion

And Happy New Year to you all and may you all experience the closeness of our Saviour as you go about your daily duties in the coming year.

Quote from: Pat on January 01, 2007, 01:17:04 AM
Our new member, Shutterbugmom  posted this and I'm moving it here so we can all comment:

Quote from: shutterbugmom on December 31, 2006, 11:51:56 PM
Tonight I remember my sister who died 8 years ago tonight at the age of 44.  She fought Leukemia for almost four years and finally, God called her home.  She loved fall, like me.  She loved horses, like me.  And, like me, she loved photography!  I miss her very much!  Tonight, when I remember her I thank God for all the special times we shared together while she was on this earth.  I'm so thankful we'll be reunited in heaven one glorious day. 

New year's Blessings to all!

Thanks, Pat ... I don't know why--maybe 'cause it's a new year--but I had to log in tonight!     That has been remedied.   

Anyway, Shutterbugmom, I want to welcome you to CP and to let you know I, most certainly, understand your feelings at this time.  My daughter passed away seven years ago December 31.  I miss her terribly, as well, and I can empathisize with your feelings of loss for your sister.  Jean was 46.

I have not been around for a while but y'all probably didn't even notice.  Things just seem to be crowding me these daze.

Janet~I watched One Night With The King.  It was on at 7 pm here then repeated at 9.  I read the book and liked it better.   

Happy New Year Everyone!

Welcome Shutterbugmom!

Hey Colin ~ good to see you back, missed ya!

Hi Jane I see you're on now too.

Sorry I've been scarce, I have been reading and praying for each one of you. I've just been busy trying to keep things on an even keel here. Sometimes I feel like the  zooKeeper. 

Ok, gotta start meds for Michael, Have a God filled and blessed day! and New Year!!!

Trusting,
<><Jeannine

A new year... more resolutions and good intentions.  I was struck while doing family research (genealogy) how our past is cast in stone... we cannot change the past.  We do have our present and future in our hands.  What we do today will make a significant difference in our future to our families and ourselves. 

Bless you all.

This is a new year and I still awaken much too early in the A.M. but how else would I be able to view the promising sunrise? 

Al Your message on "God cares" - there have been two reminders to me this weekend of what you wrote.  Thank you for your message.

Shutterbug Good for you for thinking of the future and your reunion one day with your sister.  Just as Al's message that we can look to our future. 

Jane: I don't know how people live without any faith - the death of a child destroys so many but your faith sustains you. 

Larry:  Let us hope that your daughter gets the right medical treatment - it sounds like they are keeping a good watch over her but we know who is really watching.

Pat This has to be a quiet day for you and I am sorry that you are feeling sad after the phone call with your brother.  Take care.

Don is making breakfast of biscuits and gravy, southern style.  You are all cyber welcome!  After a childhood of hot oatmeal for the daily breakfast, it is nice to have something different and I have become attached to the biscuits for after all we did live in Texas for nine years! 

Carol

Hi everyone. 

Al, thanks for the fine devotional. 

Shutterbug, glad you have joined us here on CP.  It is wonderful to have memories of those we have loved and lost.

The latest on our daughter is that after they again stopped the Heperin around noon yesterday her enzyme count went high again and she was put back on Heperin.  They are scheduling her for another heart cath either tomorrow or Wednesday.  Today being a holiday those procedures are not being done.  They were trying to get as many people discharged from the hospital as possible.  It is a good thing she wasn't discharged.  By Wednesday, she will have been in the hospital for one week. 

Someone sent us some cute saying from young children that I had not seen before and thought it would be a good thing to share today as we start the year 2007:

3-year-old Reese:
"Our Father, Who does art in heaven, Harold is His name. Amen."
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A little boy was overheard praying: "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am."
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After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him three times what was wrong. Finally, the boy replied, "That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I wanted to stay with you guys."
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I had been teaching my three-year old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer for several evenings at bedtime. She would repeat after me the lines from the prayer. Finally, she decided to go solo. I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer: "Lead us not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver us from E-mail.
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One particular four-year-old prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."
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A Sunday school teacher asked her children as they were on the way to church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?" One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping."
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Six-year-old Angie and her four-year-old brother, Joel, were sitting together in church. Joel giggled, sang, and talked out loud. Finally, his big sister had had enough. "You're not supposed to talk out loud in church." "Why? Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked. Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, "See those two men standing by the door? They're hushers."
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A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin 5, and Ryan
3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait.' Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus!"
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A father was at the beach with his children when the four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore where a seagull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked. "He died and went to Heaven," the Dad replied. The boy thought a moment and then said, "Did God throw him back down?"
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A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?" "I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied. "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answered. The daughter bowed her head and said, "Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?"

I did restore my laptop to its factory condition last evening and am now in the process of putting back on it the programs I want.  I should be set for the new year.

Good morning, I am not a happy camper today. I woke up with a cold brewing. It seems that almost everyone at church yesterday either just got a cold or was just getting over a cold. Mine came from Savannah, she was sick Christmas when she was here.

Welcome  shutterbugmom It is good to remember those  who have gone home to be with the Lord.

Today is my Bebe's birthday she is 5 years old. Big doggie hugs to Bebe. This is  the dog who was found in a dumpster by my friend Kitty's son and brought to  me when she was about 4-5 weeks old. I gave her Jan 1 as her birthday.

I have to go work for Janfor about an hour today I think I mentioned that last night on here. I am also taking down my tree today.

Later

Hi Everyone...a cool dry day in N.Ireland. No sign of snow yet.

Hi Al....lovely devotional and I love that song Because He Lives...just in my third time of playing it and will be on a few more times!

Hi Larry...sorry about your daughter. I love the cute sayings from the children. Brilliant!

Hi Pat....take care and I am thinking of you.

Hello to Shutterbugmom...sorry for your sad loss and how you must be feeling now at this sad time of year for you. So glad you have so many happy memories of your sister and you had so much in common. Take care.

Hi Carol..Happy New Year to you!

Hi Jeannine...missed ya too!  Happy New Year!

Hi Marilyn..sorry about your cold..take care.

Did post a New Years poem yesterday...I dont know how to go back to see it!

Happy New Year to everyone!

Off to daughters home today for our family gathering.  And of course to watch Michigan win the Rose Bowl.

Happy New year to all of you.

Now that I have a digital camera....when I learn how to use it...,.maybe I can/will post some pictures hereabouts. 

When I was figuring out a budget for retirement..there was no high speed internet on the horizon, nor was there a cellphone, nor a digital camera.

Hi Janet....I went back to yesterdays page and I do understand what you were saying about answering a SHOUT when you have something ready for posting...you do indeed loose your posting....it has happened to me once or twice!

Hi Ruth Ann Bice...Happy New Year.

If I have left anyone out it is not intentional.

God bless.

Welcome, Shutterbugmom!!!  I think one thing that a Christian has that a worldly person does not have is hope.  God gives us the hope that we will be reunited with our loved ones that have passed away that was God's children, too. 

Jane ~ I also had to log in today.  Must be a New Year thing!  Did you click to always be logged in?

Ed ~ Let me know who won the Rose Bowl game.  I vowed when my husband passed away and I had control over the remote, that I didn't have to watch sports...just Ice Skating, gymnastics and the Olympics!

Kitty called me last evening to see if I would like to go out to eat with her and Bob.  So we did.  Very enjoyable.  Lots of fun.  We were home way before midnight but I did stay up to watch the New Year come in at Times Square, NYC.  God bless Dick Clark.  I got tears in my eyes when he was talking.  I grew up with Dick Clark and American Bandstand!! 

I have already made two trips to Kaye Don's driveway to take trash.  I also took Ivalou's since she is gone.  I hope the trash truck runs today....they ran on Labor Day and I am thinking they run every holiday but Christmas.  I guess I will see by evening.

After being outside twice, I looked out and it was like we had a white-out for about 5 minutes.  Snow.  But the ground is still green and brown!!

I called Kitty this morning to wish her Happy New Year.  I remember Mom calling everyone on New Year's Day and asking every one in a disguised voice, 'Is this 1-9-5-3?  Or 'Is this 1-9-4-9?'  That was before everyone had 7 digit phone numbers.  Mom got a kick out of fooling her friends with that.  Our phone number back then was 78-9...a party line...the nine meaning we answered the phone when it was a long and four shorts.  Remember that? 

I am listening and recording the Rose Bowl Parade on HGTV...non-commercial.  I will watch it this afternoon after I get caught up on the pc.

No one is alone when they have Jesus.

Ettas Sue....I do love the comic things you post...like that wain for instance!

Thanks, Etta Sue!  I'm going to finish watching the parade (on HGTV) and then come back and post here!

Later--no one else has posted, so I just clicked on modify.  It's so much nicer to watch the Rose Parade with no commercials.  And I enjoyed it so much more today because they didn't stop and have a bunch of entertainers sing, etc.  I always hated that, as it made us miss a lot of the floats; and that's what I want to see.  So I'm a happy camper today! 

We still have no phone service, not sure if we could get out if we try, as everything is still encased in ice.  Some of the ice has fallen off the lines, I notice.  So I guess this will end someday. 

Welcome to SHUTTERBUGMOM!  We hope to learn more about you as the days unfold.

Colin, your poem today speaks to my hear in a special way.  Thanks!

Larry, it is nice you can do all that computer stuff yourself.  Take good care of Larry for us, will you?

Pat, I hope you are having a good day today at your family gathering.  Sorry about the health problems in your family.

It is cold here, and I have framing and scrapbooking and cooking calling me, so I shall return later!!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I am back home ready to relax with a nice cup of Organic Black Jasmine tea. The dogs have had their walks and I have done my shopping and gone to have lunch with Mimi at the Jalisco Cafe in Eureka. I went to Winco to buy several Lean Cuisine dinners to have on hand, to Target to buy Purina One dog food and some tablets for my cold.

It makes it so difficult to  use my CPAP  machine when I can't breathe through my nose. I should probably go to the co-op tomorrow and buy some Eucalyptus essential oil  to add to the water in my  machine.

Janet have you got your power back on  yet?

Al I forgot to tell you what a great devotional you put in today. Thank you I needed that.

Hi Jane thanks for the sweet New years card.

Nita Hello there sister My fellow dog 2 dog mom. My Skype name is tudogmom.

Kevin do the Japanese celebrate the Chinese New Year or do they have their own celebrations that are different than the Chinese.?
Talk later y-all

Hi Everyone!

I'm a little overwhelmed by all the warm welcomes, so I won't reply to each of them separately.  Thank you so much!  I'm new at this forum thing, so please forgive me if I don't reply to everything or if I post in the wrong place, etc...Pat has already helped me in this area.  Thanks, Pat!

Let's see...more about me?  I've been married for 17 years.  Our girls are 13 (in four days) and 16 in one month.  I like rubberstamping, scrapbooking, reading, horses, and more.  

Now, for my favorite subject (besides God and family)...photography!  I have always loved taking pictures.  I got my first camera at the age of 10 or so.  (My username probably should have been Mommerozzi because that's what my kids call me.)

I was in a car accident 4 years ago this May, on our way to my brother-in-law's funeral and got a concussion, whiplash, injured my T3 and T6 and I totally messed up my jaw muscles.  I was able to do little more than lie on the couch and ice my neck/back and read.  So, I did.  I began checking out books from the library.  Lots of books!  Usually 17 or so at a time.  I just began studying.  That's my background as far as photography schooling is concerned.  I've been to one photography seminar that was put on by our local camera club.  So, I guess I'm homeschooled like my girls.

I bought a Canon AE1 Program in Sept. 2003 and started putting what I'd been learning into practice, on our family vacation to Yellowstone.  I took 26 rolls of film and got some great shots.  When I returned home, I bought a used Canon EOS ELAN lle and when I got my settlement money, (which wasn't a whole lot more than we owed in medical bills) my wonderful husband let me buy my Canon 20D and a new tripod and a background stand and a flash for the camera.  

So far, my accomplishments include three Honorable Mentions, one Fourth Place and two Third place ribbons in the Western Idaho Fair.  I also was published in The Photographer's Forum's "Best of Photography Annual" as a finalist in their Spring Photography Contest in 2004 and 2005.  My pictures were also used for a publicity poster advertising my daughter's dance school recital. Ummm, I think that's it.

I'm currently judging a photography contest for a creative arts school in our area and that's been a challenging, but great experience for me.  

I'm also working on our church's very first pictorial directory.  Please pray for that project for me.  I want God's directory to glorify Him.

I take pictures of our daughters and their friends doing their Irish Step Dance (I can give you a website to see some of those pictures, if it's allowed-just let me know) on a pretty regular basis, too.  Moving targets are great practice for wildlife photography.  

To wrap it all up, I will say that my passion is capturing God's creation in as much of it's glory as I possibly can with my camera.  I especially like outdoor and wildlife photography) When my kids are grown, I'll make photography my full time business, but for now I take portraits here and there (which is not my thing) and sell fine art prints and greeting cards as often as I can.

Thanks for listening and thanks for the great devotional, Al.  I praise God for life, and for another day to capture His beauty!  I also look forward to seeing more of your photos that are posted and to posting more of mine.  I hope to get to know you all in 2007!  Blessings and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!

Hi Shutterbugmon...Begooragh an' bejabers...th' auld Irish Step Dance! Ah never tried it maesel but it luks quer an' guid. Ye jus lift yer feet an' they fal themselves..boys o' boys! Th' wife ken fer mak mae dance..she ken!

Look forward to the pictures...by the way...I am from N. ireland. Take care!

Shutterbugmom, do you have a shorter name we can call you?  It sounds as if you are one busy gal! And congratulations on doing so well with your photography in such a short time.  For sure, you will have lots of good photo memories of your girls.

We have phone service again!!!  YEA!!  Come to find out, Darrel's old computer was holding the line open all that time!  I hope that doesn't mean we will be charged long distance charges for all that time!    I called right away to check on Beth and learned she has been very sick, sounds like a flu bug.  They have kept her quarantined in her room. 

Down in the SE corner of Colorado where I grew up, and where my brother still lives, they have terrible winter weather problems.  15 foot snowdrifts, everything buried in the snow.  He hasn't been able to get his tractors out so he could feed his cattle; the forest service has been dropping hay to them.  And 23 counties in Kansas have been declared disaster areas by our governor.  So we have not gotten the worst of this one, not by a long shot!

I got 2007 off to a good start by cutting 5 fancy double mats, and assembling some frames.  I will finish them all up tomorrow. 

Larry, I enjoyed the kids' sayings, thanks!

Hi, friends,

I came in earlier today but ended up losing my post - ah, well, maybe that one wasn't intended to be here. 

Today has been a good day of rest and relaxation and getting together with family and friends.

Tomorrow - on the other hand - will call for me to be back on the job.

It's good to hear from everyone and hope that y'all are doing fine.

Ruth Ann

Quote from: Colin on January 01, 2007, 11:12:03 AM
Hi Janet....I went back to yesterdays page and I do understand what you were saying about answering a SHOUT when you have something ready for posting...you do indeed loose your posting....it has happened to me once or twice!

No one should lose their post.  So I want to know about this.  And Janet didn't lose hers, Colin.  It's still there if you click on "View All".  That shows all of the shouts.

Quote from: shutterbugmom on January 01, 2007, 06:12:49 PM
 I like rubberstamping, scrapbooking, reading, horses, and more.  

You'd be so happy to know that I received the most interesting little scrapbook/album for my Christmas present from my 9 year old granddaughter, Rebecca.  She and her mother did me the nicest little album with all pictures from the year 2006 in it.

Pat what Janet and Colin are referring to has happened to me too. I have been writing a post in TFTW and noticed over to the left side that someone had shouted at me so I wrote a shout back and lost my post  I was working on. Now do you understand?

Pat, maybe Janet was posting here,  and responded to a shout in the middle, then when she went back to continue her post here, it was gone.  Is this what you meant, Janet?  That's what I thought as I read the first time, but I have been wrong once or twice.

So nice to meet you, Shutterbugmom.   I like mommarazzi (however you spelled it).  That's really clever.

Marilyn, I didn't know you could put anything besides water into your cpap machine.  I know we have different kinds, but mine says not to because it could damage the machine.  It sounds like that would be so soothing to have the oil in it, but I'd be afraid to try it.   

I've been tired again today.  I see the doctor on Thursday, so guess I'll mention that.   I've already mentioned it to my Great Physician.   I love Him.  Nita

Oh, Marilyn said the same thing while I was being too slow in posting. lol  Nita

Hi Pat....if you respond to a Shout working at a post..you certainly loose the post! It has happened to me more than once!

Hi all....see yous later!

Nita mine says not to put anything in it too. But putting  1-2 drops of essential oil in the water has not hurt my machine. I often put  1 drop of lavender oil in the water.

I have to go for a blood draw this morning to check my cholesterol so I am drinking plenty of water.  They always tell me to do that because they have to use the small veins to get anything from me. I do not take any of the cholesterol drugs and It went way down 6 months ago with my use of Niacin and walking the dogs daily. It should be down a lot more by  now.

L8er.

I believe most federal offices, including the post office will be closed today for the funeral of President Ford.  Isn't it amazing that the media can find out he was after all not so dumb, not so clumsy, and quite bright, a war hero and all these things?  A fine and gentle man.  The media prints and airs anything they want and years later we only then find out the bias in our news.  ....  now, off the soapbox.

Back to our regular lives around here without a holiday coming and today I am going to go and exercise this morning.  Don has a meeting in Denver. 

Colin: I meant to mention that it is so nice to see your picture of green by your posts.  Did you make any resolutions this year?  I forgot.  I should make a resolution to try to remember.

Pat:  What a nice present - I mean your scrapbook from a granddaughter.  My GD will be 10 at the end of May. 

Ed:  So right about a budget - expenses keep rising and faster than we live our days.

Etta Sue:  LOL on the party line.  I remember those on auntiie's farm.  We had to be careful about what we said as so many would listen.  We never had a party line in Seattle -

shutterbugmom:  There, I typed it - I had shortened your name before on another post. 

Must go - it is still icy outside & Don did dig the heavy snow out of the window wells so the basement has light.  One small step....


Carol

Hi everyone. 

Happy to be able to report that we went to the hospital and brought our daughter back to her apartment yesterday afternoon around 5 pm.  The cardiologists decided they could do the cath on an outpatient basis.  She still has many health issues but we will just take things one day at a time and see what God has in his plan for our lives. 

We have a truly beautiful day here in Georgia with the sun brightly out and it is suppose to go back to about 60 again today as it did yesterday.  Pat is taking down the Christmas decorations.  She didn't put up too many but it is still a big job.  I have done some carrying of items for her and then some dusting but needed to rest for awhile as don't have much endurance.  However, I am feeling much better today than I did yesterday afternoon and evening. 

Today was our senior group luncheon but we decided to pass this month as she wanted to get the house cleaned and the decorations down.  We are currently without a housekeeper and this is a good reminder of how much we appreciate her good work.  We hope she will be able to come back when she is better. 

Carol, I certainly agree with your comments on the news media.  Isn't it a shame they can't just report the facts and to see their role as something besides tearing down of our society?

I do hope Don isn't doing very much snow shoveling or moving.  That is what first tipped me off about 20 years ago to the fact that I had some serious heart issues.  I don't even own a snow shovel as wouldn't dare attempt to shovel snow anymore.  Fortunately here in Georgia that is not a big item.

Marilyn, glad you have had success in getting your cholesterol down with diet and exercise.  I have to go for another blood test this week to get mine checked again.

Pat, that sounds like a very thoughtful gift from your granddaughter.  I am sure it will mean more to you than something purchased in a store.

Ruth Ann, I always looked forward to time off from work but also getting back to it after a vacation time. 

Janet, I have been seeing and hearing the reports of the snow drifts and problems in SW Kansas.  Glad your phones are back in order.  Sure hope this is the worst storm to hit your area this year.

Shutterbugmor, it sounds like you have a nice background in photography and have experienced a lot of success with your efforts. 

Ed, sorry about the loss for your team there in MIchigan.  Our Georgia Tech team also lost after having a good lead to West Virginia.  There sure were a lot of games yesterday.

Etta Sue, I haven't watched the Rose Bowl Parade for several years but those floats are sure amazing and Janet, I sure agree with you that we don't need the entertainers singing as a part of the parade as usually they are promoting a program on the channel doing the televising.

Colin, thanks for another fine poem.  You are certainly talented.

Guess I have rested long enough so better try to finish up the dusting for Pat. 

Well, after crocheting and watching reruns on TV, I went to bed early and read a book.  The book I am reading is like remembering my younger days.  The author is from a little town in Indiana and she is about my age.  She mentions things that have completely left my memory list.  Such refreshing reading.  The author is Haven Kimmel from Mooreland, Indiana.  I know she has at least two books...maybe more.  (Since she is from Mooreland!) 

Thanks, Colin, for reminding me that I am not alone...never.  But can I be lonely without my sister next door?

Larry ~ You posted while I was composing.  Great that Stacey is home.  I know she is happy about that.  Did you see the Rocket Man on the Oklahoma float in the Rose Bowl Parade?  He was a hit.  I also recorded the parade on CBS or NBC.  What I didn't see on HGTV, I saw on the other one....like the dragons shooting fire from their mouth 15 feet.

Bright and sunny here but cold...only 31°F.  Frost is on the punkin...oops!  No punkins out there but it is frosty everywhere!  So all the grass is light green!  And the dirt is tan!  I am hoping to go to the Dollar General for a few items and probably Subway for lunch. 

So far this new year has been a pretty good year!!