Kitchen

We took trips last year, but this year decided to invest in the house....begun Dec 17, with the counter tops installed Jan 14th, we were back in business in under 4 weeks. Many thanks to Rick's Remodeling♫

Participating in Alphabe-Thursday Letter K

Bare bones

Plastic kept some of the dust out

Custom butcher block and granite turntable, large sink.

Kind of have a Rooster thing going

New tile floors, walls and granite counter.
Cabinet above my new Whirlpool Fridge is for tray storage.
There's a rooster tile above the window♫

Pull out spice rack and under cabinet lighting

Enormous Lazy Susans top and bottom
Note my rooster tile above the door♫♪

Wine rack.
Doors and drawers are soft close and the shelves in the lowers are pull-outs.

Kind of happy to see the end of January♥

Jeep!

Reminiscing over this past September's wedding events♫♪

Joining Jenny Matlock's Alphabe Thursday Letter J
The Photo Gallery:Adventure
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
Orange You Glad It's Friday
 Saturday Snapshot
Inspire Me Monday

Over the river and through the woods…

Oh, how that Jeep endured the many broods!

Family, friends, through all types of moods.

Two Hundred acres of timbered trails

Hauling fire wood, camping gear, through the dales,

Exploring, fording streams, passing all the trials.

Until, bumperless, with holed floor boards, no window shield,

Battery burned out, no longer able to pull sleds over the field,

Was put into storage, no power to wield.

Dilapidated, de-palpitated, unable to come to life…

Hauled away, stored at my brother’s and his wife.

Then, a daughter’s engagement, and an idea come to life.

Who knew my brother had the skill?

T’was up to the last minute for him to fill the bill.

Success!  It runs again to escort the Bride…Doesn’t it look swell!!!

a true story

Happy Trails♫♪

Ironic Post

Not sure if 'ironic' is the actual term to be applied♫♪ But here goes:
How about a post on a post, from a postal worker?
I have been snapping shots of a lone corner post, wondering what that post sees throughout the year...
Participating in Alphabe-Thursday letter I
and Cool Clicks Thursday
Saturday Snapshot

Happy January♫

Homonym Homilies: Err, Air, Heir

The title speaks for itself♫♪

Participating in Alphabe-Thursday letter H
Inspire Me Monday

Homonym Homilies: Err, Air, Heir  

Err

Errors arrow their ways into our souls,

Marking misery as penance, the tolls.

Mistakes, masking the temptations of the flesh

Pounds its power into our subconsciousness.

Air

Breathe briskly but for a moment, to spare…

For becoming a blessing, a witness to share

As God’s grace and Holy Spirit, fills you to the brim

Awaiting His arrival, with trumpet blast, the din.

Heir

Heaven holds only those who claim their inheritance.

Unfathomable glory greets the inhabitants.

The Son shares all as our brother, from the Father.

 Words from The Word, we have to encourage one another.

Garbo

2013 has begun with challenges!  My PO just had a carrier retire and her replacement has that nasty virus, so I'm the one doing my short route and the bigger route.  Was out past sundown yesterday but hopefully things will go more smoothly.

A short piece for Alphabe- Thursday letter G

^

Garbo,

resplendent in

her haberdashery as

she slipped by, incognito

from her secluded bungalow.

 Pure serendipity, and I, without camera!

^        ^

 !

~~ 

Oh yeah...happy 3rds day♫♪

My phone has a bike bell sound that rings when a comment comes through.  Love it when I'm out on my route and the bell gets rung! 

Xecuting Perfection

A preachy poem, to participate in ABC Wednesday....check out the other X entries!
as well as Inspire Me Monday

Executing Perfection 

Of all the executions to which Christ could have succumbed

Have you ever understood that crucifixion was the only one?

An executioner was needed for that particular tortured death.

All other forms, one could execute on oneself, to stop one’s breath.

Stoning? Pull out the corner stone of a fragile wall.

Hanging? A rope, a belt, a stool from which to fall.

Immolation? Gasoline and a fire stick

Suffocation? A plastic bag will do the trick.

The list goes on and on for one to commit suicide.

 So why was it that crucifixion

Was the method of execution perfection?

That is for you to ponder, for you to decide.

Wrestling With A Heart Attack

Participating in ABC Wednesday letter W...with an instrumental for the young at heart♫♪

1. Blond and blue eyed in her jeans, gripping the wheel of her jeep

Casting her eyes down my way making my heart leap.

She passes by smiling and, tapping the horn, it beeps.

I’m on the side lines

with high hopes she will notice me.

Wrestlin’ with my heart,

she hamstrings  me.

Refrain

So wrangle this, and wrangle that.

I’m all a twist. Imagine that.

~

2. Hallways are crowded yet I feel all alone of all things

Books by her desk, she grabs her bag by its purse strings.

She stops to talk, and I am saved the bell, it rings.

I’m on the side lines

with high hopes she will notice me.

Wrestlin’ with my heart,

she hamstrings  me.

Refrain

I’m wrestling with a love attack.

She has me up against my back

She’s tied my heart.  There is no slack.

I hope she will notice me.

Wrestlin’ with my heart,

she hamstrings  me.

So wrangle this, and wrangle that.

I think I’m whipped. Imagine that.
(repeat and mixed)

Wrestling with a love attack. I’m all a twist

She has me up against my back. I’ll wrangle that.

She’s wrestling with a love attack. I think I’m whipped

She has me up against my back.  I’ll wrangle that.

She’s tied my heart

there is no going back.

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Dream Quest

An instrumental that I dreamed up♫♪ (For real, I had a dream I was watching one of my songs being recorded and I immediately wrote down these lyrics!)
Problems getting the song to play ?  Try pulling the cursor all the way to the right to get it to load♪
Linking to Alphabe-Thursday Letter D

Refrain:

I woke up and found I’d had a dream,

A vivid little dream.

Effect on me is overwhelming.

You were right outside my open door,

A fact I can’t ignore.

My dream quest is so all consuming.

I am ready now

Believe me

I can say right now

No faking

I’m back on the road to life

I’m taking

You right with me

I am on a dream quest

Refrain

I am on a quest, dream quest.

(mixed)

You’ve always been there.

Showing that you care.

I am now aware.

My quest’s beginning.

I am on a dream quest.

Refrain

I am on a quest, dream quest

(mixed)

I am ready now

Believe me

I can say right now

No faking

I’m back on the road to life

I’m taking

You right with me

I am on a dream quest

~

Refrain (4X)

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Vanguard

Linking to ABC Wednesday: letter V
and The Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons
plus Cool Clicks Thursday
Saturday Snapshot

Vanguard

Sentinels,

Still standing at attention;

Husks, holstering their ammo.

Change Is In The Air

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Participating in Alphabe-Thursday letter C
and Inspire Me Monday
Check out other entries!

1. Listen in as I tell a tale

Of why change is in the air

Refrain:

Feel the shift

Of attitude and understand my place.

I have learned

The ultimate in understanding grace.

2. Used to be that I thought my plans

Were the ticket out of here.

My puny plan just would not congeal.

But I kept on,  I’d persevere.

3. People prayed that I’d find my way

But I scoffed at them. They were weird.

I walked a straight line and faked the good life but

 I really never really understood.

Refrain

 Always set the cart before the horse

Instead of just believing.

Evidence is all around me.

Now I have the chance

To change my core.

Revised refrain:

Feel the lift

Of attitude and understanding grace

I have learned

The ultimate in knowing my own place.

4. Daily now I look up to the sky,

I imagine how He’ll appear.

I see the world thru diffr’ent eyes,

The chaos holds no appeal.

5. Navigating thru my life of trials

Is easier you can see.

The change in me is so much better now,

no regrets and no “what ifs “ for me.

Revised refrain

Change is in the air 6X

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Universal Truth

Participating in ABC Wednesday letter U....check out the other blogs!

T'is the season to talk about Christ and his birth, but more important is his Resurrection, thus I offer a poem:

Universal Truth 

For your perusal, contemplation:

The Resurrection verses Creation…

Of the two, The Resurrection is the bigger deal.

It was more intimate, personal, more real.

You see, creation is merely an equation

Arranging time, space, elementation.

But to cover the sins of all mankind

Took deep thought, sacrifice, a caring mind.

So the power expended was greater indeed.

We are to think on these things, in time of need

Actually, you should think it daily, today, tomorrow…

You’ll not regret it; it will lift your sorrow.

OK, I totally made up a word, poetic licence and all...

elementation: the adhesion of all physical laws in nature.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Cheers♥

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Cannot remember who taught me these verses, but I passed them on to my kids, my Girl Scout Troop and car pool kids.  Just wondered if anyone else was subjected to such whimsy♫♪

Participating in Alphabe-Thursday letter B.  Check out the other participants!
These tongue twisting verses go to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic:

1. One pink porpoise popped up the hole

The other pink porpoise popped down 

One pink porpoise popped up the hole

The other pink porpoise popped down 

One pink porpoise popped up the hole 

The other pink porpoise popped down  

As one pink porpoise popped up the hole 

The other pink porpoise popped down

Refrain

Glory, glory how peculiar

Glory, glory how peculiar

Glory, glory how peculiar 

As one pink porpoise popped up the hole 

The other pink porpoise popped down

2. One free fly flew up the flue

The other free fly flew down...etc.

3. One warm worm wiggled up the walk

the other warm worm wiggled down...etc.

I'm sure more verses could be made up but these were enough to get everyone singing♫♪

Now that this is stuck in your head....deal with it! and have a nice day♥

Thunder in the Mountain

A chaotic instrumental....with lyrics attuned to nature's wrath.  See what you think♥
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Time for T....an entry for ABC Wednesday♫♪

1. There may be thunder in the mountains and thunder on the plains,

There may be rocks along the road and heartache down the lane.

Floods run down the hillside and fire takes the trees.

There's times when earth just opens up wide

And swallows all its needs.

You fill my future perfectly.

We can face each others fears,

Even when we're wrapped in

Darkest night.

Refrain:

Thunder in the mountain

Precedes a future imperfect.

Rumbling our world apart,

Our love it will dissect.

Time will be on our side,

As we chart the course of our lives

Hanging on and focused

On our fight.

2. Illness may besiege us or we will face calamity.

We will feel like falling, collapsing to our knees.

We have just a lifetime to meet our destiny.

But know that love will hold together

When thunder claps its hands.

~

Refrain

3. You may hear the thunder pounding through your veins.

As grief has taken hold of your life expanding wounds and pains.

Tears will salt our lifetime, and test our love's stronghold

But we will face the storms together

When thunder traps our peace.

Refrain

Heaven and earth may change their course but we'll pass through it all.

Love is on our side, nothing can penetrate that wall.

You fill my future perfectly.

We can face each other’s fears,

Even when we're wrapped in

Darkest night.

Refrain

Time will be on our side,

As we chart the course of our lives

Hanging on and focused

On our fight.

Refrain (2X)

Thunder in the mountain, love will pass the test

Thunder in the mountain, thunder put to rest.

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