BACKYARD SHENANIGANS

A DAY OUT

 With my daughter

THIS IS THE CAT

 The cat with catnip filled sock!

UPDATE THE PLAN

When some part of your plan falls apart, 

regroup, update the plan, invite new players...

move forward!

Wisdom from 12 years ago

COUNTRY COMMON SENSES

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.

Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.

Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honorable life… Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.

Don ‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t bothering you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around..

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

Most times, it just gets down to common sense.

LIFE

DICTATE

 

BUT DIFFERENT

 

RELATIONSHIPS

 We all start out as strangers

We find people irrationally compelling 

We find souls made out of the same stuff ours are

… and our lives intersect, in a way that makes them feel like we could never be separate 

And this is lovely

Brianna West

CHOPSTICKS AND CHARM

 

NATURE

 

In my backyard!

REFLECTING

DON’T WAIT

THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS

Now I know!

UPDATE

Here is tonight’s Possum 

named Blossom! 

Our dog is a large black lab…

Do the math… Blossom is Huge!!!

Glad she feels so comfy in our yard. 😟

GRIEF

I’ll be very honest, when I read the summery for this book, my latest read, I didn’t read it very carefully. Or maybe the summarized description of this book wasn’t completely understood, by me, the reader. I was excited to read it due to the author and the narrator.

To my dismay and disappointment, I found out that this book was all about “grief”. 

I actually found that the writing was done so extremely well that it drew me right in. I found that I couldn’t wait to get back to the book almost as soon as I hit pause. 

I am looking at grief from a new vantage point. The way the details unfolded and were shared, totally helped me to see that process of grief is truly a personal journey and has steps to navigate. 

I probably would never have chosen this book if I had known it’s true genre. But as this new year has started, and I am wanting to expand my literary consumption, this was a perfect start. 

I do highly recommend this book. 

DISCIPLINE

POSSUM

This is the POSSUM that lives behind my house. 

I think her name is BLOSSOM 

TAKING CHARGE

 Life isn’t just happening to us. We can take charge and make this life into what we want it to be.

WORD OF THE DAY

…an answer to perfectionism and materialism.