IT'S COLD BABY

Good morning 

to a very frosty, 

18 degrees!  

Burrrrrrita!

WORD OF THE DAY

OPUS
Work of Art; on a Grand scale

HERO OF THE WEEK

My Hero of The Week is my new neighbor.

He rescued me from a massive rodent issue.

This is the second time he has rescued me

in as many months. I am blessed! It is

VERY GOOD

to have a country man as a neighbor!!!

The CROONING Accountant and Me

My life is beautiful and I am blessed.

I stopped blogging because

I didn't want one person following my life....

I see in retrospect, that one person doesn't matter.

A Very Big "THANK YOU" To My

Crooning Accountant

You Reminded Me Just

How Much I Miss My Blog and....Me

Thank You For Missing Me Too!

  I will continue to share!

Mrs SMITH COULD DO THIS

http://www.boredpanda.com/car-art-sharpie-pen-drawing/

A RAINY KENTUCKYANA SUNDAY DRIVE

 

Do Or Die

Perfect Storm

Waiting For Superman

No One Like You

Sweet Home Alabama

Take Me Home, Country Road

I Hate Myself For Loving You

Heartbreaker

Black Dog

Ain't It Fun

Whataya Want From Me

No Such Thing

Stay

Beat Of The Music

This Everday Love

Roam

Yeah

Life Is A Highway

Talladega

Leave the Night On

MID WEST RACK

ME: changing radio stations

RADIO: advertising....."SHOW US YOUR RACK"........

ME: Thoughts running through my head...."this is family RADIO???"

RADIO: advertising...."send in a photo of your Deer Hunt and the best RACK wins!!"

ME: embarassed giggle....glad I was alone!

Oz......Nope..... Kentucky!!!

Fridays at noon the tornado warning sirens go off. You are supposed to be able to hear them where ever you are. I can't hear them from my house however. Maybe I'll get to play Dorthy, with my little dog Cheree!!! I welcome the adventure.... I think I'd make a damn fine Wicked Witch of the West!!!
Yum!!!

Autumn Confetti

I turned 48 on the 25th and Thanksgiving is the 27th.
I love how as the autumn leaves fall, they look like confetti!
The country side is celebrating with me.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I VOWED TO 

MAKE HISTORY, 

NOT BE ITS VICTIM"

E. Kostova ~ The Historian

TEARS

Crying is how your heart speaks when your lips can't explain the pain you feel.

FLAT JAKE

My dear friend Mrs Hallaqt teaches 3rd grade. Her class is learning about communities. So they are sharing the love with "Flat Stanley"! I was lucky to get to play along. Cameron sent me a sweet letter and his friend "Flat Jake".
Jake and I have had a blast together and I have now sent the pictures of our adventures back to Cameron and Mrs Hallaqt's class. Flat Jake is on his way to Arizona for more adventures. I thought I would share a bit here too!

I Needed That

I listened to a stranger talk of life and love and happiness. 
As he spoke, the words he said were familiar to me; 
the happy way he went on, the sparkle in his attitude. 
I was mesmerized by him. 
As I took a step back and mentally digested 
all I had just taken in, 
I realized he mirrors my view points, philosophies 
and life choices.

We don't get to see ourselves clearly, as others see us. 
But this view of myself, through someone else confirms that I am happy with who I am, how I think and feel, 
and the paths I have chosen.
I am grateful for this stranger and the shot of self confirmation.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

I know every day is a gift, but where's the receipt for Monday?
I want to exchange it for another Friday!

QUOTE

"IT WAS STRANGE, I REFLECTED... 
THAT EVEN IN THE WEIRDEST CIRCUMSTANCES, THE MOST 
TROUBLING EPISODES OF 
ONE'S LIFE, THE GREATEST 
DIVIDES FROM HOME AND 
FAMILIARITY, THERE WERE 
MOMENTS OF UNDENIABLE JOY."
Elizabeth Kostova

SOUND TRACK

Before I ever came to Kentucky, I had made a sleeping sound track labeled "Kentucky Rain". I had mixed the sounds of gentle rain and a rapid creek. The sound of it would play on the nights I couldn't sleep.
Then I moved to Kentucky. I live by the creek now, I get to hear the rain often, the rustling of leaves, and the happy little critters all add so much to life's real sound track.
I'm a happy girl!

SUNDAY MORNING

I have already been to church this morning. But that's not where I talked with God. We chatted as I drove through the country side, as I viewed all the colors he used creating fall this morning. We chatted as I gathered tomatoes and green beans from my happy little garden. We sat silently together here on my deck, listening to the crickets and birds, hearing the water trickle along the creek, feeling the chilly breeze as it rushes through the trees. We talked, and I was content. But the way he has filled my heart today, once again, tells me I am so loved, and everything is okay.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Challenge the essence of who you are!

7 DEADLY SINS

GREED
GLUTTONY
SLOTH
PRIDE
LUST
ENVY
WRATH
(I just heard this list.....easily achieved in 24 hours)

FALL

The leaves are turning. I have longed to watch this autumn event my whole life. The leaves with their new fall fashions in golds, pinks, reds, burgundies and brown's. The summer feilds are being harvested, the freshly plowed earth is ready to be replanted with winter crops. There has been so much rain, that from my porch you can listen to the rushing creek. There has been fog many mornings, and a few evening too. This morning the fog hung in the trees like it was poured there. Thick in some areas and light in others. The fog was very dense as I traveled down the highway, causing each bend and hill to be new and storybook like. There is a pasture along my drive, with fat happy cows. Next to the pasture there is a beautiful pond surrounded by forest. Beside that forest there were two white horses in a clearing. Beautiful, amazingly beautiful!
I love where I live. This is where I belong!

THE CANDYBAR THIEF

I have a friend who as a very young child, went to the grocery with her mom.
While there, she took a candy bar. When they got home, her theft was discovered.
Her dad loaded her back into the family car and headed to the grocery.
When she tried to return the candy, the store clerk told them that they couldn't return it.
So dad gave his little shoplifter the money to pay the for the stolen treat.
Lesson learned....? Well, the best part of the lesson came on the drive home,
when dad ate the candy in front of the pouty Candy Bar Thief!!

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Treat others as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

J Wolfgang Puck

SOMETHING NEW

Today I not only had my Miranda rights read to me, but I was the one on the wrong side of the two way mirror.
I never thought I would be there.

I SEE SOMETHING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfAz9v2TZcE

A SUNDAY STROLE

It was very chilly this morning, so I put a cute sweater on the Cheree. Then we headed outside. Like lightning, she was out the door. I had wanted to go across the road and get a good look at the Warren's tobacco barn, but when I turned around to get the retractable leash, I realized that I had locked the door behind me.
....You know that panic that runs through you at that moment, well I only has a second to endure that, as I turned around to see the dog bolting past the barn and onto the road.  
The area we live in is very rural, the road is very narrow and the neighbors drive like they had to be there hours ago. So I took off after the dog. She came when I called her, almost! The more I called, the faster she ran. We have lived here for 4 months now, and this was the first time she has gone out of the yard; our yard is an acre, surrounded by fields and a creek, its not like there isnt enough space for the tiny dog. Half way up the road I thought, "I'll go get the car, it will be faster than walking"....but the keys were in the house, and oh ya, the door was locked. By the time I was to the end of the road and up the hill, she was just about as far away as the house was behind me. I had already tried to entice her back by offering treats, so from the top of the hill I yelled "LET'S GO FOR A WALK".
At this point, let me just reiterate what my son has said "She is so cute, but she is stupid blond!"
Yes, in no time at all she was up the other side of the hill to go for a walk. So I grabbed her by that cute sweater and carried her stupid naughty self home. Where she was put on her leash immediately.
Then I could deal with the fact that I had no way to get in the house.

TRUE SO TRUE

She said "I'm a Lady with the vocabulary of a salty Sailor........with a bit of Pirate thrown in." 
She is perfect!

DOG FOOD

My daughter and I were chatting the other day on our way home from work. (Super cool that we both leave work at the same time even though we are in different time zones) I love the chats with my kids after they get out of work, it's just like hearing everything after a school day, but all grown up.
Well, my daughter was stopping by the pet store to buy food for my granddog, Harley. My sweet girl can be a bit obsessive, and that's a very good thing. She was reading the ingredient list on just about every brand of dog food. She is a very good mommy to her dog, Harley is the smartest dog I have been around (no I'm not bias because she's my granddog).
 Jessette continued to read "...chicken, rice...beef...vegetarian,
Who would feed there dog vegitarin?....Lamb, rice, oats ...Why are there so many options? Where is the one with 'blood of a virgin'?"
She caught me off guard and totally made me laugh! She is so completely delightful!!
I'm sure Harley got treats when she got home. As always, my daughter gives me proud mommy moments, I adore her!

To be a good kisser
you must adore who 
you are kissing

I do

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex." Hunter S. Thompson

Fou Rire

a crazy fit of laughter

THE COST OF COURAGE

We each have to learn our own species of courage, by living though and overcoming demons in our own lives.

IT'S JUST A FIELD TRIP TO THE PARK

On my way to work I have passed 

semi trucks full of big pink pigs. 

You can see an ear or a tail 

or a snout through the tiny little openings. 

I'm not a big pig fan, 

but just like all the other critters

 in my new home, 

they are cute.

So I reassure myself that 

those happy piggies are just 

on their way to a play date at the park.

(I just don't think I can handle another

 animal concentration camp image)

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

If only our eyes saw souls rather than bodies....how different our ideas of beauty would be.

SLIGHTLY DELIGHTED...?

Hanging laundry on the line... thought I dropped a sock, just a damp tiny touch on the side of my foot (yes, I had on flip flops). I looked down to retrieve the stray sock, only to find it wasn't a sock next to my foot, there in the beautiful grass.... but a tiny albino frog.
I was thouroughly grossed out, and slightly delighted.
I wiggled my foot to encourage his departure. It took 3 tries for me to get him to hop out of my path. Then I finished hanging the laundry.
I think I'll put on tennis shoes to get the laundry off the line.

YOUR LIFE

You don't want your life to be a tired marriage ....
You want your life to be a Passionate Affair!

Yum

OK IS WONDERFUL

This week we dealt with confrontation.
I needed to know where we stand, to make sure we are on the same path.
I am embarrassed to say that I showed him my insecure ugly side. He is a man of few words at times, he thinks things out. We said many things, we came back to the important things. He said things that melted my heart, he said things that showed me just were we are and that we are "OK".
God and my man both have a way of bringing my life full circle by making "OK" Wonderful!

FRIDAY AFTER 5

SHE CAME FOR A VISIT

Bambi came to visit me the other day. 
She came out of the woods across the road, 
I was on my front porch. 
She wasn't afraid, 
she came through the meadow and crossed the road, 
then walked up into my yard. 
She kept looking at me as she came closer and closer. 
She came right up between the trees. 
I LOVE LOVE LOVE where I live!!!

HiS TRaCToR'S SEXY!!!

I THINK HIS TRACTORS SEXY....
MAYBE IT'S ALL HIM!!!!
(but damn, 
was it hot in that barn
or was it HOT in that barn!!)

a TRee

We aren't sure what the fungus growths are,
they feel like velvet and they look very very cool. 
Just one more thing I love about his woods.

LaZy SuMMeR aFTeRNooNS

MiDDLe FoRK KNoBLiCK CReeK

TOBACCO BARN

I pass this barn on my way to town. 

They hang the tobacco to dry it. 

I think this is a cool country thing. 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!! 

CHANGES

GOOD SONG .......  WE ALL GO THROUGH IT

shattered

SET BACK

Number 1,795,842...... I'm tired, I just want to be loved.

TRIVIA

A bushel is about 25 pounds.
Now I know!!

i love this

SUPER MOON TOMORROW

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/supermoon-august-2014-how-to-see_n_5659215.html

On Aug. 10, when the moon turns full at 2:10 p.m. EDT, skywatchers will be treated to the sight of a so-called "supermoon" -- and it will be the largest supermoon of the year. The phenomenon -- any full moon that coincides with the time in the moon's orbit when it's closest to Earth -- should be visible on Sunday night after sunset.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php

REALLY???

I tend to get turned around here in my new town, so I pull over to check my GPS once in a while (okay, OFTEN). Today I pulled along side a gas station. When I was once again on the same page with my GPS, I looked out at the door in front of my Tahoe.

The first thing I saw was that the Women and Men would be sharing the same rest room. I was glad I didn't need to visit! 

BUT then to my bewilderment I realized that the lock was on the outside of the door. 

WHY???

I may get lost when I go exploring, however I made a mental note today to Not ever visit this spot again!!!!!

KEEPING IT IN SIGHT

As I was looking at City Hall, 

I guess I was surprised to 

see all the power and telephone lines 

stretching from place to place. 

I am spoiled I guess, 

I am not used to seeing the hardware 

that keeps us modern any more. 

Big cities bury the lines now, 

small towns don't make 

that a priority I guess. I don't mind. 

Just took me back.

I keep looking for Andy and Opie!!!

CHECKERBOARD

This old building can be seen 
from the front of the post office. 
I love it, the checkerboard just 
totally says MacKenzie-Child to me!
I love love love it!!!

http://www.mackenzie-childs.com/

WE SHOULD EACH WANT THIS BEAUTY

LOST BAGPIPER

GROWN UP

Mark has made some adult changes 

in his life in the past 24 hours. 

Congrats PJ, what a way to end your teens!! 

Welcome to being a Grown Up!!

(Proud Parenting Moments!!!!)

HUGE BLOOMS

I drive past this little country house
on my way to and from town.
And I am always so surprised at the
size of these blooms.
They are BEAUTIFUL!

LUNCH AT THE PARK

There was a "Cruse In" Car Show 

at Yellow Creek Park today. 

This truly is one of favorite places on Earth.

The cars and old trucks were wonderful.

But I enjoyed the inhabitants also! 

This little guy was guarding
 the Fishing Deck.....
Or was he?

Nope, he was looking out for
his HOT CHICK!!

Interesting how the party at the pond is segregated.
 (I noticed that hey didn't even speak to each other.)  

There is so much green.
And this is only a tiny bit,
The woods are my passion!!

(Lunch: Chilled Sweet Tea, A Peach, Blueberries and Potato Chips....Because I wanted them!)

MY VEGGIE GARDEN

ROMA TOMATOES 
Thanks Babe!!

CUCUMBERS

PEAS