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!!!