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NEW boat photos of my week

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Happy Wednesday!

I think I’m obsessed with boats – or at least photographing boats on calm, beautiful blue water!  It must be because I live in the desert.  I recently went on a girls weekend getaway to Seattle and Victoria, BC.  It was a fun sister-party! Here are more boat pics from the weekend – and boy, do I have tons of botanical pics from Butchart Gardens to share (eventually).

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Someone had fun sailing between the San Juan islands.

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This is a twin of the ferry we waited three hours to get on, to go to BC!  Who knew it was a Canadian holiday and a three-day weekend!!??!!  Note to sisters – check Canadian calendar next time!  Here…I’ll save us the trouble: Canadian Statutory Holidays.

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I should make a jigsaw puzzle out of the one above, eh? It would be a tough one. :o)

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White on blue – one of my favorite color schemes!

And…one more…a tiny boat among docked boats:

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Have a great day. Do or learn something NEW!

Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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Happy Monday! I just realized that other than the quick ‘n easy Thursday Thoughts posts, this blog has been pretty dormant this summer.  I really don’t know where my time goes! Where? Really, where? I’m sure you all can relate though, right?

Well, the photo above seems a bit abstract, huh?  It’s a shot just looking straight up while we hiked last weekend. I thought it was a good fit for miscellaneous Monday.  And…other miscellany:

I saw this pic recently and had to laugh because it reminded me of my boys when they were little. They were such innocent little stinkers sometimes, haha!

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Also a friend recently informed be of an app that you can scan food products with your phone and it will give it a grade (A, B+, C- etc), and also give you alternatives.  I had fun going through my pantry and seeing what my average grade was.  The app is called Fooducate. Our techy world is really kind of fun in certain ways. :o)

Also, on the healthy eating subject, I’m lovin’ the two-ingredient cookies (you’ve probably heard of them).  SO easy to prepare and I add a few chocolate chips to mine and they help the afternoon sweet attacks that I get. Yeah! – that’s a really good thing.

Lastly, I’ll just let you know that I learned about a NEW activity called volksporting. Now I think I’ll have to add a least one volksporting activity to my bucket list – and maybe include geocaching with it. (gotta make good use of hubby’s expensive GPS gadgets somehow!).

Have a great day! Do or learn something NEW!

 

 

 

a NEW photo of my week and a short Sunday sermon

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Happy Sunday! I never get tired of visiting Cedar Breaks National Monument. They were having a Wildflower Festival the day we drove by.  We didn’t stop at the visitors center, but stopped down the road a bit and took these flower pics.

So for today’s short sermon, I’ll just feature the lyrics from the great musical sermon “How Great Thou Art”.  Because this place and many others are definitely an ‘awesome wonder’!!!

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O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
And when I think of God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
And lead me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow with humble adoration,
And then proclaim, “My God, how great Thou art!”
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

And here’s a link to a vocal version (HERE).

Have a great day!  Do or visit somewhere NEW!

a NEW {fabulous} hike

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Happy Friday!  Well, recently hubby and I took a short weekend getaway and went on this hike that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now (remember I told you about it a few posts back? :o).  It did not disappoint! Such a fun hike…and beautiful, am I right?!?

For most of the hike, we were trekking through this creek bed and I’m SO glad we invested in some trekking poles for this one!  Our boys really razzed us when we got home and they saw our poles, but I’m tellin’ ya, those wet, mossy, river rocks are slippery suckers, and if we wouldn’t have had those poles, we’d have been a LOT wetter than we were!

I have plenty more pics from this hike that I’ll likely share (hopefully they won’t get too tiring).

Have a great day! Pick out a NEW hike and put it on your to-explore list!

 

Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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Happy Monday!

This may be the last of of the poppy field pics. I’m not sure – it seems like I’ve posted so many!  But I like this one with the snow-capped mountain in the background.

On with other randomness:

What I’ve been reading:

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Well, I’ve actually been listening to this while I drive (14 separate disks!!!)…it’s taking me a while! I’m on disk 12 and it’s just getting to the good part – the wrapping up part.  I’ve enjoyed it, but think I should’ve listened through audible so I could increase the speed. :o)

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These two I read for my book club group.  Both were really good, but I especially liked Willowkeep.

Another very random thing:  I learned about hydroponic lettuce! I am I the last to know about this? I thought it was very interesting!

And lastly, I’m always interested to learn there’s actual terms for certain things.  Like the time I posted about learning there was an actual word (Bento) for cute little lunch items!  This time, I’m surprised there’s an actual name for a technique I’ve semi-used for years: The Pomodoro Technique.  I think I can use this technique even more scientifically and efficiently that I have in the past, so I think I’ll study it a bit further.  BUT…there’s an actual name for it!  You all have probably used it too!

That’s it for this Monday.  Have a great day.  Do something NEW…or go find NEW stuff out!