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a NEW photo of my week

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Happy Tuesday!

So I warned you that I’d be posting a few pics from my Scarecrow Festival photography excursion.  You’ll have to let me know which ones you like best.  The funny thing is, a couple of my favorite posts today in my WordPress Reader has a dog theme! I guess I’m just playing along with the theme.

Why are they my favorite posts today?  Well, check out THIS very clever poem written by “Charlie the Dog”  and then go and check out THIS  very cool photo manipulation of ‘A Dog on the Path’ and I think you’ll see why! :o)

Have a great day.  Do something doggone NEW and different today!

 

 

Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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Happy Monday y’all!

Yes, isn’t Octobers da best!?!  Only another week and half of it though!  Novembers are good too though!  Pumpkin pie with oodles of whipped cream is coming our way! Yum!

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So, what I’ve been up to:

My photography outing this week was to a Scarecrow festival.  Warning:  You’ll be seeing more scarecrows than you probably want to see in upcoming posts!

I’m going to call my Classics Reading Challenge ‘finished’.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find “La dame de Monsoreau” by Alexandre Dumas translated into English.  I tried!  But…I give up!  I’m done. It’s finished.  I enjoyed the challenge!  My last book to read was Dracula!  Good timing eh?  I just finish it this week – actually I “read” it by listening to the audio book on my commutes into work. That counts, right?  {pun intended :o}  Ha!

The gal who is hosting our book club this month is asking everyone to dress up!  I’m going as something similar to this:

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I got an old white dress at the thrift store and my niece who is an expert seamstress added the gauzy embellishments etc.  I’ll try and have someone take some pics at book club that night and I’ll post them.  Creepy eh?

I got me {another} NEW camera :o)  One cannot have too many cameras!  This one is a high-end compact.  I’m gonna love carrying it around rather than my large DSL on our upcoming trip to New Zealand/Australia!  I’m sure I’ll be posting plenty of pics from that trip.  Can’t wait to go sailing through the fjords of NZ!

That’s it for this version of Monday’s Miscellany.  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!

Oh, how life is getting in the way of my photography habits!  And it’s SO beautiful out there!  So many rich, autumn colors!  I had a brief outing a few days ago, but I want  need to get out more frequently!  All the pumpkins, the mums, the fall foliage  – oh so beautiful and fun to shoot!

Well today’s quote reminds me of people that I know, who love and live life to it’s fullest.  They’re an awesome example to me.  I genuinely love life too; but the people I’m thinking of seem to treat life as a gift.  It is precious to them. Thinking of life as a gift reminds me of a song the young people in our church sing:

My life is a gift; my life has a plan.

My life has a purpose; in heav’n it began.

My choice was to come to this lovely home on earth

And seek for God’s light to direct me from birth.

OR…taking the advice from Leonardo Di Caprio (well, really, his character on Titanic) is good too:

 

Lastly, for this Sunday sermon, I’ll share a fabulous talk entitled “Come What May, and Love It”  (Link HERE)

In case you don’t have time to go read the entire talk, I’ll add some highlights below (but I hope you do go read it – I think you’ll love the blind date story!!! Haha!):

  • The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.
  • Learn to laugh
  • Seek for an eternal perspective
  • Understand the principle of compensation
  • Trust in our heavenly father and in his son, Jesus Christ

 

That is it for today!  Go do something NEW and live life and LOVE it!

 

a NEW note to self…

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Note to self…Always plan a road trip (traveling north) toward the end of September each and every year!

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We traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyoming last weekend and the colors were gorgeous!  The best views seemed to be at spots that we couldn’t really stop and take photos…but the beauty is fondly stored in my memory instead of my camera’s memory.

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The dinner and show at Bar J Wranglers in Jackson was excellent too.  A friend recommended it to me, years ago, and I’m happy we finally got to go.

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Road trips are the best for taking in all of the beautiful fall scenery.  If any of you have a recommended itinerary for next fall’s trip, let me know! Have a great day! Do or learn or see something NEW!

a NEW addition to my garden

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Happy Friday!

So, where do you put your small garden tools? I made this handy-dandy mosaic mailbox for my garden to hold my gloves, spade, garden snipers and even a little notebook where I tape all the plant tags – you know, the instruction-thingy that tells you how to care for the plant?  I put that in a plastic bag with tape, pencil and reading glasses.  I’m all set in my garden! I LOVE it!

Can you tell I spelled out GROW with the broken up tiles?  On the other side I spelled out BLOOM. My hubby earned his way through college doing tile work, so now even though he’s a finance guy, we never pay anyone to do any tile work at our house – and that means I have plenty more tile scraps to do more projects.  This was my very first mosaic attempt and now I plan to make some garden stepping stones etc.

Here’s the front view:

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Isn’t it amazing what a boost something NEW and different brings to life?!?

Have a great day! Let me know know what’s NEW with YOU!

 

Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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Happy Monday!

It’s been a while since I’ve randomly rambled off some miscellany on a Monday, so here’s what’s up:

I rented the macro lens from the library again, and this little bee posed for me this morning.  A macro lens for my Nikon is definitely going on my Christmas wish list!

I’m loving a gardening YouTube channel called Garden Answer.  This YouTuber is knowledgeable without being overly talkative (aka wasting my viewing time with a surfeit of blah blah blah). Laura just comes across very “real” – very genuine. She’s a sweet young gardener who has worked at her parent’s nursery for a lot of years and has picked up a lot of knowledge that she shares with her viewers. I like her a lot.

I sometimes listen to Gretchen Rubin’s podcast on my way to work.  I had to laugh at a recent episode, when Gretchen challenged her listeners to make something that they’d normally buy. I laughed because if my family would have been listening with me, they would have yelled “Don’t encourage her!!!”  I have family members that tease me about trying to DIY a lot more things than I probably should. Doing a lot of DIYs means having my fair share of FAILS – thus the teasing! Ultimately, I’m just a cheapskate and know I can make most things for a lot less than I can buy them.  The trick is balancing  time expended with how much you actually save, right? I enjoy this podcast and wish Gretchen would record more than one episode a week, but oh well – I’d probably get behind if they did.

I made this really, REALLY easy cookie recipe call Oreo Pan Sugar Cookies,  Did I mention they were quick and EASY to make? I took the entire batch to work on a day I only worked a couple of hours, so I’ll have to ask around and see how everyone liked them. Personally, they were a bit too sweet for me, but then when has “sweet” been a terrible thing? I have a son who loves Oreos, so I’ll have to make these again and get his review.

Lastly, we’ll be renting a camping trailer later this summer and camping at a lake, so I need to get to get planning.  I need fun activity ideas, good, but quick meal ideas, and generally NEW fun family together time ideas.  If any of you have some good ones for me, please chime in!

Have a fabulous Monday.  Do or learn something NEW!