“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz
Jacopo is one of my replacement children (at least according to my children who gave him to me). While he desperately needs a bath and cut I still think he’s pretty cute.
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#100happydays Day 4
I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
I am so glad my friends Nicole and Liz gave me the encouragement to take this challenge. Finding something to be happy about everyday is something we should all do and each day I am finding myself encouraged in the small things I would otherwise fail to notice.
For instance, I thought this would be an off year for some of my fruit trees. I was going to especially miss the sour cherries. They make such good jam; But when I checked the tree this morning here’s what I found.
Sour cherry jam here we come.
Check out Nicole’s smiles here:
http://justliveitblog.wordpress.com/
And join in on Liz’ jocularity at:
http://ajourneyinmyshoes.wordpress.com/
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#100 Happydays Day 3
Today I am very happy to have a day I can work in my office and get stuff caught up!
I may not look too happy but being able to take a day and plough through all the little jobs is very satisfying at the end of a week.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
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Share Your World With Cee 2014 Week 21
I am so glad to be making the time to share a corner of my world this week! When you have finished here pop on over to Cee’s place and see how her other contributors have answered the questions.
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/26/share-your-world-2014-week-21/
Here are Cee’s great questions of the week:
If you could make a 15 second speech to the entire world, what would you say?
Don’t forget about Jesus. He has never forgotten about you. Oh and eat your broccoli, unless of course you have hematomacrosis in which case avoid broccoli (I had to add that last sentence in order for my speech to be long enough).
🙂
If you could take a photograph, paint a picture or write a story of any place in the world, what and where would it be?
I think I would choose the New England countryside. Oh wait I am already doing that…
If you had to spend one weekend alone in a single store but could remove nothing, which store would you pick?
Why Barnes & Noble of course. You don’t have to remove the product to read it!
If you were given a boat or yacht today, what would you name it? (You an always sell the yacht later)
Tomorrow’s Nest Egg (Since I am selling it much to my daughter’s chagrin)
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I am so thankful for the folks who came out to the class on love last week and I am thankful to have the opportunity to teach the next class in the series tonight!
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Wordless Wednesday: Hope In A Cold World
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Skywatch Friday 5-16-14
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
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Share Your World With Cee Cee 2014 Week 19
This post is written in response to Cee Neuner’s blog series Share Your World. It has been a few days since I have written anything so I thought this would be a good exercise to warm up my “write” brain.
When you have finished with me here go on over to Cee’s forum to see what her other contributors have said. You can find those posts here:
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/12/share-your-world-2014-week-19/
Here are Cee’s questions for the week:
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I just had to answer this before I began the questions proper. The reason I could not write this weekend was because I was attending my daughter and future son-in-law’s graduation.
Amanda Lillie, graduate Northpoint Bible College
James Franklin graduate Northpoint Bible College and his future wife Melanie Lillie
Now all of my kids are college grads. It was so nice to have them all together for the graduation. We made a pretty splendid party when all was said and done.
Note how happy Amanda is to be photographed
This week I am looking forward to meeting with the Winchendon Garden Club to discuss the Ingleside project and our community garden project.
Do you prefer shopping or going to a park?
I much prefer going to the park. I was just telling my life coach the other day that I needed more time to just sit and watch the world go by. I don’t need to buy it. I just need to see it.
What is the highest score you’ve ever made in bowling? Actual or virtually played.
Oh this is embarrassing. I think my highest score was between 60 and 70.
Name the foreign countries you’ve been to.
I have been to Mexico, England, Iceland, Ireland and Holland. I am going to tour Ireland with Amanda in the fall.
Describe your own outlook on life in seven words or less.
Follow Christ. Love others. Live your passion.
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On the Move
this post was created for the Daily Posts’ Weekly Photo Challenge: ON THE MOVE
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/on-the-move/
Here are my thoughts on the subject
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- A different kind of water wheel, Kokenhof
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- Cheese wheels in Alkmaar
“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Caddo’s Seven Word Sundays 5-11-14
No matter what comes, Jesus strengthens me!
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee! E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
2. Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, darkness be over me, my rest a stone; yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
3. There let the way appear, steps unto heaven; all that thou sendest me, in mercy given; angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
4. Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise, out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise; so by my woes to be nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
5. Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky, sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
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Watching From the Window
This post was created for: A Word A Week Photography Challenge
http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-watch/
To see how others have interpreted the theme WATCH click on the above address.
“LOOKING
The world goes by, and what have I to do with it? I merely observe how the geese stretch their necks towards the orange rim of sky. I watch how light fades and children make their way home, hungry and tired. The bushes outside become ghosts while baths run and kitchen windows steam up with the cooking. This is the smell of our home, where I have a place in the wrinkled hours making beds and hugging boys awake. This is the sound of the house where I feel out lives into words, translate ragged nights and days into something whole, or try to. You may look if you wish….. The world goes by, and what have you or I to do with it, except perhaps for looking… ?”
― Jay Woodman, SPAN
