Foto Friday....

Can you smell the pine trees?  Can you smell the cool breeze along with the heat coming from the ground?  This was taken on another part of the lake.  Wanna join me for a walk sometime?  I would love to have you. We could make a picnic, sit next to the water and watch the children play. 

Enjoy the "foto".

Have a great weekend!

What I am reading now..

I went to my book club meeting on Tuesday.  Hey if you ever have a chance to get into a book club I HIGHLY recommend it.  That is if you like to read.  I LOVE to read. When I was in my early 20's and didn't have any money to spend, I use to get home after work, get my pj's on, make a sandwich (I was broke) sit down open up a book and 3-4 hours later, it was time for bed.  Now if I got calls from my friends I would definitely pick up, that took priority over EVERYTHING!

My favorite book, well there are so many, off the cuff, I would have to say, "The Stand" by Steven King.

Not only did I read it as soon as it came out, I hit the story exactly when the weather was the same in the book, but when they re-released it I had just finished it one week earlier.  Bought it immediately and re-read it again.  Incredible book.

It was my first "Big" book I read with more than 200 and something  pages.  I grew up!


Now, my club is reading "The Help"

I like this book, the writer writes a lot in the persons thoughts and even though I am a few dozen pages into it.  I recommend this book.  I was looking at another blog site this morning and she said she kept reading this book.  I get that.  It is based on the 1960's and their way of thinking, that is all I am gonna say about that.

If you do get this book, let me know what you think....

This weekend I am attending a book signing of an author I have just fallen for her writing.  Her name is Christie Walker Bos and she is from Big Bear.  I have read "Finding Delaney", which was the first book I had to read in the book club and found her writing, easy and fun.  Sunday she is re-releasing "The Man List" and it is a fictional book that has the main character make a list of what she wants in a man.  It worked, and it worked in Christie's life!  Unbelievable!   If you want something bad enough, write it down, my pastor used to say that all the time.  But be careful with what you want, you might just get it.  True words, huh?

Have a great day, now to get my foto for Foto Friday, that is a lot of F's!

Chow!

Thursday Thoughts.....

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. —Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple

We are big time!!!!

Hey, I just got the Sunset Magazine and we are in it!  It is a great article that showcases our town and some of our restaurants, (way to go Jamie, your pancakes are THE best, not to mention your hamburgers) at the Grizzly Manor!  (This particular issue pictured below is not the issue it is in....I couldn't find the current issue on the internet and I am too lazy to take picture of it and post...maybe later)

They wanted to do an article about me and my blog but I told them that due to me having surgery I was not able to put everything together at this time.  Believe it or not....

I am very excited and love my town to death, congrats to us!

Happy August!

If you have noticed my blog, there are just simple little posts lately.  Why?  I have to tell you what has been going on this past month.

I have been busier than a one arm paperhanger with an itch!!!!  In the past posts I have told you about the crazy health stuff that I have been going through.  Well I went to Vegas last week and had a filter put into me to catch any more blood clots if they form.  It was a very easy procedure, scary yes but easy non the less.  They go through your vena cava vein and place it in your abdomen.(please forgive me my medical friends if this is not exactly correct but almost on the mark?)    No problem until you get up after two hours and you start bleeding out.  Oh CRAP!! Poor Andy!  Another two hours stationary then went home and drove back to Vegas the next day.  The bruising is ugly!  I have tried to keep this procedure simple to understand.  I asked now will the metal detectors go off at the airport?  He he, they said no and I was not the first person to ask that, darn!

So, with that happening was just one thing.  I have many others...


I have taken up sewing, can you believe that?

I can make some mean table place mats!!!  Ha ha!  That needs to be a post all by itself!

I just made breakfast sausage, hot and maple and have a lot of pictures to post about that adventure.

 Mine doesn't look like the picture, but it is such a pretty picture I just had to put it on here.  Isn't food one of the most beautiful works of art?  God is incredible!
 
 
I just got a Silhoutte Machine

and having a BLAST with that, especially because I am not a "crafty" person, but the stuff you can do with this is pretty amazing.  I found this machine from a couple of bloggers I know and just had to have it.  The couple of projects I am working on is a lot of fun and when it is done I will share it with you and maybe have a give away.  I am working on Halloween and playing around with Ideas of Christmas! Just google Sillhoutte machine and take a look at what people are doing!  Incredible!

I submitted a  short story to Guide Post. That is a Christian magazine and web site that has really helped me in my path of life.

I am reading a book, well just finished one that I am crazy about. It is called "First Light" by Sue Monk Kidd.  She didn't realize that when she wrote this book she was writing it to me.  I can't tell you how many times during the reading that I cried, laughed  hugged the book then cried more.  WOW!  I am now reading a book called "Life Wide Open" by Dr. David Jeremiah and the word is "Passion" I know that word very well, as you can tell.

I have always wanted to be a writer that is why I started this blog and what better to write about than what I know, which is me!

Well, that is just what I did LAST WEEK!! But I do love my blog and know it is so much a part of my life.  I get so involved in this that I lose track of time and don't get things done.  But since my surgery I am taking life in as much as possible, big breath (wrinkle your nose and breath DEEEEP)  that is what I am doing!

Today is Monday, have a great week and know that every day truly is a gift, I know that for sure!

Love you!  Away I go!

What is going on with the Chickens?

I have a lot of friends as me about my chickens lately.  No I haven't stopped talking about them.  Actually I have put a tab on my blog to keep an updated account of what is happening with them, please take a moment to look over there and see what those girls have been up to!

Or better yet, looking out of!

Thursday Thoughts.....

You can rise above almost any obstacle if you’re willing to work hard and believe that you can do it….ordinary people can do extraordinary things. —Dr. Thad Bell, associate dean for minority students, Medical University of South Carolina

Foto Friday

Went for a nice walk yesterday and just had to take this picture..this looks like a postcard doesn't it.

Enjoy and have a great weekend.  I am soo blessed to be able to live here and take incredible pictures like this!

Thursday Thoughts.....

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. —Wayne Gretzky, former professional hockey player