Home Made Christmas Present

I took a bowl from the kitchen that I don't use anymore to make this.

I added sand and a rock.  I put the plants I wanted to include inside egg shells.

After I planted the plants inside of the egg shells I put them in the sand.

I placed some small pebbles in the shells to cover up the dirt.

 The bone is a Christmas ornament.

I made the rake out of a stick in the yard and the prongs out of thorns from my lemon tree.

Beautiful Flowers

Beautiful Flowers

Beautiful flowers can make a face shine
Beautiful flowers can increase a pleasant spirit
Beautiful flowers are planted by beautiful hands
Beautiful flowers help lighten the mood
Beautiful flowers are another gift from God.

Chickens in the House

A family member has two chickens.  She will put them outside when they are older.

Visiting Panama City Beach, Florida in December 2015

The color of the buildings always calls out to me.

Alvin's Island is one place my children loved to go when they were little.

It is funny how the blue on this one home stands out.

I like to contrast of the chairs from the condo.

Unattended Garden

Unattended Garden

 This is what happens to a garden when it is abandoned.

I have not been able to do much with my garden since August.  In two days we will celebrate Christmas and I finally had a chance to look at my poor garden.  I was delighted to find a few tomatoes ready to pick.

 It looks like I have an onion that will be ready if the weather holds out.

 Here is a snail that has devoured my strawberry plant.

 They still have some flowers and berries on them.

 If I find time to care for them I may have strawberries in February.

 My peach tree looks dead.  Something has broken off the top.

 The blue berry bush looks good.

 Don't know about the pomegranate bush.  It may do OK in a few years.

 Two more blueberry bushes but they are overtaken with sand.

 T?he old garden looks bad.

Words Used During the Christmas Season

Words Used During the Christmas Season

Christmas conversations often use the same words.

Here is a small list.

                                   

Son of God      Jesus         Christ     King          Prince

Most High     Holy Spirit     Spirit      Savior        Glorious     

Baby              Child         Almighty    Born       Birth     Nativity             Stable        manger    Inn         hay

Peace               Love          Joy           good      heart

praises              music        singing      glory     worship

Star                  heaven      holey          tidings     Blessed

Everlasting     throne     Kingdom     righteousness   Greetings      forever         praising   Singing     Glorifying  Worship     Overjoyed     praises     Glory 

Favored     Woman    Mother    Pregnant     Womb             Mary       Virgin   Expecting    Angel    Joseph     David     Luke   Matthew   Isaiah   Abraham  Gabriel     Elizabeth   Caesar     Augustus     Quirinal's     Shepherds     Magi    Wise men      Presented   Treasures    Gifts     incense     Myrrh    Frankincense     gold  Merry Christmas      Heaven   Bethlehem      Nazareth     Galilee     Judea   Israel       Village          East                Fields     Flocks     Donkey         Jews            Romans     Tax     Decree     Census        Appeared  Dream    Night    

Wake up Call

Wake up Call

 My alarm clock has fur.  Every morning at six A.M. a black monster comes and starts to make sounds that wake me up.  If I try to ignore all the commotion I get a bite on the nose or lip.

Sometimes I try to cover my head so I can get a few minutes of sleep but this black, furry, monster starts to claw through the blankets.  She has even clawed my new bed spread one  morning when I attempted to hide under it.

Well I'm up now. " Love my furry alarm clock!"

Princess Flight

Princess Flight

 Today is Friday and we will stay inside and eat left overs from Thanksgiving .

If the truth be told Flight will only get cat food.  There is a big rule in this home, " No table food for Flight".

There have been a lot of articles about how bad table food is for your pet and we will take no chance on our little princess.

 Flight likes to climb up on the chair and slap at me if I don't pay her enough attention.

 It's time for my exercise, Flight seams to say as she looks up at me.

 I always try to make Flight get some exercise but I'm only able to chase her around the house one or two times a day.

 Flight said, "Mom does a good job with the loud machine that sucks air up off the floor.

I believe she said it was a vacuum.  It is offal loud."

  What's this?  Flight seams not to understand when I tell her that she is shedding.

 Attention she seams to say as she waits for her brushing of the day.

Flight may have an issue with being disturbed when playing with my toys.

Now it is time to sit and relax.

Princess Flight on her throne.

Awesome day for a Bird Bath

Awesome day for a Bird Bath

It is a little funny that the old lady next door has a bird bath and feeds the birds at the same time she feeds about forty feral cats.

This lovely cat seams to be asking, " where did all the birds go?"

Winning the War is Never Giving UP

Winning the War is Never Giving up

The Survivors are the Winners

Often when the world is so hard and our hearts are broken we want to give up.  When the people in the world are so evil to each other we just want to escape away from this life.

The problem is if we give up and allow the evil people to take over then we let them win.  If all you do is survive you win.  You are the one person they were not able to take out.  

So hold up your head, take a breath and do what ever you can to live another day.

Don't let them win.