Thankful for:

I am so grateful for God, who loves me!

I am grateful for being able to work from home during the holidays so I could get some things accomplished.  My home is clean, I have less stuff cluttering my home and the Thanksgiving meal planned is easy breazy.

I am so very grateful for the love of family and friends and the sharing of the bounty with which we have been blessed.

I am thankful for the ribeyes and salmon and all the sides that filled our table on Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for the 3 dogs we petsat.  It means more home repairs can get done. 

I was hoping the dogs would bond and become buddies but they merely tolerated each other.  I have petsat Dottie since she was one year old.  She is bonded with me to the point that if I am in the house, she will not go outside to the bathroom unless I go out with her.  She is owned by an older, single lady.  She is on a special diet due to allergies and lets just say, she and skunks have a certain odor in common.  It is beyond bad.  Plus, this cute little lady snores worse than me.

Annie is an older dog, Great Pyrenese/Labrador/Chow mix.  She sleeps most of the day away.  She tolerated Dottie but once in a while would remind Dottie she was the bigger dog.  This is a pic of Annie next to my mom and my neighbors labrador.  She is also the only 4 legged people in the home of a single lady.

 

 

I forgot to take a picture of Princess.  This was the first time for her to be at our house.  She is a Chihuaha.  She bit all of us for the first day and finally calmed down.  She is also a runner and we had to be careful not to open the front door around her.  Not fun hunting down a dog in the dark.

I am thankful for the young man who came and replaced my kitchen faucets and my trim boards on the porch and did not gouge me on the price.

I am thankful for my boss who is once again loaning me his truck so we can haul a load of metal to the recycler and then hit Home Depot for a few things.

My list could go on and on. 

It is almost 5am and I need to head to work.  Lots to get accomplished this morning before my boss heads out of town.  I need to go in early so I can get off in time to sit with Carolyn before heading home to work on my to do list.

Thank you Lord for my jobs.

A ramblin mind....

It has been a rough few weeks.  I have been working long, crazy hours.  And for those of you seeing $$$ in your eyes, forget it.  I am on salary.  Due to one of our clients inability to meet the front load demands at Walmart and then Walmart screwing up the traited store list, I have been manually having to do store product lists.  Nice to know, that after this week, I think most of the long work days are behind me, which is good.  I am exhausted.

This morning, once again, I am up way too early. I am sleeping so hard and heavy when my head first hits the pillow that by 3am, I am wide awake. Used to, I could get by on 5 hours of sleep. These days, I require a little more.

Last weekend, thanks to God, we had the successful  garage sale which means, I now have space in my storage room.  This weekend, once again, I did not have to go to the office to work, so I worked at organizing my storage room.  I gathered some more stuff to be removed.  Since it is metal, I am going to haul it to recycling and get whatever $$$ I can.   The tool and hardware section stills needs a little work but I am saving it for another day.  Not sure why,other than I had other things I wanted to accomplish first.

I am still trying to sell my weaving loom.  It needs a good home and I could use the $$$.

My house is now clean.  I organzied the laundry/sewing room by taking out all the flannel for future rag quilts.  I better start sewing soon as the flannel takes up a 4'x6' space in the living room.  Lots of sheets and shirts to cutup.

We have asked our neighbor Steve to find someone else to help with his mom.  Mom has been filling in for me with Carolyn due to my long work hours and it is taking its toll on her.  Steve's mom really needs a little more care than I want to give after working a long day.  Hopefully he will find someone soon.

After lunchtime tomorrow, I can work the rest of the week from home.  My part time job is already done at home so no changes there.   This week we will have 3 dogs stay with us while their parents are traveling.  For the first time, we have Princess, the part chihuahua part ? from hell.  Not one of us can touch her without her biting us.  She will not be coming to stay at our house ever again unless she changes her ways.  She came last night and we have her until Sunday.  Hopefully she will calm down as the days progress. Dottie, is a bulldog that I have been watching off and on for 4 years.  She is on a very special diet, white fish and sweet potatoes, so we have to make sure she does not eat Princess' food.  Dottie will be with us from Tuesday afternoon through Monday.  Annie, who is a Great Pyrenese, Labrador/Chow mix will come Friday and her mom will pick her up on Saturday evening.  Annie is old and sleeps alot.  Dottie is very spoiled, believes she is a people.

I am grateful, that over the years, God has provided ways for me to earn $$$ needed to meet my needs.  At least these animals come to my home and I can still do what I need to do.  I used to housesit but it made it hard to do my part time job and my lists of things to do at home got ignored.

I have so much for which to be thankful and there is no way to compile a complete list so here are just a few.

 1. My salvation, my personal relationship with Jesus
 2. I have jobs
 3. Waylon, whose heart I see softening (just a wee bit) and Roo, who I know I will get to see again
      one day
 4. My needs are met
 5. Friends and true ones
 6. Transportation
 7. Physical health
 8. Peace and joy, which I never knew existed until I gave my heart to Jesus at the age of 35
 9. Beautiful colors in nature
10. etc, etc, etc

I continue to strive towards having more of an attitude of gratitude. 


I enjoy the writings of Richard Paul Evans.  Here is a quote from his book "The Sunflower". 

   "There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives. "

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving to each of you and your families.

 

Garage sale

 I live at the back part of the community and in previous years, it was hard to get people to drive the 3 miles back for a garage sale.  Through the past years, instead of having a garage sale, the things I did not want were put at the end of the driveway with a free sign.  Of course, I might have made about $30 - $40 if I had sold it all so for me, it wasn't worth it.

About 3 years ago, at the end of my street, they opened up a private community, which increased traffic on our deadend street.  Plus, foot traffic has encreased tremendously.  When I first moved in, I might have seen a couple of walkers in the evening or on the weekend.  Now, there are many families who come walking the road.

Anyway, my neighbor and I both decided to have garage sales and God really blessed us.  The traffic was slow and steady.  Mom and I sold all but 10 items, 5 of which were given to me by a friend just to get the items out of her house.  My neighbor did equally well.

I was selling things really cheap just to get rid of them.  All in all, I made enough money to have someone come replace some trim boards on my front porch and put some back for future repairs.  Not sure what mom is going to do with her half.

The question that boggles my mind, How is it, that even though I just sold a carport and driveway full of furniture, linens, garden stuff etc, my home still feels cluttered?

Woody has a new name

My boss has determined that Woody is not the appropriate name for my car.  My car has been dubbed "spitfire".

SHE likes her new name.