Merry Christmas to all my friends.

 

For all my friends, and especially those whose  address I do not have. Praying next year will be a blessed one for all. 

Be safe and God bless you all.

Linda

What is the purpose of an automatic refill then?

 

You all be safe and God bless. Oh, and stay warm!

If you can get past

 Scott Shellady, this is an interesting interview. (Presuming blogger will let me link it.)

Old Glory Bank

To everyone

 A blessed Thanksgiving to you all. 

Be safe and no tummy aches. 😉

It's that time of year.

 

And the Spider Lilies have had their first visitor (that I saw).

Can you see him? I know it's a him because even though it doesn't show here, I saw the red throat when he flew up to land on our power line.

I praised God for showing me both, as I was fairly upset up until that point. I'm still... frustrated; but I know God is with me.

You all be safe and God bless.

Very thankful to God, as always.

 

Yesterday we went in town to do a couple things and get a few groceries. I was getting Hubby’s wheelchair out of the back of the truck and it was stuck.

While I was yanking on it I lost my balance and almost fell. But God caught me! It would have been a bad fall, but instead I am very grateful for His reminder that He is always in my life.

You all be safe and God bless. :)

With all the drought around the county

 Whatever happened to the art of cloud seeding?

It was HOT for the flea market Saturday.

 High ended at 100, plus the humidity heat index. 111 . Very easy to get dehydrated.

But we did see something neat on the way there.

The treatments are helping my husband, thanks to God and the good Lord.

6AM is kind of hard every day, but I guess that's why God made weekends. :)

You all be safe, stay cool and God bless.

Where has the time gone?

 It really is hard to believe I am 70 today. I can feel it in my aches, but not in my mind. ;-)

And in two days, we celebrate our 48th Anniversary. It doesn't seem that long, until I think about how old our boys are and all that has happened over the years. Praise the Lord!

Not sure what else to say except you all be safe today and God bless.

Praising God today

Several of my brothers laid my mom to rest today. Because of covidiocy, the tornado and then hubby's health problems I hadn't been able to travel to Michigan to see my Mom in over three years. This was a picture one of my brother's sent me.

 

This was taken in March. 

In an unrelated item, Tuesday I had thyroid surgery. Again. One of the parathyroid glands had to be removed. Unfortunately it was one behind my remaining thyroid, so they took that out, too. There was some problem with a nerve and scar tissue from the surgery two years ago right before covidiocy; but God was there and blessed the doctor and nurses who had care over me.

Strange thing with this surgery though. I can eat pretty much anything with no problem; but when I drink a liquid, I have a tendency to cough. Sometimes pretty hard. 

I've discovered that a little bit of pudding or something similar can help me take medicine when taking a drink might make me cough it back up.

You all be safe and God bless.

Friday evening brought rain to Louisiana also.

 and as my son put it -- "the heck? We never get hail". 

But we did. Not large or damaging, thank you, Lord. :)

Sorry for the quality. I did not step outside for the picture. 

You all be safe. God bless.

My Mom went to Heaven today.

 No more pain. Now she is with my Dad.

You all be safe and God bless.

Already May?

 Wow. Hard to believe.

Made some minor changes to the blog after reading another blogger's post to see if it helps with comment problems.

Of course I don't know that I'm having any and I don't know if it will help me when I am, haha. By the way, clicking on a link will open (or should open) a new window.

But Leigh, over at 5 Acres And a Dream, commented on seeing this problem before and the problem was created by imbedded comments. 

So no more comment threads to see if there is a problem that gets fixed. :)

Went to the flea market today. They were having a 50's theme. I can tell I'm getting older because it wasn't as fun as it should have been. Too many people and the "music", such as it was, was much too loud for my liking.

I even passed up having crawfish, because there was a place that was serving and selling; but the music that was already too loud was asked to be turned up louder by some of the diners. So I just made my way back to the truck. Hubby decided to call it early, too, and made it back to the truck right behind me. :)

Here is the only picture I took.

One of the covered eating areas at the Lafayette Jockey Lot Flea Market.

It was a nice day though, so there was that. :)

If I had any more to say, I have forgotten what it was so I will just say be safe and God bless you all. 

Love is in the air?

 

Glad we didn't come into the property from the pasture gate. This turtle is laying eggs in one of the ruts. It rained most of the day today and made the ground soft enough, I guess.

You all be safe and God bless!

Praise God!

 Our mowing tractor is running again. 

Thank you, Lord.

You all be safe and God bless. 

This is the road to our home

Son took this on the way home Saturday night. On the right side off camera is a bayou. On the left, the local Co-op,

So why did the gator cross the road?

 

Hubby helped me estimate the gator was probably around 5 feet long. It's a common area to see them when they venture out of the bayou. 

You all be safe and God bless.

Palm Sunday was a very windy day

 Looking at the possibility of severe weather again on Wednesday.

Still looking for a new tractor and mower.

These are supposed to be edible when younger but I haven't had the courage to try them yet. :)

You all be safe and God bless. 

First day of spring, 2022

 

That was on the pump we used yesterday. 

In other news.  Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.  Good chance for severe weather Tuesday.

You all be safe and God bless. 

Went to the flea market last Saturday

 God gave us a gorgeous day.  We got to visit with friends and came home with three dozen farm eggs.

There was something going on at the Acadiana Speedway in Breaux Bridge when we passed in the morning;  but we were on our way to Hammond, so we didn't stop. 

Coming back home, it was obvious there was some sort of race Saturday as the place was packed!

Going by a restaurant we had thought about having lunch at, their parking lot was pretty full, too. We don't do waiting so well any more, so we didn't stop exactly, and we didn't get out; but I did take a few pictures.

You all be safe and God bless.

Still kicking

 I've been quiet, I know. Sorry. Too much stuff going on. I read a lot, but have nothing much to add.

Went to get new tires for our truck today, they almost wouldn't let us drive the truck home. Come to find out the two front rims were cracked and broke? They said something hard had been hit. How we have been driving all this time, I don't know. But they took the spare off the truck and mounted one of our new tires on that. Two more new tires on the good rims, and the best of the bad rims back on with another new tire. Two new tires came home in the back of the truck, one of the bad rims on the back seat because we needed room for hubby's wheelchair in back also.

Hubby has already ordered two more rims which should be here by the first of February.

All I can say is praise God for watching over us, as always.

Anyway, for this first post of the year, I bring you Seafood Gumbo and....

You all be safe and God bless you all.