Hair of the Week

HAPPY 4TH

Ray and I would like to wish you and your family and happy and safe 4th of July... God Bless America!

Blessings Sister Brenda

Red, White and Blue

Red- My newly painted toenails... I finally redeemed my pedicure yesterday... Thanks Mom... please excuse my four knuckle toes.
White- Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream, a must for any 4th of July cookout! Mmm...
Blue- Freshly picked blueberries, to be made into our Independence Day Breakfast... thanks Linz.

I hope you all have a Fantastic 4th of July... be happy, be safe, and be thankful.  God Bless the USA!!

My Cup Runneth Over...Chas

*** Bake Me A Wish ***

I've just added a link to "Operation Birthday Cake".   Purchase one Freedom Cake and One Soldier will recieve a birthday cake of their own FREE while they're serving overseas.  Celebrate YOUR FREEDOM over the summer by splurging on a cake to make a soldiers day away from their families.

Each cake is gourmet made with the finest Ingrediants including a message made of belgian chocolate.

******If you can't afford to purchase a cake in full, please think about donating a dollar or two to the cause in honor of our veterans who have been fighting for our freedoms and whom could use some encouragement and joy on their birthday.

Happy Independence Day

HELP PLEASE

In the last 2-3 days someone posted a brownie recipe and it had a frosting topping.. I thought I copied it off and didn't I was planning to make this tomorrow.. Could someone help me out here..All I can remember is they used a brownie mix and it had frosting and there was something else..

Thanks and happy 4th..

BLessings Sister Brenda

CJ

I just wanted to share and give CJ the respect he deserved...

Today my daughter had to put her cat CJ down.  She adopted him 3 years ago when he was 8 years old, he had deformed feet and actually flipped his paw over the other way on both front feet when he walked and walked on 1/2 his front legs, it was the most bizzare thing I ever seen, it looked like it was very painful, but it wasn't the vet even said he was in no pain walking like that.  Well at the age of 12 about 3 weeks ago he stopped eating altogether, she tried everything, canned cat food, people food, ice cream, etc. He was a spoiled cat and love "people" food, but he went from 11 lbs to 8 lbs.  So last night she took CJ to the vet and he has a tumor at his throat and one at his heart, the one at his throat he was unable to swallow.. SO SAD.. so tonight at 5:45 he was given to God to take care of.  They came to our home and burried him in our garden, next to 2 of our cats and our beloved Sheena.  I just thought I would share.. It is sooo hard to lose animals.  So CJ is up in heaven and feeling no pain or suffering. 

Blessings,

Lisa

Knoebels

Right before we left from our camping trip, I snapped some pictures of our campsite at Knoebels, I thought I would share some..

This is looking right over the fence at our campsite.  It is a creek that they use to fill their huge pool for the summer.

This is the iron bridge we walk over to get to the park, it's only about a 30 second walk for us before we hit the rides around the corner..

Here is my honey walking back to the camp site. Notice he is wearing a sweatshirt it was only in the mid 60's most of the week and it's usually in the 80's.

Here is our campsite as we were tearing it down that morning. 

And here it is all the way at the end of the site next to ours, we rented both sights for the week, we had 3 tents put up before everybody left besides the camper.  It was a lot of fun..

Soon I want to share the pictures of the RED DEER FARM we had gone to, that was alot of fun also. 

Have to run, and do a little "coupon shopping" shortly, so I need to go get my sales circulars and my coupons. 
Have a great day my friends.

Lisa

Praise the Lord my beloved is home!!

Roger is home from the hospital and we are praising God that he is doing fine, he will need to go in for blood work and he also has to give himself an injection 2 times a day but at least he is home.  We are both so happy and also exhausted, we plan on taking a few days of doing nothing and then gradually getting back into a routine.

For those on the "boards" thanks for coming here and checking in on Roger, it means a lot to both of us, hopefully the board will be up and running again soon...

A big thank you and lots of hugs for those who were praying on our behalf, prayer is an amazing thing!!

Blessings, Joann

From My Inbox #!

Just Stay





A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

'Your son is here,' she said to the old man.

She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.


Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.


The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile..





He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.


Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.


Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.


Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her.


'Who was that man?' he asked.


The nurse was startled, 'He was your father,' she answered.







'No, he wasn't,' the Marine replied. 'I never saw him before in my life.'


'Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?'


'I knew right away there had been a mistake,





but I also knew he needed his son, and his

son just wasn't here.





When I realized that he was too sick to tell





whether or not I was his son,





knowing how much he needed me, I stayed.'


The next time someone needs you ...... just be there. Stay.





*************





WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A

TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

(love this line)


PLEASE PASS THIS ONE ON AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU!

THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO ANYWAY. RIGHT ?

Kitchen update

Hee is a picture of the counter top put in

Here is one of the L looking at the door and fire place where we will come in

And here is a view looking towards the front door, we still have the back splash, the oven to get in, and of course the floor to do and to paint, but it's coming along slowly but surely.

I now have many things on the counters and my things put away, if I have time today I will take a few shots of  "stuff" on the counter tops..LOL

Have a nice day..

Lisa