Memorial Day Observance

Hello Sweet Friends * May you have a Blessed time  of Remembrance with your Family and or Friends * * And to all our Men and Women  in Uniform and all their precious families.............. We love and appreciate you  for all the sacrifices you are making to make our lives and the world a better place. We pray for your safety and provision.  May the Lord Bless you and Keep you safe, and Meet all your needs! Blessings Abundant, Nellie

Have A Singing Sunday

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Good Sunday Morning Sweet Friends

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Hope this finds you well and content

this sweet morning and hope you are 

having a pleasant weekend thus far.

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The verses for today are from

Psalm 59: 16 and 17

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But I will sing of your strength,

in the morning I will sing of your love,

for you are my fortress,

my refuge in times of trouble.

O my strength, I sing praise to you;

you, O God, are my fortress,

my loving God.

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Hope you having a Singing Sunday!!

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Love, Hugs and Blessings,

Nellie

Welcome to Thankful Thursday - May 27, 2010

Artist Garden by Claude Monet

compliments of Mary Dover Publishing

Well,  Sweet Friends

Guess what Day it is????

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Hope your week has been going well,  and that today

 finds you in a grateful mood.

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We worked out in the yard again yesterday

and pruned away all the dead palmetto leaves

and it looks so much better and greener.

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So guess that would be my

#1

I am thankful to the Lord

for all the work we got done  and how much

nicer the yard  looks each time.  We both love 

seeing the yard evolve one snip at a time.  lol

.........course, there is

still plenty more to do,  but it will get there.

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#2

I am thankful to the Lord

for my blooming lilies cause  everytime I see them

they are a constant reminder of those verses in 
Matthew 6:25-34 about the Lilies of the field,
and how God takes care of them, and how if
He takes care of them....He will take care of us.

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#3

I am thankful to the Lord

that Kathy from over at Sweet Up North Mornings

 had good news about her husbands cancer surgery

 this  week.  Lord willing they will be able to do it

all laprascopically and his recovery time will be

much shorter.  PTL

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Remember to pray for him if you feel led,  his

name is Dave and his surgery is June 5th.

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#4

I am thankful to the Lord

for all the jobs my hubby is finding to apply for,

cause this was not the case 6 yrs. ago when

he was laid off.  The market was flooded with

Engineers when his Company had huge lay

offs of so many people, mostly all Engineers.

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#5

I am thankful to the Lord

that we came across a job opportunity last night

 for Scott that seems to perfectly fit his expertise

and experience and it is in the area.  We are

so excited!!  But he has to apply yet!!

He hasn't even seen it yet,  as we found it

about 10:30 and emailed the info over to him.
Plus there were some others as well.

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Isn't he a cutie!!  I took this quite a while back

but just never used it before ( at least I don't

 remember using it anyway!! lol.)  He is sitting in

the tree in our front yard.

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#6

I am thankful to the Lord

that my friend that had the MRI that showed

no brain tumors has had no more symtoms.

She was prayed for by the elders and now

we are wondering if there was something

there, and the Lord has healed her,  cause

strange that her symptoms just quit all of

a sudden,  cause she had been having

bad dizzy spells and then would be real

 nauseous.

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#7

I am thankful to the Lord

that Becky over at Holiday In the Sun 

did well on all her tests this week.

Tests are no fun,  that is for sure.
So the Lord is answering all those
prayers on her behalf.

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#8

I am thankful to the Lord

for this yummy Pasta Salad recipe I 

learned from my long time friend Arlene.

I made it today and it has almost been a 

year since I made it,  which made it all

 the better.  Hubby and I both enjoyed

it so much,  and I have a huge bowl left,

so I will probably add Chicken to it for

tomorrows dinner.

It truly is delicious and filling.

If you would like to try it .

Click here

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( This would be Molly - Don't you just love her

butterfly shaped nose markings)

#9

I am thankful to the Lord

that He took care of our cat Molly for us.

She was acting like she was getting a

urinary tract infection again and we were

thinking oh, a vet bill,  so we prayed and

asked the Lord to take care of it,  and He

did cause she has been fine every since.

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#10

I am thankful to the Lord

for the extra time that we have to be in
God's word, praying and reading good
books,  and to minister which leads me to
 the next Thankful!!

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#11

I am thankful to the Lord
for  his word,  the Bible,  and for great books
like "Secrets of the vine", by Bruce Wilkinson
and "Lost in the Middle" and "Broken down
house" by Paul David Tripp because they 
are full of wonderful theology about God
and who He is and constantly point us to
God's love for us,  and are soooo very
 encouraging when you go through
times like these.
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# 12
I am thankful  to the Lord
for being able to get all our Dr. appts. in
June,  just in case we can't keep the Cobra
Insurance.  Still have to get some dental appts
yet,  but don't think that will be a problem.
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#13
I am thankful to the Lord
that I was able to lower the miles driven for
Jim's car which will make our car Ins. almost
 $100.00 less for this 6 mo. period.  You have
to keep Insurance but if we don't drive it much
then it takes quite a bit off!!  yea!!
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Well,  Sweet Folks,
What can I tell you,
except God is Good!!
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That is my Thankful List
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Tell Me About Yours!!!
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Have a Great Evening with you Sweet 
Family,  Friends or Pets,
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Love, Blessings and Hugs,
Nellie

Welcome to Heart Tips Tuesday - Enchiladas recipe & products

Greetings Sweet Friends

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Welcome to Heart Tips Tuesday

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Hope you are having a super duper day!!

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We are!!........It's so nice to have so much extra

time to spend in prayer and in God's word,  and

reading good books together, and to be able to
 get our exercising done early in the day. 

  We could get used to this very quickly. lol

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Jim sent off 3 more resumes and got back 3

responses this morning already so that was nice.

 Got no responses from the first three, so this

 was very encouraging!! One Company is not 

hiring at all, but the others who knows,  but at

 least they are getting his resume to the right

 place,  so that is good news.

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Made this Chicken  Enchiladas recipe last week, 

 it was from Campbells soup Company,  but 

of course,  I had to tweak it some. 

It was delicious,  but I have to say it was even

more so the next day,  so next time I think I will

make them the day before, and have them the next.

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Chicken & Cheese Enchiladas

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Ingredients

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1 can of condensed cream of chicken soup

(The healthy request)

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1/2 cup of lowfat sour cream

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1 cup of pace picante sauce

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2 tsp. chili powder

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2 cups of cooked chicken (chopped)

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3/4 cups of  shredded Mexican blend 2% cheese 

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6 - 6" flour tortillos (check your labels for ones that

do not have hydrogenated oils - I found some fatfree

ones at walmart,  they pic is below the recipe)

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shredded lettuce,  as much as you want to cover

your enchilada.  I sort of make a salad on top

of mine,  cause we need those veggies.

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Tomatoes the same, ( I love campari tomatoes)

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Green onions sliced,  as many as you want the more

the better I might say, or you can use reg. onions too.

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cilantro,  chopped up (I like a lot of that too) lol

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(We got 2 meals out of this for 2 people)

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Directions

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1. Stir the soup, sour cream, picante sauce and chili

powder in a medium bowl.

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2. Stir 1 cup of the picante sauce mixture, along with the 

chicken and cheese into large bowl.

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3. Divide chicken mixture among the 6 tortillos.  Roll up

the tortillos and place seamside up in a 2 qt. shallow

baking dish.  Pour remaining picante sauce mixture

 over filled tortillos.  Cover baking dish.

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4.  Bake at 350 degrees for 40 mins. or until enchiladas

or hot and bubbling.

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5.  Place on plate and top with lettuce, tomatoes, scallions,
a dollop of sour cream then sprinkle on the cilantro. 
 Serve with guacamole and chips and you  are good
 to go!!  Heart Healthy chips of course!! lol

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Enjoyado!!

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Here is the tortillos I told you about.

No bad oils,  in fact no oils at all!!

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This arrived on Sunday our newspaper.

It was just a sample box,  but thought it

was neat it was gluten free.  We haven't

tried it yet, but if it is like the gluten free

waffles I bought I  liked it even better.

I decided to go try them,  just ate them

dry, but hubby and I both really liked them.

I am sure they are really great with milk

on them,  but they could also be good

just as a snack dry.

They have 9 grams of sugar for 3/4 cup

for anyone worrying about the sugar 

content.

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They also have all of these in gluten free too!

This ad and coupon came with them,  but

it was a bit crumpled,  so think it didn't

come out too badly!!

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Well Sweeties,

Yall have a good rest of the day now!!

ya hear!!

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Blessings and Hugs,

Nellie

Happy Monday Sweet Peas

(Today my yellow lilies are blooming, 
 all my lilies are in the front yard)

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Happy Monday Sweet Peas,

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Hope this finds you having a very good Monday, 

and that you also had a very nice weekend.

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Ours was nice........quiet and restful, which was

perfect to us.  Dee and her beau came over for dinner

 on Friday night and we all had a nice evening,  course,

 we also got to see Rosie as well. 

 She always puts a smile on our faces too!!

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(These are the same lilies but they have the photoshop

paint daubs affect,  thought it looked neat)

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Saturday we didn't do too much really,  cause

 we were pretty tired from a busy week can't 

even remember what we did, ........... Oh yea,

we slept late,  for me that just almost never 

happens,  but think it was because I only slept

4 or 5 hrs. the night before.  So I woke up feeling

great, then we sat on the porch and drank coffee

for awhile and read in a new book by Paul David

Tripp called "Broken down house".  We are

really enjoying it.  Then we came in and made a

 bunch of pancakes and waffles from a wholegrain

 mix we had purchased at Ross last weekend.

Had some for breakfast and froze the rest.  

They were nummy!! 

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 Repotted a big plant cause it's old pot cracked, 

and was looking awful so that was a nice improvement.

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  Talked to an old and dear friend we haven't talked to

 in awhile.  She never reads my blog mainly cause she

 is too busy ( she is a Pastors wife), but for some

reason she decided to... and read about Jim losing

his job, and called to find out why we hadn't called

to let them know,  so they could be praying for us.

So Sweet and so good to hear from her.

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Washed and did my hair and that is all I can 

remember accept we had leftovers from Friday

nites dinner,  so no cooking but a good din din!!

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Sunday we went to Sunday School and church.

It was a very encouraging service!

Then we went to get a smoothie afterwards,  came

 home, ate lunch, read the newspaper,  took a nap, 

 I got up before Jim so I visited some blogs,  then

 a bit after he got up we went outside to sit in the

 yard and read some more.  It was so lovely out,

a lil bit of breeze and cool enough to be out there,

 because it was 90 degrees earlier and such a 

gorgeous day, I so wanted to be outside,  but I

 can't take the heat in the daytime.  So was so

elated to be able to enjoy being outside for awhile.

We can never be accused of working too much

on a Sunday!! lol  It is truly our day of rest.

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 This is what I saw as we were sitting there.

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(our backyard - we have been working over on the left

behind the skinny legged tree and the bench.

It used to be a huge full bush a week or so ago,  and

 before we cleaned out you could only see the bottom

 part of the post behind the bench, not much is blooming

in the backyard right now but the Lantana which is only

sparsely blooming by the birdbath and to the left passed

 where you can see.  I am hoping to plant some flowers

 maybe under that lil tree, cause it looks so bare and

 drab right now.  We love our backyard tho,  it is truly

a place of solace for us.  It is truly a miracle how it has 

recovered from hurricane Charlie 6 yrs. or so ago.

As it was totally demolished....we had a backyard

full of trees and tree tops from the hurricane but 

also from a tornado that touched down right on

the lot beside us.  We never thought our backyard 

would look the same again. That was one noisy and

 scary storm!!  Maybe I will share our hurricane

story when we get into hurricane season.

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While Jim was reading I was listening and looking

at the sky,  it was just so beautiful I had to take

a break and take some pics for yall to see!

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Just love these gorgeous clouds, 

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Looks like God has been painting away!!

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Sorta looks likeGod is kicking that 3/4 moon

into place.  Earlier it sort of look like his hand.

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These next 3 were  taken during the blue hour.

just for the heck of it!! lol

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As you can see it was almost dark,  and the sky

was dark grey, but on film it shows up this 

pretty blue!!

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And here is the moon shot again

but during the blue hour,  it was almost
 dark, again the sky was grey. 
 Sure looks pretty here!!

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Well,  Sweet Friends that was our weekend,

not exciting but sure was fun and relaxing!! lol

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Have a Sweet Evening with your family.

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Thanks for stopping by,

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Hugs and Blessings,

Nellie

Have a Beautiful Sunday

Good Morning Sweet Friendsand Happy Sunday to you!!*Someone sent me this lovely power pointPresentation,  and I just had to share itwith you.  Once it starts you have to keep hitting the down arrow on your keyboardto keep it going till the end.  The one I gotover email had lovely Ann Murray musicbut we couldn't get it to work,  but the presentation is lovely anyway!
A Present

Hope you enjoy it as much I did!!  

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I thought this verse goes nicely with it!!

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James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above,

coming down from the Father of heavenly

lights, who does not change like shifting

shadows.

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Have a Beautiful Sunday!!

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Love, blessings and hugs,

Nellie


P.S.  If you would like to see it on a larger scale
go to the bottom of the Power Point Presentation
and click on the menu on the lefthand side and
select view full screen.  Didn't tell you before
cause once you go there you can't get back
to this post!! 

Welcome to Thankful Thursday - May 20, 2010

(My lilies are blooming as well as Scott's Zinnia's)

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Hello Sweet Friends

and

Welcome to Thankful Thursday

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Well......It has been a splendid and fun day,

 as Becky was here for lunch to celebrate her birthday

 and we had a good days chin waggin and eating session.

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That would be 

#1

on my Thankful list this week.

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#2

I am thankful 

for what a Wonderful person Becky is,

and how she brightens up the lives of those

she comes in contact with,  she is a true jewel

as many of you already know.  If you have not

met her you might want to go over and visit her

and see for yourself.  Just click here.

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#3

I am thankful to the Lord

for how wonderful my hubby is doing in spite

of his job loss.  His faith is strong and his

attitude terrific. I am so proud of him!!

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#4

I am thankful

for yard work and a John Deere tractor cause it gives

a guy something to do to feel like he is accomplishing

something!  and What guy doesn't love and feel manly

riding on a John Deere,  give them a tractor and they

are happy happy campers. 

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And just look at that smile.

#5

I am thankful

for that smile,  and for the Wonderful

man that is wearin' that smile!!

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#6

I am thankful

for all the yard work we have accomplished

so far,  and that there is plenty more to do

to keep this sweet man busy!!  I really think

this is a blessing to us, because we have so

much cutting back that needs to be done

and we have such a hard time having the

time to do it....cause by the time he gets

home at 6 p.m. and changes clothes and

we have dinner,  not too much time left

over for yard work,  plus now we are

in the season of mowing once a week.

Already????

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(Our Pretty kitty Molly,  sitting in the woods out back on a log.

Has nothing to do with anything I am writing just wanted to 

share it) lol

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#7

I am thankful

for You,  all my sweet bloggy friends who

have been so supportive, caring, prayerful and

 encouraging during this time.

You are just too Sweet and Amazing!!

and I love you guys, well, uh Girls!!

You know what I mean!! lol

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#8

I am thankful

that the same sweet friend who got her

divorce decree (that she did not want)  a few weeks ago, 

 had an MRI done, and they were looking for

brain tumors and there was None.

Praise the Lord!!

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(Our lil Cardinal friend has been back many times since I 

lasted posted his picture,  this is is right side view!  lol

They just tickle me soooo..... as I watch them just flutter and

frolic about and have such a delightful time taking a bath,

who knew it could be such fun!!)  lol

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#9

I am thankful

for a riding mower and good lawn equipment

that makes it so much faster for us to do the 

lawn and make it look so nice.  I do most of

the mowing and that way, it frees Jim up to do

the weed eating and edging,  we just finished and

 it looks great and we are done in less than an hr

 and a half, with everything put away to boot!!

Not Bad for old folks!! lol

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(He's having more fun fluttering those wings and getting all wet)

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#10

I am thankful

 for how pleasant and comfortable it was

when we went to Jimmy's office to get his things on

Tuesday.  Everyone was so nice, and you could tell

they all felt so bad!  We spent the first hr or two just

talking with them.  I had met all but one before, so it

was actually a fun time considering why we were there!! lol

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#11

I am thankful

we got to go see "Letters to God"  finally.  Our gift

certificates even covered our popcorn and water, so

it was pretty much a free movie date other than $2.00.

Not bad, I'd say!!  And the movie was just great!

Unapologetically Christian and it is based on a true

story about a young boy who had cancer.  It is truly

stunning to find these sorts of movies in the public

theatres,  what a joy that it!!

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#12

I am thankful

I finally got my wreath decorated and put up

on the front of the house.  It was about time!!  lol

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Remember this..... you saw it in some tablescapes as

a centerpiece.  Bought  2 of them at the end of summer last

year for $4.00 each,  they have them this year for $25.00, 

I think it is.  Boy,  $8.00 vs $50.00 sounds like a blessing

to me!!  lol

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I wired the 2 together with long pipe cleaners, and stuck in 

some pink flowers and a bow I had and this is what I got.

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Nice and Springy!!

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And to make a baker's dozen.

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#13

I am thankful

Dee and her boyfriend are coming to dinner

tomorrow night,  so we will get to spend 

some one on one time just with them for

a change.  Been wanting to do that for a

 while now.

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Gotta add this too!!

#14

I am thankful

that the young couple we have been working

with is still doing great.  We talked about

some time pressure issues this week,  but

they are fine and working well together.

We are pleased as punch and so very

proud of them.  We asked them to pray

together at least once a week,  and they

are doing it more than once a week, is

that great or what!!  It makes me smile

every time I think about them!!

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Have a great Evening with your

 family Sweet friends,

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Love and Blessings,

Nellie

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So Tell Me....................

What are you Thankful for????