Thankful Thursday July 14, 2016, Dream Porch tablescape

Let them give thanks to the LORD 
for his unfailing love and 
his wonderful deeds for mankind,
Psalm 107:15



Greetings Sweet Friends,

Hope you have been having a good
week, full of fun with your kiddies
if you have some home from school
this summer............lol

We always loved this time of the
year at our house.  It was a very
laid back fun as we could make
it time. Played lots of cards, made
forts out of sheets, made cookies,
adventured to parks to see what
we could find, and many times had
picnics there, and  went tubing at 
one in particular, had visits from
relatives at some point. Went to the 
mountains or to a condo fairly close
 by for vacation. Had friends over,
watched movies, even cleaned up
the house together, and ocassionally 
went to steak and shake or Shoneys
 late at night just for the fun of it.....
we always rearranged their rooms,
and got everything organized and
of course, did the typical school
shopping for clothes.
I was never ready to send my kids
back to school, loved having them
home, but definitely was ready
to get back on a schedule tho.

Well, told you on Tuesday we got
 our porch cleaned and I was working
 on decorating it.....so went to put
my new floral out there and was
thinking how great white plates
would look on that tablecloth,
so went and got one just to see,
and decided I would just throw
together a quick tablescape just
for the fun of it...........I call it my
"dream porch tablescape" because
my dream would have been to
eat dinner out there.....but it was
just too too hot!!  lol

So that explains the pics you 
see here.......I figured it would
be sort of a sneek peek at the
porch..........lol

So on with my Thankful post. 

I am thankful

#1
for policemen and women that do
 their dead level best to keep us
all safe, and put their lives on the 
line every single day for that
 purpose....it isn't to get wealthy 
that is for sure.......
 I pray God blesses each one of
them with peace, strength, love, 
tough hides and supernatural 
courage during these difficult
 times.  We have known at least
5 policemen (and if  I took much
time to think about it there might
be more) that were really good
men, men who were also good
family  men, and do what they do
because they care about others
and want to serve their community.
 It would be a very scary world if
 they did not exist......Something
 to think about for sure............

#2

We got our porch all cleaned

 up Friday evening......finally!!

then on Sat., Mon. and Tues. I
got a lot of of work done on the
 decorating out there.  It is so hot
 I can't stand to be out there for 
too long......lol So work out
 there in the early morning only.

All that I need to be finished
 is some cushions that should
 arrive next week.

#3

that I had already ordered most

of the new things I needed to

redo it a few months ago.

#4

for a really nice visit with 

Scott, Megan and the baby on 

Sunday afternoon/evening!

It has been awhile as they or

 we have had lots of things 

going on...............

#5

that DeeAnna is better.

she was really sick over the 

weekend and earlier this
 week with either a stomach

 virus or a maybe food
 poisoning. But sure glad
 she is over it now.

#6

for DeeAnna's friend who 

went and got her gingerale

 and crackers, since her hubby

had already gone to work 

before she got sick. 

Like the sunshadows ............


#7

That I got a flower arrange-

ment done on Monday for

the porch and did a tutorial

for my blog on Tuesday.

If you would like to see

just click here!

#8

for a great Sunday dinner of

Lemon herb shrimp, with a

lemon, garlic and cilantro dip,

Baked potatoes, salad and

rolls like they have at Red

Lobster.  Did you know that
 you can buy their boxed mix

and makes them yourself now.

They are scrumptious!

#9

for a new find........butter

lettuce.  I had never heard

of it before until I made a

new salad recipe last year, 
called "Succotash Salad"
(Great salad by the way and
you can find it here if you
want.) but I couldn't find the
 butter lettuce, so I used bibb
 lettuce instead. But happened 
on the butter lettuce recently,
at our Publix grocery store.

  I have made 2 salads with it 

now and am really delighted

with it.............has a great
taste as I am a lil weary of
Romaine these days, so a
 nice  change of pace.

#10

and beyond thrilled to have 
my porch back again, I don't
think I realized just how much
I have missed spending time
out there, especially in the 
mornings. Our

kitty Molly had sort of

taken it over, so to speak,

and there was always fur

and food around where

you didn't want it,  and 

since she was an outside

cat we had to put her food 

on the table to keep the ants

 out of it, and she liked laying

 up there as well (it is sort of

funny.... that it was the only 

table she ever got on, thank

heavens).........so we had a

 tough time keeping it clean

out there all the time.  

I sat our there 3 mornings this
week and it was wonderful to

able to sit out there again and

have my quiet times like I used
 to, it is so peaceful and quiet out
there and fairly cool and pleasant
until 9 or so...............

Really looking forward to 

Fall weather now, course,

I have about 3 mons. before

that will happen.  lol

#11

that one of my close friends
grandaughter who is only about
31/2 yrs. old had to have her
 appendix removed this week
but everything went well and 
she is now home and doing
 well,  thank the Lord.

#12

for a new bagel discovery at
Panera's, they are called
 "Cinnamon Crunch" bagels,
 they are great with just butter
 on them or honey nut cream
cheese.  They are Yummo!
and thanks to hubby for
bringing them home!!


Well, here my list fot the week, 
 hope you have lots on your list
 too, and would maybe want to
 share a few with us.


Thanks for your visit, always enjoy
knowing you were here.

Have a Super Duper rest of the
week and weekend.
and 
keep you light shining brightly!!

Love, Hugs and 
Mid July Blessings,
Nellie

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