Not much time for talk but a few photos to share….
And the one who directs traffic….
More later!
Your best recipe?
My best-est friend (well, one of them – I have 5 – yep, I’m blessed!!) is having a little contest next week on her blog so I decided to answer her early.
I’m tired of the grumbling and fussing with dinner so from now on we’re eating these.
Found dead daily outside our house I think they will make a nutritious and protein filled meal.
Example #1
Example #2
Example #3
Example #4
I’m pretty certain after a couple rounds of these guys what I make for dinner will not be a problem!!!
It’s been a bad day, what can I say???
Why wouldn't I trust?
At the end of my last post I asked what things do you (I) stare at from the other side of the glass? Things like Fred who is in the sewer drain AGAIN this morning and won’t come out. He gets into trouble every time I let him out at night and I wonder if we’d be the same way if God allowed us out into the “wild blue yonder” on the other side of the glass? What trouble would we get in to? Would we be trapped having to be rescued each morning? Would we go hungry? Would we be overwhelmed by what’s been put in front of us? I think the answer is a resounding “yes”.
I took these last night during football practice……..
And I wonder….if my God can paint a sky like this for me why, oh why do I not trust that He ALWAYS has my best interests at heart.
Thank you Jesus for speaking to me through your beautiful sunset.
Fred (again)
You guys have all heard about Fred, our 18 pound monster of a cat. He’s been talked about almost as much as The Pioneer Woman’s basset hound, Charlie, here on my little ole blog. He’s been lost since we moved to Florida, he’s had ‘dizzy kitty” syndrome, he continues to go down the storm drain and I have to drag him out each morning he’s let out at night. I really think he’s missing a marble or two. I have a friend who definitely thinks so, but he’s the sweetest lovingest cat around!!! And there is a lot of him to love.
REAL LIFE MOMENT: “Did I mention I have a kid today that has about as much concentration as a grain of sand?”
This morning Fred was enjoying watching an anole.
Photo taken from The Lizard Lounge
Between the squirrels, the black snake, the anoles and the birds he’s a nervous wreck some mornings while watching from inside the windows. It is especially funny when the anoles climb right beside the window seal. Oh how he chirps, moving his lips nervously in anticipation of catching one. He may be big but he’s fast. When he dashes out the door he can catch an anole and have it back inside MY HOUSE in the blink of an eye. Lovely, huh?
Which leads me to ask the question????
What do I chirp for that is on the other side of the glass?
What am I not content with? Where am I anxious? When do I want to run out the door and grab something hoping no one sees? Where am I unwilling to wait for God?
How about you?
Changes or maybe not…
I began this nice long post on the changes we are going through as we move and how hard it is at times but day dreaming got the better of me and as I was gazing out the front window I decided to go kick over these that are growing fervently in my front yard because of all the rain we’ve had.
On my way to kick over the friendly mushrooms this guy went whizzing by me. Now I tried and I mean really hard, not to let a word slip, but slip it did. Rather loudly too because, well, I was scared and well, he almost slithered across my foot.
Of course after the burst of fleshliness I screamed, “Get the camera!”
I needed to document the affair of course. Notice anything except for my “barely surviving the Florida heat” bushes?
Yea, there HE is.
At least a good three feet long. And good for mice control and all that. I’m sure The Pioneer Woman would be happy, but me?????……some things I would just rather not see up close unless behind a solid sheet of glass.
And then he became quite friendly and actually posed for me.
“Hello Mr. Scary Black Snake…..how are you today?”
“Fine thank you. You scared me too.”
And then lo and behold the sucker stuck his tongue out at me.
Go camera!!! I think I’m ready to go watch “KICK” now!!!! Watch out Angelina Jolie!
And just so you know we have lots of wildlife in our front yard here is Mr. Spider.
Who needs the zoo?
Fred…the rather large cat
Fred went missing several days ago. He was gone for three days. After the third night Baby Girl and I went to tape photos on neighbor’s doors. It’s not like Fred to go for over 20 minutes without food so I knew he either was in some one’s home, hurt, or worse. I printed 20 fliers and took a role of tape with us. After the 20th flier was distributed in 100 degree heat we were headed home when Baby Girl started singing, “Kitty, kitty, kitty.” She, like Fred, rarely goes 20 minutes without breaking out in song about something.
As she sang I thought I heard a faint yet guttural meow.
After shh-ing her I called for him and sure enough it was his meow.
We found him in a storm drain, a little dehydrated and really stressed out but alive!! We took him to the vet for some IV fluids and he hid underneath the bed for a day or so. He’s slowly regained his appetite and is wanting affection now. Almost back to the same ole Fred.
All…
18 lbs...
of him.
And we are very thankful!!!
Pop-Warner Football
We’ve moved from Rec League football in SC to Pop Warner football in Fla. I think our family is going to like the changes. Academics are stressed along with discipline and a team approach to practice, playing and winning/losing. I’ve noticed they do a lot of running not only for exercise but for discipline as well.
My second-born likes to pace himself and blast off on the final lap. He usually rounds the corner first.
There is lots of stretching and conditioning the first week.
You can get ’em…..stretch!!!
Here’s #1 son who hates to have his photo taken now. When were they allowed opinions?
Some more stretching…
Line Leaders must be responsible for keeping their line straight.
But my guy always does it with a smile…
I love that about him!!
I think I might have a budding soccer player in my midst…
This one is going to be a soccer player because it’s all she’s talked about for a year now!!!
My babies are so grown up! Just looking at this picture of baby girl makes me realize she really does need a new nickname.
IN HIM,
Julie
TIDE Stain Release On Sale Target
I found these tonight at Target for 2.99 and had a fist full of $1.00 off coupons. So I got them for 1.99. Yippee! They are normally $3.49 or higher!
I saved $8.00 and spent $8.80
On fishing…
I grew up fishing with my dad. Many a Saturday mornings we fished at a friends pond. I can still smell the smell of grape worms. “Mmmmmm….” We fished for bass most often. We also had a pond across the street from our house and summers were spent there with neighborhood friends catching brim and other little fish whose names escape me now.
So it warms my heart that my daughter also loves to fish with my husband. The boys can take it or leave it but she love fishing with her daddy.
Friday night we came home and it was almost dark and it was raining. The perfect fishing weather. So father and daughter pile up in the jeep to run down to the pond in our neighborhood.
About 30 minutes later they walk into the garage with this big guy…
Look how big he is compared to my daughter…
Hello mama!!!
Look at the mouth (and throat) on that thing! Yuck.
(Somehow over the years my ability to deal with worms and guts has diminished quite a bit.)
After showing off their catch off again they went to put him back in the lake to catch on another rainy night.
Friends
Well, here we all are PLUS our very first babysitter we had when we moved to SC. She was awesome. The kids loved her. I loved her. We had her for years before she graduated, got married and moved away from us. I remember her wedding in Charleston SC. It was just beautiful and baby girl was really a baby back then. Six years later we are privileged to find that her sister lives about 45 minutes from us in Florida so we get to see her now when she visits. Yippee!! Now she has a little one of her own who is walking and talking and going a mile a minute. Somehow I hope chasing after my four has helped her in parenthood.
It’s so nice to have friends visit. We’ve had several since we moved. I love having friends just walk in the door and say hello. We don’t have that here yet but the anticipation of friends from far away coming to see us is just as wonderful!!
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