Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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This is our customary Sunday Benediction, Treeper friends. I hope everyone here has a wonderful and very blessed Sunday. Always know that our Lord loves us and watches over us. May we all receive His blessings. 🙂
Good Sunday, my man Garrison. 😎
Thank you!
-💞
God morning, dear Patience and Ma🙏🏻💕🙏🏻
It is indeed, thank you.
Besty, God day ,
-to you and Mr. Honey❣️
Good morning Patience! ❤️ Took me a while last night to decipher your comment about the kitchen floor until I finally realized that we were talking about two stepping. 😂😂😂
Getting ready to head back home in a bit for a 10 and a half hours drive.
😆
Good Sunday morning, Pa💖
Did you find Mrs. Sweetie’s great grandma?
Ten hours? Whoa!
-Have an enjoyable
and safe drive home Pa❣️❣️❣️❣️
We drove home from Florida (son’s wedding) allllllllll the way back to Texas in 17.
How many stops?
I love road trips.
Haven’t done one in quite some time.
Just the odd water break. It was smooth sailing and would have been less had we not hit that wretched lonnnng bridge outside New Orleans.
Never will forget that bridge. Was in a Honda civic and couldn’t see above the rail. It was like being an an endless tunnel.
Truckers were awesome!
-They talked us through it.
When we traveled across it, we must have hit rush hour. Snail’s pace. It felt that it took as long to get across it as it had to get from Florida to the start of that dang bridge.
I kept thinking if anyone had car trouble while on it and their car stopped dead…well, you can see where I’m going with that…
Morning, G!!😘 Godspeed and y’all get home safely🙏🏻
Patience . . . 🙂
Morning Garrison!
Mornin’ Gramps. Hope you have a pleasant drive, my friend. 🙂
God Morning, Garrison on the Lord’s day.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The first prayer I offered to Almighty God this morning on waking, Lorrie.
I wanted to place a Biblical treasure here but I have so many unmarked memes stored that I scrolled and randomly placed my finger on one to post. This is the one which appeared!
No such thing as coincidence💕😌
Blessed be your day, girl🙏🏻
Mornin’ Bet. Have a wonderfully blessed day, darlin’ 🙂
Bless, my friend. You do the same, good sir😘 Enjoy your wonderful Sunday visit for your delicious breakfast🤗🌻
God bless you, Garrison!
🙏🇺🇲❤️
You, too, Lorrie 🙂
Wipe Out, 1966 Japan
Ventures ——— at top of their game…….
The set was so basic that it didn’t distract from the music.
The audience loved it.
They didn’t waste anytime getting off stage.
Still got the voice.
This seems somehow especially fitting, tonight. Enjoy Treeper, friends . . .
In the 70’s, I used to listen to this nearly every nite before bed. Such soothing music.
Thx.
🙂
How Great Thou Art
Beautiful, Miss P💕
They seem to belong together.
…. using two senses;
sight and sound
tapping into
what we all really know
—deep within
That which gives us life
– takes our breath away
It does💕 Together they go hand in hand in reaching our souls. And when that happens for me that’s when my breath stops for a moment😌
Beautiful, Bet. Thanks. 🙂
You are most welcome, dear Garrison 😘
This is about the Chinese tradition of 1 month “confinement ” after giving birth.
It shows the difference between the new luxury “confinement hotels” and the more traditional “home confinement”.
Even the footwear is quite an analogy for the sign of the time.
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Petula Clark
+1 on go-go boots
😋
HUUUUuuuuge difference…..
So much to say….
None of it politically correct….
And I don’t care that it ain’t politically correct.
It’s ok to be an actual *MAN*.
🤔Briefs or thong?
Spoken like a true man..😀👍..Trump expressed his thought about “politically correct “ in first debate..that’s when I got on board his train..🤣💪👍
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We all need to stop giving permission or half apologizing for what we are by the hand of Almighty God.
I am as He made me. He doesn’t make mistakes.
And that is that!🙏🏻
Need Bet to post ‘THE FACE’ here !!! 🤣
She’s getting quite the workout, duchess😂😂😂
7/9/2023 – But now, here we are, at the brink!
Revelation 3:1-6 “And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things says He that has the [seven] Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have the Name that you live, and are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works complete before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and keep [it], and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcomes, he shall be clothed in white garments; and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life, and I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Revelation 16:12-16 “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river the Euphrates; and its waters were dried up, that might be prepared the way of the kings of the east (from the rising of the sun). And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of *demons (supernatural spirits of a bad nature, as distributors of fortunes), doing signs, to go forth to the kings of the earth and of the whole habitable world, to gather them together to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that *watches (stays vigilant, keeps awake), and keeps his garments, that not he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”
Webster’s Dictionary defines Indolence as – 1. Having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful. 2. Inactive or relatively benign; as an indolent ulcer. From the Late Latin, Indolens (prp of Indolere; not, or without + to be in pain).
Thus in the context of Christian duty; having or being controlled by a slothful spirit; avoiding exertion in spiritual exercise, to do completely and painstakingly, to fulfill Jesus’ commandments, and attend to the charge of His property and affairs till He returns.
Webster’s Dictionary defines Indifference as – 1. Lack of interest or concern, apathy. 2. unimportance: little or no concern. 3. The condition or quality of being indifferent. 4. Mediocrity.
So in this context; not having a distinguishable difference in character or quality from Non-Christians; in other words, having leaves, but no fruit; saying “Lord, Lord,” but producing no provable evidence of His grace and truth having been wrought in the heart, nor of the Holy Spirit presiding over the life.
In the prophet Joel’s parable, of the continual, and over a long time coming, of the devouring worms and locusts; the call was for everyone to see their circumstances for what they really are; and to consider how this has been getting worse every year, till now they are left as in a drunken stupor, and all their wealth and sustenance has been devoured through their neglect; and the foreign invaders were on their way to finish the destruction.
The signs we see right before our eyes. We wonder how, while we were busy here and there, and not paying attention, the criminals have taken over the country at every level. We are horrified and in a desperate situation; which we can honestly say, should have been seen a long time ago, and everything done to avoid it. But now, here we are, at the brink! Its a sign of what is spiritually the case with the people; that manifests itself in the kind of times. Wisdom could have foreseen the evil, and taken steps to turn it back. But now we have a day of reckoning for the indolence, indifference, and turning away from the holy and precious things which Jesus entrusted to us and our predecessors.
Ecclesiastes 3:15 “That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires (searches out) that which is past (driven away).”
Now with a view to the time at hand; first being, how the messages to the churches come just ahead of the great tribulation, and the description of the completion of the age; and how when the sixth vial of the wrath of God is poured out, and the imminent battle of Armageddon; at the same time is the last word for us from heaven, to stay vigilant, and be watchful, and keep our garments, that not we walk naked, and they see our shame. There should be no way to NOT see the very grave emergency we are about to be in; and so too does the Lord say exactly the rebuke and warning we need to hear.
The wars and fightings among the Christians, which James talked about in the 4th chapter of his epistle, was not only about the quarreling and contentions with each other, but how it started in themselves; in their own mind and conscience toward the convictions and strivings of the Spirit of God.
James 4:1-4 “From what place [come] wars and fightings among you? [Is it] not hence [on both sides], from your pleasures that war in your members? You desire, and have not; you kill, and are emulous (zealous), and are not able to obtain: you fight and war, however you have not, because you ask not; you ask, and receive not, because evilly you ask that in your pleasures you may spend [it]. Adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore be minded a friend of the world, is constituted an enemy of God.”
How then, at such a time as this, when God is bringing this age to its end, and all restraint from before the wicked, to do all that they have imagined to do, is being taken away; how at this time is not everyone who has knowledge of the truth, not on highest alert and readiness? When Satan is now on his last expedition to sift the nations with a sieve of vanity, and every evidence of the world around us, only shows the flower fading and falling away; why then are so many still refusing to be convinced, and set their things in order with God? But with every hour, every day squandered from now on, the risk of losing all increases, and space to repent disappears, never to return.
Matthew 16:26 “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
WP’s
09 July
Amedeo Avogadro
(1776-1856)
Italian scientist who contributed to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro’s law (6.022 x 10 ^ 23), dies at 79
09 July
King C. Gillette
(1855-1932)
American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, dies at 77
09 July
Ross Perot
(1930-2019)
American businessman (Electronic Data Systems, Perot Systems), billionaire and presidential candidate (1992, 1996), dies of leukemia at 89
“Giant sucking sound”, and where are the jobs now….. CHY NA.
Ross speak…
Perot was the reason Clinton beat Bush.
Bush was the reason Clinton beat Bush. Perot and Clinton were just symptoms of Bushes flaws.
He made the mistake of telling us to read his lips as he was lying to us, and that lie drove a recession.
The numbers make it clear to me that Perot’s party took the necessary votes from Bush and not from Clinton. Bush certainly damaged himself with “read my lips”, but in the end the numbers don’t lie. During his campaign Perot aimed almost all of his criticism at Bush, not at Clinton or the democrats. In the runup as Perot gained some momentum it was Clinton’s poll numbers that climbed, not Bush’s. Perot took 19% of the popular vote, a high percentage of them independents that typically leaned Republican. He took 35 electoral votes.
I remember Ross Perot. Donald Trump sounds a lot like him.
“. . . Trump sounds a lot like him. . . “
No.
I’m sorry, I forgot; No thinking or opinions allowed; except absolute devotion to the party line!
YES! He does sound like Perot, in some ways. He talks about numbers, he talks common sense approaches to solve problems… problems that should have been managed better to begin with. He talks (talked) about how he had to do something for this country that he loves; and how terrible it is to see the direction it has gone, and what can only be disaster and total ruin if something isn’t done.
The differences: one was small-framed and had a Texas accent; and the other is taller and sounds like he’s from New York. One shows charts and grafts, the other stands up in front of the crowds and fearlessly exposes the ugly things that people in power don’t want anyone to know.
Interesting. So Gillette was a Marxist Industrialist! Seems to be a ravaging mental illness of the times; wanting to control the lives of everyone in the world, and form it into their own Without God image.
Its the same today still, isn’t it? Someone without any fear of God, or conscience towards man, is smart enough to invent something and make himself rich; and then he believes its his place to decide how the whole rest of the world must live.
Interesting too, is how in a time when God is really moving among His people, (as He was doing in those years,) and the gospel and healing power of Christ was reaching the poor and needy all over the world; that in the countries where they’ve had the greatest blessings and churches everywhere, are racing to the devil, and gobbling up every blasphemous ideology and fantasy they can find!
Thus the two edged
-sword
That is the number that comes out of his law. The R in PV=nRT, the ideal gas law.
Well, technically Avagodro’s law is a special case of the ideal gas law, where P and T are the same, then when V is the same for any two different gasses those two gasses have the same number of molecules, or nR.
9 July 2006 Milan Williams, American keyboardist (Commodores – “Three Times A Lady”), dies of cancer at 58.
Three Times A Lady
9 July 2011 Würzel [Michael Burston], British musician (Motörhead), dies of ventricular fibrillation at 61
Don’t Let Daddy Kiss Me (dedicated to Brandon)
Good Morning all. Have a blessed Sunday!
And the crowd goes wild for:
(14) Richard Grenell on Twitter: “And the crowd goes absolutely wild for @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/rToI1XogN1” / Twitter
Have a lovely day, rah❣️
Thank you! It is going to be one. The humidity and heat have finally broke some and pressure is rising. Good day to work outside.
We got a good rain yesterday. The crops look great. Most the corn is much taller than my 6′ already.
This morning was ear cleaning day for Geisha and Buckley. Those long ears require regular cleaning to avoid chronic problems. Neither of them like it and so I hold while Sherry cleans. Her fingers are smaller anyway, so she is best suited for that task. Later it is bath day. Sherry can do Buckley by herself, he’s such a good boy, but Geisha has a skin condition that requires extra scrubbing with a prescription shampoo and 10 minutes to allow it to work and it is my job to raise her up so Sherry gets the belly and make sure she stays put, while waiting for the medicine to work.
The rain early this week was good for the 4th’s fireworks
and all of the plants; plus the mostly overcast two days after -was real good.
It is almost a perfect ‘summer’ day. Yeah!!
-In the sun, naturally, it is really hot!
Was clipping and cutting gigantic thorny weeds ( yikes!) and some deadwood from trees, where it was cooler under them.
Still broke a sweet though.
-Too bad you and Sherry are busy grooming your owners, cuz I could use a hose-down. 😜
What part of this, or any other place President Trump shows up, do his haters not understand?
Good morning!
WONDERFUL!!!!
The picture of my youth!
I thought I was lonely but now I’d like nothing better than to be alone with a book and my imagination.
All we need do to escape from the reality which subsumes us is open a book and sink into its pages.
This is why my favourite author is the Master of the Metaphor Sir PG Woodhouse whose books are eternal treasures…laughter on every page. He makes me wish to have been a part of the world he created. There is no other place I’d rather be.
I think I’ll pick up one of his books this afternoon…
You can’t beat Plum!
Spent many an hour of the same with everything from Sir Walter Scott, Hemingway to Louis L’Amour
Another Western Fan!!! I think good should always beat evil, if only in fiction.
Another Virginian?
My son was about 8 when he began reading Louis L’Amour. I would buy a paperback a month, my husband got first dibs, then me, then my son. We were in Germany so no TV. What a blessing that was.
He is now 50+ and an avid reader of most everything. He still loves those Westerns and has re-read them multiple times over the years.
Smelly, ain’t it interesting how what seemed lonely
may have been one of the best memory-lessons in life?
You weren’t really lonely after all.
You were storing knowledge
for what you would come to know
now.
👍💕
The World Is Too Much With Us
BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
Alternate Title: Why I love our Treehouse
🥰
Norman Rockwell wasn’t just drawing American life. He preached universal values, he raised hope and faith in the national idea, because a smile and kindness saved in difficult wartime, and mutual help and decency came to the fore. He said: “There is no place for mud and ugliness in my paintings. I paint life as I would like it to be.”
Morning Dave, Rockwell was living his best life
Love it !
Every piece of
Norman Rockwell’s work tells a story
within
the big-picture story.
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As a side note:
Seems that young scout had to save Betsy
cause she jumped in to save the cat.😍
IKR!
Morning Patience
Good morning, Monticello.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! And we are both ever so grateful!! 😎😉💕
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
😜
😁😘
“I paint life as I would like it to be.”
…as we wish it were but can always be in our minds at least, courtesy of his most marvelous paintings.
Thank you, monti💕
Thank you Betsy and have a wonderful day
😘👍🏻
Transgender Movement and Biden Border Policy Aid and Abet Child Sex Slavery, Tim Ballard Warns
Joebama can smell the children at the border
– even from 🏕️ David
Dark forces, Patience. 🙂
Truly dark.
There is light (all around)
….at the of the tunnel.
✝️❤️
“And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
A few words of wisdom from that friend of ol’ Clem Kadiddlehopper!
Pledge of Alliance
Red Skelton
Sorry to say, but that “beloved” comedian was as rotten immoral as any today. That unclean spirit has been ruling from that industry since its inception. Yet the slobbering and fawning over them continues! When is anyone gonna wake up from the wine of the world and realize what’s really happening; and after the edge of the cliff is the pit!
Mr. Skelton’s reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance has sure triggered a negative response from you.
Sorry. We will just leave it at that.
Have a great MAGA Sunday.
President Trump had a great week wrapping up with a Republican volunteer meeting yesterday in Nevada.
It wasn’t the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance! What I wrote said nothing about the Pledge of Allegiance; but about the man himself, and the question why such a character is so loved and idolized; indifferent to his real life work of polluting the minds and damaging the moral conscience of several generations.
It was the man himself that triggered you. You are fine with the Pledge of Allegiance if it is spoken by the right person. Understood.
We will just leave it at that.
Have a great MAGA Sunday.
What were his sins?
When is anyone gonna wake up from the wine of the world and realize what’s really happening; and after the edge of the cliff is the pit! NO! NO! NO! And NO!
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Morning Betsy.. how true 😀👍..hopping your day is joyous and pleasant..🙏👍
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Bless, Jim, and God morning to you, my friend😘
At this moment I’m enjoying a memory of doing just this😊🌻
Woman Grinding Coffee by Vincent van
Spring Waltz (Mariage d’Amour) Chopin 4K
Good afternoon Jim and Betsy
this Grandma looks like
she’s been snappin the green
she could listen to some chopin
whilst she’s a choppin
☘ 🍀 ☘
Hello back at ya..MO.. always enjoy pics and music ..👍🍀🍀
🇺🇸💪😀👍
Love this, mo!! As for Chopin? Anytime, anywhere…just like this💕
😇
… and don’t know about pulling off the string.
Pulling of that elusive string for me was the challenge and the best part!😁
chuckle. Grandpa can’t get much help picking beans either.
Morning Betsy
Morning, dear monti. Uh oh 😂😂😂😂
I ain’t been picking no beans. 🙂
😁 meant me not you GrandpaM.
😳🤭😂😂😂😂
Me neither
Oh, I remember and loved it!
Sometimes there were up to 3-4 people stringing half-runners with leather britches/shellouts .…..
but the end result was like dessert !
Sigh…simpler times, Donna. Gloriously simple…
I wish I could again. But the other day I did sit and snap green beans with Sherry.
Making me smile here, rah. You really are, my friend💕😊
Boy did I snap some beans with grandma, lots of other things from the garden too.
Mornin’ all!
God morning, WeeWeed💕
Good morning WeeWeed
☘️🍀☘️
Good morning WeeWeed
Red Skelton
The rest of the story ……
Now those were really The Good Old days.
The Good Ole Days!
Well, while our parents were derelict in their duty, to bring us up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; and society was on a mission from Satan to pollute and poison the children, and devour them; while the hearts and minds were being enticed and seduced by the world, the flesh and the devil; and Jesus forsaken; while we were sleeping; the thief, the robber, and the murderer broke in and seized everything; and we were only too happy to let him in. We believed what he said was a good thing, that we should abandon our conscience and good virtues, and take off our clothes and run wild. And now, when those “icons and celebrities” have mostly all died or been killed, we have the wreckage of the world they led in influencing to become what it is. And the fools and rebellious, still think that that is cool, and hold them up as idols; and continue playing stupid.
All these things we all post as nostalgic, and something to reverence as sacred, are abomination to the Lord; and the reason why we have the kind of times we have right now. How long do we think we can hold out? We can’t do it for ever: and everything we do; whether we forget it, doesn’t matter; God has everything written down; and if we don’t make it right while we are still in this time; then we will be that, and bear God’s judgment of it, for eternity.
That’s why God blocked the way to the tree of life, after the fall; because He loves us, and doesn’t want us to be forever locked in that condition, as an unclean unfit for His Presence enemy. God sent us His Son into the world to lay down His life, and suffer the pain and punishment of what was due to us for sin; to save us from our sins. If we do not repent, we shall all likewise perish.
If we die and leave this world, having been reconciled to God, and cleansed from our sins, and made a new creature in Christ; then that’s how we will be, in its perfection for ever. So too, if we die and leave this world without having been saved by Jesus; then that’s how we will be; locked in that condition for eternity; and God having no choice but to cast away the bad and the worthless, and forget them all. Could there possibly be anything worse, anything more desperately sad and hopeless? A conscious soul for ever banished to the lake of fire, in blackness and darkness and weeping and gnashing of teeth, nothing but hopelessness and burning and the worm that never dies!
I really didn’t mean to single you out, Rah; I actually like you a lot, and read your posts. But what you said, is something WE ALL have been terribly deceived and betrayed by in all that we have been brought up to think is great, and to be praised or held sacred and special; is not what we were made to believe. We have to see ourselves and this world for what it really is; for there is REALLY not much time left!
Verse of the Day for Sunday, July 9, 2023
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“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”
1 Corinthians 1:9 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered !!!
God morning, dear sis💕
Giving thanks on the Lord’s Day that the age of His grace is still with us🙏🏻🌿
Amen goes right there, Bet !!! ❤️
Morning, Bet !!!
I see you. are just FULL of the SPIRIT of GOD this AM !!! ❤️
Amen and Amen ❤️ GRACE – What a GIFT !!! 💙
💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜
PS Another poem before retiring – your fault
you provided the title – * Sigh *
Checking it out right now!😁 Keep em coming!!!💕👍🏻
I did not post it yet, Bet !!! ☺️
MO is intimidating me !!! 🙃
He has no idea – there have been 4
in 3 days !!! ☺️ Not one posted !!!
Just the one I wrote for you last night
I have literally lost count !!! 🙃
You are so sweet
to want to peek !!! LOL ❤️❤️❤️
Ohhhhhh… I wait in anticipation👍🏻
TAKE ME AS YOU FIND ME
For what is it you are looking to find
Have you found yourself in a bit of a bind
Discovering uncovering what within
Do you know where to start or even begin
Do you see what is there or want to see
Do you imagine or fashion what could be
Will you play the fawning flirtatious flaunt
Will you come with me on a joyous jaunt
We’ll fly thru the air with the greatest of ease
We’ll dance thru the night on an ocean breeze
We’ll forge the forest a cabin to find
And under the moonlight we will unwind
We can be whatever we want to be
We can dress up as pirates sailing the sea
We can tap dance across the glassy plane
Of indescribable mountain terrain
Let’s be connoisseurs of fine wine and food
Travel the world in search of treasures skewed
Stay in a castle we rent a fortnight
Keep to ourselves very far out of sight
Would this make it easy for you to find me
What is it in me you dost want to see
Tell me stories of places you have been
Tell me of the challenges used to preen
Share the gifts and talents given by God
How we have used them to give Him laud
Will that spur our need to know more
Of what in the future we have in store
No doubt God will make it easy to see
What God gave to you and of course to me
Oh but God does not plan what man must do
It’s man’s free will to make choices anew
D01: 07/09/2023
Sighing…What a picture you paint!
And trying to find just the right words to tell you how much I love it…
Failing…
And for someone like me who sometimes goes on and on…and on?
That’s the highest compliment I can give you, dear, sweet friend.
(But yes!! The title suits it beautifully. Holy Spirit directed? I think so🙏🏻💕)
LOL – You at a loss for words ??? NAH !!!
Maybe, MO – BUT – not you ???
Question: Does it FIT what you told me ???
Wondering Wonderfully Wisely – I am !!! 💙🧚🏻♀️💙🧚🏻♀️💙
There are few times that I am…this is one. Impressed that you managed to use “fortnight”, one of my favourite words😁
CAN YOU GUESS ABOUT WHOM THIS WAS WRITTEN ???
COME BACK TO ME
Are you discouraged lonesome and/or blue
Have I said/done anything to offend you
I pray – Oh Lord – you’re not hurting inside
With a broken heart and nowhere to hide
Come back to me – Oh please do return
So this aching in my heart will not yearn
For the light in your eyes that surely sees
The need of God for the birds and the bees
Where have you gone oh lover of care
Can’t seem to find you here or anywhere
It must be you must be elsewhere but here
At God’s bidding it’s obviously clear
Pardon the intrusion on your anointment
Far be it from me your divine appointment
We cannot know the why when or where
Or the obedience that takes us there
So we wait watch and wonder with glee
For you to come back finished and be
Accomplished and afforded with grace
Back to your friends and your private place
We pray to protect your traverse and trial
With healing oils from the holy vial
We trust God to return you fresh and new
From whatever it was you had to do
We thank Him for you and your willingness
To carry out your work with diligence
We thank Him for sending His faithful one
To make sure His work and His will be done
I really do miss you and ache in my heart
I will patiently wait while we are apart
I know that eventually I will see
That you will return and come back to me
D01: 07/08/2023
Girl in White in the Woods by Vincent van Gogh
Still the One
Duchess
I never left
Just sayin
☘️🍀☘️
Love you friend
Always will
SMILE !!!
THE HURTING HEART
From your heart a secret will be revealed
A proclamation that will be unsealed
Are you ready to live and love again
Or are you still stuck in paralyzing pain
Is your heart so broken it cannot heal
Are you guided greatly by what you feel
Are you frustrated or fearful to try
To break out of your prison and just fly
When you reach out to another do you
Cautiously contact in auspicious ado
While thinking inside it will lead nowhere
Impossible for anyone to care
Until you are willing to take a leap
Your hurting heart you are bound to keep
Forget all the feelings of days gone by
And quit driving yourself dizzy asking why
Over time the heart has mended and healed
You need not put up a protective shield
The past is gone you can never change it
No matter what you do to rearrange it
What is new can’t be compared to the old
Your experience now cannot be foretold
With each revelation comes enticement
With each step forward the excitement
So if you are coddling a hurting heart
You’ve defeated God’s purpose from the start
His Word says it’s not good to be alone
Nor is it right for love to be unknown
D01: 07/07/2023
Yes…to both…💕
Bulb Fields by Vincent van Gogh
Yes – Love Will Find A Way
YES !!! OH…OH…OH – Tanks !!!
Was not familiar with this group – Nice !!!
Just found the words to see if I heard them
correctly and concisely – WOW !!!
HOW TRUE !!! ❤️
BERRY BLESSED AM I – ☺️
Shores of Scheveningen by Vincent van Gogh
The Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
Duchess
I wanted to post this with your first poem
Got mixed up
I love all your poems
They have a lot of meaning
Your special my dear sweet friend
I am always yours my friend
Always in every way
☘️🍀☘️
💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙 + 💚🧚🏻♀️💚🧚🏻♀️💚 = ❤️❤️❤️
OK – Now that we got that settled…
Can you make me some Penne Alfredo with Cubed Chicken – Green Onions – Broccoli – Campari Tomatoes and Garlic Bread ???
Some Apple Crisp for desert, too ??? 🙃
I’m famished !!! 💙
I can see why – It fits !!! 🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️🧚🏻♀️
You got some poems up your sleeve friend
Love your poems
☘️🍀☘️
UP MY SLEEVE – NO, MO !!! 🙃
In my file – awaiting releasee !!!
Wrote one ‘impromptu’ for Bet last night !!!
Bet baited me to write another before
I retired !!! This is getting ridiculous !!!
And it is your fault, too – You and Bet !!!
will not let me sleep – Read the one
I posted last night – explains it all !!!
💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙
😎….I do my best😉
TeeHee. 🤣
Be not disappointed
friend through word
Be not disjointed
by what may have been heard
A state of mind
is one’s alone
Mute or kind
an acquaintance can be
Static on the phone
need not disrupt your harmony
Awww…How Sweet, Patience !!! ❤️
You understand perfectly – and
for that – I thank God for YOU !!!
You remain Precious in His sight
and definitely in mine !!!
💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜 🧚🏻♀️ 💜
Be not
a party
waiting
to happen
When now
seems empty,
spent,
forlorn
Be your own remedy
Toot your own horn
TOOT – TOOT – TOOTSIE !!! ❤️
Will do – 🥰
Now if I could just find MY HORN !!!
Dunno where I left it – Do you ??? 🙃
You really shouldn’t ask
-me. 😂
Your horn
lies in
your inner-self
‘Twas there when you were birthed
The instrument stored
not on a shelf
not buried
not earthed
It’s what sparked you life;
…your heart to beat
It guides you;
your human pain
To endure the sun
To rejoice the rain
You are marked;
You are of The One
So, there is no defeat
Live;
Think
Feel
Love
Enjoy your gift;
your melody
🎉Have fun
-🎺
I know, Patience – Just pulling your good leg – 🙃
And sometimes – just sometimes – it is difficult
to draw you out – deep thinker that you are !!! 🥺
Beautifully expressed – HUGS !!! 💜🧚🏻♀️💜🧚🏻♀️💜
What depth is deep
How deep are the depths
Can a mind know the depths of its soul
Are thoughts of the mind
Does the mind create feelings
Do feelings trigger thought
Is love a thought
Do thoughts control emotion
Do emotions cause actions
Do actions permit reaction
Is kinship affection
Does affection develop feelings
Do feelings determine love
Are thoughts words
Do words express deep thought
Can words provoke
Does being provoked give cause for thought
… for words
… for action
Is a smile only happy
Does happiness warrant smiles
Is smiling contagious
Only God knows the depth of the soul
Thoughts are of the mind
Feelings are not Facts
Love is of the heart
Only God knows the heart
Emotions cause Feelings
Feelings are not Facts
Affection is of the Smile
Warm and inviting
Thoughts become Words
Interpretation is Individual
Words can wound or
Provide clarity of thought
Happiness creates Warmth
Smiles come from warmth within
Giggling is Contagious
__________________
Hmmm….Food for Thought !!! 💙
Giggling is contagious
– no vaccine required
NOPE !!! 🤣🤣🤣
😁💞
One more waiting in the wings –
the first one written in this batch
” Maybe Just Maybe ” is personal
to two people – a combination of
this and that – about them
Let me know when you are ready
and I will decide if I am ready – Mkay ?
💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen.
Praying, Miss Duchess!💕🙏
SO. HAPPY, LORRIE !!! 🥰
BE MY VOICE
Bless the beast
and
the children
PLEASE PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER
Good morning my dear sweet Psalm Sister
Be of a contrite spirit
very nice selections today
your the best my friend
☘ 🍀 ☘
Psalm 34:18-22
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Amen goes right there, MO !!! ❤️
💕
I LOVE SUNDAYS HERE !!! 💚💚💚
SO MUCH ‘GOOD NEWS’ !!! ❤️❤️❤️
💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙
Amen, Amen🙏🏻
God morning, blessed duchess❣️
Hey, Precious Patience !!! ❤️
HAVE A BERRY BLESSED DAY !!! 💜💙❤️
Thank you, duchess.
-May blessings abound in your life today; and tomorrow. 🥳
✝️
I am * Smiling Big League * here !!!
🥰 🥰 🥰
💝
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco
The Lords Prayer
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.
☘ 🍀 ☘
Portrait of An Old Man (presumed self-portrait) – El Greco
Domenikos Theotokopoulos,
other wise known as “El Greco” due to his Greek heritage, was a popular Greek painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He was a master of post-Byzantine art by the age of 26, when he traveled to Venice, and later Rome, where he opened his first workshop. Unlike other artists, El Greco altered his style in order to distinguish himself from other artists of the time, inventing new and unusual interpretations of religious subject matter. He created agile, elongated figures, and included a vibrant atmospheric light. After the death of Raphael and Michelangelo, he was determined to leave his own artistic mark, and offered to paint over Michelangelo’s Last Supper to Pope Pius V. His unconventional artistic beliefs (his dislike of Michelangelo included), along with his strong personality, led to the development of many enemies in Rome, especially the hostilities of art critics.
OH, MY !!! HOW AWFUL – TO WANT TO PAINT OVER THE ARTISTIC WORK OF ANOTHER !!!
Why the drawn face?
-get it?
Good one
I get it
☘️
Jealousy can do crazy things to people
It’s all about pride
☘️
He paints good
That’s all I see
Keep your eyes upon the Lord
I see it now – Thanks Patience and MO !!!
❤️ 💚 ❤️ 💚 ❤️
Makes one wonder what from other painters whose works we know is under those of other painters who put their own creations on canvas…or elsewhere🤔.
HMMM…..
Looks like El Greco used his own face for several of the faces in his paintings.
Look carefully
I wondered that, Patience !!!
Looked too familiar – * Sigh *
Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”
King James Version (KJV)
🤣 🤣 🤣
Coronation of the Virgin by El Greco
Hail Mary
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
☘ 🍀 ☘
Hail Mary, full of Grace
Luke 1:28 (Hail, full of Grace)
☘
The Lord is with You
Luke 1:28 (The Lord is with you)
☘
Blessed are you among Women
Luke 1:41 (Blessed are you among women)
☘
And Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus
Luke 1:42 (and blessed is the fruit of your womb)
☘
Holy Mary, Mother of God
Luke 1:43 (And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?)
☘
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death
James 5:16 (Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects)
Christ carrying the cross by El Greco
God morning, dear mo💕
“I was made for another world.”
Don’t we all feel at this moment the truth of that wonderful quote? I know I do…a stranger on a sojourn, on my way to another place🙏🏻 In, but not of this world.
Blessed be your day, my friend🍀😘
Good morning Bett
hope your day is filled with Joy
Take the time to smell the roses
know what i mean
sometimes its good to just sit and chill
let the garbage flow by
God is Good
☘ 🍀 ☘
Yes indeed. Doing just that in our love Treehouse church with friends. And I pray you are doing the same after a week of fencing!😊🍀💕
On our way
Some day
To be with the Lord
☘️🍀☘️
I get joy in that
Just contemplating
on that
You know that we here are helping to walk each other Home, right?
That’s one way I like to think of us all in our individual branches in this
beautiful Refuge.🙏🏻🍀💞
The painting of Christ is very telling…. moving.
The eyes… somber ; knowingly accepting facial expression. Wow
The embracing the cross
Interesting that the horizontal wood is hollow.🤔
Christ as Saviour by El Greco
Good Morning Treepers
Good morning, Molon❣️
Good morning to you Patience
☘
All-night Vespers
Sergei Rachmaninov
Magnificent.
A perfect example of this members only lizard club is a woman named Fatima Goss Graves who has one of the worst Valley Girl vocal fries we’ve ever heard. Chances are you’ve never heard of her, but she’s actually a pretty big player in the D.C. swamp. She’s a hardcore radical left-wing feminist, a CNN contributor, an activist who runs a $100 million dollar progressive nonprofit, and she just so happens to be the wife of Matthew Graves, the D.C. U.S. attorney who is on a feverish witch hunt to imprison American citizens who attended the January 6th rally.
She has a very nice name though
Her parents named her well
To bad she didn’t live up to her name
Fatima is a great name
AMC Sabotages “Sound of Freedom” Movie -Turns off A/C Units nationwide
NathanH83
Hopefully there’ll be two showings worth
full of people
next time!
– double feature
Saw this yesterday, duchess, thinking it was one theatre only.
Nationwide??
On whose orders?
satan’s minions and acolytes hard at work.
The enemy will not get away with this !!!
God is large and in charge !!!
He will shine the LIGHT on this atrocity.!!!
The more they try to hide this
the more people will do the opposite !!!
We are fighting back – this will not stand
notice how many stayed and watched
in spite of the discomfort !!!
Matthew 18:10
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.”
King James Version (KJV)
Luke 17:2
“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
King James Version (KJV)
WATCH WHAT GOD DOES !!! ❤️
He IS shining a light on this atrocity, dear friend. He has picked two of His Warriors for the unveiling in Jim Caviezel and Mel Gibson, I am convinced.
And in so doing, those who have no problem with the abominations being inflicted on our youngest and littlest are exposing themselves as supporters of the atrocities by raging at this movie. They have outed themselves. We can see them now.
And those who should be the most vocal…I am thinking of ecclesiastical powers no matter of what denomination…are strangely silent. But by that silence we shall know them.
His hand will not be stayed🙏🏻
Amen goes right there, Bet !!!! ❤️
All of this weighs heavy on my heart !!!
The babies and little children !!!
My only consolation is knowing
the Angels are carrying these
little ones straight to Heaven !!!
🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚🏻♀️
(Thanks to nwtex who found what I was looking for for oh so long)
Oh, Oh, Oh – I LOVE IT !!! ❤️❤️❤️
Straight to my heart, too, my friend💕
Oh, I know that for a fact !!!
A BIG HEART !!! ❤️❤️❤️
😘😘😘
This hits my heart hard. My tiny Samuel in God’s beloved hands. I miscarried him at 16 weeks.
Thank you Betsy for posting this most beautiful picture.
I think I will go to the next showing here and if they claim the AC is not working I will request to see the thermostat or thermostat control board.
You realize this could be accomplished remotely to multiple theaters with todays technology?
Return with a report if you do, monti.
So disturbing. If they are that evil, I wonder why they agreed to show the film in the first place. So sad.
Bud lite
FIRST BAPTIST DALLAS CHURCH – SUNDAY SERVICE – 07/09/2023
“Say Goodbye to Parenting Regrets” | LIVE Service from First Baptist Dallas
https://icampus.firstdallas.org/livestreams/icampus#4
GREAT SERMON FOR PARENTS – WORTH A LISTEN – AND –
PHENOMENAL SUMMARY OF THEIR TRIP.TO HAWAII !!! ❤️❤️❤️
Lady with a Flower in Her Hair by El Greco
The Beatles – Oh! Darling (IMY2 Cover)
This ones for Garrison
i always think of him when i hear this tune
not sure why !
thanks for the morning tunes Garrison
☘
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
Chopin – Nocturne op.9 No.2
Had the privilege this morning of watching (remotely) my son-in-law get Baptized. Praise God for making the seed grow.
Amen goes right there, Dune !!! ❤️
What joy, Dunewall! Your heart must be light for being a part this Baptism, even remotely.
For your son in law, from the Book of Common Prayer.
“The Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named; Grant you to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that, Christ dwelling in your hearts by faith, ye may be filled with all the fullness of God. Amen.”
We rejoice with you, my friend 💕🙏🏻
Oh, Bet – PERFECT !!! ❤️🧚🏻♀️❤️🧚🏻♀️❤️
Such a momentous experience, duchess. My precious, beloved Book never fails 🙏🏻😘🌿
Nope – Never !!! 😃
Tosha Tudor-Corgi Cottage
I know Bet will love this, but also many others of you wonderful human beings on the OT. (Any who loves animals,plants is A++++ in my book and she is a Bird &Corgi lover!)There are videos out there. I caught a documentary on her on Tubi. Magical is how I would describe it and her work.
Highly recommended.
Take Joy! The Magical World of Tasha Tudor
https://tubitv.com/movies/484461/take-joy-the-magical-world-of-tasha-tudor
Woman Churning Butter by Vincent van Gogh
FANTASIA ~ Clair de Lune (Abandonned Sequence)
Good after Colkitto
See those jugs and such with the woman squishin the cider
i want all of em
look for that stuff at antique shops and yard sales
good to see you on this fine day
Hello Colkitto,
Will check this out- for sure. Always good to see you, fren.
The garden is in bloom and lots of plump, honey bees buzzing around. 🐝 🐝 🐝
DG
😊 🐕 🌳 🌺 🌻🐕
Afternoon DG,
You’ll enjoy that immensely. I had a Ruby Throat-ed Hummingbird look me over as I was filling up my 3 three birdbaths. They seem to be attracted to the waterspray as I have had that happen a few times. My wildlfowers I planted this spring are still not fully grown but I do notice numerous nesting birds in the area searching it for the insects that the wildflowers attract. It’s like in a different way you are putting out a natural bird feeder when you plant the right flowers, shrubs, and trees. Plus you get to enjoy the beautiful colors and dragonflies,butterflies, pollinators etc and birds!
How many people sadly do not see all the beauty out there provided by God is lost on me, but I know you, I and many others here and out there do not. Tosha Tudor as well.
Be well friend and ty for saying hi.
Love the hummingbirds too, Colkitto. One morning, I woke up to a bush full of cardinals, just an amazing and beautiful sight.
Can’t figure it out
Is that a photo
Or a painting
It’s outstanding
whatever it is
Makes me want to be there
☘️🍀☘️
Hi Molon. It’s a photo of Miss Tudor. If you have Tubi (Roku) its free on there. She is a wonderful illustrator, and human being. Her life and how she lives it is an inspiration and reminds me a bit of my beloved Nana.
this is some of her art
My former Dog pal was part Corgi and 1 in a trillion.
Oh these are delightful, Colkitto!!!😍
All the birds who pass through our backyard were enjoying my filling the big stone bird bath which I had to fill from a distance because the hose I was using has been continually shortened. So lots of spray.
Once I saw the jays diving in to sit on the branches of my butterfly bush, I deliberately aimed the hose so that maximum spray reached them. Whatever I can do to make their lives easier on these too hot days…Look at her garden!!!! And her well loved companions💕
It’s a wonderful story of her life and work. Highly recommended
I had a bee (wish I was better at its ID) on the flower bloom of my chive plant! Happy to see that, as I thought it was bad of me to not have trimmed it down earlier, but now I’m glad I didn’t.
It’s fun isn’t it slow
Trial and error
Doesn’t matter what you do
Have fun and enjoy
☘️🍀☘️
Hello,
Honey bees are good…But I once had three yellow jackets fly into the room, three abreast, on a perfectly executed flight path.
And i flew out of the room, pronto. 😂 Funny now, but not so funny then.
God afternoon, dear Colkitto.
💕
How right you are! I do love all of God’s creations. But like you birds are so special to me, as are those short legged balls of energy.
Her nake is so familiar to me, but I am struggling to remember where and when I came across it. So I do sincerely thank you for the link, my friend🕊🌷
From these two wonderful photos it seems she was completely happy and at peace in her part of this world.
(I seem to be doing a lot of deep sighing these days. As now…😌)
You will love that documentary Bet. I was thinking about what would happen to me if I had run into St Francis back in time. Go with God my friend
Doesn’t that look like fun? Peace and love that is.
I can’t tell you how like the gardens in Wales these pictures are.
Not trimmed and shaped, just free growing. Our flower beds there were like this. We’d find something we wanted to plant, find an empty spot and put it in. And if we ran out room, which we did, we’d pot our “finds” in beautiful containers.
We never had weeds by the way.
My gosh, I miss my Welsh garden so much…have to go now…find a tissue..
Hopefully that’d be me
down the road, with a lake
-of course. 🫠
🤭
————-
Will check the link. Thanks
Yes need a pond/lake, or at the least a stream.
Yes I do.
I need to be able to float.
-really.🙂
This is an interesting biography about Tasha Tudor
https://tashatudorsociety.org/about-us/who-is-tasha-tudor/
Ty friend. I bookmarked it.
South half of Texas a 9-11 deg. warmer than average. Panhandle of TX, Oklahoma and Western 2/3 of Kansas are 9-11 degrees cooler than average with some spots down to 19 deg. below average. Here is the map.
(14) The American Storm on Twitter: “Midday temps today vs ave. https://t.co/q9TwkxeHhV” / Twitter
S. Florida had heat warnings out yesterday. When they have heat warnings you know it’s hot, dangerously hot!
Still a little above average for the whole state today.
Joe and the Weatherbell Gang think that this winter is going to be a dozy for the eastern 2/3rds of the US. With December through February temps about 4 degrees below the average.
The first week of July tied the all time record for lack of Tropical Storm activity at zero! See how that works when you turn the climate change propaganda methods of the alarmist press against them? This during what the alarmists claimed was the hottest day on record for the globe in the last 125,000 years on July 3rd. There is now an Invest in the Eastern Pacific off of Mexico.
BTW, you hear some moron spouting off about that supposed “record” ask them what were the 2nd and 3rd hottest days in the last 125,000 years and what was the global temp for those two days?
The UK is in for much cooler than average temperatures and elevated rain fall over the coming 10 days. Don’t expect the BBC to do anything but hype any flooding that may occur as being caused by “climate change”. The cooler temps will not be worth highlighting as they just did fwhen it got warm there for a couple weeks.
There is going to be persistent heat dome building over the N. Central US. States like Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, etc that have so far this year had cooler than average temperatures dominate are going to be having much warmer than average temperatures that will probably last through the rest of the summer. Be prepared for the hype!
MJO indications still point to the eastern seaboard of the US being in a likely area for hurricanes to strike.
Highly recommend Joe’s Saturday Summary. It’s a relatively long one an he focuses on various climate change topics and what Weatherbell looks at to make their long range forecasts. Highly informative.
https://www.weatherbell.com/video/the-saturday-summary-132149614
Here in Montana, today is in the 80’s. Summer has arrived! We had a long cold snowy winter…much like we were used to when we lived In Minnesota. It’s been a cool and rainy spring and we have mosquitoes like in MN…we’ve been here 6 years and never had a one! In MN we were surrounded by trees…I never wanted to be without them. Our daughter in law raised in the SW felt claustrophobic in trees. They are now in NW MT and surrounded by trees and we don’t have even one tree in our yard! God is funny!
I can’t seem to grow much of anything out here in this clay. I even manage to kill indoor plants!
God has blessed us with the most incredible views! On our walks…oh how I wish I could sing like Julie Andrews in the sound of music…the hills are alive…God is funny…I sing like a constipated donkey.
Took a long time for winter to go away and summer to arrive this year up there. Same in Wyoming. Tony Heller lives near Cheyan and said he had a frost just last week!
GrandpaM has a long drive today
May the angels guide him safely home
So he can do some
two steppin later on
Can you see him
two steppin in the kitchen
I can
Take it real slow
A one an a two
God be with you
GrandpaM
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God be with GM in his travels.
I do some of my best dancing in the kitchen ! 😂 💃 😂
we dance in the loft. start with jitterbug, then cha cha end with waltz. if he who thinks he must be obeyed has had vodka it is possible he does that cossak dance where he jumps on big desk folds his arms kicks out his legs and looks mean. I giggle. I could have danced all night and still have begged for more.
Amen🙏🏻💞
Thanks, MO! Made it all of 35-40 miles and had a flat. Had to have the car towed to a nearby Walmart, the only place open. Couldn’t repair the tire or get a new one, odd size. Waited 4 hours until we found a ride to the motel. New tire arriving early in the morning so hopefully we’ll be on the way.
Oh no! Glad you are safe.
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Typical dumb headline from the AP! Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda (msn.com)
Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda
First off he tried to go around congress, and thus the voters, with the student loan payoff scheme.
Secondly the SCOTUS has the final say on Constitutional matters!
Thirdly the poles show clearly that a majority of Americans agreed with the SCOTUS rulings on student loans and Affirmative Action.
We could have our say IF our voting system weren’t totally corrupted. Which it is.
Having long been a student of our Civil War and others, I have come by. One also meets friends. My friend Donny, a retired Air Force reserve and Airline Pilot sent this to me. I met Donny through a mutual friend and we agreed to meet at Gettysburg. Donny’s great great Grandpa fought there as part of the unit from Georgia and was severely wounded and lost a leg near the Wheat field.
Before we met at the field Donny had given me the details he knew of what specific regiment his ancestor had fought in. Using that I traced the movements of the Regiment during the battle. I have a book that details in maps, to the extent possible from the history and after action reports of the movements of every regiment on both sides during the 2nd days battle. It was a bit of a chore because the Regiment has split during the engagement on the 2nd day. But the detail of the wound having been received “near the Wheat Field” made it clear with which half Donny’s ancestor moved.
When we met I walked him over the ground following the route his ancestor had taken.
We have been good friends ever since then and Donny e-mailed me this.
Saw this story in FB, thought you might not have read it.
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Lee buys Traveller…1st hand account.
“In view of the fact that great interest is felt in the monument about to be erected to General Lee, and that many are desirous that his war-horse should be represented in the monument, and as I once owned this horse, I herewith give you some items respecting this now famous war-horse, Traveller.
“He was raised by Mr. Johnston, near the Blue Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier county, Virginia (now West Virginia); was of the ‘ Gray Eagle’ stock, and, as a colt, took the first premium under the name of ‘Jeff Davis’ at the Lewisburg fairs for each of the years 1859 and 1860. He was four years old in the spring of 1861. When the Wise legion was encamped on Sewell Mountain, opposing the advance of the Federal Army under Rosecranz, in the fall of 1861, I was major to the Third regiment of infantry in that legion, and my brother, Captain Joseph M. Broun, was quartermaster to the same regiment.
“I authorized my brother to purchase a good serviceable horse of the best Greenbrier stock for our use during the war.
“After much inquiry and search he came across the horse above mentioned, and I purchased him for $175 (gold value), in the fall of 1861, from Captain James W. Johnston, son of the Mr. Johnston first above mentioned. When the Wise legion was encamped about Meadow Bluff and Big Sewell mountains, I rode this horse, which was then greatly admired in camp for his rapid, springy walk, his high spirit, bold carriage, and muscular strength.
“When General Lee took command of the Wise legion and Floyd brigade that were encamped at and near Big Sewell Mountains, in the fall of 1861, he first saw this horse, and took a great fancy to it. He called it his colt, and said that he would use it before the war was over. Whenever the General saw my brother on this horse he had something pleasant to say to him about ‘my colt,’ as he designated this horse. As the winter approached, the climate in the West Virginia mountains caused Rosecranz’s army to abandon its position on Big Sewell and retreat westward. General Lee was thereupon ordered to South Carolina. The Third regiment of the Wise legion was subsequently detached from the army in Western Virginia and ordered to the South Carolina coast, where it was known as the Sixtieth Virginia regiment, under Colonel Starke. Upon seeing my brother on this horse near Pocotalipo, in South Carolina, General Lee at once recognized the horse, and again inquired of him pleasantly about ‘his colt.’
“My brother then offered him the horse as a gift, which the General promptly declined, and at the same time remarked: ‘If you will willingly sell me the horse, I will gladly use it for a week or so to learn its qualities.’ Thereupon my brother had the horse sent to General Lee’s stable. In about a week the horse was returned to my brother, with a note from General Lee stating that the animal suited him, but that he could no longer use so valuable a horse in such times, unless it was his own; that if he (my brother) would not sell, please to keep the horse, with many thanks. This was in February, 1862. At that time I was in Virginia, on the sick list from a long and severe attack of camp fever, contracted in the campaign on Big Sewell Mountains. My brother wrote me of General Lee’s desire to have the horse, and asked me what he should do. I replied at once: ‘If he will not accept it, then sell it to him at what it cost me.’ He then sold the horse to General Lee for $200 in currency, the sum of $25 having been added by General Lee to the price I paid for the horse in September, 1861, to make up the depreciation in our currency from September, 1861, to February, 1862.”
“In 1868 General Lee wrote to my brother, stating that this horse had survived the war–was known as ‘Traveller’ (spelling the word with a double l in good English style), and asking for its pedigree, which was obtained, as above mentioned, and sent by my brother to General Lee.”
Grant was a great horseman. When just a kid there was a horse he wanted. His Dad told him to offer $15 for the horse and if that was not agreeable to go up to $20. So Grant goes to the guy and tells him “Dad says to offer $15 but I can go up to $20.” a little naive but an honest kid.
He WAS a great horseman. Early in the war rode his hose across a single plank to get from shore to a river steamer with the Confederates hot on his heals. But was injured twice by falls on horses. The second time seriously.
The first time at Shilo when in the dark his horse stumbled and fell. He was awake all that rainy night between the first and second day of battle there. Unable to get to sleep because his ankle and leg were hurting so much.
The second time when visiting in New Orleans not too long before he was called to take over at Chatanooga. He was so badly injured he was bed ridden for two weeks unable to even turn over.
sometimes horse fell on Grant.
In both instances I gave that happened. But that is still on the rider.
Who believes this crap?
DOOMSDAY CULT: NBC Cites Absurd UN Report That Southern US Will Be Unlivable | Newsbusters
I strongly believe that they should start immediately making arrangements to move the UN HQ down to Antarctica so that their operations will not be disrupted by climate change.
Oh good grief!!!!!!
This day in 1936 hit 105 deg. F in Ontario.
Here is what the temps looked like in the US that day.
I enjoy pointing out to the global warming crowd that it was 104 deg. F in Eastern Kentucky when my parents got married in 1965.
And it was 104 deg.F when my wife and I got married in 1990, about an hour west of where my parents married.
Hot goes WAAAAaaaay back!
The global warming folks don’t like hearing that when I say it.
Especially when it’s nowhere near as hot as it was then.
Beauty contest results in the Netherlands
This is why, even though the oily WEF plant Rutte has been deposed for the moment, I have little hope that the population of the Netherlands, mainly young and far left/liberal, have seen the back of him.
I hope I am horribly wrong.
I hate to bring the ugly side to the beautiful OT but I have to post this.
Promotion of ugly as beauty is Cultural Marxism. Promotion of a man over a woman for a woman’s beauty contest is cancelling out women. Promoting transgenderism is also Luciferian. Promoting Transgenderism is also promoting mental illness as normal. They are attempting to make us accept that 2+2 =5, and accepting Lucifer/Babylon and the unnatural order instead of God and the natural order.
We have a friend from Hoorn who tells me she is happy to be a socialist and have half her salary given to the world’s poor. I thanked her for Holland’s contribution of gilders to the American Revolution but thought Netherlands doomed.
Just took my old Kubota RTV900XT for a spin. It has a hydraulic chain saw I use to lop off small branches. Anyway about 70 degrees in the sun, cooler in the woods and the afternoon breeze picking up. big old spruce trees in back of upper pasture with tiny nooks that may be doors? English walnut trees so loaded we will have to prop up brances. Yellow transparent apples same as are the winesaps, winter banana apples and all the other sorts of apples. pear tree loaded some peaches. spring still running constant with no rain for 60 days already. doug fir smells so good. wild columbine, wild flags and fire weed and blackberry add color to the shades of green. good day to be on God’s green earth.
we have a herd of deer who like us too much and might run over us when they rodeo. they really talk to us a kind of grunt/cough which I say back to them. yesterday doing some winter storm clean up (still at it) one of the bucks nearly ran over me trying to service a young doe. I told him it isn’t rut time. he didn’t care. sheesh! The black bear are’nt nearly so friendly and the cougar scare me.
Livin’ the dream, merry!
Bought a home weather station.
Anemometer
Barometer
Hygrometer
Thermometer.
Self emptying rain gauge.
All transmitted wirelessly to a pad inside the home. And it stores what it records also.
I will mount the anemometer, rain gauge, etc about 6′ above the ground out by my flag pole. I don’t care that to match NOAA weather station readings the anemometer needs to be mounted 10 meters (about 30 ft. above ground level). I want the reading of what we are feeling here.
The thermometer will be mounted on the North side of the wood pillar so it will be taking readings in the shade most of the day, as it should.
Today, I didn’t get much done. I did however mount three new plantation blinds for our bay window. I went into Lowes last week when they were having a 50% off sale and ordered them cut to size and at the correct length at Lowes. Had them shipped directly from the manufacturer to the my house. They are Levolor brand blinds.
I am now drinking an adult beverage and waiting for Sherry to let me know that her baked potatoes are done enough that I can fire up the grill and put the Ribeye steaks on. We will also have a salad that includes leaf lettuce and green and red onions from our garden. Those are the only things we have ready to pick.
I have invited neighbors to come over and pick their own because it is right at the prime when best and will only be there for a short time until it starts going to seed and getting bitter tasting.
glad you don’t have to put weather station wires through your house roof. know someone here on the coast who put one up 30 years ago through roof. has to replace roof. It’s nice to get a bargain. Home Depot had 30 double hung Anderson windows that had been ordered and not picked up. I got them for a song and rejiggered house specs to use them.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Amen!
The 50th Psalm
Septuagint
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
From Small Compline
Rejoice Virgin Theotokos, Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, for thou hast borne the Savior of our souls. (Thrice)
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Apostles’ Fast continues
June 26th – Patristic Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church
July 9th – civil or commercial calendar
Confession. see if you think St. Peter will give me a pass. Nearly 60 years ago we were newly married and looking for an apartment in Manhattan. saw one advertised corner 3rd ave and 89th st just where we wanted. $50/month as stove and frige had been updated. I went over and super said he would put me on the list. He paged down a list of over 100 names. I pulled a hundred dollar bill out of my pocket and asked where that would put us on the list. super put us top of list and could move in right away as soon as he cleared it out. We were in the apartment and it was full of antiques. Old lady who had it last was widow of ship surgeon (sailing ship). I told super who had no idea value of the antiques not to bother we would take care of clearing it out. Whew, you would not believe the good stuff. Anyway, what do you think St. Peter will think of a briber? I’m nearly 82 and may see him soon.
Merry, if you have confessed this long ago sin to Jesus Christ and I’m assuming you have done so since you are confessing it here…your sin has been wiped clean. Once we confess and are repentant, in God’s eyes it never happened. May you feel some peace and believe that Jesus died for all of our sins and that he died for you too.
Believing in absolution and forgiveness is a difficult part of my faith..I do believe and yet that little devil whispers and I have to fight him off! maybe that devil is whispering to you now. Fight him off.
Blessings to you Merry. When it’s your time St. Peter will welcome you with open arms. The gates of Heaven will open wide. He promised .
Thank you NanaB. I sure hope St Peter feels as you do. After all bribery is not mentioned in the 10 comandments as a no no.
You rest easy now Merry. You are forgiven and loved. I wish my only sin that nags me was as slight as yours and I fight to trust God has forgiven me. We repent and all sins are gone and forgiven paid with the life and blood of Jesus. I hang onto that. You hang onto that as well. God is good and He loves us. Let that memory from long ago go away now. I know you are forgiven! He promised.
I concur what nanaB said.
EVENING PRAYER
Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cezanne
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Psalm 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14
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I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
I will extol you, O my God and King,
and I will bless your name forever and ever.
Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
The Lord is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness.
The Lord is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.
I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom
and speak of your might.
I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
The Lord is faithful in all his words
and holy in all his works.
The Lord lifts up all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down.
I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
Amen !
Amen
MO – GRAMPS DID NOT MAKE IT HOME YET !!!
SCROLL UP TO YOUR POST TO HIM ABOUT THE ANGELS !!!
❤️ ❤️ ❤️
thanks duchess
i see it now
maybe some angels
stopped anything from going real bad
he made it safely
i am glad he is ok
thanks for telling me friend
Good night sweet duchess
It was the Angels for which you prayed
that surrounded the car !!!
They could have had a terrible mishap
and the Angels protected them !!!
There is a Protection Prayer one can
pray before one travels that covers
it all – cannot tell you how many
time I saw Angels fending off
crazy drivers that could have
hit me and sent me spinning !!!
You did a loving thing by calling
on the Angels to protect them !!!
❤️ 🧚🏻♀️ ❤️ 🧚🏻♀️ ❤️
duchess
just saved this thread
the poems are so nice
you are so kind and smart and funny
and so very talented with your posts and prayers
you are the best in every way
i had an extra busy day today and feel like
your thoughts deserve a lil more attention or responses
than what i was able to do
please know
it means more
than i was able to show
not used to this
thanks friend
like i said the other day
I’m a work in progress
.
good night my friend
I understand wholeheartedly !!! 🥺
I know you more than you can imagine
It is a spiritual connection – heart to heart
You express yourself differently than most
and my sensitivity has been heightened
hence – the poems – so fret not
Good Night, Sweet Prince !!!
💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙 🧚🏻♀️ 💙
Gramps – Peaceful and Restorative Sleep – I pray for you
In the Precious. and Holy Name of Jesus !!!
AMEN. ❤️❤️❤️. 🙏🙏🙏
Amen…
Amen and Amen
Amen!
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
✝️ Lord, thank You for the day. Amen.