Wishing you a blessed Christmas1

As we are in the season of the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ I wish you a blessed Christmas....

The Reason For The Season:

Blessings to you and yours...Betty

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.....

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving....

We have so much to be thankful for...

Thank you Lord for your blessings on us....

Some of my favorite 'punkins'............

Recently, we were in Madison and enjoyed a trip to 'The Pumpkin Patch'.

Ellie, John and Alexander had fun selecting 'just the perfect pumpkin'.

Needless to say, they're three of my favorite 'punkins'!

Ellie, John and Alexander

Alexander

John 

Happy October to every one!!!!!!

Signs of fall around our home...

A few signs of fall around our

home...cooler weather, the farm machinery humming around the country side, the white cotton fields ready for harvesting, peanuts plowed up waiting to be picked for lots of my favorite food...crunchy peanut butter!

BTW...I've known for sometime that someone is following me and you can see that someone in the third picture down.  She steps on the scales behind me when I weigh adding additional pounds...she saps my energy when I'm not paying attention and many other things I'm sure she's responsible for...do you have such a person in your home?

Happy Fall YALL!   GOD BLESS!

Remembering 9/11............Tenth Anniversary

CONTINUE TO FLY HIGH AMERICAN FLAG

 

My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends who lost so much on 9/11, 2001...
In New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania...

Families who lost moms, dads, brothers, sisters, children, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins and beloved friends...

They have not been forgotten nor replaced in the hearts of those who loved them dearly.

God bless you...   
      

Family of celebrities.......

When the sun hits your eye

like a big piece of pie

that's Amore.....oophs...wrong

celestial body.....

When we take our family to the beach we just want a family picture.  This particular year we had to make pictures before a couple of people needed to leave.  Lots of complaints of sun in their eyes.  Well, Mam (that's me) was prepared.  I had a bag of sunglasses!

Rooster and Chicken Party...over at Sheila's Note Song Blog

Sheila, over at Note Songs, is hosting a 'Rooster and Chicken' party(Tuesday)....hurry on over to see lots of 'chicks and roosters.....

Photo by Erin's Artistic Expressions

Grandson, Alexander,and a pet chicken, just 'a swingin'...to see the entire episode go here.


Now on to the ones who don't swing....they just mostly hang or sit quietly.....

 My friend from first grade, Jackie, gave me this platter several years ago...his name is 'Chanticleer'...he watches me as I cook....when I cook!

This are miniature and perch on the shelves holding pewter.....

Mr. and Mrs. Cluck cookie jars...

I have no clue where the gray line came from....

Another cock-a-doodle-do....

A gift from a friend many years ago.....

 

The two pictures framed alike are cut from wallpaper border, another gift......

I painted the large oil painting of the handsome strutter in the center years ago...

 

When my friend, Jackie, was relocating several years ago and was downsizing she asked me to please take these rooster dishes. They are in the guest house kitchen.

A rooster 'smell gooder'.....

A rooster, no I think it's Henny Penny that sits in the den on the television cabinet....Well, now my husband says it may a rooster...

 

An acrylic rooster board below...

Thanks for visiting with me....

Egg Whites For Burns........

Hope we never need to have need for this method     but good to know.                         BURNS                           A young man sprinkling his lawn and bushes with pesticides wanted to check the contents of the barrel to see how much pesticide remained in it.  He raised the cover and lit his lighter; the vapors inflamed and engulfed him.  He jumped from his truck, screaming.  His neighbor came out of her house with a dozen eggs, yelling: "bring me some eggs!"  She broke them, separating the whites from the yolks.  The neighbor woman helped her to apply the whites on the young man's face.  When the ambulance arrived and when the EMTs saw the young man, they asked who had done this.  Everyone pointed to the lady in charge.  They congratulated her and said: "You have saved his face."  By the end of the summer, the young man brought the lady a bouquet of roses to thank her.  His face was like a baby's skin. Healing Miracle for burns: Keep in mind this treatment of burns which is included in teaching beginner fireman this method.  First aid consists to spraying cold water on the affected area until the heat is reduced and stops burning the layers of skin.  Then, spread egg whites on the affected are. One woman burned a large part of her hand with boiling water.  In spite of the pain, she ran cold faucet water on her hand, separated 2 egg white from the yolks, beat them slightly and dipped her hand in the solution.  The whites then dried and formed a protective layer. She later learned that the egg white is a natural collagen and continued during at least one hour to apply layer upon layer of beaten egg white.  By afternoon she no longer felt any pain and the next day there was hardly a trace of the burn.  10 days later, no trace was left at all and her skin had regained its normal color.  The burned area was totally regenerated thanks to the collagen in the egg whites, a placenta full of vitamins. This information could be helpful to everyone: Please pass it on.  Isn't it amazing the natural blessings available to us?

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Vase of Pictures.....

Sometimes we won't take the time to drag out albums to peruse so I've taken a mixture of old and new pictures, placed them in a pretty flower pot, and set them on a side table in the den.  Family and friends enjoy looking at them.

They can be changed often....

Our friends from Wales, Marion and John and members of their congregation

( Marion in black/red jacket-John in back of her)

Amy's wedding picture----postcard from Egypt from Joules (Marion's daughter)

New Daddy, Edward, with unhappy daughter Melinda...I have one of Amy in the same unhappy pose......

My Daddy, two brothers, two sisters and a double first cousin...I came along many years later.
Wouldn't that be a valuable car today???

Happy Fourth of July, 2011....

Wishing everyone a blessed, happy and safe Fourth of July as we celebrate our

Nation's birthday!

Praying that we once again will be 'one nation under God.'

Creative Grandkids

This is what my grandchildren do in their spare time during the summer. What do yours do? :)

Legend of Prisonero Isle Trailer from Erin O. on Vimeo.

Remembering Princess Di's Wedding Day....Prince William's Wedding Day

My sweet husband ordered two Princess Di engagement rings...one for me and one for my dear English friend, Marion....we knew the engagement and wedding of Prince William would be a very important event in the lives of the English people. I've always had a penchant for the English, their customs, their culture, their authors......their way of life....and of course, their English gardens.

Several years ago, I found a cup celebrating the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer

and the Prince of Wales......

This was years before the marriage breakup.......

I also have a 1984 Life magazine with the story of Prince William's birth.......

The little boy did grow up to be a handsome prince but the story wasn't always the happy

fairytale that should have been.....divorce and his beloved mother's death.......

Best Wishes for a long and very happy marriage to his

Princess Catherine.....however, to me she'll always
be Princess Kate.................
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While one side of the world celebrates joy and the Royal Wedding, our side of the world in the southern United States has suffered untold agony due to the many tornadoes....the death toll has reached over 200 and will undoubtedly rise higher.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those who have lost loved ones, the injured, loss of homes, schools, hospitals, churches, etc. When you petition our Heavenly Father, please remember to pray for the hurting here....Thank you!