I Am Very Much Back in Scottsboro, AL

On to the next thing.

Tasks, tasks, tasks.

Responsibilities.

Daily living.

In order to have the thing we most want we have to "do".   - and for me, what I want on this day, it is.....

1.  My children with me.

2.  A well-groomed yard.

3.  Clean Sheets.

4.  Giving to Best Friends.

5.  Healthy Food in the Pantry.

6.  Less Clutter.

7.  Fig Preserves for today.

and other things....

but it means getting the thing done.

Sooooooo........

I have a very abundant Fig Tree.  This is its first year to have lots of fruit - enough that I need to do something with it so that it will not be thrown out.

I made fig preserves this morning.  YAY!!  Mother used to make the best Fig Preserves.  I didn't know they were so easy.  Mom, you're busted!  I thought it would be so hard.  

Laura Beth and John and Ada are travelling to Scottsboro tomorrow....just when we thought they weren't.  I can't wait to see them and get my hands on John.  They will be here so briefly but it's worth it to me and I plan to meet LB halfway to intercept Ada so that the trip won't be so harrowing for Laura Beth.  (This is my idea, not Laura Beth's - to meet her - I just want to encourage her travels here to S'boro - I remember those long trips home - with babies)

We have a very fun baby shower on Saturday for Esther's little girl Charlotte.  She writes about her at the place I just highlighted, and if you missed that you can go here to read her great posts regarding the upcoming arrival of precious Charlotte in late August.  I get so excited when I see she's put up a new post.

Sheets have been washed - just have to get them on the beds.

And.... I need to cut grass - I WANT to cut grass - so will have to go get gasoline and pick up 2 wrapped gifts at  Gina's and Grapevine in Scottsboro.  Oh - and my prescription at CVS.

TASKS, tasks, tasks.  Is that where we get tsk, tsk, tsk?  Here in the south we say that.  I guess we say tsk over tasks.  Silly.

I've already been to WalMart and needed available healthy and desirable food for the girls and myself....and the grandchildren.

So - very active day - but I want to get to my yard.

Let me close.  Things to do.  Sarah is on her way here.  Kate will be coming home tomorrow - and Laura Beth and the children - and Ann is probably as glad as I am to have her sisters here in town.

Monday Morning

Welcome Monday.

Welcome New Week.

Welcome New Day.

Fresh Start,
Possibilities,

And new summer, in June.

Thank you rain

And thank you God for the rain

And thank you flowers for growing

And thank you God for the flowers that grow after the rain.

I'm sorry on this day when I'm glad,

that someone isn't.

I pray for their heart and their trial and whatever it is.

I pray for them to have God's hands and arms, holding.

I wish I could help.  If I can I will.  

I'm grateful for Kate.

And for Sarah.

And for Ann.

And for Laura Beth.

Thank you, God, for giving them to  Charlie and me.

I'm so glad they love You.

I'm so glad Scott and Steve love You and that they are faithful to my two daughters.

I pray for whomever will love Sarah and Kate, that they will be cared for, today, by You.

I'm grateful for Ellie and Luke 

and Ada and Andrew

and John.  I pray that they will love You.

I pray for all the others, that they will love You.

And in the Front Yard on Saturday...

While we were enjoying the sprinklers and old tubs in the back yard on Saturday(see previous post) - Charlie was pulling up crowded Day Lilies, unwanted Bermuda Grass, and Weeds, in our front bed.  And Luke sat nearby him, it would appear that he's contemplating something.  You'll see what the Hydrangeas do in the afternoon heat.  But bounce back by morning - or with water.

And so ends the weekend - and Sunday brings a time to worship together - and sing hymns - and usually spend a quiet afternoon and evening - after a Sunday meal - taking it easy - usually.

And Now...a Summer Afternoon...June and Hot!

I don't have a pool.  I have sprinklers and old tubs.  It's Saturday.  Steve is working on "tomorrow".  Ann apologetically comes to my house.  She needn't apologize.  I'd do it too, if my mom were in town and I had 3 children who needed to get away from the television, plus the mom needing some adult communication - because don't forget, Kate is here also.  It's a very hot day and the kids need activity plus not much sun due to tender skin.  My hydrangeas need water, even though they've gotten plenty of rain.  They wilt on any given day without rain.  So here is what our Saturday afternoon looked like, and Andrew, who LOVES the bathtub, doesn't trust water outside.  He had to get used to it....and with Near by his side....Near is Elizabeth, me, myself, I.

And then they went home.  Kate is joining them for dinner.  Charlie and I have been asked out for dinner...yay!.....and that is our Saturday.

I Love These Flowers

I'm so glad I can enjoy them.