Hummingbird

Today as I sipped on my coffee as I sat in my husbands big comfy recliner I could see someone wasn’t having a good


Day. There was a blue jay sitting on top of a birdhouse claiming his new home on a rainy day and for some reason

A Hummingbird was diving at the blue jay. To see the little hummingbird diving away at a much larger birds reminded me of David and Goliath. The only thing I could think was that the hummingbird had a nest near by.

I thought of all the little moments of Life that remind me how every creature struggles to be warm have a place to live and protect what they Love from the littlest creature in my yard as I look out my Window.

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My Cake is a Mess I can only Laugh!

My Valentine

 What a Mess!!O.K how can you mess up
a cake mix. Lol

Love shouldn’t be such a Mess


Well for some reason I thought that I should use two

Cake mixes and well it was too Much. I have a disaster of Love. What a goof! It is still cooking and hopefully it will be done by the time my hubby comes home. He knows I try.

I’ll post my cake when it’s done later this evening.Lol

                                                                 The sunflower Cake Pan

Well this cake just didn’t like me. I tried to take it out and I had used Pam and it still stuck. So instead of a glaze I applied some frosting and a little bit of Oranges. Oh well. Like I said Love is Messy. I am going to wait til it hardens a little more and then I am going to frost some more.

I feel like applying Spackle. Lol

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Hearts

Happy Valentine's Day!

 










Woke up this morning to a New Day and thinking of all

The people I have loved.  I am going to attempt to bake a Sunflower cake for my hubby. I have a mold

That is really wonderful that I have never used so hopefully it will work. I’ll take pictures at whatever my outcome is. Lol …..

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Friday and a trip to Simpson's

                                

                                          It's Friday and I am playing Hooky!

                                              Playing Hooky with a friend,



 Boy I needed to get out of the house! I have been  working away unloading box after box. Sorting all my books which I love! Sorting everything as I decide where I am putting all my stuff in my house. I never throw anything away and I am at the point that I am having a AHHHH HAAAA moment!   If I haven't read the book  that I have been saving in the last couple years  Pass it on! That was a big decision. Lol
   I needed a little Friday break today from my usual house routine this last month. So I picked up my girlfriend and we were off to Simpson’s Nursery in Jamul. I love Simpson's when you leave their nursery they cheerfully hand you a nice cold apple to munch on! Talk about service with a smile!
I bought one little plant at Simpson's it was perfect plus it put a smile on my face too!I was going to purchase some basil but I think it hadn’t warmed up enough so the basil looked a little droopy.  I chose wisely and bought a little flower that will spread.
                                                                  Osteospermum hyprid  

                                                          

Linda’s garden is filled with interesting plants. Here are some close ups of her California Native plants!

That are blooming in February.



 Morris on Friday

 

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Extraordinary Women

I have been blessed with knowing Extraordinary Women in my Life time.Women who dive into Life!




I don’t think it’s luck I think it’s my blessing to know Women that use their lives with grace. Many of us who are younger then our friends can sometimes learn so much on facing Life’s challenges by our friends examples. Extraordinary Women are Women that have their own personal lives they lead and then with any extra time give it to their church their community and their friends.

My friend Janet is such a person. Janet gives to her church by organizing a prayer quilt ministry. When my daughter was first diagnosed with MS Janet had a quilt made by her church and all the knots were prayers for my daughter. It was such a gift when we were all reeling from the shock of her illness. You can’t imagine how a simple quilt can bring comfort.

Janet volunteered to drive people around to doctor appointments in her community. How many of us  when we have some free time drive strangers around out of kindness. Janet also is a volunteer as a Tip volunteer going to traumatic events to help people at a crime scene or crisis event. Police need help as they do their job with the family members who are traumatized and Tip volunteers are such people being on call once a month and on the crisis scene being a kind shoulder for total strangers. .Janet is not a spring chicken but instead of sitting at home in a nice sofa by the fireplace Janet goes out in the middle of the night to not so pleasant situations. Recently Janet has had one operation after another and now she has  Breast Cancer. Janet is one of the strongest faith driven women I know and she will handle this latest challenge with biblical grit. I am sure I am not the only person in this world to know an extraordinary  Woman .Prayers for a good lady you don’t know but you would love as a fellow rug hooker and Extraordinary Woman.

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Old Hooked Rugs When are they worth saving?

When is an old Hooked Rug worth repairing?




I have a dilemma I have old hooked rug my mother in law in her 90’s gave me. I  know one of her relatives made it. The problem is the rugs red color ran on to the background of the rug. Do I need to rehook the parts that ran? Am I ruining an old rug by having to do so much repair?  

There are several patches that need new hooking so there is much more work on the rug. My  question to my fellow hookers is What would you do?  Does every ones old hooked rugs get saved?

I do like it a lot .

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A Tuesday Touch of Green in California

                              Tuesday Morning and a Sunny Day  

Tuesday morning and a touch of Green.


I keep hearing about the snow back East and you poor blogging friends are getting hit hard. So This Tuesday I decided to send pictures of green. It rained yesterday but today it is Sunny in San Diego County and so I went outside and took photos of wet grass and plants that think it’s Spring. As I unload my boxes in the house I also have to redo my garden. I need to weed wack the grass but the grass is still wet so here goes with Green!

                                  Daisys and a Cecile Bruner Rose that should  have been cut back.

                                      All the plants are blooming even the lavender!

                                                 New Buds

                                             This is my front yard view of the park with wet grass

This park was at one time full of huge 100 foot trees.  I could never see the homes across from me but alas the fire came.We had the Cedar fire burn up parts of San Diego county and Crest and so what was left had to be cut down. Over 200 homes were burned in my community but most of the homes were rebuilt. It’s been over  seven years since this happened so Crest has lots of big homes now. Mine is from the 1930’s and one of the original cabins from when Crest was a place where people went to get away on the Hill.

 

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