A Good Day

Today was a very good day! Our weather was soooo nice, with a high of 57 degrees! We always have Bible Study on Fridays...and am always nervous about the weather. (Especially since I live on a hill..I never know if they can make it to my house!) But today was perfect!! Normally, as we study the word, we'll have some sort of treats! Well, today Sandi surprised me with a birthday cake! Even had candles on it!! 

It has been many years since I've had to blow out candles!! Ha! Ha! But I got them all with one breath! Guess my lung exercises are helping...smile... (And I'm very thankful that she didn't put one for every year on it!!) I'd probably still be blowing out candles.. hee..hee!

Pastor said she wanted to take this picture! And that my shirt even matched!! 

Sandi...the same lady got me this cardinal globe for Christmas! It is so beautiful. She lost her husband a few months after Tom passed. So when we spot a cardinal out my window (at my feeder) it reminds us of our lost ones...

Isn't it pretty??

Speaking of birds, she said she heard a robin when she came in! Oh boy, will they be sorry! Today was gorgeous, but by Sunday we are to have up to 6" of snow with 45 mph winds...uggg However, it is January!! And it is normally a winter day on my birthday! (That was always one of the reasons I could never have kids over for a birthday party...) But....finally when I turned 17..my girlfriends came and we had a sleepover! We fixed homemade pizza...and had pop (which was a very big treat!) We all crashed on the living room floor...while my very good looking 19 year old brother was asleep in the next room on the couch!! Oh, such simpler times.. 

Bye for now...pray is all well with you...

May Day--Is it Spring or Winter??

The robins are so beautiful! Love seeing them running across the yard and pecking away at whatever they find... I know their instincts are telling them it should be spring in Iowa!! And since yesterday was the first day of May, that is what mine were also telling me!! April showers bring May flowers and all of that...

But....look at my lilacs..covered with snow..sad...  Saturday my friend went out to pick some for her and I, only to discover they hadn't opened yet. So...I'm not sure they will ever bloom this year.. Just have my fingers crossed.

I always love it, when I can open my kitchen windows and smell their lovely fragrance. I'm not sure there is any flower that can beat the smell of lilacs. I know we were lucky and it could have been worse...but still...ugggg  Climate change?? I don't know..just that it's not right to have snow in May!!

Then here we are this morning.. The grass is gorgeous and oh so green. Rusty loves to go out on a day like today, and investigate and just hang out. But those rainy...snowy days, he just stays in for the most part. Sunday, that is about all we did. It was overcast and raining all day and...cold! The temperatures were down and the wind was blowing like crazy. It was a movie, stay in your pajama's kind of day..

Funny story... I looked out my window last week and noticed this house was having a red roof put on! I thought, 'boy that's going to change my view'!!! Most of the houses have gray or green roofs. HOWEVER, the next day when I looked...that red roof was turning back into a gray one... What?? How could that be?? Well, unbeknownst to me..the red was the tar paper they lay before they put the shingles on. Now whenever I've seen it before it was black... Did you know they now have RED tar paper???

 

Hope your weather is more spring like then ours is..

Blessings and good night...