Today we celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary, my dear sweetie iorhael94 and I.
I am very glad to have her as my one true love, my soul-mate, my best friend. Through all the highs and lows (this year having another one of those lows)wherever we are together that is home and we share it all. I love you ,my dear, and always will :)

The other day I got a real surprise looking out my den window, while I was working. I had put up a hummingbird feeder in the summer after seeing a couple hummingbirds flitting around some of my plants. It was late summer and I wasn't sure how many more I would see, but I thought it was worth a try. I don't think I saw anymore after that and I was ( Read more... )

Some quotes from the John Adams biography by David McCullough that I am reading:
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I see that posting has been really sketchy recently. Combination of traveling back and forth to the East Coast twice, plus holiday season, and being sick with a hanging on cold. For a while I was only on the computer for work, and then only because I get to work at home...no need to worry about infecting my coworkers ( Read more... )

Today I am truly thankful. Thankful for my dear sweet wife, thankful for my family, most of whom will be gathering together in one place to celebrate and feast (we are missing a couple couples, but they also will be with family). I am thankful for the essential necessities of life (food,water, shelter, clothes). I am thankful for freedom and ( Read more... )

Today is a special day, it is my dear sweetheart's birthday.
Happy Birthday iorhael94We met over 20 years ago and have been married for almost 15, and there's no one else I'd rather share my life with than her. She is smart, beautiful, intelligent, with a kind open heart that welcomes all in. She has a good sense of humor, accepts me with all my quirkiness ( Read more... )

Over the past few weeks I have done hit-and-miss gardening...haven't spent a lot of time at it since we have been out of town or busy with other things (like dancing) and the weather has turned a bit more rainy. Even so I have noticed new things happening - the garden moves on in spite of me sometimes :)
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for any out there who don't believe God exists, or that everything just came by chance
how do you explain this:


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Today is my mom's birthday. She would have been 93 today. She died 30 years ago, but her influence lives on in me. She taught me compassion for all, regardless of how they looked, where they were from, or what kind of person they were. She had no time for prejudice, grandstanding, or making points at the expense of others. She and my dad had their ( Read more... )

I haven't done any yard work this weekend, since all the things I wanted to trim are all wet and that's no fun:(. Last weekend I trimmed and weeded and spread more compost on some of the beds. I have more to do, but things are getting a little bit neater.
( here's some pics of beds,finds, and a friend )