Currently - August 2024 and Wednesday Hodgepodge

Good Morning:  Welcome to the August edition of Currently! Here are the prompts for August. loving, looking forward to, scheduling, buying, and gearing up for.  Click on the blue Currently above to link up with Jennifer.

Loving:  watching reruns with hubby in the evening and crocheting...still working on that pink blanket.

Looking forward to:  the first week of September as hubby is taking a vacation and we plan to do some day trips and hopefully his mom with come with us.

Scheduling:  I need to schedule Lucy a Vet appointment as it's time to get her shots that are due and then I need to schedule her a grooming appointment.

Buying:  I bought 2 skeins of yarn yesterday to make a lap blanket to donate.  I love the yarn and I'm excited to get it started (but I have to finish the pink one first...lol)

Gearing up for:  Ladies Fall Bible Study - we're going to do Lisa Harper's "Luke, Gut Level Compassion".  Has anyone done this study?  What are your thoughts.

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1. What's a task you do on a regular (or semi-regular basis) that feels like it should be an Olympic event? Sweeping the floors.  It feels never-ending!

2. What's in the trunk of your car right now? I don't have a trunk as I drive a van.  But right now, There is an umbrella, an extra cane for hubby, a storage box that has a blanket and re-useable bags for shopping.  I also have a trolley cart as hubby purchased a table for use here at church and I used the trolley to get it inside.

3. Summer foods vs. fall foods...which do you prefer? 

 Would you rather:

watermelon or caramel apple? watermelon

iced coffee or pumpkin spiced latte? Neither

potato salad or sweet potato casserole? both please

barbecued ribs or roast turkey? ribs 

ice cream sandwich or apple pie? Ice cream sandwich, especially since I found a lower sugar one that's really good. 

corn on the cob or candy corn? Corn on the cob

4. August 7th is National Lighthouse Day. Have you visited any lighthouses? I've visited several, but I don't remember ever going inside one.  Do you have a favorite? Nope, no favorites, if it's a lighthouse I like it! Is a lighthouse something you seek out if you're visiting an area known for theirs? Sure, if I know we're fairly close.

5. Light at the end of the tunnel, out like a light, give the green light, a lightbulb moment, in a new light, in the limelight...of the 'light' idioms listed which applies in some way to your life lately? Explain. Out like a light as I didn't get enough sleep last night...I'm sure there will be a nap time declared and observed today! lol

6. Insert your own random thought here. I love this photo Kelli sent me of her and Colton.

Aren't they just the cutest!

Thanks for visiting and I hope you'll link in to both, Currently and the Hodgepodge.

Cathy

Bits of This and That

 

Happy Monday:

We had a nice weekend.  Mostly it's been quiet, with a few fun things interspersed throughout.

On Friday, I met two of my cousins at a concert in nearby Middletown.  The Methodist Church there has free concerts by various artists on the first Friday of every month. This one was Jimmy Rogers who is a pianist and singer of honky tonk and blues.  His piano playing was awesome and he had a nice voice too.  After that we went to lunch at Cracker Barrel and just had a fun time talking and being together. After that, I met hubby at church and finished up some things there.  Then we came home that evening and watched some TV (getting back into some of the shows we've been binging in the past year).  I also finished the blanket I was making for Lucy.

Look at all those plugs (most will be going away soon when I take down the Christmas stuff) 
We're not quite ready to turn off the lights.  lol

I think it's safe to say, she likes the blanket.  A couple times when I was still working on it
 and had laid it aside to do something else, I caught her laying on it.

On Saturday, we woke up to some snow, which was pretty much all gone by evening. But Lucy and I went out and took about 20 minute walk in spite of the snow.  Enjoyed every minute of it too.

That afternoon, we grabbed a bite from Freddy's and then spent the rest of the day at home doing laundry, reading and watching TV.  Oh and I also made a pot of potato soup and I've been enjoying that the last couple days.

Sunday we had 2 great services and we had Skyline Chili for lunch and took a nap in the afternoon because neither one of us slept well Saturday night.  I'll post the pre-recorded sermon below.  He started a new series called "Outrageous Grace - Travelling with Jonah".

I received a picture from my daughter of Colton on his first ride on the monorail at Disney World.

I think he likes it!

I finished my 2nd book (this is the first book in the second series I mentioned in my last post) of the year this morning and I have the next downloaded from Libby and onto my Kindle ready for me to start this evening,

So that's pretty much my weekend.  Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day.

Cathy

Thankful Thursday

Hello Friends.  It's time for me to be intentionally thankful again.  Being thankful and remembering, acknowledging, and sharing what God has done and is doing in my life is very important for me.  I also hope that it will encourage others.  Here is a short list of things that come to mind this morning that I am thankful for:

• Exercise - Continuing in to this 2nd week of exercising 5 times a week for 30 minutes.  I think already I am feeling better at the end of 30 minutes.  I've been praying some, listening to some of my daily scriptures and even singing a little bit (very quietly) while out walking around my neighborhood.  Mostly, I take Lucy with me and we get some time together and plus it wears her out and she's pretty quiet for a while after because she's sleeping.
• Crochet Circle - Still enjoy meeting with these ladies to crochet together and have lots of good conversation.  I'm still working on the baby blanket.  It's slow but it's coming along.
• The Gospels - I'm still enjoying Reading the Gospels along with Annie F. Downs each day.
• Prayer - I've been working on a slide-show to display on the screens at the front of the church.  On the first Tuesday in July, hubby (the pastor) is starting a new Prayer Open House Program.  He will be opening the church sanctuary for 2 hours on Tuesday mornings and anyone that would like to come and pray, may come.  They can come for 2 hours, or 5 minutes and pray, that's all.  The slide shows have some scriptures and will help us get our focus in the right place.  Then in August he will be having a 31 Days of Prayer for us as a church.  He will give prompts for each day so we can pray separately but as a group focused on the things the church needs to pray for.  I'm so excited for these prayer times and to see what God will do in my life and the life of each one in our church.
• Dentist Appointment - This morning and it's over and I'm so glad.  lol
• Doctor's Appointments - I think they are all done for this go around and all is good...working on a couple numbers from the lab work, thus the walking I talked about earlier.  lol  
• New Glasses - I got my new glasses on Tuesday and I'm still adjusting some to the new stronger prescription.  But their doing better.
• Haircut - Finally went and got a good trim.

That's it for now...it's no longer morning, but better late than never.  Link up with with Jennifer at Overflowing with Thankfulness, if you'd like to.  Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day.

Cathy

Thankful Thursday

 

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Things I am thankful for this week:

**Beautiful skies and sunsets

  

**Another anniversary - 34 years together with my husband. I feel God blessed me so much by giving me this man.  I think hubby would say the same about me.  Thank you God for letting us meet each other and love each other.  Again, what a blessing.

**Scripture - I am enjoying reading the 4 Gospels along with Annie F, Downs.  In January we read from the NIV version and this month we are reading from the ESV version.  I'm noticing things that I don't remember seeing before.  I just want to know more about Jesus and where better to learn than in the Gospels.

**Ruth Series of Unexpected Grace in our Sunday morning sermons at Church.  Ruth is such a short book, but it is stuffed full of good stuff.

**Reading - I have read about 11 books so far this year and I'm currently reading another good one and I have several in the wings waiting.

**Crocheting - I'm really liking crocheting again and I am so thankful for the ladies that started a group and invited me too.  First of all, I'm loving getting to know them.  I'm so thankful for new friends.

**Journaling/Coloring Bible - I am still enjoying this so much.  This is the one I'm currently working on.  I am so thankful for the grace of Jesus and I can't imagine surviving in this world without His grace.

**New Garage Door Opener - Our old opener was having problems.  It only worked intermittently.  Hubby called a company we have used once before.  The guy came out Monday and several options were give and hubby decided we'd be better to get a new one.  We've had this one for a long time and trying to fix it would have cost almost as much as just putting in a new one.  You don't realize how much you use something until it isn't working any more.  So thankful to have it working again and it's much quieter too.

**Revival - I'm so thankful for the revival at Asbury and the outpouring of the Spirit.  It's so encouraging and I hope lives will be changed for everyone there and then that they will testify and share to all they know and that the Spirit will change many more lives through them.

That is all for today and I hope you have a great day and thanks for visiting!

Cathy

A Sentence A Day - February 2022

This is my February Once Sentence a Day.

1 - Tuesday.  Took hubby into work and I stopped in for a bit and used the computer to finish a blog post and then went to the grocery (I really didn't have anything else I needed to do) and stood in line for approximately 50 minutes to check out...Snow or ice coming later this week...but everyone seemed to take it in stride and it was rather fun standing and talking to people and watching their faces when they realized we were almost in the back of the store but we were in the checkout line.  lol

 

This guy was a hoot.  He was taking pictures just like me.  Said his wife was going to wonder why it's taking him so long.  I told him he was in trouble, except he had pictures he could prove it with.  lol

2 - Wednesday.  I took hubby to work as his van is still in the garage (almost 2 weeks now) and then I went and met my sisters for our weekly shopping trip and then back to church and spent the afternoon there and then we had Bible Study at church where hubby did a lesson on Gideon and the Fleece.

3 - Thursday.  Hubby and I both were home because the weather was pretty bad this day so I did some cooking of potato soup for lunch and a chicken broccoli casserole for supper.

4 - Friday.  We had another day at home where sleet finally stopped and snow started and my guess we got about 2 inches of ice and 3 or 4 of snow.

5 - Saturday.  We finally got out and took a drive and got Chick-fil-a for lunch and I ran into the grocery because I wanted some chips and hubby wanted some pop and then we spent the rest of the day at home, reading (finished reading With You Always Orphan Train #1 by Jody Hedlund) and watching TV and working a puzzle.

6 - Sunday.  Church was cancelled because the parking lot was really bad and later in the afternoon we ran to McCallisters and got a sandwich and soup for lunch and again spent the day reading and working the jigsaw puzzle and watching some TV in the evening and also my baby brother turned 59 today.

7 - Monday.  Finished the jigsaw puzzle I've been working on for the past week or two and then my new laptop was finally delivered today and I'm using it now for this post and so far I'm liking it.

Disney-Thomas Kincaide puzzle my sister got me for Christmas

8 - Tuesday.  Worked another jigsaw puzzle and went to lunch at Chuy's with hubby and then ran into the grocery and got the stuff to make Chicken Tortilla Soup (recipe by Jennifer at Overflowing With Thankfulness) with plans to make it tonight to eat tomorrow.

9 - Wednesday.  I made the soup I talked about above and Jennifer it was delicious!  

 

10 - Thursday.  Got my new laptop set up.

11 - Friday.

12 - Saturday.  Finished a puzzle in the morning and had lunch with Tracy at Texas Roadhouse and then a quiet evening at home. and finished Reading Together Forever by Jody Hedlund.

13 - Sunday.  Super Bowl Sunday so I made a black and orange scrunchie for my cousin as she's a big Bengal's fan...but unfortunately they lost.

14 - Monday.  My sister and I went shopping at Joann's and Walmart and had lunch at Chick-Fil-A.

15 - Tuesday.  

16 - Wednesday.  Took my youngest sister to her neurologist appointment and then went to Walmart and had a quick dinner from McDonald's.

17 - Thursday.  Finished reading Searching for You by Jody Hedlund

18 - Friday.  This was our 33rd Anniversary so we went to P.F. Chang's for lunch and just enjoyed a day spent together.

19 - Saturday.  I finished 2 hats and hubby and I went to lunch at Olive Garden

20 - Sunday.  We had church and the sermon was titled "The Lawyer Who Wanted a Loophole" from Luke 10:  25-27...he is preaching a series on Conversations with Jesus and I also made another hat.

21 - Monday.  

22 - Tuesday.  I went into church for a bit and did some Bible Study and blogging and then we made meatloaf for dinner and I had fresh asparagus and hubby had roasted brussell sprouts and again a quiet evening at home.  

23 - Wednesday.  Went out with both sisters to Walmart and then picked up something for my younger sister and she went home and Beverly and I went to Lowe's and Kroger and got a sandwich from Arby's and then church that evening.

24 - Thursday.  Hubby put a beef roast in the slow cooker and then we added noodles to it for supper...we stayed home all day except for going to pick up my car from the mechanic after and oil change.

25 - Friday.  Went to Red Robin for lunch and came back home and I completed another puzzle and we binged Bones and Murdoch Mysteries and finished reading An Awakened Heart by Jody Hedlund.

26 - Saturday.  Picked up hubby's mom and we went to lunch at Chuy's and then to Joann's and drove around and had the best time talking about all kinds of stuff...past and present.

27 - Sunday.  We had 2 great services on Sunday and in the afternoon I finished a puzzle I was working and started another.

28 - Monday.  I went to the church with hubby for the day and then ran in the store to pick up some hamburger buns for supper along with a few other things, then home for a quiet evening with some house cleaning and puzzle working and a little TV binging.

And that's my month.  How was your month?  Thanks for visiting.

Cathy

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Thankful Thursday

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** This morning about 6:30 or so I got a message from my daughter that my grandson wanted to see his Gigi on video chat.  So what's a Gigi to do, but give him a call, of course.  Even at 6:30am this Gigi can't miss out on seeing that face when he actually wants to talk.  lol  I can't believe I didn't even take a picture because he was so cute.  His was wearing his Baby Yoda PJ's and had to show me it with the hood up and the sleep mask covering his eyes.  So cute.  I mean, you really can't start a day much better than that!  

Mommy got him some ice cream the other day

Wearing a new outfit Gigi and Papaw bought him

** Some beautiful flowers at our church,my home and my work.  God creates such beautiful flowers.

Actually, I'm still at the nursery, but these are now hanging on my front porch

These next four are at church.

Lilac in front of where I work.  My office is the window to the left.

**  Quiet evenings at home to watch TV with hubby and spend time crocheting.  For some reason, right now I am very into crocheting instead of loom knitting.  I've been making this pony tail scrunchies.  I need to take some more pictures soon.  I'm planning to have them in the craft show in October.  Trying to make sure we have plenty of things of all different kinds for people to buy.  

Here's one of the hair scrunchies I've made.

What are you thankful for today.  Big or small, it's good to thank God and share you stuff with others because it can be so encouraging to you and others.

Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a great day.  

Cathy

 

A Sentence A Day - April 2021

 April 2021 in once sentence a day:

1 - Thursday.  Back to work for the first day since our trip.

2 - Friday.  Work and then out to dinner with hubby's mom with good food and lots of gabbing.

3 - Saturday.  Went to O'Charlie's for lunch with hubby and ran into Joann's and bought 4 skeins of yarn and then picked up my sister and we did our Wal-marting together.  

4 - Sunday.  Easter Sunday church with several people coming back for the first time in quite a while.

5 - Monday.  Worked and then came home and made dinner and made a hat and a scrunchy.

6 - Tuesday.  Our ladies Bible Study started back tonight after about a year off because of Covid - we were a very small group tonight, but what a sweet time we had together.

7 - Wednesday.  Work and then hubby's online Live Bible Study and then a quiet evening together.

8 - Thursday.  Enjoyed another evening home with hubby after we picked up our taxes from the preparer, so I made another hat.

9 - Friday.  Picked up pizza and salads for dinner and then watched TV and knitted a couple hats.

10 - Saturday.  Got up and made breakfast and cleaned up the kitchen then had to have the dog at groomers at 12:30, then my two sisters and I went Wal-marting that evening.

11 - Sunday.  Had 2 good services at church and a nice little nap in the afternoon and then finished up the week's Bible Study Lessons for Tuesday evening.

12 - Monday.  Had a Dexa Scan (bone density test) which I have to have every 2 years since cancer and then when I got to work found a new Yeti cup on my desk that a co-worker made for us in honor of National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week.

13 - Tuesday.  Received a delicious box lunch in appreciation for National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week and got news from the Doctor that my bone scan was good.

14 - Wednesday.  After work we fixed Salisbury Steaks for dinner and then hubby did his FB Live Bible Study and then an evening at home taking care of some tasks I've been putting off for a long time.

15 - Thursday.  

16 - Friday.  Took the day off work and attended a couple of Webinars with my hubby in reference to my retirement.

17 - Saturday.  Shopped a little and bought some new summer shirts for work.

18 - Sunday.  Saw a hot air balloon after church.

19 - Monday.  Dentist for cleaning and after work did a birthday drive-by for my Uncle who turned 90., 

20 - Tuesday. It actually snowed this evening...for goodness sakes, it's late April!

21 - Wednesday.  And this is what we woke up to this morning and thankfully it was mostly melted by the afternoon.

22 - Thursday.  Doctor's appointment with regular doctor for hubby and I both and I got a Tetanus booster (which is supposed to happen every 10 years).

23 - Friday.  After work we went to dinner with hubby's mom.

24 - Saturday.  Hubby and I went to lunch at Texas Roadhouse and then ran in to Walmart for some stuff and I placed an order at Joann's and picked that up (what a nice service) and then my 2 sisters and I went to Meijer's for a shopping trip together and I actually left without buy anything....it's been a long time since that has happened.

25 - Sunday.  Just a really nice normal Sunday with church and an afternoon nap.

26 - Monday.  Had my 6 month check up with the oncologist and all is good as far as we know.

27 - Tuesday.  Work and Bible Study and such a great lesson on Joseph.

28 - Wednesday.  Work and hubby's online Bible Study and then some TV.

29 - Thursday.  Salisbury Steak and rice for dinner and laundry and some crocheting and TV.

30 - Friday.  Last day of April and it was just a typical day with nothing out of the ordinary.

Cathy

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Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. What are some memories you associate with spring? 

Easter always brings fun memories...new dresses for us girls and also for our girls.  Beautiful flowers blooming, warmer weather, spring break and knowing school would soon be out for the summer.

2. April showers bring May flowers...was that saying proven true where you live? Snapdragons, anemones, carnations, lilacs, sweet peas, tulips, lily of the valley, orchids, roses, gardenias...which one on that list is your favorite May bloom? 

Yes, it's true and I have see some beautiful blooms, especially the trees and the magnolias, plus I also like the yellow dandelions.  Here are some photos I've taken this spring.

3. What are your top three distractions and how do you deal with them? 

FB, Instagram are probably my biggest time users, but I enjoy them and I just try not to be ridiculous about them.

4. Do you eat beef? Yummy! Yes!! In the course of a week, how often is beef on the menu? Probably at least 3-4 times in some form or other.  A hamburger, steak, prime rib, or a roast beef dinner...which beef entree would you choose and yes you have to choose. Unless you're a vegan, and then you may pass. I like them all, but prime rib is probably my favorite, although I don't eat it often.

5. In what way were you creative during the month of April? Making hats and now making scrunchies (ponytail holders).

6. Insert your own random thought here.  If you're wondering why I am making all of these things, my sister and I have signed up to have a table at a craft show in the fall.  Also, I'm hoping this fall to re-open my Etsy shop.  Plus I'm sure we'll donate hats again for Christmas.

Thanks for visiting.  Have a great day!

Cathy