Wednesday Hodgepodge - Simple Life

 

1. Is your life simple? Elaborate. 

I think it's pretty simple since I retired.  Hubby's still working and in the church office 3-4 days a week, not counting Sunday.  And most of those days, I'm there with him.  His office is in the back of the church and mine is in the front.  We both do our thing, but we are still "together", in that I can just holler across the church and he can hear me.  I love any and all time I can get with him.  I seem to say that a lot here on this blog, but it's the truth.  We really enjoy being together.

2. What simple pleasure are you are currently enjoying? 

Reading (just finished a book this morning), crocheting, walking with the dog early mornings and blogging.

Saw this hot air balloon while out this morning.

3. Travel by plane or go on a cruise? "I'd prefer driving.  But I'll be flying 2 weeks from tomorrow and that's okay.  As for a cruise, I loved the ones I went on back in the day, but if I were to cruise now, I want to see Alaska. walk or ride a bike? Walk swim or ski? Swim  ocean or mountains? Depends on the time of year...if spring or summer, then the mountains and fall or winter, the ocean.

4. What's the last thing you bought online that you really loved? Some summer tops that I am very happy with...and of course, the several Kindle books I've purchased this year.

5. What’s your 'back in my day we__________' story? Back in the day when I was a kid, life really was simple, but I didn't really know that then, it was just life.  We played and did chores and really had no worries, because mom and dad took care of everything.  

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

And this is exactly how it works with Lucy and me!

Thanks for visiting and if you'd like to link up with the Hodgepodge, you can do that right here.

Cathy

Bits of This and That

 Good morning!

It's Monday at 10:40 and I am sitting in my little office reading blog posts and now writing this one.  I love reading others' posts and learning a little more about them each day or just laughing and enjoying the humor they share and/or the pictures they post and getting just a glimpse into their life.

Hubby and I had a really quiet weekend and I enjoyed it all.  I read a really good book by my favorite author.  I have read it 2-3 times before and each time I enjoy it more and more.  The author is Lori Wick and as far as I can tell she is no longer writing.  So I just reread her old ones from time to time.  I hope someday she'll write another.

I also read these 2 books last week and really enjoyed them.  My sister loves this author and has all her books and is constantly looking for new ones by her.  Evidently she writes several a year.  They are a little shorter but these 2 were really good.  I'll have to get my sister to loan me a couple more by her through the Kindle app.  I love being able to do this as my 2 libraries do not carry her books yet.  Her name is Jean Kuhnke.

It feels really good to finally have my reading mojo back.  My GoodReads goal for this year is 50 books.  Don't know if I'll make it as I've been in a real reading funk the last couple of months.  Time will tell. lol

I also missed several of my morning walks last week, but hopefully I'm back on track.  Yesterday while out with Lucy, we saw this hot air balloon flying over our subdivision.  And also a very beautiful sunrise across the field from the cul-de-sac at the end our road.

We had really good services at church on Sunday.  Hubby has started a new series from the book of Hebrews.  Actually he did the first 15 sermons last summer and is picking it up again and it's called "Let Us Fix Our Eyes on Jesus." Below is a video of the sermon that is posted on YouTube and FB.

Well that's about all I have to day.  Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day.

Cathy

Bits of This and That

 

Took a walk this morning and saw this over top of our subdivision

Beautiful morning

Mom or dad one feeding the babies

I finally got a decent picture of mom.  Both of these pictures
were taken Sunday afternoon.  She is such a tiny little thing.

Stopped at Subway after church to pick up a sandwich
and these were flying above.  Not the greatest pictures.

Hopefully we'll be seeing more of these.  I hadn't
seen hardly any this year and then these 2 on Sunday
 night and the one above on Monday morning.
Typically we see a lot of hot air balloons in the summer.

We really enjoyed our weekend.   Saturday hubby and I went out to lunch and I ran in the grocery and picked up a few items and then was stopped and got a Starbucks for the drive home.

I tried a new flavor and it was delicious!

I know this post is a jumble and not actually in the order things happened, but that's life!  lol

Below is a video of hubby's sermon on Sunday morning.  Another in the Job series. 

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Cathy

Friday Photos

 Here are a few photographs from my phone taken this week.

Lucy wearing her new green plaid harness.

Saw these two hot air balloons flying early Sunday morning.  It must have been so cold up there.

Saturday was Police Appreciation Day.  On Monday morning these painted stones were found in the flower beds at the Police Department.

Saw another hawk in the neighborhood while out with Lucy

So how was your week?  Did you take any pictures?  Would love to see them if you did.

Cathy

Thankful Thursday

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Things I am thankful for:

  1.  Beautiful Fall colors and decorations all over the place.

Loving all the fall decorations and this pumpkin is ours.  

  2.  The opportunity to see hot air balloons.  There were 5 of them in the sky at the same time on Sunday afternoon.  The pictures below show the 2 that were closest to us.

Hot air balloons we saw from our yard on Sunday afternoon

 
3.  God's beautiful creation.  Love when he paints with such beautiful and brilliant colors.

Beautiful sunrise Monday Morning

  4.  A quiet serene morning behind our Doctor's Office.  My hubby had an appointment and I waited in the car.  After a bit of looking at this pond from a distance, I had to get out and take a closer look and taken some pictures.  I love the reflections in the water.  Oh and hubby had an excellent report from the Doctor.  Thank you Jesus.

Another beautiful sunrise last Wednesday morning

  5.  Thankful for all of God's beautiful creatures.  This deer was just standing across the pond.  It was dark enough still that I couldn't see him through the camera lens, but I think I still got a couple pretty good pictures.  Of course, I had to lighten it up so we could see him/her.

This deer was on the far side of the pond in the above picture

So what are you thankful for today?

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a great day!

Cathy

Pictures of My Week Volume 6

Here are some pictures from my week.  Hope you enjoy.

Saturday my friend and I did a 4 mile run/walk in Cincinnati to benefit Cancer Research

Here we are at mile marker one

Here we are coming up to the finish line.  No way were we taking a picture of ourselves here.  We had been rained on and didn't look too good.  Despite that we had a great time.

Have you ever seen one of these along the edge of the roadway?  It's a little Library.  Anyone can come and take a book and/or leave a book.  Then when you finish you bring it back.  It's all on the honor system.  This was in one of the neighborhoods we walked through on Saturday for the Hyde Park Blast.

Beautiful drive into church on Sunday.

There were 3 hot air balloons out Wednesday evening.  Here's one of them.

Lucy laying in her daddy's chair on his blanket

Lunch Wednesday at my work desk.  Pecan Chicken Salad Sandwich from Arby's and a blackberry lemonade from Wendy's!  Delicious

Lucy again on her daddy's blanket only this time daddy's under the blanket.  She likes to lay on the foot rest of the recliner on his blanket.

Weekend Wrap-Up

Kerri babysat for Carina Friday night and then again on Saturday morning. She is so adorable but she cried alot. She is not used to taking a bottle so she wouldn't eat. So she was hungry and cried when she wasn't sleeping. Finally she drank her bottle about 20 minutes before her mommy picked her up. Quite the experience for us. haha But isn't she just the cutest little thing (when she's asleep)?

This is the afghan I made for her.  I forgot to take a picture before I gave it to her.  But her mom brought it to our house so I could get a pic.  It was so sweet to hold her Saturday morning while watching a favorite movie and she slept.

Hubby and I went to dinner Saturday night at Logan's Steakhouse while Kerri was out on her date.  Hubby and I are starting to experience some times of empty nest.  Have to say I'm kinda enjoying it.

Sunday night before church we saw some hot air balloons.  This one flew right over my head and they were low enough I could actually hear them talking.  As you can see, you can even see up inside the balloons.  There were 3 or 4 more in the area too, but I had to go in for church and couldn't wait on them to fly over.  So I just took some pictures of them at a distance.

I was a wonderful weekend and guess what, it's not over yet because today is Columbus Day and I'm off today too!  Yay!!!