Friday Foto Friends

Here are some photographs I took a couple weeks ago in Tennessee.  I love little white churches and there are bunches in Tennessee.

Cades Cove

Cades Cove

I really hate to see this falling apart

It looks like this is an event center now

I hope you enjoyed my pictures.  If you'd like to join in with Friday Foto Friends, click here.

Hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for visiting.

Cathy

Thankful Thursday

This week I am thankful for:

**Our Wednesday night Bible Study group. My husband is doing a thing called “Ask the Pastor” where anyone can write down a question and present it to him ahead of time. Then he will study and come back with an answer. We have some of the best times during these sessions sharing and learning together. There have been some really great questions too.  And sometimes there is a question he really doesn’t know the answer to, but the discussions are still good.

**I'm thankful for our home and our neighborhood and our neighbors. I so love living here.

**We have our flag flying in the above picture and I just want to say I'm thankful for all who have served and have helped us to live in a free country.  We are so very blessed.

**I'm thankful that God loves me and takes care of me and most of all that He forgives me when I fall. He picks me up and puts me back on the right path. He is so loving and patient and I'm sure I really try his patience from time to time.

I’m thankful for the beautiful skies last evening and all of God’s creation.

So, what are you thankful for?

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

Cathy

Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. The last place you visited/patronized where you felt like you were given 'the royal treatment'?
I feel I usually get pretty good treatment anywhere, but royal...not sure I'd go that far.

2. The last task you completed that was a 'royal pain'?
Sweeping and mopping the floors are a royal pain to me.

3. How have your strengths helped you succeed? How have your faults hindered you?
I feel I'm a fairly positive person most of the time and I think that's good.  But that being said, I'm also rather sarcastic and I'm not sure that helps much.

4. If you found a remote that could rewind, fast forward, stop and start time, what would you do with it?
I don't think I'd do anything with it.  Although I'd love to talk to mom and dad and my brother again, I wouldn't want them to come back here for anything.  I think I'll just wait until I can go meet them in heaven.

5. Any special plans for the Memorial Day weekend? Will you in some way honor or recognize the meaning of this day (remembering people who died in service to their country)? Have you ever been to Arlington National Cemetery? Does your town do anything special to mark the day?
I'm off work and that's about as special as it gets.  We may go to a parade in the town my hubby grew up in.  I think our nephew is in one of the marching bands.  Yes, I have been to Arlington and I loved it.  Our town has a parade also.  My flag and red, white and blue wreath are already up and mom and dad's and my brother's graves have red, white and blue flowers on them.

6.  Insert your own random thought here.
This week's pictures from my daughter of my grandson.

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

Cathy

Wednesday Hodgepodge

It's Wednesday and time for the Hodgepodge.  Click the button above if you'd like to join in with us.  Thanks Joyce for another week of great questions.

1. What would you say is your biggest day to day challenge?
Making myself take the time to walk each day and take care of myself.

2. May 16th is National Biographers Day. What's a biography you really enjoyed reading? Is this a genre you read regularly?
I've been reading biographies since I was a kid.  When mom took us to the library, I almost always got biographies on historical characters that were written for kids.  Loved them then and still do.  I'm not sure I could pick a favorite though.  Right now, I'm on a waiting list at my library for one on Dolly Parton.  I read one on Laura Bush that I really liked and I read one that George W. Bush wrote that I really liked.  

3. How important is keeping a clean house? 
I think it's important to an extent, but I'm not always that good at it.  I remember hearing that when I die, I'll never wish I dusted more, but will wish I spent more time with the ones I love. Do you need to de-clutter your life? I am in the process of de-cluttering even now.  I've got bags of stuff to give away.  I'm getting there, but it's a process and then I'll probably have to start over when I'm done.  lol

4. You're the 8th dwarf. What's your name?
Fluffy (because I'm not fat, I'm fluffy).


5. What's surprised you the most about your life or life in general?
Life is going so fast.  I can't believe I'm 60 and that things can change so very fast.  One day all is good and the next, life is falling apart.  (we're good now, but the past couple of years, so much happened and changed so drastically so fast).

6. Insert your own random thought here.
Here's the weekly photo.

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

Cathy

Currently...

May 15, 2018

Currently I am...writing this post

Reading: Book 6 in the Mitford Series by Jan Karon.  It's called "A Common Life, The Wedding Story."

Listening to: Annie F. Downs That Sounds Fun Podcast

Loving: My husband

Thinking: I need to finish this quickly and get busy again.

Feeling: Thankful

Celebrating: We got our flower baskets and new flag and old chimes hung on the front porch.  Love it.

Grateful for: the vacation to the Smokies we had a couple weeks ago. It was so wonderful.

Weather: Sunny and 85. It's beautiful although maybe a little warmer than I really like.

Enjoying: Early morning 1 mile walks with my dog the last 3 days.

A quote I want to share: 

Thanks for visiting me and have a great day!!

Cathy