Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

PRETTY

 A beautiful spring day

HAPPY

Celebrating Mother's Day with lunch and long distance phone calls

FUNNY

OR NOT...the colors people paint the walls...Next fixer upper

on the agenda.

REAL

Free Military Day at the PGA

Lots of people visiting our area this past week

GOODBYE STARBUCKS

In my twenties I lived 10 minutes from Pike Place Market in Seattle.

Every Saturday we would take the kids to purchase everything we needed for dinner on Sunday.

Starbucks Coffee was a part of the ritual...BEFORE they appeared in airports, street corners, inside Target and malls. To put the time line in perspective, our newlywed neighbors were beginning

new careers at a start-up called MICROSOFT.

After reading Phil Lenahan's article in OUR SUNDAY VISITOR titled How to respond when companies contradict the Faith, I listened and knew I had to respond.  CEO Howard Schulz declared that same-sex marriage is a core value in his company and donated generously to the cause.

Although it is hard to break a 30 something habit, I WILL find another alternative coffee.

An Adjustment Approach to Menu Budget Planning

•  Core of the meal will be vegetables and fruits that are on sale, for example this week on sale ...Florida sweet corn, cucumbers, cilantro, grape tomatoes, and blueberries.

• Look up recipes to utilize through the week ...for example, pasta salad using the above vegetables and blueberry smoothies.

• Designate Friday as bread baking day...whether it be muffins, cookies, waffles, or pizza dough. No more grocery store bread products.

•  Experiment and make my own salad dressings. No more grocery store salad dressings.

Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real This Week

 Pretty...light on sidewalk with shadows of the tree canopy.

 May is a transitional month as the light becomes more intense and temperatures rise.

Happy...to show out- of- town guests from Linz, Austria around for a couple of days

They enjoyed  Southern homes,

along with Southern preachers.

Funny....knock knock jokes with some 8th Graders

I substituted for this week.

(No pictures allowed without parental permission which I

don't have)

Real...so proud to be an American and see

the display of our flags in our communities.

Helena Zuber, a Holocaust survivor who shared her story, dies at 89 | jacksonville.com

Helena Zuber, a Holocaust survivor who shared her story, dies at 89 | jacksonville.com

Pretty,Happy, Funny, Real

Pretty...morning walk along the Jax Beach

Happy...wedding planning in Savannah

Funny...nothing really funny this week

Found three pillows on sale at thrift shop

Real...spending a lot of time at the beach

Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

Pretty

We celebrated Easter Sunday at the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist

in Savannah, Georgia.

Happy

in Nature...Did you know that the Saint John's River flows

North instead of South unlike most rivers?

Funny

Another Peep appearance during the Easter Parade

Real

Spring is here with vibrant pink azaleas, daffodils, and dogwoods amidst the palm trees.

Back to Apartment Living

Until the next housing project begins....

Lessons learned

1.  Label all paint cans

2.  Use Super Paint NOT Contractor's Paint ( Admit that I can not paint like a contractor can)

3.  Plan walls and  flooring...then the rest will naturally flow

4.  HOUZZ is a wonderful site for inspiration of problem areas

Time it took for fixing up:  4 months

Time it took to sell:  3 days 

Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real

Pretty...my 77 year old mother is liturgist at this church in Northern Indiana.

After writing and obtaining a grant, she is getting ready for a big concert  featuring area

musicians, along with some of her American Guild of Organists/ND friends.

Happy...that my 56 year old body was able to walk 13.5 miles for a foundation/research fund raiser

for breast cancer .  Here we are finishing on the grounds of Mayo Clinic.

Needless to say my daughter is a stern, disciplined trainer and my legs still feel like rubber.

Funny...I don't have anything funny this week. My brother-in-law (stopping to visit on his way back to Indy) asked if we were getting the rest or our furniture out of storage.  My husband replied, "What storage, this is it!"  My brother-in-law said to my sister-in-law, " I don't think we could live like this."

I guess we are abnormal. ( All the above items are from thrift shop and painted black...ready to move)

Real...Spring is here!
Getting ready to move across the ditch ( that is beach lingo for across the Intercoastal)
in four more days.  

Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real This Week

PRETTY

 A lovely painting of the barn (love old barns) on the farm of my husband's family 

HAPPY

Happy to have the pool deck painted, and now seriously need to attend landscape
It is screaming, "HELP ME!"

 FUNNY

No time to sew before house showing, so I taped the

bench foam pads together, along with material.

REAL

Praying for all the Cardinals and our Church.

(Early married years in Seattle with Cardinal Wuerl then

Bishop celebrating Easter)

ASH WEDNESDAY and FLU

Of course I would get what my husband carried home from work.  But I thought I could beat it but I think the cold and hot weather we have been having with loads of pollen is making my immune system challenged.
Hopefully I can return to the blogging world in another week.