Show and Tell Friday

Welcome again to Show and Tell hosted by Kelli. Please go over and see her and all the other fun bloggers that participate. It is one of my favorites days of the week. I hope you enjoy.


Today I have a short Show and Tell. That may end up being Tell and Tell. I can't seem to upload the photo. Hmmm. I'll be trying again in a few minutes. Still no luck.



This was not my Show and Tell. But I love this photo because it makes me think peaceful. I love the beach. I pray this morning that God would bind satan and help me to accomplish all I needed/wanted to accomplish. But that I accomplish what he desires for me. Because I have a huge busy day planned I needed his strength, guidance.

This afternoon we leave for an overnight retreat. We will be the speakers at a Bi-Vocational pastors retreat. I am not ready. I still have clothes in the dryer and need to bake cookies to distribute during our presentation. I need to feed the horses, the rabbits, leave extra food for the cats and feed the dog before I go.
I need to get my visuals for the presentation ready and get our hand outs printed.

So, I am off to accomplish all the items listed above and probably a few others that I haven't thought of yet.

And, we are awaiting a grand baby any day now. Which I am praying happens Saturday night and not tonight since we will be about 3 hours from home!

I hope everyone has an awesome Show and Tell and I'll be back tomorrow to look at everyones.

Blessings to all.





Have a Blessed Friday. Love, Sherry

Porch Project Thursday Edition Leave a comment for the Giveway!

I know I promised a photo of the beds around the eyesore porch but this isn't it.
It is though from a wonderful Word Filled Wednesday. Last night I was looking at every one's post and found this and I just coveted this yard. Not really but I really do like it ALOT! It was found on Kelleys blog over at
http://www.aromaofjoy.blogspot.com

I read her blog and here is something that she said about changing up her blog and layout. "Just like I was able to change what I didn't like about my blog look and
layout, we are able to trade our sins and imperfections for the beauty and grace found at the foot of the cross."

I was impressed with these words. Many people have a hard time bringing the Bible and God's teaching to life in this world. To some the Bible and it's teachings are old or obscure not pertaining to life now. To many of the kids that I work with it is just flat confusing to relate to them.

Thank you Kelley for your interpretation and for putting into words these thoughts. They Blessed me and I think they will Bless others.

And I really do love the way this yard looks. Especially the old bicycle.
Here's more of the challenge to the whole porch issue. The wall is approximately
3 feet away from the door and just about 3 feet high. It doesn't leave room for a chair. I guess you could put one on an angle but the height of the wall would make it hard to see.

I am playing around with the idea of a birdcage on something tall. And then maybe some birdhouses attached to the wall maybe around the window. I have some wonderful birdhouses that my father made and a butterfly house too. Maybe a butterfly bush complementing the house.

The bed on the west side has canna's I don't particularly like the blooms on them but I love the foliage. It is tall and pretty. (if I can keep the grasshoppers away) Below them is an awesome filler that this year is growing really high. It is called lemon balm. It is low maintenance which is what I need. I wish it would cover the entire expanse. On the far end of the house are two sweet potato vines that are growing much slower than I want. LOL.

I do have a pot filled with begonias on either side of the walk.(in the bed) They give some color and a little height to the beds. There are daffodils in the border of the bed so their foliage is still there at least for a while.

Here's one more idea . . .

Since I have an abundance of fabric and time (LOL on the time part) I was thinking something like this on the wall. Possibly making it look like an old window. Or use an old window as a frame. I can't afford a birdcage like I was talking about or a silk ficus or anything tall right now but I thought something like this with flowers and or birdhouses to go with the them.

These are my thoughts and ideas. Any one have anything to add? Please leave a comment and I'll put you in my drawing. I think you will love the prize!
Have a Blessed Thursday and see you all for Show and Tell tomorrow.

BTW . . . Kelley and I have one more thing in common we both cried last night for the same reason. David Cook is the American Idol! Yea David!

Word Filled Wednesday

Amy at the160acreawood.wordpress.com provides this wonderful illustration.
Thank you Amy for allowing me to rest on his word and take the morning off from posting every Wednesday.
I am off to the food bank now. Please pray for the ministry and the families that are touched by this ministry.
Blessings,
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The Porch Project & Giveway Tues.edition

The "Welcome" mat is out. Please come by this week and visit my porch project.
I need your ideas to tidy up and beautify this eye sore! Every day this week I will be posting another photo of the porch and also some photo's of lovely porchs and gardens that I wish were mine!

This week will end Sunday with a fun give a way. So please stop in and leave me a comment or a suggestion and link back especially if you have a lovely porce or garden area. Maybe I can just look at yours and wish it was mine too!

Here is one more shot of the porch the way it is now.

I always keep a rug by the porch but you will see that it is usually not flat and smooth. That is because our porch faces the north and it is always, always windy. In fact many times the glass door has almost been taken off the hinges.
To the right of the door is a decorative stepping stone. One of three that I would like to incorporate. They are all bunnies. (read through my archives and check out my Easter post and you'll see why!) Originally they were in really pretty flower beds in a previous home. (I'll have to post some photo's so you can see I can have pretty beds.)

I hope everyone enjoys there day and oh BTW way this is my Tackle it Tuesday project too. I am working on the beds. I'll post more later.

The Porch Project and Giveaway

This week I am going to write about this.

My front porch project. I wrote about it a few weeks ago asking for help in figuring out what to do.
It is a narrow porch with a wall in front. I can't remove the wall. My dilemma is two fold. I want to decorate it somehow but there isn't room for much.
The flowerbed borders you see on the top of the wall are gone. We removed them and replaced them with stones the beds look much better now.
Anyone have any ideas?

I'll show a couple more photo's later along with the small flowerbeds in front.
Please put on your thinking caps.
I am going to end the week with a Give a Way so stay tuned.
Please leave your comments

Daisy Doggie Bloggy Friends meet Bogart

I met the most handsome boy this week. His name is Bogart. Isn't he just dreamy.
I think I am in love; but my mom says it is just "puppy love". He is just the most adorable Aire Dale Terrier I have ever seen. And he can do this too.


He can carry a stick! Isn't that cool. This is him on a walk with his people.

Bogart has his very own blog so go over and see him and tell him I said "hi".
You can visit him at toaireisdivine.blogspot.com
He might be out on walk this morning since it is Saturday but you can see all the photos of him.

Have a fun Saturday,
Daisy
p.s. Please come back and see me next week. Until then my mom will be writing.

Friday Show and Tell Stop in Saturday to visit Daisy and her friends

Updated at 8:00 p.m. Don't forget to stop in tomorrow to visit Daisy and see her
Doggie friends!
I am so happy it is Friday again. I just love Show and Tell. Please enjoy your visit here today and then go over to Kelli's and see her; she has a sweet post this morning. But don't forget to check all the others out too!
Wait don't go yet! You have to see my Show and Tell. Here it is.


It actually isn't Daisy this time she just happens to be in this photo. I am showing the coach. If you look close you can see that one of the cushions is a different color. It is the solid kind of brown. This is the couch that my parents had when I was growing up.(So it is really old LOL) It was given to my daughter for her first apartment and she covered the cushions very craftily. She wrapped the fabric around the front and secured it on the back with big safety pins!

Now the couch sits in my sewing room.(and it is where Daisy sleeps while I sew) I am trying to get the energy and courage up to completely redo it. I started and got overwhelmed. Here's what I found when I started taking the newest fabric off. I had forgotten that the backs were reversible. One side had this flower kind of print and the other was a kind of funny shade of brown. Oh and it shows how she pinned the fabric on! And how she didn't quite have enouch fabric. We are always working on a tight budget! But she did a fabulous job.



My plan is to turn it into shabby chic and put it on my patio. I'll paint the wood white. Since I can't afford to get new cushions and these are really thin now what I am going to do is take the back cushions off and put them on the seat cushions and then wrap batting around both to secure. Then I'll cover with a pretty white fabric. These will become the seat cushions. Then I'll just make big fluffy white square pillows for the backs. I think it will be really cute when I am done.

I may even Tackle it on Tuesday! Thanks for coming by and seeing my Show and Tell.

Daisy didn't have much time to visit friends this week. But please come by tommorrow and see Daisy and her Bloggie Doggie Friends. We might just show you more photos of her new friend Maddie because Randi has been busy taking photo's of her new baby. She is just adorable! Everytime I visit I want to take her home!

Have a fun Friday. Please, please,please leave a comment and come by anytime.

Still waitin'

Nothing new in the grandbaby department. We went to the obgyn and everything was the same as last week. The due date is Tuesday. The next obgyn visit is on Wednesday. Mommy is a bit paranoid as the doctor is not on call this weekend. So she is hoping and praying that Baby Zane will come tonight or wait till Monday when the regular doctor is available again.
She is taking it easy this week and just waiting for the arrival. We are all anxious but patiently waiting.
Thanks for the prayers.
Hugs and Kisses from Baby Zane.

Waitin' on Baby Zane and Take me out to the Ballgame

I moved Baby Zane's count down to the top of the page. We are going to the doctor this morning. She has been having contractions for a couple of days so we should be having a baby soon. Cowboy grandpa predicted it would be last night because we have some storms again. He figured that since horses are born in storming weather that human babies are too. And actually I have heard that is the case. But last night wasn't the right storm I guess.

I wanted to share what I did yesterday here is a photo of what I ate!


Yes we went to the ballgame and it didn't rain. It clouded over and cooled us down for a bit but no rain. The Rangers played hard and entertained but in extra innings finally lost it. But the girls had a blast. I took my book bag filled with baby wipes, paper towel, sunscreen, beef jerkey, sun flower seeds and the camera. I took a bunch of photo's but I can't post them because we aren't allowed to post photo's of the girls. I told them not to make fun of the lady with the "mommy bag". They didn't they thought it was cute. They loved being with us and away from the halfway house. Two of the girls had never been to a game. After a few minutes of instruction one of them figured it out and kept a commentary going the entire game.
Although it actually wasn't all you can eat day it was $1.00 hotdogs so they filled up on hotdogs and spit sunflower seeds. It was an awesome time. I was Blessed to be able to be with them and experience the fun.

And now today I am spending the day w/ my daughter. We'll be "Waitin' on Baby Zane"
Have a great day!

Word Filled Wednesday

Thank you Amy for another wonderful Wednesday. Please visit Amy at

http://the160acrewoods.wordpress.com/

Tackling Tuesday

Today I tried to tackle some things that needed to be done. At the top of the list was cleaning the kitchen which I didn't do yesterday. I had gone to Austin over the weekend and realized that everytime I go there I come back with a cold or allergies or something. I spent most of yesterday laying around and getting nothing accomplished except drinking water and juice. This crud started Sunday on the drive home with a sore throat, then proceeds to a cold and now it is a cough. I seem to get this twice a year. Once in the spring. Once in the fall. I don't really know if the weekend in Austin had anything to do with it or not.

Today I am feeling better but didn't get much more than the kitchen clean before I cooked supper and made another mess which will have to wait now till tomorrow night.
It is a never ending battle.

I won't be posting tomorrow because we have to do the food pantry and then we are taking 5 girls from the halfway house to a Rangers game. They will have fun. I will watch them have fun and hope that it doesn't rain. Which it usually does if I go to a game.
If I don't get to post before we leave to go to the game please run over and visit Amy at the160acreawoods.wordpress.com and see her wonderful Wordfilled Wednesday.
Have a great day tomorrow.

Show and Tell and Daisy's Doggie Friends Early

Welcome to Friday Show and Tell hosted by Kelli. Please go over and visit her too and see all the other amazing Show and Tell's.
Today I am doing a follow up of last week and I have a couple of items to show you that will go in the new nursery here at my house. I can't show you the room yet because the mommy and daddy to be have to see if first but here's part of it

This is a star quilt made by my loving hands. I can't decide if it will hang on the wall or go in the crib. I like it because it has cowboy fabric. And baby Zane is expected to be a cowboy.
Next is the rug that will go in front of the crib to "cowboy up" the room a little more. I know you've seen it before but it is moving from the den bathroom to the nursery because it just looks so darn cute in there!
I just love this rug. I think it will look just adorable in front of the crib.
One more thing before I go. I am about to leave to go to a convention in Austin for the weekend so I won't be able to post tomorrow.
So here is the photo of Daisy's new Bloggy Doggie friend Maddy. You can read all about her at here mommy's blog Ihavetosay.typepad.com Isn't she just adorable.

Randi's written a couple of posts about Maddie and their adventures. Please go and visit them and tell them Daisy said "hi".
Thanks for visiting today and I hope you enjoyed my Show and Tell. I'll be back Monday.

Word Filled Wednesday

Please visit Amy's site today for wonderful illustrations of God's word.
But before you go I wanted to put in a plea for the Postal Carriers Food drive going on Saturday. This is an annual event all you have to do is leave canned food in or beside your mailbox and the post man will pick up.
Here's a couple of photo's of their logo's for this year.





I am grateful each Wednesday to be able to post Amy's wonderful illustration. I usually don't write anything because it is the day that I go to the local food bank to pick up food to distribute to the teenagers that I work with.
My ministry blog at
http://www.automissionmakeover.blogspot.com tells about our mission work.

Yesterday we went to the local teenage parole office and when we arrived a boy was just being unloaded out of a van. He was rather small for his age; we found out he is 18. This boy was handcuffed and had chains around his waist attaching the handcuffs. He had been picked up by local police because he was found out after teen curfew. When he was picked up they found out he is on parole so he spent the night in jail. This young boy was out after dark because he has no place to live. Once he was interviewed by the parole officer she began searching for a place for him to sleep. She asked us if we provided that type of resource and we had to say no. It broke our heart. She was working on arrangements for him to go to an aunts house today but he nowhere to sleep last night. I got an email when I got home and found out that they did find a shelter for him.

Each week we distribute 20 sacks of food to teenagers and their families. One family has a total of ten living in one house.

Last week when we went to the food bank to pick up our order we were not able to get vegetables. Again this week there were no vegetables. Usually we pick up hamburger helper. There was none this week. Only two extremely damaged cases of pasta salad.

The area food banks are suffering tremendously.

If you can donate a few cans you cannot imagine how much this can help. Thank you for taking the time to read this post. And please pray for not only the kids that I work with but please pray for all those kids out there that suffer.

I know for many of you it is hard to fathom that there are so many kids out there that have parents that either can't or won't take care of them. I mentor a girl that is 18. Both of her parents are in prison. Last August when I met her she did not believe that there is a God. She is still searching and she has come a long way. Sunday she went to church. Alone. This is a huge step. This happened because someone took the time to care about her.

This can also happen for the others out there. Sometimes it starts simply by providing them a sack of groceries.

When friends inspire

This morning I was thinking about what I was going to write about and decided to make the rounds and visit a few friends. I got some really sweet feedback yesterday about my "being behind" post and when I happened to stop in at Amy's over at the160acrewood.wordpress.com I found the tackle it Tuesday project. I was intrigued and went to check it out.
The instructions mention tackling projects and photographing areas of your home that you don't want to show anyone but really need to address.
So today I addressed this.


This was the contents of the junk drawer in my kitchen. It is now empty. I have sorted the numerous objects and found real homes for them. Some like the Chinese Restaurant menu (it closed 3 years ago!) went into the trash can. Others were sorted and put away.
It was an easy project once I got started and now I can honestly say I feel good. I am going to set myself a goal of not having a junk drawer. I am very short of space in my kitchen and I just don't need junk taking up room.
So thanks Amy for inspiring me today!

Here's the verse I am working on this week. I chose this verse because it is one I am going to share with the teenagers I work with. I think it is really fitting for them. And will be easy for them to learn!

Philippians 4:8
Finally brothers and sisters whatever is true,
Whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence and if anything is worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things.

Today may I dwell on what is worthy of praise. May I dwell on God's word and praise his name.

Cookie Recipe Swap

There's a fun Recipe Swap going on over at Randi's you can visit her
here

Everyone is posting their favorite bar or cookie recipe here's my husbands favorite. He got this recipe while fishing in Alaska.

Double Chocolate Raisin Cookies
(Moose Cookies)
3/4 cup margarine
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet choco. chips
1 to 1 1/2 cups raisins ( I don't use)
nuts (optional . . I don't add)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream margarine until soft. Add both sugars,
beating each one until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla.
Mix flour, cocoa,salt and baking soda and add to creamed mixture.
Stir in choco. chips and raisins.
Wrap dough and chill thoroughly (3 hours or longer)
Place large mounds (these are moose cookies remember) of dough on cookie sheet
and flatten slightly
Bake for 12-14 minutes. (they are best chewy)

These are chocolaty goodness. Enjoy

Daisy's Doggie Bloggy Friends

Welcome to the first edition of our new Saturday posts. We are calling it
"Daisy's Doggie Bloggy Friends" because each week we will feature a new friend
we have found while playing in Blog land. This week we visited Dreamstime.com and found some free photo's but we would love to meet you and your puppy. Please comment and we will put your darling doggies up!

We added the Daily Puppy there are some really cute pup's there. Check out our sidebar.

This week Daisy met an adorable puppy named Maddie. You can meet her over at
her mommies blog at ihavetosay.typepad.com. Please run over and read Randi's
April 29 post and leave a comment about just how cute Maddie is! She comments that she won't turn her blog into a puppy blog but I am sure she will give Randi and
the family enough to post about.
While your there think about joining her cookie recipe swap. I'll be posting my cookie recipe today so stop back in.

Daisy is always looking for new friends so please leave us a comment and tell us about your puppy or dog and we will visit and send our friends over.

Have a wonderful day with your part.
Love Daisy and Sherry

Show and Tell Friday

Welcome to my Show and Tell hosted by Kelli. I just love Fridays and enjoy visiting everyone. And I love visitors. Please leave me a comment so I know you were here.

I am sharing something very special to me today. I was totally amazed when I saw it. A few weeks ago my friends and my daughters friends hosted a baby shower for my daughter. Here is what she brought to the party!


The frame contains the first few sonagrams. And the letters she bought at a craft store and painted. I was so proud of my crafty girl! The figurine is part of a collection they have started also. These items will decorate the baby's room along with every horse she can find!

This is the most amazing part. She also brought decorated sugar cookies for everyone!

My darling, sweet, spoiled, 7 month pregnant, mother to be daughter rolled and cut and decorated cookies for every and painstakingly filled baggies with m&m's (Easter colors minus the pink and lavendar!).

I hope you enjoyed seeing her craftiness! And please pray for her and my son in love as they await their little bundle of joy. BTW how did they come up with name Zane you ask. My darling son in love was given a name the baby book from his boss.
You just have to know him to understand him. But he started at the back of the book instead of the front and so we are now waiting for baby Zane.

Have a Blessed weekend and please stop by and see Daisy tomorrow and meet one of her new Bloggy Doggie friends.

Word Filled Wednesday

Please visit Amy at the160acrewoods.wordpress.com for her wonderful Word Filled Wednesday.

If your an animal lover please read yesterdays post. I am hosting a Saturday meet your pet. Send me a comment about your pet and a track back to your post.
Have a Blessed Day.

Your invited . . . please comment

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Actually she isn't all that old.
She is about 4. This is my dog Daisy. And my husband told me I couldn't teach her any tricks. But I did. She is very polite when she meets anyone. She sits (somewhat on command). Actually on the 2nd or third command but she does sit and she sits up! She shakes your hand. And shakes your hand. And shakes your hand. The things she learns she learns well.
For a couple of months I have been writing about Daisy and my other pets. And now I would like to invite all of you to come by. If you have written a post about your pet or know someone that does leave me a comment please. I'll come over and get a photo and link to your blog. Please come by and visit us and leave comments so Daisy can come by and meet some new doggy bloggy friends. Or cats, or rabbits or horses. She loves them all. Each Saturday we will post about a new friend. So please come by and invite us over.

God is close to the brokenhearted

Dear Blogging Friends,
I won't be posting a Show and Tell this week. It is almost Friday already. I write to you at 11:59. I am tired. It has been 7 days of emotion.
We prayed for and ministered to a young lady that gave birth to a little boy last Thursday. He weighed 1 pound at birth. Today she had to make the decision to remove life support. I was with her as she held her baby in her arms while he passed away.
What do you say? This sweet young mother prayed that God would save her baby.
She even said that Jesus healed a lady that touched his garment.
Her sweet baby died in her arms. Even though we held her hand and told her God loves her how do you comprehend that when you are holding your child as he dies?
I have written a little about our ministry this week. You can read more at the
ministry blog. I have a couple of posts about baby Christopher and there is a photo of him there.
Plase go over and visit and please pray his mommy Gina as she grieves the loss of
her child.
Please visit www.automissionmakeover.blogspot.com. I would be Blessed by your visit.
There was a time not too recent that I clung to the verse in Psalms
God is close to the brokenhearted.
Tonight I pray that Gina feels God's precence.