Wordless Wednesday...Hardly Once again it is time to take stock of what I have learned in the previous year. What’s the use of adding another year to your life if you haven’t learned anything! So what have I learned in the past year? A lot...but here are just a few morsels of life I’ve learned..
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09/30/2020
When Life Gives You Lemons…You know how the rest of the saying goes! This weekend a cake that I’ve made dozens of times decided that it did not want to come out of the pan. I’m not sure what happened but I was making it for our first family (small) gathering in months. And, there was no way I wa
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09/29/2020
Motivational Monday...Critique the Deed, Not the Person One of my pet peeves (of which I have been guilty) is when we call people names. Think back to your days in school. I think it was there that we honed our skills at calling someone four-eyes. When someone dropped a ball that we thought shou
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09/28/2020
Posts Just For You- This Week at ActiveRain-September 20 to September 26, 2020 Just as everything in life changes, I’ve decided to make some changes to my weekly post. While I hope to continue to highlight posts that give me that lightbulb moment during the week, I’m not going to commit myself to
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09/27/2020
This Week...Autumn Arrives...Sort of Autumn arrived on September 22. At least, that’s what the calendar said. Houston had Beta hanging overhead leaving many streets flooded. I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. Ro
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09/26/2020
Orchid Express & Leasing...I Finally Found My Orchid Place When I moved back to Houston from Florida, one of my searches was for a place that new about and sold orchids. I was not interested in big box stores that sold orchids as well as lumber or food products. Some of the places I contacted h
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09/25/2020
Thankful Thursdays… Bluebirds and Happiness When I read that today celebrates the Bluebird of Happiness, it made me think of our wonderful bluebirds at our home and on our walks. Bluebirds have long symbolized happiness and joy. It’s easy to see why. That beautiful blue color is even more vibran
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09/24/2020
Wordless Wednesday...Rain, Rain, Go Away When you live in Houston, it’s never a question of if but when the streets will flood. It’s been raining here since Tuesday evening with pauses throughout the day. Thankfully, we live north of the city so have not had the floods that they’ve had along
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09/23/2020
Want to know what you've been missing at the Zoom meetings? Was he or wasn't he wearing pants? And who exactly is "he"? Tune in next Tuesday at 2 PM EST... 1-2-3 Smile! One of the quickest ways to put a post up is through a photoblog. What's that you might ask. Maybe you took an exciting
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09/22/2020
What To Do With That Odd Piece of Heirloom Furniture It seems like yesterday when this large, ornate, Asian inspired cocktail table arrived at our home. It was a gift to my mother from my god-mother. It went with nothing in our home and because of the intricate carving, it was a chore to dust.
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09/22/2020