As Blogger Go on a road less traveled

     Truly one of the roads less traveled....................

As bloggers go mmmmm  I rank right up there as probably as one of the worst.  Also as spelling goes and heck even correct grammar its not that great.. Thank you Lord for spell checkers...  One thing this has always been is a blog from the heart.  
mmmmm   For years my blog goes good for a week or two but than off for a month or two.  Or maybe a year or more...  :)  Not even going to say this will change.  But one day at a time...  

As this old blog is ageing and I am amazed people are reading some very old posts.  It dawns on me that these  blogs may last a very very long time.  

So as I start  on this new journey of my life the Lord has laid on my heart to write on  approaching my winter years...... (big 70 this year)  It definitely is a different stage of life things are changing.  Many days as this winter approaches I see the snow flying... and that is literal.

What a wonderful life its been......  and then it dawned on me how difficult and impossible life it would have been without the Lord.  He is teaching me to not live for tomorrow. To stay into today.  It could be the last one here on this earth.  

I love what Billy Graham's grandson  quoted from his grandfather.   
 "This is what my grandfather has said concerning his own death, he said, 'One day you will hear that Billy Graham has died.' He said, 'Don't believe it. On that day I will be more alive than I ever will be.' And that's the truth and that's why he preaches, because this life is only the setup for the life to come."



So if you care to........ follow me on the journey on taking one day at a time.   Rejoicing with each breathe we take......

May God Bless your day......

catch up time....

Be thankful and say so

When words are many,

 sin is not absent, 

but he 

who holds his tongue is wise.


In everything give thanks



There is Power in being thankful






Anne V. says being thankful makes one 25% 

happier.  Praise God...

Be thankful in every situation.....


Be thankful and say so...



Numbers chapter 11 verse one:



People crumbled.....



trials  make us grow up and mature..  

someday you 

will realize what you thought was your greatest 

enemy was your best friend.


Do not spend your life at the complaint counter...



No matter what you dont have.......

Being thankful effects every area of my life.





Our angels go to work....



Be  thankful for everything..




The angels are affected  by the words of our mouth


We are so blessed. 



 I pray..


Lord give me a grateful heart.







Because 

God is good all the time


     All the time God is good..........



+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

So thankful 

for winter... for a time of rest

For our great grands, grands and children

Sunshine.... it makes me happy

For water that has not frozen up....




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My girlfriend is in trouble

My girlfriend sent me this and said it should go in my house.
I so agree........hubby not quite as excited.....
but I have my plans...  :)
What a wonderful get away spot to read knit and pray.
Look out the window to a brand new day...
Yip this has to be a thought....

This is my 500th post....  wow where oh where does the time go????

But through the years the one thing I know is

God is the blessed controller of all things (even after the election)
and
God is good all the time


All the time God is good.

Pray for our president....
for our country...

Only in the UP

OK only in the UP could the road painter paint right over a dead racoon ....This was laying in the middle of the line this summer and some cars moved it down the line on the road. But you can still see the yellow paint going over the top... too funny ...but not for the animal...rip...

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51 55 A Big Day

51  Gift of hearing
52 A  gift of happiness
53 Thank you for the gift of tears
54 For a gift of compassion
55 For electric that makes our life so much easier

This is the day that the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it.....

What a great Sabbath yesterday..
LJ  made bread.  And Pie treats...  What a great baker boy..
Today will be a day of decisions making

 we ask for guidance

Pray that we have the ears to hear....Direction to be clear.

Mr Sun

Simple Life Simple thoughts,

FOR TODAY
Outside my window...It is very dark

I am thinking...wish we would have driven to Munising last night to see the amazing northern lights

I am thankful...#14  Amazing four seasons


In the kitchen...going out for dinner tonight so a free day :)

I am wearing...my new bathrobe (coat from Karen)

I am creating...

I am going...to go to town soon

I am wondering...what new venture we can do this winter

I am reading...books on Amish from aunt Retha

I am hoping...to have a great winter

I am looking forward to...seeing what to day brings

I am hearing...Joyce Meyer and cars driving by

Around the house...getting storms on and getting set for winter

I am pondering...

One of my favorite things...chocolate

A few plans for the rest of the week: Going into Marquette, going to Dennis and Carols a great time at church for Fall Festival

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

A great day for a Birthday Dinner

Off to Marquette for dinner for Alice's Birthday....a great day with great friends.

Today was a wonderful day..  Praise God we were able to take our good friends Alice and Loren out for her birthday.  It turned out Loren done the blessing as he refused to let us pay.  God is good all the time..............all the time God is good. Pray that their life will be blessed and that health and healing will prevail.  Praise God for our family and for healing in all their life to take place.  Thank God for His Grace.....

God is good................all the time

mmmmmm Rain is not so welcome anymore....

But Better than no rain

Better than tornado.....

 
Mr. Sun where oh where are YOU?????

Going to start singing my Mr. Sun song soon......

More wonderful Rain..

Rain Rain Rain

  again more rain.......whew.....

Maybe think about building an ark????

Rain Rain wonderful Rain....

Rain 


       Rain
                        
                     Rain


We needed the rain.....


                                                     On not so good side...:{

My filling fell out of my tooth again...eating ice cream.... go figure..
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tooth than broke off but hanging on by a string to cause some major discomfort

Than it....   fell out in my sleep.  Of course this was on the weekend..
so Hi Ho..... Hi Ho....it is off to the dentist we go...  :(





God is good.................All the time.

Gloomy but no storm

Painted Kitchen cupboard today..  wow what a job.

 Four covers and still not sure I am done.

 Larry is working on greenhouse
 and Martin's just called for us to go for dinner.  So I do not have to cook.....

Yippeeeeee

 it is good to have them home and see them again.

Another Winter on the horizon........

It has been a very long time since I posted anything on either of my blogs.

Going to try and bring them somewhat up to date.  A good winter project.

This has been an awesome year but a bitter sweet year.
  Two new Great grandbabies...on the awesome part.....   Total now 19 grands and greats.
  Baker boys brother passing the very bittersweet.  He had a long battle of cancer coming up so we are thankful he was spared without a painful passing.  But boy oh boy do we miss him.  He was my computer guru....the brain of brains when it came to electronics.  He flew up from Naples to help me set up my first computer way way back in the DOS days..he tried to teach me DOS in about 24 hours.
  I just looked at him and smiled....  :)  He called me sil.....  for Sister in law for years and years.  His wonderful wife passed just 9 months before him.  We sure do miss ya Ron......may you RIP.

                                              Baker Boy , Nyla, and BIL (Ron)... at Jekyll Island

                                                                                                                                                                            
Woke up yesterday to snow on the ground.  Yippeeeeeeee  What a beautiful site.  It just makes everything brighter and happy this time of year.  Darkness comes so early when we are used to playing outside till 10 in the summer ( till the misquotes drive you crazy and say it is time to go in the house and wind down...) 

Thanksgiving week is here and boy oh boy we have so very much to be thankful for.

I thank God for sending His only Son that grace peace and love may abound.  That we may have the promise if we believe, to spend eternity with Him and those passed on before us.  

May God give you a blessed week and a month to reflect on all the many blessings... and things we have to be thankful for.


God is good .............all the time

Oct 27 After a Long Break

In the next few weeks I will try to update my blog from spring and summer. 
It has been a while.  So much has happened this year. 

Our dear brother and bil Brother in law passed away and we miss him so much… he blessed a lot of people.  He used to come every year around this time in the fall.  He than quickly remembered the Northern weather and was always sad to leave but glad to get back to Naples.  We spent some great time with him last winter.  Had a great trip and fun times.  Lots of Laughs.  (Love ya Ron and am so grateful that you were part of our life and look forward to meeting up with you someday. 

                                                          LJ, Nyla, and Brother Ron.....
                                                                                             

This was one beautiful summer and fall.  Lots of great pictures but not so many trips in Rosie…NOT Going to go south   LJ wants to push around some snow.  I am hoping he will tire of it very quick… smile..
We are having a very windy storm they are saying it is one of the biggest storms wind wise since the Edmondson Fitzgerald went down.  Remember that day well it was right after we moved North. 
Always rember
God is Good…….All the time.

Did They Really Say Snow?????

Well ole Karl is at it again..............boo    Karl.  He said snow for Sat.

Maybe we are not going to make it to Black River Harbor for Spring.

Fire hazard very High....so at least snow is a bit of water which is a good thing

LJ and I made BLT Pizza last night which was very very good............actually much better than we thought it would be..

Have a good day



God is good ...........................all the time

Rosie is off to Dr. John

Rosie is at Doctor John's having surgery today....she is having her water pump replaced. Surgery may take all day...


Last time DR. John saw her he knocked her hat off well sorta crunched it ... (fan lid) and had to replace it...

 hope her she has no rehab...

We may take off for the western UP on Tuesday...

  (Go West Young Man Go West)


God is good............................all the time

Birthday Weekend..

Friday, August 21, 2009


we left at 10 and it was raining. surprise surprise........
We met the martins at the corner in chatham.
arrived in Newberry
 we did not have wifi from our site and martins did not have cable like it said.
Carol was not to happy.
Although it rained all day and I didnt take many pictures we had a blast.

We drove up to whitehouse point then to whitefish point Marina you could walk out on this real cool pier and we looked at all the fishing boats.
 I only saw one I would ever go on....YIKES    the rest looked pretty scary to me...

We looked up and off to the west and wooooooooooooooo there was a big rain storm coming
          we ran as fast as we could to try and beat the rain... the rain won
 on into Paradise and to the blueberry festive.
 To bad the weather was so nasty.
everyone there was real friendly and  having a real good time.
Going on down the road we saw a big sign that said free dinner on the day of your birthday.
 today is my birthday so we stopped.. it was ran by native Americans and was a fish restaurant.
 I could get anything I wanted off the menu.
It was the best perch dinner I think I ever  have had...... I didn't think I could even eat it all.
                                   And much to everyone disappointment ..
.                                                                             .I did... yum yum...
  They  surprised me buy bringing  out a birthday cake and sang.
 It was great. We were all to full to eat cake so we brought it with us. .

We got back to the camp everyone came over to Rosie to have cake.
 It was good
        so in spite of the rain
                                  a good time was had by all

. One of the best birthdays I have ever had.

March 4The Simple Woman's Daybook

Outside my window...
white
a lot of white
I am thinking...
About Dave a dear friend who lost his wife our friend Christine unexpectedly in surgery this last week. She had just turned 50 so young. She was healthy and it was such a shock.
Truly our days are numbered and we never know how long we will walk on this earth. May she rest in peace.
And the Lord give Dave comfort and strength. May he be held up by the prayers of God's people.
I am thankful for... the Chinook winds that bring the promise of spring.
It is a different smell in the air.
And it happened yesterday........
Our Pastor Paul's successful back surgery.
From the kitchen..
The kitchen is closed...(( (did ya hear that Baker boy?))
..I am creating...
A book on my life
I am going... to sleep..........and tomorrow
To Marquette Baker Boy has PT for his arm.
And it may hit 40's this week.....
I am reading
the magazine Servant
I am hoping..
This snow melts slow and the UP does not float away into Lake Superior..... JK we got a lot of snow but not that much......... :)
.I am hearing..
Our dog asking to go to bed.
.Around the house..
It needed to be changed around again.
It said spring time was coming and it's time for a change.......  :)
A few plans for the week
Cheering on the Cougars ....... Going to Marquette
One of my favorite things...a picture thought to share
Hoping these days are gone for a while...a long while.......my first attempt at snow blowing...under baker boys watchful eye.........

A New Smell in the Air??

Could it be the smell of spring?

The Simple Woman's Daybook~February Edition

Outside my window...
You do not even want to know what I see ........but its white

a lot of white

I am thinking...
That the doctor Baker Boy had today said it was 89 in San Antonio (sigh)

I am thankful for...
All our many blessing ,and every thing good in our life........ oh yes and very thankful for the chocolates Baker boy and I keep fighting over..........tee heee JUST KIDDING>>>> Ron and Lois sent with oranges and grapefruit.......YUM YUM

From the kitchen..
Salmon patties and potatoes and green beans are smelling pretty good right now
..I am creating...
A notebook with all our important stuff in it......

I am going...
to J grandsons ball game tonight. Although school was canceled there is still a game....

I am reading
My calendar

I am hoping..
That Baker Boy does not have to have surgery

.I am hearing..
snowflakes hit the ground...... (pretty good hearing eh?


.Around the house..
It needs to be cleaned Nyla is shedding our Jet does not shed......... very thankful for that.



A few plans for the week
Baker boy starts 6 weeks of Physical therapy on Thursday .. Three times a week will be great Marquette time............... :)



One of my favorite things...a picture thought to share

The cardinal we had last spring. He was so beautiful......

God is good.......................all the time