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This beautiful Sunflower is in Baxter Springs,  KS is the Sunflower state.   I think it is close to 7ft tall

Wednesday, July 28

Jeremiah 17:1414 Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.

Love the new hair cut

 I got almost 6" cut off my hair :)  I love my long hair, however with this heat, it would just get drenched and my shoulder sometimes it was hard for me to comb. 

These pics are only 2 days apart 

Thank you is never enough

Wordless Wednesday

 

Happy Heavenly Birthday Gator

Happy heavenly birthday!  I hope you are enjoying your celebration  today esp with your dad and my mom n dad now.   Please take care of mom, and tell her I am doing as ok as I can.

Also, enjoy your angel food cake and your tacos as this was your traditional dinner and fav cake.  Oh how I miss making homemade tacos for you today.  

It has been so hot its unreal, were under heat advisory  had July and Aug temps in June and still getting hotter.   I love you to the moon and back always have and always will.  

RIP my love till we meet again.    

This is that last decent pic,  Gator was a bit of a humorist, so him sticking his tongue out at me was just his humor.

 

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 Happy Saturday, hope your staying cool its a scorcher here in SE KS heat advisory until 8pm

Saturday, July 24Isaiah 25:7-87 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; 8 he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.

Thankful Thursday

 Thankful Thursday we all have so much to be thankful for every day of the week not just on Thursday

I am ever so thankful for friends who have checked on me this week.

the cooler temps we had earlier in the week

unconditional love of my pets

cell phones to make sending photos to the funeral home easier

family 

my salvation

the church family I have

PLEASE PRAY for

my family as we lay mom to rest tomorrow *Friday*

family members who are traveling today and tomorrow

mil who is recovering from surgery

covid being on the rise again

my shoulder  MRI looks like a possible shoulder replacement vs a rotator cuff tear

that I can get packed and get out of this place I live....its not fit hardly for the animals too live in much less humans

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wild daisies 

Thursday, July 22Psalm 27:11 The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?

Mom is at peace now

 Hello there,    The lord called momma home at 1204am on 71721 she ran to our Father's arms to meet my dad and many relatives/friends.   The smile on her face when she left us was priceless.

After being at the hospital all day on Friday, I was leaving to come home at 1 am to make a 3 hr trip, one of my friends  and family insisted I come by and try to sleep a little after just loosing mom and then trying to drive.  I am very appreciative even now.     My Mother in law has been with me this week so that if mom passed in the night I would not be here alone any time is hard loosing a loved one its just been too soon since Gator to be alone.

I get home yesterday am 10ish to find my mil had fallen during the night and broke her hip, sitting here all alone the pain and fear I can't even imagine.  Called 911 then spent the rest of day in Joplin at the hospital   please pray for her and her kids. As, this next journey in her life at 79 is going to be tough.

If I am away for a little bit please do not worry I will update as I can.  love to all and be blessed

ALWAYS TELL YOUR LOVED ONES>>>>THAT YOU LOVE THEM as tomorrow is never promised

Mom update prayers please

 hello there my bloggie friends.   I am so thankful for each and every one of you.

I am sorry there has been a whole lot of life thrown at me over the last last couple of months

Mom is now very critical, her kidneys have started the shut down phase,  I was able to go and spend all day with her on Monday, the swelling from water retention is horrible, she is needing dialysis however due to her health she isn't a candidate as it would do more harm than good  and she is now only on soft foods, (jello, pudding, applesauce etc)   please pray for comfort for her.

Also, today would have been Gator and mine 3rd anniversary, I am just a basket of emotions right now.  I have had to say several times today...>Lord keep your hand on my shoulder and the other hand over my mouth.    

Then to top it off I made a post on MY facebook page asking my friends to pray for comfort for my mom since her kidneys are starting to fail (see above) my brother tells me to take my post on momma down as everybody doesn't need to know what is going on....again it is my page.   I happen to have friends and family who actually care,  most who have known my mom since I was a kid.   So now it is wrong for me to ask for prayer and support .....apparently so.    So to keep peace I took the post down.   Satan is coming at me in all directions and is getting to where it is no longer funny.

Satan, you have no room in my life or my families life.   I demand thru Jesus stripes that you have no power over me, and you are no longer welcome in or around me....Get the behind me in JESUS NAME

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Day 190 Cosmo thought it made a cool bw

 Friday, July 09

Acts 4:19-2019 But Peter and John replied, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges! 20 As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Day 191 old grocery store with hotel

Saturday, July 10Amos 5:2424 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Day 189 July 8 2021

This is my mom and me taken on Saturday the 3rd it truly breaks my heart to see her in this condition.   She kept falling asleep while we were visiting.  :(   Please keep her and our family in your prayers.   
 

Thursday, July 08Isaiah 6:88 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

Thankful Thursday

 

Thankful for my salvation and knowing that God will never forsake me

my mother in law who has been trying to help me get packed

a/c for this scorching heat we are having

my church family

the unconditional love of my pets

growing closer with some family who had me as the bad person and are now seeing the truth

Friends

PLEASE PRAY FOR

my mom she is still not out of the woods, she has lost down to 68 lbs yes you see that right

that the hospital gets her the care she needs  we are not physically able to take care of her 

my brother and sil who is doing the best they can do

our family *we have some others not in good health*

that I can get out of this place sooner than later

Tuesday 4 Blogging

 

Blogging

 Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 kept up in her memory.

This week the questions were supplied by Pamela Steiner...                                                                                   Here we go, let's talk about Blogging!

1.  Tell us about your blog.  When did you start blogging?
 
2.  What prompted you to begin blogging?
 
3.  What was your first blog about and why did you choose that subject/title?
 
4.  How has your blog changed over time, and has it done for you what you                                                             hoped it would do in the first place?

Thank you for joining in. I am sorry this is late but life has been mixed up for a bit                                                around here.  I thank you all for putting up with me.

1.  Tell us about your blog.  When did you start blogging?                                                             June 2010 I know have 3 blogs that I try to maintain,  trying to get                                           all my post back to original blog
 
2.  What prompted you to begin blogging?                                                                             because I have always enjoyed writing 
 
3.  What was your first blog about and why did you choose                                                             that subject/title? about it being my first blog post and would                                                         welcome any comments/advice
 
4.  How has your blog changed over time, and has it done for you what you                                   hoped it would do in the first place? my blog changed A LOT over 11 yrs                                     from getting my original blog hacked/and most of it deleted                                                           then (not haveing it backed up) recovering ,                                                                                  moving to another name, that one didn't go anywhere, moved to this one  

in 2017

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Oh how I love finding hidden treasures on the back roads.

This old barn with silo attached, still had the (looked like a chicken house in the back, I couldn't tell

It pays off to go onto roads less traveled, for me I am never disappointed on my finds,  God always gives me a wonderful surprise.

what treasures do you enjoy finding?   Do you drive off the beaten path to find treasures?

 Tuesday, July 06

Romans 12:99 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Day 182 7121 bw

this old bridge was built in 1926 and carried U.S. Highway 66 traffic from 1926 to 1932.  When the new alignment of Route 66 bypassed the bridge

The bridge is 123 feet in length with a total width of 19 feet.  It is the only remaining unaltered example of the Modified Pratt Through Truss design in the state of Oklahoma.

This bridge in Chelsea Oklahoma was added to the National Historic Places September 6 2006

Do you enjoy finding hidden treasures?  When you travel old roads does it take you back in time or do you say "it is just a road"  

Tomorrows photo is the first oil well in OK 1989

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

Colossians 3:23 NLT

 

Thankful Thursday

 

what are you thankful for?

Thankful for the old fashioned hymn sing along last evening at church

Cooler temps

Rain, although it needs to stop  15" of rain since Saturday

A/C 

food in the fridge

my mother in law helping me with packing trying to get stuff done

friends who reach out

dependable transportation

PLEASE PRAY for mom she has been in the hospital since Sat, 

decisions that need to be made re my move

that we get most of the packing done, (my health is permitting doing alot)

that I can get out of this rat hole (putting it nicely)

for income so that I can keep my utilities on until I move

SS who keeps dragging their feet.  

some family members going thru cancer, has been with hospice, now needs a facility (this is my cousin's mom)  please pray for my cousin who is now dealing with this chapter in life, but lost her daughter to suicide only 2 yrs ago.

continue praying for our country

Thursday, July 01Isaiah 61:11 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,