A visitor to our yard!!

I happened to look out our back windows and saw this Red Tailed Hawk on a fence post.

It is huge!

We looked at it long enough to get pictures then it flew away to a tall pine tree.

Cartoons

These are cartoons from Australia.

Yarn......

I haven't bought yarn in a few months. But I bought some today.

What I needed was baby yarn to make the baby hats with. The yarn I was using was worsted weight and it's sort of too thick. It still works for the hats but I wanted to use actual baby yarn for them.

The little guy was with me and he helped me pick out the yarn!!

I think together we did a pretty good job. Blue for boys, pink for girls and some neutral colors. The color next to the green skein is actually white with multi colors in it. A neutral color.

Thankful Thursday

Another Thursday. Beautiful fall day here again.

I did my housecleaning yesterday so I could run some errands I don't normally run on Thursdays.

Today I am thankful for:
* my Husband--for working so hard for us and for bringing me dinner last night and for taking our son to Menards!!
* my little guy--he is such a joy!
* fresh food
* My daughter.
* fall days--my favorite time of year
* memories
* friendships--past, present and future. I am thankful for the people I have called friends throughout my life. I have learned valuable lessons from each and every one of them.
* for my faith in God and for His grace and mercy!

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Zechariah 8:22
Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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Pregnancy and Infant loss remembrance day..........

On September 28, 2006, House Resolution # 222 was passed in the House of Representatives supporting the goals and ideals of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.

Please set aside a moment today to remember a baby you have lost.

I know a lot of women that have had pregnancy losses and sadly, infant losses.

Remember your friends who have lost too.

Here is the official site:

Pregnancy and infant loss

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Jeremiah 1:5-10

5 “ Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

Baby hats..........

These are the baby hats I have been making. Each of them is a different pattern except for the pink and blue one. They are the same pattern, just different sizes.

I have enjoyed working on these and will continue to make more. They only take about an hour to make!

I am just using worsted weight yarn like Red Heart since I don't have any baby yarn right now.

I will be sending them to this organization for babies.

http://www.savethechildren.org/programs/health/child-survival/survive-to-5/knit-one-save-one.html

A shawl

This is another prayer Shawl I just finished.

It's for a friend of mine with three little girls. she lost her husband three years ago. We were talking about prayer shawls and I volunteered to make one for her.

She asked for green and I had this color, which is a favorite of mine.

It's Homespun and it's called "Country"

This shawl is huge. It is 101 inches long and 50 inches from neck to knees.

She can wrap her girls up too!!

Another visitor

This morning right before we were leaving for church, my little guy told me about the pheasant in the back yard.

So we looked at it for a minute then I grabbed the camera and got a picture.

It's a female and she walked around back there for a little bit. She was gone when we got home from church.

I love living out here, though I didn't when we were first married. I like the animals that visit us.

Sunday song

Mighty to save by Hillsong




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Titus 1:16


They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

A song for today

Old Days by Chicago

Old days
Good times I remember
Fun days
Filled with simple pleasures
Drive-in movies
Comic books and blue jeans
Howdy doody
Baseball cards and birthdays
Take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday

Old days
Good times I remember
Gold days
Days Ill always treasure
Funny faces
Full of love and laughter
Funny places
Summer nights and streetcars
Take me back
To a world gone away
Boyhood memories
Seem like yesterday

Old days - in my mind and in my heart to stay
Old days - darkened dreams of good times gone away
Old days - days of love and feeling fancy free
Old days - days of magic still so close to me
Old days - in my mind and in my heart to stay
Old days - darkened dreams of good times gone away
Old days - days of love and feeling fancy free
Old days - days of magic still so close to me

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for:
*my husband
*date nights
*My children
*yarn
*fall weather
*movies with a good message
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Jonah 2:9
But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

Fireproof

I highly recommend this movie to anyone!!

It had a great message and is just a good movie.

Fireproof

My husband and I had a date day.

We went to the matinee show and then out to dinner.

On the way home we stopped at church and dropped off the shawls.

God works in mysterious ways!! I met the leader of the ministry and she told me they had been praying for someone like me since their TWO crocheters had quit for health reasons!! So , we chatted and I left my shawls with them.

We had a wonderful day together.

A hat!!!

I made this baby hat!!! My first one ever. It's tiny for a newborn baby.

This is the organization that I will send the hats too when I make more.

http://www.savethechildren.org/programs/health/child-survival/survive-to-5/knit-one-save-one.html

I've been wanting to make hats for babies for charity for a long time. I also have several other patterns I plan on using.

Debt

In April my husband and I decided to get out of debt. Really get out of debt including the house payment.

We decided to take Dave Ramsey's approach with the debt snowball and it is working and we are very excited.

My husband is facilitating the FPU class at our church and we have been attending for 4 weeks now. It is a 14 week course. There are about 35 people in our class so far, with a few joining late.

So far, since April, we have paid off twenty-two thousand dollars in debt.
It hasn't been easy and at first it really was no fun.

But we had to do it the way we did to change our habits. We used to think nothing of going out and spending 80 dollars on dinner then spending another 200-300 hundred on stuff.

We quit our free spending, didn't go out to eat, and starting thinking about where our money was going and what we were doing with our money.

Along with not spending my husband has been working overtime.

We have paid off two credit cards, purchased a new refrigerator, had an expensive vet bill and paid off my car!!

This month we have finally started a full budget. Every dollar has a name to it and we have a restaurant budget!!

It's a good feeling to know we are digging out of the mess we made.

Here are some interesting things about debt:
*Our grandparents didn't have debt or credit cards
*our parents may have have a credit card
*our generation has multi debt and credit cards
*the first credit card was Diners Club and it was started in NY City in 1950
(my dad had a diners club credit card!!)
*Bankamericard and American Express were created in 1958
*Visa came on the scene in 1976!!! (this was my first Credit card!)
*Discover card started in 1986 and was owned by Sears until they sold it.

We live above our means in this country and people wonder why they don't have money!!

We are well on our way of getting totally out of debt now and we are extremely happy about it!!

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Proverbs 22:7 (Contemporary English Version)
Contemporary English Version (CEV)

The poor are ruled by the rich,
and those who borrow
are slaves of moneylenders.

Sunday song

Thy Word by Amy Grant

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light unto my path.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light unto my path.

When I feel afraid,
And think Ive lost my way.
Still, you're there right beside me.
Nothing will I fear
As long as you are near;
Please be near me to the end.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light unto my path.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light unto my path.

I will not forget
Your love for me and yet,
My heart forever is wandering.
Jesus by my guide,
And hold me to your side,
And I will love you to the end.

Nothing will I fear
As long as you are near;
Please be near me to the end.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light unto my path.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet
And a light unto my path.
And a light unto my path.
You're the light unto my path.

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Psalm 70:4
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Baking soda....

Something so simple to make me happy!! LOL

I went to Trader Joe's today. I don't go there often since it is so far away.

Imagine my joy when I came across this baking soda, in a resealable container like my baking powder.

I have never seen it before today and was quite happy to find this.

It has always bothered me that my baking soda didn't come in a resealable package and often I have wondered if it wasn't as fresh as it could be.

Now I don't have to wonder.

It's sometimes just the small things that can make someone happy!

October blanket

Again it's not a blanket but a shawl!!

I'm having fun making these.

This one is made with Homespun "Tudor". I like how it self stripes.

It is 74 inches wide by 35 inches "long".

Talking with a friend

I was talking with a friend, a real friend yesterday about message boards.

She said that she is missing something that never was.

She is right, she and I are mourning something that never really was.

In the beginning it might have been the community we mourn but in the end, it really didn't exist.

And maybe it never did!!

Thankful Thursday

Another Thursday here. It's definitely fall with the cool weather.

Don't forget to checkout TT on my sidebar!!

Today I am thankful for:

*new eyeglasses
*that my little guy is so good at the dentist
*budgets
*days off
*changing leaves
*Gods love

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Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God

Eyeglasses

I've really been depressed about my eyes for the last couple of years.

I love to read. I used to read at least two books a week.

I first got glasses when I was 30 years old. I only needed them to drive with and I could really drive perfectly fine without them, I still can.

It's just the reading part.

Today I had my yearly eye exam and I had a talk with the eye doctor about my glasses and my reading. He came up with a wonderful solution that practically guarantees I will be reading more.

See, last year I needed to get "progressive" lenses. That's a new name for bifocal glasses.

I ordered them, got them and just couldn't get used to them at all. In the year I have had them I barely wear them, only to drive and if I am working with crochet thread instead of yarn, or needlepointing. And I still couldn't get used to them.

At the doctor today, the assistant and the doctor both explained it to me after I told them what my issues were.

When they make "progressive" lenses, they don't go from side to side on the glasses. They are just like a half circle. Well, that really only works if you move your head from side to side when you read!!

I am not a head mover. I am an eye mover so the glasses weren't working for me!!

I was so relieved to hear this. The solution?? To get new half glasses where the lens is the WHOLE glass.

So, in essence, these are called "granny" glasses.

And I don't care!!!

All I care about is that I will enjoy reading again!!!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!