Dear daughter's birthday and FSO-Theme Our Choice

Today is our third daughter's birthday.

This little bundle of joy came to us from God

April 1 1970.

Happy Birthday sweet daughter.

Friday Shoot Out
Theme
Our choice

Signs Around My Town

Signs of Spring

Symbols of The Lenten Season

Signs of Easter Season

Signs of Faith


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Vintage Thingie Thursday and Tea Talk Thursday with Ruth

Vintage Thingie Thursday with Coloradolady is a fun meme. 

Fine something you love and share with us.

A few weeks ago I showed my packet of fine steel crochet hooks that I was given in 1957 by my dear friend and x-ray instructor.
She also gave me this fine DMC crochet thread made in France. 
I still have 4 skeins after all these years.

She and I became very close.

She was an older nun and her family lived far away and she sort of took me under her wing.
I stayed at the hospital a lot and in fact since I lived several miles away became part of the family of nuns that lived there.
She taught me to crochet.

This is one doily I still have.
Didn't remember I still had it until I found the thread.
I have made this pattern many times with bigger cotton thread.


She also taught me to tat, but I cannot remember how to do that nor do I have the tool for it.
This thread is many years old since she had had it a while.
I don't believe I can see well enough to do work with this fine thread and a tiny steel crochet hook anymore.



DMC is still in business and this is what I found when I googled it.
I was looking for the date of the founding of the company.


DMC® has maintained the same high standards of quality today since its founding in 1746. DMC's® quality products and their extensive color ranges stand the test of time. DMC® threads and your fine workmanship -- 250 years of tradition and a lifetime of memories.

Tea Talk Thursday with Ruth

Having.......Twinings Earl Grey Tea in my favorite china tea cup. 1/2 banana is my snack today.

No sunning on the deck today, it is cold again.
I'm feeling..........totally at peace with trust in God's goodness

 On my mine........I keep up with the goings on in the world and I am totally confused about the events we are involved in in the middle east. I pray a lot.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

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Doing my Thing Day- Steping into new territory

Stepping into unexplored territory-for me.

I spoke about beginning oil painting classes a couple of weeks ago and how uncomfortable I was with getting that first touch of paint on the canvas.

Well I started and left my canvas at the studio so I would not be tempted to mess it up.

I was working from a picture that had directions and colors to use in the painting.

The green in the center are the beginnings of a tree and a little path up to the tree.

I could not stand the waiting, so I tried to do the painting again from memory since I had the paint that wasn't used to go by.

Also I had a picture of my beginning painting.

She had suggested we get disposable palettes so if there is paint not used you can just cover it with another page and take it home and continue to use it up.

Here is what I did today.

Then I played with it on Picnik and it has helped me to play around with how I might finish my painting.

The things one can do with Picnik are unending.

It is just fun to sit and play with it.

You know what they say about old age.

LOL

Creative Tuesday- Springtime

Creative Tuesday

Theme

Springtime

I'm as loopy as the flowers by the fence,

as loopy as the kites in the sky.

I'm as loopy as a puppet on a string.

It mi----ght as w----ell be spring. 

WhooPee!!!!!!

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Mosaic Monday- Truly early spring

Mosaic Monday

Click on for greater detail

C

Can this be Spring?

When I stepped out onto my deck this AM I was greeted by the scene in the center of the mosaic.

Snow

The little pansies were still just as spiffy as yesterday.

I started my walk around the courtyard and got a shot of snow and ice in the tulips.

I then drove a few miles to one of my favorite spots to take photos of the flowering fruit trees.

Only white and a little pink.

By the afternoon the sun was shining although still cold.

It is to be cold all week and then warm up again at the end of the week.

Great evening to watch University of Kentucky beat North Carolina for a spot in THE FINAL FOUR.

GO BIG BLUE.

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3rd Sunday of Lent

Hope

Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.

Romans 5:1

Let us rejoice and be glad.

Sepia Saturday # 66-First Ladies

Sepia Saturday

First Ladies Official Dresses

As displayed in the 
U.S. National Museum,
Smithsonian Institution

Sarah Childress Polk
1803-1891
First Lady 1845 to 1849

From my new postcard collection 

On the back
Genuine Curteich-Chicago


I found a web site that has a guide for dating postcards published by the Curteich -Chicago Co
If it has .

1898- 1Cent postage

Sarah Childress Polk was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, the third of six children. Although raised in the rugged Western Frontier, Sarah grew up amidst wealth and refinement. Her father, Joel Childress, was a successful businessman and planter.
Although an education was scarce for frontier girls, Sarah attended a local school and, in 1817, was sent to Salem Academy in North Carolina. This school was considered one of the best in the South. The unusually strong curriculum included English grammar, Bible study, Greek and Roman literature, geography, music, drawing, and sewing. Sarah's education was cut short, however, by the death of her father.
While James K. Polk was a Tennessee Legislator, he began courting Miss Childress, and on January 1, 1824, James and Sarah were married at her parents' home near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The young couple moved to a cottage in Columbia, where Mr. Polk could concentrate on his law practice and political career.
Sarah's education would serve both her and her politically ambitious husband well. As James K. Polk embarked upon his long national political career, Sarah acted as his secretary by keeping her traveling husband aware of local political events. Because of her ability to intelligently converse about politics, she was respected and befriended by some of the great politicians of the day.
As First Lady, Sarah Childress Polk quickly endeared herself to the country. She was a strict Presbyterian, and changed the image of the President's House. She curbed the tradition of heavy drinking and dancing at White House social functions. In charge of completely remodeling the State floor of the President's House, she created an elegant setting befitting the highest office in the land.
After four years, Sarah looked forward to her husband's retirement where they could live quietly in their new home, Polk Place, in Nashville. Their quiet retirement did not last long, however, as James K. Polk died just three months after leaving Washington. A 45 year-old widow, Mrs. Polk donned the black clothes of mourning for the rest of her life.
Not long after James K. Polk's death, Sarah became the guardian of an orphaned great niece. This "adopted" daughter, Sally Polk Jetton, would remain with Sarah for the rest of her days. Mrs. Polk was honored at Polk Place throughout her life, and was considered the “grande dame” of Nashville for over four decades. After a short illness, Mrs. Polk died at Polk Place in 1891, just short of her 88th birthday, forty-two years beyond her illustrious husband.

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Way to go Kentucky!!!!!!!!!!


Go BIG BLUE WILDCATS !!!!!!!

Friday Shoot Out-Theme Yellow

Yes today is Friday Shoot Out and the theme is 

yellow.

What in your town is yellow.

Forsythia at the back entrance of this once flourishing horse farm.

A REALLY yellow house.

A yard full of daffodils.

Bardstown Baptist Church

with spring wreaths on the front door.

Yellow mechanical work horses all over town.

A new Cracker Barrel restaurant being built in our town

near the interstate of course.

Calls for new road entrances and exits.

Oodles of yellow bags after shopping in Dollar General Store.

 My all time favorite yellow house in our town with manicured forsythia bushes.

The universal yellow strip in front of the fire hydrant.

All over town.

Things are beginning to spring to life in town and yellow is the first color for sure.

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Enjoy

Vintage Thingie Thursday and Tea Talk Thursday with Ruth

Vintage Thingie Thursday

 I'm a little late but on Wednesday I had a most wonderful time on a little trip to my old home town to meet up with a long lost cousin that I had not seen for about 60 years.

We had a most wonderful day. Some of her friends came by also who were girls I grew up with.

We laughed and cried and all the things adult girls always do after years of different lives.

I took a drive around my town and went to the home of my grandparents were I grew up.

That reminded me of my grandparents.
It is  surprising how small that big old house used to look to me.
The little shed where he kept his push mower is still there. Next door was a vacant field where the cow grazed that he milked twice a day.
There is no vacant field any more. 
A huge subdivision is there now.

This is my grandfather's prayer book.

I remember seeing him reading it every day.

 It is a book of Catholic Novenas.

I found this on the internet to explain novenas for those not familiar with the word.

 Q: What is the Novena? How did it start? What is it supposed to achieve? What are its benefits to us? 

  A: The novena is a form of devotion popular in many countries. The history goes back to the seventeenth century when novenas became a devotion preparing major feast days or festivals or important decisions in one's life. During nine days people, individually or collectively, say specific prayers depending on the scope or meaning of the novena, often times in connection with special indulgences. Novena, from nine days, has biblical roots and reflects the nine days of preparation the apostles and Mary underwent before they received the Holy Spirit (Acts 1, 13f). There are numerous novenas -- from novenas to St. Theresa of the Child Jesus to that of St. John Vianney. Many are Marian (for example, Novena to the Queen of Apostles or to the Miraculous Medal), other have a Christological focus (for example, Novena to the Infant of Prague or to Jesus Master of Way, Truth and Life).
The purpose of novenas is one of preparation, purification and concentration. They help us to better celebrate an important feast day or to better make decisions with the help of God and in full possession of our spiritual strength. It is an opportunity to live a specially graced time, and is like a spiritual pilgrimage to a center of even greater grace.

Have a glorious Thursday

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I am hooking up with VTT and TTT also.

Tea Time with Ruth.

 Well we have a little cool snap so no tea and snack on the deck.

Using my favorite dainty china cup and saucer with a black Luzanne tea. Hot and strong for a cool morning.

Thinking about my fun visit with my cousin in my old home town yesterday.

Oh how things have changed but stay the same. There were at least 4 large, one time thriving clothing businesses, stores sitting empty on the Main St.

The old Courthouse is there but a huge brand new one sits across the street taking up an entire block.

Justice Centers they are called now.

I guess it takes a lot more room for justice issues these days.

The huge statue of Abraham Lincoln is still the center of the Justice Center.


“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

 Abraham Lincoln 

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Doing my Thing Day- Not much

Today is Doing My Thing Day.

But, because of all the things I did Sunday I cannot do much today.

Old enemy sciatica has reared it's ugly head.

Can't sit for long.

Got my acrylics class homework done and my oil painting class homework done and tried something new.

About 3 days ago I smeared this canvas with gesso.

 Found this on Sketchbook challenge.


Smeared a thick layer of gesso on a canvas leaving valleys and peaks then mixed in a little color pushing and poking it around with a palate knife.
I just kept moving the gesso around as long as it was just a little movable.
This is the way it ended up.

It took it about three days to dry, but I like it.


I would like to send you over to visit my dear blogging friend in Alaska.
She has her usual beautiful card for this day and her words are so sweet and inspiring.
go here to visit Shelly.

Ice pack and rest for me.