Sepia Saturday #72- Peacoats

Big Blogger changes.

I had already done SS post and now I can't find it.

So anyway.

Yes Sepia Saturday is about a time long past.
Yours truly at 15 showing off my very stylish
Pea Coat
It looks black but of course was midnight Navy blue.
I loved the hand warmers.
Who remembers these?

I can remember when the pea coat for women came out I wanted one so bad.

The wonderful uncle who had been in the Navy had one of course that swallowed me.

He got me one for Christmas the year I was 15. 

Oh boy I was overjoyed.

Look at those blue jeans rolled up.
LOL 

This was in front of our grandparents home where we lived.

8 of us lived in that big house, which was not big enough.

About the pea coat for commercial sale

Characteristics

Today the style is considered a classic, and pea coats are now worn by all manner of individuals, not just professional sailors. When it is worn by a woman, it is often referred to as a Jackie O Jacket.
Note that few of the jackets seen on the street are genuine navy surplus; being a classic garment, it is frequently available from retailers, though often with small design changes that reflect the current fashion trends. The standard for historical pea coats was 30 ounces (approx. 850 g) wool, most often made of heavy Melton Cloth through the 1970s in the U.S. Navy. Presently coats are made from 22–32 oz (620–910 g) wool. While pea coats are offered in many colors by retailers, the U.S. Navy-issue pea coat^[5] is always dark blue or black.
The term "pea coat" originated from the Dutch or West Frisian word pijjekker, in which pij referred to the type of cloth used, a coarse kind of twilled blue cloth with a nap on one side.

From Wikipedia

Pea coat for The Navy

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What in the h--- has happened? I can't find anything

I wrote Saturday's post, now I can't find it.

Vintage Thingie Thursday

Vintage Thingie Thursday

This is a vintage blue speckled camping coffee pot I  had for many years. 
I had bought it to make a water feature for my container garden on my deck.

 There was a pump in the water bucket running around the fence surrounding the gas tank for our fireplace and feed into the bottom of the coffee pot and tilted just enough to allow the water to continuously flow back into the bucket.


I loved this little feature.


Well one winter the coffee pot disappeared and I had to dismantle the feature.


Well last week when we were cleaning up the yard our son found it had rolled under the deck and it was there probably about 3 years.


Wa la

 I was tickled to find it.
After a little bath it is now displayed on the deck table on a little display hanger.

The dried leaves I found in town this morning from a Magnolia tree about thee 3 streets away.
They had been blown all over town during the storm last night. I gathered up some for a bouquet arrangement of some kind.


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Doing my Thing Day-Oil Painting?

Oil Painting?

Well that was a question, for sure.

I have only had one session of oil painting classes.

 This is not the one I have been working on in class.

This is an 8x10 I did at home.

I must admit it looks better on the computer than in real life.

 I am happy with the background, not happy with the tree.

But I am not sure I really enjoy oil painting.

It is a pretty messy job and takes forever to dry.

Well I will just paint until my oil paints run out,I only have small tubes, then I will decide.

Progress on the items for the summer picnic craft booth.

 

One red, white and blue clutch purse.

Clutch purse with phone case or whatever one wants to use it for.

I am now working on one from yellow and black bags now.

Now that I have the styles decided on, I should make good time now.

The picnic is in July.

Magpie Tales #62 and Food for thought

Magpie Tales

Learning a New Diet

(Might as well embrace it)

 

Eggs

Nutritious, satisfying

Protein

Two Eggs,

Cholesterol, meat, per diabetic list

Too much 

Before a dx. of DM just a few months ago

I delighted in my two eggs for breakfast.

I didn't know eggs were considered meat.

They knew.

Nutritionists

Hooking up with Magpie Tales

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One of my friends and fellow art students has her own business.

"Debbiedoesstuff"

A printing company

Each week she publishes a small newsletter and distributes it to all the places of business in our town and to her friends.


Her ads for the different businesses are entertaining as well as informative.
Yah Debbie.

This was one of the articles this week.

John Lennon once said , "Life is what happens when we're busy making other plans." The only moment we have is the moment that is right now. And, yet the distracted, regretting something that happened yesterday, or already thinking about tomorrow. When a friend is faced with a difficult challenge such as disease or other personal problem, we all realized how lucky we are to be blessed with our own perfectly ordinary day, the kind of day they would have given anything to have back again.

When we pause long enough to be grateful for what is, we realize that every ordinary day is a gift, and suddenly , instead of taking our lives for granted, we begin to appreciate the beauty of everyday things. 

I hope you have an ordinary day today...

 Debbie  Ables.

Nothing has clarified this philosophy for me more than my participation in the different memes and challenges in the blogging world.

With my trusty camera by my side, every time I leave my driveway I am on the lookout for something to appreciate, maybe even to photograph.

Even if I don't need a photo for a particular meme, I have gotten in the habit of noticing everything.

The different colors of the grass and crops on the many farms on my ride to different places.

I promise if you meet me on the road, I am very careful to pull over and stop before taking a shot.

How has blogging changed your world or has it changed it at all?

For good or for bad?

Jingle Poetry and Mosaic Monday

Potluck Poetry for Monday

A Closer Look

Where are you, my heart?

Where are you, my soul?

I cannot find you any more.

I looked at him and I looked at her.

No, that's not what I want to see.

I searched down deep and poked around.

It hurt so much I turned back.

Halfway back I looked at nee.

No, not Mrs. or Miss could I see.

I only see what I had tried to be.

As I backed out of the hole I dug,

I heard myself say

"Here I am!"
"Look at me!"

"Here I am?"

Where did that spring from, this searching day?

I looked asky and I looked aground.

Nowhere could I be found.

I turned and saw a face aglow,

Absent of all worry and woe.

Because I looked just when I did,
Straight ahead.

Now I am found.

Peggy Jones

4/17/2011

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 Mosaic Monday


What a wonderful time to be outside clearing away the dying and preparing for the new blooming flowers and shrubs coming on.

1) Clematis 

2) Hydrangia

3) Purple Iris

4) Creeping phlox

Red and Pink tulips
Coming and going.

Thank goodness there is always color appearing in our world.

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Palm Sunday 2011

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, “Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.” And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.” These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him. (John 12:12–16).

The mob mentality is what comes to my mind when I read or see reenactments of the entire suffering and death of Jesus.

What would I do in the same situation?

I would like to think that I would not follow the angry mobsters, but I do not know for sure.

I do know that the choices I make each and every day indicate my belief or denial of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

I pray dear Lord, that I may never betray you and always trust in your love, so evident in that Passion week before Your death and resurrection. 

We are entering the holiest time in the church.

Holy Week

All of my life since I was old enough to know and understand, Holy Week has been the most sacred time as we prepare for the great feast of

Easter.

The Resurrection.

The event that proved the man Jesus is
God.

May all the blessings of Holy Week be upon all our blogger buddies out there in cyberland.

 

Sepia Saturday70 - HH in his hey days

Sepia Saturday #70

I have a picture of a handsome guy 
taken long before I knew him.

The dark haired fellow on the far left is now HH, Handsome Husband

at 19.

He was an usher in his cousin's wedding, the bride.

This picture was taken in 1957.

His cousin, the bride and he are the only folks left that are in this picture.

I showed it to HH he said he could not even remember being in this wedding.
Wonder where his wondering devil eye was looking? 
It wasn't at me in 1957.

This church was built in 1951 and he was one of the workers that layed the foundation.

That means he was working at 13. 

Yep the construction was done by the local community and they would take whoever they could find that wanted to work.

HH has always been ready to work, that is up to now.

He is retired now and by golly he is gonna stay that way.

While raising 6 children, he had as many as three jobs at one time. 

He worked so much how did we ever have 6 children?

I was always working too, at least it seemed that way.

God was always blessing us with a child.

He is retired and by golly retired he is gonna stay.

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Friday Shoot Out- House and places of worship

Friday Shoot Out

Churches or Houses of Worship

These words from Doreen of the FSO team

encouraged me to look at several different aspects of this topic.

"You will find that you can pray anytime, anywhere, anyhow. It may help to be in a place where the focus is on spirituality (such as a church or temple) or where the environment reminds you of your spiritual bond (like a natural setting, or a spot with a big view). You can choose to pray in the presence of others, or you can pray privately."

St. Vincent de Paul

Nazareth, Kentucky

 Next to my home, this is my favorite place in our town to be.
You have seen it from every angle.

Mary's Prayer Garden

 

Little chapel built on the back of the farm at Nazareth in the 1800's so the farmers could worship without coming miles back to the big church.

 
Peace Garden
at
Bernheim Arbotorium
down the road from my house.
Looking across Lake Nevin.


Many weddings take place here.

My own private space to pray when the weather is good.

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Vintate Thingie Thursday and Tea Talk with Ruth

Ya it is Thursday again.

Vintage Thingie Thursay is a fun meme. Pop over and visit some and maybe you would like to join in. 

Something old, older or very, very old and a little story to go with it.

Fun for us all and we get to know each other better.

As I have mentioned before on my blog nursing is my second career.

It was a big deal to graduate from nursing at age 48 with 6 children at home.

This was one of my cutest graduation gifts.

 Double click for detail.
 It even has my name on the note pad.



My sister-in-law made this in ceramics class.




It makes me smile everytime I look at it.

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Loyola University has a college in Belize where the SCNs work with helping to educate Belizians for lay ministry.


This is my cup that I got when I was in Belize City on a missionary trip.


Having..... Earl Gray strong since it is in the morning and I am working my crossword puzzle.
Need to be wide awake.

Thinking about.........Reflecting on how that trip to a third world county sure opened my eyes to the way another culture lives. 
They are such a proud people and so full of respect for others and themselves. They are working very hard to bring their county back from the devastating loss of the Mahogany tree in 1975 in Hurricane Hattie. Logging those trees was their entire national economy.
Belize is a tiny county between Mexico and Guatemala on the Caribbean coast of Central America. After losing the logging industry the English began to build up the tourist trade beginning to uncover the Myan ruins and building resorts that cater to the rustic way of living along with the luxury resorts.
About the size of the state of Massachusetts, it is governed by Parliamentary Democracy having earned their independence in 1981.
About 50% of the population are Roman Catholic.


Feeling ...........I miss the folks I met there. Some of them get to come to the US to study due to the help of the Sisters and some even join the convent and study here and in Louisville. I occasionally see some of them when they come. I would love to go again.


“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

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What in the world did I get myself into?

Doing my own thing day.

I love doing the ATC swap card each month so I signed up for The Spring Magic Wand Swap.

A group of bloggers who are just as into the magic of creativity as I am.
Of course I am saying magic with tongue in cheek because it is a little impish and spritey.
Well I put on my Fidgit Elfglimmer hat and set to work.
I gathered up some things I had I wanted to work with.
These tiny colored beads would look good, if I could see
well enough to get them strung on a piece of thread.

First they had to be separated into 4 different colors.
I could only see 2 colors.
Okay pink and pearl would do.


Magnifying glass and tweezers.
Well I got the pearl ones strung.
Only took about an hour.
Long slender needle that I could hardly see to thread, but once I got the little buggers stabbed I was able to slide them on.

Wow that was hard.
Maybe that was not such a good idea.


Gotta look for something else.

Well that is where I stopped.
Will have to look for some more stash to work this one out.


Surely this veteran of years of Halloween, play costumes, proms and dance dresses could come up with a 
Magic Wand.


Well we will see next week on Doing My Thing Day.

Had an invitation to visit a lovely lady's blog yesterday for a giveaway.
She is very creative and that I need for inspiration.
Go over and check out her post of 4/10/2011 and look at all the beautiful things.
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Two important birthdays and Creative Tuesday-Roofs

It is Tuesday

Two important birthdays 
and 
Creative Tuesday.

Happy Birthday
Handsome Husband

Gotta love the HH

Happy Birthday
Wendy

Son and
amazing
DIL

When all us aspiring artists (this one not there yet) put out our attempt at a theme suggested by our most gracious host

Mr. Tea and Toast.

Theme

Roofs

Evening at the pagoda.

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