Saturday Morning Musings

This picture has nothing to do with this post. But,
you know if people put me in the sidebar the first
picture will be what's on it and I have embarrassed my
self before when I see my blog with some picture that
I have posted.

This is my balance ball. Since I started my garden
two years ago, I have been a farmgirl and not a exercise
girl. I used to be the kind that had pretty muscles,
and not the kind that can carry buckets of manure and
hula hoe great distances of weeds. So for the most
part it has sat in the corner. The grand kids come over
and roll it all over the house and mow babies over but
pretty much it has sat right here.

I was so sore this morning from cleaning my flowerbeds
in 101 degree sun, I got so hot yesterday I thought I was going to
die and all I could think of was my husband and kids getting
home to find a sun-burnt corpse out in the front yard so I
quit.
So when I woke up today I thought, I know what I need,
I need to do a Denise Austin CD. The balance ball always
helps me to limber up.

My computer that I use now is my husbands old one. I had
a laptop. Because he used this one for just work stuff, he didn't
have a video card put in so I can't watch stuff on it. So I got out
my old lap top, and it had to down load about all of these update
things before I could even put in the CD, but even then I had
to find my exercise CD's because they had been put up too
Do you wonder why I just didn't put it on the T.V. I hate to admit
this but I am surround sound and remote control challenged.
I don't ever watch it by myself so I just never use it.

Not to mention the girls were going to be here this morning and
I knew some kid might walk in and there I would be rolling around
on the floor and I know the grand kids would jump on my back and want
a horsey ride so I thought it was just easier to do it in my room.

I am not graceful, at all. Almost flunked modern dance and got kicked
out of ballet after the first class. Doing exercise tapes is rough, so it is
better I do it alone only I wasn't alone. This is the time
I usually take Sasha outside and we go for a walk. I changed the routine and she
was not happy.

Sasha

I grabbed my weights and she thought that they are something for her to bite
so I am lifting the dog and the weight. I do that for awhile and then it
is time to get on the floor and do push-ups. Sasha thought it was
time to bite my head, I got 4 push-ups done.
Then we get to the abs part. Sasha thought I meant that we are supposed
to wrestle. She does this punching thing with one of her legs when I was on
the ground and I thought "great now I am going to have a black eye."
I got about 3 abs things done. I then got up and put her outside.

I got back and start again, and the cat comes in, she watched me for a bit and then
lays down right where I am supposed to be so I kinda move her,
and then it is time for the ball routine.
My grand sons had let the air out of the ball and I had my husband refill it.
I hadn't paid attention that it is hard as a rock now and really full of air.
So I go to lean up against it to do a leg lift thing and I go sliding along
the outside of the ball and fall on the floor.
I get up on my knees again and try to do it slower. I still fell off.
Oh, I am trying to do all of this in my closet. There is not much room
for me and the ball in the closet but it does keep me on the ball
more than I am on the floor.
I think I will just move it out on the floor in the bedroom so I can do
the ab part with the ball. The part I missed ( with the dog biting my head.)I laid down on the floor
with that giant ball between my knees and another cat comes in
and looks at me and starts rubbing on my head.
It has been awhile since I have done the ball and the abs work out
so this takes lots of concentration but with a cat rubbing on my head
I drop the ball and it goes rolling across the room, which scares the cat
away and the routine is over once I get back.

The girls were going to be here soon and I still need to do my work outside,
so I just give up and put everything away.
So after taking care of the chickens, and watering the garden, Megan and
the babies got here and we picked peaches.

We picked two bushel baskets, one for her and one
for me so I am going to freeze these. I have maybe
3 more bushels on the tree.
So it looks like I am going to be a farm girl for a
lot longer than a exercise girl.
I did get loosened up and now I can turn my head,
I think though it was the dog biting my head.
Have a great Saturday!

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm. 107:6)

I Love Fridays!

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I love Friday when Monday is a holiday. I like Labor Day
too, not because it is a holiday but because it is named
labor day and I can work without guilt. I can chop weeds
and clean flowerbeds and start getting the outside ready for
its winter nap. I like to order firewood and anticipate
winter. The only problem is I am in California and it
doesn't get cold until after Thanksgiving. Kids still go
barefoot till Halloween. Or mine used too. Used to drive
my neighbors nuts when we lived in town, they wore coats
but no shoes. Because you need your toes to climb trees,
and my kids lived in trees.
Back to Labor Day. One of the books, I like to read
when I need a laugh, is Ecclesiastes. Don't ask me
why but when I read it, I just laugh, it is all so true,
and Solomon was so different from when he was his positive self,
in Song of Solomon or Proverbs. He has seen the world and maybe
it was the 700 wives and the 300 hundred concubines that put a damper
on his personality but he is not a very happy camper.
I love it though and some of my favorite passages are in it, and I love his view
point on work.
"There is nothing, better for a man than to enjoy his work,
because that is his lot."
Ecclesiastes 3:22


I have filled up my green trash cans this week working
in my flowerbeds. I do have it looking pretty nice.
I hacked my poor rose bushes back to nubs. My husband
trims his trees so lovingly, and I always figure that
my stuff just better man up and take it. None of this
coddling stuff from me to my plants.


This guy right here, I am going to be doing some
serious hacking but it is out in the garden and the garden
is safe until after Labor Day. So I hope you have a great
weekend. I hope that hurricane just goes on by and heads
out to sea.
Fridays are just nice days.

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm. 107:6)

Thankful Thursday

I was thinking about what I was thankful for today.
So, I thought, how about a list. I haven't wrote one
in a while.
1.Today, I am thankful that I love my job.

2. I am thankful today that God, showed me a
path, and even though, I didn't want to go down it,
I am glad I did. He promised to never leave me or forsake
me and he never has.

3. I am thankful today that when God told me I was going
to have to pass through the fire, and the floods, but that
He would be with me, I can say He always is.

4. I am thankful that when He told me that His
thoughts were not my thoughts and His ways were not
my ways, that I felt comfortable in knowing someone
in control was not me.



5. I am thankful today that when He told me, that
He was the potter, and I was the clay, that I was glad
that He still saw me as clay, that could be molded and
shaped, not as brittle and hard, and that He still
could make me into something.


6.I am thankful that it is September. I am thankful
that I am here, last year when I was watching my Mom
get sicker and sicker, and I would cry out to God, He
was always near, and His still quiet voice would ask me,
"Will you trust me?"

7. I am thankful that I have the hope, that someday,
every tear will be wiped away and that no eye has
seen or ear heard the things that are waiting for us
in heaven.

8. I am thankful that every day is new, that every day
I have a chance to get up in the morning, and every day,
I have the joy and the privileged of making this world, a
better place. That today, I can be a blessing to someone.

Welcome to September and today, I am so thankful for
You! I hope that this day, you will have a glorious day.

, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!(Psalm. 107:6)

Wordless Wednesday

Happy September 1st,







Only 22 days until fall.

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm. 107:6)