Moose. When you think of Maine? You think of lobster… and moose. But let me tell you, I’ve lived here on and off since 1978 and have seen exactly one moose in the wild. Granted we live in the Mid Coast region and they’re more prevalent up north, but still… one in 41 years […]
White Mountains trip Day 2… Moose, mountains and fall colors. — River’s world…..
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 17: Favorite Place Prompt: So many records that we use (and memories that we have) are tied to a place. What is a favorite place to research? What is a favorite ancestral home? Feel free to interpret this theme in your own way! Lobster fisherman dressed for the […]
Maine Attraction — Talking Leaves
The purpose of this trip is to listen to God and observe nature and build cabins and fish in ice cold streams of water. Four things that I’m not particularly good at.
Travel Diary Alaska// DAY 0 – Flights —
There was a chance – just a CHANCE – that the thing currently disturbing my bobber was some sort of prehistoric mud-dweller, one who had lain at the bottom on Old Man So-and-So’s pond since the dark ages, and was just now summoned from the murky depths to investigate the curiosity that was my small nightcrawler, still struggling upon my tiny hook.
Travel Diary Alaska// Fishers of Fish, Part 1 —
These little 16 oz. pint jars will soon be filled with such a beautiful harvest of colors. I don’t know about how you feel when you are standing in Granny’s pantry with the shelves lined with jars of lovingly prepared food for her family.
You know that she had to stay busy during the ever changing seasons of the year, when you see strawberry jam from the spring-time and tomatoes and squash from the summer time. Don’t forget fall with the sunflower seeds and bright orange pumpkins.
Here comes old man winter now so it’s time to can up some beautiful red chili and some comforting beef stew and alas so many more, that I lose count of.
I am a canner and have been for many years and I do love the seasons of the year as I too get to see the harvest of nature’s bounty! I imagine, just like many of your Grannies used to enjoy also. I did not have a Grannie to teach me this wonder of wonders, but I was blessed along life’s road to find myself near some beautiful and wise ladies that took the time, out of their busy lives to teach me.
I will be forever indebted to them all for all eternity! So you see!
A picture tells a story that is never ending!
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You never know who a stranger might be.
This is a story of long ago. It is a little embarrassing for me to tell. But it is true.
Back in the 90’s we had a construction job that we were doing in Montgomery Alabama. It was all doors and crown molding for each of many apartments.
My Mother-in-law missed us so badly, and we missed her too. So she wanted us to come to Florida to get her and move her up to Alabama with us. We loved her dearly and so off we went to get her and her stuff.
We made a fast turn around trip and headed back to Alabama. Once we hit town, she wanted to go to the grocery store to get items for a really good supper. The store was on the Causeway right across from where we lived.
Her and I got out to run into the store, but as we were getting out of the truck to go in, I spotted a homeless person looking at us. So I told her that let’s go this way to avoid him. Because we were almost broke and did not have money to give him.
So we avoided him and walked another way to the store. Well we finished getting our groceries and came back to the truck. But the truck would not start for anything. My husband kept trying and raising the hood, as he had been a pretty good mechanic his entire life. But not this time,no way no how.
We sat there wondering how we were going to get home with everyone and the groceries and all my Mother-in-law’s stuff. It was just right across a huge Causeway and down the street a little bit to get there.
Well, no one stopped by to help us, absolutely no one!
We looked up from our thoughts and there was the hobo, you see, he was the one that did come to help. You talk about shame, you have no idea of how bad that I felt about what I said and how I avoided him on the way in to the store. I had to keep asking God to forgive me and so did everyone in that truck, feel the same way as I did.
Well that guy found and fixed the problem in a few minutes flat. We were so tired from the long day we had been through. I looked in my purse and found the last of the money that we had and I had my hand around those two twenty dollar bills, getting ready to give them to him for his helping us, when my Husband said Connie, give him some money. I said, I’m way ahead of you and passed it to my Husband to give to him.
So you never know just who you might be avoiding! I have never forgot this lesson, in my lifetime.
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I thought that I would tell this story that happened to me, many years ago. If you believe in God, then you will know this is true.
If you do not believe in God that,s ok too,but my heart breaks for you. As in this year of 2020, I truly believe that God is our only stability that we have to hold on too.
Going back to that time now. We all lived in a single-wide mobile home. There was my Mother-in law, my Husband,my two kids and myself in a two bedroom small trailer. We needed another bedroom at the very least, so we built on a nice bedroom for my Mother-in-law.
Oh how I loved and cherished that woman as you see, she taught me a Mother,s love.That was something that I did not receive from my own as she only wanted Son,s and no girls. Well I was the first to arrive and then all Brothers came afterwards, whom I loved them all dearly.
I know that God placed me in her path so I would not miss out. She and all my Brother,s have gone on now, but I will always love them.
Back to the rest of my story now. As soon as we finished building that room on, there came up a severe storm with tornado warnings for our area. It was for-casted to sit right over our area and not move on for many hours. We were worried about an old rotten big tree that was right by all three bedrooms of the house. We should have cut it down first but we did not. There was no need to try to sleep as it could have hit any one of the three rooms.
So we stayed up all night long as we listened to the storm howling and raging all night long. And believe you me ,my whole household were praying all through-out the night, as the storm parked right on top of us as for-casted. George the weather man was right.
So when daylight broke, we all went outside to see the damage that had been done.
This is what we saw. There were 7 big trees that were down on the ground with the roots beside our trailer and the boughs facing way away from the trailer.So the trees were all up-rooted with the root ends nearest our home. To this day it is still hard to believe that we saw this but we all did.
So that,s my story about one of God,s miracles in these days and times. If God can do this then he can do anything for you too, if you will only believe and show him that you do.
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This came to my mind a few minutes ago. As our country is being destroyed from within by one another.
It used to be back in the day that we said the Pledge of allegiance to God and Country every-day in school before the day started out.
As we did this -, everyone of us felt that proud feeling of being United with one another and to God and to our country. Where has that proudness of one another gone? Where has that United gone/ Where has God gone? Please turn back around and reach out to help each other with the love that is way down deep in your heart and not kill one another and take the path to destruction. As I know that you have love for your children and God has enough love for us all.
This country is being ripped apart from within and we are not seeing this until it may be too late. Wake up people of every creed and color and make your generations proud to become united as one under God!
As always hugs and love to each and every-one of you.
Today I am grateful that my friend Nancy is ok.
God answers prayers as we all amble along trying to learn respect for one another. Respect is a give and take lesson that all families could give to each other as an immeasurable gift to let go of ever-mounting stressful situations that all families participate in creating with one another.
Would,nt it be nice to start learning how to let go of all that bondage and begin to smile with one another? I think it would, especially as it could be an awesome lesson to teach your children as a way to teach their own one day!
I know I lived with horrible stress and was not a good role model for my own. If only I knew then what life could be with a little more effort on all sides.
Love and Prayer to whoever needs this! #love #prayer
I arrived into this family through marriage with the treasured Uncle of little 3 year old Sparkle(name out of thin air) She was so tiny and exceptionally beautiful just like Princess Dianna,her face and color.She smiled as sunshine does and gave her love to all children that came across her path.
She always made sure to get a large bag of candy at the store to share with others that did not have.Why she even gave away her Christmas tree one year along with all her presents to children that had none.
You see,little Sparkle had a trache in her throat to breath through and for so very many surgeries past and future to come to try to clear her airways from pappiloma which is warts that continue to reappear through her years again and again.So she looked different from other children and could not do everything they did,but she could show them love and compassion and boy did she ever!
I can remember being pregnant with my son and driving her out of town to many many surgeries and squalling my heart out when you see a terrified three year old have to go under the scalpel so many many times.
The world was praying for her in so many Churches and homes everywhere for her healing.She led so many people to give their life to God that it is uncountable.She did have some wish,s from her heart that came to be filled though as she taught this world to love from within to never ending boundrys.
This is the begining of Sparkle’s story.
Later on in time, Sparkle had a tiny beautiful little daughter whom she adored with all her heart. After about seven or eight years she had the tiniest little boy that I have ever saw.His little behind fit in the palm of my hand and I have small hands.
She had to stay on one floor and baby boy in the neo natal unit on a different floor.After about a month it was time to bring baby boy home as they lived with us.
But Sparklle was so sick that her Dr. whom had been extremley close to her for many many years as she was only 27 years old,and almost the entire rest of the family were planning her funeral.
But two of us the ones she lived with when we were all at home,said “no she will not die”she will get to come home and have time with her children.So it was time to take her little son home and spend time with her children taking care of them until she could come home with us.
Sparkle was still sick and getting sicker with each passing day. I was reading the Bible about Hezakiah were he had fifteen years added to his life to bear a son.
And I was praying and wailing to God”Why oh God is she not healed”? People and Churches all over this world have been praying for her since birth why won’t you heal her?I was wailing like a dove,pouring out my heart.Then I heard a tap at the window and I saw a white dove so I went out on our tiny back porch and that dove flew a foot off of my head in a circle three times.I was stunned and amazed and knew I had our answer.
Sparkle’s Mom called right then and said they found it and know what is killing her.”I said I know I know”.
You see God had just gave me the conformation that she would come home and have more time with her children.And she came home in a few days time.I and her Uncle whom was my Husband had told them all that she would not die and she would be given time to be with her children whom were her everything.
We were the only two that believed she would and God let her.She had fifteen more months to be with her babies and she gave them everything she could possibly give.
She then went on a feeding tube after she came home and struggled to make it.In time she could not eat and went down fast.So her and her Uncle went to check in at the Hospital and I stayed home with her babies to care for them while He stayed with her at the Hospital.
The day before I took her babies to see her, she was so very tired and ill but she said to me” Thank you for taking care of my babies and I told her it was a pleasure as they were good kids.
She then told me I will come home soon and I knew what home she would soon see and she did the next day.
This ripped my heart out of my chest to have to tell her babies that Mamma was gone to heaven not to mention the unmentionable grief that her Uncle who was holding her hand through all this.
I had my grown children come to the house to watch the babies and one drove me to the Hospital to collect her Uncle and say goodbye to little Sparkle.
When I got there three hours after she had passed or maybe two hours,she was still warm and her trache was not in her little neck anymore.
She had this rosy glow like a bride and when I told her it was ok now that I was with her special and much beloved Uncle.She then started cooling as she left us.
So this lesson is that there is a total healing after all,even if it does not come to pass as you would wish for.
And that God is the only way to walk on this earth and love one another and teach others about his selfless love to each and everone as Sparkle showed to all of us if that we would just turn, and give our lives to Him. Sparkle lives on to this day through her children and encased in my heart forever, for what she taught this world about God, tthat even I can only hope to even barely come close to doing. I pray that God has many more Sparkles to touch this world that we live in. To show that God is Love. https://www.wisdomforpennies.com