Aww...Mondays Love is... Sparks Tuesday4 Happy Tuesday

 Aww...Mondays

Love is...

Always the best of love. 

A tribute to Annie at Sparks. She doesn't blog any more but many of us still share some faovrites for Sparks.

Summer Solstice

 

Welcome, it's Tuesday 4 time.  Annie keeps it up in memory of her friend Toni Taddeo who really enjoyed her blogs. 

The Summer solstice arrived and some got hot weather and some got chill and rain.  But summer is the time for holidays or vacations, summertime activities and being outdoors more.  It's also a time, like winter, for complaints and we realize that people in Texas, Arizona and Florida stay inside in summer.

1. How is summer treating you so far this year?   Could things improve? How do you make summer fun in your neck of the woods? Possibly baking my brain with the hot weather. I published my posts on the wrong blog so here I am doing it twice with a different outlook.  The rain left and the heat arrived. I would not mind it so much but like my mother before me, I have this pre-cancer on my nose. So the sunlight is not always my best friend. I have lots of cute hats to wear in the sun.  It stay cooler, I would be happy. It could rain at night too. That would be perfection.  We do lots of phamily activities. Outdoor cooking rather than heating up the whole house. We have a cool flat grill that you can make breakfast, lunch and dinner on. Our son0in0lw has a smoker so something good is cooking most days outside.

2.We give you magic powers! You can change the climate, the surroundings, even  your house and anything you like. Tell us what you are doing to make your summer or your entire year better..... GO! Oh I would make the weather have lots of evening rain but cooler day temps 60-77 is ideal. Sigh....Summer reading, I was use to it as a kid. So although I read all year long, I have made a commitment with myself to read more summer books too. My ideal home would be larger because I love having the grands over and entertaining. So many ideas, With the way the world is today, I never take a day for granted and try to enjoy them to the fullest with those I love best.

3. The puppy on the boat at the right is your new friend.  He wants a name.  What name will you give him and  would you like to be in that picture (if you can't sail we will provide someone for you) Jib would be a great name for that seafaring pooch. I would join him as long as I had an experienced sea Captain aboard. 

4.   It's friendship pot luck day at your house this month.  Everyone is  coming. Please assign us what dishes each of us are to bring to make for a great day.(by the way, you needn't use names. Just name some dishes  you would like people to bring along) Let's do Pasta Night - Meatballs, Alfredo, Spaghetti, Garlic knots or breadsticks, a garden salad, Tiramisu, Italian Soda drinks. That would be a great potluck.  Plus Rebekah's Pasta salad which contains mini pepperoni, colorful bell peppers black olives and corkscrew pasta. If some  wish enjoy some nice red wine. I have a great table wine called Love My Goat, made in a winery in upstate NY.

Happy Tuesday

Brittany and Jeremy are hosting Taco Tuesday since Hannah and Jake are visting. We will have tacos and tostadas, Rebekah's homemade Mexican rice, Salsa, hopefully Avery's, and maybe even some green chili although we promised Hannah and Jake to do lunch later this week at our favorite Mexican restaurant El Mirador so Hannah would be able to eat some cheese enchiladas which she loves. We love Mexican food so much, a co worker once asked my husband if he was married to a Mexican woman. He replied, no just both natives of Pueblo, Colorado where you can get some amazing green chili.

Street tacos are so yummy and so are Tacos el Pastor

Feline Friday Friendly Fill In's and Pink Saturday

 Feline Friday

Hey kitty, it's Friday don't be unhappy be cool! 

Friendly Fill In's

Here are the Friendly Fill-Ins for tomorrow. Ellen came up with the first two and her co-host, Lorianne of Four-Legged Furballs came up with second two.

1. Never underestimate _the value of salvation and trusting God for it. 

2.Dishonesty makes me angry and in the world today, it is everywhere.   

3. I need to  get my bills paid down so I can buy a different car.

4. I didn’t realize how beautiful the rain brought in Spring until I saw the green, green grass in my yard.

Pink Saturday 

I found this cute blue and pink cottage on Pinterest. I would love to be able to peek inside.

"Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink. " No author was noted

 

 

Tuesday4 Happy Tuesday Maxine Cracks Me Up Wordless Wednesday Thankful Thursday Friendly Fill In's

 Tuesday4

Personal Snapshot

 

Welcome back to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 where we try to get you talking, thinking and making new friends while you get to know old friends better.

Today is a hodgepodge of question for you to ponder:

1.  What TV programs that everyone else loved/loves did/do  you  dislike and why? Conversely, what program did you love while everyone else thought it was awful? (or maybe a song, book..etc) 

The Walking Dead! I am not nor will I ever be into zombies. Isn't the world sad enough? Not a reality TV series person either.

2   Do you resent serving without thanks or do you see a higher purpose behind it?

No I don't  usually mind. I remember that God is calling all the shots. He makes the rules, sometime they are, hard to follow  but I try my best to follow Him.

3.  What flavor ice cream is your favorite and how do you like it served? (Sunday, Blizzard, cone, dish?) What toppings make your day?

I am Pistachio anything and especially ice cream. I love Spumoni and there is an Italian buffet/brunch where they always have it on their menu. I like them best in a cup or bowl. I do love toppings, but that is usually at the Yogurt store because I turn into a little kid, wanting all the snowcaps and other delights. I dream about owning a soft serve machine too. hahaha....

4. How many pairs of shoes do you own? How many handbags? Do you use/wear them all? Should you weed them out?

Too many shoes, too many purses, nothing terribly snobby or super expensive. I love Montana West and I use to buy lots of Kathy van Zeeland handbags. She adds little touches inside the bags and I found a few in thrift stores. Otherwise they are pricey. Downsizing these days. A friend, Diann who use to have the blog The Thrifty Groove, she recommended taking purses  we want to giveaway and filling them with small toiletries and other girlie things and give them to a shelter for homeless women. I am going to try to do this soon. I have lots of cute shoes but these days I love comfort. Clothes too and I have some LuLaRoe that was a habit I had that got totally out of control.  I found some ladies who may be able to help me get some things old. I need car repairs or a newer car so saving is now my main goal.

Happy Tuesday I use to love buying things. They made me happy then I realized I was in a better position to serve God and forget stuff. I still enjoy things but I am learning to do without so many things. God makes me happy and trying to be better at serving Him because there is nothing in the world worth serving.  I am not sad or unhappy, happy to be realizing what is truly important and it is not any stationery thing of the world.

A famous person from my youth who I follow is a kind soul. I have always prayed for his soul as he was a non believer. It made me sad . But he is in his 70's now and still performs the old tunes. He had a gig in Utah and anywhere you go with higher altitude will mess with your body when you come from the sea level states. So he wrote a nice post stating his doctor told me he could not perform for a while and had to kick back and relax. He was very sincere in apologizing and it made me feel happy. There are others who I use to follow because of the nice memories of youth but he is the only one I see who is not stuck on his celebrity appeal. It made me happy to see this firsthand. 

Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Maxine is not being ornery about this one!  she is right on. Everything is so costly. It is very sad to see what is happening to our country and my dad's words haunt me everyday. He would say the world will be backward  and boy is it ever coming true each day I am here!  

Shipwreck Gold Beach in Oregon on a Wordless Wednesday

Thankful Thursday

There was a blogger who use to make my day by stopping by here on Thankful Thursday. She still blogs but she stopped coming by. I kept going to her blog without any interaction from her . She was always sharing stories of her youth. I know she knew I loved her telling these stories but for whatever reason she drifted away. I am thankful though, for the times she did stop by.

Thankful for the rain but I would like a small break to clear the weeds away.  Thankful Hannah and Jake will be here soon. Thankful my sweetheart will be off too and we can spend well deserved time together without an alarm ringing at 5 A.M. Thankful we have an air compressor for the low tires that seem to happen with all the wacky weather.

FRIENDLY FILL IN'S 

Ellen and her co host  Lorianne share choosing these four questions. Thank them for this fun meme and please join in.

1. Never underestimate _________________________.

2. ________________makes me _________________________.

3. I need to _________ so that I can _________.

4. I didn’t realize _________ until _________.

I am hopeful I will be back tomorrow to answer these four fill in's, We still have thunder storms, lightening and lots of high humidity. We had power outage's four times in two week, the last one was over 6 hours long. I know folks who lost power for days and weeks. Praying for power for all across the country. 

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb

 

Aw...Mondays and love is... Sparks

Aw...Mondays 

We have those appointments coming up. Always something important to do. 

love is...always has the best intentions too.

Although Annie no longer blogs, many still share their favorite encouragement with Sparks.

May your days be blessed. We had so much rain and now I feel sad as the temps are rising and I am not a hot weather person, not when it is 90 plus in the middle of June. Sigh....

But grateful to be here.