SUNDAY STEEALING AW....MONDAYS AND TUESDAY4

 

STEALING SUNDAY WITH BEV SYKES

1. What's the best thing to inherit besides money?

Good manners, good morals and respect for others.

2. What one thing would you like to happen tomorrow?

To find my missing cell phone. Driving me crazy, saying it is in my home.

3. Who is the person with whom you have been  most infatuated?

Not as an adult but as a pre teen and young teen probably Mark Lindsay

from Paul Revere and the Raiders

4. What part of the day does the time go slowest and fastest?

Depends on the day but usually the mid day is slow while evenings go fast.

5. Whose thoughts would you most like to read?

The Good Lord's but I doubt He would let me.

6. Who is the person you would least like to touch?

I plead the fifth! It would get too political. U G H !

7. What is the best quality you inherited from your parents?

Their kind heart, their respect of others and the love they had for phamily.

8. Who is the friend you most often disagree with?

That would have been Sharon my BFF. She left this life in 2021.

We were total opposites but we respected each other and had a great

best friend relationship.

9. What's the best ritual of your daily life?

My early morning quiet time with the Lord , reading Scripture and

praying. 

10. What is the most useful job you ever had?

My first job and my job at the UCHSC. I made lifelong

friends at both places and learned a lot about totally different

things.

11. In which year of your life did you change the most?

1984 when I was newly married and had to have brain surgery.

I knew my husband was a keeper and all the pain and suffering

was worth it, because he never left my side.

12. What's the best thing you've ever gotten for free?

Sound advice from my dad. He had a 4th grade education and

worked as a steel worker. Still the most intelligent person I ever knew.

13. What is the best thing you are good at?

Raising good children and having the opportunity to help raise a

great grandson when he was newborn to age two. 

14. What was the luckiest moment of your life?

Probably marrying my best guy friend, my husband Avery.

15. What is the single most important thing you ever learned?

That God exists, He loves everyone of us and He wants us to live in

eternity with Him forever.

Aw...Mondays

Happy Anniversary to Sandee and Zane. Wishing you more happiness with many years ahead of you. 

 Tuesday4

TIME TO PAMPER YOU...

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4.

Let's talk about you personally.

1. Do you pamper yourself at all? If yes, how do you do that?  I try to brush my hair with a boar's hair brush every night before bedtime with 100 strokes! I use a morning and night cleanser and moisturizer's. I need to exercise more, but try to do some walking and still follow Jack Lalanne old you tube videos for exercise.

2.What kinds of foods/dishes do you consider to be a real treat? Do you often pamper yourself by having them? This is where I fail! I love good food and have a terrible sweet tooth. Sometimes I wish I were like a cat, who can not sweet. hahaha I love pasta and good desserts plus bread. All the carbs I need to shed from my life!

3. What  luxury item/items do you consider would be very hard to do without? (like buying books, having your hair done.. just about anything you really could do without but prefer not to.)

Buying books is the hardest one, I think I currently have 14 waiting for me to read. I get a hair cut with shampoo about every 6 weeks as a real treat and hope to save to get some highlights. Otherwise I am thrifty.

4. What kind of holiday or vacation would be a total luxury with which you might pamper yourself? Honestly,  I would like to travel more and visit our youngest daughter and her little phamily in Western NY. They live on acreage and just walking around the property, breathing fresher air and enjoying the quiet is a real luxury. I do love a good mountain retreat or a day or two or ten at the beach too

Feline Friday and Friendly Fill In's

 Feline Friday

If you read both of my blog posts here and at my other blog PHAMILY BLOG you would see that my blogger friend Diann LaBell Huffaker passed away. I chose these photos because when they hold her celebration of life, it will be as soon as the lilacs bloom. Aside from being a kind heart, Diann was a Master Gardner and knew so much about most every plant and herb and flower. She will be sadly missed.

Ellen and Lorianne share this Blog Hop and each of them selects two of the sentences presented here. Thanks ladies, and hope everyone enjoy these today.

1. I find _____________________ offensive.

2. __________________ is a good way to make some extra cash.

3. _________ makes me feel like I can accomplish anything.

4. I could see myself naming a cat or dog _________.

My answers:

1. I find people who are unkind offensive.

2. Selling her personal clothing, handbags, and shoes is a good way to make some extra cash.

3. When I spread kindness it makes me feel like I can accomplish anything.

4. I could see myself naming a cat or dog Lily or Thomas.

“There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.” Catherine Ryan Hyde

Thankful Thursday Snoopy and Friendly Fill In's

Thankful Thursday

My father was the team catcher. He is pictured on the far right side leaning on his bat. My uncle, his older brother Rudy a/k/a Moon is behind him and he was the team manager.

 Having a pitch clock, if you have ball-strike implications, that's messing with the fabric of the game. There's no clock in baseball, and there's no clock in baseball for a reason. Max Scherzer

 I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started. Ferguson Jenkins

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. Satchel Paige

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball. Cal Ripken Jr. 

 I’d like to be remembered. I’d like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, ‘Yeah, he’s a good shortstop, but he’s not as good as ole Ripken was. Cal Ripken Jr. 

Thurman Munson was indispensable and irreplaceable.  George Steinbrenner, NY Yankee Owner

I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average, but what I do everyday behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game. Thurman Munson

I am so thankful for baseball. Thankful for a father who taught me all about the game. For a mother, who played the game herself. Thankful for the strong willed women that were my encouragers, my mentors, my heroes. Quiet, godly men, like my father and his father who taught me so much about living life in a good way.

My mother is the lady to your right holding a broom in front of the door on your right. She was such a sweetheart but she was a fierce baseball player herself. This was some kind of promo for the National Broom Company. I cherish these photos of my folks. 

Snoopy is a delight. He & Charlie Brown have been around for 79 years in the comic strip They are as American as apple pie and baseball. 

Friendly Fill In's

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

1. I find _____________________ offensive.

2. __________________ is a good way to make some extra cash.

3. _________ makes me feel like I can accomplish anything.

4. I could see myself naming a cat or dog _________.

Tomorrow I will reveal my answers. Thanks ladies for the great job you do bringing this to us. 

Aw... Mondays/ Happy Tuesday/ Tuesday4/ Wordless Wednesday

 

Aw...Mondays

My friend Shirley , who I worked with in the 70's when we were just babies, haha, sent this snarky lil girl face to me with the words that made me laugh out loud!

The Bear must be related to me! Lately, the more I try to get done, the more tired I am! I guess "old age" is real and I am finally admitting it!

love is...self explanatory.

Happy Tuesday

Since we spend three days watching the boys, B&B play baseball and T Ball I found this photo, from about 2006 of Nick! That skinny boy could hit a baseball long and hard! What a sweet memory for me. 

Oh Maxine, I think you are reading my mind!! It is something I absolutely detest!

Tuesday4

Since I am always falling behind, and Tuesday4 took a holiday break, here are my four questions for you:

1. Do you watch much television?

2. If you do, what are some favorite programs?

3. If you don't, what do you like to do in the evenings/

4. Do you think there are more commercials everywhere, i.e. TV, radio, billboards, even social media?

My answers are here:

1. Do you watch much television? Oh yes we do! Often it is the only think to take us a way for a few hours. We are sports fans but if the MLB, NBA and NFL do not get their act together with their focus on gambling and cheating by certain teams and refs/umpires and other inappropriate nonsense that does not, I repeat, does not belong in the sportsworld, I am sad to say, we may have to give it up!

2. If you do what are some of your favorite programs? We loved the two year old series So Help Me Todd which we founds out, is going off the air. It was a cute program with Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin! Sad to see it go and yet series that are going into their 20th season and are repeating so much of their storylines from the first few years! So annoying!

3. If you don't, what do you like to do in the evenings? We have nights like that! Nothing is on so we play gin rummy, we read Scripture together and we pray for everyone we can think of under the sun! (we pray and read Scripture anyway but often it is our private time with Our Lord). 

4. Do you think there are more commercials everywhere, i.e. TV, radio, billboards, even social media? Yes absolutely, commercials especially drug commercials, my goodness, half the magazines you try to read like Woman's Day, BH&G, Southern Living, Coastal Living etc. are loaded with their drugs! Social media is the worst, with their minding your business about something you have viewed, like a new item at at a favorite dept. store or amazon.com. So absolutely uncalled for! Radio is getting bad too. We tune in to the Christian channels because their commercials are sponsors trying to lighten your load in this wacky world. 

Wordless Wednesday

                                                                              FINN

Aw...Mondays

 Aw...Mondays

We are getting a heat wave and heard some rain is in the forecast. The weekend was beautiful and busy. Our two grandsons play baseball and T ball. While Brody played, Blake was charming the little ladies, one in particular, with his Mathematical calculations! I don't think I have ever known a boy of 4.5 years old who was so incredibly bright. Not because he is our blood, but because his Mathematical skills are unmatched. It is a funny combination because his kindness skills are unmatched too. When we attend his t ball game tonight, I will share his baseball photo too. I wish I had been able to snap that hug as he embraced his little friend on the playground behind us. 

Brody has sports running through his veins. He was the catcher, the pitcher and shortstop and he got a hit! He played hard and it was a joy to see him there. 

What a sweet day Saturday was. The weather was perfect and these kids played so hard.

You know my father played the game, long before I was dreamed up. He always loved the game best and I feel he was shining down on Brody Saturday. What a day it was. I leaned near a tree trying to keep my composure when I saw my grandson behind the plate.  My niece Sarah, who was taken from us too soon also had passion for sports and she was a baseball pitcher.  My sister was blessed to see her pitch a game and said she threw that ball as great as any guy who ever stood on the pitchers mound. I wish I had some photos of her. 

"Baseball is like church, Many attend, but few understand." Leo Ernest Durocher

Animal Friends

 

Tuesday4

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Animal Friends

 

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4.

Let's talk about animals today!

1. What pets do you have or have you had? Do you have any now or if not, why not?

We have two long haired chihuahua's. Mom & daughter.

2. How did you find names for your animal friends? What are their names?

When I first met Lulu she just looked like a 'Lulu' and since our daughter and her husband helped with the birth of Mollie, Rebekah named her.

3. Any special or funny story concerning pets you would like to share?  It could be someone else's as well as your own. Mollie is three whole lbs. She can beat up her brother Finn who is 12 lbs. She is a very independent lil girl. She loves our son Nick and waits for him by the door when she knows he will walk through it at the same time! If I say "Where did your Nicky boy go?" She will run to his bedroom and sit on her special quilt he has for her. If you try to go in there she gives you a very fierce growl (if you can comprehend how vicious three pounds of a tiny girl is!)

4.   What benefit  do you find having animals in your family? What are the cons of having them? They are a joy. We were all sad when we lost Leo back in September 2022 but we all console each other. They are very intelligent and know when you need extra love. Are they a pain in the butt? Yes! They think they are fearless yet sometime there is a hawk alert. Someone will see a HUGE hawk and let us know. Fortunately, only the annoying Woodpecker, who prefers 6 AM as his time to work! We can not leave them alone. They seem sad this week. We think our neighbor Duke, the black lab must have passed away as he is no longer by the fence each day. His owner is very private and kind of in her own world. So since he has not been on his daily walk we think he meet the Rainbow Bridge. :-(

Happy Tuesday

Tuesday was a happy day! Sunshine, warm weather and lots of  trips to the yard for pups to roll and enjoy the warm day.

Tuesday was a happy supper/dinner day - fresh baked chicken with broccoli and some delicious rice. Plus a mint chocolate chip Oreo ice cream sandwich! No photo, drat!!

Lazy Bones on a Tuesday morning. Hogging the bed as usual. You would think this boy owns the place! He is in his Happy place napping. 

Wordless Wednesday

 Neighborhood Watch 
 

Oh Maxine....watch your language!