{ Friday Foto Friends....on Saturday }

Just one.....

 

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 A morning walk earlier in the week.....

HOPE everybody has a great weekend!

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I think thistles are beautiful... and would love to be able to pick a big bouquet of them. There's just one problem, right? You can't touch them without getting pricked. A few thoughts come to mind about this life lesson from a purple flower. 

A wolf in sheep's clothing. 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 

I Corinthians 10 :13 - The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.

Proverbs 31:30 - Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last;  but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.

What about you?

Can you think of another Bible verse or quote that might apply?

Happy Friday!

{ Friday Foto Friends }

I kinda skipped out on Y'all last week.

Sorry about that....

and only have one foto to share this week. 

While my kiddos were on vacation, I took care of cats and watering her vegetable garden and a few other things. This is a lavender bush in her garden. It's huge and loaded with bees and...

smells heavenly!

Not to even mention that it's purple, right?

😊

Does anybody have exciting plans for the weekend? 

Leave a comment and let me know (so I can be envious...😉) 

I wish I could say that I do, but alas....

I live a boring life, Y'all!

Happy, happy Friday!

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 Y'all, I need to make an apology to those of you who visit me and leave a sweet comment. I'm the world's worst at visiting but I hope my excuse is a good one. I have difficulty leaving a message from my phone and I don't get on the desktop a great lot. I promise I'll try to do better.....

and at posting on Friday and not Saturday morning.

😉

My little garden plot.

I have several varieties of tomatoes, bell pepper, cukes, and okra....

oh, and flowers coming up along the sides!

These are just the best little cherry tomatoes.

The variety is called Sungold and they're like eating candy. 

I've had 3 so far!

This probably looks like a big mess to some of you, but it makes my heart so happy. I've wanted a potting bench for quite some time. One day I realized that I already had one. This is a baker's rack that was in the kitchen at one time, then served as a shelf on the back porch...now it's my potting bench located under the carport and near my little garden. I have access to my garden tools hanging on the rack to the left (found that at Harbor Freight) and my water barrell. Notice the old bushel basket at the bottom that I found in the building at Mom's with my Daddy's name on it...the mailbox was our first one we had when we built our house in 1979 and it holds my gardening gloves.

I love it all!!!

Beautiful lillies....

they're called "garnet" which is my birthstone!

HOPE everybody has a wonderful weekend.

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 Jess picked me up around 8 Saturday morning and we headed to Alcoa and Maryville for a belated Mother's Day outing ... and she dropped me back off close to 3:30...we were both so tired... but my heart was happy! Can't think of anything I'd rather do than thrift... or anybody I'd rather spend the day with... than my Girl! 

I.am.blessed!

This is where we headed first. It's one of those places where you dig through bins... well worth it. Brand new clothing from Amazon on a separate table for $1.55 each piece... all other items were a little more ...I got lots of good stuff, including 2 garden flags, pistachios, a Christmas tree storage bag, a wood and metal tiered tray, and sandwich bag organizer containers. 

Only purchased one thing here... 

a really pretty stainless coffee mug. 

Loved this place... the lady who worked there was so kind. Only got one thing... a Lands End shirt for $1.00 that I'm gonna add some lace to the sleeves to make it a little more "girly".

Such a cute store on the outside, but I didn't find anything.

I didn't get anything here either... the prices were a little high... but I loved the cause they support. There was a blessing box outside the store and I'd just talked to Jess about a blessing box not an hour before we pulled in there... don't you love how God works? 

All clothing here was 50 cents but I didn't realize that until I went to pay for the one shirt I found... 

Jess and I went back to that area and I spent $1.50 more.  

Not a thrift store, but we went here last... I spent less than $5 on diced peach cups and toilet bowl cleaner... what a combo.  We also went to a really neat little store called Lynn's Discounts, but I failed to get a pic. I got 3 pretty mini journals with scripture on the front... and a skein of yarn...of course! 

Me and my sweet Girl! 

HOPE everybody has a safe and blessed weekend and Memorial Day. 

Thank you to all the veterans for my freedom. 

As much complaining as we hear, I hope we never forget how blessed we are.

{ Friday Foto Friends (on time this week }

 How does Friday roll back around so fast? I feel like my life is just passing me by. A very wise man told me about 4 years ago that I was going to have to start living my life. Sitting in church this past Sunday, I truly feel God speak to me through our pastor's message. It was about letting our circumstances define us and that was a very big ouch for me because I've done exactly that for way too long. I had to ask God to forgive me because He truly is the Only one who should matter in my life and He's the one who defines who I am....

nobody but Jesus!

Mercy, that gave me a whole new perspective on my situation and then several other things have happened this week, sweet advice from friends, revelations of things I wasn't aware of....

so much food for thought!

So.... in "living my life", I spent Wednesday with one of my dearest friends. She works for Dollywood and she treated me to a day out and about. It was wonderful....wore me slap out, but it was so worth it. (I'm getting old, Y'all) My mind has wandered back to that day several times....

the weather, the sites, but mostly the precious friendship!

 The two fotos above were of the chapel. 

It's so pretty and the 4 sisters who sang and played were sooooo talented!

 Dollywood is currently celebrating it's Flower and Food Festival so the flowers and topiares were just beautiful.

Loved what this said.

I think this was the first time riding the train since Jess was a little girl. 

I remember years ago when they had the gun fight on the train ride up the mountain.

(fake of course)

This one represents Dolly's Momma making her coat of many colors.

"Love is like a butterfly"

This is my favorite foto I took. (besides the selfie with my friend) I've seen fotos of these umbrellas for years but finally got to see them up close. And look at that sky and puffy clouds. I didn't alter this one bit.

These last two photos were of me helping to make an ornament by blowing into the tube as he shaped the glass. I would've never done this on my own, but my friend went and paid so what choice did I have?😊 (I did partly pay her back with lunch) This was so much fun and of course I chose shades of purple with a tad of orange to match my bedroom colors!

💜

Ain't God good, Y'all?

Oh, yes He most certainly is!

HOPE everybody has a great weekend. 

{ Friday Foto Friends... on Sunday }

Only a couple of days late.

😊😊😊😊😊

Sharing a mishmash of fotos from then....

 and now.

 

Hope everybody has a great week ahead!