Be Still and Know...Then and Now

  Well y’all I am sitting at my kitchen table with my windows open and the cool crisp fall breeze is blowing in, there is a pot of soup on the stove and in exactly eight day the hubs and I are off to San Francisco for a few days vacation. Whoooooo Hoooooooo!!!!!!! I’m off tomorrow to do a bit of shopping, vacation trips usually set my shopping anxiety aside, sometime ya just gotta have a little something new for a trip, if ya know what I mean. I might even go for the whole nine yards and do a manicure & pedicure for the occasion. We fly to San Francisco and we plan to spend some time in Napa Valley as well.  I am going to buy a spare memory card for the trip so I will not be hindered in my picture taking. Before my vacation euphoria travel anxiety completely takes over I wanted to get at least one more post in before I am wrapped up in packing, laundry and making all the last minute details with those who will be in charge of the DD while we are gone. Children a...

How much time do you spend blogging? How many blog’s do you follow? Do you read every blog you follow every day? Do you use your Google reader or Blogroll to follow a blog? I just counted. The number of blog’s in my blog roll is 66 the number of blog’s in my Google reader is 26. All of the blog’s in my Google reader are in my blogroll. If I unfollow someone's blog from Google reader but still keep them in my blogroll is that rude? You know us southern girls, it’s all about  being polite! With 66 blog in my blog roll I just can’t get to every one every day. I give my blog roll a once over in the morning and pick the post titles that jump out at me. If I have a boat load of time on my hands and have nothing else pressing I will from time to time try to make it down the entire list but that hardly ever happens. Do y’all use your Google reader, because I just don’t. I find it so much easier to put a new blog I find in my blog roll and then track that blog from there. How ...

Join me over at 2nd Cup of Coffee for this weeks Random Dozen   1. Please share one middle school memory. It can be good, bad, ugly, funny. Pictures or words, I don't care, just share. Just showing my age here!!! We did not have middle school. Back in the day we had elementary school from Kindergarten thru 8 th in one school. Some of my memories include having to memorize “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, and no I don’t remember any of it now! Knee socks, polyester, Bobby Sherman, Donny Osmond, The Partridge Family, Lost In Space, drawing pictures of my wedding dress on notebook paper over and over and over again! My best friend lived down stairs in the apartment below us. Making chewing gum wrapper chains, mine was really really long… 2. What's your favorite Beatles song? Can’t pick, love them all!!!!! 3. If I asked you to describe your most comfortable outfit, what would it be? Pajama's 4. Would you rather host a party or be a guest? Both, I enjo...

It was an amazing discovery! Several weeks ago as skoots1mom and I were walking back to our cars after our morning work out our pioneering spirit took over. We had had a morning of rain and as we walked down to the clubhouse where the workout room is we both commented how soothing the sound of the creek was and how wonderful it would be to sit on the deck above us and listen to the babbling water and drink a cup of morning coffee. The area behind the clubhouse is very densely wooded and you can not see any evidence of the creek, you can certainly hear it but with the trees and thick ground cover  it remains very well hidden. We had finished out workout and were hiding back to our cars when through a very tiny crack in the foliage we could see something. We set off to do a bit of exploring. Within a very few minutes this is what we found! With all the rain we have had over that last few days I took the opportunity this morning before my workout to go back down to...

Thankfully the rain did not impact our neighborhood beyond some slight pooling at the bottom of the hills which are plentiful in my neighborhood as there is not a street in the neighborhood that run level. This is a small very small ,  by comparison as some people have been dealing with sever flooding and there have even been reports of the floods causing at least two deaths in this county alone, taste of what we have been dealing with today. We usually get a small amount of water in the back yard during a heavy down pour and then it quickly recedes. Thankful my street has a significant slope to it so all the water is quickly washing down the hill. Please be in pray for one of my friends who had about 6 inches of water in her home and the rain is still falling. Shalom Robin

Please be in prayer for us down here in the south.  We have been saturated with consistent rain for several days and there seems to be more on the way. Neighborhoods are flooding and they have canceled the county school today. I just received word from skoots1mom that a close friend of ours has flooding in their house. Please pray for all those effected by this flooding. I know the rainbow is coming but I needed to remind myself of God’s unfailing covenant with us. GE 9:8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you--the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you--every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."    GE 9:12 And God sa...

Shalom Robin

  So what did y’all do this morning! Well, It was pouring down rain. I sat listening to the rain, warm and dry in my jammies drinking my coffee. I nearly convinced myself to stay at home. But my civic duty won out. I put on my husbands red shirt (red is the Save the Library campaign color) grabbed my red umbrella and headed out the door this morning to exercise my first amendment right. You see the economy has taken a very sad toll on our community. The library board (in an unpublicized meeting and unscheduled vote) has voted to close our local library. This library is less than three years old and is a beautiful multi-million dollar facility with-in walking distance of my house. It is centrally located between the middle school and the high school. The land for this facility was actually donated by two retired Gwinnett county school teachers who taught in the dacula schools to be use for the purpose of building a library for our city. My DD is an avid reader so we are re...

    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? My translation: Me, myself and I picked a peck of sweet peppers A peck of sweet peppers I did pick If I did indeed pick a peck of sweet peppers Where’s the peck of sweet pepper me, myself and I did pick? Ready for the answer…   In a jar of jelly! Scrappy Sue over at My Home Wellingtontown gave me the idea. She made a comment the other day about making a relish with all my green peppers. That was just enough of a push to get me thinking past just chopping them up on a salad! So I dusted off the old mason jars, got busy doing an internet search for exactly what to do with my plethora of green peppers, and then went to the story for supplies. I did not exactly find any relish recipes (if y’all have any good relish recipes I would love to give...

I used Homespun for this one. I love working with this yarn. It is so very soft and given the texture and the bulkiness of this yarn it makes for quick work. I knocked this one out in about two weeks or so. I love the colors, Homespun Windsor (the blue), Homespun Pacific (the pale pink and beige variegated) and white. The colors worked so very beautifully together. Her is a close up of the colors! I had just finished off the last edge and folded up up and placed it aside to turn in on Wednesday. My sweet devil puppy decide to curl up on top of it for a small nap. How very precious I thought. Until I saw this! A HOLE! A HOLE CHEWED BY MY SWEET PRECIOUS DEVIL PUPPY! But…God is good! You see I was on my way out the door to my morning work out and had already instructed my sweet devil puppy to get into his crate BEFORE I spied the HOLE. Had he not been safely behind bars already I am not sure what would have happen! Robin

and really I don’t want to get it either… I am not a sport enthusiast. I don’t get football, baseball, tennis, golf, hockey, soccer etc…it all just goes over my head. Here lately that old familiar feeling of being out of the loop has returned. As football season has gotten back in the swing of things the familiar commercials every two minutes have returned, team flags begin to pop up, cars are decorated, houses are decorated, faces are decorated. When I check my Facebook page I see all the status updates with witty remarks about the different teams, updates on scores and the lamenting about a loss. “Roll Tide” what’s that??? Alabama or Tennessee or well you get the picture! I don’t get it folks. During a Sunday school lesson or sermon when the inevitable sports analogy is used as an illustration well my mind starts to wander. When sport figures are mentioned during lunch or just in general conversation I never know who they are. Confession time: I did not know who Mi...

  The “I Won…You Win Giveaway” is on it way to Linda @ 2nd Cup of Coffee . If you are interested you and click here to read the post about the give away and you can click here to see the official drawing for the winner. So if you are one of the rare bloggers who has their internet connection hooked up to your cave in the back woods and you have never read our sweet Linda’s blog then you must stop what you are doing and go over and give her a visit to congratulate her on her win. Not to mention keep your eyes peeled on her blog for the next leg of the “I Won…You Win Giveaway!” Congratulation Linda and happy reading, I am getting the book in the mail to you ASAP. I just have to add a little something extra to you package, and no I not saying…you’ll just have to wait to see what it is. Shalom Robin

If you have not seen this video it is a “MUST SEE” Shalom Robin

I am way late to the party but sometimes ya just gotta be thankful when the inspiration strikes. So Thank you Sonya for hosting Thankful Thursday . I walked in my house and the DH and DD were asleep. The puppy looks at me longingly from his crate with expectation but quickly settles back down and falls asleep as well. I opened up the old laptop and settled in to visit some of my favorite blogs. I wasn’t planning to post tonight but after reading several of your Thankful Thursdays and then making a trip to the potty (keep reading it will make sense when you get to my number 5) I recognized that I had a few minutes to get mine in under the wire. You see #1 Thursdays are my Accountability Group night. The name of our group is The Persistent Momma’s! That's what we do! We persist, just like the persistent widow only as mom’s we week after week come together to pray for our children and many other things. There are four of us and we meet each week on Thursdays. We talk, stud...

  Yes…more garden pictures. But look y’all at the size of this sweet pepper. My peppers are just producing like little green monsters! It’s down to just the peppers and the matters! Blessings Robin

Y’all go over to Kim’s blog Just a Southern Girl she is having a giveaway to celebrate her 2nd blogoversary, her 500th post and 25,000 visitor. We bow to your greatness girlfriend!!! Especially for those of us who have not even broken the 300 post mark… I just lover her blog and you will too so go over and check her out!!! Blessings Robin

Just to recap some of the comments you made on the “I Won…You Win Giveaway” …I’m all for positive reinforcement…here is what y’all said! Becky @ Adult Deprived said“What a wonderful idea!” 2 Thinks and Kim @ Just a Southern Girl said “Excellent idea!” Beverly @ Dancing With the Daffodils said  “This sounds like great fun!” Ruby in the Kitchen said “Great idea.” and my favorite comment was Robynn @ Robynn’s ravings said “This is BRILLIANT!” I am not sure if this is brilliant but I will bask in the notion that someone else thought it was. Thanks to all of you who stopped by over the last 15 days and left me a comment. It really has been fun! So with no further ado…   Duuun daaa daaa duuuuun…the suspense is building. To insure that proper blog giveaway procedures were adhered to the entire drawing was video taped to document the accuracy of this drawing. Plus I just wanted to torture the DD a bit!!! Hey ya gotta seize the moments when you can...

I have no idea, yet any way! The drawing for the “I Won…You Win Giveaway!” is officially closed! I have printed off all the comments, 54 by my count, but then I am mathematically challenged so it could be off by one or three…. When the DD gets home from school she will be instructed in the proper procedures detailed into the Official Blog Giveaway Handbook, I love making things up as I go along as well as given the Official Blog Giveaway Oath: “I (state you name) promise I will faithfully make sure my eyes are closed when I reach into the Tupperware bowel. I promise I will randomly select no more then one slip of paper from said bowl. I also promise I will turn all remaining results over to the Director of the Blogosphere Quality Control Task Force that’s me for immediate disposal to ensure complete adherence to the Official Blog Giveaway Guidelines and security procedures insuring complete anonymity for all participating parties that’s all y’all. ” Now take a deep breat...

In what I can only guess is an effort to steam line manufacturing cost this latest trend with my favorite place Wal-Mart, could be hazardous for my health. Let’s just hope that I don’t make my morning smoothie with the fabric softener and pour the soy milk into my washing machine! Let’s just say that I have a love/hate relationship with this big box retailer. I love the saving but I hate going there. What’s up with this!!!!! Blessings Robin