Be Still and Know...Then and Now

In June of 2007 we took a vacation to Copenhagen. My husband had been in Sweden for several months for training for his new job and part of the agreement for him begin away for so long was that the company would bring his family over to visit him. After many weeks of discussion we decide upon meeting in a central location from where he was staying for his training, which ended up to be Copenhagen. I took so many beautiful pictures from that trip and I wanted to pick something that would not be to difficult to paint. I did not want to start with something hard like buildings or faces, they are a bit on the high end of the difficulty factor for just starting back with something you have not done in a very long time, and it has been a really long time since I picked up a paint brush. I remember having thoughts when my children were very little. All I wanted was a few moments to myself. When they are little they want to help mommy paint and then you end up supervising to make sure they a...

Hi! My name is Robin and I’m a Project 365 wanna be! I am currently seeking other bloggers who are ready and wiling to recognize and admit they have a problem! I forgot to take a picture of… I feel lighter already. Next year I may attempt Project 52 and strive for at least one picture a week! Sunday, September 19…No Pictures Monday, September 20 The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, or at least the knees are not what they used to be. I spent most of the day in the recliner with it iced down. A good book, my Wii remote, love me some Watch Instantly, my new favorite thing these days!!! A tall glass of Sweet Iced Tea, the remote control for the ceiling fan, that is crucial to have close at hand, the house phone and my cell phone within hand’s reach. I was good until nature called or the dog needed to go out!   Tuesday, September 21 Y’all know me and my four favorite words, “Reduced for Quick Sale”! I had a windfall on Tuesday. I was near giddy at my frugalness and and...

Did you like to read when you were a child? I enjoyed reading when I was a teenage, I don’t remember if reading was a huge part of my elementary years! I have one very specific memory of my grandmother. It was a little joke we played on her every time we went to visit her. We would ask her to read Pinocchio to us. She would always say yes but the real reason we wanted her to read it to us was she always struggle with the name Geppetto. Sometimes she would try to skip the pages that had his name on it then it would become another game to try and catch her trying to skip those pages. I would giggle and laugh as she would struggle to pronounce his name. She new that we picked that book because she couldn't say his name but she always read it to us every time. It was a fun game and when I remember it make me smile!  What were your favorite genres, books or series? I loved Pippi Longstocking and I remember a series of books about a bunch of children who lived in a boxcar “The Boxcar ...

1. Have you, or has someone close to you, ever won an award for anything? How many Perfect Attendance and A-B Honor Roll, Most Improved in Band and the various school awards for both my children do I have stored away in a box. I could probably paper my bathroom or hallway with them. But then that’s good thing I suppose. 2. Who is the nearest relative to you who has served in the US Military? My father In Law who passed away this past December was retired military. He was in the Army and was assigned to the presidential Flight Crew for President Kennedy and then President Johnson after President Kennedy's assignation. My MIL has many pictures of him in the mix of when they brought President Kennedys body back to Washington. He served a tour in Vietnam. When he passed away the held a full military funeral at the National Cemetery here in Georgia. It was impressive and very moving! 3. Share something that stirs the patriotic spirit in you. If you want to really experience the tru...

It’s good to shake off the gloominess….   Blessings R

…the last seven days. I think I am still in a bit of a hormonal funk, but that is the norm these days. My theory is that the brain only holds on to specific information that is critical for keeping the body alive. Information that allows me the ability to breath in and out and other physiological bodily functions. Beyond that it seems I have lost the ability to put things back where they belong, remember things like my cell phone number, put two or more coherent words together in an understandable sentence or remember prior commitments that are in fact written right on my calendar, the calendar that I look at every time I open my refrigerator door, the calendar that I use to schedule my life, the DD life and the hubs business travels. Yea right in front of me all day and I still forgot an appointment! How many times did I sit down with the intent of working on a post only to stare at the computer and then give in and check my facebook page instead. Facebook is so easy. All I have to...

Y’all this week was a BUST! Aside from being exhausted on Monday from our weekend Fence Moving Project, I was having a serious bout of peri-menapausal hormonal upheaval. Rather that smashing my camera to the ground I opted to sequester myself and endanger as few people as possible. Sunday, September 5 I shared this picture last week, but it is worth repeating as this was the partial reason for my lack of photographs. I was just so tired from working so hard. Building fences is for the young I am afraid! Monday, September 6, Tuesday, September 7 Naaadddddaaaaa! Wednesday, September 8 God is so good y’all! On Wednesday evening at church after probably one of the worst days I have had, hormonally speaking, I was preparing to go home. It had been one of those marathon days. I left the house at 8:30 A.M. and had not been back since and it was nearing 8:00 P.M. I had my Bible Study in the morning which I felt totally discombobulated and unorganized about. Then Skoots1mom and I went...

How can you not remember! It seems like such a long time ago but then it also feels like it was just yesterday. I remember having feelings and thoughts about how life would never ever be the same. In some aspects that statement was very true. Our lives were changed forever. We lost something very dear to us. We lost the sense of safety and assurance that we had. The task of air travel was forever changed, our view of the world was tainted. For as much as I try to remain open minded I confess that I let my bigotry run rampant when the topic of Islam is broached. It is hard to be objective, yet it is so very easy to be judgmental. With all the controversy of late about the proposed mosque in New York and a small church in Florida it seems that the world has slipped into a vacuum and everything feels like it is spinning out of control. So on this day of remembrance where no doubt we will be revisited with images that we tried so hard to push out of our heads I share with you somethi...

So here is my Flashback for this Friday, y’all grab your remote and enjoy! Tell about TV when you were growing up. Did your family have a TV? Although my daughter thinks I came from the ark ages we did in fact have a television as well as indoor plumbing, running water and even electricity when we were growing up. Was it color or b&w? If memory serves it was color, however seeing as my hormones have pushed all possibility of things like memory retrieval from my brain, this fact can not be positively verified. I do, however, have very vivid memories of making sure we were all seated in front of the television for the door opening scene of the Wizard of Oz! This tells me that we did in fact have a color television or I was delusion even as a small child! How many TVs did your family have? I think we only had one! Did you have one in your room? When I was in elementary school that simply was not a concept that was even considered. However I do think as the televisions got mor...

Well the ol' desktop is out of commission for a bit. For the past few months I have been banging my head against the screen as it froze up every few minutes and then crashed, it made for lots of frustrations. I was forced to reformat the hard drive this afternoon! I will be spending the next few days reloading software and getting things back in working order! so... I'll be back...as soon as I get all my computer ducks in a row! Why can't stuff just work??? Blessings R

Y’all I am so late to the 365 party today. You will see why when you get to Saturday and today’s pictures. But better late than never.! Sunday, August 29 My painting is taking shape. Sundays seem to be the day I have some time to work on it! I am still a bit uncertain about the water. It isn't quite right and the depth and shading on the sides of the fountains still need work. I have found that taking pictures of the progress has really helped me to see the areas of the painting that need additional work. One of the things I have learned is that with age comes patience. I remember, back in the day, I was always in a hurry to get a piece done. Now I recognize that I am in no rust to get things done. I have the luxury of being able to take my time and really think about what I am doing. I can fix the problem areas and not trying to rush the process. Some things about the aging process are worth the gray hairs, maybe! Monday, August 30 I was working on the compute...