CHUCK NORRIS...YEAR 2026

 ONE OF MY FAVORITE ACTORS DIED.....CHUCK NORRIS   AGE 86...SURE LOVED TO SEE THIS GUY IN ACTION.  ALWAYS SEEMED SO SWEET AND MANLY!

POEM OF SPARROW

                           HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW!

 

His Eye Is on the Sparrow (Original Lyrics) 

Verse 1
Why should I feel discouraged?
Why should the shadows come?
Why should my heart be lonely,
And long for heaven and home?
When Jesus is my portion,
My constant friend is He;
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me. 

Chorus
I sing because I'm happy,
I sing because I'm free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me. 

LOVE TO TESTIFY

MOVIE " SOUTHERN GOSPLE "

Key Lyrics from "Somebody Oughta Testify" 

Somebody oughta testify

Oh, somebody oughta testify

Said for God, I live, for God, I die

Serving you (Serving you)

Praising you (Praising you)

Trusting you (Trusting you)

Loving you (Loving you)

"Somebody Oughta Testify"

Lyrics

I'm looking for someone, for anyone

Who can stand up and tell what the Lord has done for THEM

• • Has He been faithful? Has He been merciful?
    Come on now, I want someone to rise up and testify

    I've got to tell someone
    What a mighty thing that my Lord has done
    His love has changed my life
    I've got to stand and testify
    I want to make it known
    Can't believe the mercy that I've been shown
    Got joy and hope inside
    I've got to stand and testify

    Grace came to me and my soul is compelled
    I've got such good news that I just can't keep to myself

    I've got to tell someone
    What a mighty thing that my Lord has done
    His love has changed my life
    I've got to stand and testify
    I want to make it known
    Can't believe the mercy that I've been shown
    Got joy and hope inside
    I've got to stand and testify

    
    

    Took away my guilt and sin (testify, testify)

    Gave me peace and joy within (testify, testify)
    Oh, I'm forgiven for everything that I've done wrong (I'm forgiven for - I've done wrong)
    And if it's true for you, get on your feet and sing along, yeah

    I've got to tell someone
    What a mighty thing that my Lord has done)
    His Love has changed my life
    I've got to stand and testify (wanna testify)
    I want to make it known (want to make it known)
    Can't believe the mercy that I've been shown
    Got joy and hope inside
    I've got to stand and testify (come on and testify)

    
    

• The Booth Brothers - "Testify": Focuses on being forgiven, having joy, and needing to tell someone what the Lord has done.

MOMS PUZZLES OVER THE YEARS

I WAS GETTING TOO MANY PUZZLES TO SAVE THEM ALL. I HAD GLUED MOST OF THEM SO  BEFORE THROWING  THEM OUT I HAD JOEY TAKE PICTURES OF THEM.  HERE IS MOST OF THEM.

                                                    MY FIRST HARD PUZZLE

HERE ARE OTHERS OVER  THE  YEAR.......

 Things the kids did when  younger....

Val was bouncing a basketball in family room and sent the ball into Dad's TV that he had bought from a employee at Repco  for $75 dollars.

Angie was playing around in playhouse and pushed Russell out the window where there was

a fence below and he could have been seriously hurt. Scary!

The kids played down in a big underground sewer and I thought when told ,
"not my kids." ugh! 

Dad put up a transparent drawing of Batman & Robin, Wonder Woman  on our family room wall  and he brew them up Big and let the kids paint them.  It was the coolest!!  wonder if he has a picture of it?

 Things I love to do.....

Hang out with Donna

Decorating my home

Listening to Joey playing his favorite  music

Working  puzzles

Keeping  a blog

Restoring old junk furniture 

Working  Sudoku

Playing Solitaire

Loving on my cats

Sayings of old

 

                                                               Turn over a new lease

                                                         Wait for the dust to settle

                                                         Make hay while the sun shines

                                                         That's out of the ordinary 

                                                         Your walking on thin ice

                                                          That will  break the Bank

                                              

My sister Sarah

 Sarah is not well! 😞

She has been in hospital for several days and they didn't know if she was going to make it. She has fluid taken from around her heart, it was a very scary thing,  she came out of surgery but she still is in critical condition.  Donna went to Indiana to be with her , I would have went but our Jenny came  home from California .  Its been too long since I have seen her  and now so wonderful to have her here.  I will keep Sarah in my prayers and hope she can be with us a little longer!  Sarah is 87.

A Weird Day

 A funny thing but weird happened when I went to get my  drivers license renewed.  I set down in a chair next to this old man perhaps a bit younger than me and I ask the man if he has been waiting very  long, and he said not too long and told me his # and that I was right after  him.   Then he commenced talking to me and before I knew it he ask me if I would go have lunch with him afterwards and I said no I couldn't do that.  He then said  I was very sweet and could I come visit him and told me where he lived and again I said no.. I said I was married , but he still wanted me to come visit him. He even ask me then if he could kiss me, and again I said nope.  Lucky for me they called his # and before he left he again told me how sweet I was and gave me a kiss on the cheek. It all was so weird!  Never had that happen before. Totally new experience for me. I was careful to leave after he pulled away in his big red truck.  This happened cause I just ask the question how long he had been waiting.  All this because of a few kind words. Wow crazy!😯

ALL IN THE SAME BOAT

 

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 Same Boat

Yes we are all in the same boat!

We're all in the same boat
Fishing in the same hole
Wondering where the time goes
We're all in the same boat

We all believe what we believe
And peacefully agree to disagree
But you can't judge a man
Until you walk a country mile in his shoes

We're all in the same boat
Fishing in the same hole
Wondering where the time goes
And the money too
Trying to fix the same broken hearts
Wishing on the same stars
We're hoping hope floats
For we're all in the same boat

We all been kicked around
But it ain't gonna keep a good man down
and you can run from some mistakes
But you can't hide,,, so

We're all in the same boat
Fishing in the same hole
Wondering where the time goes
And money too
Trying to fix the same broken hearts
Wishing on the same stars
and we're all just hoping... for
We're all in the same boat

Share them peaches, that you're holding
Give that love and just keep on going
If you can't be nice
Don't say nothing at all.....
So help somebody who might be struggling
Spread a little love,  give back something
And if the ship keeps rocking then 
We'll all go overboard.....

We're all in the same boat
Fishing in the same hole
Wondering where the time goes
And money too
Trying to fix the same broken hearts
Wishing on the same stars
We're all hoping time floats
And we're all in the same boat
Yeah, we're all hoping cause 
We're all in the same boat   

YES WE ARE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT

    When I see this I think of my girls  Angie , Leslie and Jenny and how they have remained friends for a super long time and are close and hope it remains so for the rest of their lives. They take trips together enjoying time with each other. I love this.😊  All live in sunny California.

                                    

Sarah my sister

             

                        

Well since last posted, Donna, myself and Bump made a trip home because my sister Sarah has been very ill and they were worried about her!  She was glad to see  us and we her . She has always held a special place in my heart because she was the one who introduced me to you kids dad .   I think there is no sweeter person than her and would have to include Joey's mom right up there with her.  Both really good women!!    She played an important part in my younger days.  Often helping me with school work and someone who took time to listen to me.   The date here was 2024/   Here Sarah visited us and stayed with us  for awhile.                                      

PLO gave us a scare

 Four days ago after I was extremely sick throwing up and now guessing it was  a 24 hour bug then our sweet Plo got sick too. 

My Plo ..his name from when he was little and lived with Jen.   Jen named him that. Anyway the following day and for few days we pretty much resigned to the fact that he was on his way out but just when we thought it was near over and the end  was near our Big Boy did things he never did for five days. I had pretty much given up and crying all the time and had set my mind to losing my sweet puzzle buddy but he never gave up and I never quit praying and actually talked to the Lord and ask him that he would let me keep him a little longer. Just kept loving him and loving on him and crying. Well , I got my miracle and my boy slowly got better and believe it or not I truly knew that the Lord had heard me. He started eating and drinking and slowly came back to me. 😊💖

MY PLO

this was in April

 

              ITS LIFE!

VALERIE FINALLY HAD HER KNEE SURGERY DONE

RANDY NEARLY CUT HIS FINGER OFF

PAUL, BUMPS SON, SADLY LOST HIS WIFE.  

ROSCOE MY BROTHER ALSO PASSED LAST MONTH 

FRANKIE  TURNED ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD THIS PASS MARCH

LIFE IS MOVING ON ....AND WE TODD KIDS ARE ALL GETTING OLD

      MY BLOG IS GETTING BEHIND ON THINGS GOING ON. 

                                I REALLY NEED TO CATCH UP!

THREE SISTERS

 

  Three sisters live in a house together

One night the 96-year-old draws a bath. She puts one foot in a pauses. She yells down the stairs, “Was I getting in or out of the bath?” The 94-year-old yells back, “I don’t know. I’ll come up and see.” She starts up the stairs and pauses. Then she yells out, “Was I going up the stairs or down?” The 92-year-old is sitting at the kitchen table having tea and listening to her sisters. She shakes her head and says, “I sure hope I never get that forgetful.” She knocks on wood for good measure. She then replies, “I’ll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who’s at the door.”

DONNA AND I LAUGH AT THIS ALOT!