Expiration Dates

I cleaned out my kitchen cabinet today, tossing things that had passed their expiration dates.  Some had expired a few months or years ago.  The baking powder and baking soda had expired in 2013!! Obviously I don't do a lot of baking. It made me start thinking about what if we had expiration dates posted on the things we do.  Use the ability to run by a certain date, hold your urine until you get to a bathroom, little things like that.  Would we use that knowledge to take advantage of the things God gave us before they expired or would we let them sit on the shelf? I am going to try to use what is left of my abilities before my expiration date arrives.

Changes

Changes in my life since I last posted.  Some good over the years, some bad, and some extremely heart breaking.  Behm, the love of my life, passed away in September.  My world came crashing to the ground and life will never be the same.  He was my anchor when life tossed us around, my sunshine when days were dark, my pick me up when I was down.  He always had a smile on his face and a positive attitude about life.  When he was in the ER days before he died, his blood pressure bottoming out, struggling with breathing his response to how are you was "Finer than frog hair".  Our granddaughter and I looked at each other and said how does he do it.  He never quit fighting and he had several battles over the past few years.  Days when I don't think I can go on, his determination to live life pushes me on.

I had a cartoon that I had cut out years before I met him where there is a knight in shining armor standing in front of a desk and the receptionist says Mr. Right is here.  That was Behm.  I didn't realize until just the other day he even dressed the part when he was welding.

Pinterest

Pinterest is my new favorite thing!  It's like a big magazine and catalog.  I have cooked several of the food items and copied a few of the crafts.  I have pinned or liked many more than I have done though.

When I was growing up, Grammy had a closet full of catalogs that we (Gloria and/or Jeanne & I) would go through and pick our favorite item on each page.  We spent hours doing this...it seemed like hours to me, but probably wasn't.

Pinterest is like that!  You can spend hours looking and pinning.  My childhood pastime has become the high tech "in" thing!

Walking

The last two days have been rainy and cold.  I haven't got to walk in the mornings and miss it.  Maybe today won't be raining, but I think it's going to be cold.

I walk in the cemetery.  There's not a lot of traffic in the morning, but at lunch you have to watch for cars all the time.  I don't know what everyone is doing out there at lunch.

Most mornings all you hear is the traffic on the highway.  People rushing to work and school.  It's such a contrast to the cemetery.  So quiet and no traffic.  Occasionally I will see deer in the pasture beside it.  We both stop and stare at each other.  I'm sure the deer are wondering what this crazy woman is doing.

One day at lunch I went to walk and locked my keys in the truck.  Luckily I had my phone and called for help.  Two police cars arrived to rescue me.  The traffic that day was busy.  I'm sure they were wondering what big crime I had committed in the cemetery!

Thursday Thoughts

Not much thinking going on today.  Just doing rote work...file stamp, scan & file.  Tomorrow is court so we will be busy.

Today started out cold, but ended in the 60's.

Pinterest is my new obsession.  Looking at gardens today.  Getting ready to start on a new garden.  Last year was a big bust...but we did pull some onions last week that had been beaten down last spring and survived all summer.  Behm said they were pretty good, not quite as sweet.

Wednesday Wisdom

"Words are like weapons, they wound sometimes".  A line from "If I Could Turn Back Time" by Cher.  Words can hurt or help.  Sometimes just one word can change the way you think about something or someone.  I hope that the words in this blog will not hurt anyone, but try to be an encouragement or a small smile to the ones who do read this.  Think about what you say today before you say it.  Say something encouraging to those around you, especially the ones you love.  And if you must say something bad about someone, just add "Bless her heart" at the end & that makes it better!

Deck the Halls

 I know, a little late for deck the halls but wanted to show these.

The courthouse offices all decorated their doors for Christmas.  Our first choice was this snowman, but the camera at the top of the front door prevented that from happening.  So we put him on the side door!

We used this one for the front door.  Pinterest idea.  One other office used the same but made variations after they saw ours and another was going to use it also.  Pinterest received a bunch of hits for door ideas!

 We had fun doing them and they stayed up the entire time without any problems.