۞ Sweet Interruptions ۞142

BRAVO Stacey... so well said.

Last Saturday... May 23, 2009... my sistahs were all here to help me celebrate my 1 year anniversary on Dave's Garden. (and you all thought it was for Mem Day, huh?) We gathered, we laughed, we shared, we lingered, we prayed, we ate, we even remembered all those who couldn't come this year with a special ceremony around the camp fire (well, actually it was a burn barrel)...
What did we learn that day?
Well, I learned that each and every one of us are very different... we come from different backgrounds, we each lead different lives, we each have our own life stresses and crosses to bear... but most of all we all love with a feeling that is rare to find in most people these days.
It's that HEART that brings us together here... it's a forgiving, sorrowful, and sweet heart that we are all drawn to... and what we have found in each other.
AND I also learned that I love you all even more since our hearts met in person.

Stacey... I don't have just one "distinctive" sistah here... I have many... Each of them are in my life for very special and separate reasons... BUT, I agree... I can not imagine my life with out them now.

Wow, in all of my haste and being snapped at, at work I missed the whole thing, but anyway very well stated Stacey. Ditto!

So here's what happened this afternoon. I got there around 10am and she was gone, you all know the one. She came in around 11 from a grandchild's graduation. We were getting along fine all day, then around 3:30ish she said something to me, then something to someone else, then something to someone else, then started talking about them all, all at the same time. Someone said, "You know you're having 3 different conversations by yourself all at the same time, right?" She giggled and said yes, she has a bad habit of doing that. Then around 4 someone we all know who works in a different office got married and is using the dash thing. I was more thinking out loud than anything just following up what she was saying, I said, "So, since I got married my name is Christine Ramsey-Whitney if I were to use the dash." She had her back to me sitting in her chair and snapped in an extremely sarcastic tone, "Well, now I am so glad you said that because if you hadn't I would have never known!" Is she loony or is it just me?

You are certainly the wise orator, niece. You are right, we are all 'tremendous beings'.

Because we are all so different, opinions do vary.
We can't deny that feelings get slighted now and then, but I am sure, there were no intended tramplings.. none that I know of since this thread is started.
But this group too is known for being quick to forgive, quick to help and quick to jump into prayers when asked.

Picture us as this beautiful landscape puzzle. All the pieces are important.
You are all important to me and dearly loved.

Sorry Crissy... don't want you to think you're talking to yourself! :D

Heed my advice, make money out of those strange happenings at your workplace. Write a book!

This was my poem for New Years 2009...
I just thought I'd post again mid year... cause I'm learning new songs all the time since I've been part of this group... and I even find myself humming the tunes from time to time.

Now I lay this year to rest,
I tell myself I did my best.
I made some dear and loving friends.
We laughed and cried, like chatty hens.

And now we enter a brand new year,
Of fun and swaps and grins and cheer.
We’ll shed a tear for those who hurt.
We’ll pray for those who need support.

My prayer today, and all year long,
For each to learn a brand new song.
To whisper the words to a sistah in need,
And to hear the tune in every deed.

I pray to take the hurt and pain.
Replace all that with peaceful refrain.
To give us each a sense of success,
And teach us how to accept the mess.

AMEN.

Crissy... Jaye's right... you'd have a best seller by the time you retire.

I must have missed something. What comment did BJ make that would upset Kris?

I worked outside pulling gawd awful burmuda grass out of an area where I want to put up a metal gazebo so that I can plant my Passion Flowers. Got all the weeds pulled, sprayed with Round Up, got out my Mantis tiller. The dang thing would not stay running. Think I need to tune it up. I so wanted to get this done today. Have a memorial service tomarrow to attend. As soon as we get back home I'm going to try the tiller again. In the mean time I'm enjoying a strawberry margarita ^_^.

Barb, praying that things will turn out good in the long run. Ran into an friend I have not seen since hubby's funeral, found out she has cancer in her bones and lymph node. She was my hubby's ex-mother in law. We were also neighbors for 2 years. This lady painted some of the most beautiful pictures. She has alot of her books for sale for $5 a piece they are $15 books. Told me to come and get them but I don't really need them. If there's anyone interested in tole painting I could check out the books for you.
Well ladies, I need to take a shower and get ready to watch the Bachlorette.

TTYL }!{

Cindy... ya know... everyone I know that owns a Mantis has problems with it this year... wonder what's up with that?

Evenin girls
instead of posting several times to show ya the blooms at my house I shrunk them down and put them all in one picture...roses, daylilies and a glad.

Thanks.

I just said that as I have a few distinct people here that make up something that I had been missing without my knowledge. I also have people that I deem in certain places. Like for instance, I think of Jaye as the heart of our group. Always one to help others, quick to console, generous as a queen, whit to match any comedian's and the warmth that can melt even the coldest one of us. A true angel amongst us.........

I almost think of our group as one large living being, each person being one facet that makes up the whole being. But each one a specific piece of that puzzle.....

WOW... There's a lot of PINK going on at your house, Phyllis !!!
Beautiful blooms... but then, there were a lot of beautiful blooms the last time I was there too... but those are new blooms since then.

Good way to describe it Fairy Lips ... One BIG being... that's the product of a very creative mind.

Well, ladies... I'm calling it a night... Don went to bed an hour ago, and I can hear him snoring through all three walls. I think I'll get my shower, then snuggle down with the controller and turn the channel.

I got my Mantis about 4 years ago and I have never tuned it up. So I think this is my fault :(
Going to have to learn to do things myself, beings there is no man around to help. My SIL doesn't know how to work on things like this. My hubby was always showing him how to use power tools, he really misses him. So I guess I will just have to order the fix it kit and get out the book and do it myself. Lord help to get it back together rigth. BJ can you send Don to California for a day or two,lol.

MAN!!! I really hate this time difference, when I'm ready to chit chat ya all are heading to bed:( Fine then, I'll just go take my shower and another margarita and watch tv.

Good Night All, Sweet Dreams

Hey Cindy send a couple of Margaritas this way.....I could use one!

Good night everyone!
Hope everything is sorted out and happy by tomorrow....sweet dreams!

And to think I almost bought a Mantis tiller.
Cindy, thank God for instruction manuals. You can do it sistah!
Kel may be a man, supposedly to be naturally, mechanically inclined... pfffffffff... he still depends on manuals or would just 'google' the problems and if he failed.. off to a pro.

Phyllis, love the roses. One day, I'll be able to brag on a huge rose garden.

Stacey, that is so kind of you to say that. Thank you.

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." Helen Keller