Perhaps no man should possess the key to his wife's affections, what makes and keeps him worthy in her eyes. That would be like gaining unauthorized access to God's grace. We would not use such knowledge wisely.

~ Richard Russo ~

I saw the sweetest thing when I was about to open the back door to come in for the night. It was a female green anole wrapped around a flower from my hydrangeas. She way laying on two of the leaves. She was so pretty. About average size. Her eyes were shut and she was snoozing away.

I got real close and she didn't move. She looked so delicate.

I love my anoles. :)

I got out of the hospital around 3pm.

To be updated at a later date.

I felt horrible Thursday around noon. By 2:30pm I was at the emergency room.

After hours of tests they ruled out a stroke and a heart attack and admitted me to the hospital to get a unit of blood and try to find out where inside my body I was bleeding.

I was diagnosed as having Iron Deficiency Anemia. What fun! :(

Grace is not the property of youth or talent. We find the necessary measure where we need it most: in our own good humor, in the love of family, or in the kind act of a friend.

~ Claire Davis ~

...we spend far too much time and energy contemplating our inadequacies. We forget that we are all perfect in our imperfection.

~ Kate Dillon ~

When [my wife] comes around the corner and finds me at the top of a ladder changing a burnt-out lightbulb--a task that might have been on the list for days or weeks--she'll look up at me with a surprised, fetching smile and say, 'Oh, great, you're changing the light bulb. Look at you up there! So manly...' And, sometimes, a comment like this is all I need.

~ Christopher Russell ~

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~

We have so much. All we have is all we need. All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are."

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~

"I'm fulfilled in what I do...I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes--the finer things in life--would make you happy. My happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."

~ Coretta Scott King ~

The goal to be sought is a world where well-being extends to all in the fullest, richest way possible... brought about by a mode of creative ethical living that includes all of us as moral equals, inspiring and uplifting us all, nourished by the creative energy we experience as spirituality..."

~ Martin Prozesky ~

"It is an understatement to say that self-esteem, the elusive belief in our intrinsic worth and beauty, makes and saves lives. For many, that journey to survival is mapped on the body's surface--and begins as we extend to our most hated features the first tremblings of compassion."

~ Rebecca Walker ~

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us with nothing to show for
our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~ Tom Stoffard ~

We had an awful scary rain, hail, and wind storm at our house Thursday.  When it hit "wow".

We were lying in bed watching TV when it hit.  The noise was horrendous!!!  The windows sounded like they were going to break any moment.  Me, Jim, Raskal and Peanut had gotten up and moved to the door to leave the room.  I had to hunt under the covers to find PixieRoo.  It seemed like it lasted FOREVER!!!  Scary.

I sure was glad after it was over!  Heh!

Click the link below if you want to see the during and after.  After you click view pictures there is a link for a slideshow.  At the end of the slideshow don't leave a comment unless you want to open an account with Shutterfly.  If you have any problems let me know.

Some of the pictures were taken through a wet glass security door and are not that clear.  The storm was still raging.  You should be able to make out the hail and shredded leaves sticking to the side of the house, etc.  The hail was almost one inch in diameter.

The only damage to the house that I have found is on the west side.  The window screens have holes in them and it broke the "liners" around the windows.  We won't know about the roof until the appraiser comes.  It sure "cleaned" or whitened up our east fence!


Pictures were taken during and after the storm

"Ultimately of course every woman must decide for herself, from her clay of givens and takings, what has made her a woman..."

~ Natalie Angiers ~

"Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer."

~ Bo Lozoff ~

"Allowing the truth of who you are--your spiritual self--to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life."

~ Oprah Winfrey ~