Prayer Flags...

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  Check this out.  It was posted on my Facebook page by Wild Magnolia...and I think it's an awesome idea. I'm gonna get to work on mine tomorrow...

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  It's been a long chilly rainy gloomy day around these parts.  I went over to sit with my neighbors husband for most of the day and then came home to make some vegetarian chili and get ready to head to the discussion group at 6:30.   It, of course, was wonderful.

  So was the chili.  lol    I started out with sauteed onions, added some small diced carrots and celery, garlic, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, cannelini beans, bell pepper, yellow crookneck and zucchini squashes. I put in a small can of diced mild chilies.  I added extra water. I threw in a couple of handfuls of dried corn.  I added cumin, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and smoky paprika. Then I put in a little more salt.  lol  It was really wonderful.;  There was enough to freeze a couple of the big yogurt containers and still put a container with another meal's worth in the fridge. We had it with sun dried tomato tortillas, warmed with a little butter. I'm tellin ya, chickadees....it was good. Chock full of chunky vegetables and nothing bad for you in it at all.  And EXTREMELY flavorful.  That smoky paprika (that I bought for another recipe recently) has been worth every penny it cost. It really lends itself well to dishes like this one.  I think it cost something like $1.07 per ounce .

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  I'm pooped tonight. I went to bed in tears last night after some emotional breakdown and then couldn't quite make it stop. So, naturally, I woke up my poor husband and he was well, just wonderful. And then my nose was so stuffed up from crying that I couldn't hardly sleep.   It all started when  everybody I freaking know had to get grandchildren this past few days. I swear... and when I read Mary Moon's blog about Lily's home birth and all the family there and saw the pictures of that little guy....I just lost it.  I just sat here and sobbed and sobbed.  It was all triggered (I'm sure) by the fact that my daughter-in-law went in and had her tubes tied on Monday. Which means that I will most definitely never have grandchildren of my own.  And I guess last night was just my night to process all that grief. And I'm tearing up again, just writing this.

  It isn't like I haven't  always known that she wouldn't be having more children. She has 2 from previous marriages. And has always been very clear that she didn't want more.  And I respect that. It's her body and her choice. But....I actually thought, last night..."He's only 40...he could still meet someone in her 30's who's been dying to have children, and have 4 babies in 5 years...."   Sweet lord.  I really did think that. Fleetingly. 

  Just more proof that I am demented or going senile or something.

  Anyway... I am tired from not enough sleep and am turning in a little earlier tonight.  Hopefully I will sleep like I need to and wake up early tomorrow morning, refreshed and ready to jump into my life.

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  Leaving you with a lovely hopeful quote from Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

    " The winds of grace blow all the time.

       All we need to do is set our sails."

  Namaste

Wednesday again... lol

Somebody told me that they are predicting snow showers on Sunday...it made me cry.  We have been having temps in  the 60's. ..

  I know that today is Wednesday. I know it for sure. By the time anyone reads this, however, it will be Thursday. I will be meeting with a pastor of a church that our womens group is moving to in the morning, thenm I will go meet a friend  for lunch and THEN, I will go to my sisters for a bit. It will be another full day, much like the last 3 days have been.  I am tired. Friday is more of the same.

 I was up at 7 AM caulking this morning and got it all done (yippee!!). After I got back from the running I did today, I started working on putting things in order in here and I am almost finished. The wing back chair that I wanted to put in here will not fit through the doorway!!!  We struggled with it at every angle and in every direction we could and it was just not meant to be.  Dang! I told the Irishman..."But-- I have a PLAN!!!!"  sigh...so, the Bentwood rocker is in here instead. All the books are back on the bookshelves, most everything is cleaned up and put away except for 1 more box of stuff that came off the desk.  The desk itself is almost clean too!! I took some pictures of the almost finished project...It's nothing fancy, but it looks a lot better.even though I sure wanted a more comfortable chair in here than that rocker. OH well. Rocking chairs are nice too.

My son called this morning early and asked me a typical boy question: It went like this:

"Hey mom. Whatcha doing?"

"Hey mom--I have a question-what do they do for a broken toe?-Nothing, right?"

""I can just tape it to the toe next to it, right?"

Sigh.....

He is back at the martial arts gym and has been grappeling, I guess that's how he did it. He said it doesn't really hurt or anything, and no, of course it isn't gong to keep him out of the tournament next weekend. He was especially proud to tell me that for the first time when he was grappeling with his instructor, he made the guy tap out. From what I understand, you tap out to save your life when somebody's got you in a hold that you can't get out of.

  I'm not real crazy about this contact sport stuff, but he really likes it. The discipline is probably good for him and the exercise and diet regimen certainly is. He assured me that this isn't like the kickboxing he was doing before. THAT was hard to watch, even though he is very good and always got in more kicks than he took.

(Why couldn't I have just had a girl who got married and settled down and gave me lots of grandbabies????)  lol

Okay, I'm off to bed. I have a wayward kitten that refuses to come in and I'm giving her one last chance and then I am done.It's almost 1:30 here and I have an early day ahead. 

Happy Anniversary  ((((Steve))))  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  36 years is a long time....Thanks for lighting the way....

Namaste.