A Truly Thankful Thanksgiving

This dog.



The one who buries under the covers to sleep.


The one who loves to jump on me and make my work clothes muddy......before I go to work.

This same dog sunning himself....


Saved our lives last night.

To make a long story short, he barked his little head off at 3:00 am. Earl is not a "yappy" dog but he has his occasional fit now and then. It's mostly people driving by that irritates him (especially at 3:00 am).

We were sleeping soundly.
My husband got up to check things out because by the time we woke up the dog was frantic!

Next I heard something I pray to God I never hear again.

"Everybody get up! There's a fire in the basement" yelled my husband.

Out water heater started fire which caught a bunch of boxes on fire which if it wasn't for Earl would have started our downward spiral towards death. I'm not afraid of "death", but I really don't want to burn to death. Nope not on my agenda.

Peacefully in my sleep sounds better.

So even though I now have no hot water, I don't really care.

We. Are. Alive.

Everyone is safe. The house is still ok.
even if we would have lost the house, as long as we are ok and together, that's all that matters.

I am truly thankful to God for my family that is safe and sound and for our four legged hero, Earl who with God's help saved our lives.

What are you thankful for??

Have a wonderful thanksgiving!

Love, me
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This is absolutely insane........

Really? I live on a mile long dirt road. My road connects to the same road it veers off of.

The township workers are working on it today.  The beeping from their backing up is making me even crazier than I already am. That's pretty bad, trust me.

So I'm reverting to my happy place........

Ok. Much better.

Have a wonderful beep less day!!!!

Love, me

7-43 Things.....

Wow! a month and a half with no post.

Sorry.

Let's review, shall we?

Drove home from vacation.

Goodbye gorgeous beach sunrise...........

Hello beautiful home sunset!

Jake turned 21.

Enough said.

My three oldest-23, 22, and 21.

How did this happen?? I thought I was only 29?

We had hay to do........

Oh! Then we had a stinking hurricane headed our way.
Before the hurricane however, our bull got loose.
It took a trailer load of pretty little ladies to bring him home from the neighbor's pasture...

Thank you girls...

Here's the butt head............

Then Irene happened. (That is so not a good hurricane name by the way!)

It rained, we flooded in our little valley. We were wet, and muddy, and it just sucked for lack of a better word.

 Then we had more hay to do...

Tractor pulls to go to......

 Cole jumped.....

 My boys showed up for breakfast...

 Cheyenne drove me to work one day....

 And Earl took over the bed!!........

That is all for now.

I'll be back as soon as I get this smelly dog out of my bed!

LOVE, ME

The Beach

Myrtle Beach to be exact.





My view this morning.





Yesterday.




The day before yesterday.




Wait.

That picture was from the farm before I left.

Oh no.

I think I'm getting home sick.




I found a tractor on the beach.

This excites me.





Different colored tractors even.

It's good to get away, but it's always a great feeling to come home!





Yes, home!

Love, me.

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A Few Of My Favorite Things

Rain




We haven't had any for so long that my corn was just shriveling up. Thank the good Lord we got a soaker yesterday and as I'm writing this on my phone, it's storming outside so hard, our electricity went down. Again.

Why do everyone of the boys in this house have to poop when the electric goes out?

Just asking.

And no, that is definitely not one of my favorite things.

Back to that....




Earl






Earl and my boys (or boy in this case) but I "heart" all my boys (and my girl) too.





Ideas found online...




Courtesy of Kendra McCracken's scrap room pictures from www.kendramccracken.blogspot.com.

She has the best ideas.





Oh yes.





Wow.





I want to move in.





Some things around my house...





Eldreth pottery....





Ummm hmm





An apron my mom sent to me





With a towel to match.





And an angel that's been hanging on my cabinet door since Christmas. Scattering glitter to the far ends of the earth.


Must go take care if the scared puppy now. He's not liking this storm.

Love, me


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