Guess Which Hurricane This Was

I know there is nothing humorous about the troubles caused from the hurricanes. I found this in my email box and thought it was cute.

50 Days!

...left to Christmas shop! ha!

I never liked that Christmas came around before Thanksgiving in the shopping malls, but here I am contributing to this crazy time of the year. This link will take you to Christmas.com's website which has a countdown you can check to see how much time you have left before you need to panic! Right down to the second...even in your own time zone! To get some of us slowpokes started (I know some ladies that are DONE Christmas shopping!) I will share pictures or links to things I have found that might be cool gifts. Today I wanted to show you things I saw as I was looking through a catalog. For the man who has everything ---gift ideas. I love this stocking for the hard working man in your life. Or woman too! Sometimes after a long work day...these might be nice, if they WORK too! Hey! Now we don't have to go to the dentist. Let's do our own teeth! No doctor kit though! And my favorite---- Do you know someone that would love to open this up on Christmas morning? I loved the shocked look on the lady behind him. lol All these gifts can be found at Duluth Trading. (My son's catalog.)

Last year we made some of our Christmas gifts. I think Christmas is just way too commercial. How about a quiet evening with hot cider, thinking about the Lord's birth?

It's hard to try to change, because it affects those we love. We think we show love by what kind of gifts we recieve and give. Most of the time the ones in our lives make the mistake, (I do too!), that the amount we are loved is shown in the $$$$ size of the gift.

Love is Dad taking out the trash for the gazillionth time. Mom baked that birthday cake for the 30th time! Jesus showed His love, when He became obedient to even death.

Love does things. $$$ gifts are so dissatisfying. They go away, they get dusty, they fall apart.

Okay, enough of my thoughts, this is all for this post! I might find more gifts to share from my travels. Have fun shopping$$$$

Spiderman Shoes!

Today is Doug's birthday. We are going to have a taco feed and I just put in two blueberry pies. While I prepared the pies I thought about the beautiful weekend we had together when Doug and I picked the blueberries. First batch we picked in Thompson Pass on a return trip from Valdez. The second batch we stopped at Puritan Creek along the Glenn Highway and picked some more. What a hot day that was! Yesterday I asked him what kind of pies he wanted. "What kind do you want to make?" That is how he is, never imposing, always tries to be sure he is never demanding of anything! Even his birthday dinner meal or dessert! I replied and asked, "How about blueberry pie?" "Won't you use up all your berries?" Anyway, the pies are baking and I decided to share this story about Gramppa Doug and shoes. Tucker came over one day and he was so excited about his shoes. "Look Gramppa! I have Spiderman shoes!" "Wow! Look at those," said Doug. They admired the shoes a bit and then Doug said, "Look at my Spiderman shoes!" Tucker stopped and looked, got quiet and stared at Gramppa's worn out shoes. Then he said, "Those are not Spiderman shoes, Gramppa!" "They aren't???" "No!" Then after a few more seconds of staring and thinking about them, Tucker says, "Those are Batman shoes!" Happy birthday to the best man in the whole wide world! I love you Dougie.

Discarded Candy Wrappers

Calvin minus the Winnie-the-Pooh costume.

Halloween House-hoppers!

We waited and waited for our Grandkids to show up. Suddenly they were all here and right behind them our neighbor Mont showed up. For an hour the house was bustling with laughing, flashing cameras, hungry parents getting a bite to eat and then.... just as fast as they showed up, they all disappeared! We sat here watching the fire in the stove, with bones, pumpkins and a mosaic halloween critter hanging on the windows and discarded candy wrappers lying on the floor. There were a few last minute character changes. No Batman and Spiderman or Angel. Instead we had a Cowboy, Indian and a Florescent Witch!