♥ Fantastic Friday Fotos ♥

Well Hello on this beautiful day in Georgia, Thank you for all the well wishes for my dear husbands birthday,
he really appreciated it, he had a wonderful day, lots of phone calls, lots of cards, and especially a wonderful
dinner at a friends house, even ice cream and cake, he is truly blessed and knows it. So today, hummmm I have been talking about our 50th anniversary coming up next month, well how about showing you some photos we took on our 25th anniversary, hard to believe that was 25 years ago, wow where has the time gone. We took a marvellous cruise ship to the Bahamas, the 3 day 4 night package, and it was the time of
our life. They treat you like king and queens, and wow such food and fun you will never experience any where else, I really recommend going if you ever get the chance.  The first few photos are the Ship, One of the elegant buffets, and Nassau Bahama as we were approaching.

Now this is Salt Cay, it was an island they took us for the day, we had a great time of going over in a Calypso boat, then had a wonderful picnic, snorkeled, and rested in the double hammocks that were on  the island. It is the island where they filmed Gilligan's Island that movie that was on TV way back when.
We had fresh coconut that my dear husband shimmied up a tree and shook loose, then cracked it on this bulkhead to get the milk, and coconut out of it, he give some to the other passengers also, they thought that was just the best thing, oh we had a ball,
The next photo is the open sea, just wonderful, and last but not least is us at our anniversary dinner, they had come an taken the photo, and it is not very good of us, but they came out with
flaming Alaska for our wedding cake, it was so good, The who dining room sang happy anniversary to us, and the dinner we had chosen was just perfect. . Oh what good memories,
I loved every minute of it, and really hated coming back to my
ho hum life in Florida then.
As I was gathering these photos, I let my mind wander back, and could almost feel like I was there again,
we had some wonderful anniversaries for sure, memories as we get older really mean so much, and we cherish each of them. God has been good to us, he has given us a new hope in each other, after believing in Jesus Christ. All we are or ever hope to be is through him, in him, and by him, God bless each of you reading this, and may God bless your married life, and that one day you will share all your precious photos like I have here, have a wonderful and Fantastic Friday my friend.

Hugs ♥ Blessings

THANKFUL THURSDAY

Well praise God he has allowed my blessed husband to see another birthday, he is 69 today, and his only request was a Sausage swirl, now is that sweet or what. I did get him a Marine Battery a few weeks back for his birthday, so he did get something else he really wanted. But today I got up early and made this Sausage Swirl, I will show you, and give you the instructions later in this post, it is so good, and his favorite now, a friend give one to us, and ever since he loves them, making it for him for his birthday was such a blessing for me.

 That is why I am later in posting today too.
So Here is the photo and recipe for the wonderful Breakfast Sausage Swirl.

Chuck likes Eggs on top of his, I eat mine like a Cinnamon roll.

Now the Recipe for Sausage Swirls

Ingredients

 2 C. all purpose flour
1 t sugar
4 T baking powder
1/2 salt
1/2 cup shortening
2/3 milk
1 egg
1 pound roll of sausage meat


Directions

Sift flour and dry ingredients into bowl.
Cut in shortening until mixtures resembles coarse crumbs.
pour milk and egg in mix, dough will be very moist, roll out on floured board and knead until texture is smooth and okay to roll out.
Roll out into a rectangle, about 1/2 inch thick.
Pat out the sausage meat onto dough. Roll up like a cinnamon roll. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate over night.
Now you do not have to let it set over night, if you are not rushed you can make it in the morning, that is what I did.


The next morning preheat oven to 350 and cut swirls as you would a cinnamon roll. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake about 40 minutes or until golden brown.


I hope you enjoy this, and do make it for your family they will love it, promise.. My honey sure enjoyed his. Happy Birthday my beloved husband..

Song of Songs 2:3-5 "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste."
"He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love."
"Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love."

Oh my  I do love the Song of songs it is filled with such sweet and heart touching scripture. Love it, and I do love my beloved.


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Come Sit A Spell

Another Wednesday is here,  Please sit a bit with me, lets chat, and may I pour you a glass of tea?  Well praise God I live yet another day, my dear husband's birthday is tomorrow, he will be 69 years old, wow, he was 18 when we met, 19 when we married, and here he is 69, my word where has the time went to, in September we will celebrate our 50th anniversary, you know
I would not trade one day of that time with him for anything
this world has to offer.
We were kids when we married, I was barely 17 and he 19, of
course like all 17 year old I thought I knew it all, WOW such
a big awakening I had when I realized I did not know as much as I thought I did,  for instance...My first load of wash as a wife;
I wanted it to be clean and white and just perfect for my new
husband, he worked in a Steel Fabricating plant in Detroit at
that time, and he would come home very dirty, so of course I needed to pay special attention to his work clothes. I filled the wash tub (yeah I had a wringer washer) with lots of hot water, then added my clothes, then the soap, then poured lots of bleach all over his blue jeans, and work shirts, OH ME!!! Did I do that?  Yep I truly did, well needless to say I ruined all his work clothes, they all looked Ty-dyed, lol and that had not been invented yet, I wonder if they got that look from my laundry, perhaps I need to see if some one was peeking that day. ☺
So the young are not always as wise as they think they are, I have many tales I could tell about learning how to become a
woman, and how to be the wife my dear husband deserved, Now if you really want to learn, look in Proverbs chapter 31, God tells us in his word how to be a Godly wife, mother and woman.
I learned so much from his direction, once I was a Christian, I really began to live then, to see how important life really is, so on this wonderful Wednesday God has given to you, look at your life, I am sure if you are like me, there are improvements that can be made, take hold, and pray, and ask our Father in heaven to help you be the woman he created you to be. I so hope you have a wonderful day, and if you have time stop and read Proverbes 31, it will make your day.

The world uses physical and material measures to judge a person's worth.

Yet, the true measure of those we love and respect
is not counted by looks or possessions.
It is a combination of the quirky and the kind
and the uncommon way they do and say things
that make them unique and dear to us.

Thank you for spending this time with me, and letting me Ramble on, I love Reminiscing, don't you...♥

Hugs ♥ Blessings

Tasty Tuesday

Company Potato Casserole

Ingredients

8 medium potatoes
1/2 cup butter
1 can cream of celery or cream of chicken soup
3 tablespoons onion, minced
1 1/2 cups Cheddar cheese, grated
1 pint sour cream
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
corn flakes
2 tablespoons butter


Directions

Bring 4 quarts water to a boil; add 1 tablespoon salt and unpeeled
potatoes. Boil until tender. Allow to cool, then remove peels.
Grate potatoes and set aside (the grating disc of a food processor of
a hand grater may be used).
Heat butter and soup; add minced onion, cheese, sour cream, salt and
pepper. Stir into potatoes and transfer to a 9x13 inch baking dish.
Microwave cornflakes with 2 tablespoons butter and use to top
potatoes. Refrigerate overnight.
Bake at 350°F for 45 to 60 minutes
(until top is nicely golden brown).

Now for a wonderful Dessert to go with this casserole;
Amazing Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients:

2 cups granulated sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt


Liquid Ingredients:
2 large eggs
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup. boiling water

Directions


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 C).
Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt or tube pan.
Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl of an electric mixer.
Add the liquid ingredients (except for the boiling water), and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. [Just a hand mixer works well -- but don't cut down on the mixing time, and don't think it's too thick.]
Stir in boiling water. Batter will be thin like water.
Pour into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 50-55 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in cake comes out clean.
Remove cake from oven and let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then invert cake onto wire rack and let cool completely.
Any glaze would be good on this or just sprinkled with powdered sugar. I love the Chocolate Frosting myself.
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Marvellous and Sunny Monday

I am a busy bee, with the Revival, and visitation, and Sunday, WOW...for an old woman it gets alot for some one young probably would not seem like so much, been a busy week, and very blessed and productive week, we did not get home before 10 nightly during the revival,  and our Pastor preached last night out of Acts, where the man fell out of the window after Paul preaching so long, he preached one hour and 35 minutes, whew my hiney was hurting for sure, but it was good, and it was to prove a point, lol, and then we had lots of fellowship after so was late again last night, I slept until 8:45 today too, really unusual for me, but I needed it.

We had 10 precious souls all week, now if you are not shoutin' then your shouter is broken, it has been a glorious week, and I was sorry to see it come to an end. We will have a baptizing service next Sunday.

We are starting a Prayer vigil, every day, Pastor said, any day you can make it, come by our church and pray, if some one else is there than great you will have prayer partner, and some fellowship too, I think it is a wonderful idea, and God is really blessing our church, because of us, or because of the Pastor, NO It is all God, he is seeing a handful of praying and faithful folks who want to serve him; and he is blessing us for all our efforts, it is wonderful, and I hear of so many getting saved these days, it is like it was in the 70's again.  I really feel it is the last time God is going to pour his Holy Spirit out before he returns, AMEN I am so ready, I am tired and I am ready for heaven, Praise God and I say come quickly Lord Jesus Come quickly.
I hope you all had a blessed weekend and may it continue in your hearts all week.  
Hugs ♥ Blessings

God Bless You Sunday

I hope your day is filled with many blessings, that souls are saved in your service, that your pastor will preach with boldness and clarity, have a wonderful day in the house of the lord, and this photo is on my desktop you may take it for your desktop if you like. God bless you real good, and let us all say together, "I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord." Amen .

Hugs ♥ Blessings

Simple Joys Saturday

I had such a good visit with my daughter yesterday she spent the day, and it is has been a while since we really had a good visit, just her and I, I loved it.
We had another splendid evening at the Revival, WOW, we had a young man saved before the preaching even started, lots os Godly singing and testimonies, God is so good, and he sure has been meeting with us, I am having a great time, now today is the last night of it, but I sure can say it has been good.
I am tired today, and we had a really bad storm in the night, electrical storm with lots of lightening and thunder, and it rained cats and dogs, giggles, did you ever hear where that expression came from?























I know the phrase it’s raining cats and dogs is a bit outdated, but do you have any idea about its origin?


The most common one says that in olden times, homes had thatched roofs in which domestic animals such as cats and dogs would like to hide. In heavy rain, the animals would either be washed out of the thatch, or rapidly abandon it for better shelter, so it would seem to be raining cats and dogs.


It has also been suggested that at one time the streets of British towns were so poorly constructed that many cats and dogs would drown whenever there was a storm; people seeing the corpses floating by would think they had fallen from the sky, like the proverbial rains of frogs.


Having said all that, there is some evidence that suggests a direct link between heavy rain that seems to precipitate cats and dogs.
It comes from a poem by Jonathan Swift,
A Description of a City Shower:
Sweeping from butchers’ stalls, dung, guts, and blood;
Drown’d puppies, stinking sprats, all drench’d in mud,
Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.


As Swift penned these lines in 1710, nearly 30 years before he wrote the book in which raining cats and dogs appears for the first time, it just might suggest that he was quoting an expression he himself had created.


Now was that not just the most interesting thing you ever read, lol, have a wonderful and blessed Saturday, and carry your umbrella, you never know when some cats or dogs will fly by, heehee, hugs my friends.

Hugs ♥ Blessings

Second Annual Rooster Party

It is such fun participating in these Rooster parties, I love Roosters and hens, I have some real ones
and love the fresh eggs they produce, er, the hens that is, lol, so hope you enjoy the roosters and hen
display I have, I have not many like some do, but the ones I have I love, and would not take any thing
for them. So enjoy your time looking at all the different items we who join this party display. Have a very blessed Weekend, and Cock-a-Doodle-Do, that says I love you, in Rooster talk. be blessed.

Well that is all I am posting for this time, hope you enjoyed your time spent with me and here is a Bible verse to get you going today.  Luke 13:34 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!"


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Thankful Thursday

Well it is that time again, lets look in our own life and see what all we are thankful for today, can we give God the glory for the things he has did in our life? Let's ponder on these things for a few minutes, and I am sure you can come up with many just as I have.  Hummmmmm well lets list them, and see how many I can come up with for just today.

01. I am alive.

02. I am well and able to get out of bed.

03. I have a precious husband that I have been with over 52 years, our 50th anniversary is in September.

04. I am saved and 100% sure when I die I am going to heaven, and be with my Jesus.

05. I am too old to die young. giggles

06. I am blessed by loving and faithful friends.

07. I have lots to eat, too much some times, but never lacking.

08. I have a walk in closet so full I have to take some to Good Will.

09. I own my home, not in debt up to my ears, AMEN, now that was God's wisdom for sure.

10. We have a nice car to drive down this old dirt road ,and get dusty all the time.

11. I have a good church to attend each time the doors are open.

12. I have AC in the summer time, and a good Furnace in the winter.

13. I always have a song in my heart. Now Jesus put that there.

14. I am a half full kinda person.

15. The sun is shinning bright today.

16. I have 5 children, 11 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren, all well and very healthy.

17. I have a wonderful group of ladies I minister to daily, at my message board site.

18. I have met some wonderful ladies here in the blogging world, I love blogging too.

19. I have good eyes, ears, sense of smell, sense of feeling, oh God has been good to me.

20. I can open my mouth and sing his praises and speak his words to every one I meet.

I am going to stop here, but you get an idea how we can be thankful for everything in our life.

God has blessed America, because we have stood on his word, now many have tried to take him and his word out of the government, out of the courts, out of our schools, but for us Christians we will always have his word hid in our heart, and no one can take that away, I think that is why David  told us in the Psalms 119:11 "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."

he knew a time would come when Christians could not have a Bible, this has happened in many other Countries, and if it keeps going the path it is going here in America it could

happen here as well. So it  is important to hide God's precious word in our hearts, that we stand on that word, and we can always give account to some one and tell them what God has did for us.  Never be ashamed of God, or his word, stand and listen

to that sweet Holy Spirit that is in you, and when it nudges you

and tells you to tell them about Jesus, do it, then comes the sweet peace that only comes from being obedient. You hear me

mention Obedience quite a lot and you probably wonder why, well my friend, if we are not obedient to God, there are consequences for that, and I am a firm believer that God wants to bless us, but he is a just and holy God, and if we are not

obedient he will punish us too, it is very plain in his word. So I

much rather have showers of blessings, than punishment, how

about you? It is our choice. Hugs my friends, and do have a very

Thankful Thursday.

Wednesday Wonderful Words

I love Wednesdays, it is the middle of the week, and the day we go to church to get our heart lift for the rest of the week, we gather and pray for all our needs, it is a good time of fellowship and just a good day, even the name sounds happy, puts a song in my heart, and pep in my step, how about you?  Do you feel happy today? 
Is it the bright spot in your week. I think of the Prophet Jeremiah what he said in Chapter 3 and verse 2 and 3;

"2. Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;

3. Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."


Wow, all we have to do is call upon the lord and he will show us all kinds of things that we cannot even imagine, have you prayed for something that only you and God knew about? Then he answered your prayer and magnified what you ask for. Amen, yep that is my God, he gives and gives and never stops giving, from the time of creation throughout eternity he gives, God is such an awesome God, the only one, it sure blesses my heart to be able to call him Father.
In such a vast universe of billions of stars, think of the power of God who made them and knows each of their names. Think of all he knows that we don't. Think of all he has seen that we have not seen, think of all that he has written and is not in our history books. Think of all he has done and can do. Add to this that he asks us to talk to him about the things of our heart and our needs, then you understand the great space of his grace and our very limited knowledge of our minds.
He created us for fellowship with him, we are not forced to love him, we are not forced to talk to him, it is our honor to come before a holy God and tell him the things that are on our heart, whew, Well glory getting me lifted high in the Spirit already this morning. Yes just like Jeremiah penned through the power of the Holy Spirit, he will answer thee, and shew they great and mighty things which thou knowest not.


I leave you today with these thoughts, found in Matthew, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:"

This song keeps going through my head too, when I seen that photo of the morning sun peeping through the clouds.

(I come to the Garden Alone)

I come to the garden alone

While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.


Refrain

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.


He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.

Refrain

I’d stay in the garden with Him
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling.


Refrain

Have a wonderfully blessed Wednesday.