Seeing things...

"It's not what you look at that matters:

It's what you see."

~Henry David Thoreau~

Lucy Loo...

I miss my "wild" turkey, Lucy Loo.  She hasn't come back this year, but her offspring are here.  None have become as friendly as she did.

Next year's word...

I don't know why this comes into my heart now, but it is a doubly meaningful word for me. My word for 2013 is *FAVOR*.  I must favor my life with art, crafts, love, and meaning.

One of the actors in the old 1960's TV show was Eric Fleming..."Gil Favor" in the series "Rawhide".  He died, tragically in a dugout canoe accident while filming for a movie.  He was due to be married in just two or three more days.  A very young 41 yrs old with a  long story of an evil father, a sad series of careers, and then true happiness.  He was an artist and sculptor. 

Why not dedicate this coming year to him and to my art?  Yes...*FAVOR*...for many reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te0xkGDqxqM

Music becomes love...

From a blog I happened upon, "Three Minutes to Nine", comes this quote and link. I hope you will enjoy about five minutes of love:
"...Life has a way of unfolding for us a bit differently than we had planned. Of course we always have the option to cling to our plans and make them work. But if we are willing to keep our hearts and minds open, it just might be that there are paths ahead that we would never have dreamed of.
I love the way God sometimes surprises us, redirects us, uses us to bring good to others and glory to Himself. Like He did with Abigail Washburn; like He just may want to do with you and me."

Inner Breath...~Pure Oxygen from Connie~

Love Day Celebration!

It is the day of love!  I love my journal.  Today I'm making my Valentine's Day shrine to celebrate.  It's going to be similar to this one in shape:

I'm cutting out my own pattern and  I have a drawing I might transfer to it along with some special paper to use for the background.  It may even have a quote that I'm particularly fond of.  I hope I can post it here before Friday.  It will become part of my inspiration to begin each day.

Most of all I'm celebrating with Connie at Dirty Footprints Studio!  My life has certainly changed this year because of becoming a part of her groups.  I offer anyone my advice to sign up for the next class that you can.  It's worth every penny~!

What did I do today? Anybody remember?

Oh...yes...it was the getting up at 5 a.m. to go to Nashville with Hubby that made me forget.  He had to have Endoscopy....well...it was a much longer word than that....but they took a close look at his hiatial hernia and all the damage from years and years of indigestion.  Didja know that can cause cancer?  Welp, what doesn't cause it nowadays?  The doctor showed us where the area in question was and that he had biopsied it.  He'll have to do the test every two years from now on.  I have to have a colonoscopy about that often since my dad had colon cancer and I have had polyps removed already.  Bah Humbug!

The good thing about this whole trip is that he's in a study at Vanderbilt Hospital that might yield results for others years from now!  It's just a 24 hour test and the poor man is wired up like a robot, but he's being such a good patient...just a wee teensy bit grumpy. 

I was nice to my dental receptionist today!  That's what I did good!  I actually forgot to call her back.  *evil chuckle*  But when I received her call I made an appointment to use up some of that money the insurance overpaid them!  *rolling on the floor...with tears in my eyes*  Now why did I do that?????  Hahaha

Tiger horse wants to know where his pasture went last night?  But he looks cozy anyhow.  He isn't growing a lush winter coat, so when it dips into the low temps at night we let him have his "binky".  Uh...yep...that's 5 to 6 inches of snow and more to come on Thursday, I think.  Just what Nashville needs after the floods last year!

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost...

...and so on....
All I needed was ONE simple rubber band.  Sounds easy enough.  Two hours later I had a bag full of them, a box full of the most unnecessary crap on the face of the earth and an empty drawer in the kitchen!  Yes, you're right, the evil "junk drawer"...you know, the place you find string, paper clips, a glue stick, the card from the plumber you called five years ago, assorted fridge magnets you took off when you got the new fridge, etc.
Gone...all gone, except for the goodies that had a place to live.  They're where they belong now.
I gotta say, there's a new sense of humility in me lately.
Six inches of snow outside this morning.  How crisp and beautiful it is.
The aroma in the kitchen is awesome now too.  I'm making my favorite "camping meal"....Lite (with chicken in it, don't tell hubby) Smoked Sausage, potatoes, onion, carrots, a wedge of cabbage along with herbs on hand, a splash of wine and some pepper and chicken bouillion granules....wrapped up tidily in aluminum foil and thrown in the hot coals (or a 350 degree oven) for an hour or so. :)