~ Blessings

 

 

Today is a grand day

 

1.  Last year I was victim of check fraud 5 people stole thousands of dollars from me and  from a few other folks in this area -from our mail boxes that are located on our roads....which is part of the rural charm here in the country. These guys hit the jack pot with me- they stole my whole check box newly ordered from the bank that I never received. For weeks they wrote out checks in my name, had fake drivers licenses made in my name ...all this locally.

I can't express how violated I felt- as if my identity was null and void.

 

Yesterday the case closed.

 

She/they pled guilty and have to pay restitution.

 

2. Visiting Norway this summer- I found out in a very "horrible" way my mamma had cancer. She was in hospital most of the time we were visiting. Needless to say we were all devastated.  She has healed completely and today I am picking her and her husband up at the airport to stay with us for 2 weeks.  If that isn't great enough- she is pondering upon moving to Montucky..so we will be looking at homes while she is here.

 

 

Good grief! Does it get any better???????

 

It's been a hard year - but today...well today, I am smiling from ear to ear. 

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
~Rumi

Montana Morning

 

 

 

 

 

 

feed horses

breakfast

kids to school

 Lily

wet

early a.m. ride

 

Okay Monday...let's do this!

I'm still learning....

 

 

 

after the rain comes beautiful mornings filled with promise

 

mid September is pretty neat to still wear flip flops

there is still time for a swim before the snow flies

 

that the local thrift store holds so many treasures
 like these linen napkins

and as if that wasn't enough...some nice person had dropped off a WHOLE BOX of

large fabric sample from France- that I bought for 5 bucks

 how nice it is that the flowers in my garden are still blooming

how pretty weeds can look with a little morning dew

the advantages of leaving holiday trees up all year

... don't have to put them up this season

how much I really love to sew- and that, " I can do this"

how much I missed Auggie being away at fall retreat for 2 days .... yes, it was only 2 days

and how happy I am when things turn out

 that I can bake delicious zucchini bread

(with a green vegetable the size of a baby python)
recipe

 

" I'm still learning "
Michelangelo, age 87

 

So how was your week?

...and then - the rain

 

 

But the true lover of rain.... has a deep inner enjoyment of the rain, as rain, and his sense of its beauty drinks it in as thirstily as does the drinking earth. It refreshes and cools his heart and brain; he longs to go forth into the fields, to feel its steady stream, to scent its fragrance; to stand under some heavy-foliaged chestnut-tree, and hear the rushing music on the crowded leaves.
 ~John Richard Vernon, "The Beauty of Rain," 1863

 

 my favorite music that inspires me on this wet day.