I Heart Macro! More Awesomeness in Color

Colors!

More Awesomeness!!

I love beautiful colors!!!

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Index

 

 

Day 1: Simple Blessings 

 

Day 2: How can you say a Rainy day is Awesome? 

 

Day 3::Three Beautiful Things This Week. 

 

Day 4:  Happy Birthday, Pixie Marie

 

Awesomeness:: Day 4:: Happy Birthday, Pixie Marie!

This is so AWESOME!
5 years ago, a retired greyhound named Pixie came into my life through the Minnesota Greyhound Rescue.  I had applied with another group for a hound.  They told me to download their application, and that I should mail the application in soon.  I would probably have a dog by the end of October.  (This was early September.)

So, I went to the site, and found that I could fill the application in online and submit it there.  So, I did.  Turns out, I had applied to the wrong group.  This was in mid- September.
However, the AWESOME part of this accident of fate was that I had adopted Pixie Marie and had her by the first of October!!!

How AWESOME is that?  So, it was only a matter of days before we celebrated first birthday with her at home! (This bone was a gift!)

AWESOME!  AWESOME!  AWESOME!! 

 Before Pixie came to live with me, I googled the name Pixie.  The site this name search sent me to, well, let me say this,  I added the Marie.  (Trust me, what is seen cannot be unseen!) 

Then the AWESOMENESS began.  

 Pixie began to train me well.  She chose her couch.  I am still not allowed to sit on it.  She decided that sleeping in bed with me was not what she wanted to do, except on the coldest of nights.  She taught me that she had her favorite foods and treats.  She loved her birthday cupcake, and she gets on every year!

Other than that, Pixie Marie and I seem to get along quite well, as long as we do what she wants.  She's a great friend!  I've learned so much from her.

If you're tired, why not go to sleep?

If you're not tired, why not go to sleep?

The bed is big enough for the both of us, if move over.

I'm not moving, but you are!

I love cupcakes!

You can buy them for me any time you like.

Don't be late with my dinner.

I will live with kitties, but make them leave me alone.

Yes, life is all about me.

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY,

MISS PIXIE MARIE! 

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Day 1: Simple Blessings 

 

Day 2: How can you say a Rainy day is Awesome? 

 

Day 3::Three Beautiful Things This Week.

 

 

31 Days of Awesomeness:: Day 3:: Three Beautiful Things This Week

Three Beautiful Things This Week was inspired by a wonderful blog that Three Beautiful Things. Everyday, Clare writes about 3 Beautiful Things that happen each day in her life. It's a wonderful blog! I can only hope to imitate her in a very small way.


This is Day 3 of the 31 Day Writing Challenge.  

Today, I look at my week, and share with you 3 of the  Awesome
things that happened this week.  

1) Marvin, my dear daughter's cat shown in the photo, now considers me part of his "clowder."  (A clowder is a group of cats, a family, so to speak.)  He is now "talking" to me.  (I don't speak cat, but I try.)  He is also allowing me to scratch his back and rub his belly.  After all these years, I think that. is. AWESOME!

2) I'm working with polymer clay and making beads again.  I plan to make a bird, too!  The bird will be a sculpture similar to these birds:  

 This is Chesterton.

This is an aging flower child.

They are made with polymer clay.  

I think they are 

Awesome!!!

3) Two rainy days in a row!!!!  I would say:: DOUBLE AWESOMENESS!

 

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Day 1: Simple Blessings 

 

Day 2: How can you say a Rainy day is Awesome?

 

31 Days of Awesomeness:: How Can You Say A Rainy Day is Awesome?

We woke up to heavy rain this morning.  Not only that, the rain was cold!  I dreaded going out in the rain to walk Pixie, but it was a necessity and it was time.  Pixie had to go!!!

Long pants on.  check
Warm Sweater on.  check
Shoes and socks on.  check
Umbrella.  What? No umbrella?

Oh, well, it was off into the rain we went.  Pixie was not happy, but she was quick.  We were back in the house in no time at all.  We were both soaked to the bone which required a towel for Pixie to dry her off, and a complete change of clothes for me to dry off.  I slipped back into my jammies. I added warm socks and slippers, and a thick warm robe.  I Love a rainy day!!!

Having grown up in the New Mexico desert, I learned to love a rainy day.  To this day, having moved to Minnesota where there is usually ample rain, I still love a rainy day.  Books get read.  Special food gets cooked.  (Today I made chile!  Hit the spot!)  Beads are made.  Pixie and I cuddle while I catch up on TV programs that I recorded for a rainy day.  And it rained all day!!  Perfect!

I have more great memories of rainy days than any other day.  I was married on a rainy day.  When the kids were small, we'd make tents, have picnics and camp out in the house on a rainy day.  We'd build forts out of sheets.  We'd eat popcorn and apples for supper and watch TV.  (Homework was completed quickly on those days.)  I'd crochet.  We'd read.  (Some things never change.) Sometimes, the kids and I would even sneak outside for a few quick jumps in the puddles, then, it was bath time and time to read before bedtime. 

When the kids were older, we'd make our favorite comfort foods.  We'd sit and eat pizza, play games, and talk.   I heard their dreams and sorrows.  Once in a long while, we'd even build a fort and eat apples and popcorn for supper.

Now that they are adults, they love the rain, too.  They've told me that they love to hear the rain as they go to sleep.

So, a rainy day!  Another bit of  AWESOMENESS!!!

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Day 1: Simple Blessings 

 

So, it Begins:: 31 Days of Awesome! Today, the Simple Blessings

31 Days of Pure

 AWE-SOME-NESS!

I hope to share with you the PEOPLE & THINGS I think are::

AWESOME!

 

The Simple Blessings

 

"Even in the simple things, the blessings will blind us with their joy or be hidden from our sight.

We must choose to find them and be grateful for each blessing!"

Each morning brings new sights and sounds.  Each day brings a new beginning, a renewal.  What we didn't see yesterday, we can see today with the clarity of morning.  All we need to do is open our hearts to these blessings.  Even in our darkest times, a return to the simple, the ordinary frees us from the complications of our daily lives.  The simple awareness of the smell of a good cup of coffee, focusing on the taste of homemade jam or jelly or filling our lungs with the scent of the day:  these are the simple, ordinary blessings in our lives. 

Each blessing can be a fleeting moment to enjoy or an hour to savor.  Having time to spend with our families, our children, our friends, opens a door on to which we can cling or release.  Each moment in these specks of time can be frozen in our thoughts to reopen when the flowing waters of blessings seem distant and far away.  Not everyday can be a day full of overwhelming joy.  Life is not that way.  In each life, in each time, there is both joy and sadness, elation and disappointment.  Life is balanced.  There are mountains to climb that seem to reach into heaven.  There valleys so low that the human spirit is challenged to its limits.  Yet, even in the darkness, there is good.  The darkness which we feared becomes the sacred darkness of night that allows us to embrace that which we feared and rest in the softness of sleep, ready to restore and refresh us for the newborn day.   

When the ordinary becomes the blessed, then we can revel in the simple which opens our senses and our hearts to the day.  The burden becomes lighter.  We are able to travel further on less.  When a leaf on a tree makes us smile at the wonder of nature, then we begin to see the blessed in our days.  When we open our hearts to the ordinary, the simple becomes blessed.  The song of a bird, the fire of a sunset, the sigh of a child: each of these blesses us even on dark days.  As we open our eyes, we find the

AWESOMENESS 

that reminds us that our journey here is filled with more than we can hold in our thoughts, in our hearts, and in our desires.  Stop.  Breathe.  Then move on with your day. 

I challenge you!

Embrace the blessings you find.

Write down your blessings and savor the memories.

You will find yourself growing in 

GRATITUDE,

STRENGTH,

AND

COURAGE!

YOU WILL ALSO FIND THAT

YOU 

ARE

AWESOME!

"Every day might not be good, but every day has something good!"

Deb  Batten