Like Being There

WALKING SLOWLY down the stairs to take a look at the Formal Parlour at Clover Cliff RANCH is like walking back into the past.  I enjoyed every second we were there in AUGUST.  Pictures make me recall this very nice Bed and Breakfast in the country.  Pleasant and peaceful place.  I'd live there if I could.  Love.

I don't know who this is a picture of but believe this to be an excellent image of how people dressed in the later 1890s and early 1900s.  I think it is a beautiful example.  Compared to so many who do not wear coats when the weather is icy cold this picture warms my heart.  Hats and coats worn by practical peeps.  Nicely dressed.  No wholly jeans that hang off the body saggy around the knees.  T-shirt and bluejeans have their place, but not here in this time zone.

PLEASANT MEMORIES are in the making.  

Enjoy LIFE and be at peace,

d

GUMPTION, GUMPTION. WHO's GOT THE GUMPTION?

TODAY IS THE DAY!  Hopefuls are on my list of things to accomplish.  I may be old AND SLOW, but I have gumption.

What I achieve today will be just right.  

Paperwork

Bills

Hair shampooed

Legs shaved

Laundry hauled to the car

Kitchen tidied

Reading

Phone calls

Heels iced

Neck heat treatment

Supper plan

Looking over a 1920s Food Plan.  

Dr. William Howard Hay wrote a book HEALTH VIA FOOD 

after he struggled with health issues.  

Checking the Public Library to see if they have it or can order in their Library Loan.  Hope I can get my hands on it to read during the month of OCTOBER.  FOUND IT!

Will read a little everyday and get better acquainted with how to group certain foods together to eat together. 

OLD WOMAN COMPLAINTS.  Have been hobbling about for about 5 and a half weeks.  Icing the backs of my feet this morning with cloth covered frozen green peas in bags.  Ice them for 20 to 30 minutes a session.  

Thought I had Plantar Fasciitis, but now think it's the achilles tendons as the pain is on the backs of my feet and not so much the bottoms.  Tis the strip of skin and muscle that ache so.  Almost feels bruised.  Painful to walk.  While I ice them I do wiggle and stretch the feet.  Rotate them in circles.  

This morning my feet feel much better after icing them several times a day.  My neck still is stiff and hurts.  Mercy...if it isn't one thing it's 5 other.  While I sit I do allow my thoughts to wonder off out of this chair and think of things to do to the house when I can manage to get to them.

My calendar is filling up with appointments and obligations.  Will be a busy month and will try to make the best of my time.  Hopefully my energy level will increase as my thyroid meds decrease.  Vitamins taken, protein drinks drank, vegetables enjoyed, water sipped, rest, exercise and fresh air.  Laundry caught up.  AUTUMN CHORES continued.  Paperwork gone through.  Bible readings meditated upon.  Writing continued.  It's just a matter of doing it. 

HUBBY worked this week-end on our lawn.  Weeded the flowerbeds.  Mowed the large lawn and began edging it.  I have a thing about edged yards.  LIKE THEM.  When we lived in TEXAS, I would edge the grass as the TEXAS NATIVES did this.  It really was the first time I ever really noticed that people edged their lawns.  After I got the hang of it, I edged as well.  Wider strips edged along the sidewalk looked so manicured and clean.  We're getting there.  He wore a blade out and will have to get another to finish this task.

The months of August and September have been flowerbed and lawn months.  Taking great shape.

BEAUTIFUL KANSAS DOVES

BEAUTIFUL KANSAS SKIES BEFORE THE STORM

BEAUTIFUL KANSAS CHILDREN

 COMFORTABLE RECLINER FOR TV ROOM

Better go...paperwork awaits me then off to shampoo my hair.

Continue vacuuming and tidying.

Need to milk an ALDI cow.

Shuffle spare room all week.

Meal to plan and prepare.

A book to write.

   

DO you have GUMPTION?

Sometimes I have to hunt for it,

d

SUIT UP and SHOW UP!

Persevere definition, to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly.

PERSEVERE is a powerful word.  To persevere means keep pressing in, keep moving, continue, stay the course, don't quit.  

Emotions run high when watching children you know participate within sports activities.  Lil Miss was nervous that she wouldn't medal in cross country.  Hugging her, I said, "Suit up and show up.  You're a winner by being here."

Lil Miss did well running the two miles across the terrain.  She placed.  Four meets into the season, she placed first for her age group.  Exciting.  More hugs.  She's learning the sport.

Because you care to participate you are a winner.  True.  The same with LIFE.  Suit up and show up.  Get dressed each day, groom yourself, show up...you're a winner by being here.  I am not in the best of health.  Terribly slow some days to where I barely manage.  My attitude counts for something.  Keep pushing.  Deep breaths.  Keep in motion.  Even if you are sitting in a chair, move yo' arms.  Wiggle yo' feet and fingers.  Stretch for the sky.  Say a prayer for strength.  Keep breathing.   

I'm very disappointed that the week-end is just about over.  TIME moves on.  OCTOBER lurks around the corner. 


SIMPLE CHORES are SIMPLE GOALS that are important to me.  A HOME BLESSING comes from having a residence that is clean and orderly.  

I will get the floors swept, the area rugs vacuumed, the furniture dusted, some windows cleaned.  Continue laundering the clothes.  Some decorative pumpkins are going to come out of hiding and some wreaths will be hung on the doors.  On Friday, I hope to buy a few outdoor MUMS, a real pumpkin or two and hang a HARVEST GARLAND on the fireplace mantle.

OCTOBER will fly right on by.  First it will be October 1st, I'll blink then it will be the middle of the month.  Blink...Halloween says hello moving into THANKSGIVING MONTH.

  

This month, HUBBY has said he will help me shuffle and clean the spare room.  I cannot get to it by myself.  This is one time I know I need HELP.  Perhaps by CHRISTMAS it will be arranged.  We have flooring to lay down, but this will take some planning and muscle.  Some painting has to be done before the year is out.  Lord, I need your help.  Please.  

HOUSEWORK is constant.  Must stay in motion.  A little here and a little there.  Stay the course.  
Suit up and show up.  Position yourself to place.  PRAY and PERSEVERE.  Winner.  Winner.  Chicken Dinner.  

Persevere definition, to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly. 

I wonder if anyone has named their child Persevere?  I know I've heard the name Patience, Virtue, Charity before and thought these were unusual.  Depending on what generation you have belong to the names change.  Expectations change.  Persevere still means what it did.

I must persevere in HOMEMAKING,

d

National Daughter Day was last week.  

A new HOLIDAY.

  ....and they were runnin'

Proverbs 4:25

“Let thine eyes look right on, 

and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.”

King James Version (KJV)

It Takes TALENT To Be Balanced In LIFE

STAYING BALANCED at times takes great effort.

Sometimes it isn't easy to be balanced in my LIFE.

HEALTH ISSUES make everyday chores a huge challenge.

Pacing myself becomes a concentrated effort to achieve the results I'm looking for.

Can I just say,

it's trial and error time.

Wait and see.  Watch and wait.

PACE YO SELF.

Hit while the iron is hot.

GO FOR IT.

DO what you can.

Can what you do.

What can you do?

Do it.

Choose the battles you are going to fight.

Pass the torch and switch gears.

Common sense is a virtue.

d

Dining On The Prairie

~Clover Cliff Ranch Breakfast Meal~ 

*On The Veranda*

Mixed Fruit

Cherry Kaloche

Skillet Breakfast Burrito

Cranberry Juice

Coffee with Cream

CLOVER CLIFF RANCH BED AND BREAKFAST

IS LOCATED NEAR ELMDALE, KANSAS

https://www.clovercliffranch.com/

Dining in our PRIVATE room.

He's HAPPY cauz his tummy is full.

~Clover Cliff Second Morning Meal~

With a gorgeous view.

Granola

Breakfast Pizza

Cinnamon Roll

Orange Juice

Coffee with Cream

~REAL MINIATURE FLOWERS~

Dining on the Prairie was Exquisite.

Something I could do everyday.

Pleasant memories,

d