DAILY RAMBLE

WOKE EARLY THIS MORNING TO THE SOUND OF RUSHING WIND.  Chilly outside.  Planning on staying HOME today and staying warm.

The sun is shinning with no rain today.  Yesterday was a wet one.  The rain has been replaced with WIND.  Blistery weather heading this way.  Can I say WAIT?  I can say it, but the weather isn't listening to lil 'ole me in Kansas nestled in the Flint Hills in a small town in a small COTTAGE.  WAIT doesn't mean it will.  

It's not going to wait as it has marching orders from the Almighty to proceed with action.  With the cold comes an opportunity to stay inside and think up plans for SPRING.

I have adjusted and can bundle up when outside when needed.  Yesterday, the weather was about 39 degrees and I felt comfortable without a jacket/coat walking from the car into some stores and back again.  I suppose if I had stayed outside any longer I would have froze.  That would have been undesirable.  

I purchased some storage tubs and have plans to use them for storing a Santa Claus COOKIE JAR and Santa Teapot that were in a moving box made of cardboard, Mom's dishes that I have and silver plated sugar and creamers sets that I have collected and am not ready to part with. Will get better organized today as the wind blows.  As I go through our belongings, my mind wonders and I think about what I would like to be doing with my time besides all of this getting settled.

Sewing comes to mind.  Making some simple quilts that are colorful.  
Writing some books.
Decorating the COTTAGE.
Ways to lose weight and get healthier.
Drawing.
Possibly painting.
Making a large doll house.
Studying.
BUT FIRST the unpacking HAS to take place.  Keep calm and unpack.  Downsize and be thankful.

What else needs done today?  I've got an appointment to rub coconut oil through my hair and then shampooing it out.  A couple of loads of laundry washed.  Getting the food organized for THANKSGIVING DINNER.  I like grouping the contents of a food dish together with the baking dish the food will be prepared in.  Makes the preparation go easier for me.  Dishes washed.  Lots of boxes to still go through.  Lots.  Quiet time will not be ignored.  Movie time this evening and it's not even Sunday.

Sunday evening I did watch THE GILDED AGE.  I thoroughly love seeing the costumes.  The story line is alright, but I especially enjoy the costumes and hair styles. 

THIS WEEK so far, progress on the COTTAGE is a new garbage disposal was purchased and installed under the Kitchen sink.  The old one was discarded.  Hubby bought a MOEN, the Chef Garbage Disposal.  Tis a beauty for being a disposal made of stainless steel.

Traveled to TOPEKA on MONDAY to finish purchasing the things we need for our next THANKSGIVING MEAL.  First came a BANK RUN to deposit some cash into checking.  Stopped off at MJs for a Almond Milk with Macadamia Nut flavoring Steamer in St. Marys and ate Lunch at TiCINO's.  Stopped off at 37 PINE to admire their beautiful store all decked out for CHRISTMAS.  

While in TOPEKA, we shopped at Sam's and Hy-Vee.  Quick trip to the City.  I desperately wanted to buy two Pumpkin Pies.  They still had some and I was thankful.  Last year I had to hunt high and low for some as SAM's was sold out.  

On the way HOME, we stopped off to spot clean the main house for sale.  My heart went pitter pat when walking about the place.  It's a very nice house that I will miss.  I will get over it as I must.  On the way HOME in the dark, I started thinking about the COLOR WHEEL DIET that I will follow after THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY is over.  I will be ready for it body, mind and spirit. Onto the COTTAGE we went to unpack groceries and rest.  Drove slow as it was raining and I'm cautious about deer running out in front of me.  This happened early October when a deer crossed our path and hit the car destroying a headlight and doing minor damage to the body of the car.  We were blessed to not be injured.  

Today, we are going to pull a flexible HVAC duct to the Bathroom so we have heat in there.  That will be needed.  Hubby has to go in the cellar to position the duct and I have to stay in the Bathroom to pull the duct through the floor.  Then he'll take it from there.  Heat will flow into the Bathroom at last.

TIME FOR TEA.  TEN O'CLOCK TEA.  Sipping some EARL GREY thinking about Lunch time at 11.  A salad for sure.  Time to get after the day.  Being RETIRED and old, I like my mornings set aside for paperwork and blogging.  Figuring out what I need to get accomplished in the day to be HAPPY.    Sitting and chatting with my Sweetheart.  Staying in my housecoat longer than I should and not caring.  I start combing my hair and getting ready for the day.

Since I once lived in the TULSA area, I was familiar with Carlton Pearson who passed away on Sunday from bladder cancer.  He was the main speaker for the Jenks, Oklahoma High School Baccalaureate Service for the Graduating Class of 1998 which my daughter was a part of.  He truly had a very distinctive voice with a wonderful singing voice and had quite the personality.

Being very charismatic he was well loved until he changed his thoughts about the Christian theology concerning HELL.  He fell from grace from the Tulsa community when he began his ministry of inclusion.

He believed while watching television he heard from GOD saying that hell is created on earth by human depravity and behavior.

HOWEVER, what he heard contradicted the Bible and God doesn't contradict HIMSELF. Carlton apparently did not know this.  He believed HEAVEN cancelled out HELL and changed his ministry beliefs.  

Death comes to each one of us.  Where will you spend an eternity after your earthly death?  The GOSPEL is so simple about receiving eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God, that some tend to want to make it difficult and ad lib with false doctrines.  The simplicity of the GOSPEL is part of the goodness of God.  Many fail to embrace the goodness of GOD and get sidetracked in the ways of the world.  The goodness of God brings people to repentance.  Hallelujah what a good God we we serve.  Fall in love with HIM embracing HIS GOODNESS and LOVE.  This is the time to relax in HIM and be blessed.  Oh, how I love Him.  His ways are higher than mankind's.  He is so so good.

For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son Jesus that whosoever believes in him and places their trust in him as their personal savior, shall not perish, but have EVER LASTNG LIFE.  Jesus is the lamb of God that paid the price for us.  There is a heaven and there is a hell. One does not cancel the other out.  That's like saying because there is a night time that a day time will never exist again.  Because we cannot see the daytime all the time does not mean it is completely done away with.  It's still there.  

I choose to believe the word of God over man's false doctrines.        

Blessings to you.  

God bless,

~d