Take the time to touch the morning…

Take the time to touch the morning
Whoa, you'll wish you had some day
Take the time to touch the morning
Before it slips away.

Have you ever seen the sunshine
Peepin' through a window glass
Have you ever noticed Jack Frost
Etched so lightly on your grass.

Have you ever tasted apples
With the dew still on the skin
Have you ever loved somebody
You'll never see again.

Take the time to touch the morning
Whoa, you'll wish you had some day
Take the time to touch the morning
Before it slips away.

Take the time to taste the sunshine
As it hangs there from the tree
Take the time to touch the morning
Touch the morning on your knees.

I've been called a driftin' dreamer
A boy out of place
But I have touched the morning
Felt the cool upon my face.

Take the time to touch the morning
Whoa, wished you had some day
Take the time to touch the morning
Before it slips away.

Take the time to taste the sunshine
While it hangs there from the tree
Take the time to touch the morning
Touch the morning on your knees.

Take the time to touch the morning
Whoa, you'll wish you had some day
Take the time to touch the morning
Before it slips away.

 

written by Eddie Raven

 

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

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I am out to touch the morning to hit a few more garage sales.  And for any family member reading this, don’t forget to catch my blog tomorrow June 3rd,  Thanks to my newest follower Nicky who has been a blogging friend since I first started posting in 2005.

Beth

Fantastic Friday…

Oh my, the garage sales, so many and I was worn out long before we found them all.  North Pekin alone was having a community sale of 40 or more homes.  My daughter and I went to several in town and then to quite a few in the community sale.  I got several books including 2 cookbooks put together by different groups.  I love that kind of cookbook.  It is my kind of cooking.  Lots of really nice Christmas trays and tins.  I do a lot of goodie giving at Christmas and I never ask for the container to be returned (unless it is one of my kids.)   Then we stopped for a bite to eat and then home.

Not a good picture taken from the inside of my car.

It was in the low 40s when we started out this morning.  It has climbed all of the way  up to58 degrees now.  Can you imagine garage saling on the first day of June wearing, jeans, sweatshirt and a winter coat?  Yep, that was me.  My daughter wasn’t dressed quite so winter like but then she is 20 years younger than me and healthier. 

Three men ages 24, 23, and 19 were arrested for vandalizing my cemetery.  Just as I suspected they were not juveniles but adult drunks. 

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x639970681/Alcohol-fueled-cemetery-vandalism-police-say    

My furnace wasn’t working this morning when I got up.  Maintenance came and fixed it while I was gone.  That is one good thing about renting.

I hope you all have a peaceful weekend.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Another Thursday…

It is Thursday already.  I complain each time it happens; I don’t like Monday holidays.  If we are celebrating something let us do it on the day this something actually occurs.  Monday holidays were fine when I worked for civil service because they celebrate just about everything and it was nice getting so many extra days off with pay.  Now a Monday holiday just messes up my routine.  Today really should be Wednesday.  And all long time bloggers know that Wednesday is the official rant day in Blogland.  What if I had an actual rant and I had let Wednesday pass me by? HA!!!  You all know me, I would have put my rant out there whether it was Wednesday or not.   Whew, I am sure glad I don’t have anything to rant about today.

I am just home from grocery shopping.  I bought all of the bargains.  Some lovely strawberries at $1.50 a pound.  I know I must have eaten 1/2 lb of them while I was fixing them for the freezer.  YUMMMM!!!!

It is pouring down rain here, finally.  We are way below normal on the rain this year and the ground has been getting brown and crunchy.  It is also chilly at only 50 degrees right now.  I have jeans and a sweatshirt on, yesterday it was shorts and a T.

This will be a good afternoon for me to finish a book I started by Linda Lael Miller.  She is one of my favorite authors.

Time has flown again what with me running around getting soaked this morning.  I will say goodbye for today.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Therapeutic??

Shortly after I lost my husband I got this overwhelming feeling that I needed to go through all of the family albums.  There were a lot of them too; you do take a lot of photos over a 50 year period.   I kept myself busy scanning these photos into my computer. I cried a lot while I was doing this.  It was very therapeutic  and much cheaper than a psychiatrist. There was no grief counseling available in my little city and the psychologist that my insurance allowed  told me that she didn’t handle grief counseling.    So I pulled myself up by my boot straps and said I can do this and I did.  It does get easier as time passes but the memories remain.

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therapeutic

noun

something that corrects or counteracts something undesirable <some charitable work might be the best therapeutic for that guy's total self-absorption>
Synonyms antidote, corrective, curative, rectifier, remedy,therapeutic, therapy
Related Words cure-all, elixir, panacea; answer, solution;aid, help, relief, succor; balm, medicinal, medicine, palliative

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At the present time I have well over 2.000  pictures on my computer.  I have no more family albums.  As I scanned I distributed the photos to the family members that wanted them.  Some were discarded in the trash can.
If you are wondering about the topic of this post, this coming Sunday June 3rd marks a very special day in our family.  I have been hunting through pictures trying to find the perfect ones to use in a post that I will be doing on Sunday.  My sister Rae has been helping me by sending me some pictures that she had.
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Yesterday my daughter and I ate at Grumpy Pete’s aka 8th Street Station aka Frankie G’s.  We loved the buffet there while it was 8th Street Station.  Yesterday was the first time to try Frankie G’s cuisine.  It was not bad although it was expensive for what you got.  Definitely we will not go there again.
I have cleaning to do so this is it for today.  Stay safe and be happy!!
Beth