SIBLING RIVALRY

Question Of The Week, 11-23-15

THEY WANT US TO WATCH

CEREAL RITUALS

Question Of The Week 11-16-15

Do you just pour a bowl of cereal, add milk and then sit down and eat it? Or is there an art to preparing your bowl of cereal? 

Do you mix a variety of cereals? (I at least add grape nuts). Do you add fruit or nuts? Do you still eat kids cereal like Cap'N Crunch or Fruit Loops, etc. What about hot cereal like oatmeal or cream of wheat? Inquiring minds want to know. (Well just my inquiring mind.) My family and friends hate the fact that I put Ice water on my cereal instead of milk, but hey, to each her own:-)

PEACE MONGERS

Thank you all for participating in the Veteran's Day Honor Wall that I placed here again and on Facebook for the first time.  This will be an annual event on Veteran's Day on this blog.  It was a privilege for me to type each name and think of you and the love you shared with these Vets from many, many years of service to our country. If you still want the names of other military veterans added to my blog just comment here and I will gladly add them.

When I married Ron and told people he was a retired Navy veteran a fellow commented to me, "Oh you are marrying a war monger!"  As I learned of the many humanitarian things our military does around the world I want to say to that fellow, "These men and women are Peace Mongers." Remember the media only advertises bad deeds but talk to a vet and you will learn that our military mission is as peace keepers.

VETERAN'S DAY 2015

This is a rerun of my post from 2013.  You might see the name of a Veteran you posted and if you do not, then put it in the comments and I will add it to the list.

WHAT IS THE FIRST NAME OF MILITARY VETERANS YOU WOULD LIKE REMEMBERED?

Put his or her first names in the comment section and I will add them to this blog page as a way of saying thanks for their service.

 "A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'  " ~ unknown

HONOR WALL

                                                     Ronald L. MMCS, Vietnam                                                 

                                                     James M.                                                  

                                                  Henry G.                                               

Martin M,

Mike L.

Paul V.

Juliette V.

Frank C.

Frank C. Jr.

David R.

Ralph C.

John L. 
Jane W.
Rhonda A.

Douglas M.
Yancey M.
Buck J. 

Fred C. 

Joe K.
Jason B.

Leonard E. 

Alan B.

Mike
Alex
Joseph

Larry H.

Dale K.  

Walter C. WW1
Bill C. WW2 Korea
Michael C. Vietnam
Randy M. Vietnam
George B. WW2 Korea
Matthew M. Iraq
Gene O. Vietnam
Jeff C. Vietnam
Robert L. Vietnam
Tom K. Vietnam

Percy T.
Peter T.
Bill F.
Darcy W.
Frank S.

Jack H.
Dale B.
John N.
Paul W.
Robert C.
Jason M.

Gerald C. Vietnam
Darrel C. WW2
Averill C. WW2
Bill K. WW2 
William B 1813
Matthew G 1829
William M 1839
John N 1861
John Joseph Patrick D 1863
Andrew D
James D
Isaac John Joseph T
John T
Charles T
Alice T
James S
David H
Robert H
Wayne Tillitson. of Hopewell Junction Of Dutchess County NY
John Bear Of Albany NY.
 Joseph C.
 Waring H.
Buzz H.
Mary M.
Cody O.
Elwood C. 
Tim Hollingsworth
Richard C. Vietnam
Vernon Z. Harold Z. Sig H.  

  Fred E.,

Gary W.

 Billie C.
James Robert Spitler.
 Richard M. Stern.
David Glenn
Don Eskew
Adam Morgan   
B.J. Hollingsworth 
Woody H.
 Vernon Christian
Treva Christian
Chris L.
Wayne Tillotson 
Larry b
Jack McGarvey Army Air Corps WWII
Bob McGarvey U.S.Navy.  WWII
Boyd Goodwin 
Hap H. 
Roger W., Navy Seal
  Louis D
 Charles W
Dave E
Willie Lamar Putman (U.S. Navy)
 William Howard Colvard (U.S. Army)
Bill Houser, Sr., WWII
Matt B 

DISTANCE YOURSELF

Question Of The Week 11-9-15

How do you know when to end a friendship 

and how do you end it?

 

BEGIN TO HONOR

Veteran's Day is approaching.  Take 25 minutes of your time to watch this entire video honoring 1991 Congressional Medal Of Honor winner MSG Roy Benavidez.   In doing so you will honor all our Veterans. His story honors all our military, especially our Veterans of Foreign Wars.  My husband often talked of the exploits of those who risked it all to return our trapped and stranded fighting men in Vietnam. Benavidez speech in the second half of the video tells who the heroes are.

 

DARE TO DREAM

Question Of The Week 11-2-15

“Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” ~ Gandhi

SPECIAL DAY

ROLLER SKATING IN A BUFFALO HERD

Question Of The Week 10-26-15

What are you an expert at?

Here is my greatest expertise and I wish I weren't so good at it:-)

 

TURN THE CORNER

I came in from bringing in the newspaper one early morning and noticed the light in the stairwell illuminated this setting. I always think of this as Ron's corner. His little collection of ducks, the barometer and all of the many keys that are needed around the place. Its funny how we often fail to notice the special corners in our homes. I have a lot of little groupings of things that were special to Ron, to me and to my parents and to my children. Do you have such places in your home?

ONCE UPON A TIME

Question Of The Week, 10-19-15

If your life was a novel, what would be the title and how would the story end?

My title would be THE SEARCH and it would end with "still looking".

 

ALL IS ENOUGH

Yesterday we had an early get-together for my son's 45th Birthday.  His daughter was home from college to celebrate with us.  After a wonderful lunch with my son and granddaughter it seemed only appropriate that we have dessert on this special occasion.  When we ask for the dessert menu we were informed they only had three desserts.  The waitress suggested we share one. Well there were three of us so we ordered ALL THREE!  Yes, we shared.  Yes we had to crawl out of the restaurant.  jk  LOL!!

Apple Crisp with ice cream, Chocolate lava cake with ice cream, Cheese cake with strawberry sauce.

 

Birthday Boy and granddaughter carrying left over dessert.

RETURN OF THE INQUISTION:-)

Question Of The Week, 10-12-15

Where do you find inspiration?

Family
Friends
Strangers
Religion
Music
Movies
Non-fiction
Fiction
Listening
Arguing
Debating
Day-dreaming
Etc.

I WILL STOP NOW

Final favorite cruise photos.

Every day the mats in the elevators had the correct day of the week.

Dining room ice sculpture.

Take the girl away from her chickens but don't take the chickens away from the girl.

Here I am holding up the Welcome to Sitka sign.

 

 

 

Cheers!  Clink.

My precious ship mates.

Precious big brother and big sister.  I am the baby:-)

Went off on my own so had to take a selfie in Ketchican.  Always raining there!

Night time greeters when we returned to our rooms.  Always a new one.

NOT ALONE

Did I take this Alaska Cruise alone?  Nope!  I was surrounded by my siblings.

Brother-in-law, Sister, Me, Sister-In-Law, Brother.

USA BLESSED BY ALASKA

Approaching Juneau

Mendenhall Glacier

Watching Orcas

Orca surfaces a bit.

Glacier Bay

Victoria

Selfie at sunrise:-)

Event of a lifetime

Back from Alaska cruise.

COLORING AGAIN

Have any of you enjoyed these adult coloring books?  Very relaxing hobby.  I order my books from Amazon.  This book is made by bluestarcoloring.com .  I use gel pens for these pages.
 

A WILL AND A WAY

This baby chick found the easy way to get on the roost at night. Instead of a piggyback ride this is a chickieback ride.