Oh Me !!! Oh My !!! Ms Faith.... ( By the way... The Faith name is just fittn for you !!! cause the Sunflower one Fits and Faith Fits! WELL Girl.......... I cut some of my baby teeth sing'n that very song.... LOVE IT ~~~~~ Love it ~~~~~ L O V E IT !!!!! and you know I really needed to hear that.... I Have been out shoveling snow.... and I was half frozen... don't really know which half... feels ... well NO Can't feel... well... ANY WAYS>>>> We just have to Keep Singing to get on through some of these tough times.... and YET>>>>> we really need to Sing in the GOOD TIMES TOO! So yes..... Singing Praises is just really healthy for the soul!!!!! So you just feel free to join in with me any ole time!!! I am just happy I am not a solid chunk of ice... I am going to be OK !!! and I am going to sing sing sing... Thanks for reminding me of the words.... IN these Senior Years... sometimes... I tend to get a little forgetful..... So Sing With ME.... and lets get together ...Yeah Yeah Yeah !!! One thing that reminded my of that was my Grandmother use to have a little sign in the kitchen that says...... RISE N SHINE ! with a little rooster... and in the mornings she would say that... sometimes... it would be cold and dark and it would be 5:30 am... BUT her sweet kind voice... Singing out would make it a bunch easier... and Start the day off RIGHT !!! Praise God!!! Bless You! Thanks! SusieSunShine!!!

Speaking of lying in a casket with "all the good stuff" piled around you....one of my favorite possessions is an old concrete water trough that my husband moved here for me from our old place, which had been a dairy. Not exactly an easy feat, mind you. It is just over 10' long and 3 1/2' wide and has 8" thick sides. I love that old trough...was poured with boards for a mold and you can see the faint outline of the wood grain in it, and whoever did it, did a great job and beveled the edge. It is poured with finely crushed oyster shell and green moss grows on it. I go out and lovingly stroke it and splash water onto the moss. Of all my junk, I think I love it the most. I had told my husband I didn't want to be buried when I died...unless I could be buried here on the place. I'm just too "queer", as my mother said about me, to go in a cemetary with all those other people...so I told him, put me in the trough and then pour a layer of concrete over me, and put the waterlilies and water back in. A second idea...put me in the trough, and pile in as much of my old junk as you can, and pour in concrete. Top off with my hundreds of old marbles. What a lovely tomb that would be! :))

Happy Thanksgiving Day everyone! I was just thinking this morning that our T'day is uniquely American on this Thursday in November. I like that! And I like our turkey and Pilgrim symbols for this holiday. Stopped at the store last night to get some apple cider and .27 a pound sweet potatoes and even enjoyed all the shoppers buying their .27-a-pound sweet potatoes and umpteen cans of chicken broth! LOL! (my sister is bringing her candied sweet potatoes for our dinner, I was just stocking up on a good deal!) We will be feasting at Mom's house - which is a good thing, as I have a sick pooch here at my house. Have a wonderful day! Teresa

Two of my 3 are coming Saturday to spend the night and fix lunch on Sunday. Then they will take families back home that afternoon to get ready for work and school the next day. The end of next week, youngest will fly in from the east coast to spend a couple of days before he and friend head off to Yosemite with elder son and DIL to camp for a week and celebrate their May birthdays. My favorite thing for sure, having the "kids" visit.