A Few More Bunnies

Bunnies keep popping up that I have overlooked. I think this is the last of them. Two of them were lurking in my doll room closet. One was sitting right there in my kitchen in plain sight. How could I have overlooked that one? One was hiding behind a picture in the dining room. Here they are - the last of my bunnies.

Now, it's on to business - or I should say More Fun!

Yesterday I was tagged by Ginger http://enchantingcottage.blogspot.com/ to do a six word meme. Here are the meme rules: 1. Write your own six word memoir 2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like 3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible, so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere 4. Tag five more blogs with links 5. Remember to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

Here’s my six word memoir: “God has blessed me beyond belief.”

I’m tagging:

Brenda at http://countryromance.blogspot.com/
Joyce at http://thesecretgardner.blogspot.com/
Connie at http://edelweisstexas.blogspot.com/
Jennifer at http://dustbunnyhostage.blogspot.com/
Karoline at http://cherishedvintage.blogspot.com/

More Bunnies

A note about the chocolate rabbit in yesterday's post. No, it's not chocolate. No, it's not plastic. It's ceramic. If anyone tries to bite his ears off they will end up in the dentist's office.

These "outside" bunnies are pictured here in our backyard in California.

When we moved here these bunnies were in the back yard until this one found his way to the front. The other one is still in the back yard.

Bunny Rabbits

With Easter so close, I thought I’d better start showing some of my bunnies. Here are a few of them.

The Plant That Always Returns

See this empty pot in front of our house. It looks this way twice a year - but only for a little while. In the winter it freezes, and in the summer it burns up. We put temporary flowering plants in it until the real occupant returns again, and it always returns. Last winter after a deeper than usual freeze in our valley, my husband was sure that it would not return, but it did. I have no idea what kind of plant this is. We bought it at a nursery many years ago. The pot is really in bad shape. If we tried to move it even a little, it would fall apart, but the plant comes back each time more beautiful than ever and so we just keep the old pot.

A Prayer of Awareness

The prayers in Ken Gire's book Windows of the Soul are so good. Here is another one called "A Prayer of Awareness". These prayers have blessed my life and I hope they will bless yours.

Thank You, O God,

For seeing beyond the surface of my life

to the child sitting at the mirror.

Thank You for sitting down beside me,

putting Your arm around me,

and speaking to me with such tenderness,

such compassion, and such understanding.

Help me to be aware of the pictures in my life

that are everywhere around me and at all times

showing me something I need to see,

telling me something I need to hear,

offering me something I need to receive.

Help me look beyond the surface of those pictures to see windows.

Give me eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive

what You are offering me through those windows,

that I might sense what is dear to You

so that it might become what is dear to me . . .

It's time to go get ready to go to church. I love Sundays. I love to go to church. I hope you have a great day.

Another Hobby

Before I started blogging, I spent a lot of time making DVDs of our photos. Here are some of them on the top shelf of our CD/DVD cabinet. All together I made 22 of them. Actually it was more, because I updated most of them - sometimes more than twice. After I would finish one, I would run across some more pictures that should have been included, so I would have to update it.

Making the labels and covers to put on the holders is almost as much fun as making DVDs, but not quite.

When people come to see us, I don’t bore them with home movies (we never had any of those). I bore them with DVDs.
Here is the front of the one about Carmel & Monterey. That’s a picture of me probably about 25 years ago. We spent our honeymoon in Carmel and those pictures are on the DVD as well as pictures from the many trips we have made back there over the years.

More Reminiscing

Another tap dance my cousin and I performed was a Raggedy Ann and Andy dance. Here we are in our costumes. It isn’t easy to tap dance on grass. I’ve had the top picture forever, but just discovered the one on the grass recently. Being the only child, I inherited all my mother’s photos when she passed away several years ago. I was just recently looking through them again and ran across some old negatives. I can scan negatives on our scanner, so I did. I was so excited to see some pictures that I hadn’t seen since these pictures were taken. The original prints were probably sent to some relative at the time. I don’t remember ever seeing them.

We entered a Halloween costume contest that year wearing these costumes. There was a parade on the main street of Norwalk. We won “Most Unique”. That was fun.

A Cat, A Pillow, A Doll and A Rabbit

Thought I would share a few more things that I have made in the past. Here they are - a cat, a pillow, a doll and a rabbit. I know. I’ve shared the doll already but not with the cat, the pillow and the rabbit. This is new.

More Birds

After I did yesterday’s post, I got to looking around at birds in various locations inside the house and decided to feature them today.
I have another bird that I looked high and low for but couldn’t locate. I know it’s around here somewhere. It’s a little snowbird. My husband brought it home to me many years ago from a trip that I didn’t go on. Now where in the world is that bird?

My husband made this little birdhouse several years ago. Isn’t it cute. He made a whole bunch of birdhouses back then. Birdhouses were just getting popular, and he found this was a good hobby for him. This will be the subject of a future post. We have lots of pictures of the birdhouses.

The Tale of Two Birds

This little birdie (not real) sits on the ledge outside our kitchen window looking in. We bought it at a nursery in Sedona last year. Just thought I would share it with you today.

This little hummingbird (a real bird) built her nest on top of a wind chime on our patio last year. I climbed up on a chair one day to be able to look into the nest. There were two very very tiny heads sticking up. It was very sad when we had one of our monsoon storms – the wind blew very

hard – the mother bird didn’t come back to the nest. The babies were gone. The nest is still there. I guess the moral of the story is, if you are a hummingbird, don't build your nest on a wind chime. This may be something like the foolish man building his house upon the sand.

A Prayer of Courage

I love the prayers in Ken Gire’s book Windows of the Soul. Here is another one.

Help me, O God,

Give me the courage to cry.
Help me to understand that tears bring
freshly washed colors arching across the soul,
colors that wouldn’t be there apart from the rain.
Help me to see in the prism of my tears,
something of the secret of who I am.
Give me the courage
not only to see what those tears are revealing
but to follow where they are leading.
and help me to see,
somewhere over the rainbow,
that where they are leading me is home . . .

On Vacation

As we were sitting in Coco's restaurant this morning eating breakfast, I mentioned to my husband that I like to eat breakfast out because it makes me feel like I'm on vacation. I'm still having that vacation feeling so this is all I'm writing today. I'll be back tomorrow after my "vacation" is over.