BLUE MONDAY

My family has been helpful when it comes to Pink Saturday and Blue Monday. The item I'm featuring today was given to me by my daughter. Someone in her office was getting ready to throw it away and she told the lady that her mother (that's me) would like it so that is how I ended up with this cute little blue and white windmill. There is a place to put a votive candle in it. 

Go see Smiling Sally for more Blue Monday posts. 

THE QUAIL FAMILY

I just saw the cutest thing and I just have to share it with you. I looked out in the back yard and saw a mother and father quail along with 8 or 9 tiny baby quail. I grabbed my camera and took a picture through the window with the zoom.  Now you know what? I'm gonna go post this on my Charlotte's Weblog because pictures post larger there. You can't see the babies very well here. They blend in with the rocks. They're about the same size as those rocks in the yard. Go look on the other blog if you haven't already seen them there.

Wow! I just enlarged the picture and counted 13. You can click on these pictures to enlarge.

A RECOMMENDATION

I have a link on my sidebar to the blog called Warm Pie, Happy Home. This has recently been changed and you will not want to miss seeing it. Aunt Ruthie's Sugar Pie Farmhouse is the new name of the site. Do yourself a favor and check it out. Just click HERE to go there and be sure to have your sound turned on for her unique music.

I found something under the section called Blue Ribbon Product Reviews that I just have to have. Be sure to check out each one of the categories listed. 

A CHALLENGE FROM MS. DAISY

Jean (Ms. Daisy of The Daisy Chain) tagged me to go to my 6th picture folder on my computer, choose the 6th picture there and do a blog about it. The 6th folder holds pictures from Sedona. I did this challenge some time ago and I have posted this picture before in a post about Sedona, but I think it is an interesting picture and I'm sure not everybody has seen it, so here it is again. I love this work of art. There are many bronze statues in and around Sedona, AZ. We found this one on the outskirts of town as we were driving there. 

This challenge is a fun thing to do, so if you haven't done it before or if you haven't done it lately, I am passing the challenge on to you. 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Be sure to visit Dixie at French Lique for more Wordless Wednesday posts.

HE IS RISEN

Be sure to go to the Spiritual Sundays blog for more inspirational posts.

And, of course, if you would like to participate, we would love to have you do that. You can find instructions there.

Can you think of anything better than this? The tomb was empty when the disciples went there expecting to find Jesus' body. 

In 1978 we had the privilege of visiting the Holy Land. We were in Jerusalem on a Sunday and Hubby had the honor of offering the communion meditation at the Garden Tomb. Here is the picture I took of him and some other pictures we took there in the Garden.

Inside the tomb. Of course no one knows if this was the tomb where the body of Jesus was laid, but it possibly could be. If not, it would be very similar to the actual one. 

That's me right in the middle of the picture facing the camera. Other members of our tour group are also in the picture. 

LEARNING FRENCH

I was so excited today when I went over to Dixie's French Lique blog to find a link to a la parisienne where the author is a French teacher. If you are interested in the French language, you will want to go visit her blog. She will be teaching a lesson each Friday. In today's lesson for the beginner (that's me) I learned that C'est means "it is", and moi means "me" so that's how I'm signing this post today. C'est moi, Charlotte.

I do know a tiny bit of French because I took a semester of it in high school way back in 1950. In the middle of that school year my folks moved to Oklahoma and the school there did not teach French so I took two years of Latin. Should have taken Spanish. It would have been much more useful. But, I have always loved the French language and so I was thrilled to find out that each Friday I could have a private lesson, on line of course. 

I'm also starting another new venture. Hubby has been reviewing books and having book giveaways on his blog Musings of a Minister for some time now. At his suggestion, I decided to start doing that as well. The first book I will be reviewing is called How Not to Look Old by Charla Krupp.  The book is being mailed to me and I haven't received it yet but I am looking forward to reading it, reviewing it, and giving away five copies. I am planning to do this on my Charlotte's Weblog blog so be looking for it there sometime soon. 

BLUE MONDAY

Awe - aren't they sweet?

Wouldn't you hate to have to count them?  

Go visit Sally at Smiling Sally for more Blue Monday posts.

SPIRITUAL SUNDAYS

This video is based on Ecclesiastes 3 which is one of my all time favorite scriptures. I hope you enjoy it and that will bless your life as it has mine. Click here to go to the Spiritual Sundays blog for more links. 

I deleted the video on May 6th because it starts automatically and I didn't want the music to play every time the blog was opened.

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 2064 YEARS?

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."    - Cicero - 55 BC

So the question "What have we learned?" Apparently nothing ...

SOMETHING FOR CONNIE

No, I didn't make it. The picture was e-mailed to me by a friend.

I'll bet this tree stayed warm all winter. LOL

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