Good Friday....

Yesterday we had a day of doing fun things together but the Good Friday thoughts of Jesus kept walking through my mind. I could never describe it, but Vinita Hampton Wright wrote this beautiful poem about her thoughts. I wanted to save it and share with you.

Happy Birthday Jeff and Ellie....

Jeff is smiling for his birthday pic and Jacob is home for Easter. Jeff still has some accessories that we hope he will soon be finished with, (like oxygen and hospital ids) but he is getting better and this is a wonderful birthday.

My friend Ellie also has a birthday today and she recently had some serious things happening with her also. While she was at work, she had a stroke. A guardian angel customer recognized what was happening and knew just what to do. She was in the hospital for a while but she is getting better and we are so thankful. The funny thing (well not really) is that both she and Jeff were at the same ER at the same time .

No more getting sick together guys...okay to have a birthday together though.

Redd Ventures

At the Guardian Lutheran craft show, one of the booths had these little plant "gems".

Tiny little packets make a whole quart of marble-sized gems which never fade, are odorless, non toxic, biodegradable and never get moldy.

Soak them for 6 hours in two quarts of water and for plants, add 1 tsp. of liquid plant fertilizer. After soaking, you drain in a colander and place them in a vase, add your plant. (Bare root) For fresh flowers no fertilizer, just leave a small amount of water in the bottom of the vase so stems are immersed.

After two months, the gems will have shrunk in size. Then you just remove them, rehydrate and fertilize.
It was nice to meet Linda Faye. She very thoroughly explained her product for her customers. We thought it was unique so we took home several packets. I hope she did well at the show. Her email is mrslfredd@gmail.com.

Easter Dish Garden

Little Projects......

 I hope you do not have dry eyes but computer screens, tv screens etc. cause an increasingly common condition known as meibomian gland dysfunction, the oil producing glands in the eyelids fail to secrete enough oil to prevent tears from evaporating too quickly, and this results in burning, painful eyes.  (I got this from my eye Dr. Yu).

Heat treatment is good so I made these little rice baggies to heat in the microwave and use as a heat pack for 5-20 minutes.  About a half cup of rice in them.  It also helps to follow with lid-scrubs to express the softened oil from icky clogged glands after you use them.  I just use baby shampoo and water and a q-tip.  Close your eye and scrub and rinse.  Feels very good, after too much  blogging,  facebook and pinterest .

Yesterday was the last day for my 50% off coupon at Value World .  I bought this little sofa-kleenex-box-cover and this is what I did with it.  80 cents of fun!

Happy Thursday everyone!

Life is Good......

 ain't it so!  When you feel it, and your tee shirt says so!

PJ and I have new shirts to feel good in, from Kynda!  The little tag says " do what you like, like what you do."  Like good things, do good things.  Happy Friday to ya!

It's spring  because Max (the next-door cat) has moved into my yard.  He likes to be in paper bags.  I have found him in the big yard-waste bags at times.

 And Charlie is smiling, he's going to Florida AND a Red Wings hockey game.

John likes the flowers.

Best news of all, Jeff is at home and doing good!

I am so far behind with reading and writing posts, I will probably not catch up.  I hope I haven't missed too much with you all.  Altho I did see that Robin has a birthday, so happy birthday Robin!!!  Everyone have a wonderful Wednesday.