Category Archives: Friends

Welcome June!

Welcome June. May you bring good weather. Outdoor concerts. Farmer’s Markets. Long walks. Belly Laughs. Garage Sales. Snow-cones. Picnics. Watermelon. Fresh Tomatoes. Gentle Rains. Weekend trips. Flowers! Sunshine. Rebuilding. Healing. . . These are flowers from Mom and Dad’s backyard….after storm “one”.  … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday MOM!

If you are a regular follower, you have been on our tornado journey for well over a week now. ( Moore, Oklahoma tornado pics ) While we were in Moore over the weekend, we stopped to visit and to reflect … Continue reading

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Moore, Oklahoma ~ Tornado

We are just back from my folks home in the tornado devastated, Moore, Oklahoma.  We took the usual route to their house early Saturday morning.  Most everything was the same.  That is, until we turned the corner onto my parent’s road.  Our hearts dropped. No matter how … Continue reading

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Praying for Oklahoma

Some of you may have read my post yesterday about the storms headed our way.  Little did I know that just a couple of hours after that, I would be watching live television footage of a one to two-mile wide … Continue reading

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Storms continue to brew…..

The good thing about living in Oklahoma is that when storms are headed your way, you are alerted several days before.  Our weather people are outstanding.  Our storm chasers….amazingly crazy. Yesterday was one of those days.  If you’ve lived here very … Continue reading

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I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke

While I was sleeping…. someone visited my blog.  Not that I don’t normally have evening visitors, (or it may be daylight where they live) but this person triggered view number 40,000! Pretty awesome. this is me trying to remain calm … Continue reading

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And I Know Who Holds My Hand

There are times in life when you are just “being” and then a moment appears before your eyes that you want to capture.  This particular moment occurred during our second son’s wedding, four and a half years ago.  An outdoor wedding … Continue reading

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Keep the Old

Make new friends, Keep the old One is Silver and the other Gold ♥ When I was little, I was a Girl Scout Brownie for a short time.  I assumed we would get to eat brownies at every meeting.  Never happened.  But I did learn … Continue reading

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“Garland-isms”

Today is an EXTRA special day.  It’s our dad, Garland’s, birthday.  I won’t tell you how old he is, but if you are familiar with Elvis Presley, well, they were born the same year.  And while I can imagine dad singing on stage.  I just … Continue reading

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Dress Nathan Out!

I could write several paragraphs attempting to explain how a little town in Oklahoma pulled together for their highschool team manager, Nathan.  I could tell you about how his teammates, towns people, coaches and perfect strangers rallied for him.  But instead, ….I’ll just let you see for yourself in the following short clip. … Continue reading

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