ONE WAY TICKET TO HEAVEN

Below are the two sides of a ticket found in My aunt Pauline's papers after she passed away in 1994. I can't imagine how many years this 'transfer ticket' had been shuffled around in her pocket or purse but it is very worn.

Her young life was very difficult and I'm certain that when she found the Lord, promises like those on this little scrap of paper eased her aching heart and brought her peace.. Obviously this one did.

Auntie was born in 1906 and accepted the Lord when she was a young woman. I have a picture of her being baptised in the Nooksack River at Ferndale, WA.

I'm thankful that she knew of our Father's love and forgiveness.

Life would sure be a convoluted mess without Him.

I pray that every lost soul will know our Lords unconditional love.

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BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN, ER...COMPUTER CHAIR.

I am finally feeling like I may have a future. Post surgery is miserable at times and sure can make one grumpy! Lets start this post with a cute little squirrel who thinks he's in squirrel heaven. I dumped a lot of seeds and cracked corn out so they can store it for winter. The yellow Calendula frame the picture nicely.
I realize I am late in posting about our trip to the Pumpkin patch, but couldn't do much till now. I had never gone before so it was a new experience for me. I didn't know they had more than pumpkins. There were huge piles of assorted squash and a corn maze, a petting zoo hay ride and a lot more.

Here are just a small portion of pumpkins.

These people really worked hard to decorate too, with scare crows and goblins and every kind of fall deco.

Here's the corn maze, and yes I did do it but was plumb tuckered by the time we got to the end. At least I think it was the end. It was for me anyway!

Here's Madalyn and Kenny at the playground where there was this gutted out yard tractor and huge tires etc for them to play on. The kids loved it.

Hailee, Madalyn, Julia and Kenny

"GOIN FOR THE GOLD!"

Aunt Patty's rule was they could have any pumpkin they wanted as long as they could carry it to the wheelbarrow. Here's Kenny hanging on tight.

Julia struggled with her huge choice then as we were heading for check out she saw one she liked better and had to do it all over again.

John C chose a giant pumpkin and being older and stronger could get it into the wheelbarrow without any trouble.

Hailee and Madalyn were totally overwhelmed with all the choices. We had to help them out a little. Hailee wasn't feeling well and got sick later in the day. Poor little darling.

Ok, so here they are on Halloween night.Hailee who is finally over the flu and her sister Madalyn are all dressed up in the lovely princess gown their Nana made for them. Aren't they just delightful!!

Kenny proves that Darth Vader even likes lolly pops.

So do I. Especially the orange ones.

Last but certainly not least, here is my niece and her little girl.'Just look at that cute face she is making.

This little one is only two but her vocabulary would knock your sox off!

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Once again I want to thank each of you for your prayers during this past few months. Our Heavenly Father has answered them.

I want to ask once again that you remember my special friend John. He is still undergoing Chemo but is feeling good and looking well.

I am praying for his total healing from cancer, not just a remission. God can do it.

You are all such faithful friends. I sure love you a lot!

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THE OTHER SIDE OF SURGERY

For those who don't know, about two months ago I got sick and couldn't stop vomiting. My girls took me to the hospital, where the doctor treating me asked for a cat scan hoping he could find what was making me so sick.

All he saw in my stomach was some irritation, but what he didn't expect to see was the tumor and mass on my right kidney.

He told me that 90% of the tumors inside the kidney are malignant, and they didn't know what the mass was. He said the entire kidney had to be removed.

I told him that I would be one of the 10% that did not have a malignancy. I think I partly said that because it scared me. but there was something else too. I didn't want the 'cancer' word connected with me in any way so I disassociated myself with it the only way I knew how. I told several people that God never told me I had to have cancer so I'm not going to.

The surgery took about three or so hours, part of that time was spent repairing many adhesion's I had developed from past surgeries. Apparently they attached to the abdominal wall.

On Thursday when my nice Irish surgeon came in my room to talk to me and release me to go home, he told

me the good news. There was no sign of cancer.

Thank you for your faithful prayers.

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COLORS OF AUTUMN

I don't know the name of this red bush but it sure is striking!

The maple leaves have a large variety of colors, from pale yellow to gold, orange and brown.

So pretty on the branch but soon to fall.

I'm always amazed at the vivid fall colors. You'd think after all the years I've been seeing them I'd be used to it. Not a chance!

Here's a golden beauty, tall and proud wearing her gorgeous autumn coat.

My back yard did a Little showing off too.

Another sunset over Fairhaven.

The supermarkets are loaded with big orange pumpkins and children young and old search through the piles for just the right one to make their jack-o-lantern.

How many years has this been going on?

I remember making them when I was a girl. The candle melting and the smell of burnt pumpkin. I remember running down the sidewalks with my paper bag flopping against my legs, trying hard to be careful so it wouldn't tear and dump all my treats.

We didn't have plastic back then.

I remember the goblins that jumped out from behind the trees terrifying me out of my wits.

I remember getting home with a bag of candy, cookies and apples, eating until I felt nauseous and being glad Halloween wouldn't come again for a whole year,........until the next morning when I was counting the days until I could do it all over again.

Happy Autumn Everyone.

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Tomorrow morning I have surgery. Thanks again for your prayers.

Hugs

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SUNRISE

October 9, 2009

Slowly it’s glory raises to the horizon
Shedding an orange glow over the earth
The sky becomes flames of fire.
The trees awaken to its warm embrace
And raise their branches in praise
To the Creator.

The birds shake out their nighttime garments,
And begin their morning worship
Awakening all creatures here below.
We rub the sleep from our eyes
Thanking Him for another day.

Then we see it, we feel it, and we are drawn into it
We hurry out into the early morning,
Crisp with autumn dew
And are embraced by it,
Our knees grow weak and our head spins
With the glory of it.

He holds us captive in His glorious embrace
And we gladly receive this blessing.

His eternal sunrise.

BJH

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OCTOBER GIFTS

What you see above is a large size teacup and a very large apple.

We had a windy day Sunday and late afternoon as I was looking out my kitchen window at the hundreds of maple tree seeds twirling across the sky like tiny helicopters, I saw a large yellowish thing under the old Gravenstein apple tree. I knew it couldn't be an apple because They were all picked last month.

Well I was sure surprised to find that one had escaped the picking and even more surprised at it's size. It weighed over a pound! And yes it sure does taste good.

Changing the subject.....Mrs. Spider has chosen my back deck for her autumn home. I appologize for the blurred photos. I'm not really afraid of spiders, but when I'm doing a macro shot of one of these critters my hands have a mind of their own! Besides, she's pretty big.

Another reason is because she killed her husband and plans to eat him for supper one night. That's him all wrapped up in web. I guess she is testing to see if he is 'done' yet.
I took one more shot after this one but my camera got too close and she shot across her web so fast it scared the stuffing out of me! I didn't know where she went and of course my vivid imagination had her in my hair, up my sleeve, or on my nightgown someplace. I did a funny jig trying to dislodge her without touching her with my hand even though she wasn't even on me. I'm glad this happened on the back deck where no one could see me. LOL
Did you know that they have pincher like claws, and they bite their husbands and inject poison into them to paralyze them so they can wrap them in web and save them for a meal, all this after he makes spider love to her. Naughty lady!

I don't mind spiders outside because they get rid of many bad insects that destroy our gardens, but they will be very sorry if they come in my house!



Even though she suffers from some wicked PMS, just look at her interesting web. If you enlarge the pictures you will see the intricate patterns she uses. It reminds me of a quilt pattern.

Some people call this 'instinct' and I guess they are right. But I wonder where does 'instinct' come from.

Well I suppose it's in their DNA. That makes sense to me.

And the DNA, where does it come from?

HEAVENLY FATHER OF COURSE!~

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THANK YOU LORD FOR ALL THE WONDEROUS MYSTERIES YOU HAVE PLACED IN ALL YOUR CREATIONS, EVEN A SPIDER.

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And God Bless you everyone.

Look for His mysteries and give Him glory.

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