Make It Happen

A few thousand words ago, I decided to join the blogging world...and here I am, thousands of pictures later still at it.  and enjoying it......

TODAY marks my 500th post!!!!

I can hardly believe it myself..that's a lot of writing and picture taking....

You have met my grandsons, Mac and Will..

Visited my garden.....

Admired my daylilies....

and my dogs...

we shared the birth of this wonderful girl......

I have even shared a few sewing projects but that has been a long time ago and it feels like I am a little rusty..

Gazed at the super moon over our part of Georgia.....

 

I have celebrated, gardened, decorated, entertained, shared my heart, and discovered a lot about myself since I began this journey...

And I have received so much encouragement from some of you...I thank you from the bottom of my heart..your kind words have meant so much to me...and to think, it all started with one little word typed into a little form on blogger..... I have come a long way but I have so much more to learn..and so many more of you to meet...I would love it if you would follow me and make my 500th post an even bigger celebration....

Thank you for reading my words and looking at my pictures...there is so much more I want to write...

so until next time.....

Love, Mona

I am sharing this at Inspire Me Tuesday.

Blogiversary

Today this blog is 3 years old.  I can't believe that I have posted over 450 blogs. and learned way more than I ever thought I could learn...There is still a lot to learn and I intend to continue on this blogging journey...I want to thank you who have been so faithful in reading and commenting...you are much appreciated...Some days I write because I know someone somewhere might smile at a beautiful picture or a few words....

Thank you, thank you, thank you........we've come a long way, baby...... but there is still a lot to be written and photographed.....

 

we've only just begun....

 So it is facing forward and looking toward the future..

Not looking back with regret......

 

 With a song in my heart.....I press on...and with some small amount of disbelief that I have come this far...

Thank you for being my friends..and reading my words and enjoying my pictures.

Anniversaries, cakes and boys

Two years ago I began a journey...with one small step...and one click of a mouse, I became a published author.....

338 posts later I am still enjoying my blog...and I hope you are too...I was trying to think of some wise sayings for today's anniversary but with this time change and all...well, I might be sitting here for about a week until my sleep deprivation gets caught up..with reality.....so, I will share a little bit of my life with you.....

My grandsons just spent a few days with us..along with their Mama...but Mama needed some rest because she is growing our eagerly awaited number FOUR grandbaby.....I thought it would be a good idea if we made a cake..and guess what!!  Will and Mac thought it was a grand idea too...so that is what we did...

patiently waiting

closer is better

It is hard to remember to take a lot of pictures when there are little boy helpers...but we got a few....and lots of help..they really were excellent in the kitchen and enjoyed every minute of it.....so did I...

our strawberry cake

Mac loves, loves aw---ba-- rees..so this was right up his alley...

yum yum

and then we ATE cake......the whole thing in less than 24 hours...  but that is what grandmothers are for, right?

next time we probably need to focus on locally grown garden food..but for this visit..oh, well.....

Then we had to dig in the dirt......

making a landscape

Mac's river

I love Marshall's expression

Will loves to talk

I think I enjoyed digging and playing in the dirt as much as they did..Will even helped me to remove a LOT of the rocks from this area...we have a LOT of rocks in the dirt....

Well, this is what I chose to be my anniversary issue.  two of the things I love most and enjoy writing about...my grandsons and my garden..with a little bit of cake thrown in for good measure..so you will know it is a party.

If there is something you want to do with your life, just START!!!  if you never start, you will never do it...it only takes one small step...that is what I did...and now it has been 2 years and it is part of my life..part of what I do..and I love doing it..

I appreciate each and every one of you..I would love to get a comment or two from you..they are always great encouragement....and then I can visit your blog too...

Thank you for reading along today and I hope to see you again soon...

Happy Anniversary to my blog......

Coffee and tomato sandwiches..

What????  do these have to do with one another...ummmmm  nothing..really...they are just  two of the things that happened at our house this past week. 

If you have never tasted Community coffee, maybe I can persuade you to find some and give it a try.  I think you will be glad you did...we buy it by the 2 lb. bags and have it shipped from here ....I used to run around to all the grocery stores trying to find it and just decided this is the easiest way for us to always have some...We have been drinking this coffee most of our married life.  we used to go to a little Cajun restaurant..Gautreau's.... when we were dating and I loved, loved their coffee....they would make a fresh pot of cafe coffee for me and I would drink most of it after a dinner of blackened catfish..we would buy it there when they had it and bring it home to enjoy...oh, how we loved that little restaurant.  it is now gone but I have fond memories and we still drink the Community coffee...My husband introduced me to the Cajun flavors with this coffee being one of my favorite....he lived for a time in Mississippi right before I met him...it was the VERY WORST time of his life but the silver lining is this coffee and our being familiar with Cajun food...I have quite a collection of cookbooks that I have read over and over trying to learn to cook this wonderful food...and acquired a taste for all things Tobasco.  LOL.  anyway a very good thing came from a very bad thing in my husband's life...he came out of Mississippi with a taste for all things Cajun and a divorce....funny how life acts like that sometimes  all of the time....something good comes out of something so bad....

and all last week we were sick with an awful summer cold..too hot to be outside and mosquitoes the size of small dogs.......but one day, there was a RIPE tomato.....so we had these so, so good tomato sandwiches...all while we had stuffy noses and couldn't really taste it very good...LOL   but the tomatoes are beginning to ripen..Cherokee Purple is the first this year..an heirloom with a purple color and green seeds...when I tried to feed these to my Daddy several years ago, he could not eat them...said they made him sick to look at them cause they didn't look right..LOL  old people can be funny!!  believe me, they taste good......

so we have had our first tomato sandwich of the summer.

when I started writing this morning I was on a ramble, not knowing where I would end up but now, I think I do...

If you look closely in these gray skies, you will  see where the sky is beginning to turn blue.....in these clouds, there seems to be a silver lining...the rain is over and gone..the trees are so very green...the gray skies are turning to blue..and life is good....

no matter how awful life has been for me and you, there is ALWAYS something good that we can focus on.....Out of an awful, no good, terrible time in my husband's life that ended in divorce and all the rest that goes with it..........came our beloved Community coffee..the very thing that we wake up to every morning...a memory of good things coming out of the pits of life....and a love for all things Cajun....even if I am a true Georgia girl....maybe , just maybe I have a little Cajun blood in there somewhere.  :-)
when we think of planning the first real vacation we have ever had..to celebrate the end of paying child support...that we thought would never end.....but it did!!     my thoughts and heart turn to Cajun country...I want to go there and eat the food and drink the coffee there.and eat Boudin...and crawfish.in the real places..so we'll see what this next year holds for us..

I am so appreciative for your reading along today..and I hope you get some encouragement that no matter how discouraged and awful you feel today..there is something, somewhere in the midst of it all that will bring you encouragement...look for it.....search for it..and do not give up until you find it..it is like the grain of sand in that oyster that because it is an irritant, it gets attention from the oyster until it turns into a pearl..what is your pearl?

My pearl is Community coffee and tomato sandwiches.......

First and Daily

If I were a writer I would say I am suffering from writer's block...no matter what I do, I cannot get in the groove right now..this has been going on for weeks...I look back at some of the blogs I have written over the past year or so and it feels like a different woman wrote those....gotta get 'it' back....maybe once the garden is completely planted for the summer season it will be different.. I miss my literary self.  :-)  I enjoy writing ......do.not.know.what.has.happened.........

But I am thankful...my yard is such a beautiful place to spend time....like a park..only it is our little piece of this earth.

My first daylily has bloomed so it is on....summer has arrived and the 'real' flowers are blooming once again...all is right with the world.....now, if I can just find my writer self....

first daylily

vegetable garden

yard art

pumpkin bloom

ronde de nice  zucchini

squash

Queen Ann's lace

thank you for reading this morning......