Happy St Patrick's Day!

hope you got your green on...

it's a sunblock day...

we have one crocus blooming!

and limbs to pick up...

this bed is for tomorrow clean up...

a pile of limbs that needs hauled to the burn pile...

blue skies and sunshine...

daffodils...

not a lady bug...

so nice to see things coming up...

day lilies...

Craig did one bed...

that's our goal...

one bed a day...

and the boys played while Craig worked...

Craig found my bell bug in the flower bed...

it was hanging in the tree, but must have fallen off...

the leaves are very wet...

so he raked them out and spread them out to dry...

tomorrow, he will rake them to the garden area so the weeds don't come up there until we are ready to plant...

we have another 5-6 weeks before we plant green beans, corn and tomatoes...

news out of Japan keeps getting worse...

it's just amazing to me how a 5 minute event can wipe out so many and so much...

without warning...

the bible constantly reminds us to lay up our treasures in Heaven and not on this earth...

that everything here is just for a little while...

but when you see it happen...

it drives those words home...

nothing here is stable...

no where...

and any country is only as good as it's next generation...

and now the next generation is facing so much at such an early age...

how will all the radiation effect them?

how will being orphaned change the way they grow up?

how they look at life and will they be happy?

what would happen to us if everything we knew was totally changed?

what if we all had to start over from scratch?

would it change us?

YES

but how?

for the better?

or for worse?

the young ones will only remember a time of chaos and rebuilding from their childhood...

and who will be there to love them?

to rock them?

to tell them it will be ok?

to take this generation and lead them forward?

to tend their souls?

there is much to pray for...

their future...

their now...

and may God hold those reactors together...

until they can get it fixed...

and may angel wings protect the babies and their families...

until they do...

and thank you, Lord, for every ray of sunshine...

every blade of grass...

and every stick of wood that makes my home...

and for allowing us to dwell here today without chaos...

and I don't need a thing today, so give all my blessings to them...

they need it more...

amen

Top of the mornin' to you...

have you ever been busy?

doing nothing?

that's what I've been doing...

have been doing fine...

better than fine...

then...

it happened...

the Dork of Earl...

(that's DH when he's bad)

got up the night before last...

too hot...

yes, lassies, he's having hot flashes...

and decides to turn the heat down without his glasses on...

I woke in the wee morning hours froze stiff...

sore throat, stuffy head...

to find the thermostat was on 58...

with our bathroom window open...

it was in the 40s in there...

sooooo...

the coughing, sneezing, watery eye thing is back...

not as bad as before...

but here I sit with my juice and box of kleenex...

and the Dork of Earl is in hot water...

especially after killing time earlier in the week...

but...

and  you know there is always a but...

the sun is shining this morning...

and it's really wet out there after all the rain...

but if it gets up to 50...

I'm going outside with my box of kleenex...

I hope you all have a really good day...

and your menfolk use their braincells today...

cause it's frustrating when they don't...