Roses, lilacs and lambs...

remember the give away I won from Sherry at Country Wings in Phoenix?

the $40 gift certificate from CSN?

this is what I picked out...

a vintage quilted throw for the living room or to use as a table cloth in the kitchen...

it has vintage pink and yellow roses on one side and white and purple lilacs on the other...

and it feels and looks wonderful...

thank you, Sherry...

and my bestie, Rebecca, got me these for Easter...

lamb planters...

this one has pink bells, so you know she's a girl lamb...

and this little guy has a blue bow, so you know he's a boy lamb...

and they are adorable...

and I love lambs...

he's a happy boy lamb...

just too cute...

and she is just the most sweetest of them all...

and I love her pink bells...

so I guess, with the others I have...

I have officially started a collection...

thank you, Rebecca...

I love them very much...

and that they are planters, too...

is just extra fun...

I know you can put plants in them...

but I think I would rather put candy and other fun things in there...

a secret stash...

I feel so surrounded by love when I have things from friends in my home...

it just makes my days special...

I still have vertigo...

and it's from sinuses...

I am prone to vertigo...

but this is the worst that I have had in years...

and maybe some allergy stuff in there, too...

I am taking cold medicine...

and Craig steeped an onion with garlic salt...

so I'm going to start on that...

it's a natural antibiotic...

and if it doesn't work...

I will be in the doctor's office on Friday...

I am spending most of my time in bed...

movement isn't a good thing...

this post has been a challenge...

but Craig helped me a lot...

I have tried visiting a few of you, but it's just too hard to do...

thank you for all the comments and prayers...

as soon as I get back down to earth...

I will catch up...

I miss you guys...

keep praying...

I can use all the help I can get...

I'm linking up with these blog parties...

VERTIGO...

having technical difficulties...

will resume when the room quits spinning...

blog hopping makes me queasy...

scrolling makes me queasy...

this is the 3rd day of it...

so I'm going to just stay off of the computer for awhile...

it is making it worse...

the growth season...

we are all born with a seed planted deep in our soul...

the seed that needs a gardeners touch to grow...

and depending on where we are in our lives and how we are living...

depends on whether that seed grows in a stable, rich soil or in shifting sand...

where the roots can never get a firm grip to hold onto to...

we need watered and fed...

and those gardeners are sent into our lives...

to fulfill the orders of the master gardener...

and even though He does not stop the storms of life to come our way...

He does send in wind blocks until the storm passes...

He also sends the ones in to prune our vines...

to tell us the truth and get us back on track...

to stop us from growing too fast...

so that later our fruit will be fuller and ripe...

so that we are able to feed others...

to protect others in our shade...

and only the strongest have a vine that reaches under the wall...

beyond what is seen from this side...

so that when the end of the growth season comes...

it ever blooms on the other side...

because the roots took hold and held fast...

we are here to help each other grow...

when we think of others more than ourselves...

we grow stronger...

spreading love and words of encouragement are fertilizer...

and prayers are asking the Master Gardener for help and instructions...

when you have days that the Son is shining down...

turn your faces toward the warmth and store it up...

for cloudy days do come...

and it's after the storms pass that we grow the most...

that we bloom the best...

and it's then that the fruit is the sweetest...

soak up the rains from the storm you are in...

clear skies will come again...

thank you to all of you who tend my garden...

and help me grow...

a thought...

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. -Arthur Gordon

S*#@...

that dirty word is back...

and it's flying through the air...

and now it's starting to stick...

gonna have to dig out Bebe's sweater again...

get the mittens and hide the sunblock...

good thing we haven't put the S*#@ shovel up...

WARNING: the following photos contain S*#@...

taking donations for a one way ticket to the North Pole for Jack Frost...

you know...

mom had tulips bloom in June when her and dad were first married and had bought a new home...

she misread the directions...

she planted them 12 inches deep instead of 12 inches apart...

took them awhile to get their little heads to pop out of the dirt...

the neighbor ladies thought she was this gardening genius...

they all flocked to mom's yard...

only to realize the village idiot had moved into the neighborhood...

mom loved to tell that story...

her proof that miracles can happen to goofballs, too...