If you're my facebook friend you know that my desktop computer died last week and I lost my bearings for a minute there. To add insult to injury, our new computer uses Windows 8 and it's hard to learn my way around. ACK! I'm too old for this, my brain is not as elastic as it used to be. Anyhoooo, here we are and I am thankful to be back in the blogging saddle. Here are some photos:
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| All our jack-o-lanterns, grown in the ranch garden by Grandma & Grandpa. Addie's Owl, Niles' silly face, Mommy's leaves, Daddy's PacMan, James' dinosaur, and Heidi's Spooky face. |
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| Our Thankful Tree, put up on November 3 and thankful leaves added at family night on November 5. |
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| The whole tree features these pretty ornaments from Mama B., Ellen Buchert. She paints the botanicals, then mounts them on handmade paper with a twine loop and they are beautiful. Looking at the tree with her paintings on it reminds me of "For the Beauty of the Earth"...good thought for a month of gratitude. The prickly pear is my favorite, and the pomegranate, as both grew in our yard in Arizona. |
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| Thankful Tree is living in a real milk bucket this year, with a family photo hanging prominently. |
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| Another shot of Ellen's pretty ornaments. |
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| We had a blizzard just in time for a long weekend...the girls built a little igloo. |
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| Snuggling in their snowdrift la-z-boys |
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| cold Adeline |
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| Wild Heidi |
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| Cute sisters |
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Having a good laugh.
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I've got more to write, lots of thoughts, a surprising pit in my stomach since midnight the sixth, and some gratitude mixed in there, too. I'll be back, now that I've learned how to turn this new-fangled computer on, heh, heh. |
