Common Ground Coffee House #106

Hello all!

Snow in March! And daylight saving time this Sunday! Well, that might mean not so many at church this week, and fewer kids.

I have been running like a hamster in a treadmill these past two weeks, so I thought I would slow down and check in here.

What do you all think of the early DST?

 

Good Afternoon Everybody,


Our computer has been down for a day. I bet nobody noticed I was gone.

Not much going on here. Amazing how much we depend on the internet isn't it?

I think the early DST is great. Nice to have an extra hour of daylight in the evening. Too early for backyard barbeques yet, but it won't be long.

I know all you "Southern Belles" are having barbeques now...More Power To You.


Time to get dinner ready. Firecracker Burgers with Cooling Lime Sauce, Banana Pepper Slaw, Spicy Hush Puppy Onion Rings, and "Not-Baked" Alaska for dessert.

 

Hello all,
I have been chasing kindergarteners for the last three days and I think I could go to bed and stay for a long while if my back weren't giving me problems again. I am looking at a busy weekend between church and the neices and nephews that play soccer and basketball this weekend. Hope I remember to set my clock. I had better go, I need to get my popcorn and check the snail mail!
:godisgood:

 

Morning all!

This has been a really busy school year at old CBDS, so I haven't been around much.

But I've had a bit of relief the past couple of days, so I thought I'd pop in and get the coffee & hot water going and visit for a bit.

Bitsy

 

Sue, I'm waiting anxiously to see if all those "patches" are going to work on our computers for the early "spring forward"!

 

I think most people are concerned about their calendars. That's what everyone at work is in a tizzy over.

 

Good Morning Everybody,

We've got some strange bright thing in the sky. I'm not sure what it is. I remember seeing it a long time ago, but not lately.

Thanks for the coffee Bitsy. I've been trying to keep up with your bringing in food to the Coffeehouse. Good to have you back, my food can't compare to yours.

In honor of Bitsy's return I brought in Sausage and Cheese Potato Casserole, Sausage-Oatmeal Cups, Oven Breakfast Hash, and Fruit-Filled Petal Rolls [everything is Gluten-Free, I didn't forget:thumbs: .]

Gkids have gone swimming at a local college with their friends, I've got chores to do and have to get ready for the Wild-Game Dinner at church tonight.

 

Mornin' folks!

Yeah, the sun is making great efforts here, too! I'm starting to feel the spring cleaning bug attacking. Get rid of winter; get things shiny clean and bright again!

I HATE daylight savings time at ANY time of the year! Like Sue, I am a morning person and really appreciate the way GOD does things! Nevertheless, let it not be said that I am inflexible....LOL

So after sleeping/dozing a good deal yesterday, we are ready to go today. Cleaning up will be a major thing -- deep cleaning starting in the master bed and bath area. Some neighbor kids are bringing over their 18 month old pup every afternoon while I show them how to train her. They are all enjoying it -- and each other -- a lot more now. Before they found themselves just shouting "NO! NO!" to her as she did things young dogs do, without an idea of what it was they really wanted. So this is fun and both the dog and kids are responding really well.

Horses have been running around, pretending they are not old ladies, and ripping up the wet pasture in the process! But the grass will grow and they are enjoying themselves immensely. It's fun to watch.

God bless you all. I'm restless to get out and get moving.

 

Well, Good Morning to all of you. This is our first frost-free morning for some time now and it is glorious...even the rain is welcome, and I feel like going outdoors and "singing in the rain......" I do have a brollie and wellies....lol.

I have been wearing Alpaca wool socks this winter. They cost $50.00 a pair, but the circulation in my feet has returned and for the first time in many years my feet have been warm. They only thing we can attribute to this change is the socks....praise God for His creatures who give their products without giving their lives.

Time means little to me, like the rewording of an old poem:

Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in:
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I'm growing old. but add,
God loves me.

Cheers,

Jim

 

This is for you, Jim. It's by Florence Smith and its title is "Song"

How pleasant it is that always
There's somebody older than you --
Someone to pet and caress you,
Someone to scold you, too!

Someone to call you a baby,
To laugh at you when you're wise;
Someone to care when you're sorry,
To kiss the tears from your eyes.

When life has begun to be weary,
And youth to melt like the dew,
To know, like the little children,
Somebody's older than you.

The path cannot be so lonely,
For others have trod it before;
The golden gates are the nearer,
That Someone stands at the door.

I can think of nothing sadder
Then to feel, when days are few,
There's nobody left to lean on,
Nobody older than you!

The younger ones may be tender
To the feeble steps and slow;
But they can't talk the old times over --
Alas, how should they know!

'Tis a romance to them -- a wonder
You were ever a child at play;
But the dear ones waiting in heaven
Know it is all as you say.

I know that our great Lord and Father
Loves us, and the little ones, too;
Keep only childlike-hearted --
Heaven is older than you!

[note: I have altered a couple of words to make it more Christian]

 

Good Morning Everyone!

It is beautiful here today too! Good thing, because T and I need to work on my brakes today if my new rotor has come in. And I bought a few new shrub saplings at the extension office sale, so I need to some work in the backyard and get them put in. On top of all that, it has been so warm here the last few days that I HAVE to get the pool opened. I see green slime on the bottom.

Helen, it sounds an awful lot like you are beginning spring cleaning. Don't you know that there are still 11 days until spring? :laugh:

Gotta go get started!

 

Thanks Helen,,that was nice. I altered a line too..the last line in mine was.........."Jenny kissed me..." It was a poem by Leigh Hunt.

Believe it or not, I used that poem in its orginal form to preach a sermon on memories. I was preaching to a group of WWII veterans in 1997. Eventually led to Remember the Sabbath....Remember the days of Old,,and Remember me. So I started off by talking about remembering our first kiss.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!


My friend called and her oven isn't working right and she burned her pies for the Wild Game Dinner.


I threw together Walnut Maple Pie, Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake, and Creamy Lemon Pie. Hope they're good. raying:


Gotta run.

 

Morning!

Coffee's perking and hot water is in the kettle. Ron got in from Tampa late, late, late, so I'm a bit bleary eyed this a.m. House is clean though and all the clothes are washed. It's amazing how much you can get done in a day when you are alone and motivated to CLEAN!

 

Sue! I forgot to look. I just sat down and started typing, but my clock changed right on schedule too! Hot Dog!

oo oo! Another forgot. Yesterday, I got a wallpaper steamer and some paint stripper. I'm going to start in one room, but the wall paper is coming down and the painted woodwork is getting stripped for staining.

One room at a time. (that will be my mantra )