Cleaning up the leftovers

Well, let's see if I can get back on track with posting.  As a young girl (10-12 yrs. old) I used to be a pretty good pitcher and catcher for baseball so let's see if I can't handle some of these curve balls that have been thrown my way.

Tomorrow morning my sweet duaghter Laura will be going back to Phoenix and I will deeply miss her.  She is still fighting this bad bout of bronchitis but she said that she finally felt slightly better yesterday.  Instead of coughing for 45 minutes out of every hour (literally, but probably even more), she is now only coughing once or twice each hour.

We are supposed to go see a neighbor's nativities tonight..my neighbor has about 100 really nice and unusual nativites.

Fortunately we did get to finally go (Laura really pushed herself to go there as even her energy level is very low) to Mimi's to see the llamas up close and personal.

Life is really off track and there have been missed painting classes, poetry recital meetings, prayer meetings as well as untyped HOA minutes (guess I will have to get creative here and make people read them and say...'wow, I don't remember discussing this' or 'did we really all decide to go to Marcy's and clean her yard, the kitty litter and wash the windows?"), so there are some challenges to overcome and catch up with.

That makes this leftover picture so appropriate,,,,

New Year's resolutions should always include good eating or better eating habits, so when I found this among my leftover pictures, it was perfect...

There must always be time for quiet reflective moments and I'd love to be sitting on this rock just praying...

When I was first married and living in Alaska with my late beloved husband Mario, we had a trailer in Delta Junction, Alaska and one day Mario called me outside and there below the steps was a family of buffalo, complete with a baby and covered in a light coat of snow...sooo pretty, maybe that's why I had this picture in my files...

This is to remind me/us that, even in our most difficult and trying moments there is only one set of footprints in the sand because Jesus is carrying us through it all...

Knowing how much I love all animals, this must be a picture that I came across and couldn't resist...

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Maybe I collected this one to remind myself to stop squawking so much when things go wacko???...

And this is just a nice artsy picture so my love of art caused this one to be 'grabbed'...

Aside from the healthy part of this picture the flying pear appeals to my silly side...

Knowing how 'earth saving' I am, can anyone question why I saved this picture?....

Or, finally, how about joining me for some tea or coffee or water with lemon here at the warm seaside (a far cry from the ice and light snow that we have here still)...

Let's have a couple of VERY corny jokes and then some cute 'out of the mouth of babes' jokes....

Bach Decomposing Joke

Two grave robbers decided to rob a grave, that's what they do. They find a prety nice grave and start digging.

After they dug up the topsoil they found a hole and in the hole there was a man with wild white hair sitting in front of a piano. The man would play a couple notes then erase something on a piece of music.

The two men, amazed beyond belief, yelled down to the man, 'Who are you, and what are you doing?' The man looked up and said...

'IM BACH, AND IM DECOMPOSING'

Atoms Joke

Two atoms were walking down the sidewalk and suddenly one slips off the curb and says "Oh no, I've lost my electron!"

The other atom says "Are you sure?"

1st atom says "Yes, I'm positive!"

What's Really Important

One warm summer evening a mother was driving with her three young children. A woman in the convertible in front of them stood up and waved. She was STARK NAKED. As the mother was reeling from shock, the five year old said, "Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!"

Ketchup

A mother was struggling to get the ketchup out of the bottle when the phone rang. She asked her four year old daughter to answer it. She heard her daughter say, "Mommy can't come to the phone. She's hitting the bottle."

I Pledge Allegiance

Not quite getting it, the little first grader said, "I led the pigeons to the flag."

~~~Thank You Heavenly Father for the blessings of all the leftovers that we come across, just showing how we are blessed with so much that there is something leftover!