Turning thoughts toward home and hearts to God

Turning thoughts toward home and hearts to God

Friday, April 11, 2014

Oh Mr. Lincoln

I'm not much of a gardener ~ that pleasure falls to hubby ~ but I certainly do enjoy our roses.  When we moved into this house the yards were bare,  and one of the first things we did was plant  Mr. Lincoln.

Here's what All About Roses has to say about this wonderful rose


  • Most popular dark red rose
  • Exquisitely huge fragrance
  • Tough, reliable and very tall bush
  • Ideal cut rose for flower arrangement
I whole-heartedly agree!

Counting My Blessings
xo Susy


Thursday, March 20, 2014

HAPPY SPRING


Mr. McGregor and I are weeding, moving stuff around, and getting ready to plant some color.
Then some serious porch-sitting on my $2-dollar-yard-sale wicker chair.
Hope you all are fairing well, where ever you are.
Spring Blessings!



  

  Counting My Blessings
xo Susy

 





Saturday, January 18, 2014

Junque Mountain

I can't escape it.  Everywhere I go there's junque!

In my mind, there's a difference between plain "junk" and good "junque".  Junk is stuff that's one step away from going in the trash.  But Junque...it has character and charm, and maybe even value.

On a recent trip to our fishing cabin on the Old Colorado River, I took some time to gaze at an amazing collection of desert finds our neighbor has gathered over the years.



He's searched in and around many of the old mining sites 
in the foothills to find reminders of days gone by, 
then hauled his booty back home in his jeep, 
and added it to the hill that stands behind our houses.



Some of it is placed artistically


While other pieces seem to be thrown down.


Either way, it makes for fascinating entertainment 
in a place where there's nothing to do but fish or read.

Wouldn't you love to know why this giant plastic tusk was abandoned in the desert?


Hubby speculates it was from an old movie set.  One with a large plastic elephant.  
Doesn't ring a bell.


Who needed a paper cutter out there?


Some things add up.


Other's don't.


I wonder if the cars are buried in the sand somewhere out there?


 Most of the tools are HUGE.




I called Pizza Man over to check out the size of this horseshoe.  
It was GIANT, and must have come from a Clydesdale or Percheron.


Hubby was busy moving dirt to fill in a gully that was created during a flash flood.


I'll leave you to look at some more of this good junque.  
I'm off to address the junque mountain in my garage.










I'm Counting My Blessings
xo Susy




Tuesday, January 7, 2014

HAPPY 2014


Happy New Year beautiful friends ~
We're heading to our little cabin at the river this week.  A nice way to recoup from the holiday season ~ which was wonderful, by the way.

So much has already happened since Christmas, including our son and DIL getting into a car accident. We're grateful and thankful they were not more seriously hurt than they were, although it's going to be a while before they're "good as new". 

Counting My Blessings
xo Susy