Your Monday Photo Shoot.

Your Monday Photo Shoot: What's On Your Porch?

This week, the Photo Shoot is going outdoors -- but not too far:

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Show us something of interest on your porch. If you don't have a porch, you can substitute front steps, back steps and patios. If you've none of those things, then just find something out the window. If you don't have a window, move.

 

 

 

I took this picture a few days ago.  There is a story to this little fellow.  But I'll leave that for another day.

 

 

Have a good evening.

 

Carolxx

Strange noises.

 

I suppose  I've had a strange few days really.

 

Saturday morning I woke up quite early.  Well, early for me on a Saturday.

I thought I would get up and catch up on my journal alerts.

I went down the list and started to read.

 

Suddenly this piece of classical music started to play.  The hair on the back of my neck stood up.  It was playing my absolute favourite piece of music.  I heard this piece a few years ago, and I have never tried to find out what it's called.  It was even played at Princess Diana's funeral.  And I have heard it playing on an advert the last few days.

 

My first thought was, I wonder how you add music to a journal entry.  My second thought was, she must know what it's called.!!!!  I left a comment asking if she could let me know.

 

I went to the next alert.  Started reading.  Suddenly the music started again.  Did I feel stupid or what!!!  The music was on my computer.  I didn't put it there, it just started playing on it's own.

 

Does anyone else's computer have strange music that just starts playing, or strange noises like doors slamming or bits of Elvis singing,  motorbikesroaring past.  It got so noisy a few months back, that I started to leave my speakers turned off and just put them on to listen to peoples videos

When Laura first heard it, she asked me how I did it.  I said I hadn't done it.  "Didn't it do that on hers."    "No," she said.

 

Is it something peculiar to my computer.  I don't know.

 

I think I need a lie down.

 

More later

 

Christmas Caroling thru J-Land.

I have seen and heard many peoples favourite Christmas Carols today.  So I thought I might try and post mine. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  Although anything Josh Groban sings just melts my heart.

 

Hope you all have a great weekend

 

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Updates and Christingle

 

I was awake at 3am today.  I just couldn't breathe,  my nose is still running, and so are my eyes.  My cold seems to be much worse today.  My legs are like jelly.  I cannot smell a thing.  I suppose it will just take its course.  I hope it has gone by next week as I have a dentist appointment.

 

Adam came to tell me last night that he could smell something burning.  It was a good job he said, because it was dinner burning, well not quite, managed to save it.  Laura had bought new perfume.  "Smell this" she said.  Yeah right.  I nearly sniffed the skin off her arm, but still couldn't smell it. :(  Oh well.

 

It was a very cold morning.  Temp -4.  Cold!!   Cold!!!  Cold!!!   Thick frosty covering all over, looks like a Christmas card.  My car window wouldn't open.  And it took a while for the windows to clear.  It took us ages to get to school this morning.  Traffic was backed up outside the school.  Adam usually goes on the school bus, but he had a bit of trouble at school yesterday, he came home in his P.E. pumps because some stupid boy had thrown his shoe on the roof, which took the teacher a while to get down.  So I decided to take him to school myself, he has a habit of losing things, and I had to hand in his elf costume for the Christmas play next week. 

 

I forgot to tell you that Keith started a new job on Monday, driving that's all I know.  He seems to like it and at least he is busy!!! and not under my feet. :)

 

What else.  My new carpet is growing on me, I have to say.  It looks really nice.  While the room is empty I decided to give it a really good clean.  Haven't finished it yet because I have to keep stopping for a rest. 

 

There doesn't seem to be much urgency now, as it seems no-one is coming to us for dinner on Christmas day. :(  It will be just the four of us.  We will be bored rigid.  Well me and Laura will be anyway.  I suppose if the weather isn't too bad, we could go for a bike ride or something.  It might be nice to have a quiet Christmas for a change.  I thought about going out for Christmas dinner, but I bet everywhere will be booked by now.

 

Adam's Christingle service went very well.  The children did a magnificent job.  They sang and read passages from the bible, and some of them are quite young but they are full of confidence. I was disappointed that no-one was taking any photos. Keith and Laura managed to get to the church just in time for the mulled wine and mince pies.  Laura did manage to get one picture of Adam with his Christingle and here it is.

 

 

What is a Christingle??  I'm sure you probably know but...

 

Christingle means Christ Light and it tells of God's gift to the world.

The orange symbolises the creation of the world.

The cocktail sticks are for the four seasons.

The fruit and sweets are for the fruits of the earth which God sends to us.

The lighted candle is God's love in sending Jesus.  Who is the light of the world.

The red ribbon represents the death and resurrection of Jesus.

 

Much more to say but I have to pick Adam up from the bus.  So I'll have to go.

 

Take care everyone.  Stay warm if possible and take care on the icy roads if you have to go out.

 

 

Yucky........and beige carpet.

 

Good morning to you all.

 

It's a very cold and crisp morning to day. Every where looks like it has had a dusting of sugar!!  The grass is crispy underfoot.  Temps were -3C this morning when I ventured out to take Laura to work which I  think is about 26F.  Anyway it is cold.  Brrrrrrrrr.

 

I took a photo of the sunrise this morning, the whole sky was red.  Beautiful.  The picture does not do it justice.!!!!!!

 

I woke up this morning with a rotten cold.  I haven't felt well for a couple of days now.  I've had a head that feels like it's full of cotton wool, a sore throat, aches and pains in my shoulder and neck, and a nose that thinks it's a tap. :(

 

 

Hip Hip Hooray.  We finally have our carpet laid.  It's not the best, it's cheap and tacky, but it looks presentable for Christmas.  And well...beige doesn't look that bad after all.  And the best bit of all we didn't have to pay, and we didn't have to claim off our insurance. :)

 

I haven't worked out how to do the photo album thingymijigg yet.  So I've just pasted the photos on.  I need more practise!! :) 

 

This first picture is our floor when we had taken the wooden blocks up!!!!

 

 This is the pile of wooden blocks

 

Floor boarded over

And now wait for it, wait for it,............ BEIGE carpet!!!

 

 

I know it's not too bad is it???  Is it??

 

This has been our dining table over the weekend.  Not very elegant but it served its purpose.  And Adam needed some where to do his homework.

 

 

Well this has been a very long entry, so I had better get gone.  I have shopping to do, and I'm not even dressed yet.  I also have the living room to clean and the furniture to put back.

 

It's Adams' Christingle service at the church tonight which I love.  I hope Laura and Keith make it in time.  I will try and get pictures, but it will be very dark in the Church as it is a candlelit service.

 

Hope you all have a great Tuesday.

 

 

Thank you to Sugar for this beautiful tag.

New floor and Elfs

Well it's nearly Friday, another week gone.  The days are just rushing past now!!

 

It's been quite a busy few days, for us. We are finally going to have our floor done.  Yipee!!! for the past two days we have been taking up the old floor, didn't think there was that many blocks!!!  So much dust and the smell in unbelievable.  Smells like a building site.  Tomorrow they are coming to board all the floor out, and on Monday they are going to fit the new carpet.  BEIGE.  Yuck!!! Sorry I have nothing against beige, if you like beige, but it's just not me.  I would have liked something a bit more colourful.  This is one of the things I don't like about living in rented accomodation.  No choice.  Well he did sort of give us a choice.  Gold or beige. :(

Anyway it will be done before Christmas and we will have time to put the tree up, and the decorations. :)  The timing will be tight, but we'll manage.  At the moment we have furniture all over the place.  The kitchen is unworkable in at the moment, but as long as we can get to the cooker on Christmas day we'll be fine.  Ho Ho Ho.

Last week I had a bed on the landing, now I have a bookcase and the glass top off the dining table.

 

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They are doing a Christmas play at Adam's school.  This year they are doing The Grumpy Goat,  and Adam's class are doing the Polar Express.  They don't seem to do the Jesus story anymore, the baby in the manger, the three wise men.  It's a shame really.

Adam is going to be one of Santa's helpers.  An Elf.  I bought him a costume on Monday.  I didn't really need to buy one, we could have dressed him ourselves, but he wanted a "proper costume".  I showed him what I had bought, and he looked at me as if I had gone mad.  His words were " but I'm not an elf"  My words  " What do ya mean you're not an Elf" or words to that effect.  It seems they had changed his part.  I was down that school the next morning.  Needlesss to say Adam is still going to be an Elf.!!!!!! Enough said

                              

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Still no snow for us here. Just very windy and rainy and wet and muddy.

 

 

Keith may have a job by Monday, he went for an interview yesterday and they will let him know by Monday.  So fingers crossed.

 

It will be a hard day tomorrow, as Laura has to go back  to the hospital for a scan.  I am sure it will bring everything back to our minds.  I am sure her body has recovered but her mind and heart, and mine will take longer to recover. 

 

Well that's all I have for now.  Have a great Thursday.

 

 

 

Village Bazaar. And sad news.

 

 

 

Happy Holidays

 

Whoo!!!   I can't believe it's December already. :)

 

I don't think we are going to have our decorations up in time for Christmas this year.  We still have not got our floor done. Keith is going down to the office tomorrow to tell them to get a move on.  I don't want to put our tree up until we know if they are coming to do the floor before Christmas or after  as we will have to empty the living room of all furniture while they remove the old floor and put the new floor down. They have told us it will take a couple of days to do it.  That's OK as long as we know when they are coming!!!!!! :(

 

The weather here at the moment is sort of mixed.  It's so windy I think it's going to take the roof of any minute.  I hate high winds for just this reason. We've had torrential rain, it's just been lashing across the windows.  At the moment we do have a bit of sun breaking through and the rain has subsided a bit.  We had a beautiful rainbow yesterday and another has just appeared.

 

Yesterday (Saturday) we went to the village Christmas Bazaar, bought a very nice table decoration which Adam chose, and a large candle which smells beautiful I may say.  Adam had a go on the tombola and won an apron, and a lovely little teddy and a candle shaped like a teddy, some bubble bath and some makeup brushes, all girlie things, nothing for a boy.

 

We also managed to do all the Christmas food shopping.  Our freezer is full of turkey and Gateaux, and all the delicious foods you really don't need for Christmas, but I suppose its tradition.  I just hope our finances can take the strain.

 

Tomorrow I think I had really better spend the day getting the house work done, at the moment it looks like a bomb has imploded.  I really must try not to spend all day and most of the night on this computer.  Still one good thing about the time I spend on here is that I'm learning to type faster.  Well you can't have everything can you??? :)

 

Hope you all had a great Sunday.

 

Thank you to everyone who left comments.  I really appreciate it.

 

Just hope I don't bore you all to death.

 

Maybe I do have a quiet life after all. :)

 

 

 

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Before I go I'd just like to send prayers to Indigo and Doc. Doc's mom sadly passed away this afternoon.  Condolences to them both.

Also sending prayers to Cindy and Joe.  Joe's mom is seriously ill and not expected to survive.