Below the What Would Have Been in Chicago is Life In Our Neck Of The Woods. Real Life. Life Goes ON. Dreaming. We would have arrived in Chicago this afternoon. Yes, we would have had a Chicago Style Hotdog at the Amtrak Station. Probably 2 of them. I’d have eaten Danny’s carrots. LOL We would…
Category: My Life
My Road Trip To Illinois Has Begun/Part 1
My Road Trip To Illinois My trip actually began around 10 PM. I was amazed how relaxed I was tonight. All day, in fact. I had the house picked up. Vacuumed. Laundry : Washed, Dried And put away. Dishes washed and put away. I was packed by midafternoon. I amazed myself and actually got unpacked…
My Birthday Part 2 /Plus My Memories Of Past Birthdays
Danny was wonderful for most of my birthday. As I mentioned in Part 1, I woke up on Wednesday in a bad mood. It didn’t help that it was gloomy outside. Dark And Cloudy. Humid. I had trouble shaking off “The MOOD”. I knew a lot of it was because I was missing my dad….
Way Too Early To Start My Day /Sarah’s Ramblings
Way Too Early To Start My Day It’s December 12th. Danny’s alarm has been going off for almost 30 minutes. I hate alarms anyway so I really can’t stand “SNOOZE”. It makes no sense to me whatsoever. I got up as soon as the alarm went off the first time. I need to get Danny…
Quieting Your Heart For The Holidays/ Update from Sarah On Week 1 And Life In Our Neck Of The Woods/ Week 2 / By Time Warp Wife
From Sarah :
I am starting this wonderful study today. I wasn’t prepared for it when Advent started last week. I could blame it on the fact we were in Plant City until Tuesday of the first week. I had plenty of time to get ready for it here. I could have shared the first week on time but I chose family (In my case , Danny) and held off. Lighting Advent candles at a B & B could have been done. We had the whole house to ourselves. I still chose not to. I wasn’t ready (in my heart ) to begin.
My HEART WASN’T QUIET.
MY HEART hasn’t been QUIET in a very long time.
I was praying that our mini- vacation would bring us closer and in a way it did. Yet, NOT IN THE WAYS I NEEDED IT TO.
These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things {And Places}/ By Sarah
My Favorite Things – Julie Andrews – YouTube I Admit: I love “The Sound Of Music”.I love everything about it. My aunt took me to see the movie when it first came out.I learned the words to every song and couldn’t stop singing it. Trouble was : I can’t SING. Bobby use to watch it…
Are You Distracted and Distant or Making Your Home a Haven?/ WLW/ 2010/ Honest Emotions From Sarah
Are You Distracted and Distant or Making Your Home a Haven? October 4, 2010 by Courtney https://womenlivingwell.org/2010/10/are-you-distracted-and-distant-or/ By Women Living Well And Good Morning Girls From Sarah : This post was written 9 years ago. The first year Courtney and Women Living Well/Good Morning Girls did Making Your Home A Haven. I was with them then. The…
Tuesday’s Making Your Home A Haven /Week 3 /Women Living Well / Good Morning Girls
Tuesday’s Making Your Home A Haven By Women Living Well. From Courtney : “Though it’s hard to fit long extended prayer times into our daily lives – it is possible, and it is precious and worth fighting for. Let’s make a plan to pray this week! Grab a journal, set your alarms, light your candles,…
I AM Thankful For The SUNSHINE! / Furnace Issues And Life/ UPDATE /
Excuse me for the really bad photos but it was the easiest way to post them. We have had a WEEK of Gloomy Weather. Dark And Dreary Weather. Damp. This is Florida. We aren’t use to not having SUNSHINE most of the day. Every day. Danny is home so the diffusers aren’t running as much….
Making Our Home A Haven (Or Trying To)/Our Neck Of The Woods By Sarah
From Sarah:This post was written on a Saturday.Hopefully, most of you are off work and home with the family. or exploring somewhere with your loved ones. Making Your Home A Haven takes advantage of weekends off and family times together.Did any of you sleep in? How about a special family breakfast. I know it’s freezing…
Happy Thursday! Making Your Home A Haven
@GoodMorningGirlsWLM on Facebook From Sarah :Danny’s been complaining about the lack of sunshine here. He also turned on the FURNACE last night. He has already been running is space heater for MONTHS. Yes, all fall he ran the space heater in his computer room. The house is usually 74 – 76 degrees. I was so…
Happy Wednesday! Making MY Home A Haven By Sarah
https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningGirlsWLW/Good Morning GirlsWomen Living Wellwomenlivingwell.org “Good Morning Girls!!! Keep your candle, soft music and prayers going.”What are you thankful for today!” “Today we are reading Isaiah 26:3-9.” From Sarah :What a difference a day can make. It is 7 :15 A M and I am sitting at the kitchen table writing this. Danny left for…
Blame It On The Internet By Sarah/ Making Your Home A Haven /(Tuesday) (Some Days Are Harder Than Others)
From Sarah, Honestly, I can only blame part of being a day late with this post on the internet. I did try a number of times to get online here and write it. All I would get is a blank page. I tried a few times during the day. What the title doesn’t tell you…
Dear Danny; What Happened To Us? I am Beginning To Write About What Has Been going on this year. WHY THE ANGER! UPDATED November 2, 2019
From Sarah: UPDATED November 2nd, I keep adding updates to this LETTER TO DANNY. Not really a letter anymore with all of the UPDATES. I still haven’t written on WHAT happened to us (REALLY ME) in FEBRUARY and WHY I have been very angry and bitter. Betrayal is a nightmare. What’s worse is when the…
Goodbye October: Hello November
Hello From Lake Kissimmee State Park And Rolling Meadows Ranch I have a question: Fall, where are you?????????? It’s been in the upper 80’s. A few days ago it was 89 degrees outside. That my friends is not AUTUMN. No ways near it. I have had trouble finding things to be thankful for this year….
Early Days With Danny: Before And After Moving To Florida (Part 2)
These are the rest of the pictures and comments from the original post. https://ourneckofthewoodsblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/early-days-with-danny-in-florida-august-16-2015/ One of my favorite pics of Danny. Another favorite photo. Feeding the fish at Bok Tower. Opening the bottle of wine we got at Epcot. Our first visit to Hooters together. Our first date. Animal Kingdom Cinderella Castle at Disney World….
Watch “Abandoned Farm Area in Catfish Creek Preserve” on YouTube
Our Neck Of The Woods. Rolling Meadows Ranch. 3 miles from our Cracker House. We sold that RV right before Christmas . The first VIDEO shows the ruins of an old barn. This one has the old shop. He was about 4 miles from where he should have been hiking at Allen David Broussard…
How Eastern Meditation Differs From Biblical Meditation ⋆ A Little R & R
http://www.rosilindjukic.com/eastern-meditation-differs-biblical-meditation/ Rosilind Jukic : Eastern Meditation Verses Biblical Meditation I love this post. I love reading ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING from Rosilind and A Little R & R. I learn. I think more. I listen. I study. And do it all over again. I wrote a long comment in the original post on her blog. It…
Another Friday Night in Our Neck Of The Woods: July, 10, 2015
Good evening from Our Neck of The Woods and Rolling Meadows Ranch. (The Picture above: Danny was working on the electric gate after hours. It’s park related and should be done on the clock. It is way to hot to be working at our ENTRANCE when he first comes home. Way too hot and SUNNY…
My Emotional Rollercoaster.
Overwhelmed, Frustrated, Angry, Hurt, Upset And Always Emotional. Today started off like so many other days when Danny is off and we have doctor’s appointments. Danny’s alarm went off about an hour before we NEEDED to get up. Then he did the “SNOOZE” thing for the next hour. I will never understand “SNOOZE”. I am…
Today in Our Neck Of The Woods- June 16, 2015
WHEW! I am so tired but for once it is a good tired. Good because I am tired from DOING something, physical. Yesterday I wrote how Danny and I were getting back to NORMAL . (Normal for us anyway- we will NEVER be considered normal to MOST people we know- we actually like each other…
Monday, June 15, 2015 : Back To Normal Here Once Again.
What does NORMAL for us mean? Danny went back to the Early Field Shift this morning. He’d had his normal week of Late Field , plus most of a second week of it and then he was off this past week. So we got to sleep in and stay up really late. Into the wee…
Sarah’s Daily Life: Nothing Is Working: Is It Me Or Is It The Slow Internet and Computer Issues? June 10, 2015
My life right now is one big BORE. I actually laughed at that so I must be in pretty good spirits. It’s been raining again. Good for the grass seed. Bad for the flooding going on everywhere. The park is still flooded in places and has been for MONTHS. Our section of Rolling Meadows Ranch…
It’s June…..Thank Goodness
Happy June 1, May was NOT a good month so I am glad it’s over. Danny and I had a very relaxing weekend OFF. We went grocery shopping Sunday and watched NASCAR. we watered and watered and watered some more. It’s been hot and dry. Yet, the park is still flooded in places. We are…
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 : I Feel Better.
I am up. That is a good thing. I feel lousy but considering how bad I have felt for the past few weeks, I am good. I may live yet…..LOL. That was my attempt at humor. Hey, I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON. EVER. I don’t suppose the dishes and the vacuuming could just magically…
