For Monday, January 11th, 2010

a pictorial journal

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JANUARY 11^TH, 2010

It's MONDAY…

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR PRETTY LADY TODAY!

May the dear Lord bless you today and always!

I’m back to showing you some old pictures again today. These were all from 2008 when I first started camping. The picture above is mid April and as you can see it doesn’t have much green in it. I think it’s better than the all white scenery we have right now. After the winter snows melt we always have the big leaf clean up at the campground. It’s often wet and muddy there too.

By May there is a lot more green showing on the ground and in the trees

THINKING

We now begin our journey in this ordinary time after Christmas and before Lent. It is a great time to be renewed in our call to follow Jesus and to listen carefully to how he will show us how to follow him

Life presents many opportunities to grow, change and choose direction. Whatever lies before me, I can be sure that God is in the midst of it

By July things are really green. Here is DS#2 fishing when he visited

NEW IN THE KITCHEN

This recipe isn’t really new at all but it is one of my favorite quick and easy dinners to fix. The babes didn’t like having the peas added to this dish so I’d often just serve them on the side. I would also add a tablespoon of butter to the cooked noodles before mixing in the other ingredients.

1 lb. noodles, cooked
1 can peas
1 can tuna
1 can cream of mushroom soup

Salt and pepper to taste.

Mix all ingredients together in greased casserole. Bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until browned. Makes 6-8 servings.

PRAYERS

We pray, Lord, for those wh

o are going

to a new job

and for those who are going to work for the last time today;

for the emergency services who will travel at high speed

on land, water or in the air, to brin

g help to ot

hers;

for those starting a new life as they move house;

for those travellin

g to or from prison;

for people who will go into hospital today;

for young people on their way to school, college and university;

for those who are lost on the jo

urney of life;

for those who will die today and make their final journey.

On all these peo

ple we ask

your blessing, Lord.

Amen

Please pray for God's

protection of

our troops and HIS wisdom

for their

commanders.

Lord, hold our troops in

your loving hands.

Protect them a

s the

y protect us.

Bless them and their families for the

selfless acts they perform

for us

in our time of need. I ask this in the

name of Jesus, our

Lord a

nd Savior.

AMEN

Lots of sunshine in June

AROUND HOME

Today and tomorrow will still bring us a chance of snow flurries they say but come Wednesday through Friday we should see warmer days and some sunshine too. I’m thinking that maybe this will be what they call our January thaw. It’s been over a month since we’ve had temps above free

zing.

The steamy days of August often bring tent campers to the campground. The tent area is just on the other side of the road from where our campers are.

FAMILY ALBU

M

We’ve had a lot of trouble getting grass to grow in this area. Last year we did some reseeding so I’m hoping it looks a little better there than this picture is showing

COUNTING THE DAYS

67 DAYS UNTIL SPRING !

95 DAYS UNTIL CAMPING SEASON BEGINS

80 DAYS UNTIL MA RETIRES

Keep looking ON THE BRIGHT SIDE of things.

A little smile, a word of cheer,
A bit of love from someone near…

Love,

ma

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Pictures mostly taken by ‘ma’ and courtesy of the camera provided by my ‘babes’