Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

~ Psalm 37:4 ESV

 The other day after the girls   had gotten on the bus & were headed to school I was walking  to the mailbox  to see what "wonderful" delights were awaiting us  . . . after saying my Prayers  to Jesus to watch over & protect the   girls ( which I say EVERYDAY especially when they are attending school ) my mind started to wander to our refrigerator . . . ayep  our fridge! . . . I was thinking about the magnets that spelled out "Tame Your Tongue" ( Sept 10th I did a pix & entry  on this ) & how I should probably change that now . . . the words "Fill Me" instantly popped into my mind & I kinda sorta rolled my eyes  as chuckling  in agreement of it needing to be filled . . . but then in my heart  came "Jesus Fill Me" & I thought . . . now that is absolutely positively perfect! Jesus Fill Me! Yeah  Then my mind really began to swirl  this way & that . . . yes our fridge needs filling but we need filling too! Mind then went to when your soul is filled you are not hungry & so forth & so forth . . .

Out of a curiousity I typed  in Jesus Fill Me on Google Search & found there was a few songs with this title or at least wording . . .

Jesus Fill Me Now

Jesus, fill me now
Jesus, fill me now
With your Holy Spirit
And your mighty power
I love you, my Lord
Jesus, Jesus, fill me now

(Repeat)

Music & Lyrics © M.S.Lowndes

 God, You truly are my delight. Thank You for the continued assurance that You will keep Your promises to me. I praise Your precious name. Amen

~ May you ALWAYS be Blessed & may you ALWAYS Bless others ~

 You who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him ( as your first need ), let your hearts revive and live!

~Psalm 69:32 AMP

I am really hopeful that everyone had a pleasant, peaceful & safe Halloween  . . . ours went exceptionally well  . . . no fussing, no fuming, no fighting . . . perfect  ! Oct. 31st I showed you a pix of the pumpkins my neighbor was so kind to give us . . . honestly I am really grateful  to her for even thou we wanted to we were not planning on getting any this year due to lack of funds   ( everyone knows that song 'n' dance ) so her small favor meant LARGE to me! The girls  were tickled  with delight, which means all that much more too me  ! I don't think she realized just how much her little gesture meant, thou I am sure my million thank you's as hugging a pumpkin probably made her a wee bit uncomfortable  . . .

Anyhoot  . . . so what's up with the pumpkins  you ask? So glad you did, so very glad  . . .

which left us with a good portion of 

 . . . near 3 cups or so!

Right away I knew  I wanted to save some for growing next season, but that is whoooooollllleeee lotta seeds for one small garden  . . . we shared some with Lola, but being the dwarf hamster  that she is . . . she does have an appetite but not that HUGE of one . . . so we thought . . . hhhmmmm  should we try roasting them? hhhhhmmmm  have heard of people doing this but have never done that before  . . . yep, let's give it a whirl! Seeing we never did this before I did a quick search  for recipes & found quite a few but we opted for this one: roasted pumpkin seeds

It actually came out quite alright  !

But I believe when it comes to "accenting with a dash of flavoring" I have an extremely heavy hand  . . . think I put a bit too much salt & sugar on it, but it kinda sorta gave it a kettle corn taste  . . . was our first time eatting them, kinda threw me for a curb on the eatting the shell but I also knew there was no way I was going to be able to shell these lil seeds  . . . even my youngest  ate one & did a "mmmmm" ( thou she ate only one )

Have you ever roasted pumpkin seeds? Did you make them insane with flavoring? Did you like them or chuck them?

 Pumpkin Seeds

The leaves  are really changing now, reckon they are just about at their peak point . . . as raking up a slew of them between rain  spurts the other day I got to thinking . . . pretty  . . . some I recognized but most I didn't . . . so it got me thinking about Tree ID'ing . . . which got me searching  to find these sites:

 Identification of trees of the United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


SCIENCE PROJECT: LEAF IDENTIFICATION PROJECT


I've got my leaf, let's get started!

My favorite search  was via Wikipedia . . . we had a blast looking over the trees! My all time favorite tree  is the Sassafras  . . . when I was young I remember my Daddy  showing me the three style of leaves then would dig up a piece of root, scrap it with his knife so I could smell it . . . it was insant love & appreciation! How crazy cool  was this! Another favorite tree  of mine is the Mulberry  . . . two areas we lived at I came across the Mulberry in the woods & I would wait & wait till the fruit was ripe, but being it was out in the woods I have to say I was lucky to get a dozen berries! American persimmon ! Another tree  I remember my Daddy  introducing me to & such a fruit indeed! Willow trees  have also always been a favorite of mine . . . were we resided before here a neighbor had a Cherry Willow, well at least that is what we called it, beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! It was so gorgeous  . . . a large tree  with this long limb/vines that droopped down making a sweet lil hidey hole beneth it . . . everytime we passed by it in my minds eyes I could picture a wooden swing under there & the girls  having picnics! Looking  over the trees  on Wikipedia I found one called Maclura pomifera ( Osage-orange  ) & I was thrilled  ! See some time back at the beach we had come across the "fruit" & for the life of us we had no clue to what it was . . . now we do! Awesome!

Our Autumn Joy is doing exceptionally well & had me thinking any last minute bees  may appreciate it . . . speaking of bees  . . . a bit back in the Sunday comics  they have a kid section called Mini-Pages  & they did a piece titled - Mysterious Disappearances: Vanishing Animals . . . & in it it had "The case of the vanishing honeybees" were they mention that in the U.S. in 2006 honeybees started to abandon their hives & disappearing!!!! and each year they have been more disappearances! Experts say more then one-third of all honeybees have disappeared in the U.S.! This is unbelievable & scary  ! I really do not think many of us realize just how important bees are to us! If you do a quick Google search  on "vanishing honeybees" you will be able to read quite a number of articles on this . . . I found one I wanted to share:

Top 25 things vanishing from America: #4 -- Honey Bees (Click the Read The Entire Series at the bottom to read more)

 Thank You, God, for giving me such wonderful gifts and seeing all the potential in me. I praise You for helping me experience Your abundant life. Amen

~ May you ALWAYS be Blessed & may you ALWAYS Bless others ~

Holy cow! Eatery sets world meatball record
At 222.5 pounds, N.H. restaurant’s effort beats record of 198.6 pounds

Cami Walker was diagonised with Multiple Sclerosis . . . read about the "positive effect" this condition has turned her too:

National MS Society: Cami Walker

Cami Walker -29 Gifts Founder

Get Your Give On: Psychology Today

Soles4Souls

Nick Vujicic is 26 years old & was born without arms or legs . . . read his amazing story & the inspiration he is:

Life Without Limbs: Nick Vujicic

Feeding America

ABC.com - A Better Community

~ May you ALWAYS be Blessed & may you ALWAYS Bless others ~

 O'God of hosts, restore us and cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved.

~ Psalm 80:7 NASB

Second weekend  of Oct., Saturday mornin'  . . . was the beginning of an extremely cold  wet  weekend  . . . rolled out of bed, shivered  my way to the kitchen to begin brewing up a pot of hot black liquid gold ( a.k.a.: MY coffee) . . . got it all ready, pushed the button, then turned to wait . . . spied one of our cats  sitting on the kitchen counter with her head cocked to one side as gingerly tapping the cabinet door with her paw . . . first thought "who you fooling? I am well aware YOU know how to open that cabinet!" . . . then the second thought hit me  . . . mumbled a "crapppppp" as I shuffled to the bathroom & retrieved a paper towel ( actually quite a number of them ) & return to the kitchen preparing myself to open the cabinet & be totally wigged out over a cockroach ( yeppers. they are here )  . . . open the cabinet door, papertowel hand posed high in the air as I scrunch my face in disgust  when I see it . . . but it ain't no cockroach so I squint & strain my eyes . . . rub my eyes . . . lean in closer as mumbling "what is THAT????" . . . .

It was M.I.T.C.H. ( Mouse In The Cabinet HELLO )

Yeppers, a house mouse 
 . . . a baby  house mouse . . . yeah I know, I have 5 cats! 5 CATS !  Mitch was a baby, I figure near about 2 weeks  old just due to the fur on him/her . . . located another one, but it was deceased  . . . never found Mom or Dad ( & no, the cats I am quite sure had NOT dealt with them ) Mitch was a cutey  I have got to say that . . . so tiny, but I think Mitch had gone for a few tumbles before I came across him . . . & thou my girls  loved him dearly we did not provide the care his/her Mama could of . . . 5 days after Mitch was discovered Mitch passed  . . . my youngest  really surprised me & warmed my heart  when she declared, " I am sad Mitch is gone but at least he/she was loved during those last few days." Honestly a mouse  in the house did not wig me out, now . . . cockroaches, they flip me out!

Okay, then we had the third weekend in Oct  . . . . actually rewind a few days back from the third weekend . . . sitting outside on the front porch smoking a cig in the moonlight  I could hear something shuffling about under the trailer, figured it was one of the stray cats UNTIL I heard the hissing . . . . mmm hhmmm, hissing & it wasn't a snake  hiss more like I-am-not-in-the-mood-to-be-messed-with-hiss which got me to quirk an eyebrow  as I put my cig out then scampered quite quickly  back into the trailer . . . Hub felt it was an opposum, perhaps an opposum with attitude . . . next day I was telling  some neighbors about this when . . . well, I wish I could describe their expressions but . . . I can't . . . extreme repulse is probably as close to what they showed  . . . then they told  me about the experience they had with an opposum, apparently it got under their trailer crawled up into the insulation & passed on, which then shortly afterwards really stunk up their trailer, so badly they had to leave their trailer for a month  . . . I listened to that, as well on how they did not like opposums & I told them I like opposums, plus hear tale they eat cockroaches ( victory is at hand! ) . . . so no harm, no foul  . . . right? wrong-o! No foul eh? Well, a few days after the "hissing" we began to get this smell in our bedroom, each day it got stronger & stronger as it moved up the rooms . . . our bedroom, the bathroom & the hallway were the areas with the strongest scent . . . to me it had a fishy smell . . . Hub announced "I believe something has died  under the trailer." . . . . great!

 Oh no the trailer has eatten my Hub!!!!

I am soooooooo soooooo very Blessed  & extremely grateful  for my  Hub ! He is a brave brave man! The day he adventured under the trailer it happened to be one of our warmer  days, near 80, so it was extra unpleasantly warm under the trailer ( & a bit ripper too!) especially with his work overalls on  . . .

Sure enough, the oppossum was up under there . . . find a nook, crawled on up & passed  on in the insulation . . .

( the opposum remains are in the bag for obvious reasons . . . Hub did make a comment about it could be a Halloween decoration but we BOTH knew that was just a kid 'em )

 he/she wasn't a big one or so we gather from what was found . . . I had considered having rice that evenin'  but the site of all those magots  . . . well, my taste had changed drastically

My job as Hub scooched, slithered & squirm under the trailer was 1) keep my "grossing out" comments to a minium 2) cut off strips of insulation for him to replace . . . and look at that! I failed both jobs horribly!

The weather is getting a bit brisker, especially in the mornin'   . . . so I have taken to cooking  up meals in the mornin'  to help heat up the house over us having to turn the oil on . . . the other day "meatloaf" came to mind . . . you know, I have never ever cooked a meatloaf before  . . . . so I did a quick search  & came across a relatively simple  recipe & wa-ha . . .

It didn't come out half bad if I do so say myself! Came out much flatter then I recall my Mother's but eh . . . meatloaf pancakes  might just become the new rage  . . . oh & just in case you were wondering  . . . no the loaf has no mouse or opposum what so ever in it

Recall  me mentioning  about the small acorns my neighbor has that the squirrels are going crazy mad over? Thought I would show you some compare pix

Last sunflower & pumkins a neighbor gave to us ( she is a sweetpea! )

Glory Be To God & Praise Sweet Jesus!

I would truly love  to own a small farm  one day & for the greater part of it just be growing pumkins & sunflowers

  Oh, God, forgive my sins and bring light to my darkest secrets. Heal me, my God, and set me free. Thank You for helping me. Amen

~ May you ALWAYS be Blessed & may you ALWAYS Bless others ~

 The Lord will hear when I call to Him.

~ Psalm 4:3 HCSB

 O lord, deliver my life, save me for the sake of Your steadfast love and mercy.

~ Psalm 6:4 AMP

 Awake, my God; decree justice.

~ Psalm 7:6 NIV

 Lord, You know the hopes of the hopeless. Surely You will listen to their cries and comfort them.

~ Psalm 10:17 NLT

 May my vindication come from You; may Your eyes see what is right.

~ Psalm 17:2 NIV

 He brought me out to a wide-open place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

~ Psalm 18:19 HCSB

 Please listen, Lord God, and answer my prayers. Make my eyes sparkle again.

~ Psalm 13:3 CEV

Kids Health

In my search for info via the internet  I came across this article:Stop School Bullies: The Number One Risk Factor is Well-Meaning Parents  .  In it the author, Ben , writes "Take your focus away from psychotherapy of bullies.  Focus instead on stopping bullying right now.  After you stop the bullying, then you can spend all the time you want rehabilitating individual bullies.  As you well know, rehabilitating bullies can take a long time.  I want to protect target children right now." And honestly I can not agree more!!!!! Personally I am fed up  with the excuses  we make for all the wrong-doers. Wrong is wrong  ! We have let abnormal unexceptible behavior become appropriately normal. When did we become afraid to correct?

As I read Random Thoughts- Do They Have Meaning? You Can’t Bully My Child  I felt this parents emotions for we are going through them as well, but the author expressed them so much better then I could ever have.

 God, thank You for Your comforting presence in my loneliest hours and for always hearing my prayers. Truly, You are good and loving. Amen

~ May you ALWAYS be Blessed & may you ALWAYS Bless others ~