Playing in the Dirt: My Normal Past Time

-PLUGGERS

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Wisdom from Winston

 -internet

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"WE MAKE A LIVING

BY WHAT WE GET,

WE MAKE A LIFE

  BY WHAT WE GIVE."

-Winston Churchill

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Rural Sky Scraper: Grain Elevator

-midwest

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My Mother's JOY is Mine!

My JOY over this poppy plant producing over eight flowers this Spring has been over the top!

I purchased this plant over a few years ago in memory of my sweet mother. Each year it did not do well and eventually it would shrivel up in the summer heat no matter how I would shelter it and water it.

This year stands out as a normal Spring with cool temperatures and plenty of rains - so maybe this plant needs this kind of weather to prosper.

My mother always had her poppies in bloom right outside the front door. It was her joy. I never inquired if there was a reason why she loved them so. (Memorial day? Her own Mother?...)

You can imagine my joy this Spring as each day came. I would see another and another bud... and now each bloom!

Here I am in 1961 with one poppy peeking out at the upper left side.  

My mother probably sat me out there on our little person rocker for my father to include me AND the poppies. Back then you could not check your photo out before developing it.

At least I KNOW the poppies are there :o) plus my precious calico, Fluffy, and my curly hair!  Ready for church.

*Happy Memories*

"Be very careful never to forget what you have seen the LORD do for you. Do not let these things escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren."

-Kinsman 

Deuteronomy 4

“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you...

..." ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ 

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the Lord our God whenever we call on Him? 

Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

v.9 “Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons."...

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More Wisdom from the Queen

--Kinsman Co. 

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"May you be proud to remember - as I am myself - 

how much  

depends on you, 

and that even when your life 

seems most monotonous, 

what you do 

is always of real value 

and importance 

to your fellowmen."

~Queen Elizabeth II

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