Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
...Chili Davis

Skywatch Friday - Season 4, Episode 25

Howdy Folks! My hat goes off to the SkyWatch Friday team who does such a good job week after week, month after month and year after year. I appreciate all your efforts. If you are interested in participating or viewing other skies from around the globe click here: http://www.skyley.blogspot.com/.

Snowman made out of bales of hay taken near Jacksonville, FL in December, 2010.

From our house to your house, we would like to wish you a very Happy New Year.

See you next year!

Twist and Turn

On Christmas Eve, my older grandchild, saw a bottle/can opener on the kitchen counter.
He said, "Now I have a question for you grandma, a long pause, what is this?" He was holding the green bottle opener.
I said, "John that is a bottle opener."
This grandchild has been camping out for almost two years to win a Scouting Badge for you guessed it camping.
He responded with, "How do you use it?"
I proceeded to show him by opening a bottle of Sprecher Root Beer.
Oooohhhhh, he replied. " I just twist and turn."
Out of the mouths of babes.
It is such a joy seeing a 13 year old boy so innocent; but it also reminds me that times are changing. Things that were used in my lifetime are disappearing.
Out with the old. In with new.
And so it is.

FYI: I will keep on using my green bottle opener because my hands aren't strong enough to twist and turn. However, my grandchildren will keep on twisting and turning.
I wonder what will come after their generation.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
...Sydney J. Harris

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Fill our lives with SUNSHINE
and our hearts with Love."
...Author Unknown

Isn't That Something!

I remember when I saw my first email attachment. I was in Cable, Wisconsin with my mother-in-law named Catherine. We were in this tiny restaurant the kind that serves just breakfast and lunch and closes by 3:00 P.M. This elderly man who must have been in his 80s or 90s, was showing us a picture of his newborn grandchild. The picture was printed on just regular copy paper. The thing that made this photograph special was that it came all the way from Japan. I told the stranger whose buttons were almost popping off his shirt, "Isn't that something!"

It reminds me of how it must have felt for our parents to see a plane in a farmer's field or to see that first automobile stuck in mud on a road bound from Illinois to Wisconsin. We don't have to beat our clothes against a rock; we are lucky enough to have a washer and a dryer to do the job.

Folks can take a picture with their phone, download it and instantly be posted on Facebook if they want to. Isn't that something!

12/29 Outdoor Wednesday #103

If you would like to participate or view other blogs who have posted an Outdoor Wednesday theme click here: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com. Susan you are an amazing person to be so dedicated to this project.

Photograph One: Orlando, FL - December, 2010.

Photograph Two: Graffiti on Window, Orlando, FL area - December, 2010.

Happy New Year from our house to your house.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Give it all you've got because you never know if there's going to be a next time."
...Danielle Ingrum

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
...Dean Acheson

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
...William Shaespeare

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love."
...Linus, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"It's a 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sun glasses. Hit it!"
...The Blues Brothers

Skywatch Friday - Season 4, Episode 24

Howdy! Thank you Sky Watch Friday team. If you are interested in participating or seeing skies from all over the world click here: www.skyley.blogspot.com.

Skies, barbed wire, farmland, Jacksonville, Florida area, December 2010.

Happy Holidays from our house to your house.

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
...Calvin Coolidge

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
...Epictetus

Goals-365 Days of Quotes

"Every wall is a door."
...Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goals-365 Days of Quotes

"The beginning of wisdom is silence. The second step is listening."
...Unknown

Goals-365 Days of Quotes

"If we had no winter, the Spring would not be so pleasant."
...Anne Bradstreet

Goals-365 Days of Quotes

"The daily distractions of life are some of the most dangerous ways to squander the genius that you were built to be."
...Robin Sharma

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move."
...Katharine Hepburn

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Every human being has a basic nature of goodness."
...Chogyam Trungpa

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Winter is a time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for a touch of a friendly hand, and for a talk beside the fire: It is a time for home."
...Edith Sitwell, British Poet

Goals 350 Days of Quotes

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
...Socrates

Goals - 365 Days of Quotes

"Sometimes it is the smallest decisions that change your life forever."
...Keri Russell

Goals-365 Days of Quotes

"If you are going to act on the basis of what you know, you cannot just hold onto your knowledge. You have to translate it into a movement."
...Joseph Campbell