Getting Ready to Sizzle

 Hey hi to all, :-)

It is May 15th tomorrow and supposed to be 27 degrees. Beautiful.  Usually, I like about 25 degrees but it has taken so long to get to the really warm weather this year that I am truly looking forward to some heat.  I am working on painting and refinishing the walls in the 30ft travel trailer. (I don't live in it full-time anymore). I know it is older, but I absolutely adore this trailer.  It is just totally airy and bright and has a wonderful feel to it.  Several years ago, it was the answer to many prayers, so I will always love it.  It was home whenever I came home for visits when living overseas, it was easy to pull no matter where I took it, it is well built and got me through many cold winters and hot summers, and helped me keep my life simple all this time - just a true blessing from Jehovah God all the way around.

Things weighing on my mind this week.  The ones in the Middle East.  Scary.  Lots of prayers being said for them.  The amount of trust and endurance they are showing at this moment is incredible.  Using peaceful moments in our life to build our faith and trust certainly was good advice to receive.

So wasps are fast.  You would think the way I ran from the wasp nest after I knocked it down that it was a near-death experience.  I had it all planned out except for the part where I turned and ran but forgot there was a metal pole holding up my awning...  so like now, I got a goose egg on my forehead.  Nice.

So I am hooked these days on watching this chef cook with things we can find in our backyard and lawn.  All I can say is - Future. Future. Future.  Knowledge is power...and delicious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyRfaksY6a4&ab_channel=CBCLife

Okay, gotta run.  The cuties and I have to brave the storm outside and get a walk in before work.  Have a wonderful, warm, happy week!

Love to all,

D, P & C

 

The Pink Stool

 Hey hi to all :-)

    All is good here.  For the last couple of years, I have been researching pallet gardening and this is the year to give it a go.  So far so good.  The big factor in doing this, is that have a small yard, and I get a small sliver of sunshine - just enough for a sunny wall, so that is where my garden should be.  And amazingly, everything is sprouting!  A month from now I should have vegetables falling every which way out of the wall.  I put tomatoes on top but they are bending over so that was not necessary.  Mint and all the super tall ones are on the bottom, but I am learning the plants will grow straight out so placement doesn't matter as much as I thought it may.  I will post updated pics.  And since I have a blue theme going around here, that is what I painted the pallets too, Electra.  Then of course a pink stool, because I love pink. :-)

Choco is adjusting well to our home.  He gets along really well with Pearl.  After he realized she is the queen and he is the serf everything fell into place.  :-)  I actually learned that tip online.  It said when introducing a new dog to your home always pet, feed, and pet the old dog first and there will be no jealousy issues.  It works!  And because he is a senior I am thrilled because he is already trained and good to go.  Puppies are cute, but not for me. :-)

Anyway, very grateful for Jehovah God's care these days with world conditions as they are, and hoping that all my friends are coping well too.

Love to all,  Darci, Pearl & Choco

Started a Loose Watercolour

Momma and her babies.  Will take a few more days to finish due to work schedule.  But isn't creation wonderful!

It Has Almost Been A Year

 Hey hi Everyone!

I can't believe it has been a year since Covid restrictions started, and our lives changed so drastically.  Even though it has been a huge adjustment in many ways, there have been some wonderful positives come out of it too.  I have spent quality time at home and got painting again.  Something that also happened was that I connected again with my congregation in Korea.  Each smile feels like a warm embrace.  I love my congregation in Canada, as well as my congregation back in Palm Springs, but my congregation has filled a hole in my heart because I hadn't seen them in so long, and I just yearned for that.  Also, I feel wiser, and more mature, at this time in life, so that I can show my gratitude to them better too.  They were the ones that patiently helped me build a wonderful life in Korea, and helped me see the world-wide brotherhood in action.

Pearl is doing well these days.  I caught her trying to jump off the end of the bed a couple weeks ago.  She actually did it as I yelled for her to stop.  I was in mid-sentence of running toward her, telling her that she was almost 15, hard of sight, and probably had brittle bones.  But she landed fine and trotted off to her food bowl.  Crazy fur-ball.

We are still in the RV trailer.  Renting the pad at mom and dad's while Stan stays safe at my place.  Only Jehovah God knows how all this will come together.  Stan's health is precarious, and with COVID he seems to be doing fine plunked in his armchair in front of the TV. 

Meanwhile, I am making things work.  All that matters to me is that we are okay.  Pearl is healthy.  My closest friends and family are doing well.  I am grateful.