Fountains Sooth Me!

I love the sound of running water. It soothes me.

The front of my condo was driving me nuts. It just looked so junky. I'd been wanting a fountain for the front for a long time. I've shopped around, but never found the perfect one. It will be two years this week that I moved in and my previous attempts to landscape have failed. The plants all died when the trees were trimmed.

As a result I had to start all over.



This time I decided to plant herbs and other plants that can survive HOT and full sun from noon to sunset during the summer months. When people are out for their walks they stop and look at all the pretties now. In fact, the people who bought the adjoining condo did so because of the angel I had put out in the front.


Neighbors on both sides helped me. I couldn't of done it without them. I had them over for a good dinner as a thank you for their help.

I got good deals on both of my fountains.

Here is a picture of my inside fountain.


I like it because the ladies have clothes on and it depicts the heart of a servant.



Sometime I let the water level in my fish tank stay low so I can hear the sound of running water.

Raising Skyler in the House of God

Skyler's social life can be rather eventful. He loves to be busy. At times his room gets out of control and we have to stop the merry go round long enough to clean things up.

The before and after pictures.

I had been looking for a specific blue shirt for three weeks and was thinking that he lost it. Last year I was down to one flimsy jacket. I went to the storage shed at his school and found six of his lost jackets and coats. I was reliving the despair of that experience when I couldn't find a certain blue pull over that he had received for Christmas. He had already lost a nice winter jacket at a party we went to, so was really stressing about him loosing another one. I'm still looking for the jean jacket that I bought in December to replace the one he lost in October.

. . . Well . . . after cleaning his room, I found it!

Then he lost it within 24 hours of finding it.


(Still looking for the jean jacket though.)
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Skyler loves Spirit Life. He has been going to these classes for three years now. Originally, Spirit Life is designed for new converts and goes over doctrinal beliefs and all that is involved in living for God.

I consider it his first Bible college.
Here he is enjoying a snack before the class starts.
I'm thankful that they have not kicked him out of these classes.

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Here Skyler is at a birthday party for a girl at school.

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Here Skyler is at a recent Church convention called Landmark. We ran into a boy named Steven who lives up in Grass Valley.

Apparently every year there is a flag bearer who runs the isles with a flag that says "Jesus Saves." It is a long standing tradition for the convention. Sky thought it was interesting.

~~~~~Foot Ball~~~~~

Here is my little mud man!

He's had a good game of football with the boy's club.

These brief clips catch Skyler watching the action around him.
I think things happen too fast for him to keep up with.

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Then there is Xtreme Team!

Sky really looks forward to the practices and involvement with friends.

This coming weekend they are performing twice. Once at the Deaf Revival and once at a competition and training seminar called One Way Street.

In this clip Skyler is practicing as the fill in.
However, in the competition it is Jordan G that is performing.

Here Skyler is playing Jesus in the skit for the upcoming performance. He is just the back up, but is taking things very serious and doing his best just in case.
Here Skyler is looking cool in a convertible at the lunch break.



Following is an interrupted clip of their performance. My camera has limitations. sorry it cut out right at the heart of the performance. All the kids had a great time. They won the competition by placing first place.

Special People

Maria and Sister Thompson.

Thankful for the opportunity to spend a little time with my first pastor's wife and her husband. Although my first pastor passed away many years ago, his influence on my life saw me through some tough times.

Here is Sister Linda Thompson happily remarried and as beautiful as ever. She is such a kind and gentle person. I'll always be indebted to her for her prayers and patience while I grew up in the Lord.