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When I leave for work in the mornings, on a nice day, this is my first view when I step outside my door. It gives me an instant feeling of comfortableness. There’s just so much wonder in everything God does, but the sunrise…it’s one of my favorites. It makes me know it’s going to be a good day!!!

MISPLACED

Food is essential.  You’ve got to eat Why not make it good food? Two of my favorite foods are pizza and barbeque.  If you’d like to combine the two, well I’ll delve into that later.  I wrote last week of my St. Louis trip.  Today I’ll expound on all the food we ate on the trip. 
When we arrived in St. Louis Monday afternoon, we decided to see the sights, including the Arch.  Coincidentally, we did never ate at the Golden Arches.  We decided to walk the short distance to Sugarfire Smokehouse on Olive Boulevard.  Allow me to set the scene. 

June is a busy month! Since the days are longer, many of us are filling those daylight hours with activity. I’m making use of the longer days, but I have also done some late afternoon reading. Below I’ve listed some of that information.

This and that-in small bites

Pretty near a truism: “If a secret is known among three people, and three people only, the secret is not safe until the third one is dead.” At the Potsdam Conference, 1945, President Harry Truman met with Britain’s Clement Attlee, Joe Stalin. President Truman shared with the other two that the U.S. was working on an atomic device. Russia’s Joseph Stalin already knew. 

If you were to drive up my gravel driveway today, you would notice that only the right half of the grassy area that splits my drive into two sides is mowed.  The left side looks like a hay field.  It hasn’t been mowed in three weeks.  There is a reason it hasn’t been mowed in three weeks.  In the middle of the left side of my gravel driveway, there sits a nest.  Upon that nest sits a bird, let me clarify, birds.  I say birds because they are Killdeer, and the Killdeer mom and dad take turns sitting on the nest during the incubation period of the eggs.

“That’s your opinion.” “Who are you to tell me what to do?” “Who is to say _____ is right or wrong?” “I see nothing wrong with it.” Have we not heard or said such statements in the past? I am afraid we all have. The common theme in these statements is selfishness resulting in the abandonment of a standard of rule or authority in our lives.

CARE LESS

My daughter and her husband have this beautiful Great Pyrenees, her name is Carlie. She is the sweetest dog. I just love this photo of her I was able to shoot. I just wonder what she might be thinking?

Like my husband, she loves sitting by the pond. He could sit and fish all day I do believe. Just a great “down” time for him. It’s all about the little things in life that don’t cost a dime, like this photo. Just a dog, sitting by a pond, but oh how I love this photo in so many ways.