Tina’s Treasured Thoughts

I cannot believe how long it has been.  I am doing very well and cannot believe how many comments I have since writing last.

My wonderful mother went to be with her Lord and Savior on January 25th of this year and it has been quite a journey for me as I sat with her in the hospital for days during those final times.

I never again will take it lightly when someone says “they lost a mother, father, brother, sister or a family member again”.

There is no way to describe how much you miss them.

My sister who lives in Memphis, TN was out in Colorado during Christmas [they have a condo at Beaver Creek] and when coming down a slope to come in, she hit something hard and flew up in the air and when landing after much scurry, found out she broke her ‘femer at the knee and that has been a journey also.  I flew out to take care of her and to Memphis and Alabama where my mother lived and I hopefully will get around to telling you the rest of the story like Paul Harvey use to say.

She is still not doing well with a rod and pins in her leg and knee, but we keep hoping, praying and doing all that can be done to make that better.  She is still on full crutches with no weight on the leg as they are waiting for some bone growth.

I am doing wonderful myself physically.   Some know I had gastric by-pass surgery and have now lost 140 lbs. and I feel great except for a fall I had here at home and damaged the I-T band in my right leg.  It is getting better all the time.  Theraphy has helped a lot.

Well, gotta go for now, but promise to be back soon with more details.

Bless you and your day today.

Tina

Boy, sometimes it is so hard being such a greenie !!!

I joined zooomr like Drew told me to and uploaded the picture I wanted and then couldn’t figure out how to put it on my blog post, so just copied it and pasted it in the post.

I know there is a better way, but don’t know how yet.

Anyway, you can see the windows where I was talking about my sister, Rita coming to visit.    She is quite amazed at me having a blog site.   She said she had heard the word, but had no clue what it was.  She says this is for people who don’t have as busy a life as she does.   And she couldn’t figure out why a person would want one.   She said, “what do you write about and who cares about all that stuff”  Well, I know people do care and I love going to the different sites and learning what people are thinking and talking about.

I LOVE IT,   DON’T YOU???

Going to try and put the picture on after Drew told me to join a photo site.  Hope it works. 

Nope …. couldn’t figure it out

Let me see if I can paste it here.

   yes!!!

Hello to all you posties out there.

My sister, Rita who lives in Nashville and Memphis Tennessee came up here to visit me this past Friday.   She is a funny and strange person by a normal person’s standards.   I mean that in a good way.   She went out Friday to go to the Library to get some audio books and decided to drive up here.   She can do this in a “spur of the moment”.   She called me and said I am on my way there and I will be ready to eat around 5:00.   Sure enough she was here and I broiled ribeye steaks for her and my husband, Jack and we had baked potatoes with sour cream and butter.  I have a beautiful window in front of my dining table and so we sat there and the snow was outside and with candle light it was like sitting on a lake in a nice restaurant somewhere having dinner.   It was a special treat.  Oh, I had baked pot and some chicken salad I had made for myself since steak doesn’t chew up very well for me.   I am going to take a picuture of my windows and maybe you will get the idea for the setting.  Have a wonderful day.   Life gives us little surprises every now and then.    

* the photo was too large it said and I can’t figure out how to fix it. Sorry. I’ll post it later if I figure it out. *

think I can paste it now !!!

I can’t believe how long it has been since I posted.  “Shame on me”.   I read the different blogs, but just haven’t taken the time to write anything.  Life is good and the snow is beautiful outside.   Probably not for those who have to get out in it.   I had a great Holiday visiting all my family down south.   I enjoy so much the blessing of being able to stay inside and just do the things I like.   “Thank you husband for that blessing that you have made possible”.   Sometimes I think I really live in a fantasy world, not the real world.   At almost 70, I guess that is ok.

Drew recently came to Peru and it was nice to meet him and what an interesting person he is.   His photos are so amazing.  It takes a lot of dedication to do that photo a day for such a long time.  “Drew, we all Thank You”.

I am still losing weight after my gastric by pass surgery and I feel great.  58 lbs is such a load off this body.

Went through my clothes last week and got rid of oddles and oddles of clothes.   It was so much fun.

I am getting ready to make a cd of gospel music in Muscle Shoals Alabama in about 3 weeks and so I am working on those songs that are going to be on it.   That consumes some of my time.   Iwill be back here again soon.   So in the meantime, “Have a wonderful life, we only get one time around”.