The Life of Mrs. Miles

OLD GREEN BOAT KIT

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There's an old green boat down by the dock on the property. It's got lots of wear on it, some areas scraped entirely away, revealing it's wooden interior. The paint has worn to a weathered, shabby look -perfect for a scrapbook kit, I think! I took a close up of the texture and this is what you have here!

When I look at the boat, I dream of all the times it's transported people out on the lake. There's something so relaxing about being out on the water in a boat, just floating along. Recently, I recieved an email from my friend Alicia, who had come out to visit for the first time, and she says that a freind built the boat, and sold it to her husband, who sold it to our friends Bonnie and Roman. At any rate, it will now live on as a scrapping kit - who would have thought? The photo below is of the boat!

THE OLD BOAT KIT BOAT!

Yesterday, Mom and I tackled my kitchen cupboards. I truly wish I would have shown you some 'before and afters' - only I would have been shy to show you the befores.... I was shy to show Mom, actually. I needn't have been afraid, as she is a whiz at this sort of thing! She's to me, a Canadian version of those two English ladies who go in and clean homes of people who don't know how (like its REALLY bad) Truly, it was not dirty or anything like this, but I have absolutely no sense of how to organize my food and tupperware cupboards.

In all, we had it whipped together and the house vacuumed before noon!

We had accumulated several bags of 'extras' and unnecessary items which they took to the thrift store with me, and we also visited the local packing house for apples (only .25 cents a pound there!) I'm getting to go all my favorite places WITH my Mom this week! Oh, and we are on our third puzzle and its a stinker. If I'm walking around with a 'puzzled' expression on my face - thats why!

IRIS BY THE LAKE

I've a word of encouragement for someone today - it was laid on my heart to share this scripture with you:

Where do you get the strength to go on, when you have used up all of your own strength? Where do you turn for patience when you have run out of patience, when you have been more patient for more years than anyone should be asked to be, and the end is nowhere in sight? I believe that God gives us strength and patience and hope, renewing our spiritual resources when they run dry. - Harold S. Kushner

The limitless resources of God are able to meet our deepest needs.

"And my God will meet all your needs

according to his glorious riches

in Christ Jesus."

Phillipians 4:19

Today in History:

1430 - Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to English

1498 - Italian preacher Savonarola tortured & executed in Florence

1533 - King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void

1701 - Capt Kidd hung in London after convicted of piracy & murder

1873 - Postal Cards sold in SF for 1st time

1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established

1903 - 1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY - ended April 1

1908 - Dirigible explodes over SF Bay - 16 passengers fall - none di

1922 - Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Film

1934 - Bonnie & Clyde shot in Louisana ambush

1937 - Industrialist John D Rockfeller died in Ormond Beach Fla

1956 - World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building

Birthdays in History:

1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, German physician hypnotist

1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers

1910 - Artie Shaw (Arthur Arshawsky), band leader and husband

1928 - Rosemary Clooney, in Kentucky singer

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