Simple but Poignant

Simple but Poignant

Jar of Hearts

Anybody left around in these parts? Been a while.

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

Re-post from 2012 Fashback to Innocence

I remember when I was five we lived with my grandparents. My mother and my 2 siblings shared a huge bedroom. One night we were all sleeping and I woke up to hearing footsteps above my head and totally confused to why.
 I was five (1965) and this is still so vivid to this day.

I also think that is when my unbelievable hearing kicked in I still have it today.

I woke my mother up  and she jumped up and went and got my grandfather. I could hear him fussing and the whole time wondering what is going on. I was hearing footsteps ...on the roof. Why the folks were moving faster than anything I had ever seen. I just sat in bed  listening, watching, being quiet and fearing.

Then I remember my grandfather just bolting out thru the back door
in his jockey whites...with his shotgun...that gun that was always in the corner.

Yelling "you son of a bitch" trying to break in my house...
You better say your prayers....

BA  BOOM

 that was my first real introduction to a gun and what it was really for.

Protection of ones family.

I had always seen that gun in corner of papas room. Never tried to touch it or bother with it. But I tell you  I never forgot how thankful I was for it that night.

I was five

Now my grandfather did not shoot that person. He was saying the whole time to his wife " Katie I shot above him" he won't be back but he will need some new drawers' he was more about teaching a lesson to the person than harming him. He also added if I wanted to kill him I could have..he just needed scaring.

That is just how it has always been here in my little home town. I grew up with pick up trucks with the shot guns in the rack in the window. We didn't worry about somebody even breaking in to steal them. When you went to visit others there were guns in their corners too. We were taught to respect the gun. A lot of families hunted for food for their families with those guns. They didn't have money to go buy meat back then and some still do for needed food.

I too have a gun in my corner and desk and....I have protection all over.

Guns haven't changed that much...they still only respond when asked too... it's the times that have changed and more importantly it is the people that have changed. They now want what you have but they are willing to steal it instead of working or paying for it. Their solution to quick and easy and
they don't mind hurting somebody in the process. 
Or a loss soul with no hope for lack of not knowing Jesus or having any foundation of belief...
just hate within themselves to lash out at others so viciously.

Taking the guns out of responsible people is not the solution. We actually need to put guns into the hands of the ones in authority that care for our most precious of precious and that is our kids!!! I believe and have since the first school shootings that armed guards should be at every school.  Find the way to put it in the budget, that is the most valuable thing there...your child...!

If the principal had a way to defend once that idiot started breaking into the school this whole situation would have turned out a lot better. There still may have been several lost...but I doubt as many children.

We had our idiot show up to one of our schools down here in Mississippi, our principal met him him after the second discharge of his gun...with his gun....he is now serving life. Two teenagers were lost but there would have been more had the one in authority at the school not had his gun.

Guns don't kill on their own...people kill on their own

Cigarettes kill more people daily than guns...
so dose second hand smoke..

DUI kill more people

Prayers for all that loss a love one in Newtown, CT
Prayers for our Nation we have to find a way to protect our kids!

I wrote this in 2012

I still feel this way.

There have been so many shootings since Newtown...

We have to have protection for the children.
Unfortunately it takes someone with a gun to stop someone with a gun!!!
 The places that have the strictest gun laws are the most deadliest cities.
Guns aren't evil, people are evil. 
Be it with a gun, knife, bomb, car or with their very hands.
Disarmed citizens by their government never work out....check the history books.

 
xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

God Bless America

Thank You All that serve and have served. 
I appreciate each one of you, and
God Bless Each one of You.

May God Bless Our New
President of the United States of America
Donald J. Trump

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

 Suzy Soro, has a new book that was released today. "Mommy tried to kill me"
Click on the side bar or under the picture and you will be linked.
Geaux get your Laugh On

https://www.amazon.com/Mommy-Tried-Kill-Me-drinking-ebook/dp/B01LZCZNSG/ref=pd_ybh_a_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=WWH0CBPX79SQS3RHYWWF
xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

It's a girl

 Marley is in charge now. Poor Janzee, he was lonely ..
He sure didn't expect her. I didn't either she was a gift from my great nieces.
They were still missing Rudey so they said I needed a new dog.

 Meet Jaws.. omgoodness I forgot about puppy teeth.
This is her new digs in the Saints room.

 Her first move in night...sorry out of order.
Marley is part Schnauzer and Dachshund
Just like Rudey was. Updates to come (maybe)

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

Catching up

I have been trying to catch up on my reading lately. I have a couple of new side bar books with links. Do yourself a favor and get you a copy and catch up on your reading. 
They both are worth the time :-)

Spring has sprung in Mississippi and so happy to see her. You know what time that means.
Time for pictures of flowers ... enjoy

 
xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

In Honor

In Honor
I remember
The Brave Heroes
The loss of so many innocent

The day we stopped breathing freely

 

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

Auggie

 Here's Auggie, I found him yesterday lost in the woods.
Another little feral kitty. Hopefully I can find him a home.
I hate  seeing hungry abandoned babies.
He is smaller than when I found Janzee.
I caught him today and put him in the bathroom
He has been purring and sleeping all day.
Probably the only rest he has had in days.
I Will be getting him use to people for the next few days.
I can't get him fixed till he weighs 3 pounds.

 Santa Is that You

 Sweet baby

He was so happy just to be fed and found.
I have given him 2 baths...real stinky
He just laid in the water.
Anybody wants him I will drive him to you
within reason people...within reason...LOL


UPDATE as of 6:00 pm 8/26
adopted by my niece and her little girls
He will be a happy camper :-)

Update to the Update
He was returned the next day...LOL
I still have him and he is Trouble
He needs to stay off Drew!!

Thank you for stopping by.

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

If Tomorrow Never Comes

One of my favorites

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

Footprints

People come and go in our lives.
I have found out the hard way most of the time.
When I was younger I could not understand why people
would disappear from my life or family

Life Lessons are sometimes learned the hard way.

Precious dear people I loved without borders
would slowly turn to fading foot prints.

Hardest lesson was how alone I was after my mothers passing.
Those I had called my beloved friends
where were they
the ones I was always there for....

now just memories of what was
fading

I found you cannot be in a relationship by yourself.
You cannot work on a relationship by yourself.
When trying so hard to hold on to those relationships...

I found I was all alone...

So I let them go to fading footprints...


I have found
me

I stand stronger

I stand true

 I found I don't need you!




xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

Pure Love

Nothing As Pure
As the eyes of a child

Miss Ella

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

"The will of God will never take you

where the Grace of God will not protect you"

RIP Maya

We Lost a great one today!

 
xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

Time Away

Mohamed is back from the mountain.
Finally took a few days off. My sister and I took some furniture up to the family in Birmingham.
We stopped off at my best friends grave in Tuscaloosa. Largest memoral Park I have ever seen.
March made the twenty year mark. Brought flowers from my mothers garden and mine.

We proceeded on to Oak Mountain State Park in Alabama. Loaded to the max for a fun long weekend camping in the cabins with the grand kids. We all had a wonderful time. We all got a lot of exercise too. OMGoodness how "bad" I have aged. I need more mountain walks!!!

I was not prepared for some of the trails. Where did that girl scout I use to know go.
Never mind the fact I had just had a wreck on my scooter in the rain and busted my knee cap.  
Wonderful times, we all are planning to head back up and family camp. Can't wait.
Hopefully in better shape and with lots of water on me!
This is my Mississippi Moon at 4:30 a.m.

Great hiking mountain
Excellent Biker mountain including BMX tracks.
Horse stables, golf, fishing and a beach.
Check it out sometime.

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

Four Times

 Happy Mothers Day

Made number four without mine.

Had coffee with her this morning.

She is so missed.

She was my best friend.

The beach was really rough and dirty.
We had bad storms the day before.
Still beautiful though.
These little birds were yelling at me.
I didn't bring any food with me.
They didn't understand why.
They love to be fed human food!

Chilled out for a couple of hours.
Had a couple of cocktails
listen to some good music.

Only saw 4 people out today.


xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !

Broken - Again

Well, I had 16.8 wonderful years with my best friend.
She was truly the best dog.
She loved everybody.
Everybody loved her.

My baby actually chose me. My mother and I were out shopping and I asked her just to stop by the local humane society. It had been 4 years since I had a puppy.  I stopped in took a look around inside for the small dogs. Nothing ..no problem.

So, I walked outside where the large dogs were outside exercising. Out the corner of my eye I see a little puppy walking the fence line on the 4x4's going like let me through... shoving these big dogs out of her way.  She literally climbed the fence and I heard her say...
Can you see me now... all 4 pounds of her.

She had a big attitude for a shorty and I had come realize why she was put with them. 

Mom, looked at me and said I think you found your new baby 
and she has the same color hair as you.

I adopted her and it was the best 50 bucks investment ever.

ONE of the hardest decision I ever had to make. I laid her to rest on Thursday.
She was having too much trouble trying to walk she looked at me 
and I swear she told me it was the pits and it was time to help her more.
So, I made that horrible but necessary decision and let her go be with Mom.

I still think I hear her little toes on the tiles.
I know this will be a hurt for a very long time.

But, I was blessed to have her as long as I did.
The 4 pound "grown" puppy turned into
15 pounds of pure love and loyalty.

 Thirty minutes before we said goodbye.



xoxo dar

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Blue Skies

Finally blue skies smiling on me 

Nothing but blue skies do I see

 Absolutely Beautiful today

 laissez le bon temps rouler

Happy Mardi Gras Ya'll

xoxo dar

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South Pole

It has been a little cold on the Gulf of Mexico.

xoxo dar

Geaux Get Your Read On !