Possess Your Healing

Quote from "The Bible"

Every place that the soul of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Mosses.

Cruelness

When something or someone upsets us, the best ways to heal is by getting creative, spending time in nature, being around those who love us and prayer.

Native Bee Nests

Solitary native bees pollinate everything from apricots to squash.
The bee species have a lot on their plate, especially with honey bees on the decline.
Building a simple bees nest is a great way to bolster their habitat.

1) Gather sticks with hollow or pithy stems, such as dried blackberry and raspberry canes, Siberian iris stalks, or bamboo. Cut them into 6- to 8- inch lengths. For bamboo, make the cut right below a node so each stick has one open and one closed end.

2) Bundle the sticks together in groups of 10 to 15. Secure by wrapping a 22- gauge wire around each end of the bundle and twisting it tight.

3) In early spring, place the nests in an evergreen tree or under the eaves of a house. Choose a spot with a southeastern exposure that receives morning sun and is shaded in the afternoon.
Some bees prefer horizontally arranged nests and other vertical ones.
Position a few nests and use the wire to firmly attach them to a spot 3 to 6 feet off the ground. Turn the remaining nests upright and push them into the ground like a stake.

from: Organic Gardening

Valentine's Day Roses

Last night while sitting at the dinner table enjoying a nice bottle of red wine, I was also enjoying some dark solid chocolate hearts made by "Dove" .

Inside each wrapper was a piece helpful Valentine's day advise.

Since I received a dozen of beautiful long stemmed red roses as a gift from my hubby, I decided to try one of the suggestions written on my heart wrapper.

To prolong the life of your roses, add a bit of sugar to the water.

I tried it today and added 1/2 tsp of sugar to my rose water. I guess I'll see if it works!

Wishing

Everyone


A


Happy

Romantic

And

Loving

Valentine's

Day!

May

Your Weekend

Be Filled With....

Loving Hearts

Many Roses

And Sweet Chocolates !

My Angel Ginger

Today was a very sad day for me, my poor kitty "Ginger" passed away unexpectedly.

Ginger was only 4 years old and was healthy as could be up until this past Saturaday. She's always been a very healthy and active indoor cat.

Friday she was acting slightly different and her eyes looked glazed.

By Sunday she was acting a bit sicker, but still eating and walking around.

First thing Monday morning I took her to the vet. With her heart and temperature normal, the only thing the doctor saw was a UTI. He gave me meds to treat the infection.

I thought she seemed to be getting better yesterday.

By 4am this morning she was screaming and very ill. I rushed her to the vet as soon as they opened. Sadly, she passed away later on, while being treated at the vets.

I now wait for my daughter to get home from school, so I can tell her the horrible news about our kitty.

Ginger you will always be loved and you will be missed.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chinese New Year will be on Valentine's day this year.

The Chinese New Year will therefore be changing from the "ox" to the year of the "tiger".

Tigers are one of my favorite animals, though my birth year falls under the snake in the Chinese horoscope.

Wishing everyone a wonderful new year under the tiger!

ROSES, MY MOM'S FAVORITE GIFT

Go Lovely Rose,

Tell her that wastes her time and me,

That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Tell her that's young,

And shuns to have her Graces spy'd,

That hadst thou sprung

In the deserts, where no men abide,

Thou must have uncommended died.

Then die, that she

The common fate of all things rare

may read thee,

How small a part of time they share,

That are so wondrous sweet and fair.

Edmund Waller (1608-1687)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM.

Poem by Jack Harkness

A rose smiled at me from the hedge,

My heart responded happily.

And something nudged me from life's edge

As who was a rose, and who was me?

Between ourselves there's little but

A subtle change of chemistry.

Driftwood on beach

A lie may take care of the present, but has no future.

Over the garden walls roses rambled in profusion, it being almost possible to touch their huge trusses as one passed along the road. Town and countryside were ablaze with beauty which outshone the almost feeble attempt to gain recognition by other flowers. It was the rose all the way, and the sun shone on their beauty and their fragrance pervaded the

atmosphere, fanned by the gentle warm breeze.

Roy Genders