Well, What Do I Know?

The Nerve!

I went to see a shoulder specialist today - apparently he is a bone specialist and he couldn't help me as my issues are nerve related and I have a soft tissue injury! He did another shot and took three X-rays, and really looked and did an exam.  So, he referred me to a shoulder 'soft tissue' doctor for a nerve study on July 15th. Is this dragging out or what?

WEDDING

In actually good news, the wedding/reception plans are going well. So far, for those of you who like to dress up, it is an evening, somewhat formal event. There will be a Low Mass (shorter, about an hour) and the Mothers, Bridesmaids and others will be wearing floor length dresses mostly made of chiffon, with a lot of 'Bling' (rhinestones - jewelry, on shoes, bouquets, etc). Dinner, dancing, drinking - my kind of party!

So you can go all out, or dress a hundred ways. It's up to you! 

As I said earlier, the young-ins can come to the wedding ceremony  then they'll have a Disney movie and pizza and a real good sitter here, while we adults go to the wedding reception.

We still have two places at Martha's next door so let us know.

Happy Feast Day St. John the Baptist!

 “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.” 

St. John the Baptist

Our bonfire one year....

27 Years on June 24th!

St. John the Baptist is the Patron Saint of Baptism, coverts, farriers, French Canada, many cities and other causes from around the world. Today is the Vigil of the Feast and tomorrow is the Feast Day - and our Anniversary!

"Saint John the Baptist was the son of Zachary, a priest of the Temple in Jerusalem, and Elizabeth, a kinswoman of Mary who visited her. He was probably born at Ain-Karim southwest of Jerusalem after the Angel Gabriel had told Zachary that his wife would bear a child even though she was an old woman. Saint John lived as a hermit in the desert of Judea until about A.D. 27. When he was thirty, he began to preach on the banks of the Jordan against the evils of the times and called men to penance and baptism "for the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand". He attracted large crowds, and when Christ came to him, John recognized Him as the Messiah and baptized Him, saying, "It is I who need baptism from You". When Christ left to preach in Galilee, John continued preaching in the Jordan valley. Fearful of his great power with the people, Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Perea and Galilee, had him arrested and imprisoned at Machaerus Fortress on the Dead Sea when John denounced his adultrous and incestuous marriage with Herodias, wife of his half brother Philip. Saint John was beheaded at the request of Salome, daughter of Herodias, who asked for his head at the instigation of her mother. Saint John inspired many of his followers to follow Christ when he designated Him "the Lamb of God," among them Andrew and John, who came to know Christ through John's preaching. Saint John is presented in the New Testament as the last of the Old Testament prophets and the precursor of the Messiah. His feast day is June 24th and the feast for his beheading is August 29th."

Most all Feast Days of Saints celebrate the day they died and went to Heaven. St. John the Baptist has two Feast Days - his birth and his death.

Bonfires on the beach, (or on mountain tops or wherever!) and/or fireworks: part of the traditional celebration worldwide.

The bonfires symbolize Saint John revealing the 'light' - Christ.

 'The fourth gospel describes the Baptist as "a man sent from God [...] to bear witness to the light so that through him everyone might believe."'

Bonfires on the beach in Spain, possibly.

Depiction of St. John's Head being presented to Herod, the King.

St. John and Christ. When Elizabeth was pregnant with St. John, Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visited her. There are literately millions of this 'visitation' depicted in paintings, sculpture, drawings and other mediums - many by great artists over the past 2000 years. 'The Visitation' is also one of the decades of the Rosary. 

Artistic painting of St. John the Baptist being born.

xox

Quilted!

Here's  my second quilt -"quilted". It's a twin sized quilt using 1930's reproduction fabrics. I made several of the Fan blocks, but won the others, and got the dark blue and the white fabrics also. So I added strips of reproduction fabrics, a backing, and after 14 years ( ! ) had it quilted with a simple flower and loop design and voila!

The backing fabric...

xox

Little Visitors

We've had little birds and baby deer visitors on our property this Spring. Frank got this picture near his door of a bird's nest, I've had a swallows' nest with babies in the eaves of the house, and Bob found a newborn baby deer asleep in the grass out front. The mommy deer and baby were reunited yesterday.  (Because I am computer-inept I've lost the picture!)

It's raining, and all is well here. We're still having fun doing  wedding "stuff"!

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Hackers! Ewwwwwww....

Well, either everyone on my email list has figured out that a hacker has used my email addresses (all of them!) to send out a diet link to me and everyone in my email address book, or you may think I've gone diet crazy! That could be - I could probably use one! I am sorry for the confusion! AOL mail had me reset my password today, you might do that also. In either event, erase the email with the link, from me, if you haven't already! life on the 'net'.....I put important info on my blog, so when in doubt you can always double check here...

XOX

Happy Birthday Tod!

Happy Birthday Chuck!

xox