Aww…some Monday’s Music Moves Me

Aww…some Monday

A few months ago I planted a package of random perennial flower seeds in a small flower bed on the east side of the house. The past few weeks the blooms have begun to appear and, to be honest, they’ve been a little underwhelming. A couple of days ago I checked the progress and this stunning bloom greeted me. I immediately went in the house, grabbed my camera and tripod to capture a stunning image and this is the result. As I write this post I have discovered that this is apparently very desirable bunny food as most of the blossom has disappeared and only one petal remains. Our neighborhood is filled with little cottontail vegans and this became a victim. I’m just glad I have this image to enjoy.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

Welcome to Monday’s Music Moves Me! This is a whatever music moves you week. I haven’t posted much inspirational music recently, however that is not because I don’t have a reason to be thankful to the Creator. In fact, this past week has given me another reason to Praise the Lord.

I have persistent Afib. My pacemaker is working over 95% of the time. Recently the remote monitor indicated to my cardiology team that something wasn’t working exactly as it should and they were going to have to make a revision to my device. That’s doctor talk for outpatient surgery. It turns out that the “revision” was to remove and replace my pacemaker with a new one and run an additional lead into the other side of my heart by placing it in a vein and running it through that vein until it reaches the wall of the heart, then attach it. I cannot begin to understand or explain how that is even possible or the skill required to do such a thing. But we live in a country with such great medical care that it is about an hour out patient procedure and you go home the same day.

I am thankful the technology exists to monitor my device 24/7/365 remotely. I am thankful God has given surgeons the equipment and skills necessary to do such a procedure. I am thankful my cardiology team is very proactive at monitoring my situation and taking action quickly. I am thankful God blessed me by placing me in these United States at a time in history when these things are possible. One of the greatest blessings in this life is to be born, raised, educated, and live my life in this time, in the greatest country on earth. I serve and AWESOME GOD!!! Thank you Jesus! Have a blessed week.

Aww…some Monday’s Music Moves Me

Great Week With Great-Grands

Recently the whole family was in town to celebrate our daughter’s 50th birthday. All four grandchildren and both great-grands were here most of the week. While in town the greats spent some quality time with Nana.

The youngest great-grandson spent time in the kitchen with Nana. They were making mini-pie shells for little lemon meringue pies…our daughter’s favorite flavor.

Needless to say, “There were good times in the kitchen!”

The new star of “Flavor town”.

Meanwhile, the older brother was crafting a special birthday card for our daughter, his Nina, and spending time checking the tomatoes and cucumbers in our garden.

Nana is a “hands-on” great grandmother and while the grands enjoy their quality time with Nana I get some awesome photo ops. Have a blessed week.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

Jul 6th Around the globe early July, World UFO Day is observed. Prompts this week you might consider is anything space related – stars, aliens, spaceships, galaxy, …. Get out of this world wild while having loads of fun discovering music to share! Now that you know the theme, here are my thoughts. Rocket Man, Sky Pilot and Moon River were just too obvious, so I headed to the country and found these tunes for your listening pleasure.

Aww…some Monday’s Music Moves Me

Celebrating Our Daughter’s Birthday

50 years ago you could not have convinced me that one day I would be celebrating our daughter’s milestone birthday…but here we are and the whole family was in town for the event.

Our Birthday Girl

This party is brought to you by Nana and the Sisters!

A Family Celebration

Monday’s Music Moves Me

This week is a whatever music moves you week. Let’s give a listen to what is happening in Country Music these days.

Aww…some Monday’s Music Moves Me

Aww…some Monday

We recently spent four days with my cousins in Illinois. They are the cousins I grew up with and are like my little brother and sisters. One cousin lives on a lake and there were boat races during our stay. We took a boat up to the site and spent an afternoon watching the races. I had taken my small camera and a short zoom lens for some family photography, which I didn’t really do. I captured some images of the races but the lens was totally inadequate for the task. As a result these images are heavily cropped and not as sharp as I like, but the day was good. Next time I will take my good camera and the appropriate lens.

The smallest class was open cockpit V-Hulls. Just imagine taking your grandpa’s 16′ aluminum fishing boat and make it go eighty miles and hour on choppy water. It’s a lot like bull riding at the rodeo.

Open cockpit hydroplanes put on a great show. You just gotta love that rooster tail of water trailing behind the boat.

The showstoppers were the closed cockpit hydroplanes. The scoot across the waves in excess of 100 mph. If you’re not in first place, I’m not convinced you can see anything. Great fun.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

This is a whatever music moves you week at 4M. Last time I featured the group, Red Clay Strays. Well, their newest music just dropped this week and the title song of the album is Grateful. Despite all of our troubles, we live in the greatest country on the planet. Despite decades of problems in government, we live in freedom that is the envy of the world. Americans seem to be focused on their troubles and not grateful for the benefits of living in this great nation. When it comes to our individual lives, we can focus on every daily problem, but if we look over our lives we can see where God has been good to us in the middle of our trials. Red Clay Strays hit the nail on the head with Grateful. Have a very blessed week.