Happy St Pat's Day

It is so nice to have a national holiday for all us IRISH, and I feel it is nice of us to share with everyone else. Hope you are having a Good Day mine has been hectic but FUN. It is my day off so as usual there are a lot of things that need to be done, but some will have to wait til Saturday. Besides today is Card Night. Well got to run to get a few things done so Jerry will let me go play Cards.

EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD REST OF THE WEEK AND A SUPER GREAT WEEKEND. Let me know how you celebrated St Pat's Day.

Time Change weekend is NOT my favorite time

I still can not see how Day Light Savings Time helps any one. It sure does not help the farmer like they said it was for. I know from experience the tractors can be lighted up bright as day so you can plow all night if you wanted to. To me it is just a nuisance especially in the Spring. I have never been able to spring forward very fast, it takes me for ever to get my body clock back to working half way right. But just when things do smoth out it is time for Fall Back and here we go again. At least for most of the school teachers they will have Spring Break to help get adjusted somewhat.

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SPECIAL SPRING BREAK AND A SAFE ONE. Especially the ones I know taking special Christian Witness Time and the group going to Cambodia and band going to Washington DC. ALL GOOD KIDS WITH A STRONG LOVE FOR THE LORD. Some times I get a deep burden for what the KIDS these days are facing, But it is so encourageing to see them DEPENDING ON GOD FOR GUIDANCE. THERE IS HOPE FOR OUR FUTURE WORLD.

Finish up last nights post

Could not let the post from yesterday go just yet. Had to share:

Jen's Mom's Famous Potatoes Casserole.

2 lbs Frozen Hashbrown Potatoes ( cubed )
1/2 cup melted Butter
1 t Salt
1 can Cream of Potato Soup
1 pint Sour Cream
1 cup Cheddar Cheese

1/4 cup Butter
2 cups Cornflakes ( crushed )

Thaw potatoes and mix the first 6 ingredients. Put in 9 x 13 pan or dish. Melt 1/4 cup butter. Put melted butter and corn flakes on top.
Bake 350 degrees for 45 / 60 minutes

The first time I fixed this I thought I had corn flakes at home but they were Frosted Flakes. Did not have time to get some so I used them instead. It was really good but the original recipe was the best.

HOPE EVERYONE LOVES THIS AS MUCH AS I DO. Every time you fix this PLEASE remember Jen and her WONDERFUL MOM. Jen is a TERRIFIC person and I know it is her Mom and Dad that made her that way. Have a great rest of the week and a SUPER GREAT WEEKEND and GOD BLESS

ABC - Get to know a little more about ME !!

Picked this up at a FRIEND'S BLOG. THANKS JEN - YOU ARE THE GREATEST

Age: 61

Bed size: Queen

Chore you dislike: Toilets

Dogs: OK, we have 2, both rescued - we live in the country

Essential start to your day: Shower to wake up

Favorite Color: Blue (all shades)

Gold or Silver: Silver or White Gold (all my jewelry is silver or white gold)

Height: From the 6th grade to just recently 5' 10" - Now 5'8" (old age is a bummer)

Instruments you play(ed): Grade School - piano and Jr High - Clarinet in Marching Band

Job title: Photo Lab Technician

Kids: 2 boys (41 and 38) and 3 GRANDkids (13, 8 and 2)

Live: Texas

Mom's Name: "T" to family, Ginger to friends and Virginia to her co-workers

Nicknames: Red and Pinky to my aunt SIS

Overnight Hospital Stays: 2 kids '70 and '72, appendices out '72 wile I was pregnant and car wreck '81

Pet Peeve: People who dump their unwanted animals out in the country

Quote from a movie: any of John Wayne's lines "Partner"

Right or Left: Right

Siblings: 2 sisters, 15 and 20 when I was born - I was the age of their kids

Time to wake up: Get out of bed 7 or 8, Wake up around 10 or 11

Underwear : Always

Vegetable you do not like: All - I am a meat and potatoes person just like my husband

What makes you run late: Getting side tracked too much

X-Rays: Hit by a car wile I was walking at age 16 (broken pelvis) and Car wreck in '81 many X-rays both times

Yummy food you make: I am not a good cook but my friend Jen shared a recipe in her blog around Christmas and now it is my FAVORITE RECIPE of all time. Jen's Mom's Famous Potatoes Casserole ( I will have to share that recipe later).

THESE ARE MY ANSWERS BUT RIGHT NOW IT IS REALLY LATE AND I HAVE TO GET UP EARLY TOMORROW TO HELP TAKE JERRY'S PICK UP TO OUR MECHANIC FOR SOME MORE WORK. OH FUN, be up and functioning at 7 in the morning. That is too early for me but sometimes it is a must do so it's bedtime for me.

MAKE IT A GOOD WEEK AND GOD BLESS YU'ALL.
LOVE FROM TEXAS

Hope everone has had as GOOD a weekend as I have

This has been one of the best weekends ever for me. Hope everyone has had as much FUN as I have this weekend, I have done none of my chores like I needed to, but got the essentials in (washed enough clothes to ware to work for this week). Had to work yesterday and I was the only one in the Photo Lab all day. It was nice that it was just busy enough to keep things steady but not so busy it was CRAZY like it is sometimes. Photo counts have gone down since Valentine's Day but not as far down as they have been. I had 784 prints yesterday plus a steady stream of customers on the HP Instant Print machine, all in all a real GOOD day. Customers are so funny with their pictures. You can tell so quick if they are copying shot that are not allowed or permitted. You know copyrighted photos or photos that do not need to be printed. I guess they do not realize we have to look at every photo that goes through our lab. For me that is the best part of my work. I love pictures even if I don't know the people in them. All the kids, babies and best of all the just plain landscape shots with no people in it. Thank goodness we do not have too many discussing shoots but we do have a lot of the copyright shots try to sneak through, you can look at a photo and tell if it was made in a studio or not. They get real up set when I have to say " I can not sell you that copy, it is against Wal-Mart Policy " oh well that is part of my job too.

HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GOOD WEEKEND AND AN EVEN BETTER WEEK.
GOD BLESS YOU

Saturday means it's Cards Night

We just got a little card playing in tonight, only two games, but I really needed that brake from all that has been going on. It was just Ernie, Sammie (her sister) and me but we did have FUN. Everything is about the same with Calvin and it looks like Sue is doing a good job of taking care of him. Of course we are less than a hundred yards away if she needs help. HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A SPECIAL WEEKEND TO LEAD INTO ONE GREAT WEEK.

Got to run get the rest of my weekend chores done then BED. LOVE YOU ALL!!

Sorry everyone, things have been a little crazy here the last few days

You know we have been having problems with my husbands brother. Well things are not getting any better yet. We got the news that the medical team want to have Calvin to go to hospice care. When I was the major care giver for their Dad wile he was in the hospital and it was decided he should go to hospice I had no say in it, it was their Mom, the three boys and their older sister's decision. To this day Calvin feels the people there killed Dad (I know better but can not convince him of it). Now they want him to go to Hospice. How do you make that decision when you feel like he does. He is not getting any better and doesn't look like he ever will. Death in the Costley family is scary, they are not strong Christians if Christians at all. I have tried to teach by actions cause I learned real fast they do not take to being preached to or asked questions about stuff like that. I AM SO GLAD ALL MY SIDE OF THE FAMILY HAVE OUR TICKETS READY, AND JUST WAITING FOR OUR LORD TO CALL US HOME. Please keep all of us in your prayers, and SPECIAL, KEEP ME ALERT TO GOD'S GUIDANCE ON WHAT TO SAY OR DO TO GET ALL OF THEM WHERE THEY NEED TO BE WITH GOD.

For me I do not see how I could handle one second of my day if I did not know, without any question GOD WAS THERE WITH ME ALL THE WAY. He is my strength and provider. THANK YOU LORD FOR BEING THERE FOR ME!!!

Just a little add on, I just got off work, Jerry just picked me up and told me Calvin has been released from the hospital to have Hospice Care at home. Hope this will not be too much for Sue to handle. I can only do so much and still keep my job at Wal-Mart . Keep us in your prayers. THANKS TO EVERYONE.