Summer Fun!

When the winter weather happens outside, it is nice to think of summer!

A Boy A Ball and a Stick

80!!!

The chant at dinner was 80! She's 80! with crazy birthday singing we celebrated both evenings at the Horn family favorite restaurant, Woolgrowers! Memories run deep of small boys falling asleep in the booths and staff helping to carry 3 little boys to the car! And now many, many years later, and the 3 grown men living in different parts of the country, the visits infrequent, the staff still remembers them by name! So it was the right place to celebrate their mom, Margaret's 80th birthday!
My mother-in-law belies her age. She laughs with childlike enthusiasm, enjoys each trip or shopping time, or a ride in the golf cart, with freshness and delight! Trips to Sonic are always good for a laugh AND food on her shirt! She loves her 4 boys and now delights in her great grand boys! It has been such a blessing to see her follow Jesus, enjoying her Bible Study and soup kitchen work!

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With much love, Happy 80! Birthday! Mother! Mom! Margaret! Grandmother!

Musings montecito II

Ahh! The beach. Foggy and overcast this morning. I walked out onto the sand this morning looking anew....sand is mostly quartz! And maybe could find some of the alluring blue or green pieces of glass? But I was awarded with a pod of dolphins feeding in front of me! I did find some treasures! Some green sea glass, a rock which looks like petrified driftwood and a complete top half of a crab shell! Henry will like that!

I also spoke to a young man. I had seen him in the ocean on his surf board, but also pushing a bright red one along side of him. He said he was delivering an order, a new surf board to a customer and he actually lived on the boat. But now he was going surfing, had to go some where with waves! He then proceeded to ask me, 'do you see that line of energy right there and that line out by my boat, that's another line of energy, and that line of energy out there, pointing'. Which I promptly replied I did. He then went onto explain something about the waves in New Zealand were creating this energy here and he was going surfing man! Yeah, you do that dude!!

Musings Montecito

Thoughts are flittering, random as I listen to sounds around me. The distant roar of traffic, called white noise, I prefer to think of it as 'ocean waves', the auk, auk, sound of a wood pecker in the trees along the road, and the ever present caw of crows,going on about something, and oh yeah, the occasional train whistle, coming from a distance moving ever closer. What did those first to hear a whistle blow think? Something so loud and foreign to birds in the air or the boisterous thunder? And the proprietors preparing to leave on a trip? All surround me, and the quiet so obvious.

I gaze at the downspouts out my window, full of dried leaves, gardens! The garden in this place shows great care. Gardens, do I dare go there with my thoughts? How life is depicted in the garden...the soil at rest, that is where my soul is and has needed to be.

Henry

Happy birthday Henry!! 3 years old! My how you have grown! You are such a joy and delight to your grams and grandad!! We love you very much!
I am remembering with a thankful heart, your birth event 3 years ago! The desire of your parents heart, the hope and anticipation! Little did any of us expect complications to your birth. The contractions bringing your heart rate low, dangerously low. We are so thankful for modern medicine, quick thinking nurses and doctors who stepped in and brought you into this world!!  Thank you to all who work in the field of medicine!!  Your work on all levels is sooo appreciated!! (especially since I get weak kneed entering a hospital!)

So, with much anxiousness, Henry, you were born!!!  Yeah!! So, may you have the happiest birthday!!  Hugs to you my Henry boy!!!

Beach Days

The beach has a power over me. Each visit brings a flood of voices and memories to mind. Today was no different. A mostly impulsive day trip to one of the best beaches close to us, Santa Barbara, with my son in law, daughter and their two boys. The first sensation of sand on my feet, toes digging into the warm sand, don't you love it?! And then the first chilling water as it rushes across my feet, and the pull of the sand as the water rushes back into the ocean, makes me dizzy! With the shadow of my childhood as my companion, I played with my Henry in the sand, scrunching our toes in the warmth. We threw rocks, since there aren't many shells, we ran from the waves and jumped the bigger waves! Henry and I walked the beach seeking a kite at the other end, but got distracted by the huge flock of sea birds! They were amazing! As Henry grew closer 200 birds of all kinds took flight over our heads!!! And I was 'blessed' by one of them! Henry nor I gathered driftwood to build a bonfire, those days of building a fire on the beach are pretty much gone, as well as picking crabs and starfish off the Rock, but the memories and voices of my childhood, with a grandmother walking the beach, showing us kids the treasures of the beach, were my companion today, along with a little reddish haired boy named Henry!