Tag: dailyprompt

Honestly, the first thing I remember from high school, was our basketball coach, which I was in love with! I was certain that he loved me, as he’d offered me the job of being the schools Basketball Manager for both the junior varsity AND varsity team. Why else would he want a girl to take clipboard notes and pick up sweaty locker room towels after a game?

The next thing that came to mind, was how I joined the schools track and field team, only to be informed that I had to choose between smoking cigarettes and sports… the nerve of these grown up people!

From there, I remember skipping class with my best friend, driving to Big Bob’s Burgers for an early lunch, followed up by getting fully baked at the park, while sitting in her car. We would then try to eat our burgers and fries, amidst laughing at how the other looked while eating, until we both nearly choked!

While I did engage in a large number of unhealthy things learned in high school, I also learned the pain of both rejection and misunderstanding, while trying to make friends in yet another school.

In the end, I did also learn a great many valuable things that were mingled in with all my hormonal development! Just so that you don’t think I simply ogled boys and smoked pot all through high school, I happen to be very bright, which allowed me the opportunity to soak up all the education possible in under 2 years!

That’s right folks! I had missed so much academia through my school years, due to being passed around differing foster homes, I began my junior year with only a freshman’s credits. My foster mother had to go before the school board, requesting they waive all of my elective classes in order for me to graduate with my age class. They actually approved!

So, amidst all the crushes, heartbreaks, and partying, I’d some how managed to complete 4 years of school in only 2; graduating with an accumulative GPA of 3.94… go figure!

While I don’t wish to go through the heartache of those times, I have very fond memories of friends, dances, football games and the like. I would also like to add that I love education so much, I’d go back to school in a hot minute, if I could choose STUDENT as my full time career… I love to learn new things!

In home economics class, one of my favorite memories is learning how to make a Baked Alaska, so I’ve scrounged up one for our snack today.

Here, have a piece of Baked Alaska…

I basically stopped being so daggone Devensive!

I finally figured out that we can often become our worst enemy! Always looking at the negative and assuming that nothing good will come, only leads to more depression and darkness.

God doesn’t want me to waste anymore time focusing on the past, but instead, to seek the good and the beauty that still DOES exist in this world! Notice that I said IN and not OF… there’s a big difference!

There is much good to be found, when one stops looking at themselves and begins to search what lay beyond them! I am learning and growing in ways I didn’t think possible, simply by letting go and letting God!

God is Good… All the Time! So Let’s BEE Positive in how we perceive our circumstances, as well as those around us!

It’s sunny out and I hear the river calling, so I’m out!

No cookies today, as I’m in the mood for a waffles…

Am I the only one, or does anybody else feel like, the moment you say the word exercise, we’d rather stay home and sleep?

The word exercise takes me all the way back to gym class in school, you know, climbing a rope to the ceiling and running around the track until you wanted to thought you would be sick.

I want to change the word “exercise” to “play!” The beauty of writing a blog is that it’s just that… my blog! Writing ones thoughts and/or feelings, without caring what others think, is a lovely thing to experience, in my opinion. I think I’m capable of answering the prompt in my own way, without really deviating from the subject matter of exercise.

While I’ve actively participated in sports and physical exercise throughout my life, from walking in marathons to playing softball for the local church team, mostly I’ve just played! I looked up the definition to exercise, and it seems that my playtime accomplishes the same result.

I’ve run in track and field, but I’ve also jumped hay bales out in a field with my horse. I’ve played softball, but I’ve also had to catch a lot of fly balls within my own home. Try attempting to referee, or more accurately, coral three children along with their passel of pets, under the same roof.

There is no rest for the weary when it comes to parenting! I spent five years homeschooling my children, which included way more than just classroom studies. We hiked, camped, fished, swam, gardened, learned musical instruments, went on bike rides, rode horseback, drove dune buggies and on and on and on…

My answer to the prompt is to say that any form of exercise works, I think, as long as it feels like playing. If it ain’t fun, it ain’t worth it, and it won’t last for the long run. Choose an exercise that feels like play, if you wish to maintain both a healthy mind and body.

There, see? I think I still answered the question, even if I had to swap out one word for another… if not, well then, here…

Have a cookie…

Exactly how many times do we need to answer this question?

The only time I desire to read something over and over again, is when I want the words I’m reading to leave their mark!

While I may have read books over and over as a kid, it was because I wanted to relive the experience of whatever adventure I was on, but that desire ended when I gained children and lost free time. Now that I’m way beyond those years, I find that most of those books seem trivial and insignificant compared to the things that are so much more important.

I’ll be honest in saying that I’m a practical girl, wanting the most bang for my buck! If I am to read something, it better be useful for my journey ahead… or I ain’t got time!

If you didn’t already know this, I spend a large portion of my time on WordPress, writing my own stories, as well as, reading what others have to share. Beyond that, my free time is spent writing on other literary projects, physical activity, and spending time with my best friend, and partner in crime. I read one and only one book repeatedly nowadays, and if I’ve not made it abundantly clear yet… it’s the BIBLE! Beyond this book, all bets are off, as to any other written words that I would read more than once!

Here, have a cookie…

If you know me at all, in even the least of my writings, you already know the answer I offer this prompt! In truth, we are all in the very same story, book, tale, movie, script or song… we are all intricately woven into God’s tapestry. Many have written about it, sung about it, reenacted the story in a movie or play, but in truth… we are all in there!

Why? John 3:16 baby! For God so love the world, that he gave his one and only son, that who so ever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life! If I got any of those words wrong, it’s due to simply writing without looking at my source, but you get the truth of it!

Here, have a cookie…

I’ve a list longer than my arm, filled with the names and breeds of differing pets living under my roof, at one time or another. My life began in the country, so early years hold memories of horses, dogs, cats, mice, and a few birds.

Parenthood brought forth tanks of fish, hamsters, bunnies, snakes, rats and a number of additional birds. Most parents are familiar with raising and caring for their children’s pets. If the animal didn’t live in our home, it lived in one of my kids friends homes.

I’ve worked for a veterinarian that owned a menagerie of differing rare species, dropped on the clinics doorstep. I sometimes wonder how many ill prepared families offered up their pets to the nearest vet, neighbors barn, field, stream or toilet?

My point here, is this… there is no perfect answer, as to the best and/or worst pets to own! Only three things come to mind, in choosing the right or wrong companion for your family. Can you afford to provide it a healthy and safe environment, will you be prepared to love and care for it throughout its entire lifespan, and does it belong in a home or in the wild? Outside of those things, pet owning experiences are open to interpretation, if you know what I mean.

My personal favorites are, of course, dogs cats and horses… but I also boast a large barnyard of crazy adorable babes that I wouldn’t trade for the world!

Here, have a cookie…

No that title didn’t make much sense… but I don’t care, because it felt fun to write! Get it? Write?!

This prompt question is so easy, as I know what my job is currently, and I do indeed do it for free!

What is this job I speak of, or more accurately, write of? It’s this! I write, or in terms of a job, I blog. While I would do a great many things for free, if I had the resources to do so, this is the only one I can afford to engage in regularly!

While I don’t fully agree with the idea of everything we do, being reduced to the label of Job, I will say that I do what I do because I love to do it! Try saying that 10 times fast! I’ve spent years doing jobs, some for free and some for money, none of which has proved very fruitful, nor did anyone ever pat my back for it!

However one wants to look at my situation, I have the freedom to do what I do, simply for the approval of my God and the joy of hanging out in the Lobby with all of you guys and gals. I may not have the money to show for the things offered, but trust me when I tell you, I’m being rewarded 100 fold! So what if it isn’t green paper money falling out of my pockets! Giving away what’s been gifted to me, comes with such great kick backs, I’ve no need for seeking monetary reimbursement.

For anyone out there needing encouragement, to simply continue doing the free things they’re doing, just throw out that nasty ole Job word, and replace it with Act of Love. How differently, all of the answers to the prompt out on the feed might look, merely by swapping out one teeny, tiny word!

Just sayin!

Here, have a refreshing spring time treat…

While I’m not one to regularly watch the Olympics, I would not be averse to watching any of their Equestrian events. Any of the Hunter/Jumper type events are always successful in getting my heart rate beating faster! If you’ve never cleared a bale of hay, astride your favorite horse, you haven’t lived!

I was riding horses before I left diapers, beginning as only a chubby little passenger. By the time I was 18, I could barrel race, jump and vault off a horses back! My spine is the truthteller, of how hard I rode and played upon the back of those enormous creatures. Spinal surgery in my mid 20’s ended my days of wild adventures. I now placate myself with watching others do what I too, once did! It’s enough, for me, to keep the memories of those riding days fresh in my mind.

I’ve enjoyed watching some of the ice skating, and some of the other winter sporting events, but not enough to write home about!

Here, have a cookie…

In order to improve this community, here on WordPress, I’m now taking suggestions of what you think I should write about more…

As writing is what I do, there are many different directions that I can take, in an effort to bring you more encouragement and love. Having so many choices can often be more of a hinderance than a help, so I thought I’d ask you guys and gals.

I know I don’t do politics, drama, or doom and gloom, but outside of that, I’m open to suggestions from my community. What would you enjoy reading more often? I could take more pictures of my trail walks, tell more of the antics going on in the Barnyard, or maybe do another Live Novel. I write so much already, I sometimes wonder if you get worn out, while trying to keep up with it all.

You are my community, like it or not, so if I can improve anyone’s life by writing things down here, I wish to make the utmost effort! All that I offer here should be positive, loving, and edifying; bringing good to those who read the words on the screen in front of them.

To assist in your selection of what to choose, I’ve offered some ideas:

A.) Fun

B.) Biblical History

C.) Antics

D.) My Journey

I’ve left some cookies below, so don’t eat the ones on the ground above… they’ve been sitting there for too long!

I’m not sure which one goes before the other, adapting or surviving? Can one even allow those two things to exist in the same plane of thought?

When I think on all that went life interruptus, from the moment of the shut down, there isn’t a whole lot of adapting that went on. We lost our livelihood, our nest egg and our home, along with everything we could not carry, as the Sherriff stood at our door with an eviction notice!

Currently, we still exist within a 32 foot RV that has no working toilet or hot water. Again, is it adapting or surviving?

It’s difficult to assess whether there is much adapting mixed in with all the fear, distrust and hiding that continues to occur these days. I suppose the answer depends on how a person experienced things. Some got sick, while some died, and from this arose such a level of ugliness among humans toward one another… fear, distrust and outright hatred. Somehow, surviving in the wilderness, seems a safer bet than trying to adapt to such an unhappy society. If you are someone who experienced loss of any kind, due to Covid, using the word adapting seems almost like adding insult to injury!

I think that the word adapting seems far from fitting! I can thing of a number of other words to describe how people have handled Covid, like overcoming or healing, or even recovering. Has the world adapted yet, or does survival still seem like a better word?

Here, have a cookie…