Saturday Review-Finally a Post!

 I bet some of you thought I'd dropped off the planet this week! Although I've tried to stay in touch with as many as I can through your blogs, I haven't had much going on to write about here all week.  Goodness gracious! I didn't even have a Friday Foto Friends post yesterday! What's up with that?  Well...it's been raining all week long, and we've been busy at Dixie Cottage and other stuff and I guess I just haven't taken time to take pictures or come up with anything intelligent to share with you.  (Although some may wonder if I ever DO have anything intelligent to share...LOL.)  

So here it is Saturday, and a mighty rainy one at that!  But it's been a lovely lovely day. Why? Because our dear friend Terri D'Orsaneo, of "Your Friend From Florida" fame...traveled all the way up here to see us today!  She lives about 3 hours away, but had another stop to make on the way to visit another of our blogging friends, Barbara from "Sweet Tea and Sandals" fame...and then since she was so close to us she wanted to come on up and see us and also visit Dixie Cottage.  So we met at our church because we were having a potluck luncheon today and that made for a fun and interesting way to "do lunch"...(Terri will have more photos to share on her blog when she gets back home, so be sure to check them out later).

Here we are doing a "selfie" in front of the church...

And somehow in the midst of taking our picture I managed to accidentally snap a picture of the skies above us...you can see they were building up for a big rain...and yes, they surely did open up and pour...

But we managed to get down the street to Dixie Cottage and had our picture taken by my son Benton. (I think Terri has a picture of him to share)

Next we headed to our house, and the heavens opened up and really dumped a ton of rain on us just as we were trying to get inside the house (hence the wet hair on my head). In the craziness of the moment I dropped my big round Pyrex casserole dish that I had taken to the potluck dinner with macaroni and cheese in it, and the lid broke into a million pieces on our steps, along with the leftover macaroni. So that's why I got especially wet, trying to pick up the pieces as best I could. Finally just had to leave it because it was raining so hard, and John and I cleaned it all up later after Terri left for home. Now I need to be on the lookout for a spare large round Pyrex casserole lid. to replace it.  Maybe some thrift store will have one.

Here we are standing on our back porch, overlooking Still Waters Pond. It was raining so hard on the tin roof that we could barely hear each other talking.

After a wonderful visit (back inside where it was dry) Terri decided she'd better get back on the road and hopefully dodge the bad storms on her way back home. I've been praying for her all the way and hope she will let me know when she arrives safely.  

Oh, I almost forgot! Terri brought us this delicious Pumpkin Spice bread:

The bag was so cute, but it also got caught in the rain and smeared the writing a bit! LOL. Thankfully the bread wasn't hurt as it was well wrapped.

It would have been nice to have a piece of this with Terri before she left with a cup of tea or coffee, but we were still too full from the potluck luncheon.  So I guess Lily Grace and Bailey and I will have to have our own little tea party later!

Okay, that's all for now folks!

Please say a prayer for Terri as she is still on the road.

Giving thanks to the Lord for the good friends I've met here in "blogland". Which reminds me...

Yesterday at Dixie Cottage another lovely friend who reads our blogs but doesn't have her own blog stopped by to pick up a piece of furniture that she and her husband had ordered from our son.  Her name is Betty Barber, and she may comment on your posts now and then as well.  This is the second time we've met, and the second time I've forgotten to have our picture taken together.  She just moved not too far up the road in the next town from us, so hopefully we will get together again soon and definitely get our picture taken! It's a tradition!!  Thank you, Betty, if you are reading this, for your visit. You are a delightful person and I hope we get to meet again soon.

Here is a prayer of blessing for our friends Terri and Betty today...and for each of you as well, whether we've met in person or not...you are ALL very special to me...

Amen