Wednesday Treasures

 How can it be Wednesday again already? These days and weeks are just flying by!  What's interesting is that last week it felt like spring and almost summer, and now this week we are right back to what feels like winter for us!  Today has been rainy and cloudy and chilly, and we have a freeze warning in effect by Friday. So I am back to wearing my flannels and sweaters and using the extra blanket again...and here's my scene now:

Here's a look at Still Waters Pond at 1:52 p.m.   It just started raining again, so it's the kind of day to stay curled up inside our cozy house and be thankful we don't have anywhere we absolutely have to go!

Earlier this morning, after we made a trip to Walmart to get haircuts and do some shopping (in the rain!, but it wasn't raining when we made the hair appointments yesterday afternoon for this morning...), when we got home it was time for me to go across the street to feed the neighborhood cats:

"Sunshine" and "Blackie", enjoying their Meow Mix

And on my way back home I met up with these folks...Mr. and Mrs.  Canada Goose, out for a stroll...

I believe they were on their way back to Still Waters Pond...not sure why they didn't just fly there. I guess they needed some exercise. LOL.

It appears that they have taken up residence at the new house that is next door to us 

It is still waiting for some special people to come purchase it! "Won't you be my neighbor??", which BTW, when my sister was here last week I took her over to peek in all the windows and walk all around the property with me, and I tried my best to "sell" it to her, but they are too settled in their home of almost 50 years in a much more suburban kind of neighborhood near Orlando. Her hubby said he couldn't survive here because we don't even have a Starbucks! LOL I tried to convince him that we are really coming up in the world, because they are building a new Dunkin' Donuts here in our little town:

But somehow that didn't convince him or her. Oh well, I tried.

Also last week when they were here I had tentatively planned for us girls to have a little tea-party out in the Secret Memorial Garden.  Benton had moved this table off the porch for me so we'd have a place to set it up, but it was actually a bit too windy and chilly on that day for a tea-party in the garden.

My thoughts were to model it after this photo that my sister had actually posted on her Facebook page earlier in the week. Of course, I don't have all those flowers around, or a little stone cottage in the background, but we could always pretend like we used to do as little girls.  Can't you just imagine it?  It was a wonderful idea, but just not practical for this particular time.

Maybe we'll try again in April, perhaps for Doris' birthday! I may have to borrow some flowers from her garden! LOL.

Now here is some exciting news! Remember on Tuesday (yesterday!) when I showed you pictures of the Sand Hill Crane building her nest?  Well, later yesterday afternoon I went back over to check and see what was going on over there, and this is what I found:

YES!!  Mrs. Sand Hill Crane is sitting on her nest!!! Hooray!! That means there must be at least one egg!  I will have to keep checking on them to see if I can catch her standing up and tending to the egg(s) to determine if there is more than one.

And what is neat is this is exactly the same time as last year, right around President's Day, when they laid their two eggs...one on Abraham Lincoln's birthday (Feb. 12) and one on George Washington's birthday (Feb. 22), so this year they decided to make the appearance on President's Day, so I guess I will have to name this colt (or colts) after another President.  We'll wait and see how many and then the decision will be made as to what to name it/them, and I think I will make it a surprise and not announce any name until the colt makes it's debut.

I wish I could see this nest from our house, but I have to walk around the pond to see it over behind the island, so there probably won't be as many updates as in times past.

Also, we will need to keep an eye on that Mr. and Mrs. Canada Goose, because they usually build their nest not long after the cranes. It's kind of like "keeping up with the Joneses between the two rivaling creatures! LOL.  Never a dull moment here on Still Waters Pond, that's for sure!

Oh, thank you all for your prayers for us yesterday as we made that trip to the eye doctor again for hubby's eye. There was no fog, thank the Lord, only bright sunshine all the way.  And the doctor said his eye is healing nicely, and the irritation could be either from the drops, or just the fact that the tissue around the new lens is still healing, but everything appeared to be normal. He made some adjustments in the kind of drops he is using, and today the eye actually feels much better! So that is a relief and worth the trip up there and back! Praise the Lord!

1 John 5:14-15 NKJV

"14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, 

that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 

15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, 

we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him."

Okay, one more thing before I go.  I wanted to mention a nifty gift that hubby received for his birthday from Benton and Rose:

Have you ever seen one of these before?  I hadn't, and it was quite an interesting surprise:

It is a fan and an LED light, that screws into any ceiling light socket like a light bulb!

I think Benton intended for hubby to put it in his workshop out in the shed, but he decided he'd rather have it here inside, and guess what! He wanted me to have it here in my little "room with a view"! 

This room didn't have a ceiling fan already, just a small ceiling light fixture that really didn't give off much light.  So we replaced it with this new-fangled fan/light, and it is really nice!

Now I can see when I am sitting here working, and also cool off with the fan when things get too hot! 

And the best part is it has a remote control, so I don't even have to get up and down to turn it on or off! The light and the fan can be adjusted individually from the remote! What a nice gift!

I feel badly that hubby doesn't really get to use it here in my little room, but he said he was happy for me to use it here because he doesn't spend that much time out in his shop anyway.

So this is a new "treasure" for this Wednesday! It's so nice, we may get one to put in each of the other two bedrooms because they don't have ceiling fans either.

Let's end this post with some words of wisdom found in this little daily devotional calendar:

Here are a few Scripture references that would go nicely with that exhortation above:

Ecclesiastes 9:10: "Whatever you do, do it well"

Colossians 3:23-24: "Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men"

Philippians 3:13-14

"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

And those are my Wednesday Treasures for this week!  I hope you are having a blessed and wonderful week. Thank you for so many kind comments on my previous posts.  I am trying to get around to visiting with you all to see what is going on in your part of the world.  You are each a treasure to me.