Thursday Thankfulness/Friday Foto Friends

 Happy First Day of Spring!  It's getting late in the day, so most of you probably won't see this until Friday! Although I am always surprised to see when I post something that I think is late at night, when I wake up in the morning so many have already commented on it! There must be a lot of night owls out there in blogland! LOL.

Just wondering how you all spent the first day of spring? How was your weather?  It was kind of cool and cloudy and became very windy here today, so not a very good day to be out and about.  However, I did make one trek around Still Waters Pond to check on the Sand Hill Crane family and see if the other egg had hatched yet.  Here's what I found:

Finally I got there in time for the "changing of the guard" between Mama and Papa Crane! One was leaving and the other was settling back in on the nest...and no, the other egg has not hatched yet!

I am thinking this is Mama Crane leaving the nest for her afternoon break, and Papa Crane is staying with the baby and tending to the egg. It's really hard to tell them apart, but I think the one staying behind looks a little bigger than the other one.

OH, I've decided to name the first baby colt, "Spring", since he/she has made his debut in time for the first day of spring.  I know I said I would name them after a President since Mama first sat on the nest on President's Day, but I am thinking I will name the new baby when it arrives after one of our former Presidents. You will have to wait and see which one.

So Papa Crane stood there for a while and looked at baby Spring, and also checked out the egg for any signs of hatching...

And then he and Baby Spring laid down for a nice little nap until Mama Crane comes back to take over.

Such a sweet picture of love and trust for this first day of Spring.

Psalm 36:7-9

"7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!

Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.

8 They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house,

And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures.

9 For with You is the fountain of life;

In Your light we see light."

Now I promised you some more pictures from our wonderful visit with Terri, "Your Friend From Florida"and her son Joey yesterday.  So here we go!  Thank you, Terri, for sending me the majority of these photos from your camera! I think you had the best pictures! And for those of you who are friends with both Terri and me, you will probably be seeing these pictures twice! So bear with us! We are both happy to have this little story to tell!

Terri and Joey

Terri and Your's Truly...and yes, we are on the dock at one of our favorite places to dine, "Corky Bells", on the St. John's River.

Hubby, me, Rose and Benton

Rose and Benton again!

Joey and my hubby John

Yours Truly and Terri with Lady Gator

And thank you to our waitress for taking this group photo while we waited for our lunch, which became "Lupper", as Terri called it.  Something sometime between lunch and supper...as apparently because it was such a beautiful day, half of everyone in the county and beyond decided to come and dine at Corky Bells on this day...and let's just say that we ended up having a very nice LONG visit while we waited to be seated and then to be finally fed. But it was all good and we were very thankful to get this table in the bar because it was going to be a very long time to get a seat out on the deck as originally requested.

But God was in control, and we thoroughly enjoyed our time together and the food was excellent too.

You may wonder why Terri and her son drove the long 2 &1/2 hour drive to come and visit with us all? Well, apart from the fact that we are such good friends having met through this blogging adventure in person for the first time back in 2017, when Terri and her husband Joe passed through our town and paid us a wonderful visit, but also because Terri had a special project in mind that she needed help with.  

As most of you know, our son Benton and his lovely wife Rose do a lot of woodworking and furniture refinishing.  Terri has a lovely antique cedar chest that was her mother's, and she would like to have it refinished and then give it to her niece.  So she asked Benton if he could refinish the chest, and he said he would be happy to, and so she and her son Joey, who happened to be visiting her, came up to visit and to bring the chest with them!  Sadly, we didn't get a picture of the hope chest, but Benton has promised to take some before and after pictures so Terri can have them to share later.

So now you know the "rest of the story"!  And I thank Terri for being so outgoing and friendly in pursuing meeting other bloggers in person.  She has set a good example of us, and I am trying to get around and do more of that as well, as God brings people together. Thankfully, we live in the same state, so it's not too difficult to get together occasionally, but for many of you dear ones out there in blogland, I'm afraid our meetings will probably always be here in "cyber-space", unless somehow God brings us all together someday.  

So now I must close for today, but hopefully there will be some other exciting news tomorrow, so stay tuned!  You just never know what might be developing here in "Pamela's Wild Kingdom!"  LOL.

Psalm 46:10  NKJV

10 Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!