Friday Foto Friends: Valentines and Mugs. LOL.

 Good Friday Morning Friends!  I hope you are having a marvelous day! We started out pretty cold again (for us), at 34 degrees, and there was frost on the still very dry Still Waters Pond. I didn't take any pictures of it, but here's how it looked yesterday morning, if that counts.  LOL. This was after the not so great rainfall we had the night before...less than 2/10 of an inch! It seems like when the rain comes marching down and across our state it hits our city limits and splits itself around us without dropping hardly anything over us! I don't get it. It's like there's a big dome over us keeping the rain from hitting the ground, or our pond.  The only good thing it did was dampen down the smoke from those fires for a day, but guess what? The smoke was right back up again this morning, and we are now in a "RED FLAG WARNING", with high winds expected and extremely dry atmosphere, which will be like adding fuel to the fire of any smoldering ashes. So please pray for our area and many other places in central Florida that are having similar issues. It could be catastophic if we don't start getting more moisture in the air.  

Yesterday was a very damp and dark and bone chilling kind of day.  The kind of day you want to stay indoors and make soup. I didn't make any home made soup but I did eat some Campbell's chunky beef soup and it was pretty good in a pinch. Then we had cabbage cooked with kielbasa and mashed potatoes for supper, which was as good as having soup!

Blackie stayed inside for most of the day, and entertained himself with this ball...

when "Daddy" wasn't entertaining him with the string game.

Meanwhile I entertained myself by putting out the Valentine's Decorations:

I know, it's kind of busy looking, but hey! This season doesn't last as long as Christmas. Before you know it it will be gone and we'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day! And the Easter comes soon after!

I was feeling whimsical and brought out my lovely Pink Flamingo cookie jar...(You can click HERE for the story about when that became a part of our lives).  Sadly, it's not filled with any good homemade cookies anymore. I may have to do something about that.

I'm "living life in full bloom"...in spite of the weather!

While I was trying to figure out what to put out on display, I was looking at the different mugs I have that have different kinds of sayings on them, so I pulled out a few to share, but then decided to put them back away for now.  But here's the pictures I took anyway:

Let's "Rejoice in each new day"....

The mug above on the left has a quote by Hans Christian Anderson that I like. It took a few pictures to get the whole message:

"The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things."

This is another of my favorites with Job 37:34 on it: "Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God."   I bought that mug way before we ever moved here to Still Waters Pond, because I loved the design of a bird house and a Chickadee, beside a pond next to a little cabin. When I saw this mug I said, "Someday I am going to live in a cabin beside a pond and watch the birds."  Well, I do live beside a pond and I do a lot of bird watching. It isn't exactly a cabin, but it will do just fine.

"Make Things Happen"...I know I bought this mug thinking about one of my "One Words" one year, and for the life of me I can't remember which one it was now. LOL.  Might have been "Believe".  If I find it I will update this.   

20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.  Matthew 19:20

I think that's the verse I was thinking about...when we believe and have faith in God, we can "make things happen"!!

Here's another favorite...another one that says "Rejoice"

But it also says, "Oh, sing to the Lord a new song; Sing to the Lord, all the earth." Psalm 96:2

And this is the one I've been using the most lately: "The Lord is my strength and my song."  from Isaiah 12:2

Back to Valentine's Day...Lily Grace and her friends are all dressed up and ready for their Valentine's Tea Party...

Which reminds me, it's time to get some Valentine's Cards sent out to some family and friends...just a few, but I don't like to let the day slip by without notice!

I guess that's it for my photos for today.  The day isn't over yet, but I need to go fix lunch for a hungry hubby (and me too) so I guess I will say so long for now.

I'm wondering if you also have coffee/tea mugs that say things that mean something to you? Maybe you can share some of your favorites sometime.

I think my favorite for today is the verse that says 

"I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."  Matthew 19:20

That's a good message to close this on. I hope it brings some hope to you as well.