Friday Foto Friends

Good way to start my Friday morning...Morning Tea Time with Blackie...

"Someone" has decided that he likes my lap best here lately...

This was last evening...

we both took a little "cat nap" for a while...

It was very peaceful and relaxing to sit with a warm kitty in my lap for a while,  but it does make it difficult to get much done! LOL.    However, last evening it felt good to just sit and relax with Blackie. I had started out my day by having to be at a dental appointment by 8:00 a.m. for a "periodonal maintenance cleaning". What a way to start the day! And then I finished up the afternoon with an ultrasound mammogram as a follow up to my regular mammogram, because it had shown some areas of "concern", but they said it most likely is because of "dense tissue"...which comes with "old age". Although I won't know the results of the ultrasound for a few days, the technician who did it said that he didn't see anything to be concerned about, so I will take that as a good thing and not be too concerned. I wasn't too concerned anyway, but it's always a good idea to follow up with things when there is any question or doubt.  

All that being said, it was nice to sit in my chair and relax with a warm kitty in my lap for a while. However, Blackie could probably just stay there forever if I'd let him, but eventually I had to pry him out of my lap (with his claws clutching at my leg...LOL).  He is a character, and I think God knew we needed him.

I don't really have any new other pictures to share with you today, but I thought I'd go back a week or so to some that I took and never showed you because there was too much other stuff going on (Easter, etc.)

I know we've all been watching the flight of the Artemis 2 around the moon...and at the time of the launch I took some pictures that I wanted to share with you...

First off was this calendar picture that I forgot to include with the batch of April calendars....This is the one that has quotes from Billy Graham on it, and I found this month's quote to be quite appropriate for what we are currently experiencing:

Isn't that perfect?

Well, what is even more exciting and 'perfect' to me, was that I was able to literally see the rocket launch from our front porch, over 100 miles away!  Here is when it was going up into space:

Yes, that little smoke trail going out toward the eastern sky was the trail of the rocket going up into space from Cape Kennedy!

I was really excited to be able to see it all the way from here! That was pretty amazing!  And also amazing was that we were having a beautiful full moon at that time as well...

Here's a few pictures I took at that time, this was in the early morning...while the moon is setting over Still Waters Pond:

And these were as the moon was rising the night before.

I was just amazed to think that those four astronauts would be literally circling around that big old moon and sending us pictures from the dark side of the moon!

And now they are on their way home and hopefully will touch down safely today, so we are praying for their safe return to earth.  

May God bring them safely home with no issues.   News article about their expected trip home.

Okay, I have to go. Today we have grocery shopping to do and we want to get out before the Friday rush.

May God be with you today and this weekend, and may He give you peace and joy and comfort and strength!!