Tuesday 4~ This Week

 

This Week

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4...
Let's talk about your week okay?


1. Is anything interesting on TV this week? What will you be watching?
The new season of Maine Cabin Masters started last week, and I love watching each new episode.  I have to get it through my Prime membership and pay for the season to be able to stream it. But it's worth it to me. I enjoy watching them so much...it reminds me of when we lived in Maine. I love to hear their Maine accents as they talk and watch them interact with each other...plus I LOVE the cabins that they restore and the stories that go with them.  I have long dreamed of having such a cabin to go to and to have family and friends join us there.  But since I don't see that happening, I can vicariously watch and dream along with them..

2. Any books on your horizon right now? What will you be reading?

I will be starting this book probably tonight.  I just finished reading the two below, and I must say that I am enjoying all of the books by this author, Rhys Bowen. It's a little different from my normal type of book, but I find them intriguing and entertaining, so I will probably continue reading her books as long as our library has more for me to read! Thankfully she'a quite a prolific author!

Here's my new reading buddy...he really enjoyed sitting in my lap while I read...such a sweetie pie.

3. What's been on the menu lately? Any new recipes caught your eye?
I am drawing a blank here. We haven't had anything exciting or interesting lately that I can think of. LOL.  However, with all of the nice rain we've had recently, our tomatoes and squash are growing, so I guess I need to be looking for some good recipes to use them...although most likely they will go into salads...I love to slice up fresh yellow squash or zucchini into my salads. I use them instead of cucumbers, because cucumbers give me indigestion. 

4. Who will you spend time with this week?

My hubby of course, and probably we'll see Scott on Sunday and I'm sure Benton will be around as his wife Rose is leaving on a trip with her sisters this weekend to go up to Minnesota for a week to visit her father and other other siblings who live there.

This past weekend Benton went on a ride with us as Rose was working, and we drove down (about 20

miles) to Ft. McCoy and Salt Springs, which is where we used to live.  Our objective was to visit this place that I've wanted to see for years, but it was never open at a convenient time.  I saw recently that they are now open every Saturday, so we decided to check it out.  

Their sign is rather faded out...

Anyway, this place has always had such interesting looking "Stuff and Such" outside, and I've always wanted to visit, but like I said, I never saw it  open until recently.

I love this old sink...but have no place to put it.

This sign is over the entrance:

And boy! It sure lived up to that sign...talk about a step back in time...there was SO MUCH STUFF!

Antiques, tools, old books, sewing machines, all kinds of STUFF!

And can you believe I did not buy one thing??? I am rather proud of myself. But it was fun looking! I've satisfied my curiosity!

Of course, no trip down there to Salt Springs would be complete without stopping by the Lake Kerr boatramp and then on to drive by our old house to see what else they've changed...

Lake Kerr...it was a cloudy and drizzly day, but still beautiful.

The front of our old house...note the black bear sign on the fence...Benton made that way back when, and it is about the only thing they haven't changed...lol.

The back yard is totally different...no more secret garden, they cut down all the trees and plants we planted...it's totally changed...but it's not my house anymore, so they can do whatever they want. It's just sad that they didn't appreciate the things that made it beautiful to us.

Reminds me of this song, "The World's Not My Home, I'm just a passing through"

Enjoy listening to Jim Reeves singing... 

Lyrics

This world is not my home

I'm just a-passing through

My treasures are laid up

Somewhere beyond the blue

The angels beckon me

From heaven's open door

And I can't feel at home

In this world anymore

Oh Lord, you know

I have no friend like you

If heaven's not my home

Then Lord, what will I do?

The angels beckon me

From heaven's open door

And I can't feel at home

In this world anymore

I have a loving mother

Just up in Gloryland

And I don't expect to stop

Until I shake her hand

She's waiting now for me

In heaven's open door

And I can't feel at home

In this world anymore

Oh Lord, you know

I have no friend like you

If heaven's not my home

Then Lord, what will I do?

The angels beckon me

From heaven's open door

And I can't feel at home

In this world anymore

Just over in Gloryland

We'll live eternally

The saints on every hand

Are shouting victory

Their songs of sweetest praise

Drift back from heaven's shore

And I can't feel at home

In this world anymore

Oh Lord, you know

I have no friend like you

If heaven's not my home

Then Lord, what will I do?

The angels beckon me

From heaven's open door

And I can't feel at home In this world any more

Okay, I gotta get a move on today.  I hope you enjoyed this. Have a blessed and happy day!