Tuesday 4~So Tell Me

 

So Tell Me....



This week's questions come from Sparky! I hope you enjoy doing them.


Let's talk about you .....


1. Music. What kind of music do you enjoy? Are you musical?

I mostly enjoy Gospel music, Hymns, some contemporary Christian music, Old Sacred classical music, and then of course the oldies from the 50's & 60's (my generation!).   I am musical in that I love to sing. I do not play any instruments, but my voice is my instrument. However, sadly, with age, it isn't as strong as it used to be, but I still love to sing in our church choir and will continue to do so as long as I have any voice at all, Lord willing.

Psalm 95: 1-7

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;

let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving

and extol him with music and song.

3 For the Lord is the great God,

the great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,

and the mountain peaks belong to him.

5 The sea is his, for he made it,

and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us bow down in worship,

let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;

7 for he is our God

and we are the people of his pasture,

the flock under his care.

2. Travel. Where have we been? What's your favorite destination(s)?

We are not big travelers. Never really have been.  But in our years of ministry we moved a lot to go to Seminary, etc., and then on to different churches throughout the eastern/southern United States. Right now our favorite destination would be the mountains of north Georgia in the fall, but I would dearly love to go back to Maine and New Hampshire some day, where we used to live and where our only grandson still lives.  It's just a long and expensive trip for us, so I don't know when it's going to happen.


3. Occupations. Did you end up working at what you wanted to be? Do you wish you'd done something else, if so, what? etc.

I really didn't have any great aspirations for a career. I worked at the occupation God wanted for me...a wife, mother and then a Pastor's wife.  However, I did quite a few jobs along the way to supplement my hubby's often rather meager income in the ministry, but my main "job" was being a wife and mother, and that is what I really wanted to be. HERE is a link to a fairly recent post about my "Jobs"for a more in depth look at this subject.

4. How do you keep from being bored?

I've never really truly been bored. I try to keep busy with enjoying my home, reading, writing, and most of all observing God's Creation in nature.  I can stay pretty well entertained just watching the birds outside our window.  And then taking rides and walks and enjoying whatever I happen to see along the way.   Like this huge staghorn fern up in this old oak tree beside the restaurant we went to on Monday to meet my hubby's brother and wife for lunch:

That thing is huge!  Apparently it has been trimmed most likely due to having some dead leaves from the winter time...but it is coming back beautifully, and it is HUGE!

Of course, no trip to the Mason Jar restaurant would be complete without a picture of my favorite bear:

He's all ready for the 4th of July, I see!

And I always love to get a picture of this longhorn bull on the wall inside the restaurant...with the reminder to "Eat like no one is watching".  LOL. We did.

And here is who we went to see, my hubby's brother Billy and his lovely wife Peggy:

And here's the three Steiner men:   

Our son Benton was our driver. Rose wasn't able to go with us due to her work schedule.  And there was a picture of me, but it is on my brother-in-law's camera/phone, and he hasn't sent it to me yet, so that's okay. You know what I look like. LOL.  And actually, I was looking a little funny because I currently have an infection of the tear duct in my right eye, which makes the eyelid look puffy and red. My brother in law noticed it right away even though I was wearing glasses and I though it was camouflaged. The first thing he said to me was, "Pam, what's wrong with your eye?" LOL. I said "Gee thanks, Billy. Leave it to you to notice my only flaw immediately!" All in good fun. LOL.   I ended up going to the eye doctor yesterday and he prescribed some antibiotics for me, so hopefully it will start feeling better soon.  I said with as much crying as I've done lately, I can't imagine how my tear duct got clogged up and infected! 

I guess that's all I have for this week's Tuesday 4.  I'm sorry I'm late. The last couple of days were busy, as you see from above.  The rest of the week isn't looking much better. There will be that Yard sale at the Quilter's Shop on Friday, and they had to cancel it on Saturday because we will be having the Memorial Service for our friend Opal, who passed away on Sunday.  Oh, I do pray this is the last Memorial service for any more of my friends for a LONG time.  It's really been hard to see so many go on before us...but I am thankful that I know where they are, and I will see them again someday. That is our great comfort and hope and prayer.

Thank you for joining in each week. You have made this such a wonderful experience and I know Toni, in whose memory we continue, would be pleased as punch.