Tuesday 4~ September Musings on a Monday Monday!

 

September Musings

Tuesday 4~ 4 questions...in memory of our blogging friend Toni Taddeo...

September is back to school month and even if you are an adult now, you can usually still recall the back to school days. It was a new beginning.. sometimes scary, sometimes joyous. New experiences were awaiting you.
How about now? September is still a new beginning to the year. What will it hold for you?

September has always been a favorite month for me...my birthday is later in the month, and I guess that is probably why September has always held a sense of excitement for me!

I've started this week out by taking pictures of the sunrise every morning (if there is one...some days have been too foggy or cloudy.)  Here's what I've seen so far:

It was a beautiful start to our Saturday morning!
“Wait for the Lord; Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord!” Psalm 27:14

Sunday morning sunrise. “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together “.

Colossians 1:17

Monday morning sunrise. 

Psalm 37:5-6. “Commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. “

I am going to try and keep this up all month long, if I can remember before the sun gets too high!

1. As summer's heat fades do you get out and about in nature often ? 

Well, it's still kind of hot and humid and rainy here, so we haven't been able to get out as much as we'd like.  I've noticed that the hummingbirds are still coming to the feeder regularly.  Usually they leave around Labor Day, to head further south for the winter.  But I guess they're still hanging around as long as I keep feeding them!  This is a female Ruby Throated Hummingbird.  

And we noticed the Bluebirds coming around to peek inside the windows of the birdhouses...it's not time for them to be building a nest, so I'm not sure what they are up to. Maybe just checking on their house to make sure it's being taken care of for them for when they do come back in the spring.  There may be a resident lizard inside the house, keeping it bug free for them! LOL.

I'm noticing a lot of holly berries on the trees this year, so I hope that means there will be lot of Robins and possibly Cedar Waxwings come through on their way south...usually around November when the berries are really ripe...if the squirrels don't eat them all before then. That's what they've done the last couple of years!  These berries aren't quite ripe yet. They will be really really bright red when they are ready.

Where do you go, what do you do? What would you like to do?

Hubby and Me, Sunday morning

One thing we do is help with serving Holy Communion at our church. We serve the people in the pews who are unable to come forward to the altar for Communion, as well as the choir members and church pianist. It is a joy and a humbling privilege to be able to do this.  The only sad part is that some of the dear ones that we have served over the past several years have now gone on to be with the Lord.  I miss seeing their smiling and thankful faces, but I know they are smiling and oh! so thankful to be looking into the Face of Jesus in Heaven.  

September is the beginning of a lot of activity at our church...we started back to our Ladies' and Men's Bible Studies today (Monday) after being off for the summer. My hubby teaches the Men's Bible Study, and I attend the ladies study.  I will also start back to choir practice Tuesday night, which is always a joy to me as I love to sing and miss the camaraderie of our choir friends.  

Ladies' Bible Study...we started this book in the spring, but didn't get very far before we quit for the summer, so we are picking up where we left off. It's a great study in the Gospel of Luke

Those are all things that we do, and to answer the question "what would you like to do?"...Well...I think I'd like to be able to get out more with people and family. It seems like the summer months are just too hot to do much of anything and no one feels like doing much...but once it starts cooling down a little bit people start wanting to be out and about more. It's almost like I wake up after a long summer's nap and want to get back into action in September!  Nothing special...just something more than staying home all the time.


2. What has changed in your life that you miss/regret the most?

Probably just the fact that as I get older, I don't have the stamina and energy that I used to have to do things that I enjoy.  Before we moved to this house we used to do a lot more entertaining in our home. It was a much bigger house and I was younger. Since coming here for some reason it's just been harder to plan things...and we are a little farther away from our extended family and so they don't like to drive all the way here for holidays, etc. anymore.  So we usually meet somewhere in between at a restaurant and visit for birthdays, etc., which is fine and I don't have to clean house or cook, but I still miss having people in our home and decorating for the occasion, etc.  I haven't really started my fall decorations yet, but at least Scott got them out of the shed for me this weekend so I can start. I did hang a wreath on the front door...that's something!

3. Money is no object, nothing stands in your way.. are you going to move or stay where you are?

That's an excellent question! For now, stay where we are. But as we get older I expect there will be another move in our future...most likely to something without so many steps to get up and into. This is a manufactured home, and we have about 5-6 steps to climb up, carrying groceries, etc., and that little climb may not look like much, but when you are carrying bags of groceries or anything else, you feel every step.  Although I love our location on Still Waters Pond, if I could afford to move into something "on the ground" that was comparable, I just might be tempted to do it. However, someone else  will need to do the packing and moving.  Plus I need to get rid of SO MUCH STUFF! Just thinking about that keeps me right here! I think we just need to add a ramp to help us get in the house!

4. How can you improve your life?

See above answer to #3...building a ramp might help.  Trying to regularly get more exercise would help too. We do the best we can, but again, the heat this summer made it really difficult to get out and walk like we used to do. I would love to do more nature hikes and be out in the fresh air more often. That is something I really enjoy...and of course taking pictures of every flower or bug or bird along the way...

So that's the Tuesday 4 for this week. Thanks, Annie, for coming up with these questions each week. They are challenging us to think, and that's a good thing to do!!  If you want to join in, Click HERE

Here's a final thought for the day:

Good Night my friends! I am posting this on Monday night so it is a Monday Monday post and a Tuesday 4 post all in one!