Conversation – 17

Hello ❤️ February …love is in the air. A month for more self love, self care, loving where you are and where you are going…filling your spaces and places with love. Loving those in your world, loving those who bring you joy ❤️ we welcome February with open arms…and a whole lotta L❤️VE. ✨✨

@Sheba, a big hello! It was nice to get away and visit the snow, clear sky’s, clean spaces and less population. My cold weather clothing got out for the year 🙂 We went to S. Lake Tahoe, my son got in lots of snowboarding. On the last day mid day he was going a bit too fast and fell hard, said he saw flashes of light but is fine.
Sorry to read your brothers family all caught covid. Hope its mild cases. Let us know once you know more.
We were able to isolate fairly well, at one point the hallway (at the location we stayed) was crowded and my son and i automatically swerved off to the steps.

Looking forward to hearing about Shoelady’s sister and mothers cruise and how that goes with so many changes.
Take care Sheba!

@shoelady60,

I have a family situation my brother, his wife and two kids all under the age of 17 have
Covid-19 they went skiing in the Mountains of Colorado and somehow got Covid.

I hope you have a wonderful evening I can’t wait for the skating to start. We have a winter
storm coming this way and it is about to get messy here in OZ. ✨✨ The stuff will hit the fan
on Wednesday and Thursday I need to get some supplies here we go again all I want is my power.

Well shucks! ✨✨

@oodiebom,

Sorry things did not go as planned. Betty White Special will be on soon.

I just wanted you to know my brother and his family all have Covid-19 so my phone
is jumping what worries me is my niece who is only 15 this is the second time she
has had Covid. They went skiing in the Mountains of Colorado and came home sick.

Well Shizzle!!

We have a big storm coming and the power companies are sending notices already
that some of us may lose power. This will be on Wednesday and Thursday. I wonder is there
any good news out there. ✨✨✨Stay safe and warm. Oh Oodie watch out for frozen Iguanas
falling from trees I cannot believe that will happen.

Peace Out Peeps! Have a safe and warm evening. ✨

@xango

Hi. We also have Spectrum. Love this cable company. We have Comcast in the North and the difference between the two is like day and night. If you had read my other posts, you would know how much I dread using them. Anyway, thanks for the time for Betty White. The first news post said it was at 9 pm and I still wonder if it will start then. I will check just to be sure.

I did go on line today and checked MV for the driver’s license. Looks like I will have to make an appointment for hubby and to have a checkbook handy. I could have sworn that I saw this could be ordered on line.

Sorry that some of your plants didn’t make it. I think Lowe’s carries covering for plants when the weather turns ugly. You may want to check . Also Home Depot. I do know that the Christmas Tree Shops in the Orlando area carry a few things during the Fall. You would be surprised what is in that store.

Have a great evening.

@sheba2011

You were right that this was the day to bring the van in for servicing. Unfortunately, I had to cancel. My hubby could barely walk and I still wanted some more shuteye since I didn’t get to bed until after 4 this morning and the alarm went off at 7 am. I think the appointment needs to be in the afternoon. Hubby made it out of bed in time for dinner. Still have not heard from a cardiologist, so our physician will get another phone call tomorrow.

Hubby has not even started to look for his license and other things. I did make a few phone calls and things will proceed. I just hope everything arrives before the surgery and other appointments.

I ordered a sink caddy and it arrived today. It’s really cute. It holds a lot. Room for sponges, drains, soap, and whatever else clogs the sink area. At least this should stop the clutter……..I hope.

Weather is a bit warmer today. It will be cold, but not as bad as the other two evenings. I will probably turn the heat off later.

Hope you and Poppy get in that walk before the snow flies. Take care and bundle up.

@sheba2011

Good afternoon to you. Nice sunny day, a little warmer, in the 40’s next two days, then we will get the storm you will have. At least some of our snow will melt before the next one. We always get your weather a day or so after you. We have too much snow as I was watching a deer today🦌scraping back some snow by my fence looking for food. Walked away and then came back and laid down, must have been tired of hunting for something green.🌿 Love nature.

I love watching the ice skating. I know how hard some of those jumps are and how it feels when you fall.😫 I root for everyone.👍

Have a good walk and relaxing evening. Blowing kisses west to you and Poppy.🥰

@oodiebom

Predictions right now are for Thursday and Friday morning starting as rain and maybe a mixture of snow/rain or freezing rain. Mom and sis leave on Sunday so it should be gone by then. They are scheduled to get their covid tests on Friday afternoon so I hope they will be able to make that.

We have gone on many cruises and sometimes we go early, sometimes not. Just depends on what time of the year and time of flights. Sis talked about it but they got an early flight so decided against it. They are staying at a hotel near our airport Saturday night.

@oodiebom
Good Afternoon Oodie, thank you for your post. I got my fingers crossed and sending prayers your way for your property to be alright.
Celebrating Betty White is on NBC tonight as you had mentioned. We have Spectrum, it’s on 10PM here in our area. I already have it set to he recorded.
I hope your husband is doing well, and you are alright and not over doing it.
Take care Oodie.

@Sheba
Good Afternoon Sheba, you will probably be taking your walk as I write this. I hope it’s a pleasant day for your walk with the Sun shinning.
I am glad I covered the plants near to the front door, and the sides. Unfortunately the two large pots that are in front of the House with yellow Daisies and also one small plant of Hibiscus in each pot all got fried from the cold. The giant two pots that have the Hibiscus trees are against the wall in front of the house are alright.
You said snow is coming your way, I don’t know what that is like anymore. I probably couldn’t walk on it, well I certainly don’t have the proper shoes for it.
I did see the last Daniel Craig James Bond movie this month. My favorite Bond was Roger Moore, I started watching him when he did the Saint in Black and White. In the summer of 1973 I saw Live And Let Die in New Jersey. I spent part of my summer with a family in New Jersey, they owned the Cranberry Golf Club. I stayed with them at the club and at the beach, they had a house in Avalon Beach and they took me to spent part of the summer there too. I had gone there in 1972 with a friend of my mother, she was from New Zealand and had a little boy. My mother stay behind, she had to work. The friend took me by car and that’s how I met the family that owned the golf club. 1972 was a very exciting year for me, spend the summer on the beach in New Jersey. Then after I got back mother and I visited Brazil in August and came back at the end of September and we moved to Washington,D.C. from Maryland.
In the summer of 1973 I received a phone call from that family asking me if I wanted to visit them, and that they would paid for the air ticket round trip. I don’t remember how they got our new phone number. They had three children, one was the same age as I was, the other two a few years younger. It was a great summer, we were on the beach at night just us kids playing around. We saw what looked like a UFO in the sky, we were all so excited not knowing what quite to do. I can still see it in my mind, it was round with colorful lights going around and around the object.
It was big enough for us to see it in the sky but not large that would fit a person inside it. I had a good time growing up and as a teenager , those were the good old days.
Stay warm, stay safe, be careful out there Sheba.

Prayer and Meditation

Meditation and prayer can offer us different experiences and both can be powerful tools.

Prayer and meditation are similar practices in that they both offer us a connection to the divine, but they also differ from one another in significant ways. Put simply, prayer is when we ask the universe for something, and meditation is when we listen. When we pray, we use language to express our innermost thoughts and feelings to a higher power. Sometimes, we plumb the depths within ourselves and allow whatever comes to the surface to flow out in our prayer. At other times, we pray words that were written by someone else but that express what we want to say. Prayer is reaching out to the universe with questions, pleas for help, gratitude, and praise.

Meditation, on the other hand, has a silent quality that honors the art of receptivity. When we meditate, we cease movement and allow the activity of our minds and hearts to go on without us in a sense. Eventually, we fall into a deep silence, a place that underlies all the noise and fray of daily human existence. In this place, it becomes possible for us to hear the universe as it speaks for itself, responds to our questions, or sits with us in its silent way.

Both prayer and meditation are indispensable tools for navigating our relationship with the universe and with ourselves. They are also natural complements to one another, and one makes way for the other just as the crest of a wave gives way to its hollow. If we tend to do only one or the other, prayer or meditation, we may find that we are out of balance, and we might benefit from exploring the missing form of communication. There are times when we need to reach out and express ourselves, fully exorcising our insides, and times when we are empty, ready to rest in quiet receiving. When we allow ourselves to do both, we begin to have a true conversation with the universe. AMEN! ✨✨

@kittengirl,

Good morning in California may this new week and almost new month be a good one
for you Kitten. 😘🌹

@shoelady60

Good day in the beautiful ‘burgh. 😘✨💕I did not know you were training to be
a skater how interesting. I love the sport it takes a lot of training and grace to do it
on the Olympic level. I can wait to watch the Games. ✨😘

Lady one good thing about your training is you will have a nice reflex should you slip
or slide on ice under the snow. ✨

How is your day going so far? I have a lot of irons in the fire. I am going for a nice long
walk today before snow hits us. Well tis the season. 😎

Blowing a kiss at Jake’s Canvas. 😘

Say hello to your mother and sister for me. 🌹🌹