Knocking on some doors

Okay, all my blogging buddies, you can pray with me about something. We've lived in our house out in the country for 13 years. But all our kids are grown and moving on and this house and yard (1 1/2 acres) are just too big for us now. Besides that I'm tired of driving 25 min to work every day. I'm thinking I'd like to move into the area very near my office. SO....we started exploring the opportunities just a bit. We've looked at some houses and found a few that look interesting. We also had someone to look at our house that seemed interested. Our prayer is that God will either open the doors wide and make all this happen quickly or slam them shut. We are trusting that He will direct us in this process.

Photo Challenge--Shadows

I didn't get a chance to take any new pics and wasn't all that successful at finding shadow pics already available. But here a couple I found. Looking forward to being inspired with everyone else's shadow pics.

Praising God for another Research Paper Finished!

Thanks to the prayers and encouragement of many friends and family...My research paper is turned in 1 hour and 15 minutes before tonight's midnight deadline. YEAH!!!! Just 2 quizzes and a final exam in the other class before Friday noon. I think I just might survive this extremely difficult 4 1/2 weeks of summer school.

Happy Independence Day!!

Wishing everyone a safe and happy celebration of our great country's founding!

Have fun now!!!

Mid Term

I turned in my mid-term exam over 11 chapters in one class today and completed 2 sections in the other class. I'm very happy about that. Only 13 more days of this grueling pace....Do not ever let me think I can take 2 Summer mini session classes at once and work. I might be able to do this if I didn't have a job, but this has been horrible!

Between working at a computer and then having my nose in a book constantly with constant stress I got a pulled or knotted muscle or more in my upper back, shoulder, neck area on Wednesday. I've been soaking, heating, stretching, icing, massaging this ever since.

When I turn in the final exam for this accounting class, there just might be a shout loud enough for a deaf man to hear.

Well, I'm off to bed with plans to get a lot accomplished tomorrow....aiming at 100 accounting problems from 3 chapters and a clean house. That will leave 74 problems for Sunday.

OH MY!!

Happy Father's Day

“ Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you." Exodus 20:12

This picture was made near my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. They provided a testimony of commitment in marriage.

This picture was taken about 10 years ago. Daddy spent a lot of 1999 in the hospital. He'd be in for a while and back home for a while. He finally won his battle with cancer in late October by going home to see his Heavenly Father.

This picture is of my parents in their early years of marriage before ME.

My daddy served in the army during WWII.

My daddy loved his cows and tractors. He grew hay and also baled hay for public. My first job was driving a tractor raking hay.

Don't forget to honor your daddy, today.

Photo Challenge--Getting Up Close with Macro

Thanks to Janice of Butterfly Gardens for selecting this weeks photo challenge prompt. She chose a good one encouraging us to get up close and to use our Macro camera setting. I'm sure looking forward to seeing all the wonderful up close pictures. There's sure to be some great pictures to see this weekend. I've been REALLY busy lately, but I took a much needed break and had fun with my camera yesterday evening. I took about a 100 pictures...here's my favorite 3. My dog Sam had a "photo Shoot" and he's quite the model. I think I'll post a slide show of more of these pictures because he is just so darn cute!

I also took my camera to my vegetable garden and captured some pics of our almost ready produce. It won't be long until we have several nice veggies from the garden. Here's a capture of some baby cucumbers.

And how could I leave out a shot of my beautiful daisies.

Thanks for coming by and checking out my UP CLOSE pics!! Be sure you go to the Brenda's Photo Challenge page to find out who else is participating. Now back to the books!!!