This Mom is Restored

My new Mother’s Ring has arrived and it is absolutely beautiful! 

Here is a photo of it paired with my Gramie Ring. These two rings help me feel close to my kids and grands in this time when we have to stay apart. Together they look like a crown, which is most fitting because these loved ones are my Crown Jewels! 

The Kids: sapphire, pearl, gold topaz, opal, sapphire

The Grands: peridot, sapphire, ruby, diamond, sapphire, garnet, ruby, peridot

 

Bonfire!

 

Camel's Hump in Vermont

 

Home made Brownies to thank the Mini Service team

 

November Sunset

 

Pig Pumpkins

After Hallowe'en, there was a notice in our local Front Porch Forum
(which is emailed to all interested households)
inviting folks to drop off their used pumpkins at the end of a particular person's driveway,
so they could feed them to their pigs.  I ♥ Vermont~!

 

BEAU (from puddle)

Beauregard Houdini Einstein died about at two this morning.  He’s now reposing in the kitchen in front of the freezer.  He was fine all day, peppy, barky,  Came in about six, had dinner: kibble with chicken soup on top.  About two hours later he seemed to start dragging.  By midnight, it was clear he was feeling crummy.  He’d lie down, listless for long periods, get up and move, then repeat.  I asked him if he wanted to go out    no he didn’t.  I put a little bit of cottage cheese in his bowl, he came over and looked at it, turned around and fell down, legs stiff, very much like a fit, which passed.  He lay there for a while and I comforted him, he got up and walked to in front of the fridge, and one more time to in front of the freezer.  I  was getting up about every five minutes to go stroke, pet, talk softly with him, which he seemed to like, and then the last time, I couldn’t see him breathing any more.  I think maybe a series of strokes.  Dog his size has a eight year life expectancy, he died just six weeks short of ten.

Dear Lord, I’m going to miss him.

 

Called  Cooter a bit after seven, he’s coming to bury him in our family plot across the river from here.   Blessed child. 

 

xox

 

They don't know the difference

 

Friday the 13th

On Friday, October 13, 1307, officers of King Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the Knights Templar, a powerful religious and military order formed in the 12th century for the defense of the Holy Land.

Imprisoned on charges of various illegal behaviors (but really because the king wanted access to their financial resources), many Templars were later executed. Some cite the link with the Templars as the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition, but like many legends involving the Templars and their history, the truth remains murky.

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/friday-the-13th

Sunset over Lake Champlain

 

Veteran’s Day

 Thank a Veteran.

 

BYEDON!

 

 

Viganò: America is in midst of ‘colossal electoral fraud'

While this does not represent the Catholic mainstream it does, unfortunately, represent a strong current. It also highlights one possibly intractable obsticle to persuading Trump voters that Biden's election is in fact legitimate.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 Looking forward to One Twenty Twenty One!

                                                                                                                                   ~ Chicago Tribune

🌟😄🌟 B I D E N ✨ W I N S !!! 🌟😁🌟

Waiting Can Be Steasful

 

Nearly There

~ Clayton P. Carroll II

Keeping Vigil

 

Waiting is the Pits!

While we wait...

 

🌟TODAY! 🌟 JUST VOTE!! Do it for the ones you love!

        Two of the eight grands

     who inspire listener to vote!