A Little This and That

Hello my friends! Happy Tuesday!  We don't have anything in particular to tell you today, so Mommie said this will be a post about "A Little This and That".

We took a ride early this morning. It was still pretty cloudy and not any sunshine yet.

I love to take rides in the car. Mommie said I am a lot like a little doggy who likes to go for a ride, so she let me wear my little doggy shirt today!

We went on that highway where there is a lot of construction going on and I saw this big crane again. I like that it has an American Flag way up on the tip top of the crane!!

We ended up in that little town of Hawthorne again...

I've told you about this little town of Hawthorne here before,  and also HERE

Well, today we took a little ride over there again so Mommie could help her friend do some measuring in this building because her friend is going to put a store there in the near future:

It's going to be a kind of "Emporium", which Mommie says is a fancy word for a store carrying "many different kinds of merchandise."   Our friend is going to have lots of different people selling things there. Mommie said it is not like a "flea market", because these will be nice things that people either make or create and not second hand stuff like at a flea market, unless they are antiques or special vintage items of interest. She is looking for "vendors" to rent space there, so if you live in this area and are interested, or if you know anyone who might be, please let us know and we will let our friend know.

She hopes to get it open sometime next month. Mommie doesn't have anything to sell there but she almost wishes she did, just for the fun of it. But it is still a lot of work and once you start something like that you have to keep it going...kind of like writing a blog...

After we came back home we walked around the yard a little and saw that this rosebud in the Secret Memorial Garden is getting closer and closer to opening up.  It's going to be really pretty. I can't wait to see it!

And in the front yard we have four of these Amaryllis plants that are getting ready to open pretty soon! 

Mommie says they are going to be really pretty.

One day we saw this Red Bellied Woodpecker here at Still Waters Pond. Isn't he pretty?  

He must have been pecking for bugs and stuff in those pine trees beside the pond.

Oh, isn't this cat interesting?  She showed up in our yard yesterday. We've never seen her before, but it looks like she has a collar on. And guess what?  She has a bobbed-tail! Mommie said either something happened to her tail, or she was born that way. Some cats are like that. Mommie wants to know if this is what you call a Tortoiseshell Cat cat?  If so, it is most likely a female.  It is very pretty, but we don't want it around our birds...

It soon ran away when Mommie stuck her head outside to take its picture. It was a very big and fluffy cat.

And actually, she was looking at our Canada Geese in the pond:

They saw her and pushed out further in the pond until she left.

Speaking of the pine trees, have you ever noticed the little crosses on the tops of pine trees just before Easter?

This seems to happen not long before Easter, which makes us think about the cross on which Jesus died on Easter.  Some people think it is just a coincidence, but Mommie says just maybe God does it on purpose to get our attention and to help us prepare our hearts for Easter.

Which reminds me. Mommie put set up our cross for Easter this week.

I am starting to learn more and more about Easter and what it means to us.

It is very sad that Jesus had to die on the cross because of our sins, but Mommie said if He didn't do that, we would still be lost in our sins and not have any way to get to heaven. 

I am happy Jesus died for our sins, but Mommie said the best part about Easter is that He didn't stay dead! He Arose from the dead and is still living today! She said that is why we celebrate Easter.

I still have a lot to learn, but little by little I am starting to understand.

I hope you understand this and believe too.

Okay, I guess I have to go for now. But we will talk about this some more later, Mommie said.

Have a happy Tuesday!!

Bye bye for now,

Lily Grace

xoxoxoxo

 

Weekend Adventures with Lily Grace

Good Monday Morning!! Mommie said some people don't like Mondays because they have to go back to work or school after a nice weekend,  but since I don't have to do either one, I like Mondays just like I like all the other days!  And this morning it is pretty cold here in sunny Florida...39 degrees, Mommie said!  Brrr! That's cold!  But she said for some of you living up north, this would be a nice spring day. So we will enjoy this nice spring day no matter what the weather is!

If you read my post on Saturday morning HERE, I said that Saturday was going to be a cloudy, rainy, cold and dreary kind of a day, and so it was rainy...but we didn't let that stop us from having an "adventure"!

We decided to take a ride in the car to that pretty little town near us called Hawthorne again.

I love looking out the windows as we ride down the road, don't you?

We were on that road that they are still working on, and this big old crane was holding some of their equipment up in the air for the weekend so no one would steal it while they weren't there...

It sure was raining, and I was wearing my nice teal rain poncho that Auntie Pamela made for me, in case we had to go outside in the rain.

When we got to the little town of Hawthorne, the rain let up a bit so we could see some pretty things. We didn't get out, but we just rode around the town looking at the old fashioned buildings. (Mommie said if you click on that link for Hawthorne it will tell you more about the history of this old town, which is very interesting).

This place used to be a hotel way back in the day, but Mommie said she thinks they use it for apartments now, so people can live there all the time.

Here is the history of this hotel, known as the Moore Hotel,  if you'd like to read it. It's interesting.

Isn't it pretty?  I think I'd like to live there!

HERE in a LINK to a Facebook page about the Museum if you are interested in more about the history of this little town.

Mommie and Daddy always like to look at the pretty churches in these small towns. Here is the Methodist church.  Isn't it pretty?

I hope you enjoyed our little tour of the little town of Hawthorne.  Mommie said we need to show people that Florida isn't all beaches and Disney World. There's a lot of history and interesting and beautiful places all around us if we just take the time to look.  She said that when we take these little rides it is also to help me learn more about the history of our area, 'cause I need to know stuff and learn things!

When we got back home from our ride I helped Mommie bake some more of those good Coconut-pecan cookies that Daddy and my brother Scotty love so much:

Speaking of my brother Scotty...this is just another picture of that cool motorcycle he created from copper wire.  He said he keeps "tweaking" it to make it better.  Oh, do you see that copper angel behind it? He made that for Mommie for her birthday last year...isn't it beautiful?  He's very talented.

On Sunday it was kind of chilly, so when I got dressed for church I kept my pink striped PJ's on under my pink dress!

Here was our verse for the day yesterday:

Mommie said she already showed you this picture on her page yesterday,  but she wondered if you had counted how many birds were on this tree?

She said lots of people guessed on her Facebook page, but only a few got it right. She said you really need to look very carefully...as some of the birds might be just a bit blurry!! Let us know how many birds YOU see, okay?

This was our verse for Saturday, but I wanted to share it again, because it has my name in it! Do you see it? Right at the beginning it says "Grace" and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord".  

I said to Mommie, "Hey! I see my name there!! My name is Lily GRACE!"   And Mommie reminded me that my name GRACE means an undeserved blessing, or unmerited favor.  She said grace is when God gives us blessings that we have not earned, but He does it because He loves us so much.  She said the biggest gift of GRACE is His gift of salvation...because we can't earn it.  It is a gift of God.

We can find that in the Bible in the book of 

Ephesians 2:8-9

8. "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 

9. not of works, lest anyone should boast."

I am trying to learn these things, and I want to share what I learn with you, so just in case you didn't know these things you can learn them with me!

Well, that sums up our weekend. I hope you had a wonderful weekend too!

Have a blessed and beautiful week. I can't wait to hear all about it!

Love Always,

Lily Grace

xoxoxoxo