Explore...Dream...Discover

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.  

Explore.  Dream.  Discover."

- Mark Twain -

Happy Monday!

HDP

Thank you!

As I opened up Blogger, I noticed that I had reached my 300th Follower...  

I want to say thank you.

Whether you are a new follower,

or one who has been with me from the start,

thank you,

from the bottom of my heart.

For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food, for love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Wishing you a Monday full of things to be thankful for.

HDP

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill - 

Happy Friday!

HDP

Ladies' Night

Tonight I'm hosting a small ladies group get together in my home.  

I made some raspberry thumbprint cookies to serve and I'll be making a TACO DIP before everyone gets here.  This dip is really good and I highly recommend it.  

The RASPBERRY THUMBPRINT COOKIES are actually a Christmas cookie that I make every year.  But with the raspberry jam, I thought they looked festive for Valentines Day as well.  

My sweet sister stopped by yesterday and brought me the pretty Chrysanthemum.  It made my day.  Yellow is such a cheerful color.  

Not sure how many will be here, but if no one shows, the house got a good (and much needed) scrub down.  

:-)

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."

- Count Leo Tolstoy -

HDP

"Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein -

Happy Monday!  

HDP

Opportunity

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky -

Wishing you a week full of opportunities

and

stones to overturn.

HDP

Happiness...

Happiness is not a station you arrive at,

but a manner of traveling.

-- Margaret B. Runbeck --

Wishing you happiness as you travel through your week.

HDP

Slowing down...

Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

- Emily Bronte -

That beautiful maple tree is across the street from our house. 

The turning maple, is to me, the emblem of Autumn's glory.

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Dear son is feeling a little under the weather today, so slowing down and taking things easy.

HDP

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.  

- William Shakespeare -

Wishing you a weekend full of nature's splendor.

HDP

Delicious autumn!  

My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.  

-George Eliot-

HDP

Happiness is...

  It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

  - Charles Spurgeon - 

Just thought I'd pop in and say "hi".  My days have been full with summer activities.  Haven't been getting in as much crochet, but hoping cooler weather will change that (whenever we get that!).  

Hope you are all well and enjoying your week.

:-)

HDP

“This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.”

 - Margaret Lindsey - 

 May seeds of happiness bloom in your garden today...

HDP

When You Wish Someone Joy...

 

 “When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”

 - Maya Angelou -

Wishing you joy in your day...

HDP

Walking Through Monday's Door...

 When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller -

Wishing you many open doors of happiness this week...

HDP