Spring has Sprung

Good morning everyone, just like to report that spring has sprung at the Gatehouse, its been sunny now for 4 days not rain or coldness.  The leaves are popping out on all my tree and the grapevine.  The birds are just a chirping and squirrels are running wild.  It has been a long cold winter here and I'm so glad to see sun shinny days.  I hope you are experiencing the same.  I going to try to post more and talk about all the great thing that you can do in the Hampton Roads Area.

We have so much history and amusement in our area.  If your planning on a trip to Williamsaburg, let me know and I will direct to some great fun things to do.  You have Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown real close so you can get to hear about the great history and some about the civil war.  We have Busch Gardens Theme part and other fun attractions.  Newport News you have some great history here.  Then no more than a hour away you have Virginia Beach with the ocean and swimming.  Also, Portsmouth is a great quaint old town that is great for there old houses and such.  So, stay tuned and we will give you some history about this area and great things to see and do. 

Also I will be talking about crafts and the many things that I make.  I want to try some tutorials and some different things.  So stay tuned and come back to see us real soon.

This is over in Smithfield at the Smithfield Station, you have a motel and shops are on the water, it has a boat dock, shopping area, and of course a great big beautiful restaurant so you can eat all of the great seafood that is in this area.  A great place to stay and enjoy the water and history is also in this little town of Smithfield where the Smithfield hams were first started.  So, I will be looking for some more interesting places to tell you all about.  Have a great wonderful blessed day.

Its been along time since I've posted but I have been under the weather most of this time.  I'm so glad to see a little of spring poppin through with the daffodils and the maple trees are getting those little red thing on them, so I know that the leaves will be out soon.  Its been a long cold winter to me.  So I'm glad to hear the birds chirping and the squirrels making their nest for there arrivals of babies.  My azelias are working on blooming so.  I've kind of glad that Easter is late this year because all the flowers will be in bloom.   Hope everyone is okay in blog land and I think we are already for spring and warm weather.  Even down in Florida this year they have had one of the coldest winters.  My daughter says is still chilly.  She hates cold weather.
Well I've ordered a couple new e-patterns and am hoping to get them made up and will post on my other blog when I do.  Heres wishing you a happy blessed day from Virginia.

Well, here is wishing everyone one a Happy New Year, sorry late in getting that said, but I have been sick and then on top of that I got a virus and mess up the computer.  So, I just wanted hope everyone had a good New Year and hope that it is still being good for you. 

We have had some unbelievable weather here in  our area, the temperatures have been terribly low for us.  We are use to this coldest, but we will get through it.  Plus we have a several snow storms this year, very early.  I sure hope wherever you are that you are warm and dry. 

I hope to do better this year about posting and letting you know what is going on around my corner of the woods and show you some of my great creations.  So stay tune.  Have a blessed day.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Welcome to the year 2011 and; This is the day

the Lord has made; We will rejoice and
be glad in it.
( Psalm 118:24 *NKJV )



Dear  Friend,

What do you think this day, or any day means to our
Heavenly Father? For the answer to that let us turn to the Bible
where it is written; But, beloved, do not forget this one
thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.
( 2 Peter 3:8 )

It is also written; For a thousand years
in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past,
and like a watch in the night. ( Psalms 90:4 )

You see even though a thousand years is a very long, long time
to us, it isn't when compared to God's Eternal Existence.

Now when we think about it, we actually live one moment
at a time, not a day at a time, do we not? For none of us carry
a guarantee of the future, even if that future is only an hour or
two away. So try to do your best in the moments that you have
each day, remembering that a lot can be accomplished in only a
moment. Therefore cherish each day that God has given to you,
and try to be the best person that you can be each hour of every
day. Amen.

Now I would like to share the following poem with you, Pat,
and to wish you a Wonderful New Year filled with God's Love,
Hope and Faith. May God Richly Bless You Indeed in 2011.

Each Day

A new year just beginning,
Each day a fresh, new start,
To fulfill your hopes
And pursue the dreams
Sustained within your heart.

Put God in charge;
He'll plant the seeds
Of affection, love and care.
Like a garden, your life will grow

With kindness flowering there.

And as you face the wonder
Of each day's mysteries,
You'll see God's hand
Unfolding, daily, possibilities!

And as each day comes to a close,
Dream a dream or two,
Then with a prayer thank dear God
For each day given to you.

Poet, Gael Phaneuf

I sure hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year's.
America is so blessed that we can celebrate the Birth of our Lord and Savior
and share our lives with each other.  Take the time to be Thankful for all your
blessing this time of the season.  Also, try to remember to count them each day
as we awake and give thanks for another wonderful day to do His will in our lives
as well as for others.  This year I'm going to try to do something for someone else
every week.  I need to learn to give to others.  Let's all try it this year and just maybe
we all can make a difference in this wonder world that God has let us live in.

Have a great and Blessed Day.

GREAT IS THE LORD WHO GOES BEFORE US

The Lord is my light and my salvation —
whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strong
hold of my life of whom shall I be afraid?
( Psalms 27:1 *NIV )


Dear  Friend,
Do not let the events of the World today, or the in the future,
cause you any fear. For it is written; The Lord Himself
goes before you and will be with you; He will never
leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not
be discouraged." ( Deuteronomy 31:8 )

After all, If you make the Most High your dwelling
even the Lord, who is my refuge then no harm will
befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.
For He will command His angels concerning you to
guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in
their hands, so that you will not strike your foot
against a stone. ( Psalms 91:9-12 )


Therefore, when you lie down, you will not be
afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
For; The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the home of the righteous.
( Proverbs 3:25,33 )

So , Be strong and courageous. Do not
be afraid or terrified because of them, for the
Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave
you nor forsake you." Amen.
( Deuteronomy 31:6 )

Let us remember this Holiday Season, God  sent His Son as a
Babe, so that we could be reconciled back to God when Jesus
died on the Cross and bore all of our sins on His shoulders.   So,
as we celebrate this Christmas Season, don't forget the true meanng
of Christmas and what it truly means to all people.  Give of yourself,
as Christ gave for us all.

Merry Christmas 

This is a article from the Glen Beck web site about our country please take the time to read it. Our Religious Freedoms are being take away right in from of our eyes, please open them and learn what you and everyone in this country are about to loose. PLEASE PEOPLE WAKE UP AND ASK GOD TO BLESS OUR COUNTRY AGAIN. FIGHT THE SOCIALIST AGENDA THAT IS BEING PUSHED UPON US EVERYDAY BY THE LIBERAL LEFT WING.




August 16, 2010 - 15:21 ET

Learn more about the Restoring Honor Rally, 8/28 in Washington DC...

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/44300/




GLENN: I want to tell you, and a little later I'm going to get into the full details about the Hindenburg Omen. The Hindenburg Omen, that doesn't sound good. It happened on Friday and it's, it's an economic thing, says that there's a 77% chance of a crash coming our way in the next 40 days. There's trouble in the Middle East. Unemployment now is at the highest I think it's ever been for those who are 16 to 24 years old. We're talking now a lost generation. There's the beginnings of civil unrest. The debt is unsustainable. The debt is so large now that next year we could have people say, I'm not going to buy your debt anymore, I don't believe America is serious. We have problems on our border that now include Hezbollah. We have a sheriff down on our border who says we've got to abandon this town. We have to abandon an American town! And yet, the president does nothing. We have enemies within the gates. We have an attack on capitalism. There's a billboard in Phoenix, Arizona, that says we don't have a legal problem; we have a capitalism problem: We have attack on freedom. We have attack on our own energy sources. You talk to anybody in the oil industry, in Houston, in the climate summit gulf, anybody, and they will tell you there's no new drilling permits even being issued. Our military is stretched too thin and our religion is under attack. Now, you tell me is an election going to solve these problems? Do you really think getting the Republicans to take over the House is the answer to solve these problems? Maybe it delays some of it and it's important, but is that the answer? I don't know how anyone can say yes. I don't know how anybody can say, well, by not enforcing the laws, by making sure that we bail out all of the states, that we give our union buddies all of these extra favors, by going into more socialism, by going into more debt that that is the solution. There's only one solution, only one. One. And if we don't turn to him pretty soon, we're in trouble. They have told people on the steps of the Supreme Court that they cannot pray there. They have told students on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial they can't sing the National Anthem there. And last week I was told by the Kennedy Center that we could not pray there. We were told by the Kennedy Center in no uncertain terms that we could hold our event there, sure we had a contract. But they weren't told that we were going to have an opening prayer. The program is has the word divine in it, our divine destiny. We couldn't pray at the Kennedy Center. So my attorneys came to me and said, Glenn, are you willing to compromise on it? And I said, I sure am. You tell them that not only will I do an opening prayer, I'll do a closing prayer, and the entire program may be a prayer. In fact, take this down. It is a night of prayer. You'll see if you are lucky enough to get a ticket to the Kennedy Center, and they are not for sale. You will see in the program how I described it. I described it that way. So they could print that in their program at the Kennedy Center which they insisted on having after they told us we couldn't pray. I said, let me dictate this one. Friday night I was supposed to have a meeting today at 1:00 with their attorneys and I had already talked to my attorneys. Zero compromise. We asked them, where is that in your I didn't see that in your rules and regulations. "It's not written down." No prayer at a federally funded building.
Friday night I think they got a hold of Common Sense. They alerted me Friday night that they will allow prayer to happen on the stage of the Kennedy Center. I told them, thank you so much for your graciousness. I appreciate the scrap from the table. America, our religion and our faith is under attack and whether people care to realize it or not, it is. I went down to West Palm on Friday and I had some meetings with these very wealthy individuals and I asked them for their support of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Now, I don't need any more I don't need any more money to be able to cover the cost for this event. It's been paid for. I think it's been paid for in double, at least where it stands right now. This is for the this is for the guys who are fighting and dying for us. The Special Operations Warrior Foundation, this started on the trip over to Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis. And the guys on the helicopter all looked at each other, all special forces, they looked at each other and said, if you die, I'll take care of your family; if I die, will you take care of mine. And they promised each other that, yes, they would. Well, the helicopters blew up in the desert and we lost good men trying to save American citizens from a theocracy, one that is still in existence and stoning people because they're homosexual.

We have now 500 families to take care of, and the number is growing every day, 500 families. This particular organization, they take care of their schooling. They call them on their birthdays. If there's a problem with one of them in school, they could be in the fourth grade and they lost their dad. One of their brothers that was part of the force where Dad was lost gets onto a plane and flies into town and finds out from the son what's going on, what's happening to your grades. These guys honor their commitment.



So I was sitting having dinner with a group of wealthy individuals and I asked them, can you write a check? And many of them did. When I got onto the plane, I asked also what had come in during the week and Joe was there on the plane with me and he said, well, Glenn, a TV viewer just out of the blue just wrote us a check, and I want to show it to you. Here's a check for $25,000, just from a, just a viewer that just said, I want to write a check. $25,000, from their personal account. And he was going on and on about all these people who are starting to step to the plate. I said, what else did we get? And he said, well, we also got a letter in and the person said, I can't make it because I can't afford to come, but I believe in our special forces and I believe in what you're doing. And honor is the key. I wish I could come, but I can't but I wanted to show my support and this is all I could afford. In the envelope was a baggy, and this is not from a child. 8 cents, 8 pennies. I've tried to get my arms around someone as they went into their change drawer and all they had were eight pennies. I tried to get my arms around somebody who then went to the kitchen and put it in a Ziploc baggy, a used one, and then put it in an envelope. I'm replacing those eight pennies myself and I'm keeping these eight cents and putting them in my pocket as a reminder. I don't know. I remember filling up my gas tank and having to count it out in change. I remember the days that, you know, my kids didn't think that my gas tank held more than $5.27. This to me is the epitome of our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Have you is there anything in your life that you would give it all? Is there anything to you that is so important to you that you would go into your change drawer and count out your last eight pennies and mail them? I ask you this isn't for 8/28 because like I said, it's all paid for. This is for the guys who gave their last full measure of life for the freedom that we have taken for granted, gave their last full measure of life for the things that we didn't realize how fragile they were. Would you do me the honor of presenting the Special Operations Warrior Foundation on 8/28 with a very large check, even if it comes in 8 cents at a time. Would you go to GlennBeck.com/828. If you haven't made a donation, these are the last two weeks. Even if it's $1, $10, $25,000 or your last 8 cents. GlennBeck.com/828 for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.

GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.

Trip to the Mountains

We went up to the mountains while my daughter was here from Florida.  It was so beautiful and guess what?  It was cool and so nice.  We had a great time.  Just wanted to share some pictures of what we saw and of course some of my grandkids. Which are 17 and 19.  It was wonderful spending time with all of them.

This picture is a landscape looking down on the valley.

We found this place and I'm not even sure I know the name of it, but boy did I come to life  when I saw these primitive buildings and railings.  It took me way back to  some of the things I read about in my books about the wagons and primitive life in the mountains. 

The girls are hugging the scare crow.  They had a small garden and I never saw so many butterflies.  My son-in-law who is a photographer took some of the most beautiful pictures of the butterflies around the flowers, also, some of the bees.  When I get a copy I will share them with you.

The girls feeding the chickens.

Well, these are a few but it was great.  The primitive living just gave me a spoonfull of medicine sort of to speak.  It was really nice to think back to this time of our history.  I bought a book that I will post later and that talks about the mountain living.  We do not realize how much these pioneers went through and how much they had to do to take care of themselves and there families.  Enjoy your time back in time.