Rain, beads, blooms and ugh.

Good afternoon, at least it's afternoon here, for a little while longer. We got some much needed rain last night, and a bit today and it looks like we may get some more. The gardens are happy, the gardener is happy. :-)

In the mail a little while ago I received my bead order. I had won a $20 gift card from Amazon in a give-away at Sandra's blog Diary of a Stay at home Mom and I ordered beads. Thanks again Sandra. I also got some beading needles and will see if they are any easier to thread than the couple I have now. These have big eyes, meaning long eyes. I'll let you know what I think after using one.
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Here are more blooms from my Gloxinia. The little turtle shell DH found on the border of our property. Some of my blue glass collection.






The UGH part of our day is a water leak in our pipe under the house. DH did some repair work, using a patch, for a leak we got two years ago and that has worked fine. Since then, DH has been reading our water meter every week. Well, this week, our water reading is almost double of what we usually use in a week, so tomorrow morning when it's cool, he'll crawl under the house, a not nice job, and see if he can find the leak. We've got the water to the house turned off for now. Have some buckets of water to use for toilet flushing and rinsing hands and we can turn on the water for a short while if we need to.

So, that was our day.
I hope you all had days that were good, with not too much bad,
or at least not more than you could handle.
Good or bad, it's all part of our growing process, called LIFE.

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Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.

It's a way to live.

Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL