Atta-girl and never too old

Hello Folks ~ It is a beautiful sunshiny day here in s.e. FL. Big blue sky, breezy and 60 degrees. Early this morning it got down to 47 and the real feel 39. That’s cold for us. Inside it was 70. Yesterday it seemed very warm inside Plum Cottage, and was nice and cooler outside, BUT I purposely did not open windows for fresh air, knowing it was going to get cold. Didn’t need to let the warm air out.  I had a you tube video of Christmas music and a picture of a roaring fire with the sound of fire crackling, on the tv, and was nice and comfy in my little abode. So far, with these couple of cold fronts I’ve not had to use the radiant heat heater.

I've been dealing with a pinched nerve in my left hip area since I woke up yesterday morning. It's a little better today. I'm just taking it easy again today.

The weather was so wonderful earlier this morning, that I was overflowing with thankfulness and decided to sing a little song for you.  

I used my phone to make the video, but, didn't have it in landscape mode, and there is no way you can rotate it once you've uploaded the video to you tube. I googled that option for quite awhile, older info said you could, then after trying to do it and find this or that to fix the problem,  I found out that you-tube had done away with the program that did that. I then saw where I could download an app to my phone, 'google photos' that would rotate the video for me. I've not downloaded anything to my phone, others have done it for me. I got brave and did it and was thrilled when it worked, turning the video horizontally. I couldn't quite trim off the ending, was having too much trouble so left it as is. I could hear DH's atta-girl for me accomplishing this little thing. To me it's a sort of big thing. Then I uploaded it and it is right. YAY! But, my Open Live Writer program will not post videos for some reason. Maybe I need to see if there is an updated version. I am doing this post in Blogger and hope it gets posted. I am never too old to learn new things, I just need to be 'brave'.

In spite of all that I've been through in my life, especially since my dear husband went to be with Jesus 6 years ago, I have much to be thankful for. I have tried to find this song online but haven't had success so far. I went to a Christian boarding school when I was in the 10th grade and lived in a house of high school girls with our house parents and a college age monitor, we would sing this in our devotional time each evening. This song stuck in my head and heart and has been a blessing to me through the years. My voice isn't what it once was, but I sing anyway, with joy in my heart.

I am standing in my driveway at the rear of the property. The wind is blowing, and the chilly air was very refreshing. I just stood in place instead of moving the camera around.

I've sung this song twice now with my 'Grief Share' family. The first time we were talking about being thankful to God even through our losses and I told them I wanted to sing this song, even though I was very nervous. I sang with joy in my heart, tears streaming and a smile on my face. The next week I was asked to sing it again. After I sang it I told them next time they would all sing with me.  I highly recommend Grief Share for anyone who is suffering the loss of someone in their lives.

That's it for now. I just had to share this with you. Christmas can be so rough for many, many people for all kinds of reasons. Let's spread cheer, love, peace, forgiveness, & encouragement with others. Jesus loves us all, He wants us to love Him and love others.

Happy Christmas holidays ~ FlowerLady