Pieces of My Life

         Music not only changes our mood, but it also changes the way  we think and our perception of the world. {Please play the music for the ULTIMATE perception of this world.} Oh what can this be?  A wonderful invite! Without a map every road looks promising ... With a map the right road becomes obvious!  Hurry we must quickly find our destination for this extravaganza!   Oh we dare!  We dare!  It's not time to be cowardly! The monkeys know we are going to have a good time! This is our final destination  According to our invitation. This fella' came too early so I have been told. I see we have security tonight. We are greeted by the doorman.   Why yes, I would love to come in.  Thank you. {I have been told one must keep ones manners at this party...   or off with one's head.} Enter we may and up the stairs we climb. Every corner we find a delightful surprise.   We are the first to arrive. Our hostes...

How is it October already?  I worked on a post several years ago waiting for a Halloween Tea Party to blog hop with but she must have stopped. I decided I will post about it tomorrow. I have another post to share some great news, what for it coming later this week as well as posts about our recent vacation.  Many Blessings,  Jolene 🦋

Once upon a time back in 2015, I participated in monthly challenges. One challenge was to write a letter to yourself when you were a teenager.  Oh, there are so many things I would like to tell teenage Jolene.    Dear Teenage Jolene, I know you are thinking WHAT? receiving this letter from yourself over 30 ummm 40 years in the future but I have some important words to share with you.  Words you need to hear/read.  Words I wish you really felt because guess what you do deserve to feel this way. You need to stop trying so hard to make people like you because guess what?  They do!  You have no idea right now how many people really like you and think you are great.  You just need to keep being you.  You are honest and caring.  You treat people with so much respect and care for their needs except for one person.  This person is very important and you need to stop neglecting her.  This person is you!  You need to slow down...

I have been making my plans to complete our yarden next year. Yes, that was a "y" in place of a "g".  I follow Sierra Jo Dominguez on Instagram. She is another person who saved me. I love following her. She is a beautiful soul. She has fake cooking shows, backyard gardening, home repair and remodeling, she shares her life, and her new passion for pottery. She is a Christian as well and just like Tia Bee Stokes, she is real and spreads positive message. Sierra shared how she was creating a yarden and she inspired me not only to increase my Butterfly Garden but rebuild the backyard to our yarden last Summer, I will later post about the beginning of the yarden. I am excited to see her yarden but it has been placed on hold because growing a pottery business takes a lot of time when she is also a Mama of seven children, two of then are toddlers. She is homes schooling the children.  Our kitten, Bella even loves Sierra Jo Dominguez.  This was her small box of Joy. I bough...

Last year's word was Rebuilding and I definitely began to rebuild loving life again. One of my enjoyments has always been gardening and over the Winter last year a friend of mine directed me to Roots and Refuge YouTube channel. I absolutely loved her garden. Originally, the Summer prior I had to decide to cut back and get rid of some of my beds, so when I told the Mister my plans for expanding the butterfly/hummingbird garden he looked at me as if I was crazy. He saw the sparks in my eyes and went along with  The video below is the progress of the transformation of the Butterfly Garden.  A friend gave me butterfly solar lights knowing how much I love butterflies and how special they to me since my sister's passing.  My favorite spot in my yard,  is a bench my Mother made for me. It sits under a large tree, the bench will be in another post. This garden will transform one more time this Summer. We plan on adding one more bed and two more Arches made from high panels. ...

This year has been very tough on us all. As I stated in my last post I am so lonely but through social media I found friends. I have been battling things here on the home front and didn't blog as often as I had and lost a lot of followers. Now, I have a new blog home and it is hard to get the information out because I don't see the blog parties like I used to nine or ten years ago, so this will be just like the beginning, rebuilding. I guess my new blog home will be like me, rebuilding. Who knows maybe that will be my 2021 word for the year. re·build / rēˈbild / verb gerund or present participle:  rebuilding build (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed. "we try to help them rebuild their lives" Actually I think REBUILDING is perfect and I will very much make it my word for 2021.  Many Blessings,  Jolene