BACK TO WORK !

 

This list of rules for white-collar workers was posted in 1872 by a carriage manufacturing company in New York:

1. Office employees each day will fill lamps, clean chumneys and trim wicks.

2. Each clerk will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's business.

3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to your individual taste.

4. Men employees will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings if they go to church regularly.

5. After 13 hours of labor in the office, the employee should spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.

6. Every employee should lay from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.

7. The employee who has performed his labors faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of five cents per day in his pay, providing profits from the business permit.

 

Mill Whistle, Jefferson Mills, GA

 

GOOD MORNING !

Aren't you glad you don't work for a company with these rules!  I'm working a 4 day week and taking Friday off so I can have at least one day with the 'babes' . The party was lots of fun and the good Lord blessed us with  weather that was beautiful yesterday. 

Only 4 of my grand'babes' were there, as Son #1 and family decided not to make the trip up as they have to come our way again on Wednesday for a check up for our Sweetheart.  She'll be seeing a new doctor and we're praying for good results. 

I hope you all are off to a good start to the day!  I'll be taking more pictures as the week goes along...

 

***BIG SMILE***

 

Take good care all !

MA

 

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SUDDENLY SUNDAY !

   

   We mutter and splutter,

   we fume and
        we spurt,  

We mumble and grumble,

 our feelings get hurt,  

We can't understandthings,    

our vision gets dim,    

When all that we need  

 is a moment with HIM.
  Anonymous

   

GOOD MORNING !  

We're off to church this morning and then on to the Birthday Party for our 'Little Ray' of Sunshine - 1 year old!  I'll have pictures tomorrow !    The boys have grown and changed so much since I saw them in August !  This will be their last trip home for quite awhile , so I'm going to have to savor every moment of this week. 

      ***BIG SMILE***  

May your day be blessed with only good things !  

MA

  

  O God, give me today
     - the courage I need
     - the will to forgive
     - and reverence for You.

Help me today to be alive to others,
to belong to my friends and my family offaith,
to share Your presence with all whom I meet.

Help me to be humble, while realizing I can make
    a difference in our world,
that with You, Lord, I can do beautiful things
and bring your love to all whom I meet.

  

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A REALLY SUPER SATURDAY !

 

 

Please pray for God's protection of
our troops and HIS wisdom for their
commanders.  

 Lord, hold our troops in
your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families
for the selfless acts they perform for us
in our time of need. I ask this in the
name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior

 

    

Question:

  What can we do to bring peace to the world?

  Answer:

  Go home and love your family

Mother Teresa  

  Good Morning !  

I don't think we can ever love enough.  A kind touch and a loving smile can work miracles.  I know I always appreciated my family when I came home from work,  After a long day at work, I felt like it was all worth while when I knew that they were there.   Now, I come home to 2 dogs , 2 cats and 1 bird .  I guess they appreciate the dinner I feed them !  I read some place that dogs must think their owners are the greatest hunters in the world, we walk in the house with roast beef, chicken and turkey... Of course I don't feed them that - they get doggie kibble!  

Have a Happy Saturday all !

I know I will when those 'Sunshine Babes' walk in the door! They always have a ***BIG SMILE*** for Grand'ma'!  

 Be Blessed!

Ma

      

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IT IS 'FINALLY' FRIDAY

 

Some people are making such
thorough preparation for rainy days
that they aren't enjoying
today's sunshine.

William Feather

Good Morning !

 

Ah, glorious Friday has come again. 

Tomorrow evening my 'Sunshine Babes' will be here.  This evening, I'm stopping for some groceries on the way home and then putting the finishing touches on 'baby proofing' my house.

I know they were here just a month ago, but I do tend to accumulate 'stuff' where it shouldn't be.

It's supposed to be a rainy day here- guess we'll have to make our own sunshine !

 

Have a happy day!

***BIG SMILE***

MA

 

 

The longer you live the more you realize that
forgiveness, consideration, and kindness
are three of the great secrets of life.

Anonymous

 

www.cutecolors.com provide the cups of coffee this morning

Thankfully Thursday !

  Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light.  Give thanks for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. And if perchance you see no reason  for giving thanks, rest assured the fault is in yourself.

Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian Chief  

GOOD MORNING

!     Happy 'Thankfully' Thursday to you all !   Last night after work (another long 10 hr. day)  I got the bath and the bedrooms cleaned and the beds  made in the spare rooms.   I think I'll wait til Friday evening to run the sweeper downstairs and then the house will be ready for my kids when they come.  Oh, and I should do somegrocery shopping too.   My 'to do' list is always growing it seems, not decreasing.

   ***BIG SMILE***  

 Thankfully, visits from my children keep me on my toes!   Have a grand day all !

  MA    

 

 The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Robert Frost

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OVER THE HUMP - SLIDING INTO THE WEEKEND!

 

  I will not wish thee riches nor the glow
of greatness, but that wherever thou go
some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile,
or a shadowed life know sunshine for awhile.  And so thy path shall be a track of light, like angels' footsteps passing through the night.

Words on a Church wall
in Upwaltham, England

  GOOD MORNING !

   Yesterday we were up in the high 80's - today we're supposed to get some rain and it'll drop down in the 70's.  Nice relief in sight.  If I were at the beach, I'd like the heat, however, I'm not at the beach, nor am I going to the beach, so it's about time we cool down a bit.

  I'm  now in the process of putting away all those things that a 1 and 2 year old should not play with...it's only a couple days until my 'Sunshine Babes' are home again. 

   We didn't play our dulcimers after all last evening, one of the gals was sick so we switched to later in the month.  I've been playing the dulcimer for around 20 years now.  I remember it was the year that son # 3 was in the 5th grade. It's lots of fun and a great stress reliever.  September we begin practicing our Christmas music, which I love,  they think is too soon to start...but we do!

   ***BIG SMILE***  

Have a Blessed Day !  

MA  

 God gave you a gift of
86,400 seconds today.

Have you used one to say thank you ? 
  William Ward    

 

The graphic above was sent to me by Lori - Thank you!

IS IT MORNING ALREADY???

 

 

Trouble is a part of your life
and if you don't share it,
you don't give the person
who loves you a chance to
love you enough.

Dinah Shore  

   

 Good Morning !

  I was up later than I should have been last night and tonite is our monthly dulcimer get together, so  I'll be up past bed time again...   We celebrated my Dad's 83rd birthday yesterday - how blessed I am to still have him around.  I'd miss all the words of wisdom he shares with us around the table with a good cup of coffee , of course!  

 I'll be drinking my share of that good stuff myself this morning!

 

   Have a blessed day all !

   

 ***BIG SMILE***

    MA

   

   But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson  

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