I ♥ summer

I ♥ summer

and

here are some of the reasons

why


tomato plants high as the sky

smiles from a very happy boy

a hot dog resting in the shade

bubbles in the spa

Such lovely reasons

don't

you agree?

Smiles.
Dottie

♥

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Looking For Me

If

you are looking

for me

today 

  

I am hiding from the sun

 after

getting a bit too much of it yesterday.

You will find me

eating watermelon, reading cookbooks

and

watching Julie Child cook on PBS.

JULIA CHILD MEMORIES: BON APPÉTIT! | Preview | PBS

Smiles,

Dottie 

♥ 

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At Last

Summertime

It

begins for me as soon as 

it's 

safe to plant all the wonderful vegetables

that

taste of summer.

I have waited for the days to grow longer and hotter. 

At last it's time to be outside

to

 go barefoot

and 

 celebrate the sun.

 

“it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” 

― Kenny Chesney

Smiles,

Dottie

♥

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and

A Favorite Thing

Today

Today

Miss Addie
is
proudly doing her job
of
looking pretty and making me smile.

Today I am smiling with these begonias that whispered to me
when
they were tiny cuttings from a friend"s
garden
"We will be beautiful. "

 Today I think the zinnias are putting on a show for me.

Someone

 must have told them they are my favorite flower

and

my summer doesn't start until they show their pretty faces.

Today I picked green beans

and

I think tonight and maybe tomorrow night 

too

green bean and new potatoes

in

a light lemon sauce

will 

make me very happy indeed.

Today happy flowers are blooming in my bottle garden.
They make me smile
even
though I did not plant them
and
they take up too much room .

I
find them irresistible.

Today I have been
thinking
I hope Miss Addie does not have fleas

because

someone I know

does!!

Today I sang "My Dog Has Fleas " to Alfie

as

I bathed him in an old tin tub with flea shampoo

and

welcomed summer into by heart and garden.

Smiles,

Dottie

♥

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A Sunday Kind of Day

 

Sunday

 

was

 

a lovely lavender blue kind

 

of day

 

spent at my brother's home

 

on the water

 

gathered around our 89 year old Mom.

 

I am the oldest of nine children

and

we have been so blessed to still have our Mom.

Smiles,

'Dottie
♥

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Whatsoever

 

Sometime when

 I

get caught up in the cares of the world

God

reminds me

to

think on whatsoever

is

lovely.

 

Thank you God for loving me so much.

 

Dottie
♥

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things
Philippians 4:8 

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All Right

 

 

 

 Rise up this mornin'

Smiled with the risin' sun,

Three little birds

Pitch by my doorstep

Singin' sweet songs

Of melodies pure and true,

Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")

Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing

'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."

Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing,

'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

 

My sweet friend called

and

we spent the day .....
 

Here 

where every little thing is always
all right !!

Smiles,

Dottie
♥



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