Helmi and REDnesday

Gee! We are 1/2 way through the week already.

Today I am participating in

REDnesday with Sue

over at

It's a Very Cherry World!

Go over and see who else is over there!

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First some Fall color

that is mostly RED.

The other day I caught the changing colors

in the vineyards.

The late afternoon sun is shining through the

leaves.

If you saw my BLUE Monday post

you will have seen that we were off on another

jaunt.

Helmi made sure she came along

by jumping in my RED bag.

There she is in the RED bag.
We didn't need as much luggage since
it was only for the weekend.

Helmi says she is looking out the window.
But I think she was admiring herself in the mirror.
Hey! There is a RED car in the picture.
I just noticed that! LOL!

Had to show you this picture again.
After all that hutch is RED.
This is at the Awful Annie's Restaurant
we went too.
Read my last post for more on that.
We stayed at a Best Western this time.
RED in the room.
Of course Helmi has to check it out.
Hey Neabear, take a picture of me on the couch!

Oh, and I'll do a pose over here by the microwave.

Oh look, I am going to check out this chair.

Did you take a picture Neabear?

And another RED chair.

I feel so small in this one!

Ok Helmi, are you done hopping around the room?

I think we have found all the RED.

The last day at the conference we heard

this children's choir.

RED is their color.

And the lady in front of me has on RED too.

One of those girls in the choir is hers.

Helmi is making sure we don't forget her

as we get ready to leave.

Our view from the hotel.

The Highway Patrol station is next door.

The entrance.

Those pine trees remind me of camping.

Our room was on the second floor

near that tree.

Another view of the motel.

A RED car and a RED tree.

Such a pretty day for our drive home.

Helmi in the car.

Come on Neabear!

Let's get home.

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Happy Rednesday to you!

~Linnea~

REDensday-More of our Trip!

Now that I am back from our trip,

I am using my trip pictures for various posts.

A couple of them will also be on my craft blog

for Whatcha Working on Wednesday as well.

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But here on this blog I will do

REDnesday!

There are some REDs to show you from our trip.

The best ones are at the end.

Well, I think they are the best ones anyway.

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First up is our hotel room at the hotel where our

daughter works.

She had arranged for us to get an upgrade.

This is what we got!

The chair and the desk chair are both RED.

The picture on the wall is too, though that is hard to see.

And here is the sofa....also RED.

It was very nice to relax in this room.

We have never stayed in a suite before,

so that was a real treat!

I saw these RED bushes everywhere in the area

where Sara lives.
Here is a close up!
I found out this maybe called the
"Burning Bush".
I have to say the name fits!
A beautiful RED tree.
I snapped this picture as we sat at a RED light.
No picture of the light though.
LOL!
After church, Sara took us to this place for lunch.
It is called The Machine Shed.
The lettering is RED.

There is a RED tractor there.
And other fun things for
children to climb on and play.

RED checked napkins.
Drinks served in canning jars.

Lots of RED here.
The pitcher has ice water in it.
I was charmed by the decor.
They also have a store.
Sort of like what you see
at the Cracker Barrel.
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Now for some special
RED pictures!
My granddaugther in a ladybug
costume for Halloween.

As her grandmother, of course I am going to

say she is so adorable!

My daughter-in-love took these next pictures.

The costume was a hit.

She tied for 1st place at the Trunk or Treat

event at their church.

The prize?

A $25 gift card from Toys R Us.

What a fun prize!

I just love this picture!

We had a fun Halloween in Florida.

Even though it was rather warm.

More pictures of our trip yet to come.

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Thank you to Sue over at It's A Verry Cherry World

for hosting this fun day for us!

Go on over an see who else is posting today.

Happy REDnesday!

~Linnea~

P. S. Go Here to see what else we did while in Florida.

Views Along My Commute

This time I planned ahead and uploaded the picture in reverse order of the way I wanted them and voila they are in the order I want them. Go figure! Anyway, I decided to share another view or two of my commute.
This picture is taken from the same place as the one I shared in an earlier post. However, taken a month or so later there are more fall colors now. Also with sun setting earlier, the lighting is different too. Kind of makes those colors glow. This is an angle I see on my way home from work.
I turned around to get this next picture which I see on the way too work, except this is taken after work not in the morning. Morning light is different. To get this picture I had to stand on the door facing, I guess it is, of my car. Had to do that in order to see above the vines. There is a lot of color variety now in the vineyards around us. So pretty. Some places are glowing yellow and others have the oranges and reds marching up and down and sideways on the hillsides. Living in the wine country does provide us with some beautiful scenery.

Friday Ramblings

Yay! It is Friday. Sometimes, ok all the time, I am so happy when it is Friday. I can unwind, and most Fridays I look forward to not needing to hurry up and go somewhere the next morning. Tomorrow is not a hurry up and go somewhere day. But we will have things to do that need to or should be done tomorrow.

DEVOTIONS

But I wanted to share with you something I have started doing. I have made several attempts to have a regular devotional and prayer time for myself and God. And guess what? I started doing that on Monday morning and have continued all week. I do it first thing in the morning. Well, actually going to pee is the first thing I do. But after that, doing devotions is the next thing I do. At first I had to force myself to focus on it. Now that I have done it all week, today I noticed it was easier to focus on what I was reading and try to take the time to reflect on what I read. I hope it will get easier as time goes by. I know it will evolve as well. Reading some of what you blogger friends do as a prayer/devotional time inspired me to get with it again. Thank you blogger friends.

Another reason I wanted to start doing devotional time again is a new bible study we started at church. It is called, "Opening the Book of Faith". It is a book of Lutheran Insights for Bible Study. The first class was last night. It is a five year plan to help us open up the Bible and deepen and broaden our experience in Bible study. The first portion is 7 sessions long. I am excited about this and plan to participate as fully as I can.

COOKING ACTIVITY
The cooking activity for Stuffed Soup went well. And tasted good too. It was made with Chicken and Corn Chowder Soup, Chicken flavor stuffing mix and shredded cheddar cheese. I was going to buy preshredded cheese and I realized just in time to get the block cheese and take one of my cheese graters with me. I am glad I did. That gave me an extra task to have some one do. One of the patients has dementia and needed instruction for every step I wanted her to do. Another one kept saying "I can only see out of one eye." She needed reminding that she can still do these tasks. It worked out great. We had people, grating cheese, measuring out the stuffing mix, cutting fruit, squeezing oranges(which had to be cut first), stirring the stuffed soup mix, scooping it into my special cooking unit, scooping it back out when it was done and finally tasting everything. Successful but tiring. Don't know yet what we will do next Friday. Depends on who we have and what we can do with them. We may do a baking activity next time.

DRIVING VIEWS
There is a favorite view I drive by on my way home. I always tell myself I need to stop and get a picture of that view. Well, today I finally did that. The colors on the grapevines are starting to change. The color will increase as the season goes on. Also the lighting changes as the sun sets earlier. Then if it is a cloudy rainy day it is a different look altogether. I should try to get pictures as this scene changes. I just love this view. I have to look for it as I drive home otherwise I miss it if I blink as I drive by. This is looking south west which means the sun is coming from the left in the picture.