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This Week I Was a Cougar

April 22, 2016 by Patti 19 Comments

Sometimes I amuse myself.  Sometimes I outright embarrass myself and my family.  They won’t admit to being embarrassed though because they love me, quirks and all.

Fortunately, I choose to embrace the embarrassment because it always makes for a good story.

Looking out my window 6You may wonder at my title, This Week I Was a Cougar.  So here’s the story behind the title:

Peeking out my window 2I had a pre-surgical appointment at the hospital this week for the gigantic Staghorn stone I will have blasted from my kidney next week.  What is a Staghorn stone you may ask?  That’s exactly what I said when they pulled up the x-ray in the doctor’s office and showed me what they’d found (accidentally by the way, while taking a lung x-ray – but that’s another story).  It has the name Staghorn because it is big and many horned just like a . . . well . . . a Stag’s horns.

Peeking out my window 3The first part of the visit was an EKG, performed by an RN.  I didn’t know I was going to have an EKG or I would’ve dressed differently but no matter.  I simply lifted my dress up to my neck as requested, and she did the procedure while we chatted about how I’d turned 60 last November and she’d just turned 61, and how we still feel like we are 35 on the inside but our legs, and tummies, and arms are changing so, that we feel the need to keep everything covered from head to toe so as not to frighten those we meet on the street (I exaggerate just a little).

Looking out my window 83Procedure finished, I pulled my dress down to my knees and smoothed out the creases while the nurse called in a very nice looking, 40-something-year-old anesthesiologist for my consultation.  He was very professional as he explained what would happen before, during, and after my surgery, had me sign a half dozen release forms, and asked if he could answer any questions.  Nope.  He’d been very thorough in his explanation and besides, the less I talk about my upcoming surgery the better.

So we chatted a bit about other things, like the best places to vacation in the South, great beaches, mountain getaways, etc.  He even wrote down the names of some of the most romantic places to stay.  I leaned forward across the desk to take the paper he had written the names of the resorts on just as he thought of another great place and pulled the paper back to write some more (picture this, me leaning down across the doc’s desk, paused there for several seconds waiting for him to finish – I’ll tell you why later).

Peeking out my window“Thank you doctor,” I said, in my best version of a Southern drawl, which isn’t very good because I’ve only lived here 1-1/2 years and I haven’t quite got it down yet.

I left shortly afterwards, drove to the nursery to buy a few plants (where the woman at the cash register barely made eye contact with me and was rather distant, but the young man who loaded my car was very outgoing and friendly, telling me how beautiful my yard was going to be with the excellent choices in plants I’d made, how much they appreciated my shopping with them today, telling me to be sure and get my plants out of the car as soon as I got home.  On and on and on.  What a sweet young man). 

Looking out my window 4Next I headed home where I hurried into the powder room because, you know, that is what a sixty-year-old lady must do as soon as she drives into the driveway.  Sometimes she is thinking about it even as soon as her car turns into the neighborhood.

There in my powder room, washing my hands at the sink . . . I glance up to check my face, only to catch site of the buttons on my dress, popped open all the way down to a place I won’t tell you because I don’t want to put any unsightly visions into your head!  I am a modest woman by nature.  I don’t like to show any cleavage whatsoever but THIS . . . this was a bit beyond cleavage to the point of COUGARDOM!

Waiting at SeaTacThat my friends, is my embarrassing story of the week.

Blessings,

My SignatureP.S. The pictures in this post are a peek out my windows into my backyard.  Be sure to come back for my next post where I’ll show the full array of pictures in Making a Courtyard Patio on a Backyard Deck.

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Winter Decor in the Winter of Life? HA!

January 6, 2016 by Patti 29 Comments

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Anyone who knows me and has been following this blog for awhile knows that I’ve had just a few internal struggles over growing older.  Indeed, turning 60 in November was a bit of a shock to my system!  No other entry into a new decade brought with it the same feelings that this birthday did. Winter Decor 013

  Looking back, I think that my feelings of being old were intensified  by the cross country move at the end of 2014, when I left everything behind that I’d ever known, coupled with the end of the ministry my hubby and I were involved in that (though extremely difficult) gave me such great purpose.  Other than writing, I’ve yet to find what my purpose is here in SC.  In addition to that I’ve also had some changes in health (less than perfect labs for the first time in my life), new aches and pains, weight gain, more body fat, less muscle, etc.  Nothing serious and all things I can and AM changing with diet and a new fitness routine. 

Hooray for New Year’s resolutions!

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As I’ve seen the changes taking place in my body and on my FACE, I’ve tried to bravely stand against the temptation to nip, tuck, cut, and lift (don’t worry, I’m not going there), but I really don’t enjoy seeing my mom’s face superimposed upon my own.  Nothing against my mom, but she was OLD!

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Well, leave it to God to call me on my negative self talk!  Standing in the shower the other day (the place where all of my greatest thoughts seem to manifest), I was thinking, once again, about this age thing. This is what I heard,

“Patti, you are only 60 years old.  You could very well live into your 90’s!  Do you want to spend the next 30 years complaining about being old?”

The answer of course was a great BIG, “NO!“

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Funny how life changes can cause the enemy of our souls to go on the attack in an attempt to take us captive in our thoughts, whispering words intended to take us out, to thwart God’s plan for our lives, to cut through the very foundation upon which we stand, and cause us to tumble to the ground in a great big heap of self pity.

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Not.  Happening.  Here.  There is nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement from doing the work of the Lord!  In fact, in the Psalms King David’s prayer is to be allowed to continue to tell of God’s greatness well on into old age, even speaking of God’s wonders to those yet to be born!

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    “Do not set me aside when I am old; do not abandon me when I am worn out . . . I will keep hope alive, and my praise to You will grow exponentially.  I will bear witness to Your merciful acts; throughout the day I will speak of all the ways You deliver . . .  I will come with stories of Your great acts, my Lord, the Eternal.  I will remind them of Your justice, only Yours.  You have taught me since I was young, O God, and I still proclaim the wonderful things You have done.  Now as I grow old and my hair turns gray, I ask that You not abandon me, O God.  Allow me to share with the generation to come about Your power;  Let me speak about Your strength and wonders to all those yet to be born. God, Your justice stretches to the heavens, You who have done mighty things!  Who is like You, O God?”  Psalm 70: 9, 14-19 (The Voice)

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Pastor Jack Hayford says this about age, “God calls us to capture His possibilities for each season of our lives. Reject the world’s thinking about your age. With age comes increase, significance and substance . . . With change, some people’s worlds come apart and they begin to lose their sense of value and self-worth. But with each season of our lives, God desires to sharpen our focus if we will answer His call to turn to whatever it is He is doing right now.”  The link to Pastor Jack’s full article is HERE.

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As you see the pictures I’ve taken of my home adorned for winter notice beauty and light.  See how the light SHINES (my word for 2016 by the way)!  There is no darkness and decay here, but only a temporary stillness before new things break forth with the freshness of Spring!

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I am refreshed and renewed by God’s Word daily.  My light SHINES as I choose to laugh (snicker, giggle, snicker, snort, and whoop!) when looking toward the future.  How about you?  Will you join me?

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. Proverbs 31/25 (ESV) Click To Tweet

Blessings,

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ShareYourStyle, ImpartingGrace, EmbracingChange, HaveADailyCupOfMrsOlson, MyRepurposedLife, FromMyFrontPorchToYours, ADelightsomeLife, AKAWeekendRetreat,
KatherinesCorner, PrettyPreppyParty, YourTurnToShine, Serving Joyfully/Thriving Thursdays, The Deliberate Mom/Shine Blog Hop, I Choose Joy,  Live Free Thursday, Thought Provoking Thursday
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