From Ms Janet Thomas.....
Madina Accra Ghana.

Please Permit me to inform you of my mind, Because I have make up my mind to write to you
this way. however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against
your will in my earnest search for a reliable individual who can assist me to make this
transaction a reality after going through your profile i decided to contact you to help me
out of my problem.With my believe in God that you will never let me down.

I am a 22 years old lady now, i was born on the 1of january 1989 to the family of Nado and
my father name is Thomas he is a very wealthy gold and dymond merchant who based in ACCRA
GHANA respectively, and my mothers name is Sheila.and I am there only child.well when i
was a kid i went to a private schools and things were going on well for me and my parents
my mother died on the 21ST october 1995, My father took me so special because i am
motherless. and he shower all his love on me and promised me that he will never have
another woman because he did not want me for any problem.but has fate his my father got
dead last year.but before the death of my father on the 12th june 2010 in a private
hospital here in GHANA,
he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sumof $9.500 000 (Nine
million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank in ACCRA GHANA.
meanwhile that he used my name as the next of kin in deposit of the fund.He also explained
to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that i
should seek for foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money
and use it for investment purpose, such as;real estate investment or stock market
investment. Plesae,
i am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.

1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transferred into.
2) To serve as the guardian of these fund, since I am 22 yearsold..
3)To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational career and to
procure me a residential permit in your country.

I am inclined to offer you 20% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your effort
after the successful transferring of these fund to your nominated account overseas. Please
I will be very
happy if this transaction will be concluded with in seven (7) working days from now. I am
expecting to hear from you as soon as possible,
I am expecting to hear from you as soon as possible.

May Almighty God bless you as you do care for an orphan like me.

With my best regard,

 

I particularly like the reference to God. I am so mean and hard heartened I think I shall now ignore this message. What do you think?

The hills and trees

the corn ready for harvest, the sunrise making the tassels to glow golden

the beans dry also ready for harvest

Across from our home the corn crop looks great, one large fully filled out ear of corn on each stalk

I hope to get closer to this barn and get more pictures of it soon.

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As I made this entry in my journal today,"I can not remember ever being more content or happier than I am today" I checked back to last year's journal entry that said,"I can not remember ever being more content or any happier than I am today". Either Lucy is easily pleased or life is good for little Lucy most of the time. All these troubling events in our country and the unrest many people are feeling make me praise the Lord because I know He is in control. The examples of unintended humor of many in our society make me laugh. The so called 'tolerant' who will not tolerate opinions they do not agree with and those who applaud  the 'hate crimes' and 'hate speech laws' often are the loudest in laughing and calling others name and poking fun at those they disagree with. All this while touting the virtues of being 'non-judgmental'. Like I say unintended humor is the best! Two things are very sad, losing a sense of humor and the greater sorrow, having no faith in God as if mere man is the highest power.

Originally posted in 2010

 

As we approached the church I saw the 5 grandsons visiting together. A Kodak moment for me with my little camera in my handbag. When Fritz joined them I did make the mistake of asking them to pose. A mistake you ask?  Yes, giving youngest grandson Paul an opportunity to ham it up! His brothers told him, "now Paul you behave" they demanded. He is a rascal, a sweet sweet little rascal! Of the several I took this is the best one.

I remind Fritz that someday he will be happy we have all the photos I've taken. He gets weary of my compulsion. If he would smile and if Paul would behave only one shot would've been needed!

Added info re the church:

A couple of years ago I asked my grandsons and granddaughter to pose for a quick picture.

i then noticed Paul was missing so we rounded him up to join us.

Everyone but me knew the little fellow in front wearing the bright blue jacket had joined us.

No one knew who he was, but the expressions of my grandchildren's faces proves they knew the little stranger had joined us.

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For years I have seen this building, a church called Elk Chapel. 25 or 30 years ago I attended a fund raiser here to garner funds for restoration of this old building with so much history of our county. Evidently the funds raised were not enough to sustain the well being of this once popular church and meeting place.

It sits along a major highway, the outhouse stands to the right.

 

I was impressed to see this,  although rather spooky to see what first appeared to be fresh flowers on the door knob

Closer view showed them to be silk, hmm? Curious.

I grew braver since this is a well traveled road  and the grass was not so overgrown not to reveal any old wells etc.

I held my camera through an open window and captured these shots.

The old piano still stands proudly

But believe me there remains a real and present danger in browsing around vacant buildings

See them?

Bees and lot's of them!!! Yikes. I had wondered what that noise was. At 1st I thought maybe my mind was playing tricks on me and I was hearing the long ago choir singing an old hymn I didn't recognize.

Needless to say I left the area with gladness that I had not entered the old building. It is easier to high tail it to my vehicle rather  than try to hurriedly exit the building and run to the vehicle.

If you had your camera handy and saw this at a distance what would you have done? Especially on a bright sunny autumn day. I parked the vehicle and took this shot

zoomed in on this

and this

But it wasn't enough to appease my appetite for this long neglected and abandoned church building in this field.

So I drove where I could park and tramped through the field, very carefully since the grass was high and often old wells remain uncovered or very dangerous in areas like this.

Out of fear and being alone I decided not to get any closer to peak inside so that will remain a mystery to me just as the history of this church building remains for now. Maybe someday I will find someone who knows about it, meanwhile I have preserved it in the only way I can.

Would you have stopped like I did?

 

This is not a particularly good picture of Lucy but all she had handy to show off her handcrafted necklace Windupherskirt created. It is well made and beautiful...that is the "good". This shot doesn't do the necklace justice,(nor Lucy justice) it is strikingly beautiful. A very 'good' thing. I like it very much Denise

 

This sunrise picture is another "good".

The cloud formation looks to me  like a rowing team in a boat working hard to make it across the sky.

This truck is so bad that it is good.

This house is ugly, there are Christmas lights up and a Lazy Boy in the yard....ugly, ugly, ugly. Not that taking the Christmas lights down and removing the Lazy Boy would help the looks of the house in anyway but the neglect is enhanced by them being there. So ugly that it is bad, but the lawn is mowed so that is good.

Having a beagle is good although even with a face like this Bella can be bad but never ugly.

One of those combos of good, bad and ugly photos.

The following is good, very good, I've saved this for years and it always makes me chuckle when I see it.

I hope you have a nice evening and a good day tomorrow.

 

 

It has been quiet at the jolly little cottage lately. Fritz leaves the house early each morning and is working long hours at the saw mill.The extreme hot weather has eased into reasonably cool and lovely weather with a few bursts of rain to settle the dust. The corn field across the road is drying enough for the leaves to make noise as they rustle with the breeze. It's a melancholy  time as I think of the long autumn days here when the kids would be back in school after a noisy, fun, busy summer and I had the place all to myself. You could hear the silence.

The sunsets have been sensational here.

Because we live at the base of a large hill we do not see the actual  sunrise but we get these marvelous  pastels in the south and western skies from the rising sun.

I learned why the new paint was shedding from this bench.

Polly uses it as her scratching post and  she couldn't care less that I know.

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I hope you have a good day today and nice weekend. Do you have any weekend plans? Our plans will be going to my brother and his wife's home Sunday for dinner. We're looking forward to it.

What a beautiful world He has created.

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We have a family reunion Sunday. Great food, much visiting and the weather forecast is in our favor. What do you have planned? Hope it is a nice weekend for you.

These are not real pumpkins. I have had 1/2 a dozen of these of various sizes for several years. The 1st of Sept I get them out and decorate with them until after Thanksgiving. Real pumpkins never stayed nice for that long so I have fun with these fakes.

I also love the different grasses we have.

With all the turmoil in the world it is good for me to focus on the beauty around me.

All summer I have attempted to get a picture of a resting butterfly and have met with no success. I was getting some shots of the beautiful hosta blooms

 

When this bee showed up and posed for me

 not a butterfly exactly but this will have to do.

Life is good in my little corner of the big wide world.

 

Do not believe this ladies!

I tried a smaller size and I was not 'instantly' slimmed. Matter of fact I was most uncomfortable and looked like a sausage. But one of the 3 claims was indeed true:"stretches and shapes" but stretched fabric makes for a painful lack of circulation and the shaping is actually bulges and a muffin top.