Friday Fave Five

On my March 3 post for Friday Fave Five, I posted pictures of what our So California mountains looked like with all the historic snowfall have received. As of now, some people are still being rescued from their homes. Sadly, one elder was found dead. This is taking place at the higher-level resort communities, 6000+ feet. My daughter wanted to take her kids up to Oak Glen which is 4500 feet high. They got lots of snow, but roads were open. I am thankful that we could have a few hours of fun. We enjoyed a nice lunch at Apple Annie's and we could even take our mini doxie in with us. She had the pup special burger. The lady at the Apple Annie's said they were happy to get all the visitors and the late snow season. 

2. Thankful to be able to sleep in on Monday. My daughter was off work and could take her kids to school. Hubby and I caught up with a few shows and a few episodes of the Crown. I was also able to work on my current study called Return to me. It focuses on the verses on practicing the Sabbath.

3. Thankful to meet with my Bible journaling group. It is really nice to see how they are really enjoying it.  I provide them with things they can use that go along with the topic which was house/houses. I like how each woman creates her page.  The house is taped to the right corner and can be opened to read the words. Journaling Bibles have margins to do art work for writing. We all have regular Bibles we study out of. So if the words in the journaling Bibles are covered, we are okay. Also for Tuesday night study. We started the book of Daniel.

4. Thankful to get a rebate on our electricity bill! The gas bill was a bit lower, but still twice as much as the same time last year. The water bill is much lower since we turned it off back in December. We have had plenty of rain and more is do for the weekend.

5. Thankful to have this blog. I need to get more things moved over here from my website. Thankful for the many friends I have made here. Thankful to be able to journal when I can. Have a great weekend!

Friday Fav Five

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I decided to use the snow Friday Fave header since we got snow in our town! It was more of a slushy/hail snow. It went from rain to hail to slushy flakes here, but all out snow in other areas. It did not last long but it made all the local news. We have received record breaking amounts of snow is all the So. California mountains.  It looks so pretty! But it is causing lots of problems. Lots of the smaller mountain communities have been hit hard. All main routes up to the mountains are closed. Big trucks could not get up for a couple of days and stores are not getting supplies. The pastor of the biggest church in the city was snowed in and could not make it back down to his church so one of the associate pastors filled in. Lake Arrowhead is about 50 miles from us. My daughter wants to go to a lower Mountain town called Glen Oaks. It is about 45 miles from us. Hopefully the roads will be open on Sunday.! Here are a few pictures going down Main Street. This first picture is by me and where our city's 4th of July parade route is at. We made it to 60 today. Better than the high of 115 we had last summer! I know his isn't news for you that get snow, but it is news for us!

1. I am thankful that California has exceeded our normal rainfall, so we are out of a drought condition.

If we had not received all this rain, we would be under water restrictions. We have not had to run our sprinklers and my water bill has been lower than normal. Wish I could say the same for the gas bill!

2. Thankful for the Apple Pie and Jesus gathering our Life Group attended on Monday. Phyllis invited to her beautiful home. We all brought food and she had pizza and a relish dish waiting and we brought a lot of sides. She shared her testimony while baking an apple pie for us. We had lunch while the pie baked and watched a show on You Tube that was an illustration of the physical, emotional and spiritual side of ourselves. Phyllis served us our pie with ice cream and it was so good! I have never baked a pie and I want to try this year, closer to the holidays.

3. Thankful for the new study I started on March 1. There is a reading for each day in March. The study is titled Return to Me. The study and artwork is done in the Bible. I do not cover the words up in it. I just add tip ins. I insert a blank page, paper or vellum and use that for my artwork and notes.

4. Thankful for the tv, movie time I have with my husband. There are several shows we like to watch together. Survivor season 44 started this Wednesday. We like to watch, FBI, CSI and a few others together. When I am crafting or Bible journaling, I am in one room, and he is in another watching his programs. I am thankful that we have together time and still give each other space. We plan to go to the movies next week. We have no grandparent duties Friday today so we will go shopping and then enjoy our movies like The Crown.

5. Thankful to get out for a bit of shopping today. I needed a couple of things from Hobby Lobby. I enjoy walking around, listening to the music and browsing. I found a few things on clearance like gift bags. My life group is going to visit a women's shelter in April. We are giving each woman a gift bag filled with goodies. I got the gift bags and will buy ribbon when it is on sale.  I am also making each woman a bookmark.  Most of the women in my life group are in my Bible journaling group. We meet next Tuesday and I am working on the kits that will be based on a house theme.

Susan

Winter Blessings!

Winter Blessings! 

God's Word is true in every season!

It is sunny and 73 as I write this. It was in the 30's last night. This is winter for So California. We will probably still get some cooler and hopefully rainy weather in February. 

My Bible journaling group went well as we focused on verses that had snow in theme. The snow theme is fun for us because we don't get to experience it unless we go to our local mountains about 90 minutes away. Though the word snow guided us to various places, I encouraged the women to read the chapter. What is God saying. There may be something else He wants us to focus on.

I have been busy packing up my winter decor and hope to change over to Valentine's decor this week. I am also putting kits together for my February Bible journaling group. Theme is love. God's love for us, and love for one another.  

This family of snow people has gone up every year for the past 20 years.

If things work out, hubby and I want to take a drive to the snow. We will see, This is a picture from last year. We took Minnie with us and she really liked it.

This is the girl I did for my crafting group. Once a month we "visit" a new place.

I can always use my imagination. I am sure you girls in snow country are thinking of warm and sunny days ahead. Praying you are all safe. God bless you with health and peace.