May Happiness Fill Your Heart Each Day

“May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.”

Irish Blessings Quote (Source: Thinkexist.com)

Note: I have tracked unauthorized downloads of this photo, so I decided to reduce the size. Please, respect my creative rights. Just ask and I might grant permission. Thank you.

MY APPRECIATION TO THE TODAY'S FLOWERS TEAM

LUIZ SANTILLI JR. - DENISE GULLICKSON
LAERTE PUPO - VALKYRIEN

Thanks for hosting, Lisa

Slide Down The Rainbow

Quote Source: Thinkexist.com

“Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”

Douglas Pagels

Can you guess the object in my photo shoot?

Thanks for hosting, Martha

Family and Friends | Friday Fill-Ins #139

Graphic courtesy of Tonya! Thank you

And...here we go!

1. He was a great family man and friend, full of wisdom.

2. Holidays are what I look forward to most this time of year.

3. My best friends are always supporting me in the ups and downs of life, and I am really grateful for that.

4. It feels good, to be honest with you.

5. Appearances can be deceiving, so don't get fooled.

6. The last person I gave a hug to was my angels.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to having a nice family dinner, tomorrow my plans include escorting my daughter to the dentist and Sunday, I want to sit back and relax!

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND, EVERYBODY!

Get Well Wishes for A Friend & The Book Tag

It's Thursday and my dear friend Carleen at Life, Liberty, and Good Coffee is scheduled for a thyroid surgery today. My prayers are with her and I hope that she gets well soon. It would be nice if you could take your time to go visit her blog and give some support. Thank you.

Sending you my brightest wishes to say...
Hope you get well soon!

I also have been visiting my dear friend Bill at The Old Fart's Blog yesterday and thought that I would play along with his Book Tag.

The rules are:

1. Collect the book that you have most handy:

Since most of my books are written in Bahasa Indonesia,
I changed this rule a little bit and took the most handy English book.



2. Turn to page 161:

Okay, the page is open

3. Find the 5th complete sentence:

Err...there is only one complete sentence.
"There was silence the rest of the way home, as they all thought about what Edwina had said, and how close their mother still was to them, and how different she was from her sister."
So I will cite the 5th complete sentence from the next page.

4. Cite the sentence on your blog:

"Edwina had invited several of her parents' friends to lunch in their garden afterward, and it was the first time they had entertained since the fateful voyage on the Titanic."

5. Pass it on to 5 other victims (oops…bloggers):

Come on and play along, if you feel like it!

The Queen's Meme | Message in A Bottle

I have received Messages in A Bottle from my dear friends
Thom and Amanda
Now, I'm sending this shoot-out to any brave warrior in the Blogosphere who is courageous enough to help us staying out of the dungeon

Welcome back to The Queen’s Meme brought to you by Mimi Pencil Skirt Queen of Memes. Each week the type of meme will change; sometimes silly, sometimes serious, but always fun! Queen Mimi Pencil Skirt says:

“This meme is all about using your imagination. Free your inner blogginess. Step outside the proverbial blox (that’s blog + box for all you non-blog speakers). Answer these ridiculous situational questions and post them on your own blog. Here’s the situation for today. We won’t tell a soul. And remember: Don’t end up in the dungeon“.

Message In A Bottle

Today we’re going to take a mini-vacation before summer gets away from us. I hope you have fun with this! And please, stay out of the dungeon.

Somewhere in a faraway bloggiverse on an island with a palm tree swaying in the breeze, a message bottle sits side by side with a Pina Colada and a cute little striped umbrella horizontally tilted in the beachy sand. Did YOUR bottle make it to land? Have you checked lately?

There are now 285 bottles floating in the bloggy ocean just waiting to be mysteriously delivered to a tropical island near you.

Here are the rules:

You are about to send a virtual Message In A Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Rant or ruminate.

Anonymous or not.

What message would you like to send out to the universe?

1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle below.
It can even be ANONYMOUS message.
I will not reveal your identity.

2. Right click and Save the graphic below

3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture

4. Post the meme and these rules on your blog

6. Tag a minimum of five people – or your entire blogroll – to do the same.
Notify them of the tag.

Your virtual bottle will remain afloat in the blogosphere ocean for all blogernity (That’s a Mimism for blog + eternity.) I will add it to the master list of message bottles when you let me know you’ve completed the meme.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I’M ASKING YOU TO TAG. PLEASE DO!

I will also add it to Message In A Bottle blog with a link back to you.

How To Stay Out Of The Dungeon

Once upon a time in a faraway Bloggiverse there lived a maiden named Queen Mimi Pencil Skirt. She slayed her own dragons, stoked her own fire and well…..wrote memes by the light of the Bloggingham moon. One day a kind blogger from England noticed her meme lovin’ ways and royally crowned her Mimi Queen of Memes. As time passed in the peaceful kingdom of Bloggingham, her Royal Highness found comfort in the company of fellow bloggers who also loved memes. But the Queen had a wicked disposition too. It is widely reported in historical Blogosphere archives that any and all bloggers found guilty of not completing their memes were promptly thrown into the dreaded Bloggingham dungeon. If I were you, I’d do the meme.

So, here I go!
Hopefully my message reaches you just in time to save the day.

On a more lighter note my sister said that she would write this

Well, I can understand her. The thought seems quite appealing.


DON'T FORGET! Now it's your turn, okay.

A Thousand Words In Idioms & Camera Critters

It has been a while since the last time I joined A Thousand Words In Idioms & Camera Critters and I have missed participating in these memes a lot. I'm still looking forward to the moment, where I'll be able to blog again like before... But for now, I'm happy to publish this post.

These are the words of Jientje, our lovely host:

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, (even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture.

From now on everybody can join in. No need to follow the alphabet, just pick two idioms and illustrate them with your pictures. Grab that camera or look in your archives. Just be creative, that's all I'm asking! And don't forget to have fun and visit one another, okay?

So here we go...

I got my idioms from A Phrase A Week for this post.

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B is for "Bee's Knees"

Meaning: Excellent - the highest quality.

S is for "Swan Song"

Meaning: A final gesture or performance.

I thought it would be okay to submit this link for this week's Camera Critters as well, since each shot shows a critter on camera. These photos belong to our family archives. I took the shot of the bee at our yard, while the black swan was taken by my husband at our vacation to the Safari Garden Hotel & Restaurant Safari Garden Hotel & Restaurant. Have a wonderful week, everyone! Miss you all.

Thanks for hosting, Jientje

Thanks for hosting, Misty

A Splash of Delight

Every lovely little gesture fills the heart with a splash of delight.

Thanks for watering my soul,
dear friends!

I appreciate all that you have said and done,
especially through the hard times...

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Thank you for hosting this great blog carnival, T. Bruce.