Follow me to La King’s…for an incredibly indulgent experience!!!

These pictures were taken at La King’s Confectionery located on Galveston Island.  The King family began making “old world” style candy in 1927.  In 1976  the King family opened up La King’s Confectionery on the historic Galveston Strand.

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I enjoy all kinds of music.  I especially like upbeat,  get my feet moving, put a smile on my face, get a little perspective kind of music.  This is today’s pick!!!

the hook up...

A couple of weeks ago my husband incurred an injury.  On the way to the Hospital emergency room he decided to visit the ER Clinic where his Niece is the Physicians Assistant.  This little hook up saved hours of waiting around the Hospital emergency room.  PA Niece and her staff took good care of the hubs.  She also hooked him up with a  referral to an Orthopedic Surgeon.  The Ortho Surgeons office hooked him up with an MRI…WOW those things are expensive.  The Imaging Clinic hooked him up to the space pod for an hour-long ride filled with repetetive clicks, pops, humming and white noise…then another visit to the Doctor to discuss the findings of the MRI.  The Doctors diagnosis…Completely torn bicipital tendon and the torn tendon is retracted from radial tuberosity ….basically my husband’s arm is messed up.  

Now the big hook up…surgery was scheduled.  We arrived at the Hospital at our scheduled time slot and we were hooked up to one of those buzzers you get when you go to a really popular restaurant and have an extended wait.  It wasn’t long before my husband was escorted back for his next hook up…an especially nice disposable gown and matching shower cap as well as a plethora of monitoring devices.

He was hooked up to a heart monitor, blood pressure monitor as well as an antibiotic IV drip.  During our extended wait the Hospital Staff was very attentive and informative.  The next hook up came when it was getting closer to ” go time”.  He was given two medications through the IV drip; one of which was to help him relax. 

It was now time for me to take my little buzzer back to the waiting room…3 hours later…I was the last person left in the waiting room.  The Doctor came out from surgery and gave me the hook up on how things had gone down in the operating room.  Basically a big thumbs up!!! 

About an hour later I was escorted to the PACU.  The Hubs was still hooked up to the monitors and IV drip.  The PACU nurse and I waited for Hubs to wake up from the meds that were administered before and during surgery.  The nurse was very informative.  She was explaining to me that my guy was doing great!  He was still sleeping but that was a good thing.  As the Hubs began to flutter his eyes, the nurse began to access his pain level.  She administered pain meds through the IV drip in an attempt to give him immediate relief.

Another 40 minutes later, the Hubs is awake, un-hooked from the monitors and IV, dressed and wheeled out to the truck.  The hook up for pain meds was phoned into the pharmacy.  We were on our way home!

By the way…Hubs is doing great!  His surgery was Wednesday…he took Thursday off from work…this morning I helped him get dressed and by 6:15am he was out the door and on his way.  He will have minimal use of his left arm for the next two weeks.  After that we are expecting a slow but gradual rehab of his bicep that could take up to 3 months.

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I am not sure we have truly failed at growing brussels sprouts.  I have done a bit of research in the past few days and it seems that we just lack knowledge.  Our winter temperatures have been on the warm side, but it would seem not too warm for the brussels.  It also seems that the plants may be just waiting on us to take the next step.  I have read that we should begin harvesting the lower leaves and sprouts of the plant to stimulate continued growth of the remaining sprouts.  Who knew?

Well someone knew and now I think I know…how to over come our possible garden fail. 

Suncreek Garden Chronicles...Fail

Of all of the winter veggies we planted I was most excited by the possibility of growing our own brussels sprouts. Which in itself blows my mind. You see before last year I was not a fan of cabbage or brussels sprouts. Of course my professed dislike for these veggies had no real basis to it. As I child I had associated a bout of stomach flu with eating cabbage at my aunt’s house. So for years and I do mean years I refused to eat, actually I refused to even try a dish that contained cabbage or brussels sprouts.

My husband really enjoys eating cabbage. Also, there is a lady that I work with who goes to an incredible amount of work making cabbage rolls. We are talking over 100 individual rolls. She is so sweet and makes this dish out of love and there is just no way to refuse to eat this dish when she makes it for you. So between the two of them they have worn me down. I finally had to give in and give this incredibly humble veg another try. Guess what? I like it! I do. Now I am not going to go out of my way to make fried or stewed cabbage or even cabbage rolls. But I will eat a serving if it’s offered to me.

On the other hand I have fallen in love with brussels sprouts. I can not explain it. I don’t think I want to try. But I really like these little bite size morsels.  I find myself adding them to my grocery cart whenever they are available. Who knew?!

Sometimes things just don’t work out the way you plan…we planted a winter garden and then winter failed to show up.  We built a temporary greenhouse so we could start the seedlings for the spring garden…our placement of the greenhouse may have stifled the growth of a couple of our cold weather loving plants.  Whatever the outcome of this first attempt at growing a winter garden will give us knowledge and experience as we make our plans for next seasons attempt at growing a home garden. 

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This week’s topic for our “A-Z Archive” photo challenge: the “H” archive: introduce one photo of your archive with a “H” Keyword. – I’m sure you’ll find a picture: tag with “A-Z Archive” and put a link on your page to FrizzText, so we’ll get a trackback-list including your post!

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thanks for joining this H challenge:
1 -HARMONY
http://creativityaroused.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/h-challenge-harmony/
2 -HAVELI HOTEL
http://imagesoftheheart.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/a-z-archive-h-is-for-haveli/
3 -HUMMINGBIRD
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4 -HIGH RISE
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5 – HAND
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6 HOT
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7 – HIDING
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8 – HOPE
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9 – HARAJUKU HAWKER
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10 – HANDKERCHIEF
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11 – Handicap – Heron etc.
http://contemplativeeye.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/h-challenge-2/

“Each child gets a box to hold all that they own.  If you were reduced to one box, what would you put in it?”

• The Giving Trip (
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A blogger is someone who keeps and updates a blog. We are often lumped together in one general category by people who don’t quite get what we do or even why we do it.

I think Bloggers are like macarons…the french version…somehow uniquely the same and amazingly different all at the same time. We are colorful and full of flavors, flavors that come from uniquely different life experiences.

 Behind every blog there is an incredibly unique and special human being. 

 We are Men and Women, Husbands and Wives, Moms and Dads, Brothers and Sisters.  We are Designers, Painters, Photographers, Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers, Gamers, Techies, Gardner’s, Small Business Owners and CEO’s.  We are Athletes, Dancers, Musicians, Chefs, Students, Pastors, Teachers, Writers, Active duty Service Men and Women and we are Retired.  We are like-minded individuals and strangers.   We are from every continent, represent every race and practice every religion. 

We are uniquely the same and amazingly different!

Every post is the reflection of a unique life.

We have the desire to share our life with the world.  We lay our heart and soul out for people to embrace or trample on.  We hope that our words will inspire and encourage.  We are driven to write about everything and nothing. We focus on a specific category or post random thoughts. We have the ability to say something wonderful by sharing a single photograph. We can open someones eyes to a new point of view by sharing our own. We can make people laugh or cry, dance or sing by sharing who we are with those willing to spend a moment getting to know us through our shared writings.

 What drives us to share the stories of our lives?  Is our blog a true reflection of who we are or is it who we want to be? 

Who am I?  I am a child of God, a Christ-follower, a wife and a mother.  I am a daughter, a sister and a friend.  I have a heart for helping people find the one thing in life that will give them their greatest joy.   I love to travel but I love coming home more.  I am a city girl who lives in the country.  I love the sound of the waves crashing onto the beach but I prefer a snow skiing vacation.  My taste is eclectic.  I am a collector of other people’s discarded things.   I have a knack for creating an inviting and welcoming space.    I am a thinker!   I am a dreamer!   

And I Blog! 

 Who are you?  Why do you blog?  Do your friends and family get what you do?  Do they know you blog? 

A special thank you to my sister Heidi for sharing her photos from her recent trip to Paris!  je t’aime petit soeur!

This post was revised from a January 31, 2011 post…uniquely the same

Suncreek Garden Chronicles...Organized Chaos

 Suncreek Garden Chronicles…Organized Chaos!  What we have here is the result of a very mild, almost non-existent winter.  The seeds were planted in early January.  By the beginning of February the seedlings were demanding they be given more leg room.  Now it is mid February and the seedlings have grown into sizeable plants.  Now we must wait at least a month before putting the plants in the ground.  Waiting until the middle to late March should insure that the last frost is a distant memory. 

In the meantime, we are slowly pulling up the remainder of the winter garden.  However most of what’s left is doing so well we hate to see them go.  There are a couple of things that have kept Farmer Hubs from putting tiller to soil, it is too wet to do almost anything in the garden which we are not complaining about, just yet.  The other is that Farmer Hubs ripped his bicep and is scheduled for surgery sometime next week.  This will certainly slow down the progress of the garden tilling and planting.

Farmer Hubs is a very thorough fella…he always has a plan. Sometimes he even has a plan for the plan.  However patience is not one of his strong suits.  Sometimes we just have to take a deep breath and listen to the experts.  The doctors have told him it could be a 3 month recovery/rehab process.  The Farmers Almanac is suggesting that by mid-late March we should be free from any chance of a freeze.  By then Farmer Hubs will have many plans laid out and will be chomping at the bit to get out of the gate.

After looking over the entire situation at Suncreek Gardens, Farmer Hubs has a well thought out and organized plan in place.  The fact that the warmer than normal temperatures have the seedlings thriving and growing faster than we anticipated is throwing the whole garden game into a bit of chaos.  But even the best laid plans can be thrown into a state of limbo.   Farmer Hubs will have his surgery… the plants will continue to grow…Farmer Hubs will rehab his arm…the Farmers Son will till the garden…the Farmers wife will take care of the Farmer.

Hope is a trustful expectation!  Hope is to look forward to something with desire and reasonable confidence!

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise. C.S. Lewis on Hoping for Something More.

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