Creation and Compassion

[...] than trying to discover what blogging was all about; hence the original name of my blog was  Random Thoughts.  I decided to occasionally post a few random thoughts just to see what transpired. A few [...]

[...] privilege of listening to inspired messages from living apostles and prophets of God.   LDS General Conference is held twice yearly, during the first weekends of April and October.  I generally take [...]

[...] I will not be blogging today.  I will be watching LDS General Conference. You can watch it too: LDS General Conference Have a Happy Sabbath! [...]

[...] Eyring, an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints gave a talk in General Conference  that really hit me hard as something that I should be doing in my life.   (You can  [...]

[...] and brought them inside, where they have been sitting in a vase by the glass sliding door to the back yard.  Over the past President's Day weekend  DD4 was home from school and had desire to plant [...]

[...] few short weeks.  See the buds forming in these photos?  We have two lilac bushes in our back yard to enjoy:  the beautiful lavender one that you can see above and the fresh and lovely [...]

[...] her dear sweet husband dug it up and brought it over to my house, and I planted it in the back yard.  yes, near the section of fence that's falling down.  I've had two different peach trees [...]

[...] out and they were unevenly spaced, so I dug up all of the bulbs and transplanted them into the back yard where they have flourished in spite of the grass invading their space: The following year I [...]

[...] I will not be blogging today.  I will be watching LDS General Conference. You can watch it too: LDS General Conference Have a Happy Sabbath! [...]

[...] privilege of listening to inspired messages from living apostles and prophets of God.   LDS General Conference is held twice yearly, during the first weekends of April and October.  I generally take [...]

[...] the April Challenge.  To be honest, I've already started planting a few things since cool weather crops need to be planted in March around these parts in order to produce anything worth [...]

[...] harvest in the spring after the snow has melted and I begin getting ready for planting the cool weather crops: Many years ago when we were still in elementary school my dear older brother ordered a [...]

[...] also have hot, dry summers, and very few weeks of warm spring weather.  If we want to grow cool weather crops at all, we must take advantage of the warmer dry days of march.  So, several weeks ago I [...]

[...] this post written means that I have missed signing up on the official Blogging from A to Z April Challenge Reflections Linky, but I'll go ahead and write this post anyway, and hopefully some of my [...]

[...] Last year I participated in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge for the first time.  I had a good experience, but wasn't quite as prepared as I had hoped to [...]

[...] throughout the summer, and sometimes we even time it right for one of DH's favorites:  Strawberry Rhubarb Pie.  Strawberry Rhubarb Jam is wonderfully awesome too!    [...]

[...] point.  However, we were blessed with an abundance of strawberries for eating: And for strawberry rhubarb pie and strawberry cheesecake: We even had some cherry pie, but I'm not sure if I got a photo [...]

[...] from A to Z April Challenge. If you would like to meet some of the other Blogging from A to Z participants, you can find them here and read  Other reflections on the A to Z Challenge . [...]

[...] with my very neglected roses.  Last year I spent way too much time working on my April A to Z blog posts and didn't get around to trimming and weeding the poor rose garden in a timely manner . . . [...]