LIFES A BEACH!
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FootsAngelbabe. I am sooooooooooooo happy for you about your chair! ! ! !
Pop a wheelie girl. You deserve to be the "Road Runner Beach Babe"
If you get carried away with speeding around the house and knick the heck out of
the corners of walls etc. we'll all come on over with spackle and fix 'em right up.
Now BikerJanny has some competition!
Way to go Foots.
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I realize most of our beach babes are either out for a night on the town or
tucked in for the evening especially our girls on the eastern end of the beach
but I just got home and wanted to check in and say hello.
And wowsers the brilliance of colors and wheels. Pin Wheels. Perfect.
I had a great day, went out to lunch and had some good breathing air for the
first day in about a week.
Smoke is still lingering but nice cool breezes and the smoke is only faint whiffs.
So lemme go see what I can find to help decorate.
Please excuse if I duplicate. Blame it on a Friday night.
celia* Look * It looks to be glass.
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I must study the Zen of the PinWheel.
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Good morning Beach Angels! Happy Saturday morning...been up since 3:15 am. One of these days I'm going to have a job that doesn't require an after-hours support phone.
I love all the swirly wonderful pinwheels. The remind me of those old kaliedoscopes you used to get as a child. I love those things.
Surprise song of the day! Here's a little Billy Joel to get your day started.
We're hoping for rain here and I now all our California angels are too. Maybe we need some kind of rain dance.
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From PINWHEEL Party extravaganza-of-delight to Tilt-o-Whirl carnival-of-sorrow.
Friends, I hesitate to tell you this sad story, as I know that everyone has too much on their plate as it is..... but I need to draw on the special powers of our beach and all of our Angel good energy for this latest chapter.
Last night just before turning into bed I received an enormous email from my only sister. My only neice and their whole family has gone thru hell, the very definition of hell..... and my broken heart just crumbles into teenier pieces for her/them.
It's such a long, sad story, but it just got so much sadder.
My sweet, dear, trusting, too-naive neice Kelly's husband was arrested, in what must have been the media blitz of the state they live in. He had spent nearly the whole first year of their marriage in jail, completely out of left field mucking up her entire world, weeks after the wedding.... and was released on parole less than a year ago.
He had just been given a genuine, full time job, with benefits as a writer for a newspaper. (He is so incredibly creative, talented, gifted.) They had hired him after he had done freelance work for them over the past several months -- of supposedly rebuilding his life.
KABAM.
He's truly ruined his life now. And certainly wrecked havoc on hers. He is guilty. He now faces the possibility of as much as 10 years in prison.
We all urged and counseled her to divorce him after the first chapter/incarceration, but she being a 'good-Christian girl' felt it her responsibility to give him another chance..... better and worse and all that: THUD.
My father married them. My Sarah was in the wedding party.
We have all participated in keeping my parents in the complete dark about all of the first year of jail saga. They know absolutely nothing. They are so proud of him for getting his writing/creative side together and finding an outlet for his ability.
Don't think any of you but Winger, would know that I didn't even tell my mom about my BC dx until I was completely thru w/radiation....... she has a history of being 'hospitalized' over bad news and I didn't want to have to deal with that -- while I was going thru treatment. When I went thru my divorce eons ago, she was hospitalized w/amnesia. She was so stressed that the blood thru her brain that's in charge of memory was short circuited.
Well now I've digressed.
Please hold Kelly in your thoughts and prayers. Apparently she realizes that this marriage is over in the eyes of God as well..... and will begin to cut the ties. She's a sweet southern cutie, has her degree, and is the nicest of people you could ever meet. She'll turn 25 in a couple weeks -- and so she literally has her entire life ahead of her. I pray that she'll weather this storm and be granted a happily-ever-after-beyond-her-wildest-dreams.
It is her uncle who's in hospice care and has already outlived their prediction of a week to live, times 6. Too much. Too much. Enough already.
So at this time last week we were walking the shores of my "One Happy Island" for the last time, preparing to depart for the airport. We were walking down to Gilligan's for our final brunch when out of no where it just poured rain, completely soaking us in the 3 minute downpour. And poof, it was gone. So even in paradise it must rain. And here on our cyber beach we've already seen the storms come and go, most recently with our dear WingGirl's FIL's passing.
So as I sit here typing surrounded by my grandchildren who have yet to learn how to sleep-thru-the-night, who are currently at battle with the innoculations intended to protect them, because their air conditioner resists being fixed...... I attempt to put these kalidoscopic puzzle pieces into some sort of order.
After receiving sis's email, we ended up talking on the phone forever..... Sarah is so upset. She thinks somehow she should have talked Kelly out of the marriage in the first place. She had misgivings and now with the perfect vision of hindsight thinks she should have somehow put a stop to the wedding, based on her first impression.
We are only as strong as those we surround ourselves with. You've taught me much thru this spring and I say thank you beach bunnies..... from the bottom of my heart. I don't know that I could have weathered the unknowns of the arrival of the babbeez without your continual encouragement. This craziness of not sleeping and bouncing between two houses and attempting to juggle my professional world has only been possible because of our growing friendship. Thank you.
Two small and inadequate words to attempt to convey the depth of my gratitude, but that's all I have to work with: THANK YOU.
Edited to add this picture of our final walk..... if you look closely perhaps you can see the rainbow over my one happy island:
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Oh Faith. What a horrible thing for your niece to have to go through. She and the rest of your family will be in my constant prayers. Stay strong, keep the faith, and hang on to hope and lean on us when you need to. I truly believe that God wants only the best for His children and He will give your niece more than she ever hoped for in time.
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Oh Jasmine. Thank you. I sit here wrapped in a receiving blanket, bouncing Baby A in his bouncie chair with my foot and patting Baby B with my left hand, and the tears roll down like rivers. It's just so sad to know that he has squandered his life...... and broken hers in the process.
How our heavenly father must cry to see the frustration of His children.
I'm gonna go listen again to your therapeutic choice and cry some more.
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OK beachbabes. It's Saturday!! The weekend.
As a little thank you gift to you dear, wonderful woman, I've hired the Kukoo KunuKu Party bus to take us over to the Aruban capital city of Oranjestad for a little diversion of shopping. We'll stop at the flea market, too. So bring your sunglasses and a large bottle of water.
It's a blue sky day on Aruba. Imagine that!!
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After arriving 'downtown' here's the Dutch colonial view:
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But here's the store I particularly want everyone to enjoy visiting...... It's a store filled with kindness, support, some of the most amazing self-help books you'll ever read, the most incredible selection of music imaginable, and a very deep devotion to faith. This store is a corner stone of the island and is frequented by all those in search of treasures.
Everyone wandering down the beach is just amazed by the brightness of the store, but the generosity of the shop keeper is the real magnet, insuring that everyone continues to return.
Shop to your heart's content...... put in on my tab:
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Ah thanks Faith.
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To our dear sweet wonderful colorful magnificent Faith.
Please feel all our arms, warm arms holding you tight.
Life is the bumpiest road with everything imaginable thrown directly at our
hearts, tolerance, patience, courage and stamina.
We have all been through so much and your post just breaks my heart and
I wish we could be there to surround you with love and useful words of wisdom.
We can't be there but we sure as heck are here for you.
While reading about the husband and jail, I was really scared in the next sentence
I would read that he had hurt your niece or worse.
Big sigh of relief when I continued down the post that she is OK physically.
Dear Faith, I know your heart is as big as the sun and moon but please take
care of you at this time too. Stress.
A nasty bugger can cause all sorts of stuff to our immune systems.
You have a full plate and overflowing beyond the norm so please let others
in the family help with you in this family crisis.
We are here for you always so let us help you in any ways possible.
We can take this to PM's and emails to protect your privacy and we all know how
important that is.
Does that sound like a plan.
With love to you always sweet Faith.
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In the midst of your turmoil you shared with us the most beautiful pictures of your
Aruba with such clarity.
And YES, I see the Rainbow!
There is a rainbow for you and your family Faith. Know that.
XOXOXOXOXOXOX Sahalie
edited to add I pray all the other family members will be OK. XOXO
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edited to add wonderful flop floppers and Beach umbrella.
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Splash of fun.
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In a While.
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I want to hop on that boat!!!
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faith, i just arrived late on the beach today after returning from the Post Office to mail you a box of goodies and i find that there is more sadness here. I am so sorry for your niece. what a hard lesson to have to learn and to have to do what must be done. and please tell sweet Sarah that thinking of all the "what-ifs" in the world will not fix a situation and would not have fixed it even ahead of time, because sadly,some lessons were just meant to be learned the hard way, by living in them and thru them. I am sending you, sweetest faith, and your sarah, your niece, your mom, and entire family my best thoughts and my sincere wish for things to greatly improve, and a (hug) for each of you.
this beach is really a beautiful, peaceful place, partly existing in our imaginations and partly existing in our posted words and pics. it seems that there have been some rough times lately for some of us and some mysteriously difficult turns of events here. we are here to help each other, enjoy each other's company, lift each other up and fly in spirit in the tropical breezes. Let's keep on doing this the best way we know how. hugs to all of you today.
i must go help my husband and keep him from getting heatstroke today while he tries to turn our back cement deck into a nice place to sit with my new swing seat.
hi to all the beach buddies.
see you later!
celia
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The last pic is at the Berkeley Kite Festival.
celia
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flying kites in stormy skies...
kite-flying while your world turns upside down....
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Good evening Beach Angels. Its been a glorious day here. We finally got rain ...lots and lots of rain. Everything has turned a brilliant green and looks so lush. I have accomplished absolutely nothing today. Instead, I opted to grab a book and let the sound of the rain on my roof lull me to dreamland. I hope you each had an equally relaxing day.
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Beautiful post celia.
Beautiful kites girls and no place better to fly them and watch them soar but the beach.
I just got home from lunch out with some friends.
We went to a scrumptious Thai restaurant but now my stomach is making very
strange noises like Ben Stiller's in that movie with Jen Anniston while
they were eating in some foreign restaurant sitting on huge purple pillows
and eating the hot curried foods with their hands and Stiller was sweating enough
to fill a bath tub.
Mine's not that bad. YET. The food was great though.
Faith. I'm thinking of you today with love and prayers and a heavy heart.
Hello to Wings. Jazzy jaz. FootsEasyRider in her new Mobile. Spar.
Deborye. Janny and Angels on beaches near and far.
I found an Angel kite to Soar.
Sahalie
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kites at the beach:
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TODAY WE ALL SOAR!!
soaring......
soaring.....
celia
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Dear Beach Friends, I went out early today and wished I had a ramp to get my wheelchair out. It was a baby step day, Cause of the heat and swelling. Some places in Washington hit 103. The kites are beautiful and so is everyone that is here. My prays are with you all and sending extra hugs to them that have a need for. God loves you and so do I! Please fly a kite for me, Thank for being there.Hugs Debbie
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All you beach buds have a wonderful night. Am enjoying a bon fire on the beach with the cool breeze blowing in, the wonderful salty smell and a beautiful moon rising.
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