Sources of Strength

December 8, 2024 by GmasPhoto

Sources of Strength

Hi, welcome to My Sunday Snapshot 36! This weekend I had the opportunity to drive the high school wrestling team to a tournament. What a fun experience. The hosting high school had a hospitality room that was very nice. If you have not been to a wrestling match, they are an all day event. The hospitality room provided a nice breakfast and then lunch. Quite a nice selection of meats: chicken, pulled pork and sausage.

Hospitality room meal — The food was delicious!

While at the school, I noticed in the commons room/lunch araa there was this sign posted on the wall. Nothing fancy, just a plain piece of paper taped to the wall. What an inspiration! I knew I wanted to feature this collage of images for this week’s My Sunday Snapshot.

Sources of strength wall — What an awesome idea!

Four weeks ago I became a Student Delivery Specialist (School Bus Driver 🙂 ), Not a day goes by that I regret making the work change. It was a learning curve for sure with fear and wonderful experiences. If interested, read about it here.

I met two other drivers at the tournament hospitality room, Sylvia and Jerry. Maybe our bus trails will cross again!!

It’s never too late to make a work change. Even as they say, can’t teach an old dog new tricks is NOT true. Keep an open mind, be accepting to making mistakes (learn from them) and most of all, have fun. Trust me, you will be glad you did!

Have a wonderful week!

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra

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Ring Around the Moon

December 1, 2024 by GmasPhoto 10 Comments

Ring Around the Moon

Hi, welcome to My Sunday Snapshot 35!

We have experienced a monthly low rain average. It was a wonderful night seeing this moon. Notice the ring around the moon? The ring is an Old Wives’ Tale. The old wives’ tale about a ring around the moon is that it signifies rain is coming soon. Kevin’s father had said this many times throughout Kevin’s childhood. After searching the internet, the ring, called a lunar halo, is usually caused by high cirrus clouds which often precede a storm system. The next day we did get much needed rain!

Have you ever seen such a ring?

Have a wonderful week!

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra

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Who Said Redneck?

November 29, 2024 by GmasPhoto Leave a comment

Who Said Redneck?

Hi! This just happened about 15 minutes ago, a revelation. You know you are a redneck when you use a Shopvac to vacuum your living room. Do you know what a Shopvac is? It’s typically used commercially. Kevin uses these on his construction jobs. We are hosting our family Thanksgiving tomorrow (Saturday). Of course I wait until the very last to do my final cleaning. The weather has been just cold enough at night, we have started using the wood stove. If you burn wood, you probably know just how dirty it can get. Kevin brought the Shopvac in for me to use. It did a fabulous job. Even worked great on collecting the dust from the drapes!

Here’s to a Thanksgiving full of family, friends and many blessings!

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra

Fall Leaves

October 20, 2024 by GmasPhoto 10 Comments

Fall Leaves | My Sunday Snapshot #34

Hi, welcome to My Sunday Snapshot 34! This week has been beautiful. The weather feels very fall like 🙂 Even though I work for a different school district than where my grand girls attend, each had Thursday and Friday as parent teacher conference days. I spent both days with the girls!

The featured image is from the tree across the road from us. It’s huge, bigger than a banana! I sure enjoy nature’s beauty this time of year. While walking with Brynlee, I asked her to pause on the trail. This is the image I got. Priceless.

fall leaves with Bryn — Taken on our afternoon walk.

Have a wonderful week!

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra

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What to Wear | October 2

October 2, 2024 by GmasPhoto Leave a comment

What to Wear | October 2

What to Wear will feature different palettes providing ideas when you plan the wardrobe for individual pictures or your family images during the holiday gatherings.

What to Wear | December features ideas for all family members: mom; dad; big brother; big sister and little brother and little sister. Have fun preparing your stylish look for family pictures!

It is not necessary to purchase new clothing for better images. When planning the wardrobe, do wash and dry the clothing. Immediately after drying, hang the clothes on a hanger. Or iron, if you like. The main goal is wrinkle free clothing.

Shoes do not need to be new either. New shoe laces is an inexpensive purchase to spruce up the look. Polishing leather or washing canvas shoes is another solution to brighten their appearance.

Have the socks match either the pants or shoes. This is important for anyone who may be sitting or squatting in the group. Imagine if the pants are navy blue, shoes white and you see bright green socks. Very distracting. Your eyes will go straight to the green socks and not the person’s face! However, if the socks were either white (matching shoes) or navy blue (matching pants), your eyes will flow over the person and land on the face/eyes of the person in the picture.

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra

Pleasant Surprise

September 29, 2024 by GmasPhoto 10 Comments

Pleasant Surprise | My Sunday Snapshot #33

Hi, welcome to My Sunday Snapshot! The Good Lord does work in wonderful ways. I made a decision to leave my full time, 40 hour week job for a part time bus driver one. A huge decision for me. One of the things I enjoy is spending money. Well, working part time I won’t have the ‘extra’ 20 hours pay. The Good Lord has so far given me so much, pleasant surprise. Not just one, but many.

The featured image was taken at 4:30 am. Had I still be working that 40 hour job, I would never have seen this beautiful moon. The image does not do the actual scene justice. At least I have the memory, I took the shot!

I believe the Good Lord places people into your life, or you into someone else’s life for a reason. He definitely added three wonderful, beautiful students into mine.

Currently I am a para working on the SPED bus. We have two students who ride that I am responsible for securing their wheel chairs. One of my past jobs was with Kinedyne. When you think of Kinedyne, you can think of the movement of freight. A sister company of Kinedyne, Sure-Lok, manufactured straps to secure wheel chairs. Well, full circle. I am familiar with the straps on the SPED bus, these were made by Sure-Lok!

There are a total of three students that ride with me. Each one of them has a very special place in my heart. Had I stayed with the 40 hour job, I would never have met these girls.

Have a wonderful week!

Take Care. Best wishes, Debra

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