Never Say Never..Destiny Will Make A Liar of You Everytime!

These two posts were originally published on January 11 and 12, 2009. Due to the interest shown in mine and Eric's story I'm republishing them today..............

How often have you said; "never again, I'll never do that" only to find yourself doing it?
I am guilty,guilty,guilty. Let's start with: "I will NEVER move back to Hattiesburg Mississippi,I will NEVER date again,I will NEVER,NEVER,NEVER get married again. I lied, I lied,I lied.
Oh, and let me add the minor ones like, I will never blog, comment on a blog, join a My Space or Facebook group. Liar,Liar,Truth,Liar. I NEVER did the My Space.

I don't know if it was fate,destiny(are those the same),coincidence or God but I really have been doing a lot of lying! I guess I should explain and ask forgiveness?
Here goes.........In December 1998 I moved to a six hundred acre farm in Middle Tennessee in a 150 year two story log house. A single woman, a tiny Peek-a-Poo dog named Sassy and a cat named Cloe. I had fallen into the Y2K trap and I was getting prepared! Spring water, wood heat and plenty of garden room. As you know,Y2K never happened. However the surroundings were a life long dream and I loved it. The nest was now empty, I'd had my fill of dating(here's where the never starts) I had my own little business, life was good. I could write, read, cook or not cook,
make my own hours for work and not have to please anyone. Things went smooth for awhile.
Then my sweet Mother died in Feb 2001............I was lost. I don't care how old you are, losing your Mother makes you feel orphaned. I was still reeling from that when 9/11 happened.
America was not the only one who got attacked that day! I was on my way into Nashville, stopped dead still at a red light, wearing my seat belt, obeying all the laws when BOOM, the van in front of me put it in reverse, gave it the gas and backed over me! I remember thinking, this fool did not just back over me! I had an immediate, excruciating headache. I could not get out the driver's side so I crawled out the passenger side. Before all of this was over, I had three bulging discs, a sprained foot, a broke foot. I muddled through all of this, got well enough to continue my business on a limited basis and kept chugging along. Then in 2002 my childhood friend and bestselling author(She's like Harper Lee..in seclusion) told me I should move back to Mississippi and write a book. Thus the seed was planted for lie number two! However I skirted this one by saying;"not Hattiesburg". Liar, Liar, pants on fire! My plan was to move to Bay St. Louis on the Mississippi Gulf Coast where I knew not a soul. Hey, I'm friendly, I could make friends fast.
Then word got out to my other Hattiesburg friends and things went haywire! " You need to move back to the burg where you have friends, visit Bay St. Louis for awhile, make friends there and then you can relocate. Okay........sounds reasonable. So I bought it! Packed it up and moved back to Hattiesburg, Mississippi! Some friends came all the way to Nashville to help!
March 2003.........Life in Hattiesburg begins! Still not dating..........it's been 4 years and 10 months!
Fast forward six months...................December 2003. Let me inject that I had a few days prior told a friend;" if God wants me to have someone he will arrange it" to which she replied; He is not gonna send them to your door!
A knock at the door!! Excuse me, God can do whatever he pleases! I open the door and on the other side was my very first love! Grinning like he'd just won the lottery! My first words were;
" Oh MY GOD !! Scroll down for the REST of The Story

" Raining Treasure "

We awoke yesterday with a 60% for some much needed and prayed for rain along with a COLD front moving in! COLD front here means NO more 90 degree days, highs in the mid 80s and lows in the high 60s. We'll take that and be very grateful after the blazing hot June we had!
Around 11:00 A.M. that 60% was 100% !



The gray skies open and rained down buckets!

Buckets of REAL treasure!

What a beautiful site!

Rain water pours off the roof into the Elephant Ear tub! They love water!!

Two of the Mallards went cruising in the rainy pond!

Before the treasured rain came, we went to a moving/yard sale. I stole, not literally but it felt like I did, a couple of treasures. The first being this antique dressing stool. It had a new fake suede leopard print cover on it but needed some TLC.

I removed the seat and refinished it with a dark walnut stain to match the dresser in the guest room...

And now....it sits in it's new place! I paid: $ 5 bucks for it!

This is the foot board of the bed with the round spindle like the stool legs

This is the inside of my next treasure.........

A Camel Back Treasure Chest! It has real leather and tweed on top. I'm trying to decide what color to paint over the black paint on it. It will sit at the foot of the bed in the guest room and hold quilts in it. I paid: $ 15 bucks for it!

A brand new Magnavox Clock Radio with 3 alarms.... $ 2 bucks

OH YES, books! The trunk was full of them and I only bought 4 for $ 3 bucks!The one on top is supposed to be a sequel of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice! I know but " I can't help myself" !

If there is such a thing as a book HO, I'm the house Madame! :)

Two grill tools for $ 1 buck!

A Queen dust ruffle, brand new for $ 2 bucks. I have been looking for this color since I redid my bed awhile back!

I had actually ordered a new bed lamp a few days ago but this one was $ 1 buck so I got it and cleaned it and painted it and enjoyed reading by it last night.

So that was my Friday except that during the rain the power kept going off and on and finally stayed off for awhile and you know, I'm just lost without power! I was on Facebook trying to write on Renie's wall and I would get 2 or 3 words then boom! Gone! I know, it's nothing to complain about but it was kind of annoying but for 1 & 1/2 inches of rain, ANNOY ME!