Pressing On

I’m sitting outside with my computer today. It’s that nice out! Beautiful, blue sky with just enough of a breeze for the wind chimes to sound. The birds are singing and Annie is contently, laying belly down at my feet because we played hard. I find all kinds of reasons to be outdoors on a day like today. I even took her for a walk after my outdoor group exercise. I still haven’t showered. So there’s that. Another reason to be outside in the breeze. I was glad I had my phone on a day like today so I could snap a few pictures. Everything is in full bloom. Trees now have their green leaves again. The contrast against the blue is always stunning to me.  Knowing that the heat of summer is coming soon and the humidity it will bring makes me want to truly savor this moment.  I often ask God, “Show me You today” and most of the time (not always) He does so in nature.  He will send a Cardinal to remind me of Phoenix. He has kissed my face with snowflakes in Chicago when I truly neede

I’m one of those messy eaters. I can almost guarantee when I have chips and salsa, I will be wearing salsa for the remainder of the day or until I can get to a change of clothes. I love hot sauce and basically put it on everything. If I am wearing white and even bring the hot sauce out of the refrigerator and my husband is around to witness it, he will jokingly say “Hope you aren’t attached to that shirt.” A few years ago, I found a new hot sauce that I love. It’s green and extremely hot! Appropriately named Green Dragon Sauce. Did I mention that it’s green? As if that’s a game changer. It’s not! I now have green dragon sauce running down the front of my top.  I think I need to buy more dark colored shirts and less white.  I love white though, don’t you? It screams clean and pure!  I have a few pairs of white pants and shorts. In fact, I wore a pair to the golf tournament last weekend. Jim went off to buy a hot dog, I actually thought, “It’s good I don’t eat hotdogs with runni