"Summertime Weather In March"

                          A close neighbor's colorful, little tree. 3-20-2017 Perryton TX.


Not a warm day, but a hot day. Turn the air conditioner on please! I’m glad I got a lot of yard work done this morning while it was still cool. We really need rain, but it looks like that is not going to happen for awhile yet. I took this picture of my neighbor’s pretty red tree. I don’t know what it’s called, but it is so pretty. I don’t think any limbs broke off it during the bad ice storm. It looks so uniform sitting in the yard. My front yard work is done, and now I’m waiting for the grass to grow tall enough to seed out. I put down weed-kill, so hopefully I will have a weed-free yard. Now for the back yard which is much bigger, and a lot more work is required of it. After I get home from the Happy Timers luncheon tomorrow I will start working on the back yard if it’s not too hot. I have to spray some more trees back there. My next scheduled away-from-home trip is coming up on April 20th. I have my annual doctor’s appointment on that day in Oklahoma City, and one of my sisters who lives there reserved rooms for three nights for I, and my three sisters to be together. This will be an exciting time for us since we haven’t all been together for some time. We will be observing Memorial Day about a month early just so we can all be together. Again I say I am thankful for this blessed event I am privileged to be part of. I, and all three of my sisters are widowed within the past five years. We have been there for each other during all the hard times. We all live in different states, but God has blessed us and let us be there for each other when death struck some member of our family. I am so thankful to my lord.
Memorial services were held today for my sweet sister-in-law, Lou O’Brien, my husband’s baby sister. She was the last living sibling of my husband. She has three wonderful sons who will be mourning her loss for a long time. She lived in Oklahoma City, and just a short service was scheduled, so I didn’t try to go. I sent my love and prayers to her children, and I know they understand that their aunt is older than their mother, and it is very hard for me to travel except when necessary. Even though I didn’t get to see Lou very often I thought about her nearly every day. I have lot’s of wonderful memories of her. I would like to say to her now, “Lou if you see my husband, and your brother, tell him I still love him and look forward to seeing him again.” I’m not sure what heaven will be like, but I want to imagine it is like what I understand the bible is telling me when I read “ye shall know as ye are known.” By faith I am living this promise, and I know it will even be more wonderful than I can imagine.

God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp

Jean's Comment's: "The Few Limbs Left On The Tree"

Jean's Comment's: "The Few Limbs Left On The Tree": Since the ice storm breaking off so many limbs on the Red Bud tree, there is just enough blooms to cap the top of the tree.3-19-2017 Perry...

"The Few Limbs Left On The Tree"

Since the ice storm breaking off so many limbs on the Red Bud tree, there is just enough blooms to cap the top of the tree.3-19-2017 Perryton, TX


There could never be a more beautiful day than what this Sunday morning brought us. It has been ninety degrees in the shade most of the day. I have watered all afternoon getting ready to spread fertilizer and weed killer tomorrow. The grass is already green and needs to be mowed. I am going to wait about mowing till the grass seeds. We need a thicker stand of grass. I am already enjoying the outdoor freedom. I see beauty all around me, and the birds are enjoying also. They are darting through the trees, and singing to the top of their lungs. I sat out on my porch and watched people walking a whole family at a time. This day is a blessing to all.

Church services this morning was also a blessing. I always enjoy the pastor’s sermon. I am so thrilled at the good number of young married couples who are faithfully attending church now, and teaching their little ones in the way they were brought up. It was for awhile that our church suffered the loss of young married people. It was feared by some that when the older members passed on, the church would die also. Not so now. There are now more younger people than older ones. We are praising God for that answer to prayer. I guess I’ve just been revived, and I sure needed to be. Most of the time when we blame our discontent of the church on others it’s usually us, and not someone else who is making us discontent. It may take awhile for us to build our faith back to where it used to be, but in time the faith we thought we had lost just doubled. How wonderful to be a chosen vessel for God.

The widowed men and women’s group who met at the Pizza Hut last night was another happy place to be. I am enjoying these meetings more and more all the time. It is such a nice group of people, and they always bring with them a cheerful note of laughter. Even the pizza gets better every time we eat there. The group meets at a different place every Saturday evening, until all eating places have been visited, then they start around the table again. Retirement is more fun than I thought it would be. I like being free to go or do, whatever I choose anytime I so do. We are the older, and wiser of the ex-laborers who walked by sight and not by faith. Our calendars and clocks told us it was time to go to work, so by sight we saw to that that every morning. We don’t have bosses anymore, and since we, the widowed, don’t have spouses we can go to bed anytime we want. Retired is one thing, widowed is another thing. Both at the same time can be confusing sometimes. Some day I think I will realize just how blessed I am.

God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp

Jean's Comment's: "St. Patrick's Day Celebration"

Jean's Comment's: "St. Patrick's Day Celebration":      More joy to my heart. Slowly, but surly, the flowers are blooming. 3-17-2017 Perryton, TX “Happy are the days when blooming flowers...

"St. Patrick's Day Celebration"

     More joy to my heart. Slowly, but surly, the flowers are blooming. 3-17-2017 Perryton, TX


“Happy are the days when blooming flowers surround you.” The tulips will be open shortly. I just enjoy my flowers so much. The pictures I have posted of these crocuses and buttercups, are down the steps of my front door. They are just out of my house enough to call them outside flowers. Several other kinds in this bed will be in full bloom right away. How nice it is to live with spring weather.

I am grieving the loss of a sister-in-law who passed away yesterday. She was my husband’s last sibling. I loved her so much, and her three sons also. She will be missed by many. She had lived in Oklahoma City every since she had been married. While going to beauty school there she met and married her husband. He preceded her in death about five years ago. One by one our family are being called to their eternal home. I must spend as much time as I possible can with the remaining ones. God has a plan for all of us, and I know it is the right thing. “Trust and obey for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.”

My St. Patrick’s dinner at the Center last night was nice. Several attended, and the food was delicious. I didn’t get pinched because I was wearing bright green earrings, but I got to pinch a friend. She immediately ran to find a green beaded necklace to put around her neck. It was a time when everyone forgot about their troubles, and laughed the evening away. I will be attending the luncheon today at the same place, with the last-night left-over’s  made up into Reuben sandwiches, potato salad, and a frozen delight for dessert. After this luncheon I will be anxiously awaiting the Widow and Widower’s meeting tomorrow night at the Pizza Hut. I am making up for all the times I stayed at home, and didn’t want to go anywhere. The more I go now, the more I want to go.

I still have time to do some painting, and work in the yard. I will be posting a portrait of Melania Trump posing in a blue formal, sitting in a Royal type chair at her home in the Trump Towers. I have worked on this piece for quite some time. It was just hard to make the feathers correct, since I didn’t like the way she was wearing her hair. Knowing that this pose was an elegant one, made me understand that the hair could not be flowing like in most of her other shots, but I still wanted to fix it that way. I just didn’t like her expression, but I finally got it somewhat right. Someone needs to take it from me so I won’t be changing anything else. I do like the portrait, and will frame it soon. Until then, keep watching.

God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp

Jean's Comment's: "A Dog Gone Sight"

Jean's Comment's: "A Dog Gone Sight": My friend, Molly, just came over to say good morning. Headed back home now. She knows I still love her. 3-16-2017 Perryton, TX It’s go...

"A Dog Gone Sight"

My friend, Molly, just came over to say good morning. Headed back home now. She knows I still love her. 3-16-2017 Perryton, TX


It’s going to be a lovely day. I was out checking the blooming flowers when my little next-door friend, Molly, came over to say good morning. She has to stay in her yard, except she is allowed to come see me when I go out. She has just a minute then she has to head back home. It’s very important to her that I pat, and say hello to her. After that she is satisfied, and goes back to her yard. Her master has trained her well, and she is very smart. Molly is loved by all the neighbors. She is a quite dog, and never barks except when something strange comes up, and she is sure her family needs to be notified. That is not very often. When I used to have the paper thrown in my yard, Molly would bring it to me if she saw me outside. She did expect a treat. My next-door neighbors on the other side leave their garage door open so Molly can come in every day and receive her treat. She has been doing this for years. These neighbors are Molly’s dog setters  when her family goes on vacations. Although Molly don’t talk she understands every word you say to her. She is an outside dog, and seldom ever goes in the house. At night she sleeps in the garage. Her owners barely know she is a dog, but they believe dogs are not suppose to live in their master’s house.

I had a few things I needed to do this morning before starting my yard work. If I do the yard work first, then I can’t do anything else the rest of the day. It really takes the zip out of me. I can only work about an hour and one-half until I am exhausted. That’s what age does to you. That is a good amount of exercise though. I am a pretty limber old lady. My bones do screech a little, but they are still operative. I am always so pleased to look upon my finished work at the end of the day. That makes the pain more bearable. Taking a break often, also makes the pain go away when I do something I really enjoy doing, like going on a short trip. I am always ready to get back home, and start to work again.

Mostly I enjoy listening to the news. There comes a time when I have to break from that also. There is no doubt in my mind that our country is beyond fixing to the original state. We must learn to live with great turmoil, and flexibility if we continue to live at all. Too many people have turned away from God, and are ignoring every reasonable, measure of wisdom. It is, no doubt, a time of pay-up, for everyone. I am prepared to settle my debt, and live with what I have left. One day at a time is all I ask, ”Dear Lord.”

God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp