I Like Thursday 4

Welcome to I Like Thursday...I am calling this number 4 even though I did a whole month of thankful posts.  Hey its my blog world I can do what I want.  

1.  I like green glass.  I love the old Jadeite stuff, but it is a bit out of my price range.  But,  there is repop now, and some companies like Ball have brought out canning jars in green, blue, and even purple.  

There are people on Etsy that actually melt these repop jars into spoon rests and other things.  I had a spoon rest first.  I decided recently I would like a 2nd for my coffee station. 

2.  I like coffee.  I usually drink the Folger's Black Silk, but it is the holidays and so I decided to treat myself to Starbuck's Christmas Blend.

3.  I love sunrises.  It is a promise of the day to come.  The two oldest boys sleep at my house.  I get up at about 6 so I have some quiet time before I get the boys going at 7.  By 7:30 all 4 kids are here to catch the school bus.  I have to be outside with the 4 year old when he gets on the bus. While I was waiting the other day there was this gorgeous sunrise. 

Now if I had been on the ball this morning's sunrise was even better--alas no picture.  But what is great about the sunrise, the west side of my house, is still in dark because the house is preventing the light from reaching  the trees on the west side.

When it first starts to hit the giant oak, it takes on a blush.  I don't know if you can see it, but I love watching the play of colors and shadows across the tree as the sunrises.  A hint of pink to

4.  I love learning new things.  Recently I learned a term called "the blue hour" which is defined per Wikipedia as:

The blue hour (from French l'heure bleue) is a period of twilight in the morning and in the evening, during the civil and nautical twilight phases, when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon and when the residual, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue shade.

OK really there is a civil twilight, and a nautical twilight too?  So much to learn in this lifetime.  

5.  

I like this series called The Greenhouse Mysteries by Wendy Tyson.  I also have my sweet Bobbin posing by my book.  The stories take place in a small town called Winsome,  Pennsylvania.  I like the lead character Megan Sawyer who has returned home to help her grandmother after he husband was killed. 

6.  I like doing charity work and giving to charity--Please understand I am not tooting my own horn.   I have always felt like I have always been so blessed I want to pass it on, ever since my kids were little.   

The small church that I had attended after Jeff passed did a food bank once a month.  We got our food from a warehouse.  What was available was always changing, but didn't always help.  We would get cases of peanut butter, but no crackers or bread.  So I would run up to the bread outlet the day before the food bank and buy 50 loaves of bread, as my part as my part.  One time they had cans and cans of spaghetti sauce--I ran to the local discount store and bought 4 cases of macaroni.  

Quilting has opened some doors for me recently.  One church I attended, I noticed a couple of women there that had been guests at quilt guild.  I stopped to talk to them and was invited to a sew day.  They make simple quilts--just squares laid out in either full twin size, enveloped, turned and tied with yarn.  I helped for a couple of hours one day, and in that short time I made several new friends.  Tuesday two of the ladies invited me to go with them on a delivery run.  We drove to Flint to a Mission Church in a very run down area, and donated over 60 quilts.  They were thankful, but asked if we had any more we could spare?  Unfortunately we had donated all of the quilts which had been made in the past 2 months-  except for some baby and toddler quilts that had been earmarked for another charity.  They told us they had over 500 families sign up asking for assistance during the holiday.  They really needed bedding, quilts things to help keep them warm.  It is humbling the number of people in need.  

I grabbed a tag off of a giving tree. The kids on this giving tree have a parent who is currently in prison.   I was told that the limit for each person is $25 even though they have several items on their list.  I mean if they need shoes, a decent pair of tennis shoes is at least $30.  I went shopping and I had some coupons.  Imagine my delight that I got 3 things on my young ladies list for $28.  I don't think it will be the end of the world that I went over a couple of dollars.  

Being able to give back means so much to me.  Remember to give back to your community to help others not just during the holidays, but all year long.  

Check the other I Like Thursdays at Milo's (um I mean LeeAnna's) blog Not Afraid of Color.