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Blessings of the Ordinary Kind from Melva Loves Scraps

The last 10 days or so have been difficult... Oh, let me be honest... 2024 did not end on a very good note. It was challenging for our children as well as us. My Mom's house was a nuisance (but has finally been sold), our family has been facing loss at an uncanny rate... Cousins and cousins' children (both my side of the family as well as Dave's) have passed away.

Just this year... 6-7 weeks in, we have attended three funeral/memorial services. The father of a close childhood friend just passed away on Friday... news of ...

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Diet and Treatment Update from Jo's Country Junction

People of the world. I would like to make an announcement. I am finally getting great care from Mayo Clinic…and that is what I am thankful for this week. If you’ve been following along on the blog for awhile, you know that I am being treated for yet another round of thyroid cancer. This time …

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Thankful Thursday: Advances in Food Industry from Jo's Country Junction

I was out and about last Thursday. I went to the Twisted Sister’s Clean Out Sale. These are the gals that host the “junk” sales I always do it. It’s so fun to go. In February they rent the town hall and haul all sorts of goodies there and have a GIANT sale. I planned …

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Thankful Thursday: A Beautiful Choice from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful for a choice I made 37 years ago. Today …

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Thankful Thursday: Goodies from Readers from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful for the little gifts that have come my …

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Thankful Thursday: The Stages of Life from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. I loved the idea and have been doing it here. Today I’m thankful …

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Thankful Thursday: My Small Town from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful for out small town. On the 10th our …

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Thankful Thursday: Work Update from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. I thought I would give you a little update about my job and …

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Thankful Thursday: A Grandkid Weekend from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful that I got some one-on-one grandkids time. It was …

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Thankful Thursday: Spencer from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful that my ice maker is working again. It might …

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Thankful Thursday: Fall from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am so thankful that I live in an area of …

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Thankful Thursday from Jo's Country Junction

I’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. Last Saturday I was supposed to go to my son Buck’s house. We …

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Thankful Thursday from Jo's Country Junction

I’m going to be adding some Thankful Thursday posts now and then. On those weeks, I’ll move the “What I’ve been reading” posts to Friday. I read another blog, The Frugal Girl, and she does Thankful Thursday posts and I so enjoy reading them. I thought it would be something I might occasionally include as …

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Whimsical and Windy Wednesday from Melva Loves Scraps

If you have ready many of my stories/posts, you know that I am a huge believer in recording your life story. So often, when we are younger, we don't have the time to stop and ask grandparents, or even parents, questions about their childhood, their parents, siblings and grandparents.

The stories I have shared in my sew along events Pieces From the Past, Pieces of the Santa Fe Trail and Pieces in the Garden were possible because there was a record of memories made by family members that obviously thought the same as me.

Our daughters had given ...

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A Holiday Version of Thoughts & Things from Melva Loves Scraps

As I have been moving slowly, again, yet methodically, I have had so many thoughts... thoughts of gratitude for the times my slow improvement of recovering from viruses... as well as a few times of frustration and determination as I faced setbacks. I was frustrated when Dave was past the desperate need for cough medicine and lozenges and returned to his shop.

I, on the other hand, seemed to be getting worse. At one point (around 3 a.m. Monday morning) I was resigned to the fact that I would be making a visit to the local clinic. Dave began ...

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Thankful Thursday ~ November 3, 2022 from Melva Loves Scraps

With just two months remaining in the year of 2022 and looking back over the challenges we have had to face in the last two months, I am ready to send 2022 packing...

I've decided that I'll NOT focus on the challenges... they are in the past and to the best of our knowledge, been resolved... at least in some manner or another.

Rather... I'll focus on the good. I'll reclaim an attitude of gratitude...

I'll keep in mind the promise offered to those that persevere though life...

Blessed is the one who perseveres under ...

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Thankful Thursday ~ October 20, 2022 from Melva Loves Scraps

The Bible tells us that we should be thankful in all circumstances... not thankful FOR all circumstances...

I am repeating this constantly as I sit here (Wednesday afternoon) waiting for a prescription for shingles to be filled. I am thankful that I had the opportunity to utilize the free tele-health feature that comes with our insurance. I'm thankful that technology worked properly and that I was able to send a few pictures of the area of rash that I have on my arm. After a short discussion with a doctor on the phone he confirmed that my suspicions were ...

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Thankful Thursday from Melva Loves Scraps

As the season turns from summer to autumn it is naturally a time that turns many to thinking of all that comes with "Fall". The turning of the leaves... the final garden harvests... the first freeze and frost on the pumpkins... and let's not forget the Pumpkin Spice! And many seem to like to focus on Halloween (like my customer who requested a Halloween quilt including all of the "spiderwebs and skeletons and bats and purples and greens, witches, oranges and blacks and then pumpkins are fine but more like spooky Halloween stuff."

All of the blocks have been ...

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Wordy Wednesday from Melva Loves Scraps

This is one of those times that I share some of the deep thoughts that I have been pondering and considering for weeks and have finally decided that I needed to share... (can you tell that I have returned to actually quilting in my studio?)

It all started a few weeks ago while were camping mid-July... as I sat in our campsite and considered our surroundings and how it we take in all of God's creation with our senses...

Sight, sound, touch, smell and taste...

Taste & see that the Lord is good ~ Psalm 34:8... or as it says ...

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Thursday's Thoughts and Thanks - August 11 from Melva Loves Scraps

Yesterday Dave and I celebrated our 37th anniversary.

It was an ordinary day... we had breakfast, he worked in his shop, I was in my studio, made a grocery shopping trip... made lunch and dinner and we went for a walk at a park in town with the plan that we would let our dog swim in the pond to cool off.

Nothing too exciting... yet knowing that 37 years ago (that's 324,120 hours and 13,514 days) we became Mr. & Mrs. Nolan we both recalled so many memories! This is what I said on my private fb ...

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