tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62712252024-03-18T04:48:55.353-05:00Quiet LifeDonna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.comBlogger4049125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-31122760275576648392023-12-06T19:19:00.002-06:002023-12-06T19:19:31.643-06:00He just had to fly... Frost.i simply adore poetryeach line in this cute poem surprises with it's funny story.the first time through you're not sure what will happen next.It's charming. Encourage one another,Donnawear your red hood Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-38018713160929018542023-11-10T12:26:00.002-06:002023-11-10T12:26:17.103-06:00Happy Anniversary to our guardian angels.Happy 50th Anniversary Nancy and Binky!In the early fall of 1973 Nancy and Binky were a young engaged couple. Nancy was a junior at Stephens College in Columbia Mo. and Binky was a college grad starting his business career. He followed Nancy to Missouri to be near her as she completed her college studies. No one could imagine that their plans would change so suddenly.Our Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-59382288308715967612023-09-29T20:19:00.000-05:002023-09-29T20:19:17.664-05:00Fifty years without you....Always.Always. Always.Remembering and loving and missingour beloved Mom and Dad."I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought, and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love."~Leo Buscagli"If I had a Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-25260105958048171382023-08-23T12:44:00.006-05:002023-08-23T12:44:56.418-05:00Add to the Beauty: WordsI heard an actor recite this and thought it was amazing.I can not say this has been my philosophy but I find many parts of it inspiring and uplifting!Passing on the splendid torch sounds just right.“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-54368027421365723712023-08-14T10:44:00.001-05:002023-08-14T10:44:44.515-05:00Add to the Beauty: Surprises A few weeks ago Katie sent me this picture. It's our car, parked outside of her apartment in Madison. She was startled and a little worried to find it wrapped in what looked like police tape.No ticket.Not parked illegally.hummmmOn closer inspection I noticed the tape says Findorff. Findorff is a huge construction company in Madison.They happen to be building apartments Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-71390587360529447132023-08-07T09:57:00.000-05:002023-08-07T09:57:06.158-05:00Add to the Beauty: Words“The first week of August hangs at the very top of the summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-17585962843029128542023-07-30T16:13:00.012-05:002023-07-30T16:21:16.753-05:00Add to the Beauty: A Summer VisitI took a short trip up to Minocqua to see two of my sisters and enjoy some time on the lake.I saw loons and eagles and hummingbirds and deer.But I will remember most, the remembering.It's not easy to remember things from fifty years ago, but it's darn fun to try.Thank you Cindy, Pat and Nancy!Love you all so much.“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-70344507582313370452023-07-16T23:52:00.013-05:002023-07-16T23:59:40.199-05:00Add to the beauty: memories In the summer of 1975 (my seventeenth summer) I lived in a cottage on Lake Minocqua. I had a job at DeByles clothing store and worked 5:00-9:00 Monday thru Friday. The rest of my time was spent reading and tanning on the dock. I fed myself ice cream and stayed up every night playing Yahtzee until the Star Spangled Banner came on the tiny black and white tv. It was a Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-70478296719665219992023-07-12T22:22:00.002-05:002023-07-12T22:22:59.067-05:00Add to the Beauty: Lullabywith Zekewith KatieJames Taylor is really the chillest singer, isn't he?His guitar playing is my absolute favorite.with Griffin ReidOur newest grandchild.Patrick and Shelby, Dottie and Silas welcomed Griffin on July 5th.So thankful and blessed to have another child in our lives to love.Encourage one another,Donna Elsieand i still love you Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-24292255178067641762023-07-01T21:33:00.001-05:002023-07-01T21:33:16.318-05:00Add to the beauty: SongsI'm forever jotting down songs to sing to the babies in my life. When I am under pressure I sing a little song called playmate from the 40's. Oddly, it is the number one song that is always on the tip of my tongue. I have a tune that I add words to and ad lib. It's not pretty but it's handy. 'What'll I do" from the Great Gatsby once brought little Katie to tears. I canDonna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-25160189376291852132023-06-28T09:56:00.000-05:002023-06-28T09:56:34.665-05:00Add to the beauty: FlowersBesides their beauty,flowers are story keepers. Snapdragons TalkHostas PopPeonies DroopDaisies CountQueen Anne's Lace Decorates“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ~Victor HugoEncourage one another,DonnaDonna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-25750891067110232402023-06-23T13:45:00.002-05:002023-06-23T13:45:55.364-05:00Add to the beauty: PhotographyMemories.Summer shadows.Thirteen year old Katie.My oldest grandchild will be thirteen in August.He is tall and loves to play baseball and I bet his shadow looks like daddy long legs too."Love is the most important thing in the world,but baseball is pretty good, too." ~Yogi BerraHello again, everybody… It’s a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball. ~Harry CareyI will never regret taking a Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-87492864088722074482023-06-21T14:53:00.000-05:002023-06-21T14:53:56.608-05:00Add to the beauty: Poetry, blogging*******I started my blog in 2004. Many of the original readers and commenters are homeschool mothers. Family and homeschoolers. (Mainly from The Well Trained Mind boards)Then Ree, the Pioneer Woman, also a homeschooler, joined the blogging world and invited me to write for her website. (I was inspired to pick up my big girl camera from her photos and then in turn she Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-43739647446410282832023-06-16T10:54:00.000-05:002023-06-16T10:54:02.421-05:00Add to the beauty: MeaningI'm reading the through the Bible this year. Started in June with the encouragement from Allie, Proverbs 31 girlYesterday we finished Job. Allie's comments on suffering and eternal focus were just perfect and I wish I could share then but they went away. (Clips on Instagram stories only last 24 hours unless they are saved in a special place). However, Allie also Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-9974730714178792312023-06-07T16:33:00.000-05:002023-06-07T16:33:51.864-05:00Add to the beauty: A prayerI jotted this prayer down over twenty years ago. It was found in an Elisabeth Elliot book.Now it is my time. It's for me.Lord, You know better than I know myself that I am getting older and will someday be old. Keep me from... the fatal habit of thinking I must say something in every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-12794276158654766132023-05-19T18:03:00.002-05:002023-05-19T18:03:21.987-05:00Add to the Beauty: Poetry, PictureBed in Summerby Robert Louis StevensonIn winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite the other way,I have to go to bed by day.I have to go to bed and seeThe birds still hopping on the tree,Or hear the grown-up people's feetStill going past me in the street.And does it not seem hard to you,When all the sky is clear and blue,And I should like so much to play,To have toDonna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-87859199166088217162023-05-08T12:04:00.004-05:002023-05-08T12:04:56.439-05:00Add to the beauty: Poetry 'An Unexpected Guest' by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.An Unexpected GuestClick the link to hear a lovely poem. I tried to get it on this page, but alas, my blogging skillz are rusty.I think this is a rather unexpected poem and i just loved it. Moved me to tears.I was waiting for the last line....Encourage one another,Donna ElsieDonna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-7771520003157234542023-05-01T22:32:00.002-05:002023-05-02T10:22:01.264-05:00Met Gala: Miz Boo: Searching for BeautyKarl Lagerfeld: A Line of BeautyMet Gala 2023Like it. Love those shoes.Hello, pretty, nice, lovely looking couple.You look elegant tonight.One of my favorite black and white gowns. This one is so lovely.My favorite!!! The fabric is the classic Chanel tweed. It's a perfect play on Chanel and something different and beautiful.LOVE LOVELOVEThis nutty dress is my favoriteDonna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-71356016307661290012022-03-28T12:24:00.001-05:002022-03-28T12:25:18.146-05:00Beautiful Graceful CatherineLovely, lovely Catherine. I collected a dozen dresses from the oscars last night but i'm so disgusted by that farce that I would rather highlight someone who is serving others and looking amazing while doing it. Also. I think you would like the movie Coda. It was only on Apple TV which I know very few people have, but it is a story of a hearing girl in a deaf Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-78605227355670931582022-03-18T20:05:00.002-05:002022-03-18T20:05:18.420-05:00Oh boy.“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”~John AdamsI just read a few of John Adams' quotes.Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-51967257772495534742022-03-04T14:24:00.006-06:002022-03-04T14:25:09.780-06:00You were made for greatness“The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”~Pope Benedict Oh to only have a tiny pinch of that strength.Such an encouraging quote.More and more I see how we are not meant for this world. We are meant for another.God bless those around us who are suffering great loss and fear and tragedy.Lord hear our prayer.Encourage one another,DonnaDonna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-7593243717574195882022-01-20T13:39:00.000-06:002022-01-20T13:39:15.121-06:00Dashing into the New Year....2022 I wanted to share my Christmas card with you. Since I, again, do not have a whole family photo, I had to find an old picture and do something creative. The fact that none of what has been happening in our world is a surprise to God gives me the greatest hope. His promises are true. He can not lie. The world and the devil are full of lies. Many Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-81819288728782971682022-01-06T12:07:00.000-06:002022-01-06T12:07:46.294-06:00A most beautiful listenHave you ever listened to the Bible on tape or phone or youTube? I have not, but decided to find a source.I tried an app and found it hard to work and thought maybe I'd like to listen to a woman's voice for some reason. As I searched youtube I happened upon this gentleman. I started listening and LOVE it. What a glorious voice and beautiful reading.His name is Sir David Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-41185076067089522712021-12-24T10:20:00.001-06:002021-12-24T11:03:46.596-06:00Dear Baby Jesus Christmas is for reflecting. Looking back at your own life and remembering special, warm, happy times.Remembering.It's for remembering the story of Jesus' birth.What that means to you and your faith.The story of baby Jesus and Mary and Joseph is important to mebecause it is where my faith begins. And when I get overwhelmed with this crazy world,and theology and stuff I think about that Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271225.post-80732983719955012682021-12-22T17:10:00.003-06:002021-12-22T17:10:54.185-06:00Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin Family Christmas Show 1967I've yet to watch this one all the way through, but I'll be doing that now....Dean and Frank. How we loved them. As I watched the sing Marshmallow world, which is the cutest snazziest song, I hadn't remembered Dean being so silly. And to be honest, I didn't remember the song at all. Cindy made a Christmas CD many years ago (when we burned CD's) and she put Donna Boucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699431983937413613noreply@blogger.com0