Pensacola Rocks!

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Please read Part One, for a little more background.
Pensacola Rocks Meets Laurel MD Rocks!

The Beautiful Pensacola Night Sky

     Visiting Pensacola and knowing about Pensacola Rocks. What a highlight!  People say "Oh Florida it is so hot and humid." Nah, Florida is any hotter or more humid than Laurel.  Besides I love Summer! It is my favorite season. Everything is alive and beautiful. The sun is out most of the day. The best thing is, it's hot!

Just a Few Rocks!

     I didn't get to hide all of my rocks. So I left some hidden for my niece and nephew.

Beautiful blue water at Pensacola Beach

A few of my other blogs
Wigs for Kids! I am Getting Antsy!
Later Spring Flowers!
Favorite Easy Dinner!

Laurel Maryland Rocks Visits Pensacola Rocks!

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We are getting ready to go on a Journey!

     

Monarch butterfly
Not the Maryland State burtterfly
But our state butterfly is dull and ugly
looks like a moth. 

    A few years I visited Pensacola Florida. That's where I learned about The Kindness Rocks Project. People paint and hide rocks. Hoping that someone will find them and it will brighten their day.





     So then home to Maryland. Hoping that there was already a Laurel Maryland Rocks. There wasn't and this is how Laurel Maryland Rocks was born.

Laurel Maryland Rocks on Facebook! (shameless plug, like my page)
Laurel Maryland Rocks

Blessings!

     I searched Facebook and found Pensacola Rocks! This is a closed group. I think that you will have to have a Facebook account and join to be able to see this page.
Pensacola Rocks

I adore Pineapples!

    After that, Frederick and Dundalk Rocks. These are also closed groups so you may have to join?
Frederick Rocks
Dundalk Rocks

    

    
     Leave a comment below if your city participates in the Kindness Rocks Project! More blogs on the project are in the works and your city might get a shout out!

Something I need to remember!

If your city doesn't have a Kindness Rocks Project. It is so easy to start. Just paint some rocks and hide them. It is also not terribly expensive. 





~Buy or find some rocks. 
~Please don't steal landscaping rocks from someones home or     business.
~A large container of blue or white acrylic paint 
~I think those are the only paint colors that come in large  containers? 
~When you get into buying varying colors. It can get a bit spendy. ~Paint markers and outdoor shellac. 

     I use Rustoleum the clear and glossy. I like the paint pens from Michael's Craft stores. I cannot remember the brand. I buy most of my project materials from Michael's Craft Stores.

    
 Make sure to write the city they come from on the back. Plus that you hope for them to take a picture and share it. 

Without Pensacola Rocks
I would have never learned abou
The Kindness Rocks Project

                Be careful where you hide them

~Hiding them in a store may get someone accused of shoplifting. 
~You don't want to put them where a lawn mower may pick it up and throw it into a window or something fragile.
~Private property without permission. May get your precious rock thrown away.

   
    
    

In Maryland we are known for our blue crabs.

   
   
     The drawback to painting rocks. Is that after you paint them and release them into the world. You may never find out what happened to them. I have painted and hid about twenty. I only know what happened to one. A few of them weren't in the hiding places when I returned. So I hope that they were picked up. 

Because YOU are!

    Still hoping that this will catch on. In Laurel Maryland. So far I am the only one that I know of. If you're also out there. Let me know in the comments


      A few more close ups of rocks that I painted for this trip. I am sincerely grateful to Pensacola Rocks and the Kindness Rocks Project. Painting rocks is wonderful therapy.







  

I also love Clovers

      
                                               

These rocks started out with another idea. They have been repainted several times.

Thank You So Much!

     My final Rock. That will be headed to Pensacola, with me!

     






I hope that you enjoyed this blog. I sure enjoyed writing it.  Here are a few of my other blogs.
What I Have Been Doing! Progress Report Part 2
Wigs for Kids! I'm Getting Antsy!
Favorite Easy Dinners
Later Spring Flowers!
The Purpose of Laurel Maryland Rocks!

Wigs for Kids; I am Getting Antsy!

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     The reason why this particular blog was born. Knowing my tolerance level. For the same hairstyle.  Seeing so many lovely ladies with darling layered bobs and highlights. Seriously isn't a bob just the best hairstyle ever invented?

Thank you Irene Castle!

History of the Flapper Part 4

     I knew that I would get bored. Start craving, yes craving, a bob with pink, lavender and blond highlights. So this blog was started to keep me accountable to the goal. Contributing in part to a wig. For someone whom for whatever reason, cannot grow their own hair. 

     I always like to donate to charity around my birthday. This year my charity of choice was Wigs for Kids. Thank you to everyone who donated! It is a great charity. They take money as well as virgin hair, that is hair that has had no chemical processes. 

Fundraising
Donations

June 8th Progress

February 19, 2019

Around the same time?

December 13, 2017

<<< Hair not curled. Taken a 

        months ago, hair uncurled.

>>>>>

With curled hair.

Cannot remember. Taken about the same time?

     My hair is seemingly growing so slowly. Will hang in there and keep it up. This is such a good cause.

I realize the Mr Churchill wasn't talking about hair.

Wigs for Kids:

https://www.wigsforkids.org/

How to Apply for a Wig?

Donating Your Hair

Frequently Asked Questions

My previous Wigs for Kids blogs:
Part One!
Part Two!

   

How Have I Been Doing?

The Beginning, but not Really
the Beginning!

    The Beginning, but it isn't really the beginning. This has been a part of my life, forever and ever and ever and ever.........

Other blogs about my weight loss struggle.

What Have I Been Doing? Part One

What Have I Been Doing? Part Two

     
     Hello, my name is Ordinary Girl and I am a binge eater. Sunday is my worst day. 

My progress so far. Not where I
want to be.

     Week Four? Interesting.

    What week is it? 
    Haven't kept up with this blog. Not like I should. Lost all track of tracking. Life has gotten in the way.

    Life has been really trying and stormy lately. I am once again being sifted like wheat. Recovering from binge eating is hard. The struggle is real.  The stress and pressure to fall back into old patterns of using food as comfort, is real. I must turn to God as my source of comfort. Food doesn't satisfy. Maybe for a moment, but not in the long term. 

    It seems like. There is always a rainbow after the storm. No matter the storm. God always brings me and my family through it. I am human and every new trial is a hard one, but I need to remember that God will bring me through it! 

     

Well a small victory
To spite me habit of sabotage.

       So not much progress, but it is progress. Working on my triggers. 

Let's see where I am at in say, three to six months! Or More, Maybe at the start of 2020!

**Please Note**
I am not a doctor, dietitian or health professional.(I think that would be a big duh!) (a real health professional that actually went to school for years and took a bunch of tests) 
My experiences are all mine and unique to me. You may require something different. Please consult with your health care specialists.

A few of my other blogs for your reading pleasure.....
Spring Flowers!
One of My Favorite Easy Dinners!
Later Spring Flowers!

Later Spring Flowers!

May the wind always be at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face and 

until we meet again.

May the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand.

~ Old Irish Proverb ~

Now for the lovely flowers. Hoping they brighten up your day! These lovelies speak for themselves.

Allium or Ornamental Onion
I know Allium sounds better

Marigolds
Repel moles and other
rodents

A few of my other blogs
What Have I Been Doing? Part Two
The Process
One of My Favorite Easy Dinners!

One of My Favorite Easy Dinners!

     Sometimes after being out all day. I need a quick and easy dinner to prepare. 

   My first go to when running around and needing a quick dinner. Was the grocery store deli. Or a hamburger and french fries from a fast food place. Sometimes the struggle is real and I still visit the deli or the fast food restaurant. Working on doing that less and less. Cooking more meals at home and controlling the ingredients.

I posted a blog about this easy dinner before,
Adventures at the Olive Bar!

    .....but I changed a few things.....


   The original dinner didn't have any tomato sauce. So chopping up some Roma tomatoes and then sauteing them in a skillet. With just a bit of olive oil. Adding a bit of garlic, onion, basil, a dash of salt and a pinch of sugar. To your taste. Personally, my preference is less salt and sugar, with more seasoning. 

Chopped up some Roma Tomatoes
added garlic, onion powder and basil

     Meatless "meat" balls from Aldi. These are so good! Really I promise!

I tried cooking the meatballs in the oven first

Meatballs heat better in a skillet
than the oven

     My favorite garnish. Kalamata Olives and fresh Mozzarella cheese. 

Added some asparagus

     Cooked Asparagus on the side. 


     I served all this on Rotini pasta. If you wanted to be super healthy. You could serve it on spaghetti squash or zoodles. Or even roasted veggies

    It was delicious!

A few of my other blogs.
What Have I Been Doing? Progress Report
What Have I been Doing? Progress Report, Part Two
Wigs for Kids!

Early Spring Flowers!

     This is my favorite time of year. Except for when winter creeps back in. Like an uninvited and unwelcome guest. The weather is finally mostly behaving. 

     Time to switch out the dull and boring winter clothes. For the pretty and colorful lovely spring clothes! 

     The pollen is bad. I suffer from allergies. Warm weather and bad allergies is much better than cold weather and no allergies. Although I have allergies year round. I will take warm weather any day.

Crocus

Daffodils

Hyacinth

Hot Pink and Purple

Spring Cheer!
I have a lot of Spring Cheer.
Love the name

Tulip

     Can't wait for the other flowers to bloom! It is an exciting time.

A few of my other blogs. For your consideration.

What I Have Been Doing? Part One
What Have I been Doing? Part Two
The Process
Wigs for Kids! Part Two