I have a confession

I TALK THE TALK, BUT I DON'T WALK THE WALK

OF A

D I V A .....IN CONTROL OF HER DOMAIN

AS SOON AS ......
COMES OUT, I RUN AND HIDE!!!

AND COVER MY FACE......

I'M A CARD CARRYING MEMBER OF PABST (plastic attack bags therapy)
BUT NOTHING WORKS; however, the liquid refreshments served give me courage.

AND WE DON'T KNOW WHY THEY SCARE ME!!!

BECAUSE I LOVE PAPER BAGS....

ANY IDEAS ON THIS PHOBIA I HAVE?

SINCERELY,

MADI THE FRAIDY CAT.

Wordless Wednesday Whiskers

Madi has a question????

Madi: Sometimes I'm just busy thinking and Mom bothers me.....
Note from Mom: the tall chest behind Madi is the one she likes to jump on in the middle of the night. As you can see it has lots of drawers with lots of handles that clink and clank as she would jump up and down. Now you see why she doesn't sleep in our bedroom.

UPDATE On My Papa aka Mom's Dad.
The doctor at UNC said the bump below Papa's eye was going to have to be removed. It is a small area of basal cell skin cancer. The surgery is scheduled for September 15.
Thank you all very much for your concern and kind wishes.

Happy Birthday Jack & Essence of fish

Today, August 23, 2010, is my K9 friend Jack's 2nd birthday.

Happy Birthday Jack

Mom and I want to wish him a wonderful day filled with food, fun and frolicking.

Drop by to say hi to Jack. He is a handsome yellow Lab, with brown eyes...sigh....

Would you like an Altoid Mr. Fish?


Note from Mom: I'm taking my Dad (Madi's Papa) to a doctor's appt. out of town today.
I probably will not be able to visit you until much later today or tomorrow but I will catch up.
Happy Monday to you all and may nothing be fishy in your world today.
Mom

Steeple Sunday #24: Bayleaf Baptist Church

In the late 1870's a community of 25 families lived nearly 15 miles from the capital city of Raleigh. There was a one room school house in the center of the community. The school needed a name. The people of the community chose Bay Leaf becasue it was as close as possible to Bailey which was the last name of the majority of the children enrolled in the school.

Some claim the name Bay Leaf was chosen becasue of the number of bay trees growing in the area. Over the last four months of chasing steeples, I have been very fortunate to take most of my pictures when the sky is so blue the white steeples just pop out.

The church membership continued to grow over the years due to the population growth in northern Wake County. In March 1981 Bay Leaf Baptist Church membership accepted a recommendation to build a new sanctuary. The picture below is of the front entrance of the main sanctuary. The huge columns in front seem to be characteristic of many Baptist churches built in the late 1980's.
The picture below is of the side entrance to the church. Notice the difference in the size of the columns.
The picture below shows two steeples. The one in the foreground is shorter and is on the original sanctuary.

This picture was taken from the front of the church. How nice would it be to come out of church each Sunday to see these beautiful horses. Even though Bay Leaf Baptist Church is only about 8 miles north our home, the day I took these pictures was the first time I had ever visited the church.

On a more personal note...when Mom started working at NCSU in 1968 her supervisor was a desendant of the original Bailey family mentioned at the beginning of this post. It was Ms. Janie Bailey, who taught Mom how to crochet and nutured her love of the craft. Ms. Bailey was also an excellent supervisor who patiently taught Mom the ins and outs of working in academia.

Ms. Bailey has been deceased for many years but Mom still remembers her very fondly every time she picks up a crochet hook.