~ Today is National Sandcastle Day ~
August 17 

Have you ever built a sandcastle? 
When Ian was little we had a sandbox,
and we’d put sand in those little round and square buckets then build our little sandcastles. 
He loved that…so did I!  He loved to build things! 
I took a ceramics class in high school, and thought one day I’d get into making pottery for a living. 
Not to be…but I love pottery! 
We’ve also made those cinnamon ornaments at Christmas time….
and we had our fun with play-doh, and modeling clay! 
Even got Ian the ‘Pottery Wheel’ where he could make his own pieces!  
We also had Lincoln Logs, and Leggos from which we built many forts and villages!  
Well, back to Sandcastle Day!  Here are some beautiful pictures of ‘sand art’, and of course these are not our own pictures, we are far from the ocean … but Ian isn’t so, at the bottom is Ian on the sand!  

Do you have any plans for the weekend?  First today…has this ever happened to you…
you stretch and something happens to your neck, and you’re unable to turn your head without pain? 
Well, I did that this morning, and now I’m off to my trusted chiropractor to fix me up!   
Then hubby is taking me to dinner after that.
We’re also hoping to go back to the fair again tomorrow! 
It’s actually supposed to be in the upper 50′s here in the morning! 
We’ll all enjoy that after the string of very warm weather we’ve had! 
Well, whatever your plans are…enjoy, and maybe even build a sandcastle this weekend!

Hugs,
~ Deborah <:))))><      



For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made:
marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
[and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;
and in thy book all [my members] were written,
[which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them. 
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
[If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
when I awake, I am still with thee. 
Psalm 139: 13 – 18

~ A soldier in ‘His Hands’ ~

This man is known as “Amazing Walter”. 
He sculpts many of these ‘masterpieces’!



Yep, below is a ‘sand-outhouse’!
Well, at least it’s built on ‘rock’!














 






~ The Anchor Holds ~




“The Pilgrim’s Feet”
{my son}


This is my son on the beach in Monterey. 
I love this picture! 
There is history that goes with this cross…
Spanish explorers ran out of supplies & had to go back to Spain … 
the cross was to serve two purposes … 
to bless the land and to mark where they had been.
Gaspar de Portola erected the cross in 1769.

Enjoy National Sandcastle Day!