<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:18:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Sunday Reflections</category><category>Menu Plans</category><title>Faded Pickets</title><description>looking at the world through a white picket fence</description><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641.post-1798303649511690752</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-20T08:00:02.657-04:00</atom:updated><title>(almost) Wordless Wednesday</title><atom:summary type="text">

Our Beach at Sunrise

</atom:summary><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/2012/06/almost-wordless-wednesday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UECFXMYuie8/T9VDAsMmlRI/AAAAAAAAAGI/MHzfaWCQjDk/s72-c/294944_3812209431005_630825894_n.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641.post-4894888410599168130</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-17T08:41:37.400-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sunday Reflections</category><title>Sunday Reflections: Looking through Other People&#39;s Windows</title><atom:summary type="text">
Every single person on the planet has a story. Don&#39;t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you. ~~ Unknown

I had a conversation this past week that has left me reflecting. &amp;nbsp;The conversation was centered around my staying home and the woman I was conversing with was looking for work. The ending sentence was, &quot;Well, you are very blessed to be able to stay home and</atom:summary><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/2012/06/sunday-reflections-looking-through.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641.post-4732341039493267305</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-14T16:21:33.980-04:00</atom:updated><title>On Being Alone</title><atom:summary type="text">
Being solitary is being alone well:&amp;nbsp;being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice,&amp;nbsp;aware of the fullness of your one presence rather than of the absence of others.&amp;nbsp;Because solitude is an achievement.- Alice Koller

Greg is going out of town tomorrow for two weeks. &amp;nbsp;He will be in Panama where they are building an orphanage in the northwest mountains. &amp;nbsp;He </atom:summary><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/2012/06/on-being-alone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641.post-5840526816964989980</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-13T08:00:01.453-04:00</atom:updated><title>(almost)...Wordless Wednesday</title><atom:summary type="text">



Simply Beautiful....Our New Granddaugher



</atom:summary><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/2012/06/almostwordless-wednesday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C3IBc-82MCM/T9U_U_q3uoI/AAAAAAAAAF8/0L0BePb9prE/s72-c/IMG_0333.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641.post-1553402998904819314</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-11T08:38:39.977-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Menu Plans</category><title>Menu Plan Monday</title><atom:summary type="text">
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what&#39;s next. The mind is kept nagging busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day. – Brenda Ueland










Do you Menu Plan? &amp;nbsp;Shop with a list? &amp;nbsp;When I use to blog before I always linked up with Organized Junkie&#39;s site, it seemed to always help me start my week off with a plan. &amp;nbsp;The Hub </atom:summary><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/2012/06/menu-plan-monday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641.post-2685703662762922582</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-11T08:39:03.221-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sunday Reflections</category><title>Sunday Reflections</title><atom:summary type="text">
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it. — C.S. Lewis

How do you explain to someone who may not get it that you are Christian?  Especially when the world has put such a negative image to the word, Christian.  I am slowly becoming addicted to Pinterest, I actually only allow myself to be on there once a week </atom:summary><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/2012/06/sunday-relections.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6282844654357191641.post-1220062379420110150</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-06-09T08:21:26.799-04:00</atom:updated><title>By Way of Introduction</title><atom:summary type="text">“When I&#39;m good I&#39;m very, very good, but when I&#39;m bad, I&#39;m better.” ~~ May West
So, I&#39;m blogging. Again. I haven&#39;t touched my little part of the web here is about three years. Then one day not long ago I thought, hum, maybe I should blog again and here I am.  

I thought it would be fun by way of introduction to do my first little meme.  That way you could get to know me a bit.  I would love to </atom:summary><link>http://fadedpickets.blogspot.com/2012/06/by-way-of-introduction.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Judi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>