For my crack pot friends

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck.
One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."

The old woman smiled, "Did you notice th at there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?" "That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.


SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

Summer Weekend Fun

Happy Summer Y'all!

I had the best summer weekend.

My BFF Traci is in town from Texas. We spent Friday it Mission Beach.

That big girl between Traci and I is Traci's daughter, Natalie rae. I can't beleive she's almost 2 already! She is so sweet. This was her first beach day. She was not really keen on the whole beach scene. The first time Traci put her down to walk on the sand she immediately reached up and began begging "UP! UP! UP!" She obviously has not heard about sand between the toes being theraputic.



She did a little better on the packed sand closer to the water's edge.

This is the first time Traci put her down in the water. Now I know she looks like she is attempting to climb Traci while keeping one eye on the water but she really did touch it and check it out before the " UP! UP! UP!"

Once we had traumatized her enough with the water we spent some time on the towels just sunin' and chillin'.

*GHAW* There's more. Why can't I load anymore pictures?!!!