Changes

Good evening and welcome Through My Back Door. The coffee is on and help yourself to a cookie. The rain has stopped and we can sit out side where it has cooled off a bit if you like. I love these evenings when it is cool enough to sit out. It seemed summer would never come this year and I am loving it. Life has been very busy for me with the trips and and just living. It has occurred to me, that I am always busy and obviously I like it like that, so I won't complain. Recently I have been thinking about changes. Do you ever do that, just reflect on the changes in your life? Changes that have come so quietly, you didn't notice them until one day you realize that things just aren't the same?
When I started blogging it was all about decorating, collections, antiques, etc, and I notice I have gotten away from that. I don't do much tweaking anymore. My house is pretty much staying the same. Some of my friends are the same way. They say they just aren't into decorating like they used to be. Don't get me wrong, I still love all of those things, I have just quit collecting, as I don't need anything, I have no room, and I hate to admit it, but have lost the desire to add to my existing ones. Changes. I even passed up a pair of candle snuffers and a putz sheep when I was in Pa in  March. That would NEVER have happened a while back.
I was going through some pictures and I will share some of them with you. These are not new, but nothing has changed. I notice Dasko in so many of my pictures as he loved the camera. As soon I would get it out, he would move to where ever I was going to take a picture.lol 

This hasn't changed in a year and a half.

That bench is in the kitchen now. So that changed. I look at this and I see friends. The paper feather from Pam and Frank. The onion bottle from my friend Carol. The Candle holder from Amanda. The clay pipe Corner Antiques and the FW runner the Speckled Hen. The pillow on the bench from Daybreak Place was made by Carol.

This mirror still hangs in the same spot in the bathroom. I treasure this mirror, from my Grandparents home.

A lamb made by Sharon in a handmade basket.

Haven't changed my mantle.

My love of redware hasn't changed.

My love of Christmas hasn't changed.
Some of the changes I am feeling are I haven't seen some friends this summer I usually see and enjoy so much. I am not hearing from friends I used to hear from two or three times a week. I am not doing some of the things I enjoy doing. Why? I honestly do not know. Friends are so important, don't you think? Changes. I don't like it when I feel sad because of change, do you? I know it is impossible for things to stay the same, it just isn't meant to be, but some changes just make you feel sad and others make you feel good. What kind of changes are you going through? One thing I hope doesn't change, and that is you coming Through My Back Door where life is good.
betty
PS: One of the good changes is some of our old bloggers have blogged again! Yeah
PSS: If you, like me, have not seen some old friends, do what I am going to do. Call them and go to lunch. If they live too far away to do that, call them anyway.
PSSS: Continue to remember to pray for some of our bloggers who are having some health issues right now and others who are making  changes in their lives.