Happy Anniversary July 12,2008

Happy Anniversary!! Happy Anniversary!! Happy Anniversary!!! Happy Anniversary!!! Yes you are seeing double pictures and I wanted to make double sure you knew it!!! We had the most wonderful wonderful Anniversary!!!!!! At the Top you see Raymond and I with our FIVE YEAR OLD CAKE TOPPER and cake wire of the bride and groom Raymond made and the happiest girl in the world!!! ME SUSAN!!! We had the most wonderful Anniversary day we sat around and reminisced and looked at photos and our scrapbook. NEXT!!!!! SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE!!!!Our Precious Friend Deb and the other nurses and Residents at Autumwood Thu us a Anniversary Party!!!! Deb and others there keep an eye on our website and Deb told everone and Deb made a WONDERFUL YUMMIE cake and our other friend Nancy and the residents designed a card for us!!!! Everyone signed it too!!! Both the cake and the card were made with such love!!! We are soooo blessed!!! Thank You!!! What a wonderful 5th Anniversary Memory for us!!!! I am the luckiest woman ithe world!!!!! God Bless you!!! We love you all!!

Raymond picked the roses out of the rose garden he planted for me for our anniversary!!!

Port Austin Farmers Market Kids Day

Here is Depner Farms Peppie The Chicklett, John and Hector The Holstein at the Port Austin Farmers Market. John and his sweet wife are 2 of the very busy organizers of this event!!!! There is something here for everyone!!!! They even have Horse Drawn Wagon rides thru Port Austin FOR FREE at this event!!!!! This is our 4th year we have attended this wonderful event!!!! It is a MUST GO TO!!!

Spring Event -Embracing Our Earth IV -Part 2

Here we are at Embracing Our Earth IV at Laker High School April 26, 2008. First Notice the wonderful suit Raymond has on and the cool hat I have on!! All together all the paper Raymond recycled and the tuxedo I sewed it took us together collectively 40 hours. To the left we are with our Dear Dear Friend Bill Diller. He is pretty photo shy but we managed to get him to pose for this photo.

Next the lower photo is us with State Representative Terry Brown. We even "sorta" got Representative Brown to do the chicken dance with us.?? Kinda. :<) To the right is the group Tropical Mix we had the privilege to play and sing with!!! We had a blast dancing with them too with their steal drums!!! Thet Loved to sing and dance about The Lord so it was even better yet!!!!!!!!!!

Spring Event: Embracing Our Earth IV --Part 1

Here is Raymond holding up one of the 7 bags of paper we were given by a dear freind. He ground the paper in a blender and made it into pulp and squeezed and squished and SMUSHED the water out as you can see in these photos getting ready for our first Spring Event we were invited to sing at called:"Embracing our Earth IV" at Laker High School April 25, 2008. What a wondeful event it was it made us very concious of how much we waste and don't re-use and don't recycle. It hs changed our lives!!!! We had wasted the precious gifts God gave u but not any more!!!! With this paper I sewed a Paper Tuxcedo and a Top Hat for Raymond and Raymond made 3 base ball type hats one for me to wear one to give the friend who gave us all the paper and one just for fun!!! We were very blessed to be asked to this event. It was a real NEW WAY OF Life Opener!!

Chicklett Hamburger Head Holstein

Hi Peppie The Chicklette Here!!!
Well here I am with Hector The Holstein and Dave The Hamburger Head!!! What!!!!! This Is Dave The Administrator of Autumnwood promoting to eat Hamburger right in front of Hector The Holstein!!!! Poor Hector how sad he must be to be standing there with Dave The Hamburger Head!!!! (Actually I put it on Dave's head to Bugg Hector !!What a good sport!!!) Hector and I did a Children's Nutrition Program at Harbor Beach Community School. A long time friend of Hector, Shelly Boehmer had asked Hector and I to preform this program but the nerve of them they had chicken roll up sandwiches to eat!!! Hector kept on telling everyone to eat them too!!! That could of been a cousin!!! That really Bugged me!!! Speaking of Bugging here are some trivia questions on Health and Nutrition lets see how much you knew. God Bless you and stay away from those chicken drumetts hamburgers are better!!! Signed Peppie The Chicklette
Which of the following nutrients is needed as the main structural component of the body? Carbohydrates Protein Fat

Which of the following nutrients
is known as the sunshine vitamin?
Vitamin C Vitamin A Vitamin D Hector and I thought it was C

All of the following are needed
for strong bones except:
Vitamin A Calcium Magnesium

Which of these nutrients is the
preferred energy source for the body?
Carbohydrates B Complex Vitamins
Fats

This nutrient is needed for a healthy immune system and strong connective tissue:
Vitamin K Vitamin C Fluoride

Which of the following is the best source for Omega 3 oils?
Wheat products Pork Sardines

This mineral is essential for healthy red blood cells & a deficiency causes anemia.
Iron Magnesium Iodine

This vitamin is needed to prevent a birth defect called Spina Bifida
Vitamin D Vitamin A Folic Acid

This nutrient is needed for healthy thyroid function:
Iodine Fluoride Chromium

Hope You enjoyed The quiz!! God Bless!!!

Autumwood Banjo Début

Well, with Great Gratitude and Thanks I would like to Thank our Dear friend and Resident at Autumnwood Hospital Harold L. Smith for his prayers and encouragement to play banjo. Since we have been singing at Autumwood he and I struck up a great friendship. Harold told me “I played anything with strings on it.” Including banjo. He told me how he was a Nazarene Pastor and later in life how he and his wife had a “Nursing Home” Ministry. He told me you need to get going on that banjo and play it because it will add to your and Raymond’s Ministry!!” Then he said “I and my wife are going to get busy and pray.” Wow!!! And I believe they have!!! I can’t tell you it is like The Lord has given me a wild fire to play!!! I hear banjo music in my head as I am walking around just doing my daily chores at home!!!! I have been soooo blessed!!! Prayer has worked for my banjo playing!!! Harold and his wife Orpha got the ball just a movin’!! Before that for 4 years I have been a banjo wanna be trying and very discouraged now I have new hope, life and new music!!!! You know most people relate banjo music with "that's too twangie of music" but I truly believe The Lord is going to help me to make it lovely for Him!!!! Another Harold L. Smith Thank You--- Harold had his son Davis E. Smith, bring us 2 of the pieces of music he wrote to honor The Lord. One is named “The Other Side” (1984 D.E. Smith Publications Copyright) it was arranged by his son David.The other Harold wrote was named “Thanks” (Copyright D.E. Smith Publications U.S.A.)also arranged by his son David E. Smith. What a honor and joy it will be when we learn these songs and sing them and tell the story about Harold and Orpha’s prayers for me to play the banjo as I am playing Harold’s Wonderful Written songs on the banjo!!!! NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!!! (Which it seemed impossible for me to play the banjo!!!) Thank You Harold and Orpha and all other’s that may have prayed for me to play banjo!!! With Much Love and appreciation, Susan L. Bugg and Raymond too!!!
One week later. Praise The Lord!!! I am soo happy I debuted my banjo when I did because now our dear brother and friend Harold L. Smith has gone home with The Lord. I am sooo happy to have met him !!! From his quick reaction to his wife "lets get busy and pray," he has inspired me to always be prepared to pray and encourage!!! Harold encouraged me even the last time I saw him here on this earth!!! I truly believe from all his friends and families stories of what a wonderful man he was he inspired many, many people to follow The Lords leading and be a light to the WORLD!!! What a honor and a privilege to know him!!!! God is soooo good!!!

Purple Is A Pretty Color Autumwood Deckerville Hospital

During the time Raymond was in his Leprechaun "Getup" he got lots of cute comments about his "nice legs". Well, this was the cutest!!! One of the Residents had said Raymond had "Nice Legs" to our sweet friend and she she said"Yes he does" to the Resident and all of sudden we saw her TURN RED BLUE AND PURPLE WITH A DEFINITE BLUSH since she said that. Our sweet friend ran back and forth at the back of the room almost trying to like HIDE her RED PURPLE COLOR BUT THERE WAS NO WAY SHE COULD EVER HIDE THAT PRETTY BLUSHING COLOR!!!!! We thought that she was adorable and what a nice complement for Raymond!!! He does have very nice legs!!! But some of the costume's he has to wear to show those legs, poor guy!!!Darling!!!!! Here is Raymond and our "Blushing Friend" at Autumnwood at Deckerville Hospital!!!

St. Patricks day Fun At Harbor Beach Lakeview Extended Care & Rehab Facility

Raymond and Richard Jam !!

Volenteer Chuck and Friend>

Raymond sings to True Irish Woman "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"

"Happy St. Patricks Day!!!! Here we are at Lakeview Extended Care & Rehab Facility, What a nice party the residents had!!!!! Everyone was ready to sing Irish Music!!!! Of coarse you couldn't have Irish music without a Lepricoln!!! Meet Raymond the Lepricoln!!! His costume was hot off the presses of my sewing machine!! We sing here every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month we join our friend Richard Roberts at this facility to have a whoppin' good time!!! What do you think of my costume and Raymonds? A friend had said to me joking, "You let your husband out of the house like that??" I am sooo blessed to have a husband that goes all out for the cause!!! The ladies noticed Raymond had nice legs! On that thought of Blessed with nice legs I would like to end with some Irish Blessings.

An Irish Blessing
Grant me a sense of humor, Lord, the saving grace to see a joke, To win some happiness from life, And pass it on to other folks.

An Irish Blessing
A BLESSING FOR YOU AND YOURS May the grace of God’s protection And His great love abide Within your home-within the hearts Of all who dwell inside.

An Irish Blessing
May the best day of your past Be the worst day of your future.
An Irish Blessing
May this home and all therein be blessed with God’s love

Christ be with me, Christ be within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger Christ in hearts of all that love me Christ in mouth of friend and stranger. FROM THE BREASTPLATE OF SAINT PATRICK

Here is the best kind of Blessing that is straight form The Word Of God For You!! May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for one each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. 1 Thessalonians 3:12
God Bless You !!!! Irish Couple? >

Some of the gang!!!

Valentines Day At Autumnwood at Deckerville Hospital

Valentines Day Fun!!! Here is our friend at Autumnwood at Deckerville Hosspital. She asked us to take a photo of her after we let her see what she looked like in our mirror. She giggled and said ooohhh pretty!!! Here is another photo of another pretty friend dressed in Bugg attire whom Raymond The Love Bugg is with at Autumnwood. We are sooo blessed to be able to bring joy and smiles to folks!!! You can do it too!!! Visit your local Nursing Home Facility!!! And Be Blessed!!!!

Here is some fun penny candy Trivia. Do you know the answers???

Individually wrapped in waxy, brown, white and orange paper, twisted at each end, a small, chewy chocolate-flavored confection. 3 for 1 cent. What are they?
a. Chocolate Rollies b.Tootsie Rolls
c. Indian Babies

Covered with a sugar glaze, these small, yellow candies first taste sweet then tart then sweet, tart, etc. 5 for 1 cent.
a. fire balls b. Sweet Tarts
c.lemon drops

A five pack of a sugary sweet liquid sealed in wax bottles, complete with its own carrying case. 1 pack 5 cents. What were these novelties called?
a. Li'l Nips b. Lucky Nips c. Nik-L-Nips

Paper straws filled with sugar and tart flavorings like orange and lime. A penny a piece.
a. Pixy Sticks b. Pixie Dust
c.Flavor Straws

Individually wrapped, bright, day-glo red and layers of various colored cinnamon. 1 cent each.
a.Jawbreakers b. Atomic Fire Balls
c. Cinnamon Balls

Is there anyone who hasn't enjoyed a slab of Bazooka Bubble Gum? What were the colors that appeared on the wrapper? 1 cent each.
a. blue, white and red
b. red and white
c. yellow, pink and blue

Raymond our Prince Charming and The True Prince of Peace Jesus free valentine to you

The saying is you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you get the right Prince Charming. Well, here is a picture of my Prince Charming and all the folks at the Nursing Home facilities we sing at Prince Charming. Raymond is such a wonderful, loving, thoughtful man and a wonderful sport for the cause of loving folks to bring them joy laughter and smiles. But most of all help to bring them get close and fall in love with the Real Prince, The Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. Here is a Valentine PROMISE that will last forever and ever and ever it is a free gift from The Father. John 3:16 For God so loved the world (that is you!!) that He gave His One and Only Begotten Son that whosoever ( you ) shall believe in Him shall be saved and not perish. It is signed Love, God. (Your Forgiving and Most Wonderful Father of all) We love what we do, we love to make folks laugh and love them when they cry but what a honor and privilege it is to tell them about our Lord Jesus Christ’s love for them and His forever PROMISE!!!! God Bless you all as you share the Wonderful Promise We Have!!!

Valentines and Birthday Fun at Sunny Acres

Here we are at Sunny Acres in Bad Axe Michigan for a Valentines Birthday Party!!! Here (center photo)are some of the crowd of Love Buggs and the birthday boy on the left. The gentleman (Milton) next to me Volunteers at Sunny Acres and is the head of the Men’s Club here at Sunny Acres. The Men have Men’s Club is every Tuesday. (Also Milton is wearing a very famous wig that Kent Tibbits our Huron County Sheriff wore) Also here is a picture that is worth 1,000 words (right) Raymond is singing to our friend who can't hear but reads lips. Raymond is singing the song” Let me call you sweetheart," and look at her smile!!! Also, look how fun loving Sharon Activity Director is dressed in our Love Bugg wig!!! Can't forget Cheryl doing the hula!!(top left)Well, with all this fun we had I'd like to ask you a question, doesn’t it look like fun to you??? I'd like to challenge you that if you play a instrument, or sing or even enjoy reading a book out loud, visit your local Nursing Home Facility and give some love, you will be amazed at how much love you will receive back!!! God Bless you.

The Reluctant Clown At Autumwood in Deckerville

What A Wonderful Time we had at Autumwood at Deckerville Hospital in Deckerville!!! Even the Hospital Administrator was clowning around!!!! But at home didn't start wonderful. Here is the story- You see my Mother was a Clown, in parades at my Elementary School (I went to Zion Lutheran in Harbor Beach) and just for fun she loved to clown my Dad too, but that is a whole other story. In 1942 she made her wonderful clown costume. It stayed well preserved at my Cousin Jan's for years. 2 years ago she said "Susan I have your Mothers Clown Costume, would you like it??" I didn't even know where it had went and here Jan had been caring for it for a number of years!!! Well, now to the reluctant Raymond the Clown Story. Autumwood wanted to do a fun program to encourage and uplift its residents in January since it was after Christmas and snowy and they had to mostly stay in soooo Thus a fun Clown program staring Raymond The Clown!!!! Well, my husband wasn't real fond of my Mothers Clown Costume, she worked soooo hard on it tooo!!! Everyone say ahhh,

:<( Additional information: 3 years ago Raymond bought us Clown Shoes for Christmas wouldn't he think I would want to use them??? (Note: Again-I didn't even know where the costume was and if it hadn't been for my adorable cousin Jan well, I don't know when I would of got around to making a clown costume!!!)Going back to Raymond not being thrilled about the costume, I think he thought I was going to stuff it and make it very big and HOT but I wouldn't do that to my husband . (Though I made him a HUGE CHICKEN SUIT with a HUGE BIG FATTTT TAIL and me a itsy bitsy little chicken suit with a tiny little tail for the Depner Farm Chicken Maze in Caseville 2006 check it out The Depner Farm Corn Maze for someting wonderful to do!!!!!!!!!!) At---http://www.depnerfarms.com/index.html Well, Raymond wore the suit and we had a blast!!! What a legacy!! Hopefully the legacy carries on, our Son Eric sings and plays guitar and asked if he and his girlfriend Emilee could have Christmas Songs and the Cords for his guitar to go Christmas caroling. We gave Eric and Emilee Wonderful Christmas hats to wear for their Caroling. (they tried to go but plans change but maybe next year--but they wanted to but it was a start to give them a teaser to do what we do, always a hopefull MaMa I am) Eric is not at the Clown stage yet but maybe when he is older and has grandchildren he will see the importance of wearing his Grand Mothers Clown suit!!! To get you in the mood for Clowning around in a Facility on your own here are some Photos and some trivia . (ans.= Answer)

In clowning, there is a hierarchy, with the White Face clown at the high end and the _________ at the low end. A) hobo ans. B) class clown C) Auguste clown

Would-be clowns can imitate another clown in everything except the A) clothes B) act C) hairdo D) face ans.

To trademark a clown face, a clown sends a photo of his/her face into the Clown Registry, where the face is then painted on a _____________ and kept in the registry. A) wall B) goose egg ans. C) glass

In order to join the Moscow State Circus, clowns must go to the Moscow State Circus College for Circus and Variety Arts for-

A) 7 years ans. B) 8 months C) 4 years

What famous clown was originally created by Capitol Records in the 1940s as a character featured in a series of children's records? A) Bozo ans. B) Weepy Willie C) Clarabelle

Santa Claus is the most widely recognized face in the world. Who comes in second? A) Bozo B) Emmett Kelly C) Ronald McDonald ans.

Emmett Kelly was a famous clown with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. What was the name of his classic clown character? A) Lonely Louie B) Sad Sam C) Weary Willie ans.

Red Skelton’s characters included all the following except: A) Clem Kadiddlehopper B) Freddy the Freeloader C) Paddy McPugg ans.

Known as “America’s Favorite Clown”, Red Skelton signed of from his shows with A) “Now it’s time to say good-bye” B) “Good night, and God bless”ans. C) “Thanks for sharing a laugh or two”

Now as we say goodbye we would like to close with the Clown Prayer and hope it a special prayer to you and we pray it continues to be special to us!!! Good Night and God Bless.

A Clown’s Prayer---- As I stumble through this life, help me to create more laughter than tears, dispense more cheer than gloom, spread more cheer than despair. Never let me become so indifferent, that I will fail to see the wonders in the eyes of a child, or the twinkle in the eyes of the aged. Never let me forget that my total effort is to cheer people, make them happy, and forget momentarily, all the unpleasantness in their lives. And in my final moment, may I hear You whisper: “When you made My people smile, you made Me smile. -Anonymous- Good Night and God Bless.

Right In The Kisser Suprise Birthday Party

Here is Raymond's Suprise Birthday Party spent with some of our 6th-8th Grade Sunday School Students. Actually it was our Christmas Party 07 but really a surprise Birthday Party for Raymond . The teens made their very own personalized special Birthday cards for Raymond shot him with silly string we sang Christmas Carols, shot Raymond some more with silly string, ate dinner, shot Raymond with still more silly string what a fun night and what fun they had shooting "Mr. Bugg" with silly string!!!! Hopefully we are teaching our Sunday School Students that being a Christian is FUN too!!! Also, adults can have fun and a sense of humor also!!

Fun With The New Wig and just plain fun

We have a new wig!!!! A really fun wig!!!! The first one to wear this new wig was Our Very Own Huron County Sheriff, Sheriff Kent Tibbits.(Middle) The fun thing about it he has a lot of supporters!!! Folks wanted to wear the wig when they heard Sheriff Tibbits wore it!!! Here are just a couple photos of folks wearing the wig. Also, here is a photo that was taken at the Bad Axe Senior Fair 07 where Sheriff Kent Tibbits came up to Raymond and took his cap and put it on Raymond. Then I stuck Raymond's hat on Sheriff Tibbits!!! How wonderful to have our Huron County Sheriff with a fun and exciting sense of humor!!! When you think that the world is getting hopeless and in pitiful shape we can testify to the fact that there are folks EVERYWHERE who love to have fun, be silly and light hearted!!!! We bump into folks who love to be silly every single day of our lives!!!! God Bless you and remember if Life gives you lemons try to make lemonade!!!! Visit a Nursing Home Facility and share a smile!!!! You'll make a Smile!!!!!