You all know how I love to have fun with everything, but it’s been such a struggle this morning to laugh in my heart with all the flooding going on around us. Joetown is ok last I heard last night, but they are sandbagging on the south end and expecting the worst . Though there Read more about #84…ah…..Spring! Welcome to Floods, Flowers and Weather Alerts![…]
It’s not fun getting older. I work longer days and get less done only to accumulate more projects! Working this fall and winter sweeping the house of every project, every loose thread, everything undone and unfinished for years! ! ! Working on photo albums, researching family genealogy for my DAR application…..cleaning out every closet and Read more about #83……..Wrapping Up Winter Projects….[…]
This is a difficult, overwhelming road to travel, putting together facts PROVING who my family is/was to qualify to become a Daughter of the American Revolution. Already we have found 5 Patriots in our family and it is so exciting to realize how many women that I am mother and grandmother to, ok, great-grandmother Read more about #82…On the Road To Becoming a Daughter Of The American Revolution (DAR)[…]
Russ HATES to paint. There is no worse thing to ask him…”Honey………….could you just cut out the ceiling atop the ladder because it’s too tall for me to reach??? Honey?” The man is GONE! He will gladly spend 4 hours removing the baseboards and taping off all the woodwork he has not removed, but Read more about #81……When hell Freezes Over and Hairlips Every Cat in the County….[…]
Judging by my Facebook gang, I’m probably the only person who truly loves winter and does not want it to end….. yet. OK, so I was raised in Cleveland Ohio and had to walk uphill both ways to school, YES during lake effect weather! How did I survive! But for every obstacle, every cloud, Read more about #80……Revisiting a Midwest Winter[…]
Four things I know for certain, in concrete….We have to pay taxes, and then we die, mail is delivered come rain or shine………… AND pigs don’t fly! The foundation of my beliefs has crumbled, pigs DO fly, so out comes the Dyson Pet Vacuum (Beds, Bath, & Beyond ON SALE of course, AND THEN Read more about #78… My Foundation Has Crumbled….PIGS DO FLY ! ! ![…]
Reading may be a delight to some…to me it’s a back breaker. Yes books are wonderful if I can sit down long enough, and if I can make it to the 3rd chapter, then the hook is set and I will read almost non-stop to the end…edge of chair…nail biter…can’t put it down. But Read more about #76…..Gone to the Birds, I Need Answers…….[…]
2 Too & Bobby came to town on Black Friday from Pensacola. What to do but have #1 daughter, Connie and her sidekick, Jeff-in law to join us to celebrate simultaneously Thanksgivingchristmasandbirthdays over some real good food! Such a festive evening. No, I did not forget to put the rice in the green rice Read more about #71…We Three Girls From Disorient Are…………Lit Up! ! ! ! ! !@[…]
There was a time in the early 70’s that our English language got pregnant and Webster’s Dictionary started bulging, methinks with quadruplets, as new words and definitions came alive, new sayings abounded and everything changed. What used to mean one thing now meant something else. Now I became ok and you were ok…..as we Read more about #58…Warm Fuzzies and Cold Pricklies…….[…]
The flowers are sitting on the garage floor. Winter coats and hoods are trending. Our Missouri seasons are now Fall Winter Winter Summer….maybe. People here say it will probably be a sizzling one. But it is Missouri and we are familiar with temps dropping 70 degrees in one day…the norm, you know! I have just Read more about #49…Morels postponed till July! Get Out the Christmas Lights. April Snow Showers Keep Coming….[…]
