Weekend Fun

Last week was such fun.  We watched little Miss Rio Wednesday night while the parents had a date night.  Clayton was quite happy to lend a watchful eye.

She enjoyed cottage cheese, cucumber, fig, asparagus and cauliflower.  Her fav though is truly cottage cheese. 

Then Thursday we all went out to In The Raw to celebrate The Hubby's birthday.  Ordering veggie rolls Rio got to enjoy a bit of brown rice and avocado, with chopsticks no less. 

The weekend I planned a huge party at the cabin on Friday night to again celebrate his day as it was his actual birthday.  Wow, it was a great success and The Hubby was thrilled.  

Saturday morning I took the golf cart and my trusty camera over to a fellow cabin to snap a few shots of his wonderfully decorated place.  I think I have several to paint! 

"Memories, like the corners of my mind"

"Memories, like the corners of my mind"

Yes that is what is happening at work lately.  Briana has been scanning and scanning everything we can bring her.  It definitely stirs up memories of years gone by.  I keep bringing more and more boxes of pictures and memorabilia for her to scan, my supply seems endless.  This all started when she started scanning our business scrapbook of 34 years of business.  Then she found pictures in an old desk and pictures in frames that weren't safe from her scanning fingers.  Then she brought her stuff to scan.  Today I brought "her" box of stuff of school papers, class pictures, coloring pictures, everything I have gathered over the years.  I have another box for Afton too, someday!  I also brought her buckets of old pictures from probably early 1900's to 1990's era.  Wow, the memories that popped out of the look through made me very nostalgic.  Soon I will share.

A Scanning Fool - Part 3

Oh boy did I love that my father was a Boy Scout leader. Here are a couple I went out with!

Awww, there is Bro, me and Sis.  We're holding our cousin's puppies.  I think the one Sis is holding we took home.  He was our sweet Pisan.  Like the kitty Momma loved to name our animals words we could not even spell.

Me at the lake, our usual hangout growing up. 

Awwww, here we are again.  Must be another Easter.

Us and the puppies, oh and there is cousin Martha.

Greatgranny's dog, Sandy.  We kids loved this dog.  He was our protector.

Finally found a fairly good picture of Polly.

The infamous vacation we took traveling through New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas.  Funny or really not so funny story.

See the camper to the right, well we took that vacation in that camper.  We three kids traveled in the camper shell while Momma and Daddy were in the cab.  We had our pomeranian, Bunny with us.  The story:  That truck was old, well, I thought it was old, sure is now.  It was not meant to go up the high roads in the altitude and one day as we were trying to make our way up, up, up to a camping spot the thing gave out.  Daddy, at the wheel had to back down, or rather it started going back down by itself.  He weaved and bobbed while we were in the camper.  Things started falling out of cabinets and off of cabinets onto our heads and we were tossed back and forth.  When we finally came to rest it was a nice green flat place and Daddy grabbed a beer, smoked a cigarette and then went to bed.  He was terrified and in turn totally ruined me on any kind of mountain and most car travel.  I'm better.

Again, our usual place most weekends when we were young.

My sweet girls...they were so angry in this picture that I'm surprised it turned out at all.  I love it though.

My pretty tow-head.  Wasn't (isn't) she a beauty!

A, playing in Granny's garden.

Comments vs Readers

The question today at NaBloPoMo is: "Would you rather have more blog readers or more blog comments?" I've pondered that question a few times before. Hmm, I have about 76 readers but in reality I have many more that just don't comment or are a part of the "system". I won't lie it would be awesome to hit 100 readers but I'm okay with my wonderful readers now. I definitely would like more comments. Sometimes you want to hear that what you are writing and sharing is okay. So, to answer the question, I would rather have more comments.

Picture of the day - At my vets office...Best Friends!

(sorry it's blurry-camera phone)

A Scanning Fool

I decided to get my Momma & Daddy's Wedding album out and scan some pictures on Friday.  What treasures I found in that album that I either had forgotten or mother had hidden behind other pictures.

My dear Daddy, #43 for the Broken Arrow Tigers, probably 1953-54

Oh my goodness, Momma.  What a cutie and those huge pants.

That would be me in my momma's belly! I was born June 56.

 A find behind a picture.  That is my Daddy squatting down by the bin of tops for fishing reels.   He worked for ZEBCO or formally known Zero-Hour Bomb Company during the war. 

"Whistle" - Momma!

Love this picture of Momma.

Wordless Wednesday

Camera Fun

I was having a bit of fun with stuff around the house.  What do you think?  May have to paint.

Step One

Step One:  Hang pictures.

The Hubby finally was able to start hanging the pictures in my messy room.  See the cat in the middle.  That picture was in my room (shared with Sis) for our entire lives and when I moved out, 35 years ago this month, it came with me.  I have always loved that picture and it hung in our girls rooms too.  My mother painted it.  Now, let me explain that it is not an original put a paint-by-number on canvas that was rolled up.  That picture is at least 60 years old and I love it.  The bottle and tomato on the right was done by Granny (Mom's mom).  The one on the left I don't know but I like it.  And of course on the easel are some of my paintings, unfinished and my goal to paint while on break has not happened.  Tomorrow is supposed to be the first day of class.  Hope it happens.

This one is a print that I bought for the youngest, A, and it hung in her room for a long time but she didn't want to move it.  I love it too and it is appropriate for me since I love books so much.  It is above my chair that I sit in all the time.   

Now we come to my art.  This wall will house some of my art and it will change occasionally, according to what I sell (HINT!!!).

This area is above my desk/table.  The shelf is flanked by two book shelves and originally a bed slid under the shelf but since it is my room it houses a table, my desk.  Those are my diplomas:  Associates-Business Administration, Bachelors-Organizational Leadership, and Dale Carnegie certificate (worked hard for that one too.)

Today, since it is black ice kind of stuff means that I'm staying put.  I guess I could go to work, maybe later but this morning while the roads are iffy, I'm in.  I don't want to be the guinea pig on the roadways at 5:30 in the morning.  I'm supposed to take Daddy to the hip doctor but hey, not making a new hip guy have to try and walk on black ice.  Besides it is supposed to start snowing later.  If I don't have to get out in it I WON'T!  This may but a hitch in my workout time but I'm just not going to fall and break a wrist or something.  A friend of mine, a few years ago, stepped out of her car at the movie theatre onto black ice, slipped and broke her knee, OUCH!  That would be me if not careful. 

Today I will stay in and finish cleaning up the room, that is my plan. 



Rain

Saturday Rain and Estate Sales

Fishing Man

Booooooo

The Versatile Blogger

Oh my I have been honored with an award.  I've not had one in a long time and this one is kind of fun.  Miss Cindy from Cindy's Clipboard has bestowed it on me.  The rules are simple. 

To accept this award I have to:

• reveal 7 truths about myself  (Kind of hard as I'm pretty much an open book here anyway.)
• select 7 blogs that I would like to share the award with (May not do this but will open it up to anyone who wants to take part.)

1.  I always, without fail, ALWAYS put my left shoe on first. 

2.  I have a pen pal that I have written to since 1972.  He was originally from Pakistan but now lives in Canada with his wife and two grown daughters.  Love, love, love to write letters.

3.  I'm basically a lazy person.  I could sit with my laptop, a journal, a few good books in one spot for an entire day without getting up except to use a facility and feed my face, and I've done that.  I'm very good at being lazy, just doesn't get much accomplished.

4.  Used to suck my finger until I was in the 7th grade and the ONLY reason I stopped was I got a funky retainer that prohibited me from sucking.  My mother tried everything to get me to stop.  Oh, and my sister revealed it to my best friend for spite, it devastated me.

5.  I love to watch witch, supernatural, vampire shows and movies.  I stayed up all night long one time to watch a Freddie Kruger marathon.  My favorite shows are Charmed, Supernautral and Angel.  I'm a fantasy girl too.

6.  Hate milk.  Hate to drink it plain.  I can use it in cooking or on cereal but no plain.  In fact, if there is a jug in the fridge that is over two days old I can't even use it on cereal.  ICK! 

7.  Used to love to collect poetry books, old, very old poetry books.  I even collected it in high school from friends who used to write it for class projects and stuff.  I probably have stuff of theirs they have forgotten about.  I would ask for their papers when they would toss them out.  I have an entire notebook of  it.  I don't write poetry but I so love it. 

Good luck all and thank you Cindy.

Ride Off Into The Sunset

Sometimes wouldn't you like to just ride off into the sunset...

What's That

Took this picture of the weed-eaten clematis this past weekend then realized that there was something special...

What's that I see on the rock...

Mr. Dragonfly snuck into the picture.

Happy Birthday

Yes it is Happy Birthday to my Sis today.  She is 51 years old and damn proud to have made it there with all of her health issues most of her life! 

This weekend was of course escaping to the cabin but we had a companion for Clayton, his buddy Mondo, our daughter and hubby's dog.  Clayton and Mondo love each other and play very well together.  Here they were anxiously watching for The Hubby to return on the golf cart so they could go for a run.

The weekend was truly a hot one.  I stayed on the porch until about 1 and then I was inside to the cool.  The puppies stayed in and slept the whole time.  Too hot for them I guess.  We had plans for dinner at one of the other's ccabins and I made an awesome appetizer and blackberry cobbler. 

The appetizer was called Chili Cheese Squares...travel to the cooking blog to see the recipe (no pic's I'm sorry).  Easy and so very good.  The blackberry cobbler was a no-brainer but the secret was the crust that my mother taught me and her mother and her mother...very simple, flakey and tender. 

Sadly the weekend was over too quickly but before we could leave Mr. Jimbo and The Hubby had to have a confab about concrete walls, propane tanks and building stuff.  Yadda, yadda, yadda.

All the while the two boys and I were waiting in the air conditioned truck (thank goodness)...

I soon got tired of the wait so I popped out of the truck to see what the two were yaking about with camera in hand.  I found some interesting pictures to take and possibly paint...

That's Grump, stopping by on his golf cart to see if he could add some input.

The road in front and around from our cabin...

then...

the wood rack...see something odd there...

I got closer...

Cool huh.  I thought so.  It looks like a worm has kind of eaten the wood and left trails.  You can kind of see a face in the middle. 

(can you tell, I'm trying to post everyday...)