Grammy duty calls

This week I will be careing for 2 of my grand children while their parents are in New Orleans. My hubbie and I were there many years ago. Talent is just ooziing from the cracks in the sidewalks, from every door of every establishment, around every corner. If you enjoy music, especially jazz and blues, you gotta go there. Attached are pictures of the two I will be careing for this week. Danica is 15 and Mike will be 14 this month.

MEME

I have been invited by Charlotte to play a game called "meme" and I must tell you eight things about myself you might not know. Then invite eight bloggers to play. Well, I am very sorry but I don't know eight bloggers. I know three personally and one of them, Clif, I don't believe will play. So, I will try to tell you the eight things and Charlotte and Kala will perhaps respond. Kala and Charlotte will know some of these things.

1. I was married for 40 years before the Lord took my husband home to sing with
all the best basses that ever were.

2. While the Lord allowed me to have him we did some wonderful things.
Thankfully we didn't say, "When we retire we will do thus and such".
Thankfully because he didn't get to retire.
I believe the most wonderful and exciting thing was: We bought twin 850 Suzuki
touring motorcycles, packed a sleeping bag, a change of clothes and took a
5 week trip from CT to CA and back. The next
trip was from CT to Nova Scotia. There were many smaller trips in between.

3. My first boyfriend was in the 5th grade and I kissed him while hidden in the
corner of the school house. Many years later, across town, he ended up
attending the same high school. It was a large school, I saw him but he
didn't see me.

4. Popcorn is my favorite snack. I sometimes have it for supper.

5. When I go outside into my garden early in the morning I enjoy it so much
I work until I almost drop with fatigue, but all the while I am enjoying
what I am doing.

6. I think I may have been hyper when I was a child. My mom had to call someone
to pull me down from the roof when I was just a very small kid. One time
I must have escaped (once again) and was in the middle of Hwy 60 (at least
I think that was the Hwy that ran right in front of my grand parents house
in Thayer, Mo. At the time it was only a two lane road.

7. My baby brother and I loved to play/dance in the summer rain. My son who is
10 years younger that BB just stands under shelter and shakes his head at his
mom and his uncle.

8. I wear a size 11 shoe. I will not let anyone tell me I have big feet, just
long. They are very narrow. Used to be 11 AAAA. A bit wider now but still
narrow enough that it is not easy to find shoes that fit. When I was a teen
and my shoe size was a 10, I came home complaining because I couldn't find
a pair of shoes, my dad said, "That's OK kid. Just think how funny you would
look if half your leg wasn't turned down for foot".

That's my meme. Connie

Come ona my house

Yesterday I went "to town" to have the oil changed in my car. I also did a little garage sale-ing before I headed home. I decided to take you on the trip with me. I will try to get the pictures in order. I took a picture of my house then the little street on which I live. My street is a country style of a city cul-de-sac. It has my drive way, my daughters drive way and ends with an entry into someone else's drive. Each picture will be another road that leads to my house. There is a picture of the bank of mail boxes. My mail box is about 5 miles from my house. My BB (baby bro) picks up my mail each night on his way home from work. I took a picture of the pretty wild flowers. Lupins and a daisy type flower. I took a picture of where the pavement ends and then there is about 5 more miles of dirt, washboard road before home. The last picture I took is of the frontage road (on which I have to travel to get to the series of roads to get home) and right across to the left is Hwy 10 heading to Phoenix. There is a very busy railroad track that is about 5-8 miles from my home as the crow flies. A nice engineer just happened to be passing by when I was taking the picture so I had to take a picture of the train as it passed. I hear the whistle many times a day and night. I wondered how many trains passed by there each day and I believe I learned that there are appx. 65 trains in 24 hours. I don't "do" numbers well and my have forgotten the correct number. At any rate there are a lot of trains in a 24 hour period.

Left out

Checking out Charlotte's blog early this a.m. I found that:

I had not been chosen
I had been left out
I am feeling really rejected
I....I.......I......doesn't the world revolve around me?

Just teasing of course but I had to "take cuts" and get into the fun.
Here is what it is all about. The following is what copied it from Charlotte's blog.
=============================================================================
Yesterday I was tagged by Ginger http://enchantingcottage.blogspot.com/ to do a six word meme. Here are the meme rules: 1. Write your own six word memoir 2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like 3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible, so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere 4. Tag five more blogs with links 5. Remember to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

Here’s my six word memoir: “God has blessed me beyond belief.”
===================================================================================

Charlotte's words could be my own but along with the other things I learned in grammer school, I learned it was not a good thing to copy from others so...below are my own.

My six words are:

Check 2/28 for my six blessings.

Will that work? And ain't it just like a grand mother to do something like this?

By the way, I don't remember many people's blog address so I will just let the people on Charlotte's blog read this one.

S-----h-----e's------b------a------c------k

I simply haven't had anything of interest to share with anyone but me lately so I haven't been on here. Today, I have a little thing to share. Some time back I found a wonderfully clever pattern for crocheting a rug. It is clever in that it takes two strands of yarn and the instructions end up making a rug that is a full
1/2 inch thick! It is not relaxing to make. It is so heavy and cumbersom that it is simply hard work. The first rug I made came out all whopperjawed so I kept it for myself. It is still a very nice rug to step out of the shower on but UGLY! The rug I finished yesterday came out much improved. Middle Child has claimed it. She has Pfaltzgraff dishes with the grey and blue pattern called Yorktown. It will go very nicely in her kitchen. I will take a picture of the first rug and let you groan along with me and then you can see the second rug. I will probably make more of those rugs to put in the craft sale at church but I will finish some of the other projects I have waiting patiently for my attention.

What is this?

Does anyone know what this tool is used for? It came to me via a goodie bag from a thrift store. I love finding those bags. They usually have all kinds of treasures in them that I can use in my sewing room but this is one I can't figure out. Can anyone tell me what it is and what it is used for?

Gatorade, resting and just breathing

I, once again, didn't have anything to share early this a.m. I finally got up a little "go" to go with my "get up" and went outside. All it takes to get that go
a-goin' is just to get outside. The first thing I found were these beautiful yellow flowers growing, took a picture and then saw that my whole desert is covered with a mat of these beautiful tiny blue/purple flowers. Those beautiful tiny things will soon turn into tiny little monsters. They will soon dry up and have either burrs or goat heads all over my desert. Goat heads are a tiny little things about the size of a match head with one very sharp, hard thorn. Little monsters. After a while, my veggie garden started calling my name. It said, "I am in danger of strangling because of the bermuda grass coming in, HELP" So, I started digging out the roots of the bermuda. I had hung the camera on the gate so I wouldn't forget to take it inside when I wore out and along came BB and he took a couple of pictures of the ugly-ist flower in my garden. ....oh yes, the other picture is of the lettuce coming up.

HE never sleeps, HE never slumbers

Sometimes when I get up very early I make the comment, "I woke up before God this morning". I know, I know, He never sleeps, He never slumbers, I just try to make a comment that will make someone laugh. At any rate, I was up before 5 a.m. this morning and I have nothing to share. I will just try to find a picture you might like to see. I won't know what it is until I take a look. I have started carrying my camera in my purse all the time in case I find a good picture.

OK, the picture I chose is a picture of my two oldest grand kids. When Grammys run out of things to share we can always show you the pictures of our grands. This picture was taken last Summer in Cleveland, TN at Kala's school. She will be 21 this coming Sept. and Spencer will be 18 y/o. I know, I know, they look like bro. and sis. Can't make a mistake on that observation.

One of my favorite things to do

Yesterday I didn't have much energy. Even tho' the energy was not there, I simply cannot sit with my hands folded. The picture is of a tiny pair of baby slippers I made. They are only about 3 1/2 inches long. The pattern I have claims it takes only about an hour to make a pair. Well, perhaps the second pair. It takes me several mistakes while learning a pattern. It also claims that this is what the creator of the pattern found to do with "walnut size balls of yarn". I suspect that is a bit of an exageration. Hummm. What is the opposite of exageration when something is smaller ? Anyway, the slippers are made from verigated yarn and each slipper will be a bit different. I will probably make several slippers and then try to match the pair to the closest in color.

My desert

One of the many things I love about living in my desert is the view. Sunrises and sunsets are sometimes awesome. The picture I attached was taken last night as I bid my baby brother goodnight.

Fri. & Sat. way too long

Friday and Saturday were too long and too much away from home. Garage sale-ing were the good parts, delivering two 150+ lb. dogs to a destination about 40+ miles one was was not a good part. NASTY, ALL OF THE DOG PART. Becky (daughter and I) were doing the delivering and I will not discribe the nasty part but it was good to get home and out of that car. The picture attached is of my baby brother taken Sat. evening. Son-in-law Bob had dinner waiting for us dog deliverers and BB. That was also a good part.

WHO IS that old lady?

Often, when passing a store window or a mirror and see my reflection I wonder who that old lady is that has taken my place. As I get older, I am still the 16-30 y/o inside and I don't care for what the years has done to the outside. I am blessed that I am in good health and am not often limited in what I choose to do so shouldn't complain about the outside but...WHO IS THAT OLD LADY?

Yesterday early a.m.

Yesterday, after bragging about my grandkids, I thought about you and took a walk with my camera. All of the pictures are in my back yard I own 8 acres and there is a small forest of Saguaro Cactus. To those of you who are not familier with my desert, that cactus is pronounced Sa-wha-ro. If you can work a little clearing of the throat sound in the "wha" part, you have it. One of the first pictures is a baby Sahuaro. One of the last pictures is a dead Sahuaro. Next to the baby is a picture I took in a wash (dry riverbed when there is no rain) of a growth that looks a bit like Shamrocks. I think I need to take another early morning walk before the heat destroys everything.

WHAT? Nothing.

I guess I need more coffee. I can't think of a single thing of interest for you this morning so, I will just do as grammys have done thru the ages. I will show you the pictures of my grand children.

Worthy of Jeff Fox-Worthy

I am a person who takes great pleasure in using what I have to do what I want to do and NOT running to a store to get what I need. In the picture you will see what I have done with left over pieces of materials from my porches. Last year I used them to line the borders in my vegetable garden. I decided I didn't want to do that again. The pieces get lost in the growth of the veggie plants or covered over with dirt. Not a good thing when the garden was tilled again for next year. We will see how long the Red Neck Porch lasts. There is nothing but dirt and sand around my house and a whole lot of it gets tracked in when this door is used. Hopefully it will help. I will attach a couple of pictures of my house and porch.

YIKES

YIKES? I should have previewed todays post. The picture is the remains of the garden last fall during it's last hoorah. I will try again.

READY...SET...GROW ! ! ! ! !

After two 4-5 hours on two Saturday, baby brother Carl and I got the garden cleared, tilled, tilled again and then leveled and ready to plant. I spent a few hours on a few different days planting. I decided that this year I would heed the package directions and give the plants the required space. Except for the expected Bermuda grass (which I will have to fight all summer or it will win) it is ready to grow and has already started. The lettuce, beans and beets have topped the soil. I spent a good share yesterday of planting my daughters garden. (She is not able) and paid for it yesterday and will continue to pay today. It is hard to move right now. Today I think I will go over there and plant melons, just out of reach of the dog. Hopefully, the dog will scare the little varmits away that would eat the plants. Just an experiment. We will see if it works. I LOVE SUMMER. Of couse it isn's Summer yet. Just feels like it. It is supposed to be in the 70's & 80's in the forseeable future. YEAH! The Ol' Farmer Lady

Another week ahead to look forward to

Yesterday was Sunday. A day of rest, from the blog anyway. As for the rest of the day, it was church as usual then work on a knitted vest I am working on, plant a few hills of tomato seeds and then tilled the garden area in my daughter's land. I think I will get that garden started since they don't have the time nor the energy to do it. My garden is nearly all planted. I love playing in the dirt.

Charlotte, I will attach the pictures of the only things I have left from my childhood except the good memories. One picture is the sad little Story Book Dolls my Aunt Carmon made the clothing for. The other two pictures are of hair and body parts I picked up at a thrift store with the thought of fixing up my dolls. I found that I don't have the interest in pursuing that after all.