Monday, August 30, 2004
AlmostThe Last Day Of August 2004
Yesterday I took it easy (ain’t as young as I used to be) even took a nap in the late afternoon. I woke up wondering why I hadn’t slipped out of my clothes until I spied what time it was.
So today it was haul all the freshly washed costumes back upstairs to the closet. I deposited the clown trunk, hats, wigs, and balloon pump back in the basement.
Next came cleaning the bird cages, and Molly’s cat box so I could take the garbage and recycling down to the end of the driveway for pick up tomorrow. Also remembered the cardboard I’d cut and tied up to go down too.
In between chores we took time out for lunch. We had a mug of Campbell’s Golden Mushroom Soup, Toasteds butter crackers covered with Gourmet Crab Spread with Green Onions, and Lemon Chiffon Yogurt over seedless Green Grapes. On the diet --Don’t know and don’t care --it was good!!
I did a run through of the family blogs today spreading my two cents all around and then played Free Cell. (on game # 22040 now.) I finally finished rereading book III of The Dark Tower by Stephen King and started rereading book !V ‘ Wizard And Glass’ which is 240 some pages longer than the last book for a total of 668 pages. That will bring me up to book V ‘ Wolves of the Calla which I haven’t read before and ‘Song of Susannah’ book VI. Somewhere in there I have to slip in the last two Reader’s Digest Select Books and ‘Twisted” a collection of short stories by Jeffery Deaver. Also the Reader’s Digest monthly magazine came in today. Golly I will have a time keeping this house clean with all this reading to do! (any excuse is better than none)
That’s my news on this second to last day of August 2004!
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Saturday Afternoon!
What to do on a Saturday afternoon?
Get Merribell out of retirement because it is for charity!
Add Flutterby and Grandson JP to the crew along with our camera man aka the balloon blowing man aka the invisiable man and we are ready to go!
This is what we do!
In a beautiful lakeside setting !
With Cuties like this to makes us smile!
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Mildred And Pa
By golly that looks like a kitchen floor Mildred!!!
Yes indeedy with a shine and all Pa!
What ever possessed her to show us a picture of her kitchen floor Mildred?
Could it be new and she wanted to show it off Pa?
No it ain’t new but it is shiny Mildred!!
Yes it sure is Pa!
I figured it out Mildred!
Yeah why did she do it Pa?
Because she and the hubby canned all week last week into this week.
That explains it then Pa . I know it drives me crazy to hear stick, stick, stick with every step across the kitchen floor. That awful grey film that juice gives the floor, the water stains from the dripping jars when they come out of the canner, and a counter that feels like double-sided sticky tape really gets to you when run your hand across it! And the top of the stove is a shameful mess!
So she finally got around to cleaning it up I guess!
You bet your butt Mildred and Pa I have had the canning business up to my elbows and I think I’m done for this year.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Lesley Troy
What a day that was! My Dad was flying home from California, my Mom and Wes were at Detroit Metro waiting for him and I was at Brent General Hospital also waiting for him. When he left for California to work there for a while he told me not to have the baby until he came home. I said at the time that the baby was due the first week of August and Dad wouldn’t be home until the first week of September. No way was I waiting for him. But by golly I did. Lesley was late and Dad flew in early. Lesley was born about the time Dad’s plane hit the runway. I was 32 years old and still taking orders from my Dad.
Lesley was my second son and a welcome addition to our little family. His brother was almost six years older and quite excited about having a baby brother. There was no doubt that Wes was happy to have Les come along. We made sure that Wes knew how important he was in Les’ life .
Now it is 37 years later and Les has turned into a computer whiz, a warm and caring (also very helpful) person, a very good husband, and a great and loving Dad himself. I remember the kid at the Commodore 64 for hours and wondered if he were going to marry a girl or that computer. I remember a little boy who was sometimes picked on by other kids but in the end turned out better natured than one would have the right to expect. I look now and see this man where my little blond son used to be and I momentarily wish him back .
Happy Birthday Lesley may there be many more and may you prosper with wealth, health, and love as each one comes!!
Monday, August 23, 2004
Cindy And David
Eight years ago tomorrow in our backyard two people, very near and dear to us, were married. Oh what a wedding it was! The people standing up with them were their parents. The day was beautiful and sunny. The tables were decorated with bouquets of Snapdragons (Cindy’s favorite). The minister forgot to add the lighting of the wedding candle to the ceremony. The people in attendance started eating before the bride and groom. There was no music, children ran around the tables, the video camera worked only when it felt like it, and the bride was barefooted.
Now you might believe that with a start like that this couple might have been destined for failure. But through some pretty hectic, sometimes thin financially, sometime ill or angry times, these two still manage to love, laugh, and cry together. Through hardships and happy times love seems to grow deeper and for Cindy and David this is so true.
Happy Anniversary you two and many more!
Friday, August 20, 2004
What Summer?
Ok the totals are 17 pints of peaches, 41 pints of cabbage relish, and 2 pints of Maratha Steward’s Select cabbage relish (as an experiment) was the results of this week’s canning. There is a bushel of red haven peaches waiting in the basement to can cinnamon peaches on Monday. It looks like the quart size canner will have to be replaced this week in order to do wide mouth jars. The smaller canner doesn’t like wide mouth and that is the size pints I have on hand. The work is worth it when this winter comes around but the ankles are angry right now!
Well our lifestyle of late to bed and late getting up finally caught up with Courtney this morning. She told me she didn’t get to sleep until the wee hours of the morning and wanted to sleep a little longer. But mean old Gramma that I am I made her get up, shower, and have breakfast. I explained that school was just around the corner so we had to get her back on track.
The Evil One and Little Snit will be up tomorrow and stay until Sunday, then we will be a family of two + five pets again.
It is 62 degrees outside and even though it is August my fire bush is starting to turn red. I also see spots of yellow and red sneaking into the trees here and there. Man this summer seems to be tiptoeing out the back door way too early for me! Does anyone else feel like this year is set at 45 rpm not 78 rpm? Do you know who screwed with the controls??
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Another Appointment & Another Project Started!
A busy evening with Courtney working on a latch hook project and Jay in the kitchen grinding cabbage, peppers, and onion in preparation for the new batch of cabbage relish.
The doctor visit for this week are out of the way just the trip to the orchard in Vassar tomorrow. Kinda seems like we never sit still for very long anymore.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
What To Do!
Well the Evil one has loaned me his beautiful offspring for the week but the poor thing has had a pretty quiet time so far. It is too cold to go swimming and the lawn doesn’t need mowing yet so the tractor is still in the garage.
She has been on the computer, read her book, worked on a latch hook picture, and gone to the store a couple of times. She has stayed busy while Jay and I canned peaches for my brother and corn relish for us. (She did remove the husk from the corn to get it ready for the relish.)
We have to take Jay to a Doctor appointment tomorrow so she will be reading in the atrium while we are tied up with the appointment.
Thursday a trip to Vassar , Mi. to check out their peaches to can for our house. In the utility room there are red and green peppers, onions, and cabbage waiting for another attempt at cabbage relish. Our last year’s batch had a rinsing (of salt) problem so it was not up to our regular quality. So we will try again.
I’m trying to figure something to do that Courtney can have a little fun before she goes home.
Another Jenkins Hits The Boards Soon
Yes Jenkins Online will soon have another blogger but this one will be for the just turned teens. That doesn’t mean you can’t visit if you are over 19. Us ‘over people’ can remember being young and usually will share those times with others.
Hope to see the Cherry Chics up and running real soon. Go get ‘em Jazzy!!!
Friday, August 13, 2004
Courtney
Happy 14th Birthday Courtney may you have hundreds more.
This is a picture of a picture because I haven’t mastered the conversion program yet. But as you can see she was already a budding beauty at this age.
