Just some old Pictures

It's a great life if you don't weaken because you'll need all the strength you can muster up when old age catches up with you. Everything either slows down or wears out. I sometimes think I'm on the edge of being brain dead, I can't remember anything. 
Today I knew I had a twenty in my pocket and when I searched the pocket, it wasn't there so that meant I had already put it in my wallet, but when I looked in the wallet it wasn't there so I looked in all the likly pockets it would be in. There was no twenty anywhere. Now, tell me how a twenty dollar bill could just vanish. No one could have taken it because no one was here except the cat and she isn't a big spender so I didn't suspect her. I looked in the purse time and again and it wasn't there.  I called Chris and she said she would look in her car to see if I dropped it there somehow. It wasn't in the car so she said she would come over and help me look for it. I am a little bit vision impaired so I thought it was a good idea. I thought I also had two tens in the Wallet and there were two fives, but no tens. 
We both knew I had a twenty because she had given it to me. She bought something from me. We hung up and I decided to look in the purse once more and there it was in the bottom of the purse folded up, I don't fold bills up in a square but that's what I found. So now I think I'm a little crazy. 
Some old family photo's.

I was trying to remember the other day if Dad lost his thumb on his right hand  or left hand. Here is the answer.

Old picture of family.  I looked a lot like one of my second cousins. I am sitting in front and she is standing holding the little girl. We don't look alike in this picture, but I remember we did look alike. I don't even remember her name. We were never together. They lived in a different town.

My Dad, Dennis Lockwood

Me, Mom and Carol

Me and my inlaws

My brothers and sister

Bud and I and his family

Old Family Pictures

All Lemasters 1978

Trent, Deena, Jody, Cora

Deena, Katie, and Laura

Deena and Lulu the dog

She was our first grandchild

Molly and Emily playing with their Dad

All I Want For Christmas

I just survived a nightmare of embarrassment. Chris and I decided to go out for lunch and then shop a bit.  We were enjoying a plate of Chinese food when I strangled on a sip of water and had a choking fit. Just got that settled down and took a bite of sweet Sour Pork and soon realized I had some loose teeth in my mouth. I know it sounds gross and it was. I wear dentures and the teeth broke out. How cute was I? I was even cuter without any upper at all. Two and a half teeth in the front broke off. We spent the rest of the day finding a tooth mechanic. Finally found one on the far side of town. The first thing I was asked for was my Id. l, lwaalways pay attention to your intuituation. Before I left home this morning I decided not to carry a purse so as I was putting my debit card in my pocket I also put my ID in my pocket just in case and this is the clincher, I felt I might need my Visa card. Never in a million years would I ever take a Visa card to go to lunch and mayby buy some yarn. Was that the guardian angel they say we all have or what. The first thing they asked for was my ID. I whipped that out and the first thing I asked was , how much is this going to cost, Then I whipped out the Visa card. It saved the day. It would take about three and a half hours and they would be ready. We killed a lot of time at a Dairy Queen eating ice cream. We also drove around some and found the old apartment house I lived in while my husband was in Japan in the military. my oldest was a baby then. Lots of reminiscensing. I saved the teeth, they go under my pillow tonight for the tooth fairy.

Thinking Time

I was ushered into this life at 11:30AM CST in a two room house and a doctor was there to separate me from my mother.  I was told that I had a lot of black hair. Well, I wish I still had some of it. When my oldest son was born he had hair like that. When my second son was born he had red hair and it soon turned brown, but he had three daughters with red hair. Their Grandma on their mothers side had red hair.  I have read that there has to be red hair on both sides to have a red head. My Dad had red hair when he had hair. None of us kids had red hair. My daughter was born with a lot of black hair.
Speaking of hair, have you ever seen anything more riduculous than some of the present day hair styles.
I know they want to be open minded about such things as a two feet high Mohawk style.

  I think they are so open minded their brains have fallen out.
 I'm trying to do this and watch TV at the same time. Maybe my brains fell out.

Tyler, Leah, Chloe

Hailey, Kylie and Shelby

Natalie

Tyler and Kylie

My daughters in-laws in  their early days.

1946 Before marriage

Natalie

Grandma Shoes

Old Grandma Shoes

When I was very little
All the Grandmas that I knew
Were wearing the same kind
Of ugly grandma shoes…

You know the kind I mean..
Clunky heeled, black, lace-up kind,
They just looked so very awful
That it weighed upon my mind,

For I knew, when I grew old,
I’d have to wear those shoes,
I’d think of that, from time to time
It seemed like such bad news.

I never was a rebel,
I wore saddle shoes to school,
And next came ballerinas
Then the sandals, pretty cool.

And then came spikes with pointed toes
Then platforms, very tall,
As each new fashion came along
I wore them, one and all.

But always, in the distance,
Looming in my future, there,
Was that awful pair of ugly shoes,
The kind that Grandmas wear.

I eventually got married
And then I became a Mom
Our kids grew up and left,
And when their children came along,

I knew I was a Grandma
And the time was drawing near
When those clunky, black, old lace up shoes
Was what I’d have to wear.

How would I do my gardening
Or take my morning hike?
I couldn’t even think about
How I would ride my bike!

But fashions kept evolving
And one day I realized
That the shape of things to come
Was changing, right before my eyes.

And now, when I go shopping
What I see, fills me with glee
For, in my jeans and Reeboks
I’m as comfy as can be.

And I look at all these little girls
And there, upon their feet
Are clunky, black, old Grandma shoes,
And I really think that’s neat.

~ by Betty Cessna ~

Now that I'm ninety
I wear socks
And a nightie
And that's the truth.

Panic and Stress

Yesterday Chris took me to my haircut appointment and then we went to lunch. We like Mexican food and have been hearing about a restaurant with Mexican food and they treat you like royalty there. I mean they take you to a table and bring menu's and ice water. It was wonderful and after lunch we decided to drive around a bit and then she brought me home because she had an appointment with a Dr. 

Well, lo and behold, when she got there she had no purse. She thought she had left it here so she came back and we searched for the purse and it could not be found. She called Kenny and he couldn't find it there so she went into panic mode because everything inportant was in the missing purse, her whole life including money. 

We finally decided the only solution was to back track and see if it was left some place. Neither one of could remember the name of the restaurant. We knew it was El something and it began with an M. We had found it because we knew what area it was in.

Chris searches the phone book and I search the google map, but not knowing the name of it was a problem. We found a possibility of what the name might be so she called the place and no, they didn't have it, but did we call their other restaurant. Aha, that one is in the vinicity of where we were. 

Chris calls that one and I heard her say, "It's black and has a long strap and a dingle thing hanging on it. Oh, yes that is it. Oh thank you, God. Oh, I'm not calling you God, I was just thanking God.

We were both thanking God.