Life Moves Along

Life scurries along usually, but these are not usual days so life has slowed down to a snail's pace.
I think it's time to find a new planet to live on.  Wash your hands, stay home. Don't get the virus.
I ordered some groceries to be delivered and that was a breeze. Walmart does the delivery all the time so that may be my new way of shopping. They can't be delivered until Sunday so I may starve todeath by then. Don't plan my service yet, I may find something in the freezer to gnaw on until then. 

I didn't know how to post a video, now I know how to post a video.
This is Natalie. This was taken about a year ago. She will be three April 27/2020.

Aniyah, My great-great-granddaughter

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I'm looking forward to a new great-grand-baby in June. We seem to have turned into a girl family, but now we will have a boy. His big sister has named him Rollie. 

I love my Grands

Leah, Shelby and Kylie

 

Tylor, Anthony and Dylan

Katie and Laura

Jim, Cora, Hailey and Chloe

Aniyah is the daughter of Tylor and Wendy

and my great great Granddaughter.

My namesake Aniyah Retha.

Chloe and her award

Typical Teens 

My friend and myself

Deena and Trent

Kylie and Tyler Faris

Chloe and cousin, Kylie

Hailey 

Memories

Everything belongs on the floor according to Miss Sassy.

It's a great day, everything is coming up roses. All you have to do is believe it. 

Home Sweet Home

Our former home. 
It brought tears, I can still see my late husband sitting out on the porch waiting for me to come home from work. He already had dinner made. The house was built the year I was born so that must mean it belongs to me. One place says it was built in 1940 and the other says 1928. It was moved from it's orginal location so maybe it was moved in 1940.

Grandpa, Cora Huffman, and Buffy

Memories

If you look at early day pictures everyone is slim and trim. Is it just bad habits that is causing the fat epidemic today or is it caused from all the chemicals that are added to everything? Probably a little of both. When I was a kid we didn't eat between meals except an occasional watermelon or cantaloupe when they were in season.

 Everyone sat at the table and we had three meals per day. We ate vegetables and they were good. We lived on a farm and grew our own food. It's always better fresh from the garden. 
Any between meal snacks was a pan of freshly popped corn. We popped the corn in a cast iron frying pan. Someone stood at the wood burning cooking range and scooted the pan back and forth until it was popped. 
We didn't have desserts often. Sometimes during the Summer we froze a freezer of ice cream. It didn't happen every week, just a few times during the Summer months. Ice doesn't grow on trees so when we shopped for groceries on Saturdays we would sometimes buy a block of ice. They didn't crush it for you. It would be put in a burlap bag and pounded until it was crushed. Those were not "the good old days". Everything was work and that is the secret to the slim bodies. 
We had dessert on Sundays. Mom always made pie or cake for Sunday. If it was berry season we probably had it more often.
I'm out of ice cream or I would probably be having some about now.
Good night to all.

My Granddaughters

Such is Life

How could a kid living in the country get in trouble, you ask. Oh, I guess you didn't ask. Well, I'll tell you anyway. 
When I was a "mature" 13 year old I stayed over night with a friend. She lived a half mile away with her Grandmother. We slept (pretended to sleep)in her upstairs bedroom. We had a plan, but Grandma had to go to bed first. Grandma finally went to bed and we assumed to sleep in about ten minutes so we sneaked as quietly as we could down the squeaky stairway, and around the house and to the small barn in the back. We perched ourselves upon her pony and clop, clop, clop by the side of the house and down the long driveway. We had a plan to meet my brother and his friends at a certain place so away we went on a moonlit Summer night. We met the friends and was having a fun time yelling and singing and just being kids, we didn't have booze or anything similar to that. We were just having a great time being kids while back at the house a light sleeping Grandma roused from her sleep from
 the horse clomping down the driveway. 
She suspected there was an empty bed upstairs and went up to check it out. She had no car and my family had no phone so it took her awhile to walk the half mile to our house to let the DA know what happened. My Dad's name was Dennis Arthur so she always called him the DA (District Atty).  She thought it was a job for the DA. The DA thought so too and it didn't take long to hear the noise kids.  He broke that party up in nothing flat. I received a tongue lashing, but no time-outs or anything being taken away from me as they do today. I had nothing to be taken away. I wasn't allowed to visit the friend again for some time. That was the punishment. 
When you get this age you tend to remember those old things you hadn't thought of in years. 
Such is life.

Such is life

Nuttin Much

You never miss the water until the well runs dry, but I can assure you I never miss the snow and I never will. It's like living in a prison cell. I am lacking the courage to drive in it so I dream of clear streets and sunny days. 
The new year is just around the corner. I have no special plans for the future. Whatever will be, will be. I just hope the Artic blast avoids this section of the country. 
I'm expecting!
 A new great-grandchild in April or May. If I can count correctly it will make seven great-grand children. I also have six granddaughters.

Chloe and her friends

Cora, Anthony, Deena
Umpteen hundred years ago.

 Brothers and sisters

Hodgepodge of Old Pictures

I have nothing better to do so will post some old photos.

No rhyme or reason, it's just the Season.

I spent  many hours of my youth in this building

listening to the wind whistling around the corner of the building.

When I hear that sound today I am instantly reminded of it.

We called it the School House.

It's me in my earlier life. I know not when.

My oldest brother, Cecil.

Many moons ago.

Shelby, Tyler, Leah

The girls are sisters and Tyler is their cousin.

This is a new picture

Lorrene and Chris(my DIL)

Taken at Harmon House, The man over my right shoulder is Carl Dye was in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. The other man is Carlos somebody and I can't think of the lady's name.

I am showing a plate of plum's Dixie had grown. I have her picture, but can't locate it. She is the one that took the photo.

This  little sweetheart is Tyler, my newest great grandson. 

This is the building Dr. Beech had his office in when I was born. (1928) This picture was many years later.

Sisters, Katie Engel and Laura Johnson

Mel and his girls Emily and Molly.
They were color coded. Molly in the pink.

Karen and Mel doing a scene of Bonnie and Clyde

L to R Jerry Hazelton, Alice Tobey, Beth Richardson.

FR. Glen Lemaster, Florence Lemaster and Wayne LeMaster

Bud and Kenny and Mt Rainier about 1952

Have a Witch of a Halloween

Many Years Ago

The front porch steps is a great place.
Molly, Emily, Laura and Katie.

Mel, Karen and Kenny

Cora, Deena and Anthony AKA AJ.

Laura, Emily, Molly and Katie
Emily's arm in a cast. 

This is a very old photo of Sadie and me. She thought she was a lap dog.

She belonged to the grandkids. Of course, she is no longer with us. It's a great life. I still haven't struck it rich, but there may still be enough time. I've reached a ripe old age and still feeling fine. 

 Molly and Emily

That's all folks.