Bummer

Behind this old sheet, I have the flowers that I kept through the winter. A few days after I lugged them all to the back porch, it got cold again.mi rigged this up to protect them. Some mornings we have had frost. I’m not keeping them through another winter season I don’t think. They make too much of a mess.

 

School Days

Schools now take pictures twice. This is Ada’s spring photo from school. She’s standing. Things are different today. We sat on a short stool and they quickly snapped our image but only in the fall. I think the pkg was 3.00. Good ole days.

Astrid took her dogs to the pond and they all went for a swim. She sneaked a look in Pop’s Wood duck house and it was full of eggs. Covered in down. Hope they hatch.
 

New Refrigerator

Erin got a new refrigerator.  They are a pretty big investment now so you hope they last a while. Appliances used to last a good 20 years. Now, 10 years is a good life for most. If they do tear up, often the part needed can’t be found.  If your stove is a built in one, good luck finding one that will fit where the old one was.

Ada wrote this at school. She’s planning on staying with me. I’m all for it.  And she loves me. My youngest grand is spoiled, but so sweet and loving. She kicked her teacher under the table. Erin texted Mrs. Hararah to ask about it and she said Ada did it accidentally, but when Erin asked Ada she said “no, it was on purpose.” She got a spanking. At least, Ada is honest. I can see good in everything Ada does!

 

Just a Scribble

Some folks are so talented they can just scribble and make something. The wind blew almost 60 miles an hour here yesterday. I went out and worked on my fence cleaning and almost got lifted off the ground. Today is cooler but the wind has subsided. 

Sigrid needed one class to be eligible for UAMS pharmacy. She has to have a certain class and will take it in summer school. The school helped her find it online. She chose trig and is taking it through a school in Nebraska. Below is some of her chemistry work. She maps processes on a white board to understand them. She is not just a pretty face.  There’s a brain there. It looks like Chinese to me!

 

Thrower

Greta is a thrower in track— shot and disc! Today she competed at Heber Springs. Erin said 31 schools were there, but I’m doubtful of Erin’s knowledge as that sounds like too many. Greta had two personal bests! Second in shot and 4th in discus. Track is a team sport. Greta Ann earned 13 points for her team. Proud of my girl. 💙🤍💙

 

Here’s Ada in kindergarten and Greta the same. Greta always loved sports. She ran like the wind at 5. She was already taking gymnastics and doing flips and handstands. Ada runs like a bunny. I think it’s interesting that children are born with likes and dislikes. I’m thinking Ada will not be a great athlete but she may be an actress!

One Eyed Helen

Helen’s right pupil is larger than than left, but that is normal. She said it all went well. She goes for a check up today. Before her surgery she spent a lot of energy and time getting her house clean. She had plants in her bathroom for the winter and moved them back outside. I followed her lead and took mine to the back porch! If the temp gets in the 30’s at night we’re going to cover with an old sheet. Last night it was 50 here so I let them be. 

I go to the Dr. today about my blood pressure. The new ace inhibitor is working fine. It’s enalapril. I had a cough but it’s subsided so I guess I had a virus and the med didn’t cause it. I do get dizzy some on standing, but that’s the only side effect I’ve noticed.  

I’ve been cleaning— a fence row. I lack about 20 feet! Making progress. After ticks get busy I’ll not be able to work in the weeds. Spring cleaning 🧹 just outside.  I have pioneer genes!

Like Minds

Sister Helen and I picked the same daffodil bouquet.  We are like minded as half our dna is similar. We got the same X from our father. We have many characteristics that are similar, but each chromosome has two copies. We don’t necessarily get the same one. I think of it like heads and tails. She could get heads and I tails. I got tails on my hair for sure! She’s in surgery now for cataracts. Mom and Dad both had the problem. So we are likely to have it too. Grandma Gaddy had the surgery and then was virtually blind. Doubt they had the procedure down then—1970 era. Fleta has had it. Now Helen. Guess I’m next.

I love the mystery of DNA. I’m a search angel. I help folks who have a dna mystery. Adoptees usually find a mystery. To give up a child isn’t easy. So often there’s a hidden story carrying sadness. Last one I helped find a father found sadness. He was in prison for murder in Nevada and was only 15 when she was conceived. I searched farther and found he had died. One father was a school shooter. The searcher needs to consider if they can handle their mystery.  Twins found a mother who was alive but would not meet them. Everyone I’ve helped said they were happier with the knowledge than the mystery. 

 

Flowers in my Garden bloom

Wye Mountain and the flower that built a church!

Wye Mountain comes alive each March in a sea of yellow for the annual Daffodil Festival. It is hosted by the Wye Mountain United Methodist Church. In 1919, Austin Harmon moved to Wye Mountain from Oklahoma to start a church in an old schoolhouse. That church is now the Wye Mountain United Methodist Church. In 1927, Austin bought half a bushel of daffodil bulbs in Little Rock and planted them around his home. Austin traveled back and forth to Oklahoma, where he continued collecting bulbs and transplanting them. In 1948, the church starting selling the blooms to raise money.  By 1965, the congregation had raised enough money from the daffodils to build a new church and move out of the old schoolhouse. They had 7 acres of daffodils. They stoped selling the flowers and held a daffodil festival instead. The festival had no we date. It was determined by when the flowers bloomed. Today the flowers still bloom and anyone can go and take pictures freely. 🌼🌼

 

Uninvited

 Uninvited guest came by and asked to stay for dinner! He has his eye on my sunflower and corn feeder😂

Ada and her mother and sister are coming today!  She’s out of lipstick. Laura picked up some for me to give her plus two little spring outfits! 

We had tornadoes in our area last night. It’s that time of year! March is half over! Most days I feel like I’m pretty worthless to the world. News is depressing! Everyone seems to hate everyone else. It’s not my way. I want to love and help others. This week I tried to not tune in to the drear reported and I have felt better. Helen is having cataract surgery Monday on one eye and then in two weeks the other eye. Fleta will take her.  I could come up if Fleta can’t get off. They were afraid of something in one eye but the surgery is on go. 

Worms

March’s full moon is called the worm moon and the sugar moon.  Ground starts to thaw and worms start to crawl.  Maple trees are tapped and maple syrup drips.  Go outside tonight and see the March full moon.  Laura read that diabetics can consume maple syrup with benefits.  

I worked cleaning the side fence yesterday.  It is a grown up mess. Lots of Chinese Privet grows there. I despise it. I’m making progress.

 

Little Beauties

Astrid has tomatoes and broccoli ready to go in her raised beds! She got her green thumb from her Pop💚

Little pixie flowers bloom early. They are  just for those who look closely. Most folks step on them and move on. Spring Beauty patches are in my yard. I am watching for the pink wood sorrel because it’s a favorite of mine! Nature is worth stopping to gaze upon! 

 

Virginia American Beauty Blooms

Fairy flowers 🧚🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

The little Spring Beauty flowers are blooming! Their real name is Virginia Claytonia. They grow over half of North America and  are a  low plant with loose clusters of pink or whitish flowers, striped with dark pink. The Plant disappears from above ground shortly after the seed capsules have ripened. You’ll see these in large spectular patches. They grow from an underground tuber like a small potato and have a sweet, chestnut-like flavor. Native Americans and colonists used them for food and they are still enjoyed by those interested in edible wild plant.

The green area is where the little fairy flower grows.

Here is what the little tubers look like. I’m thinking of digging some after these bloom and wither.