Sunday, April 26, 2009

Simple Recipes

Here are two things Momma made out of nothing--
Crystal Candy
Take an iron skillet 
Get it red hot
Dump a cup of sugar 
In the red hot skillet
Stir with a spoon
Let crystals form
But don't let it melt
Pour out on a plate
Break up in pieces!
This makes a simple sugar candy--
Something like a mint you would buy
When you are poor and don't have candy
It is really good--especially to a little child.

Mush
Dump a cup or corn mean in an iron skillet
The skillet needs to be red hot
Stir and let the meal turn brown--roasted
Pour this out into a bowl...don't let it burn!
Put about a qt. of water in a pot
Add a half teaspoon of salt
Bring to a boil
Add the roasted corn meal
Stir continually until it is thick!
This is a breakfast mush 
For families who run out of oatmeal.
Serve with butter globbed 
In the middle of your bowl
With several spoons of sugar
and about a fourth cup of cream.

Momma would have a hot biscuit to eat with it.
Daddy would crumble his into the mush.  Momma was a soldier. 
She would make good food out of nothing. She could take biscuit 
dough and roll it out put cinnamon and sugar and butter and some 
sweet cow cream.  She'd bake it and oh, it was gooie and  a lot better
than any cinnamon roll I have bought in a doughnut shop.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter Dinner at Laura's

I think I had the camera on the wrong setting, but we enjoyed
Easter dinner with our red-headed daughter...our baby had to
work today or I bet we would have had dinner with her too.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Bright Spots in the Job Market

This is from Parade Magazine in today's Demo Gazette...
Five Bright Spots in today's job market
1.  Police Officer
2.  Speech Therapist--That a keeper, Laura!
3.  Search Engine Guru
4.  Registered Nurse--Calling Nurse, Erin Jones!
5.  Internal Auditors--New Job for Miss Melissa!

Hey, out of this list--we could have 3 new hirees,
Melissa, Laura and Erin!  Thought it was interesting.  

Friday, April 10, 2009

1933--Taney County

Mary Hampton Burnett lived in Taney County. She was
the daughter of Henderson C. Hampton. She lived out
her life probably at a place Patsy has knowledge of.
This is her obituary. I have found no connection to
her Hamptons and our old neighbor. Her mother died
when she was just a young girl. Here is an obituary
from 1933. Made me think that Mary was a fine lady.
Taney Republican
August 17, 1933

In memoriam , Aunt Mary Burnett

After five years of agony and pain, so bravely, unflinching/borne, Aunt Mary Burnett was released from the burden and passed away, into peace and rest the 7th of August. She was stricken with the rheumatism five years ago in May, and suffered almost constantly. I remember her words, “just lean a little closer to Him”, and this strong beautiful faith carried her through this ordeal.

She was born on the old Hampton place near where the big walnut stands in the pasture where the first log buildings have been torn away, but the farm still belongs to a member of the family. Mary Hampton was married in her early girlhood to Dan Johnson of the Enon Arkansas country. To them were born five children, Adrain, Nancy Ann, Willie, Arch and Carol. Some years after his death she married J. W. Burnett and to them two sons Walter and A. W., whom we all know as Dutch.

She had a sweet and strong philosophy of life, and spoke words of wisdom that it is a joy to recall. When sorrowfully telling my own troubles one day, she quietly told me of how Archie had died so young and left his three little children. Of how Carol was taken to France and of the nights she grieved over him far out on the big waters, and then her only daughter, Nancy Ann, married and moved to Oklahoma and how far away that seemed to be and then she would laugh, that cheerful little chuckle and say “here I am.” Her children all loved her tenderly, and through these trying years of her sickness, were always attentive and devoted. Her husband of these many years would cheerfully prepare for the journey to Oklahoma, when she got weary here and wished to too go visit Nancy Ann, for she loved her grandchildren and her great grand-children.

She was seventy-four years old but up to the time of her sickness seemed much younger as she was always busy, and such gangs of turkeys and chickens she would raise.

She was laid away on Tuesday, in the Oasis cemetery, near where her dear ones are sleeping, and there were tears when Rev. Luther Pinkley delivered this beautiful sermon. The casket was covered with flowers, sweet common garden flowers, the kind she always loved.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Mitachrondria DNA


We have ordered the DNA report on our mothers. We know a lot of our
Mother's Mothers...and I know the haplo group will show England, but
it will be another little bit of knowledge about who I am.
Astrid
Laura
Me
Hazel Gaddy
Irene Ilo Thomas
Myrtle Mae Kinzer
Phoebe Ann Cox
Hannah Vickery
Mary Gifford
Eunice Beard
Eunice Macy
Sarah Starbuck
Dorcas Gayer
Dorcas Starbuck
Catherine Reynolds
Esther Ruth b. 1585 St. Marys, Ipswich, Norfolk,England or Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut died in Rhode Island or Bermuda.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Astrid is 9!


Astrid turned 9 today. She is a very good girl
and the light of my life. She is shy and quiet
and very special. She is so tenderhearted! I
pray the Lord will always watch over her for me.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Grandma's Show is Cancelled

CBS is pulling the plug on the soap opera "Guiding Light"
after a 72-year run that predates television, the show a
victim of the economy and changed viewing habits.
The drama's final episode will air on Sept. 18.
It began as a 15-minute serial on NBC Radio on Jan. 25, 1937,

and debuted on CBS TV in 1952.
This was Grandma Powell's sh0w. Remember she
watched it everyday and talked to the people on the
show. She had sent for a photo of the cast and had it
on her wall. Daddy watched the soap operas too when
he got so old he couldn't do much. Patsy do you watch
them? For many reasons, I don't think so.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Siggie's Big Day

We did not have the picture pro here for Sig's bday.
You can tell by the quality of these photos.