Happy Birthday, Logan E

Sigrid’s Logan is 24. We celebrated with coconut cream pie and baked hand apple 🍏 pies plus Valentine cookies. Lighting the candles took two people.

Ada was perfectly happy to get clothes for Valentine’s Day. Laura made her a dress. Can’t wait to see her model it💜💗💜

Dress designed by Auntie Laura!
 

February 15

Laura threw all her button towels away. She requested new ones. I fixed these yesterday.

Ada got new PJ’s for Valentine’s Day.

 

Saturday

Astrid sent me a picture of the new baby and my blanket. Her name is Willow. I think I need to make the hats bigger.

Ada from a past Valentine. I love it.

Sigrid gave her pharmacy pals a bottle of pills….M & M’s.

Laura’s other special Valentines.  First is Ada’s, then Ingrid’s and then Astrid’s and Sigrid’s.  The house on Ingrid’s is the family home. Ada loved hers.

February 13

Astrid is making a console with what she calls a “Corgi Jail”. I don’t think the crew is going to fight over it. It’ll be a beautiful piece of furniture. Pop is smiling. 

Astrid gifted two baby blankets this week. I’m so happy when my grandgirls come to get one to give to a new little one.

Kenny is growing and gets sweeter each day. He still is having problems because of his small colon. I’m hoping he’ll grow out of it soon. I’m think the fresh green grass may help.

Logan got his tractor back. 6500$ in damage, but insurance paid it. After the homeowners paid off the camper, they got $700 back. Seems a waste, but good to not lose it all. He said they look for a used camper, but larger.

I’m working on a baby blanket until I can go get my sage green and pink to try my heart baby blanket.

 

Quilted Valentine

My Laura’s  handmade quilted Valentine is so special. She knows me like no other! My favorite color is tan. I love sunny  days and my feathered friends! A cookie with my coffee is a treasured enjoyment! 

🤎🤍🤎

 

Sugar Wheel Yarn

My latest baby blanket is finished. This is one of those sugar rolls that changes color down the wheel.

My next blanket is to be sage green and light pink. I’ll probably wait till next week to get the yarn as it’ll be on sale. I have a green and a pink but sage green is a duller green. I have a new pattern to try.

I lifted weights and went to yoga yesterday. 

It was supposed to rain yesterday. We only got a sprinkle. It’s really dry here. Burn ban is on.

 

February 10

Patsy’s picture keeps getting clearer. Another FB friend had someone work on it.

Laura got her diploma yesterday. She is a specialist for certain. 

Greta was the star of the basketball game last night. With three seconds left, she got the ball and drove for a layup. She was clobbered. She hit both free shots and the Gobs were on top by one. She stole the ball on the throw in. The game ended with a win. If I’d have been there, I’d be dead with a heat attack.

 

Super Bowl LX

My good friend Kay Nuttleman and I attended Coach’s funeral Saturday.  The service was very uplifting. God bless his lovely family.

I made a dough cover for Marie who is in my exercise class. She said she wished for one. Her kitchen is yellow.

I went to Eric and Laura’s for the Super Bowl. Laura fixed taco salad. It was really good. She made rice chrispy treats for dessert. I came home before halftime. I have two friends who are Seahawks fabs so I cheered for them. I thought the halftime program projected togetherness and love. This was the sky on the way home.  There is light if we look for it.

I’m going to try this baby blanket next.

 

Misfortune

The sky was pretty pink this morning.

This happened during the storm. The camper was totaled. The Kubota is at Kubota being repaired. The carport had to be dismantled. Logan came over and moved my car and buggy from under my portable carport. Their insurance covered half the carport cost. They are tough kids. 

This is Ingrid’s cartoon. She is a nuclear technician and her specialty is the heart. 💗 

 

Eagles in Galla Meadow

Yesterday I saw a big bird chasing the Redtail Hawks out of Galla Meadow. It was an eagle. 🦅 well, someone else doesn’t like hawks. Picture from the internet, not mine, but I’m going to try and capture them if I see the chase again.

Ingrid and Justin went to a Mardi Gras parade.  They went to one in Baldwin County, very safe. Ingrid said this float reminded her of Astrid’s Spirit horse. Other girls had dolls to play with but Astrid had horses and farms. 

Sigrid applied for a part time pharmacy tech job at Children’s Hospital.  There were lots of folks interviewing. Her two wisdom teeth will be cut out March 5.

 

Cyclone of 1927

If you know an elderly person go interview them.  They have a lot to share. Interview with Aunt Thelma Powell Gwaltney May 21, 1989 by Fleta Powell Aday 

Aunt Thelma said.....Grandpa Richard Powell was well liked and respected by his sons.  He was a very honest man.  That carried a lot of weight with my Dad.  “Grandpa never spoke a word to me.  He hardly ever said anything.”

My Dad Melton, Jesse, John, and Worthy were all at Grandpa’s helping him make something.  He was using a drawing knife on a piece of wood.   Grandpa was pulling the tool toward him when it slipped and sliced all the way down his leg.  The sons tried to see how bad it was, but Grandpa just shouted “get me in the house, get me in the house”.  They tried to get him to let him look at his leg but he said just cut the leg of my overalls.   I feel the blood in my shoe.  They cut the leg of his new overalls and there was only a little scratch and a few drops of blood. He jerked the pant leg down and said “let’s get back to work”.  Aunt Thelma said he was a big baby.

When Richard and Betty Powell moved to Nowata, OK, Thelma said her Dad and mother and all the children went to Berryville, AR and stayed over night and saw them off the next day.  They went by train.

The night the tornado (March 18, 1927) hit their house, Truman and Thelma held the back door shut and their Dad held the front door shut.  They couldn’t keep the door completely closed but kept the house from being completely destroyed they thought.  The storm damaged the house.  Several large oak trees were blown down in the front yard. They were right in front of the house.  This may have helped block the wind from the house.  The next day Melton set out for Green Forest to check on his brother, Jesse, and his family.  The storm picked Uncle Jesse’s house up from the foundation and set it back crooked.  The next day Aunt Thelma had to follow a hen turkey around all day to find its nest.  The turkey and Aunt Thelma were scared because of all the confusion.  Grandpa Melton Powell went to Alpena the next day to get shingles to fix the roof, but he came home with lumber to build a new chicken house.  Thelma thought maybe the frame of the house was damaged because Grandpa decided to build a new house.  The storm completely destroyed the old chicken house so Grandpa built a new chicken house first.  The family lived in the new chicken house while he built the house.  He tore the old house down. The chicken house had a dirt floor.  They had a wood stove in it.  Grandpa had built a platform across one end and the children slept on that on mattresses.  Winter came before the house was finished.  Snow would blow in the chicken house cracks of the chicken house!

Colorized

 

Hawks

The hawks are catching my cardinals.  I went to Dollar Tree and bought this plastic tray, cut a home if the middle and hung it over the flat feeder. The hawks will only fly down to an open target. I really don’t like hawks. I can’t let my chickens free range because of them.

Words of wisdom from six year old Miss Ada—“when I grow up and have kids if they don’t mind they’re getting whuppins’ and if my husband doesn’t mind he’s gettin’ one too.”  She jabbers away as they ride to Greta’s games. Erin plays a book to get her to focus. Greta played great last night. They beat Rogers, AR. She had 3 three pointers, scored 15 points.

More cartoons

Laura

Astrid and Logan

Astrid

Another of me…Astrid created it.