Woo Pig Sooie!

Astrid's lastest shot for the dress shop.  Really neat!  She is still working when she can, but with all the sports and school activities she has trouble squeezing in work!  She takes after her Gigi and loves earning her own money!

And modeling this simple olive dress.  She makes it look so expensive.

What Day Is This

 It is hard to think of this as Tuesday--I keep thinking Monday.  Greg and Erin are really working taking a lot of the shrubs and just brush out of their yard.  I think it really looks better.  This is the back of the house.

Ingrid's volleyball team beat Cabot today.  I did not go to the game.  I did not recall there was one and decided I would wait until the next one.

 This is Astrid with two of her friends at the first football game.   I think that is a cyclone on Astrid's face.  The two girls with her both play basketball.

Rogers Avenue

So excited for the Jones family

 Clayton and Greta are moving to this house.  It is behind the one they live in now.  It is a lot bigger house and the lawn is flat.

 Today Greg starting working to take out a lot of the over growth.  he is getting rid of a lot of the bushes next to the house and shrubs out in the yard.  The house is not perfect Erin said but she is so excited to be able to live in a larger home.

 You can see how it is grown up around the house.

 Magnolia tree!

 They plan on renting the house they live in now.  They have not tried to sell it.

Happy Birthday, Laura

 We had a little party for Laura today.  Sigrid designed the cake.  She made white cake from scratch.  It was very delicious.   Laura loves the beach so she picked a beach scene.  Great job, Sigrid.  Eric cooked hamburgers and we had chips.  All was good and Laura did not have to work and fix or even clean up at home.  Eric and the girls carried it all over to our house.

Always Look At the Back of Pictures

 I wanted to scan this picture of Helen and her felller.  I do not know him.  The picture was taken in June 1971.  Helen was 16 years old.  She turned 17 that August.  I told Helen about it and she wanted me to post it so she could see.

 I can recall this outfit and was wondering if it belonged to me and I gave it to her.  By the summer of 1971, I had been married 6 months and it would have been sort of short on me...but maybe I just remember it and it was hers.  I think that may be the year that I bought her the gold ring for her birthday with an H on it.  Or maybe I did that the year before because it seems like I bought it the year she turned 16.  Now, I wonder, how in the world I paid for it, but I did.

Laura's Gift

Lord sent a cool day for Laura's birthday gift.  I enjoyed it by walking the entire course at the trail. 3 and a half miles.

Grandpa Gaddy sitting in the rumble seat admiring Grandma on the day his brother Ben married her sister, Leona, March 24th, 1918

Grandpa Gaddy was born on this day as was Amy~Patsy.  Grandpa would be 121.  Not sure about Amy.  Happy Birthday, Amy.

 Above is Amy's hand with clover and below beloved Patsy's with the tick weed.

 I went with Eric to Pottsville High School yesterday.  Astrid had a practice run.  She was first girl.  They ran in this field.   When we walked out to it, I knew it would be a hard place to run.  It has been a plowed field at one time.  That makes little ridges all over.  Astrid said she rolled her ankle twice.  Running in races takes "guts".  It is really hard.  You feel good afterward, but during the race one thinks they might die.  Runners need big hearts.  Astrid has one.

Little Red

Before she was born I craved orange push ups--
oops I think it went to her head.
Before she was born I rode my bicycle all over Pottsville--waiting for her!
Now,  she loves riding bikes
Before she was born I filled a big gallon jug of water each morning.   I set it on the counter in the kitchen.  I drink it and sometimes two gallons.
She loves water and drinks a lot each day.  No ice just like I drink it!
Before she was born I prayed each night that she would not have my hair.
She doesn't.

This was Laura's first school picture.  I drove and picked her up, took her to school, and she had her school picture made.  She still loves schoool today!

Happy Birthday, Laura.

Schoolhouse Falls

 Laura and Astrid went to Schoolhouse Falls yesterday.  I know it is north of Hector, AR.
Surely is beautiful.  Below is a different falls, but I do not know the name of it.
Update:  Laura said it was called Lizard Falls.

 Ingrid is pictured here at her first performance as Dance captain.

 Astrid is being introduced during the Cyclone Extravaganza. She is in the black shirt.

 Sigrid is participating in the Sunday Volleyball at AR Tech.  Below is her group.  She goes each Sunday for a couple of hours.  The Tech Volleyball team members are the teachers.

 Sigrid passing the volleyball.

 and sitting the volleyball.

Liar, Liar--Pants on Fire

We used to say "liar, liar, pants on fire".  Now, if someone tells a lie...they say
I misspoke
I over exaggerated
I was intoxicated (never say drunk as a skunk as we used to say)

I read a interested article in the AR Demo Gazette today by Jennifer Christman about Ryan Lochte and his big lie over in Brazil.   She was inviting him to join the Fraternal Order of Fibbers
Tiger Woods is president.
Lance Armstrong is vice president
Anthony Wiener past president
Brian William in charge of public relations
John Edwards is treasurer
James Frey is secretary
Mark Sanford recruiter
Bernie Madoff is in charge of the "prison out-reach"

It appears that Lochte has hired the same damage control team that worked for Justin Bieber. One spoke person for the Olympics said "oh, don't be too hard on the BOYS".  Lochte is 32!  Even the dyed hair can't make him look like a teenage beach boy.  Now, he has put a silver rinse on it.  Guess the damage control group advised that.  

Sister is going to drive the "red bomb" all the way from Atlantic Ocean to Carroll County, AR in a couple of weeks.   Hope the Lord grants her traveling mercies as they always say in church when someone is on a journey.    I hope to go up for a sisterly visit after she gets home!

Our dear cousin in Virginia has put her husband in an assisted living center.  His Alzheimer disease has advanced until she can not care for him.  I often think I have IT -- but Erin says you con't realize that IT jumped on your back like a big bear slowing you down to a snail pace.  Fleta shared a book by Conroy about his father.  He wrote a fiction one and then "Death of the Great Santini" which was the true tale of his father.  Well, I decided I had the fiction book and went to my great Library and checked out the true version.  Then, I always donate the books she gives me to the Library and they sell them.  When I checked in my checked out Conroy book I laid the book she gave me on the counter beside it to donate.  Guess what!   Exactly, the same book!  Get behind me Alzheimer's!

Visiting Berryville

 Erin and Clayton and Greta went to Berryville today.  She snapped them by this mural.  I love Highway 62!

 Church had a extravaganza for the kids today.  Greta is scooting up the climbing wall and trying to hoist herself up the hanging rope.  Clayton said "no pictures".  When you are 5 foot tall and only in grade 3, pulling your weight is difficult.  I bet he made it part way up.  Greta is a monkey!

All About...

Ingrid in her Dance get up~and above leading the pack~  I am all about that bass...

Because you know I'm all about that bass,
'Bout that bass, no treble
I'm all 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
I'm all 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
I'm all 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass

 Sigrid and Astrid posted a photo commemorating "dog" day, yesterday.

Sigrid is learning to play the oboe!



Well, she has a way to go before she is perfect, but she has only been playing a couple of weeks.  Just wait til Christmas.  We will hear carols!

Keeping Watch

Not far away they always keep watch to see
If I have something they can take while I sleep
Sneaking in quietly destroying my labor.

Pop took the Massey into the pasture we have rented and cut about a third of the field.  Part of what the renter is supposed to do is bush hog the pasture twice a year.  Well, bushes would soon be trees as he is not a keeper of his word.  I "kept watch" as he worked because I have to go to the gate and let him out so the horses don't escape.  Renting the pasture is more trouble than it is worth.  I have to go over in the field before Larry does the part near the fence to make sure he has not left some stuff lying in there that will tear up our bush hog.  

Ingrid made the paper in her Volleyball match.  They lost.  In sports, you learn to win but also lose.