Sally O’Malley

 Every Halloween 🎃 Logan and Astrid throw a dress up party!  Sally O’Malley showed up.

I’m 50 and I can kick, stretch, and kick!

Reading

Read these three books this week.  So many books so little time.  All were eye opening.  Connie Chung was one of 10 children and the only one born to her Chinese parents in America.  People’s real lives are not what we usually think they are.

 

Red Maples

Three Red Maples in a row at Lake Dardanelle Park!  

From Arbor Day Foundation—Red maple is one of the best named of all trees, featuring something red in each of the seasons — buds in winter, flowers in spring, leafstalks in summer, and brilliant foliage in autumn. This pageant of color, along with the red maple's relatively fast growth and tolerance to a wide range of soils, makes it a favorite.

 

Reflection

Today, it wasn’t the trees that amazed me but their reflections on the water! I must pause to really see. 

“No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.” Old Proverb

I’m trying to think more positively about my surroundings!  I’m blessed.  Praying for a soft, long rain.  My earth is so thristy.  

 

Place Where I was Built

The house that built me 🤍

“Thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it's like I'm someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I could just come in, I swear I'll leave

Won't take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me”

M. Lambert 

Voted Today

I voted today and voted my conscience!  I was number 1622.  Everyone should vote.  It’s the foundation of our democracy—we’re all created equal. Each with one vote.  No one better than another. Make yourself heard—vote.  I waited in line 30 minutes, but the time passed quickly.

Apples Galore

I saw this about types of apples.  Growing up I recall, red delicious, yellow delicious and Jonathan. My favorite apple is yellow delicious.  They’re new types yearly.  Back in the 1990’s, Fuji became popular.  I like them. Gala apples cropped up about the same time.  They don’t have much favor seems to me. Pilgrims planted the first U.S. apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.   It takes almost 5 years for a tree to produce apples, a bigger tree can take 10 years.  Dad planted some dwarf trees because they produce the quickest.  They die sooner too.  There’s over 2500 types of trees to choose from. I think I’m to old to have an apple orchard!

I’m reading this book by Elizabeth Strout. If you read “I am Lucy Barton” and “Olive Kitteridge” I think you’d like it.  I don’t read a lot of fiction but I like Elizabeth’s books.  

 

Focus on Need

I was crocheting a baby blanket but Ada said Tiger needed a blanket.  That’s a priority! She’s gone home and I’m alone again. We enjoyed each other.

I got a new iPhone working to understand how it works.  Hope I can use the camera.

 

Squirrel Away

Greta thinks she can do anything boys can.  Those boys got nothing on Greta! She went squirrel hunting Saturday!  Got two.  She made Greg skin ‘em!

 

Dress Up

Ada goes home tomorrow.  The time has flew by. Today we played dress up in box old clothes Laura brought over.  She fed the donkeys and horses apples.  We picked up all the walnuts and put them in the wheel barrel. I read about 20 books to her.  She loves books.  She has matured so much since summer.  We have not had one cross word.  I did whatever she wanted the first time she said it. 🥰 

 

Flowers Afresh

New flowers for her Dad—Laura buys the flowers and arranges the bouquet in his vase.  She had enough flowers to fix a pretty bouquet for my Sister Patsy.   Brother Clayton’s and Richard’s looked wonderful!  Come February Larry will be gone 5 years.  🥲

 

Update

Helen is able to come and go checking on Fleta.  Dr. said the break looks like it is healing.  Lots of forms to fill out, stuff to send off by mail, prescriptions to pick up.  Helen is tending to all the details.  You are fortunate if you have a daughter or sister, A son is a son til he takes a wife; a daughter is a daughter all her life. Plus—a sister is your mirror.  This boils down to “thankful for Helen”.