Falling Water Creek ~ Pope County, AR

Falling Water

February 27, 2007

Dot's Shady Oak has bag worms!

Dot in GA may have moved to the highlands. Her blog is

taken over by folks selling medicine to enhance your

sexual experience. I want the old Dot back. I don't

like the stuff they posted there. Dot, please come home.

Martins will be here soon!

Our Martins will be here soon. Then I will know that

spring is here. They appear in March and stay with

us through the summer. Seems like suddenly one day

they are here with us and just as quickly move on in the fall.

Book Shelf and Horse Show!

Christensen Girls

I have not posted pictures of my girls in a

while. I went down yesterday to see the

new book shelves, Greg Jones (Erin's

husband), made Astrid and snapped a

photo of each of my RIDS!

Hidden Robins!

This is like one of those photos in the waiting room of

an office. Robins are hid all in the leaves. I could see

three of them but there were many more.

My School Going to the Dogs!

This dog has been roaming around my School. He is

encouraging the students to read and stand up for

what is right. You will see that written on the sign

behind him. I try to stand up for what is right and

sometimes it gets me in hot water...but oh, well!

Father taught the Sisters to stand up for what is right!

Well, both our Fathers.

This week, I took Sister 4, Dot's, Win's advice and took the

unlimited long distance on my phone bill!

Sis 4 it cost 50 cents more than I was paying and

my internet will be 5 times faster.

I was thrilled with the deal.

The down side for Patsy, Fleta, Helen and

other family members is.....

I will need to call all of you often so

I feel like I am getting a good deal.

Cornbread!

Growing up we had cornbread and sweet milk for

supper a lot. You just mixed it in a bowl and ate it.

I did not like it then, but love it now. The cornbread

needs to be cooked in an iron skillet. You can't cook

it in a cake pan. It must be brown on the bottom and

golden on top. It should not taste like CAKE. These are

some things my Mother taught me. My friend from

Washington state does not really enjoy cornbread. She

said they never ate it very much. Her Grandparents

were from Missouri....somehow they dropped the ball

and lost the southern tradition. My kids don't eat corn

bread and milk so I have dropped the ball, too!

Tears in my Coffee!

There are tears in my coffee this morn.
I have what you call ridlessness. My little
girls have been off visiting their other
Grandparents in Salt Lake City, Utah. All
I have is this cup they gave me for Valentine's
Day. I just sip my coffee and cry.
No AstRID, IngRID, or SigRID...that is ridless.

President's Day!

Can I be President?

Well, Billy was and now it's my turn!

She can never be President!

Do you know why?

She wore these pants

And not even a tie!

She can never be President!

Another reason why

Is at Yale University

She loved Billy Blythe!

She is the smartest runner

And has the votes, too,

But Striped pants & a skirt chasin' husband

Are her 'waterloo'!

Oatmeal Muffins ~ For Dot And Fleta!!!

Buy a pkg. of Bran Muffin Mix by Martha White

Add one cup of fruit (I like mixture such as one

banana and the rest applesauce)

Add one cup of flax and oatmeal flour (now that is

one cup of it all together and this time I was out

of flax flour and so I just added a cup of oatmeal flour)

Add a quarter cup of canola oil if you want the

muffins to be real moist and if you are worried

about fat and calories you can leave it out

Add one egg

Add liquid to make it a nice texture (don't know how

much as I just pour in milk or add plain yogurt until

I can mix it up I use a spoon or fork as I don't want

to mess with the mixer)

Bake this in a hot oven (425) about 15 minutes. This makes

12 muffins and the Martha White Mix only makes 6

but because of all the stuff you added it makes 12.

These are the muffins I eat in the morning if I am in a

hurry and don't have time to fix oatmeal. I have also

had them as a snack to break my sugar crave.

In the morning I have two of them if I am having

them for breakfast--one would not hold me until

lunch!

Peanut Butter

Checked my peanut butter and I had 3 jars. All

started with the dreaded numbers 2111---but I

don't think I will bother taking them back. I had

several other jars and we ate them. What do you

think? Where do I take them to?

Equipment down!

Lots of folks I know (young ones) don't even have a
home phone now. Cell phones are all they have. We
still use the home phone and have a cell phone through
Alltel which is just about useless. We have a two
year contract and will soon be able to get a new cell phone.
I am going to get an ATT as that is what Erin and Fleta have.
I will be able to call them free. If Helen has that type
(cross my fingers), I will call her once a week too. My Alltel
equipment used to work better. No one at Alltel
seems to know why their signal in my Galla Cove went dead,
but because they have me locked in for the two years, they
really did not seem to care too much. I do not call them
anymore because I am tired of hearing them say" I am
sorry". When we are responsible for something and say
"I am sorry" my Bible says we fix it. Now if something
happens and is over and can not be fixed...we can say
"I am sorry" and mean it, but I am sorry does not cut it
when we continue to do the same thing. When we continue
to do what we have always done we will get what we always
got. Well, after March 20th Alltel will get no more of my
money.

Yesterday, I awoke just after 5:00 a. m. Most of the time
I am awake by this time but I was still in bed. The phone
was ringing one long blast. When I answered there was a
roar in my ear like someone trying to play a bad joke. I knew
it was Erin in Harrison or Laura visiting in St. Lake City, Utah.
Well, after this the land phone did not work. My DSL is
through the same company and it did. When I got to work,
I called Centurytel. They sent out a technician and when I
got home a card was hanging on my door knob that said the
problem was inside and mine.

I am glad my husband can fix anything. He went to the
outside phone box to see how the tech had wired our
phone. Then he rewired each phone in the house to
match the outside wiring. He said the tech switched
the wires when he came to the house. The phone not
working had something to do with the DSL but I guess
Centurytel wanted to charge me so they switched the
phone wires outside. Now, Centurytel will say the problem
with our phone was inside, but if our phones worked off
green and red wires on Thursday; they should have on Friday,
but now they are running off black and yellow wires which is
not the way most phones are wired.

It is all too much for me. My head hurts from worrying about
my little girls in Salt Lake. But Erin said they made it there
fine. Today my phone works if any of you want to call
me... 890 8090 and 479 area code!!! I am not ready to give
up my land phone, but I think we all will someday. Also,
I think this morning I will go on down to AT&T and get
my new cell phone so I can call my babies.

Hope Fleta calls me today. It is the highlight of my Sat.
mornings to have her call!

Siggie is on a Trip!

Siggie has flew off on a plane

To Salt Lake City, Utah

We are here all alone.

Missing her, most of all!

Green Forest 1900

Our Little Rock paper has an old photo in each

addition. This one was featured a few days ago.

The caption said they were men on a hunt (did

not say for what). Notice a chuck wagon for meals and

all hunters on mounts. Surely the game was large!

Powell men are not in the photo as all were still living in

Missouri at this date!

Happy Valentine's Day

From my mail box to yours a note goes out

Wishing you a very Happy Valentine's Day shout.

Gilead ~ Present day Jordan!

Oh, Lord Send me a balm of Gilead

So I can be whole once more

And feel energy and vitality

As in those days of Yore!

Balm of Gilead

Patsy said sleep was her "balm of Gilead". It seems
like a good way to be. The body can heal when we
rest. We conserve our energy for important activities
in our bodies.

Sleep is a problem for me. I will wake and then can not
sleep the rest of the night. I know the next day I will
be tired, but the sleep will not come. So, I dream of
Patsy's "balm of Gilead" and wish it would come to
me.

I read about this on Wikipedi and this is what it said:
Balm of Gilead is a healing compound (a balm) made from the resinous gum of the North American tree species Populus candicans.
It takes its name from the allusive phrase "balm in Gilead", referring to the balm or balsam carried from Gilead by the caravan of merchants to whom Joseph was sold by his brothers (Genesis chapter 37). In all likelihood, this ancient trade item was what is now known as balsam of Mecca, produced from the tree Commiphora gileadensis (syn. Commiphora opobalsamum), native to southern Arabia.

If this is healing Patsy, I am glad she has it!

Dogwoods coming soon!

The Dogwoods will bloom again, soon!

Little flowers will spring up where long forgotten.

Sunday's sermon was about being encouraged

And encouraging others.

To encourage means to "give courage"

The other side of courage is worry

And who wants that!

Have courage today!

Road Block

Life has a lot of road blocks

For us to get around.

Patsy has met a road block

And she is trying to work around it.

Hopefully, she will come home

And be with us again.

Cold and Old!

Cover me snow

While I hide and sleep

Aching for the sun to come

And warm my back again!

One of my Kids!

This is one of my kids from school. Times

have changed. They all have cell phones

with ring tones. MP3 players with music

that all sounds the same and LOUD. But

I notice that they are still the same

as long ago. A middle schooler is just

beginning to grow up. They want to try

new things but in a "group" because

they find security in groups.

This little girl plays point guard for the

basketball team, makes average grades,

stays out of trouble. I hope she makes

it though the maze of growing up to a happy

life, but there are lots of roads to lead young

ones the wrong way.

Message from Patsy

Spotted a post Patsy made to Velvet ~ March 9, 2006 ~

almost a year ago Patsy said this:

Do you have brothers and sisters?I have 6 , three sisters and three brothers. They are great! Always,no matter what, they will be with you. Nice poem. I can't write poetry.

Light at the End of the Tunnel!

Without Old Sister--blogging is not much fun.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe
in a someday she will be home and feel like
doing more than sleeping. She has felt bad for a
couple of months and I could tell she was not her
old sassy self. Maybe she will do like Velvet said
and tell us all about what they "sucked out of her
innards". Just so I can hear her again!

A light at the end of a long tunnel. We can not
feel what is like to be on the mountain unless we
have been to the dark valley below.

Come home, Sister, come home!

Everything you might need!

This Adult content store is in a town about
30 miles from where I live. At one time it
was a neat junk/antique store that Erin and
I visited and then this Adult ??? store went
into the spot. Erin came home one day for a
visit and told her Dad she was going to the
store to check out the new junk. She asked
if it was still there and he assured her it was.
She drove the 30 miles, pulled into the
parking lot to a BIG surprise. Dad laughed
but Erin did not think it was funny!

Hannah's New Clothes!

These are some clothes that Sigrid wore last

year...we are sending them to Beatrice, Nebraska

to little Hannah to enjoy this summer. As I laid

them out for the picture-touching the soft fabrics-

I recalled my sweet little Siggie wearing them.

Galla Ogre

This monster is lurking in Galla woods!

Snow Days!!!

Snow days, Snow days

Fun of staying home days

Build a snowman

Eat Snow ice cream
Slow days, snow days!

Trip to Rogers

The front axel of this red truck was broken.

One tire is laying beside him near the guard

rail. He is bent over I suppose giving thanks

to God for his deliverance from death. My

belief is that God will not change what happens

in our lives but He gives us strength and helps

us in our journey from birth to death. I do

praise him this morn for a beautiful storm

AND no school today! teehee He knew that

after this ordeal, I would need a day or two off!

We saw about 50 wrecks along the way. It

took almost 5 hours to get to Russellville...but

we were guided home safely.

Took this as we left NW Arkansas. We did not

realize the roads were so terrible. It took 2

hours to get to the Winslow Tunnel...usually

that takes 30 minutes!

These are my two angels. Laura drove

me up and Erin met us there. Erin

came over from Harrison. Erin is an

RN and she thinks Patsy will pull through this.

I took this photo as we prepared to leave. We

arrived at 10:00 and left a little after 12:00

This is Patsy's angel. She flew down to

stay with her in the hospital. She can stay

until Saturday morn!