The Chef

Siggie made me a loaf of banana bread. It is really good. Every chef needs a hat.

My Two Chicks

I had 3 chicks and the black one died. Siggie took it home in a box and tried to save it but it died. She said ' "I understand the life cycle, Gigi". We are going to have some baby chickens in about a month, but this rooster is old and I don't think all the eggs will be fertile. Larry says NO big chickens will be hatched. He likes the banties the best. I want some of the ones that lay colored eggs as Siggie would like them.

Siggie and I have planned that I can bring her lunch once at week at her school. She said once in a while bring Pop!

August 2005

Tomatoes Staked

Larry staked my tomatoes. I water them with the well water he fixed every morning. I watered them for 15 min. He fixed me a drip system to water them. I am getting tomatoes now. Not a lot are ripe but enough for us to have them to eat each night.

Sigrid Gets Her Dive

Happy Birthday, Clayton!

Negative Scanner

Erin bought a scanner that will scan negatives. I have a box of them that belonged to Larry's Mom. She had 5 in the last box of photos she took. These two are Larry with his little brother--1955. I can't wait to take her the box. Tomorrow Clayton will be 4. Other Clayton will be 68 on his birthday.

Hot Again

How Many animals do you see?

Melon Vine Carpet

Melons are growing but it was 108 today. Does not do a lot of good to water them.

Bully Birds

I have too many Black birds and they are what I call bully birds. I have Larry shooting them. They keep my Cardinals and other birds chased from my feeders. Even the Blue Jays can't come to the feeders.

Yesterday, my woodpecker came around he was trying to catch a bee that went in this bird house. I have not been seeing him as I guess the Black birds had been chasing him away. I want a good air bb gun and I think I can help thin out the Black birds, too.

Remember Frogging

I remember Clayton and Richard going to gig frogs in the summer and Momma cooking them in the skillet after they came home. It was usually after midnight. They were really good. This boy's father bought one of our Feists. He takes his two older boys frogging in Mississippi.

Pictures By Phone

Erin found a new location to take pictures. It is an old abandoned church. Clayton is not crazy about picture taking.
Sigrid's sisters rented bikes in FL. This is the one she chose!

Melon Sounds Good today!

These pictures are several days old...melons bigger now. He waters them nightly. One of these is a Black Diamond and the other a Charleston Gray.

Puzzle Man

Clayton loves putting puzzles together just like Pop and Astrid do. Erin helped just a little, but Clayton is really good at puzzles. He will soon be 4 years old.

Blue Bird Near My Porch

Sigrid and Greta

Sigrid is spending money in Florida. She bought herself some red boots. You can tell she really likes them. Below you can see Greta does love corn!

Guess too much aspirin.

I have been taking two aspirin for my knees. Guess I will take nothing. I barely touched my arm and all this blood gushed under the skin.

I got an email from Patsy Gardner. She lives in FL and works at the post office. She lives with her son and has her mother down there too!

Sights Today

Larry's melon is really growing....then here is Laura's Canna. I took these on my morning stroll. At bottom the Martins I love. They will be here until August. No mosquitoes here.

Fun in the Sun

Laura resting. Shell Astrid found on the beach. I think the girls are looking for shells. They are found most abundantly in the morning as the tide goes out. Each day the tide brings new ones in for searchers to find. Astrid rises early and she and Laura go search. They are at Captivia if anyone wants to see where it is.

Sunshine and her family

are in the sunshine state. Hope they have a great time. Miss them already.

Happy Birthday to Larry Gene

Larry and his girls!

Painted Bunting Visits My Bird Feeders!

Well, maybe 30 days!

This watermelon doubled in size overnight. I can't believe they grow that fast.
Also, saw first cantaloupe. Larry has 3 vines of cantaloupe.

In 45 days....

we will have a watermelon feast. I want Greta to come so I can see her eat one!

4 Sisters

This was summer 1979--I know because Erin was born that November. I think it was Daddy's birthday!

Forgotten so Much

So long ago, I don't remember it well, maybe 1980.

Another Mess

This picture was coming apart or torn...Erin scanned it anyway. Fleta is scar face.

Erin is a scanning demon!

I store my photos in boxes--plastic. Erin took one box and scanned in what she wanted and stored the scans on an external drive. (Remember she is just like Fleta.) She came this weekend and brought me a non stick skillet for my birthday. She got me one for Mother's Day and I told her it was nice but I wanted the medium sized one as for me and Larry that one is the size I need. I kept the one she got me for it was a very, very nice one. I just put it up. For by birthday....I got another one almost identical to the one I got in May. She always says I can trade it, but this one was nice too so I put it up. I told her THE ONE I WANT IS the 8 INCH ONE. I am thinking maybe I will get if XMAS. Or maybe another one like the two I have!

Erin sent me this photo as it was in the box she took. She has already scanned in the entire box of pictures. She said there were a bunch of Helen's kids. I don't know the year of this picture but there is a dog laying behind me. Maybe a Beagle as Dad liked to have them. I have on clothes Aunt Helen gave us. They were always tight on me because I chubbier than she...well, she was thin. I remember squeezing into this wool skirt and I loved the black jacket with the big buttons.

After Fleta went to work, we did not get so excited over Helen's clothes sharing. Fleta took care of all of us. Sort of like...........happy days are here again. We went to the movies, had good things to eat, got new clothes while Fleta stood on a coke box at Tysons and pulled crops...

btw, Patsy, this is all true!! teehee

Always Doing Something!

I think the girls are dancing to the Wi here. I got a new Iphone. Don't really know how to use it...but I thought I might enjoy texting and all that so why not. I am learning slowlllllllllllyyyy.

Laura sent this video to my phone. I sent it to my email and uploaded it here.

Fleta do you have text on your phone...if so I might start bothering you while you are trying to work at Tysons.

Nice Shower!

I woke up before 6 and could hear a rain falling. I think the shower was over half an inch. I need to invest in a rain gauge. Patsy look closely and you will see the iron shoemaker feet you gave me 20 odd years ago!

Doom Us

We often go south to pick up a Feist puppy. If someone breeds a dog to Larry's males, he will accept $350.00 or two puppies. Most folks go for the 2 pups which he sells for $700.00. Saturday, we went to Dumas, AR and picked up a pup. Larry sold one before we ever picked it up...so there was only one.

When going to Dumas, you pass the 'big house' and I always pay attention as we go by. The 'big house' has a big farm. The inmates can choose to work or not. We have passed and seen guards riding horseback with a rifle 'in hand' watching a crew do some type of labor. In the above picture they are burning the fields before replanting. There are signs along the interstate near the 'big house' letting you know to NOT pick up any hitchhikers.

The area around Dumas grows milo, corn, soy beans. It is low land lying near the AR and the MS rivers. The dirt is black...as are most of the inmates we have spied working.

Old Hands

These two old hands were on the drive I found.