Tangled Mind

I walked with Laura and Astrid early this morning.  They said this is called Zen-tangle!  I might have called it mind mangle or head wrangle! The top one is Astrid's and below is one I found when I searched google.

Our Lives Keep Rolling On

 Sigrid's school held a big celebration for her class as they will move to a new school next year.  All the children in Russellville who are in the 5th grade go to one school.  The grades up to grade 4 attend school at several neighborhood schools.  The party was a Luau!  I think Sigrid's school has two days next week, but last night she told us she was "through" and would not be going back.  I recall thinking "oh, good" when a student announced this to me!

 Here is Clayton's water color.  He is talented in art or his teacher is doing his work for him.  I think this picture is really good.

 Astrid does something Sigrid calls Shandangle or something like that.  I hope Laura will comment on what it is called as I never can remember after Sigrid tells me again. Astrid made this poetry poster for her English teacher.  If you click on it maybe you can see the detail.  She does these with a ball point pen or a sharp paint pen.  They are all intricate in nature.

 It takes lots of time and patience to draw all these fine lines into the entire design.  The more you study it the prettier it gets.

 Here is a pillow she designed on cloth.  It is probably for her room.

 This one is pink and gold.  The colors on here are not correct.  But to think of her making this could give an impatient person a headache.  Astrid is very talented.

She is just starting this elephant, but it is coming together nicely.  Once she wiped it all out and started over.  

Here is a picture Greta colored.  She stays in the lines and does a great job.  Ingrid got all NEW outfits in dance.  Usually the uniforms are "handed down" but because of Ingrid's long legs (my reasoning) she got all of hers brand new.  I was there when she did the trying on and most of the old ones were high water pants on her.

This picture shows Ingrid and some of her creative friends.  

Oh, yes, it rained again last night and finally about 6 of my tomato plants have drowned.  They are brown and I think dead. I am hoping most of them make it, but in the midst of the down pours some are completely under water.  The weather man said the raining trend is ending and we know what that means--100 degree temps will be here soon!

I think this report means Clayton will go to 2nd grade.  He is a very smart boy.

Old Beck Store

I found this in my pictures and on the back I have written "old Beck Store".  The men have been rabbit hunting I think.  Fleta, did you give this to me?  I have the original.

Rain Again Today

 When Clayton was here, we went to the Bona Dea Trail and looked for alligators.  I am glad we did not find any.

 Here Astrid is congratulating Sig after her big performance going West!

 Ingrid's team for field day.  They called them selves the "ball er rinas"! How cute I bet Ingrid thought of it.

 Laura and two of her girls went on a hike on Mother's Day and got caught in a down pour.

 I found this picture of Larry's Momma and scanned it.  Isn't she pretty.

 Cora and I are after the snakes.  They are really out and crawling.  She took care of this one and I gave it a hoe whack.

 This is Dr. Blalack and his faithful horse Brownie.  He was from Carroll Co. but served Newton Co.  His mother was a High.  The man that shared this with me said that after Doc made a call, he would go to sleep and Brownie would take him home.

 Erin, this is a new picture a received of Uncle Dollen.  It is Jim Garrison (Larry's Grandpa's brother) and Houston, Pete and Dollen.  Jim and the three were first cousins.  Do you remember going out to his little trailer and getting bananas?  Helen, he lived in a little travel trailer in our yard when Erin was sick in 1983.  Time flies.

Bump---Bump, Bump!

Birds Are Busy Today

 The Cardinals love the black sunflower.  He has one in his beak.  I love the Blue Jays.  They eat the whole corn.  It is cheap to feed.

 The Woodpeckers love the whole corn too.  He will get a piece and fly off to a tree limb and sit it down and pick it up again and eat it.  Then he will fly back for another kernel.

 Yesterday, we got our daily down pour!  There was a "wall" cloud near us but I did not go out to take a picture.

 Today I had two hummingbirds.  The hummingbirds have the "little man" syndrome.  They fight.

 Pictures are not good but at least I got a picture.  One sit on one of my iron staffs in my flowers for a long time.  I was only about 5 feet from him, but no way to get his picture for if I had moved an inch he would have flitted away.

 Erin's wind chime is all tangled again.  When she was here she had it hanging nicely.  I am too short to reach it and too lazy to move a chair over there.  It chimes in the least little breeze and I do love it. I have been enjoying my coffee cup too.

My Tomato Patch

Bikers Came By

 Pop and I sat on the front porch and waited for our company...just like Grandpa Powell did.

Making A Biome

One day last week, Siggie's teacher and the class created an under the sea room.
What are biomes?
Biomes are regions of the world with similar climate (weather, temperature) animals and plants. There are terrestrial biomes (land) and aquatic biomes, both freshwater and marine.

Memorials

Brenda said Barbara picked Richard's flowers.  They are beautiful.  Flowers on the graves was important to Richard. It is nice that he has such pretty ones.

They Really Went

Here is Sigrid's Grandmother--Ann Catherine Tate!  She was born in 1830 and in 1848 she married Alfred Slover.  They lived near Kingston, AR.

Grandmother Ann and her husband are listed on the 1850 Census.  By 1850, they have a little girl named Louisa Jane.  Shortly after this census, Alfred gets the "gold fever".  All the stories of men getting rich were alluring and he leaves with a group for the gold rush.  Alfred did not get rich.  He died in an explosion in the mine shaft,  December 16, 1851.  Ann Catherine did not hear right away that Alfred had died.  She waited until some of the other miners returned to Arkansas carrying the sad news.  

In 1853, Grandma married a second time to James Gunter Maples, Sigrid's Grandfather.  He was a widower with two small children.  Ann and James Maples had a large family, including Grandfather William Burl Maples, father of my Grandmother Lee Gertrude Maples Powell!

Sigrid Goes West

Today Sigrid's class preformed a musical "Go West" at her school.  She loves getting in front of an audience. To insure she would get a part---she tried out for all of them.  Astrid fixed her hair this morning and she wore this shirt to school that she designed.

Here she is as part of the choir!

I really wondered what this conversation was all about!

This is Marlie of Sigrid's special friends.

And Kenzie Johnson

This is a singing dancing number--Sigrid nailed it!

Here she is dancing in a group number.  

 The entire program so really good and just zoomed by.  The little music teacher is really good.