Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Truman Powell Family

 Top:  Virginia, Frankie, Jimmy, and Donnie--Kenny in front! 
 Kenny and Donnie Gene
Donnie, Mary Katherine, and Kenny

I saw these on Donnie's daughter (Peggy) FB page.  I think the above photo is at Easter.  Kenny has a rabbit--looks real! 

Raining again.  I went to Walmart early!  Now back home for the day.  Wish the sun would shine, but know it will be another dreary day.  Larry said look all the same holes are filling back up with water! 

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Diluge

 The water is receding but we are to get another big rain tonight.  The tree you see out in Galla Lake is the coast line.  The weed line is the edge of the pond.  The ground is full of water.
 Our friends are here for a while.  Last year they stayed over a month.  They are surely welcome to stop over here.  We love seeing them each year.
 Too much rain  has hurt the look of my jonquils.  They need more sunshine.  We saw the sun yesterday, but today was very cloudy and it has sprinkled rain several time.  Larry and I picked up the limbs out of the pasture and he worked taking down an old fence.  Every year he has to mow around it and it does not connect to anything.  He said he was going to take it down.  It is about a 200 foot section.

He Paid for My Ticket!!

Mary Elizabeth "bess" Standridge Garrison
I saw this picture of Larry's Great Grandmother in my picture folder and thought I will share it.

I have been reading about Billy Graham's mother--Morrow Coffey.  A book she wrote is on line and I have enjoyed learning about her.  Someway I think we are connected to her Coffey family and maybe to Morrow but I have forgotten how.  Seems like it has to do with the Gholson's and Stapps.

I read my devotional today it concerned grace and our free gift and I thought...He paid for my ticket.  It is a lifetime and then eternal pass.  Laura always likes to get a pass to the high school events so she can go with having for fork over 5 dollars each time.  Well, I have a never ending ticket and it is going to pass me though this life to the next.  Sort of like He paid it forward for me.  I love to get free stuff!  What a free gift He gave to me.  I strive to do better each day because I am so grateful for this gift I did not earn or deserve!   Lord, thank you for my ticket!

Monday, February 26, 2018

Hiking We Go!!

 Astrid and Logan went hiking and took Phoebe.  I think after a while they had to take turns carrying her.  I know they will never invite Phinnie as he weighs too much!
 After church Erin and Greg took the kids to Indian Rock House!

 Greta did not want to get too close to the waterfall.  Clayton wanted to get under it!
 I saw this on FB and really like it.  Says it is near Marshall, Ar.  I think it is a neat picture.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

We Heard His Voice Today

 We have had a lot of rain and lots of rushing water here by Galla Creek.  These pictures are of Falling Water at 4:00 PM today.

“Did you know in the Bible God's voice is compared to rushing waters?”

His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory. Ezekiel 43:2

His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. Revelation 1:15

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

The rain is supposed to come to a end today and we are to have a break.  I sure need to see the sun.

Fleta has a bunch of baby goats so Helen is thinking of getting more pigs.  Oh, I need some chickens!

My devotional today was about Jesus being the light!  God created the light!  It overpowers darkness.  The light is perfect.  Too much light can burn!  Too much light can blind.  Not the light of our Lord as it is a perfect glow.   A soothing hue to warm us and lights our way.  The little Amish heater that is advertised some is actually light bulbs and a fan.  It is warm but not so hot that you can't just sit down on the heater if you want.  God's light is just perfect.  He lights up the path we should take so why do we choose the darken alley instead.  Our flesh fights the light!  Today left me embrace the light.   Let me bask in it's rays knowing the Lord sent it to me for my help.  Let me stand in the light today!


Friday, February 23, 2018

Amy's Dust Buster

Laura's friend the book lady or my new Patsy made this for Laura to get cob webs off the ceiling.  Isn't it neat.  Pattern is on pinterest and I may look it up after I finish the throw I bought the yarn to make.

Erin make homemade tomato soup today.  Sounds good.

I cooked ribs in the instant pot.  I finish them in the oven.  We had that and a salad.

Erin is watching tv under her new throw tonight.  Hope she is snug as a bug!
 Erin has a cover thief at her house!


Still raining...........

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Shoot Out At Gaddy's Corner 1870

Gaddy's Corner is where you turn off hiway 65 to go to Denver, AR.  Erin saw this in the Harrison Paper today.  I had read of this before but thought I would put it here in case I want to read it again some day!
From Harrison Daily Times today!!
William Baker carried the mail near Gaddy's Corner! 

William Baker left no doubt as to his feelings.

“I was scared all right,” he said, “when the red-complected one they called Jesse pointed his pistol at me and demanded the mail pouch. They got $105 in money and some registered mail.”

Baker had been carrying the mail near the Boone County community of Gaddy’s Corner (now Burlington) on that day in 1870 (there is some dispute about the year, some saying it was 1874) when he was accosted by four robbers. The men were later identified as members of the Frank and Jesse James gang.

The Gaddy’s Corner robbery has been described by various authors, including noted Ozarks historian Ralph Rea in his “Boone County and Its People” and by Shay E. Hopper, T. Harri Baker and Jane Browning in their book “An Arkansas History for Young People.”

In his writing, Rea said that it was known for certain that Frank and Jesse James, along with Jim and Cole Younger, had been in the area on several occasions.

Rea went on to explain that, shortly after the Civil War, a mail route had been established between Forsyth, Missouri, and the Crooked Creek Post Office, now the city of Harrison. The route generally followed the present course of U.S. Route 65, and on more than one occasion, mail carriers on horseback were robbed in some lonely spot along the way.

Alan C. Paulson, in “Roadside History of Arkansas,” presents in good detail the robbery and the aftermath, including Baker’s reaction to meeting up with the infamous Jesse James. Incidentally, according to Rea’s account, Baker as a child had survived the Mountain Meadows massacre in Utah.

Paulson goes on to say that after the robbery, Baker rode six miles north to the Omaha settlement to raise the alarm. Local residents began to assemble a posse, while from the south, Captain W. F. Pace rode with another group of men. When the groups met, Pace took command.

By that time, a local preacher, Parson J. F. New, joined the group and reported several suspicious riders at an old log home of a man named Perry near Gaddy’s Corner.

When the posse arrived at the cabin, it was barricaded, and Pace deployed his men among the surrounding trees.

Pace shouted out to the men in the cabin to surrender, and he was met with a reply that they would discuss the terms if a single man would be sent forward.

Pace rode up to the cabin with his rifle lying across his saddle, when two men appeared at the window. Pace recognized them as Frank and Jesse James. Inside the cabin could be seen a table covered with guns and ammunition.

Jesse James suggested that Pace order the posse to leave and forget the whole matter. Pace declined the offer, instead insisting that the gang surrender.

After briefly conferring with his brother, Jesse James said to Pace, “If you’ll send Parson New up here, we’ll surrender to him.”

Pace rode back to his men, and the parson agreed to accept the surrender.

However, as New rode up to the cabin, the James brothers appeared, and Jesse put a bullet in the parson’s head. He had killed the man who had betrayed them, he shouted.

The posse prepared to light some torches, but just then, the four robbers rushed out of the cabin, firing their pistols at anyone who moved. Jesse James “flapped his arms and crowed like a rooster,” and the outlaws escaped into the woods without so much as a scratch.

“The posse was unwilling to accept a complete defeat in the fray,” Rea said, “so they sought out the man, Perry, who was alleged to have harbored the outlaws. They killed Perry as a partial settlement for the casualties they had suffered.”

According to Rea, Pace was responsible for most of the detailed account of the fight. It had been passed down to him by his father, who had been a good friend of Pace. 

Falling Water Today

Uncle Walter said when he was a young boy and lived just across Falling Water Falls, his Grandpa Howard Standridge had a wooden bridge that crossed the creek just above the Falls.  I bet it would have been washed away today!

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Family Tree

 One day when I picked up Ingie, she had a big piece of poster  board.  She said she had to build a family tree.  I envisioned a complicated work going back to the Revolutionary War and before!  NO!  Family trees can mean a lot of things.  Ingie just had to include so many folks.  She started with Gigi and Pop and went down through her immediate family!  She went to Walgreens and copied colored photos of everyone!  Now she will label it in Spanish!  Also each person is coded with a color!
 It rained and rained and rained and rained.  More rain is scheduled to come our way.  That little line of brown weeds should be the edge of the pond, but it is way back by the Ash tree!  Across the Meadow, I spy Ingie's big white rig!
Astrid said this is National Pet Day.  Well, here is Phinnie checking out my first Jonquil.  he says, "I may just see if this is good to eat"!   Phinnie has the fluffy Corgi gene.  He has lots of layers of hair.  He is so smart and loving.  We are glad to have him entertaining us daily.  We buy him toys and he tears them up.  We throw them away and  buy him more.  He has never chewed on our shoes or furniture.  He is just too smart.  He knows we would not like it.  If you like a spotless house, a Corgi is a lot of labor.  They shed.  I am not too picky so Phinnie and I get along fine.  The vacuum works best to get the Corgi hair.  Sweeping just stirs it around.

Devotional today was about Jesus and how he loves the little children.  We are his little children.  If you are a mother, you know how you loved your little ones.  Jesus loves us like that but even more.  He loves the helpless so when we help the helpless we are helping Him.  The beggars by the Interstate bug me.  I don't see them as helpless.  I see them as trying to use others.  Sister Patsy--dear soul--discussed this with me.   I said I want law passed so they can't sit there with those signs!   Dearest said--No, No, if even one is helped!!  One--if just one is saved, just one is helped, one is loved!  She was looking through the eyes of Jesus and me through my mortal sinful flesh!

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Astrid and Logan

Astrid texted me for a favor.  She needs something signed.  I will go at 11:00 and she will bring it to the office and I will sign for her.  The photo is Logan and Astrid at a race he was in I think.

One day Logan asked Miss Laura for a favor.  He asked and she said she would do it if she could!  Cut my hair!   That is how it got started and now when Logan wants a haircut, Miss Laura gets out her scissors and cuts away!  She has been doing it for a while so I guess he likes the job she did.   She cuts Larry's hair and I think it looks professional.  Larry's Mom was a beautician but not until about 1970.  Uncle Walter told me that in the mountains folks could come by and ask Grandpa Renfroe to cut their hair.  He would get a chair and cut it in the yard.  I guess it is an inherited trait.  I know none of it came from Momma or me.  When I tried to cut the girls' bangs it was a disaster.  Momma was worse than me.

We are going to have a rainy week.  I hope there are some breaks in the clouds so the water will run on down to Galla Lake and we will not be washed away.  Phinnie does not like the rain.  So when he needs to go outside to the bathroom, I have to go stand in the rain!  Guess he thinks if he is going into the storm, Gigi needs to come along.

I have to go get chicken feed today and pay a bill.  Since Astrid wants me to sign something for her, I will wait until about 10 to go.  I will have to put my chicken feed up front so if the rains come it will stay dry.

Erin called to say she was back at the grind today.  Kids back in school.

Devotional today was about strength.  The old phrase goes that strength cometh from within, but what does the Bible say??
  • Psalm 46:1-3 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. ...
  • Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe.
  • Nehemiah 8:10 Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. 
So the Bible says our strength does not come from within us but from our Lord.  However, with the Holy Spirit living within us--it does!

Monday, February 19, 2018

Afghan Done

 I finished the blanket throw that I made from the scraps of yarn that Helen gave me that Tony gave her!  This one goes to Erin.  I am pleased with it. 
Today Laura and I went to Sam's and Target.   I bought a shorts outfit for Greta.  I plan to send the throw to Erin and the outfit to Greta.  I will send Clayton some money.  I am sure he will like it better than a shirt.

My devotional today was about finding happiness.  Things will not bring happiness.  It is an inward thing.  One day last week as I read my devotional, I thought our Lord is like having a seat belt in life.  We have to reach for the strap and buckle up.  When we are buckled in with our Lord we are safe--no matter what.

Friday, February 16, 2018

Lunch On Pop

 Pop used to get Erin and Laura a box of chocolates on Valentine's.  This year he put 20 bucks in their cards and told them to buy lunch for themselves and a friend.  Laura treated two friends so they may have had a light lunch!
Jonell picked these in north Arkansas this morning.  Here they are just coming up and getting ready to shine.  She must have some early version.  They sure look springy!  She said everything else in her yard was grey today.  That is the way it is here!!

Helen called to say she was rendering lard.  I just thought glad it is you not me.  When Momma would do a batch of lard it would take all day and was hard labor!

Today's devotional was about accepting a gift--a gift you have not earned and do not deserve!  No matter how hard you work to make yourself worthy of the gift you will fall short.  Salvation is a free gift and we must accept it knowing that it is more than we deserve, more than we can earn!   Grace delivered!  Give a gift today without expecting anything in return! 

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Oinkie For Valentine's Day

Pop got Phinnie an oinkie for Valentine's Day.   He loved it!

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Valentine For Pop

I got Pop a new shirt for Valentine's Day.  He had several with his triplet beauties on front, but had not had one in a long time with Greta and Clayton.  He really liked it and I do too!

Happy Valentine's Day

 Astrid came by early and brought Pop and I a Corgie Valentine she made for us.   We love it.  Also, we got a sample of all the things she cooked last evening.  I had a sugar cookie and oreo ball with my coffee.  I will let Pop have the rest. 
 Larry sold this old tractor and the man came from the middle of Oklahoma with a little trailer.   Larry said there is no way he would have started off on that long trip pulling that small of a trailer.  The man was 76 and wanted the tractor for parts.   He built the little trailer--only two wheels!  Larry said some folks were just brave!

 Four of the sweetest birds came yesterday and stayed a while.  I always think of Daddy and Clayton when I see these in the field! 

 This old hawk stays in our Meadow!  He is a silent hunter and always on the lookout from a high perch.   He will swoop down and then fly away with his meal.  Usually a mouse or other small animal.
Today, I have the same old Valentine I had last year.  I am going to cook him a roast in the instant pot.   He bugs me and I irritate him, but we are together still.  He would have bought me a big box of candy, but I told him to please, don't do that! 

Be My Valentine

Astrid and her Mom made homemade Valentine treats.  Oreo balls, chocolate strawberries, Reese's hearts, and sugar cookies.  It all looks good.  I would try one of each.  Sigrid used to help Laura in the kitchen but she is into the social scene now.  Astrid used to not be too interested in cooking, but she often makes something now.  She brought Pop and I cookies she made a few weeks ago.  She follows Pinterest and finds recipes she wants to try.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand


My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

—Edward Mote (1797-1874)
Edward Mote was a pastor and hymn writer. Born in London on 21 January 1797, his parents managed a pub and often left Edward to his own devices playing in the street.  Speaking of these childhood years he once said, "So ignorant was I that I did not know that there was a God."  He was finally exposed to the Christian gospel and was baptized the age of 18. He was trained as a cabinet maker and worked in London for 37 years. Only in his 50's did he enter the ministry and was pastor at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Horsham, West Sussex for 26 years.   He was well liked by the congregation in Horsham and they offered him the church building as a gift. Mote replied "I do not want the chapel, I only want the pulpit; and when I cease to preach Christ, then turn me out of that." He died on 13 November 1874 and is buried in the church yard at Rehoboth Church.

Monday, February 12, 2018

Mind Of Her Own

 Sunday Laura went to run at the jogging trail, I suppose.  She did not invite me and I am glad as I froze all day and would not have said "no", but I would not have wanted to go, really.  Anyhow, how while she was away, Ingrid pierced Sig's ears!  They used an ice cube and one went fine, Ingrid reported, but the next one bled a lot.  Astrid paid to have her ears pierced a second time.  Sig does not have a job so she did it the cheap way.  Now, I am wondering if Ingrid will want Sig to pierce hers!
The stone maker set George and Fleta's stone today. Fleta and Helen drove over to check it out.  Fleta reused the quote that Grandma Powell picked for her and Grandpa Powell's stone--On Christ the Solid Rock I stand!    Erin reminded me it is from a hymn.  She said they sing it at church.

Hanging With Pop

Sigrid called Pop yesterday morning with the idea that they could run around together.  First, Pop had to wait on someone who bought a disk and load it up.  Then he picked up Sig and they went to where Astrid works and Sig got a smoothie.  Pop just sat and watched Astrid work.  He said she said "hi" but was really busy mopping, wiping tables, waiting on folks in the drive though.  Pop was impressed that she was busy earning her minimum wage.  He said "it's in her genes".  After the smoothie they went to T J Maxx.  Sig took Pop to the doggie section they have.  He bought Phinnie some treats and a toy (Phinnie has worked really hard and almost destroyed it already!).   Pop bought a toy for Phoebe, too!

I think the neighbor girls don't have school today or tomorrow.  It is time for conferences and they get to stay at home.  Laura had a full day today.

It was 27 degrees last night.  Pretty chilly.  My devotional was about loving the unlovable--example my Lord loving me! 

I cooked pork belly yesterday.   Larry had saw it on you tube.  I thought I would try it.  We had it with a salad and half a sweet potatoes and baked apples for dessert.  I'll just say...been there done that!

My entertainment this morning is going to be from listening to voice interviews from Newton County, AR 1971.  Number 7 is Virgie Gregory!

1) Conversation with 70 year old white male, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1901)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000290/
2) Conversation with 62 year old white male, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1909)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000291/
3) Conversation with 63 year old white male, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1908)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000292/
4) Conversation with 46 year old white female, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1925)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000293/
5) Conversation with 56 year old white female, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1915)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000294/
6) Conversation with 54 year old white female, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1913)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000295/
7) Conversation with 65 year old female, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1906)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000296/
8. Conversation with 78 year old white male, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1893)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000297/
9) Conversation with 65 year old female and 60 year old male, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1906 and 1911)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000298/
10) Conversation with 70 year old male and wife, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1901)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000299/
11) Conversation with 41 year old male and 40 year old female, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1930 and 1931)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000300/
12) Conversation with 82 year old white male, Newton County, Arkansas (born 1889)
https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000301

NUMBER 1--Russell Burdine
Number 4--Anna Mae Ford Rudder
Number 6--Louise Ford Yancy
Number 7--Virgie Garrison Gregory
Number 11--Ray Crouse
Retired dentist is Binam Moore--who charged 50 cents to pull a tooth!
Number 9--Ed Rudder and wife, Ollie Loretta Freeman Rudder--they have his age wrong born 1892

Saturday, February 10, 2018

She Danced

Siggie went to a dance last night at her school.  She looks really pretty in her red dress.   When I first got my Middle Level degree the trend  was "no dances".  That was for Jr. High and Middle grades were not supposed to be mini Jr. Highs!  Things change and now dances are the thing for Middle Schools.  Most of the children run and side across the gym in their socks!  I am sure Sig did not do that!

Friday, February 9, 2018

A Time To Buy--A Time To Sell

 Larry has been selling some of the old Cubs he has horded.  He sold two this week and some farm equipment.
 Larry was posting his tractors on the sell sites and he saw an old photo of Asti and commented about how pretty she was.  Sig had posted this to that Insta site and I sent it to him.  He does not look at that site.  Well, he said, "I don't like that picture".  I knew why Siggie is growing up and he thinks of her as a baby.  She will be 13 next month.
I am working on the blanket stitch afghan but it is a slow process!

Also, I saw this at a blog and thought it made a lot of sense!
Live beneath your means.
Return everything that you borrow.
Stop blaming other people.
Admit it when you make a mistake.
Give clothes not worn to charity.
Do something nice and try not to get caught!
Listen more, talk less.
Everyday take a 30 minute walk.
Strive for excellence not perfection.
Be on time; don't make excuses.
Don't argue.  Get organized.
Be kind to unkind people.
Let someone cut ahead of you in line.
Take time to be alone.
Cultivate good manners.
Be humble.
Realize and accept that life is not fair.
Know when to keep your mouth shut.
Go all day without  criticizing anyone.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
It is all small stuff!

Six eggs today.  Spring is near!