Boy Blanket Finished

I finished another baby blanket and beanie! Astrid requested it for someone she works with who is soon to have a baby boy.  They’re using greens and browns in his room. Thought this would match 💚

 

Still Kicking

My Astrid can still kick it!  She loves sports!  Her adult women’s soccer team won first in their league. She’s played with this group several years. I think this is their first time to come out first. She still exercises, plays soccer and runs in races!  Third pic is back in the day!

 

Fog Chased by Sun

My walk was foggy but by the time I got back to my house the sun had chased the fog away.  The Fish rain gauge had little over half inch of rain! Laura hung my lunch  on my mail box! My reward for walking is a chicken burrito for lunch plus all the trimming. I’m going to try to shine today.

 

November Half over

Sigrid has decorated her room for Christmas.   She asked Laura about her living room tree and Laura said—after Thanksgiving.  I’m not really a Christmas person.  It’s always a sad time for me.  We were poor and I hated going back to school and the teacher having everyone tell about what they ‘got’.  Sometimes we received a gift and a headscarf from Grandma Gaddy.  It was never a joyful time.  

 

Didn’t Sing

 

Astrid has a new fall look. I like her pumpkin pillow.

Greta’s team got second in the Siloam Springs Basketball Tournament .  She’s number 34.  

Eric had friends over to watch a fight.  I got a plate too. Didn’t have to sing for my supper. The ribs were tasty.  

Nothing Much

My new neighbor is Toby!  We’ve been getting acquainted! He likes ear scratching😇

The Beaver moon is beautiful.  It’s a super moon.  Last one of 4 this year.

The yellow finches are here.  They’re a favorite of mine.  I think they are migrating and will be gone soon, but they come back in the spring wearing bright yellow.

 

Well, Rats

Sigrid is taking Zoology.  It’s a branch of biology concerned with the classification and the properties and vital phenomena of animals.  Sig’s friend in her lab is a big rat.  First, she had to “skin it”.  Teacher said hunters were better at skinning than the A students.  Siggie thought of her old Pop and how he skinned the gray squirrels.  When teacher passed, she praised Sig’s skinning skills.  She had to locate and identify all its innards!  Like stomach, lungs, heart, kidneys.  Sig could not find the spleen. In college I took anatomy and physiology.  My lab friend was a fetal pig.  I’ll just say— I endured the class.  Sigrid is excelling!  She has an A.
 

Dolled Up, Dressed Down

When Sister Helen goes anywhere she gets a “face” on.  When she’s home alone she looks quite different!  I look the same going and coming.  Neither very attractive🤭😂

 

Yellow Cat

Greta’s school pictures came.  She looks grown up— only 14.  Clayton has none as usual.  Greta has her first basketball game today.  Hope they win.

This morning I had a visitor—a yellow cat.  The cat was lounging under my bird feeder.  When I looked out, the cat just lay there unconcerned. After I came home from exercise, cat was gone.  I wouldn’t mind a hunter cat if it wasn’t a bird hunter cat.

Astrid and Logan have a new Jack donkey.  His name is Toby.  Where they got him begged Astrid to take a female with fat deposits.  Well, within a week she passed.  Logan had to bury her.  At least Asti tried to give her a home.  Pop had a dog grave yard.  He used large rocks as markers. Now, we have a donkey graveyard, too.
 

Little Boy Blue

Finished another baby blanket.  This one is for a little feller that is a grandchild of a student from Middle School long ago.  I know that means I’m old.

 

Program of Honor

Veterans’ Day celebration happened at Laura’s school today.  One of the presenters Laura learned was from Witt Springs and her husband was too. Laura texted— are we related.  I  checked Glenna but,yes, they are cousins through Laura’s Grandmother Martha Bradley Renfroe! Glenna’s way back grandfather was Joseph F. Bradley.  He was Martha’s Uncle. 

 

W W I

 Honoring my Grandfather this Veteran’s Day—On the morning of November 11th in Compiègne, France, an armistice was reached between the Allies and Germany, declaring a cessation to hostilities on the western front effective the 11th hour, of the 11th of day, of the 11th month.

World War I ended 11/11/1918 my Grandfather came home from France 6 months later.  Houston Gaddy is on the right in the photo. The picture was taken in France and there is French writing on the back.  I don’t know who his comrades in the photo are.

 Elijah H Gaddy—Enlistment 5 Jul 1918 Discharge 19 Jul 1919

Measuring Life

I can give a weather report now! Skies are overcast and we received 3/8 in of rain.  Loving my new rain gauge.  I mentioned on FB that I wished I had a rain gauge. Ask and you shall receive! My old friend Coach Fisher brought me a rain gauge last week!  I had one but I let the water stay in it. It froze and cracked! Now I can measure the rain.

I was able to install my gauge all by my lonesome even though I’m not very handy.

 I’m trying to make scrubbies like Connie. It’s really hard to see the stitches but I’m not giving up.

Rolling in the Dough

My lucky day!  My breakfast is egg one morning and oatmeal the next, but this morning Laura said—I put a treat in your mail box. I picked it up on my walk! I was thrilled to see homemade cinnamon rolls in a little cool whip bowl!  I’m eating both!

 

Snap, Run, Sit

 

Getting our picture was an adventure!  Fleta always does the honors and sets the camera. Helen was able to push snap and rush to sit down getting our picture.  

Company Coming

My sisters are coming tomorrow! I’m pumped up. I rigged up a ramp. We’ll be careful getting her up it🤞

Harvest Past

Astrid picked her tomatoes.  I think her harvest is past.  She grew a lot of vegetables in her raised beds,  it’s still raining.  We sure need the reservoirs filled.

Sigrid is taking advantage of her sisters being married and living away from the homestead.  Her parents’ house is not large.  The downstairs is only 1200 square feet.  The bedrooms are about 12 by 12 feet.  When Sig moved home she fixed her old bedroom up nicely again. Logan put her tv on the wall.  

But her biggest change was making the second bedroom into a closet and makeup area.  The closet is her room is average sized but now she has a lighted makeup area and her clothes where she can see them.

Luckily, there’s a guest room upstairs.  Siggie has a suite.

 

Finally Rain

I have walked in rain for the last two mornings.  Finally, the earth has a drink.  Galla Lake and pond are collecting water 💦.

Astrid teaches HIIT at Focus Fitness on top of her nursing duties! She said, “Gigi, we’re going to work on your muscle strength”!  We are three generations working to be strong women—mind, body and soul♥️

I made it through the workout with 6 pound weights.  I satin a chair for the core exercises that were done on the floor.  I have trouble getting up and down.  Astrid worked the routine especially for me—no jumping!  HIIT stands for high intensity interval training.  Astrid just teaches one Saturday a month so I may get to try it again in December ❤️

 

Redo

Astrid tired of her blue end table in her spare bedroom and painted it white.  The picked up the lamp at a resell shop for 10$ I think she said.  The lamp reminds me of Momma.  She liked the globe lamps.

She bought this corner hutch without class.  She had chicken wire in it but she decided she wanted glass. She got glass at hobby lobby.  It gave the hutch a sharper look.

Can’t Sleep

It rained yesterday.  We really needed it.  I put on my green rain gear and walked in the drizzle.  A hawk came and killed two of my chickens so I have what I have left locked up and they’ll have to stay in the pen. I cleaned the coop and hen nests today.  I worked on the outside.  I covered holes so it will be warmer this winter.

I can tell there is less daylight.i can’t sleep. I woke today at 3:30 and the day before that 4.  If you can sleep all night you are blessed.

Went to eye Dr. No cataract surgery for another year.  

Laura puts food in my mailbox and when I walk I pick it up.  Today was egg roll in a  bowl.  It was very good.  I’ll have to bring plants in soon.  I think I need a plant light.