Award Winner

 Ingrid won the clinical excellence award in nuclear medicine at Baptist Health!  She’s almost there! Then she celebrated her friends 22 birthday.  The girls probably think they are old.  Someday the 70’s will be their years.

Yucky Yucca

 Yucca plant is blooming today!  They’re not a favorite of mine.

Pie In Sky or Eye?

 Eric has been teaching at RMS for 20 years.  He was rewarded with pie in the face today.  

Keeping Score

Another non feathered friend was visiting my seed feeder.

Betty 2        Squirrels 0

I think I am moving to assisted living!  😂 I mowed almost 3 hours but the weed eating is what really wore me out.

 

Desserts

We celebrated today with desserts!  Astrid created the flag!  Ingrid baked a pound cake with red, white and blue swirls throughout!  Both girls are fabulous cooks.  Laura made coconut cream pie and I baked lemon!  I used my friend  Vicki Johnson’s pie crust recipe!  I have a Dover Baptist Church cookbook and she has several recipes in it! 

The younger bunch had a little fish fry with trimmings.  Logan, Justin and friends caught the fish yesterday!  Girls fixed hotdogs too!  I came back home not wanting to have old lady ruining their fun! 

 

Two Blonds Riding

Astrid is riding Whiskey using my old Lamb saddle made in Green Forest, AR.  Below Helen is riding our old Red using the same saddle.  Daddy bought Red and the saddle when I was burned after a day of killing hogs in November 1963.  I missed school about 2 months as my back was burned so badly I could not wear a bra or proper shirt. I put shirts on backwards and Mommy tied them in back.  My little brother turned the gas stove on and my clothes caught fire.  I ran.  Daddy finally caught me and put the fire out with his hands.  I still carry the scars on my back.  I still recall the smell of burning flesh.

 

Walking near Coin AR

I’m was at Coin, AR. fellowshipping with my family!  Saw butterfly weed walking the same path I traveled 70 years ago.  Brother Clayton loved flowers.  His day lilies bloom still.  The other flower was in Dad’s neighbor’s yard. It is called Rose Champion but its common names are dusty miller, mullein-pink and bloody William!

Sister had the best food.  Ribeye and roasted vegetables. All so good.  I had a great time and attended my cousin’s service.  Good to be back home again.

 

Outhouse Lilies

Saw the first Ditch Lily blooms this morning. The orange day lilies are called Ditch, Railroad, and outhouse lilies because they have spread along traveled paths.  Deer turn up their noses at Ditch lilies.  Bees and butterflies aren’t crazy about the trumpet-shaped blooms either. 

Flowers are the music of the ground

From earth's lips spoken without sound

~ Edwin Curran

 

Manure in the Street

 Marshall, 1912

Main Street was rough dirt and horse manure was in the street, but you can see a new sidewalk.   This postcard was sent to a friend of J. H. Gentry in Oklahoma and he wrote on the card—Work has opened up pretty good here now but I’m working 10 hours for $3.00.

Visitors

 Fleta came last weekend.  Hannah took our picture.  I hadn’t combed my hair all day looks like, but look at my white feet.  You’ve heard of pale faced.  I’m pale feet.  

The Graduate

Ada graduated.  She loved every minute of the spotlight!  Erin had a party! On to “big” school 👩‍🎓

Bittersweet for me.  This was at 6 in the evening.  I can’t attend my Harrison grands events.  Makes me sad.cant see at night.
 

Sarah Webster Powell

 Sarah Webster Powell, of Green Forest, AR, was born on August 4, 1944, in Houston, Texas to Will and Alice Webster. She passed away peacefully on May 18, 2024.

Sarah married the love of her life, Frankie Powell, on May 26, 1988, and they spent almost 36 wonderful years together. She cherished her family deeply, finding joy in the company of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Sarah enjoyed painting, dancing, and beautiful flowers, but above all, she loved caring for the people she held dear.

Sarah is survived by her husband, Frankie; her children, Gina McCartney, Delita Tucker, and Alan Jones; her bonus children, Linda Powell Hanks, and Tracy & Rusty (husband) Hooten; her seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her siblings Clifton & Patty (wife) Jones of Groesbeck, TX, Wesley & Anita (wife) Webster of Louisiana, Barbara Brittain of Odessa, TX, Wayne & Marsha (wife) Webster of Jal, NM, Jo Pilcher of Jal, NM, James, and Cindy (wife) Webster of Big Springs, TX, and many nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents and her siblings Douglas Born of Ore City, TX and Bobby Boen of Cal, NM. 

Celebration of Life service for Sarah will be held at 2:00 PM, Friday, May 24, 2024, 

Surging Ahead

 

Sister Helen purchased a serger. The three huge spools of thread frightens me.  How did she ever get it threaded!  She is liking how it works!

Well, I could not use a machine like this as I can’t even spell the word—serger!

Swish

 Greta’s shot form is good !

Big Win

 Greta’s team won first place at Branson, MO. Today. She’s holding the plaque❤️

Lexi’s Prom Dress

Lexi (Sister Helen’s Granddaughter) enjoyed her first prom.  Her school doesn’t allow strapless gowns.  This is her mother’s prom dress. I guess 20 odd years old.  Granny Helen cut the cape and made cap sleeves.  It is so pretty.  

Lexi had nails to match.

Mom Kimberley in same dress.

Photo shopped together!  

 

Bee Please

Never too old to learn new things.  I had a peek into the bee hive today.  Brenda Holmes gave lesson 101.  I passed🐝. Well, I did not get stung! Bees reminded me of a few classes I’ve been in charge of at school. Ones where some kids had issues.  Move slow, don’t upset anyone, stay calm.  They smell fear just like children do.  Be friends!  Whew, glad that’s over and no bees flew up my pants leg🐝❤️🐝

 

 

My war with the squirrels has started.  This one has a new home with lots of oak trees—a graveyard across Galla Lake from me.  I don’t hate squirrels but I am feeding birds not squirrels.

Catalpa tree is full of blooms!  Petals are creating a pretty carpet.  A squirrel hunter from Georgia gave Larry this tree. It is a good source of fishing bait!

This is where I spotted Foxy this morning.  He knocked the feeder to the ground.  I am thankful it didn’t break.

New Neighbor

I have a new friend.  His name is Whiskey and he’s a palomino paint.  He’s thin but Galla Meadow will fatten him up.  He’s older and very tame and calm.  Perfect pal for Manchi.

 

Merle has a new home.  She needed to be trained.  Her new owners are both ferriers and are perfect for her.   She loves all the other horses.

 

Nuttall’s Briar

Black eyed Susan’s are blooming!

I saw a few new blooms this morning—the wild petunia and Nuttall’s Sensitive Briar.  The briar of the mimosa family.  The leaves and blooms are very much like those on a mimosa tree.  I recall being fascinated by the leaves when a kid growing up at Coin, AR.  They’re sensitive.  If you touch them they close up!  The petunia is very fragile.  Blooms only last a day.

 

Best Mother’s Day Gift

My best Mother’s Day gift was my little graduate came to see me!  We had a great time!