Sisters Forever!

This was taken on Jan's birthday in
Aug. 2004

WOW, how about that snow? It just kept coming and coming. It reminded me of the poem by John Greenleaf W.[I think] Who's woods are these?
I think I know,
His house is in the village though,
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Got up this morning to a thick blanket of pristine whiteness.
We measured 11 inches on the table on the back deck. Hubby was called to go in to work at 2: 30 am but he told dispatch that we had 10 inches of the stuff and the roads were not plowed. They called back and
told him to wait till noon to come in. That was just fine with him. His truck was parked at the top of the hill, that would have been a long cold walk, trudging up hill in 10 inches of snow at 2:30 am. After he left for work I started shoveling and kept it up for a couple hours till he came home and took over. It's now dusk and it's all cleaned off, ready for the cold night to settle in. Had our leftover birthday pizza and apple cake for supper, hatches battened down, cat fed and hopefully we're settled in.....till dispatch calls again.
Farmgirl....don't know if this is still good, found it in a 2004 magazine. Check out www.kbhilltopstables.com it would interest you. It's a video monitoring system for animal lovers to share in the wonder of birth. I intended to check it out before I got on here but didn't get it done.
Don't forget to change your clocks back tonight.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes for us both.

High Speed Here We Go!

WOW! I'm cruising now baby. This high speed Internet is NICE! Now I don't have to go wash dishes or do laundry while I wait for something to come up. I highly recommend it. It would be easy now to spend too much time on the puter, to sail from one thing to another.
Hubby has worked for weeks to get it for us and a handful of neighbors. We are right on the border line to get it, our neighbor to the North is out of the boundary line, we barely made it. He made phone calls after calls, pulled some strings, tweaked some noses, twisted a few arms, made some 'inside' phone calls, went over heads to work around some 'stallers' and WAALA, it's here. If our house set just a few more feet down the road, we couldn't get it. Eventually, who knows when, next year maybe, it might have come our way. It's nice to have a hubby who works for the phone company. He was pulling hard for our neighbor to get it ,her husband left for Iraq and she needed high speed to communicate with him. Mom, you know her, she and her family lived in your travel trailer twenty some years ago.
Home schoolers went to the IMAX yesterday. Took Tim, Lucina and Miss Beth, had a nice time. It was cold, windy and rainy, snow blowing, yes both, but we found a nice parking place under I64, overlooking the Ohio river. We just sat there awhile, since we were early, and watched the wind whip up white caps and [sea?] gulls bobbing up and down on the waves. The film was interesting, about 'Our Wonderful Ocean' not the exact title, I've slept since then. Of course, we hit the Goodwill stores on the way back, it was nice to spend some time together. Came home in time to warm up leftover good, creamy rich potato soup for supper. It warmed the tummy and hit the spot.

Hi Y'all, Not much to say. There's an ominous, threatening black cloud hanging over us, hope it moves on. The wind is gusting something fierce. I suppose it's the same in your area too.
Hubby just brought me a piece of icecream cake, trying to plump me up some more.
Wow, the sun just popped through the dark clouds, nice. I'm sitting here soaking up the gardenia perfume, hanging heavyly around me. I recomend a gardenia plant to anyone who likes flowers. I told myself, "Myself, I'm not going to bother bringing it in this fall, just let it freeze." I then thought of how long I've had it, maybe six or more years, and how good the one lone flower smelled last year, so I repotted it in a bigger pot and brought it in. Glad now that I did. It took off with a new lease on life and rewarded me, covered in blooms. I have so enjoyed it this winter. They bloom on new growth so don't trim them back at the wrong time.
I'm watching a bird in the feeder just inches from the window. He's trying to pick up two sunflower seeds at the same time and can't, guess he's afraid another will get it.
I'd best get to my icecream before I have to drink it. So long.

Hi'ya all, I know, I know, I'm in hot water for not writing. Thanks Jeanie for the photo, that's a 'new' one I've not seen before. I too love to look at old photos, post some more when you have time, please. Thanks Lucena for your update too. I check in about once a week but usually don't have the time to write, and it won't let me comment, but I do check in. Little Britches is calling, wanting to know what to do on his math paper. Gotta jump off of here.

Hi there Miss Beth, WELCOME aboard. We needed some new young blood in our midst, just what the Dr. ordered. You go girl, keep us on our toes, keep us rocking, keep us guessing. Tried to comment elsewhere but it just would no except anything from me.
Son is better, still coughing, thanks for your prayers.Hubby spent the day just trying to breath, said to just shoot him and get it over with.Said if getting older is this bad at 55, he don't want to be around at 80. He's always had a breathing problem since he broke his nose years ago, or rather, a horse broke his nose. Nights are really bad , trying to breath. Any suggestions anyone?
It's midnight and I'm waiting for a load of laundry to finish.
Got the window finished except for 4 decorative brackets that need holed drilled in them. Got the shelf up across the top with pretties on it and the mantel clock. I'm waiting for the calender clock to get finished at the Clock Shop. Don't have a place to put it but I'm still waiting. BY BY.

Surprise

Just checking to see if this thing still works, or if I can still work it. Hubby left for work again at 10:30 tonight and I've been sitting here catching up on blogs for 2 1/2 hours. Antique Mommy's story about "The Box" was a tear jerker , have a Kleenex handy if you haven't already read it. Number One Son got sick , could hardly breath, sore throat, tummy hurt. Took him to After Hours Care on Sunday noon when they opened. Said he had strep throat and the Croup. Got med for both. Throat got relief fast from the 4 little pills. He felt some better on Monday but worse on Tuesday. I checked his temp. about 50 times, it was hovering at 102 as best I could tell. He had a red rash that itched. His tummy was REALLY hurting so I called Doc and they said bring him on in. They checked his temp to be 104, cooking as she put it. She gave him some fever reducer, looked at his raw throat, ask questions, looked at rash and said he has Scarlet Fever, brought on from high temp and strep throat. Very contagious. He itched like crazy at the doc's office and scratched till he drew blood. I hate to give med. but doc said this was very dangerous if not treated properly and promptly. Gave him his two different meds awhile ago and put him in his bed. He'd been on the couch all day sleeping. He don't want anything to drink which is not good. His tummy hurts so, I'm wondering what's going on there, that's why he don't want to drink. Doc said if he's not better by Friday morning to call early in morning and I guess they'd run IV's. My back side say's it's time to get off this hard chair and the clock says so too, it's 1:30. Hubby's not home yet. Need to go check on my baby. So Long.

Need I throw in my hat first?

On second thought, think I'll keep it on my head, it's a might nippy on the ears out there. Where do I start, it's been so long time comming.Really, there's not no much news since last year. Went to Cocoa Beach Fl. in Dec., took Sarah Beth along, finally, after how many years of asking her to go with us, maybe 3 or 4 ? She and Timmy pretty well kept each other intertained, one way or the other.There's 6 years between them so the age factor played a roll in it too. Timmy wanted to do 6yr. old things and she is into the 12 [or 16] year old range so the gap has been widening over the last couple years. A little pink gameboy went along for the ride too. It was great intertainment at times but notttttttttttt so great at other times. One game and two kids wanting it all the time, at the same time, was a challenge, betimes. Fun was had by all, memories made, I'm sure. We got to see the space shuttle take off on it's mission. We were staying about 10 miles away, on the beach. We walked outside at takeoff time and down to the beach, it was after dark, and EVERYONE was out there too. The beach, the boardwalks, the roof tops, balconies, you name it and there were people there, all waiting breathlessly, for the big event. We had went to WAL-Mart earlier in the daylight, hours before liftoff time, and folks were camped out all along the roads, everywhere there was a good spot within seeing range, still miles away from Kennidy Space Center. Meanwhile, back at our beach, folks were waiting, talking in hushed tones, cameras ready, watching for the BIG event. Countdown time came, 7,6,5,4,3,2,1, BOOOOOOM. The whole sky lit up like a megga ton bomb had gone off. Being ten miles away, it was still a sight to see, the whole area was a bright orange. The crowd erupted into victory cheers, some whistleing, somecrying some clapping. Heard someone within earshot, sending a prayer up with them. Someone was shouting, GO, GO, GO! Someone else was saying, "Look at her go, my isn't that something, this is history in the making." Everyone was watching for the solid rocket boosters to drop off after it lifted up into space. This, I suppose, was a crucial point. When the big bright, white light fell away from the main body, the happy crowd erupted again, cheering, whistleing, shouting it's support, a rising crescendo lifted up with the shuttle as it soared heavenword, it's light becomming dimmer and dimmer as it ascended into outerspace on a mission. It carried a lady [among others] to the International Space Station, who is still up there today, doing expierments and such, she holds the record for the longest stay at the station. Another mission will go up before long. I'm not a fan of outer space but Kenny would go up there in a heart beat. Our week in Florida was cool, the water was cold but that didn't detur the hail and hardy. Timmy's teeth chattered so that it seemed they would break from clicking together. Sarah Beth and Kenny also braved the cold water. The waves were so strong [or the kids were so lightweight] that they got knocked down and washed back upon the beach, brushburning their backs as they rolled. OUCH! I did take my shoes off and get my feet wet, it was chilly though. We walked the beach for hours. We'd maybe walk one direction for 1 1/2 hours, then have to walk back. That's a long walk and it seems like you'll never get there. We ate good when we did get back. I took along a nice kite that I'd bought there in English at the Sun Oak Trading Post, Paid $20.00 for it, best one we'd ever had, even as kids growing up. Sarah Beth was flying it on the beach and the wind was too strong for her to hold onto it. A big gust of wind tore it out of her hands and it took off, undwinding the string as it went, just out of reach as she and I both chased franticly after it, trying in vain to run real fast in the soft sand. It eluded our grasp then lifted and sailed back toward the condos, road and streets. Kenny hollered for us to let it go but I didn't want to loose it. Sarah Beth and I took off as fast as we could, she was barefoot, I had camera in hand, in the direction it went, around the condo, parking garage,and across the side street till we could see it again. The kite was visable,way up high, so we had to look real hard for the string, and finally found it. Had to walk over into the next condo property, look up to spot the thin little string again, then follow it to where it had hooked it's self onto the very top wire of a 10 foot chainlink fence, caught by a little piece of cardboard that the string was wound on. One inch higher and it would have been gone, over the 4 lane highway and into the electric lines. Wow, that was close. Sarah Beth managed to climb up the high fence and retrieve it, it was murder on her bare feet. Kenny couldn't believe that we got it back. He was still back on the beach with Timmy when we returned from our chase. His concern was the electric lines, I had never given them a thought. I guess the Good Lord was looking out for us. --------------I've forgotten how to move down for another paragraph, so in order NOT to loose what I've written, I'll just have to run it all together. I've lost too much in the past to push the wrong key now.---------------Well let's see, what's next? Sarah Beth was glad to get home, but maybe her mamma and dadda were even more glad. I think we got home in the wee morning hours, so she spent the next day before I took her home..........We didn't have our last Christmas supper with the kids till the end of January so didn't get the tree down till into Feb. I was glad to see it go. I still have to go downstairs and put it all away.....................I had been helping Kenny put up the metel building, there's just he and I to do it. We finally got the roof on before we went to Florida, a couple of the kide did help some with that part. He and I started putting up the sides . The sheets are 20 ft. long and about 3 feet wide. I had been the one to hold it's weight and walk forward with it while Kenny guided it up into position and hold it till he could get a couple screws in to hold it. That was o.k. at the time, till one day I went to Bea's to work. I was getting my overnight bag out of the car, bent over to pick up a piece of paper and WHAAAAAAAAAAAAM! It hit me big time. I could hardly walk up the sidewalk and Ruth had to help me up the steps. I stayed all day and Ruth called a couple times to check on me. I called Mom at home and told her I was hurting. I hung up the phone and did manage to get Bea to the bathroom but couldn't get her back up. I went back to the phone to call mom for help but it just rang and rang. I thought, "Oh dear, now what.?" By then she was saying, "I can't sit like this all day." Actually ,she was only sitting maybe 5 minutes. Next thing I knew, there come mom, flying in the driveway. I was so relieved I could have cried. Mom stayed a couple hours then had to go get Daddy's supper, said she'd be back. In a little bit Bea's daughter came and sent me home, said she'd sit till mom got back. It was a good thing 'cause by morning I couldn't get up out of bed. Kenny had to get me into a sitting position and when he did, the pain was almost unbareable, my arms went numb and tingly, I started shakeing uncontrolable, got dizzy and on the verg of passing out. This was 7:00 am. time for him to go to work. He managed to get me dressed and into the vehicle and off we went to the chiropracter in Corydon. It would be two hours she said before they could see me since I was a walk in. I didn't know how I'd make it for two more hours. But I did. We went driving around till time, and sat in the Wal-Mart parking lot awhile. I couldn't manage to set down low in the chairs in the waiting room. I just couldn't manage, that's all there was to it.He took x-rays and a heat scan and I had to go back the next day for treatment. I've been going 3 days a week and just now am down to 2 days and feeling much better................. We also had waffles, Sharon, for breakfast. Hadn't had them in ages. Got up late to snow, we are snowed in, so that called for something different. I chopped up pecans, poured the batter in then sprinkled the nuts on and closed it. They were good. Had your maple syrup on them, I was saving it for a special accasion. Thank you Lord for the snow. It saved my day. Hubby was all set to go over and put sideing on the building and I was dreading it. I see no great hurry, especially when it's so cold, to have to work over there ALL DAY TILL DARK, like I had to the last two Saturdays and Half day on Sunday. Timmy is soooo board, being ther all day, he's cold and nothing much to do but play in the mud, from head to toe. He gets so dirty that I can't take him home with me in the car. He either has to go with dad or strip down to a cleaner layer. Kenny don't quit till he can't see to put another screw in, then he has to put everything away, so he doesn't get home till well after dark. He's been watching the days get a litter longer. He'll go over to the window in the evenings when he gets home from work and say something like, "See, look, it's 6:00 and not quite dark yet, it won't be long." In other words, he can hardly wait for enough daylight in the evenings to make it worth while to go to the building and work on it. NOTTTTTTT me. That means I have to go to and work till after dark, every evening. Then there's fence to build, grass to mow, road to work on, and on and on, chiggers, chiggers, chiggers! Help! I say sell it!....................Well I've sat here about 4 hours till I've gotten a headache. Timmy is asking for something to eat and hubby is on the couch down stairs in front of the T.V. He just don't know what to do with himself when he can't get out of the house. I like to get snowed in, he's dissapointed that we didn't get to work on the building today. I'll be ever so glad to get it done though, but not when it's 25 degrees outside.

This will be quick. The sun is popping over the hill in all of it's brightness, like liquid gold, spreading it's warmth over the frosty ground. Our thermometer read 15 degrees, ooooooeeeeeeeeee! Had ice on top of the pool all day yesterday. Thank God for a nice warm house. Lastnight Hubby said if he wasn't so foolish as to buy that barn, we'd have a wood furnace this winter. Oh well, he's still discouraged over not being able to finish it. The frame and 2 sheets of roofing are up. Other than that, it's been too wet and MUDDY, and no time to work on it. Days are to short now when he gets home from work to go over there. We've had so much rain too, that he can't get much done on weekends. It will be nice when it's finished, he'll feel better about it then. [except for the payments]
He's done all the work himself, except for some help from family, when they have a little time off from work. I'd like to surprise him and hire the roof put on, he don't need to be up there.
I'm about to dance a gig sitting right here. I'm listening to Daniel O'Donnell and he sets the feet to dancing.
Made myself a cup of hot 'chocolate creme' coffee and made Timmy hot peppermint tea. Sent him to his room to get dressed and bed made but I also hear him watching 'Backyard Habitat' on Animal Planet. He has chocolate chip cookies to bake today, we , or I should say he, mixed them up last night. He's been begging for awhile to make some. He helped Sarah make 'friendship bread' over at moms house on her day off. She has more patience then I do. Last night I had a time just trying to keep him from eating the butter while mixing it, also he had to taste test the sugar, flour, maple syrup and chocolate chips and then the dough. Oh well, I remember eating my share and then some, and some and some....
He's reading 3 and 4 letter words now. The best way to get him to do it is to tell him he don't know how to read or that he's forgotten the words. Then he's willing to prove us wrong and read them.
Sharon, brought in your Norfolk Pine tree yesterday. Sarah called from work and said they wanted it. I hated to let it freeze but I just didn't want to bother with it this winter. It did sit out two nights ago at 20 degrees but it didn't seem to hurt it that I can tell , yet. Just measured it at 7 feet tall. Did leave my banana tree out to freeze, it was about 10 feet tall and had no room for it. Could have cut it off and saved it but 10 years of dragging it in and out was enough.
Oh my, how the son reveals the dust on my desk, yikes! My maid quit, hence all the dirt and dust. HA HA.
Timmy lost his third tooth in the front on top, big toothless grin now. Wish I had a digital camera to show ya.
Guess I'd better wrap this up, He's been been back three times to see if I'm done blogging. He said, "You said it would only be a quick minute." I guess I failed to tell him it would be a 'mamma minute.' It's off to cookie baking then schoolwork. Come have cookies and coffee with us.

Rain, rain, rain.

How did I spend my day? Sarah came over because the water was coming up and Mom and Dad weren't home either. She had planned on taking Timmy's fall picture like she does every year but the rain hasn't stopped yet and it's 11: 30, past bedtime. Instead, she did laundry, helped Timmy with his school work, cut up apples for my apple cake, dearly enjoyed her ham and egg sandwich with a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup then topped it all off with a cup of hot herb tea and a piece of fresh apple cake. She enjoyed her day. She then went on to Bonnie's to attend her graduation from nursing[?] school, in Louisville. Hope they made it home OK in the rain. I made Kenny a apple cake last night and 3 more today. One for the freezer, one for Sarah and one for church dinner on Sunday. Had old apples that needed used up. We are moving right along with school work, we're on lesson # 78, closing in on Christmas, that far ahead but don't tell Timmy. Got the metal building frame up, most of it. I didn't help this week, Jenny, her husband Chris, Scott, and Jerod helped him some, some he did alone, a laborious task, trying to put cross beams up for the roof, alone. Gotta get Timmy to bed, he's watching Animal Planet and hubby is snoozing on the couch. I tried getting to bed early, only could manage it about 2 nights and that was it. It's now 11:45, I'll try for midnight but it's iffy, by the time I read to Timmy and get him settled down.

Need I throw my hat in the door first? Been busy with school work, Working one day at Bea's and one day at the lodge. The rest of the time is taken up working at the building sight, trying to get the foundation ready. The semi arrives a week from Monday and we're not ready yet. Dug 10 holes, 3x4 feet deep the other night, half by flashlight. Used an old worn out backhoe, glad that's done. Made 10 wooden boxes, 3 ft. high by 2 ft. square, one for each hole, glad that's done. Bent the rebar tonight, 2? for each hole, glad that's done. Hubby says he wished he hadn't started this project but it's too late to back out now so we march on, and on, and on......... Good night, it's 1:35, YIKESSSSSS!

Hellooooooooo!

How ya'll been? Good. Same here. No news to broadcast worth crowing about.

Tim and I are knee deep into school work, takes up most of the day. I'm trying to get ahead so we won't have to take it on vacation, if we go. Timmy don't know it but we're about 6 days ahead, aiming for 15 or more. With me working 2 days a week, we fall behind and have to spend most all of 3 days to catch up and get ahead a little if we can. He doesn't know we're ahead or he'd balk, my secret. He's doing good, reading 3 and 4 letter words by sounding them out. He's ahead of the teacher, just picked up his blend book and started reading them. Of course I make a BIG thing of it and it spurs him on to do more.

Hubby put in 14 hours overtime today and just got called back in to work again. He was home about 2 hours. I'm going over to the keyboard and do a little practicing while he's gone, he don't like to hear it. I have to play an old pump organ for Nidrah on Wednesday so I'd better brush up, haven't played much in the last 6 years. So long.

GREETINGS

Hubby's home again for the long weekend. He spent the day over at his brothers, working on their backhoe. Timmy and I spent the day on lessons, trying to catch up the days we missed this week. I worked Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday I took Sarah Belle to the Endodonist in Louisville, down Dixie Hwy. We left my house at 7:oo A.M. and got there at 8:15, she filled out paperwork and was in the chair at 8:30. She spent an hour, reclined in the chair while the lady endodonist and her trusty assistant worked their magic. She left the office $780.00 poorer but feeling much, much better. The toothache left but her jaw was sore from all the pushing they did, filling up the empty root canals. We went to Lowe's and she bought a ceiling fan and we oooed and awed over their lamps and such. Denist said she could have some icecream in an hour so we made a bee line for Arby's and got us a shake. She hadn't eaten in 5 days because of the pain, so she really enjoyed the icecream. We then spotted 'Trader Baker's Mall' so we thought we'd take a peek inside for a few minutes, ha! We came out 6 hours later with lighter pocketbooks. Headed home [moms] and stopped along the way for us each a cup of yogurt and a banana at Georgetown. Got home around 8:00, Sarah packed up and went home, I packed Timmy up and went back to our house to put away our loot. Sarah didn't have room at her house for all her stuff so I took it home with me for awhile. We had a nice, enjoyable time together.
Made lasagna last night, so we have plenty to eat on over the weekend.
Timmy did three lessons today and wrote his cursive E, I, and U's beautifully, some were perfect. I'm really stressing GOOD penmenship and so far, he's doing great. He'll make a perfect letter and I jump up and yell, "yesssss!" and he is beside himself with pride and hugs me so tight I can hardly breath then smothers me with kisses till I holler "Uncle". I told him his letters were lots better than daddy's and as good or better then mine and he was so excited about that fact that I could hardly calm him down. I told him that if he try's and works at it, he'll be able to write better then most grown men. He's already been told in the past that he printed so nice and neat. Hopefully it will stick with him.
Have lots to do before bedtime so I'll talk at ya later.

Hubby finally made it back home from Ft. Wayne tonight after a long hard, fast drive. He walked in the door with a big smile and a Dairy Queen Icecream Cake, just for Timmy and me, he said. He spent the week up there on business.

Sister-in law and I had a 'Ladies Day Out' yesterday. She needed a break and wheels so away we went. Stopped at a big yardsale in Merango and picked up some good bargins. Every thing was dirt cheap and they said the next day a lot of it would be free. Saw a lady I hadn't seen in 15 years or more. We both knew that we should know each other but couldn't place us. Finally, before we left the sale, I took a shot in the dark and ask if she had anything to do with the English Elderly Housing years ago. Light bulbs started coming on and it hit us. I told her that I usted to care for Ruby and then she remembered me and I remembered her when she said she used to live there with her two little girls. Why yes, that was it. Hadn't thought of her in years. Now, to continue with our day.
Took Timmy to 'sitter' and we headed 'up town'. Stopped at the Dollar Tree, Big Lots, Tumbleweed for lunch, then on to Sams Club. Strolled the isles and loaded our 'stuff' then stood and listened to a 'Forever Sharp' knife demonstration and received a small paring knife free. Shopping makes a person thursty, so we walked over to the fountain drinks a got us a big, cold root beer to go. Oh so good. Checked out and headed West into the sun for home. By now it was 6:00 so I called Ruth and told her we were headed in her direction. Sister-in-law and I are ever so grateful and thankful to our kind, generous, benefactor, who made our enjoyable shopping trip possible. Bless her kindly. May the Good Lord let His face shine down on her with His Love and care. I bought some stickers for scrapbooking so we need to plan a 'get together day' and do some scrapbooking. We'd lay out all our supplies on the table and share them. I have paper and stickers, sticky tape and a pair of fancy cutting scissors. What more do we need? Just bring photos ( copies) snacks and a good time. Come one, come all. Gotta go.

Good Day!

It's 2:00 in the afternoon, Wow! I shouldn't be sitting here, I have so much to do.
Worked yesterday at the lodge, cleaning 3 bathrooms, every inch of them, changing king size sheets, many trips around the beds, sweeping floors, etc.
Yesterday was Mom's birthday. I had made her a 'Pineapple Lace' cake, placed it in my footed cake stand, placed the dome lid on and carried it to the lodge with me. At lunch time I took it down to Bea's and presented it to Mom. She was surprised. She liked it an so did Bea, she likes anything sweet. Think I made the pineapple filling to thick, which made the cake kinda dry.
Canned 15 qts. of tomato juice, that should be enough with what we had left from last year.
Took a package of 'round steak' from the freezer for supper. Don't know if I should fix it or a fast sandwich. Hubby is committed two different directions tonight when he gets home from work. He is supposed to meet his brother to get some log's ready to sell and he's supposed to go the opposite direction, meet with is son and go to Magnet and check on a backhoe that he needs and would like to buy. It's either buy or rent one to do some work over at the farm for the building foundation and some more work on the new road. I don't like this big debt we're taking on, it's scary.

To answer your question Sharon. Get a big kettle of water boiling, drop in your shucked ears of corn, cook about 10 minutes, remove with tongues and place in a clean sink of ice water to cool. Drain on a clean white towel, cut off the cob, scrape cob with knife and put over into your freezer bags. Add to the corn enough water to just cover corn, force out all the air and freeze. With the water in the bag, it doesn't get freezer burnt. to eat, just thaw in the microwave and cook about 5 minutes, there's plenty of juice and it's not dry. Just add a little butter and salt if you like and serve with a slotted spoon. Good fresh, frozen corn doesn't even need salt or butter to make it good.

Thank-you Ruth for the information I requested on 'Home Schooling.' Yes it was helpful. Looking at the list of things they should learn in kindergarten, Timmy already knows 98% of it. I'm hoping this is not a waste of money. Guess it won't hurt to brush up again on it again.
Best get started on supper.

I'm Back

It's about 2:00 AM and I'm winding down. Froze 11 bags of corn today and still trying to get the splattered corn juice off my glasses. It's messy, working in corn and hard to clean up if you don't do it right away.

Timmy and Kenny went over to the farm to work, Timmy wanted to stay home with me but daddy said, "No, you're going to go sweat with me today." He didn't like it but went anyway. He took his ' heavy equipment' toys and played in the dirt. You can't imagine how dirty he was when they got home at 9:30 tonight. I stripped him on the spot and whisked him off to the shower.

Also cooked some fresh green beans today and nearly ate half of them, they were so good. Put a little bacon, bacon grease, onion and a little sugar in them. Cooked them in a can of chicken broth and added some veggie bouillon also, very good. I'll share with yah, I have another bag to cook up yet.

Bought 6 more 'free range' chickens yesterday from the neighbors. Cut one up and fried it for supper. Used Aunt Marge's method, brown in the black iron skillet then but in the oven, covered for one hour to finish cooking. GOOOOOOd! Thanks Aunt Marge for the tip.

Bought a small, wooden, fold up rocking chair from the neighbors yard sale. It has been nicely stripped and the tapestry has been removed. He said it came from Italy or France, he couldn't remember which, he was told but forgot. It's another project to work on. Should I paint it white and use a pretty pink floral tapestry or stain it cherry or mahogany? It only stands about 3 feet high and folds up nicely. Rust on the hinges needs some attention.

Rachel came up this week and I loaded her car down with 'stuff.' Gave her a nice old coffee table that I had planned on restoring, of course, with white paint and a spray of pink roses. Sent her home with a small, half round, old accent table and a three legged piano stool to set a plant on. Went through my boxes down stairs and filled up her car, some nice things for her new 'china cabinet, buffet.' It fills up her wall and looks nice.

Went to holiday Inn Express yesterday in New Albany, by the Sherman Minton Bridge and got Timmy all signed up and set for school. It was a A Beka Academy Home School Materials Display. By going there to sign up, we saved $1oo.oo. Ordered their DVD program which features the master teachers of Pensacola Christian Academy in a Christian classroom setting. It's like you're right there in the classroom with all the other students and teacher with interaction with them, answering questions along with the students. I think it will hold his interest better than just a boring old ugly workbook in front of him for three hours each day. I liked what I saw and hope he will too. Our pastures daughter is using the same program, except for first grade instead of kindergarten, she's excited. She won't have to drive into Corydon every day for school.

Well, it's later then I think, I must catch a wink or two before church in the morning or I can't keep my eyes open and that is MISERABLE with a Capitol M! Good night.

Well it's 3:00 AM and I finally got the corn froze. Left mom's tonight about 8:30 and drove over to sister-in-laws house on the way home to give her a kettle. She said her water quit working. I just happened to have a gal. with me and she gladly took it. They have spring water and a pump house. Her Hubby was too sick to go check it out.They have farm animals to water but had enough for tonight. Any way, she had picked and shucked about a bushel or more of corn today then the water quit and she couldn't work it up. She had put it in a big bag and stuck it in the freezer for the night. It wasn't frozen yet so she told me to take it home and work it up for us. I just bagged 11 bags, PTL.

Helped Daddy mow a yard today, he rode, I trimmed and used the walk behind. He was real glad for the help, said he'd never got it done that fast before. The heat index was about 105.

Granny and Timmy played in the creek awhile tonight, catching crawdads.
Mom tipped a peck of green beans today for me and I drove off and left them in the frig.
Gotta get to bed, good night.

BOOOOOOOOOOO!

Man must work from sun to sun but woman's work is never done. Any body agree? That's so very true in my neck of the woods. We've been working every night and weekends on the road, getting home around 10:00, then my work starts up again and his ends on the couch for a well earned snooze. I'm proud of him anyway, he's out there getting the job done, a little at a time. There's not a lazy bone in his body, but I do wish he'd slow down and let me rest anyway.
I'm back, I forgot I was in the middle of making tea, loading the dishwasher, laying out Timmy's cloths for tomorrow, hunting up a couple pictures, getting Tims bath, putting groceries away, cleaning up supper mess that we hurried off and left, gathering up a few things for tomorrow that I don't want to forget, plugged the pool in so it could circulate a bit, forgot the eggs out in the truck so had to go back out there, need I say more?
Sure do miss Aunt Marge. I stopped in at Moms tonight and it was too quiet over there. I Miss her laugh and the sisterly banter between her and Mom.
I gotta get with it while the night is still young, talk to ya later.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Tim and 2nd cousin



















1. Sarah's longhorn
2. Tim & 2nd cousin
4.Flying 'or the river
5. Cowboy Up
6. Papaw & Gracie May
7. More road


Worked last Friday at the lodge all day then had to fill in down at Ms. Bea's from 4:00 when I got off work at the lodge to Sunday morning @ 11:00. Went straight to Ruth's church to pick up Timmy then we went over to the farm where Hubby was working. We pitched in and helped fill up the 18 ft. trailer for the 2nd time and haul it down to daddy's with the tractor with me bringing up the rear in case we lost a piece of wood on the road, it was so full. Went back to the farm and picked up and piled up tree tops and branches. Did some more dozing and cutting up trees. Built a small, little fire and roasted weinies and marshmallows. Back up about an hour. Kenny stopped to add water to the radiator on the dozer, Timmy jumped up on the track to watch and grabbed ahold of the HOT exhaust pipe. Ouch, ouch big time. He jumped down crying, came to me and took hold of my arm, let loose and grabbed it again, crying too hard to talk. He didn't say any thing but I put 2 & 2 together and figured it out. I guess he thought I could feel the heat in his hand. We ran to the cooler and got a handful of ice to hold. Normally we wouldn't have had the ice but I had just come from the store and had bought wieners and didn't want them to spoil so got a bag of ice to put them on. I put some old, expired burn ointment on his hand that we had in a first aid kit in the tool box but he kept crying and said it burnt worse so we wiped it off. Gave him a wet wash cloth to hold with ice in it and it quieted him down some. It was soooooooo hot and humid, he sat down in a lawn chair and fell into a fitfull sleep for a few minutes but kept whimpering and shaking his hand. The pain wasn't letting up so we went down to Moms and tried a couple things and they didn't help. We then tried 'oil of oregano' and within 20 minutes he was o.k. and started to use his hand. That is powerful stuff. Everyone needs a bottle of it to keep on hand. His finger print area on all five fingers was burnt and white but they never got blistered. He never complained any more about it after that. Anyway, I was away from home for three days without a change of cloths or a toothbrush, Yuck. Got home about 10:30 that night and boy did a shower feel good.
Sister-in-law, Timmy and I went to Sams on Monday. Treated her to some cash that I had made at Bea's and she was ever so grateful to have some 'shopping' money. Stopped at Wal-mart for a few things then hurried on to Grantsburg to take her home. I hurried home, got there just before hubby did, made him a turkey sandwich and we were off to the farm again. We picked up more sticks and branches and added them to the humungus brush pile. We all three jumped on the dozer, went a piece and picked up a big culvert, chained it to the side of the dozer and took it to it's rightful resting place. Hubby then proceeded to doze till dark while Timmy played in the dirt in the pond runoff ditch while I tried to catch 40 winks over the noise of the dozer. He finally quit when it got too dark to see and we headed home. It rained today, thank God, we needed it, or we'd have been back over there after supper. Besides, Kenny got called back to work at 8:oo and didn't get back home till 12:30. This took so long that it's now 2:30 so I'm outa here, good night.

Good golly, Miss Molly, It's midnight, already. Just wanted to answer your question Sharon. You probably know the answer by now, but I just read it last night. Sarah went to Texas to spend a week on Lori's ranch. She has some good pictures, maybe she'll post them on here sometime.
Yes, wish you were here to eat blueberries, they are delicious. I just finished making 3 1/2 pints of blueberry jam and it's gooood!
Timmy and I went to English today, picked up Sarah Beth and we went over to the farm. We started loading wood and nearly filled the 18 foot trailer in no time. We didn't get it all picked up but it was going time and we were TIRED TO THE BONE. Gave Sarah Beth $5.00 for helping so good and promised them a cold popsicle when we got home. Kenny don't know it yet, we won't tell till he gets over there and sees it loaded. He will be greatly surprised. I even started the tractor and drove it and the trailer around the hill and through the woods to pick up more wood. Never did that before either, never drove it, except for a few feet when Hubby was standing there telling me what to do. It felt kinda good. I just don't want him thinking I know enough about it to have to go out and mow the fields or something of the sort.
Here's a few pictures of the road about a week ago. It is now sown in grass seed except for the driving area awaiting gravel.
I have to go to work tomorrow, up at the lodge. She wants me to help cook for her company, family reunion. Gotta getta shower and get to bed. Nighty Nite.