Saturday, August 07, 2021
Saturday 9: The Curly Shuffle
Friday, August 06, 2021
August 6 Happiness Challenge
Each day in August you are to post about something that makes *you* happy. Pretty simple. And, it doesn't even have to be every day if you don't want it to be. It's a great way to remind ourselves that there are positive things going on in our lives, our communities, and the world.
Thursday, August 05, 2021
August 5 Happiness Challenge
Today I saw my chiropractor, and she helped my back. I also went to the grocery store and I'm very happy that I no longer have to worry about toilet paper being in stock.
Each day in August you are to post about something that makes *you* happy. Pretty simple. And, it doesn't even have to be every day if you don't want it to be. It's a great way to remind ourselves that there are positive things going on in our lives, our communities, and the world.
Thursday Thirteen
7. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ~ Tom Bodett
9. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns
12. “I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Wednesday, August 04, 2021
August 4 Happiness Challenge
Today I am happy I have a good dentist. She's gone out of her way to see me (without charge) to adjust my mouth guard in an effort to help me with severe TMJ. Before she made me a mouth guard, my jaw was locking shut nearly every morning, creating severe pain, numbness, and headaches. There were days when all I could do was drink a Boost because I couldn't chew. This has improved significantly.
She has been incredibly helpful and caring. There are still good people in this world.
Legacy - Maternal Grandmother (Part 2)
Grandma |
Tuesday, August 03, 2021
August 3 Happiness Challenge
Monday, August 02, 2021
August 2 Happiness Challenge
Today I am happy that I was able to catch pictures of the indigo bunting that were not through a screen!
This one is cool because I also caught a bug flying around the bird. |
Legacy - Maternal Grandmother (Part 1)
Sunday, August 01, 2021
August 1 Happiness Challenge
Sunday Stealing
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Saturday, July 31, 2021
Saturday 9: Dead Skunk
Thursday, July 29, 2021
Thursday Thirteen
Here are the things that only I, the woman of the house, have the super powers to do:
1. Throw out the empty shampoo or body wash bottles.
2. Replace the roll of toilet paper.
3. Empty the trash can in the bathroom, unless it is dump day, in which case I must get to the smaller cans in all rooms before he does, or he will drag the big kitchen bag around the house, regardless of whether it is smelly or dripping something.
4. Turn socks back to their right side after he's peeled them off his stinky feet and left them inside out.
5. Fold towels.
6. Clear the old food from the refrigerator (unless it is dump day. Then everything goes whether I'm ready for it to go or not.).
7. Place the dirty dishes from the sink into the empty dishwasher.
8. Spot and dispose of stink bugs, lady bugs, spiders, and other insects that he apparently never sees.
9. Put toilet bowl drop-ins into the toilet.
10. Clean out the soap holders after they gunk up.
11. Clean out the toothbrush holder after it gunks up.
12. Hang up clothes from the dryer directly onto a clothes hanger so they don't wrinkle.
13. Make the bed.
What are your super powers?
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Legacy Questions - Maternal Grandfather
He smoked cigarettes constantly. He had a workshop in the basement where he worked on television sets during the weekend to make extra money. My brother and I, along with my two youngest uncles were never supposed to go in there (of course we did), and we definitely were not to mess with his tools (we generally did not). I remember him as being rather gruff, probably wondering who these kids were that were at his house all the time.
He drove a big white Ford car with a blue interior. Occasionally he took us on day trips to Hillsville, where there was a big store called Hills that had all sorts of trinkets, and to a place called Sunset or Sunnybrook or something like that up near Floyd. That store also had all sorts of intriguing items.
Once he raced us kids in a foot race. He laughed the entire time he was running. He also, after I reached about the age of 9 or 10, let us mow the yard. At the time he still had two boys at home. He'd pay us each a quarter and we'd split the yard-mowing up for the privilege of earning that quarter.
Then, quarter in hand, we'd race off to Orange Market on Apperson Drive to purchase comic books, candy, and a soda (yes, a long time ago, you could buy all of that for a quarter. Or maybe we put our quarters together, I don't really remember).
My mother worked about a block away from my grandparents' house, so if I stayed home from school because I was sick, I stayed with Grandma, and by the time Mom left work at 5 p.m. I was fed and she could take me home to Botetourt and put me to bed.
Grandpa grew up in Botetourt on the property that borders the land on which I grew up. A barn that he helped build still stands there. He only went to school through the fourth grade; I assume he quit to work on the family farm. He attended the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren when he was young. (I was later baptized in the same church, and I saw his name on the roster.) I think he attended school in what I knew as a barn growing up, which has since burned down. I'm not sure what the name of the school would have been.
Monday, July 26, 2021
Indigo Bunting
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Sunday Stealing
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Saturday, July 24, 2021
Saturday 9: Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh
Friday, July 23, 2021
Cows
This one is my favorite. She's giving me the stink eye. |