How I Wish I Would Have Thought Of That!!

 Now that spring is here and the rain has finally stopped at our house. The sun is shining and the orioles and humming birds are flying around our house; Fran is happy as a clam. (Are clams really happy?)

He has been tilling and tilling our garden and the neighbor's garden. Then the trips to town and the nursery for garden plants and seeds began. The trick is that he tilled way too much garden for the amount of plants and seeds. That continued until he finally had an even amount.  I went out to the porch to watch him with Maggie for company. I sat down and watched a happy man, but what the heck was he doing?  He had a BROOM in his hands. Instead of covering the seeds on his hands and knees he got a kitchen broom to cover the seeds. How slick is that? It worked just perfect. Do you think he could get a million dollars for that invention? Just think of the guy that started the upside down tomato invention. Hmm. I will look into this!

The Last Twenty Years

I am sure most of you have heard the country western song called The Next Thirty Years.

Yesterday Fran and I were invited to some friends for Easter lunch along with friends and family that we had at our house.
After we finished eating the guys all disappeared to smoke, talk politics, and do what men usually talk about. I really don't want to know.

My friend and I ended up in the dining room moaning and groaning about how much we had eaten and wondered why we had done that.

Suddenly she asked me what had changed in my life in the last twenty years. Well what kind of question was that? It took me completely off guard. But then I started; I really started rambling. I had to laugh today though, because the two most important things were, getting married and quitting smoking I had not mentioned.

I would love to know what things have changed your life in the last twenty years...........

Eww, Little Black Bugs!

Most of you know we have a large screened in porch. It collects junk, dirt, tools, boots, and on and on and on.

Tomorrow we are going to have a terrible storm and winds that are 45 MPH, so I thought I would sweep up the clumps of mud that have been tracked in.

I thought I would go to the part that Fran had done, like "fine tuning."

As I was doing the "do overs" there were all kinds of black bugs with white stripes on the top. I asked Fran what they could be and got the traditional shoulder shrug. Then he grinned and said that they probably were sunflower seeds. Isn't my life exciting  dull? Creepy sunflower seeds indeed.

Perhaps he should fill the bird feeders outside!

I'll Pay You Tuesday

When some people retire they try to do mental puzzles to keep them alert and oriented. Hmm, well I do that, but it doesn’t seem to work a whole big bunch! So, I encourage my partner in life to join the “fun” things with me like trying to think of movie star names, lyrics to songs, and on and on it goes.

We watch Wheel of Fortune with word puzzles. We average about fifty percent. I vowed I would Never Ever watch that show because it was just for old people.

My attention span is also shot. I find myself reading the same sentence over and over before I finally “get” it. The television, the phone, and my husband get my attention before my book.

This morning, I don’t know why, I was trying to think of a little bitty guy on the cartoons with Popeye that had a big belly. I knew he always promised to pay for the hamburger he begged for another day. Finally between Fran and I we came up with not only his name (Wimpy) but what he said

“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today.”

Do any of you folks remember this cute little guy?

The Second Beatitude

My dear friend of seventeen years passed away this morning. Her passing from this life to the next left a huge void in my life, however, her life at this point had very little quality and physical pain of great magnitude.

I took turns sitting with her for the last few weeks and made sure to my ability that she had what she needed and wanted.

She and I always had a little saying that goes like this, “I love you, love you, love you.” Two days ago when I told her I loved her, she said, “ I love you love you.” That was our last conversation.

The beatitude that says Blessed Are Those That Mourn For They Shall Be Comforted has a phrase in it that fit my friend and I just perfectly. That is I mourned her suffering.

Of course, I mourn the loss of my best friend, but the mourning of her suffering was almost unbearable. This one sentence calmed my spirit this morning like a soft balm.

As you know I generally find the humor in things, but my friend’s illness will shadow the humor I see for quite some time.

NO NO NO IT IS TOO EARLY!!!

This has been a crazy year. We had tornadoes on New Year's Eve. Yesterday there were tornado watches in northern Arkansas. Two weeks ago our temperatures were in the seventies and the robins were hopping and trying to peck for worms all over the yard.
The other day Fran moved the swing out into the yard and fixed the top on it. Today he came in and asked if I would go outside and help him move the boats. I went out as he asked.  The tires on the boat trailer were stuck in the mud from all the melted snow. He kept reminding me that the trick of backing the pickup to the boat trailer had to be done perfectly; over and over and over. I wanted to scream at him, but I kept my cool and if I do say so I did it perfect. I think Fran was even surprised.
The phone was ringing so I came back inside then I heard it. There was a very loud noise outside. I knew it was not the snowblower for one thing, we had no snow for another thing, it was put away in the shed. It could not be the riding lawn mower because we had no grass. My youngest son was here so I thought maybe he was riding his three wheeler.
After a bit, Fran came in the house for supper and I asked him what the loud noise was outside. Just matter of factly said, "Well it was the tiller."
No!  The garden was full of mud. Remember the tires stuck in the mud?

Just so you  know, in my opinion it is too early, but my brother and I do have a bet who can raise the earliest tomato, so maybe dear husband has the best idea, get the weeds out early.

6.3

I have an on line friend that I "talk" to every once in awhile. Five months ago they had an earthquake which didn't hurt her. She woke up to the shaking and shivering she said.

Today the earth quake was 6.3 and did a lot of damage. She wrote quite an article about it this morning ( her time much later).  I think about lunch time. At this time there were about 65 people  killed.

I was relieved to see her light on, on my Stat Counter. 

The picture shows that the steeple was destroyed on the beautiful Catholic cathedral.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all in New Zealand.