MARCH

Can't believe  it is March already.  Time has rushed by and I have not entered anything since Feb.  We are finally enjoying some of the warmer days  here in Florida.  not many but some.  Have been working in the yard raking up leaves and pine needles  and pinecones and more pinecones.  They are still falling from the trees as we  rake.  This will be a never ending job  I am sure.   Little buds are forming on the trees and the early flowering redbuds are showing their beautiful colors.  Spring is in the air here. YEA!!!!    Don't have any pictures this time.  Have talked to Grandson Tom many times on the phone along with tex messaging.   He will be graduating from MP  training next Thursday ( 3/18/10).  His Dad will be going down this time to see him get his baret and badge..Tom is very happy to be moving on to his deployment soon.   Texas is getting boring out there in the desert.  He is anxious to see what Japan is all about.  Me too.  Can't wait for those first letters telling me what  interesting discoverys  he finds. 

The rain has come down in buckets today.   Two or three inches this morning alone.  We feel like we are in the middle of a river here.   We must get some fill to level out this yard and come up to dry ground again.   

February was a hard month on the family with the passing of a dear cousin, Martha, and late news of another cousin, Roy,  passed in Oct.   They will be surely missed.

This  weekend is cleanup days for the neighborhood.  So will be real busy again.  After the cleanup there is to be a big fish fry for everyone.  The guys in the 'hood  have so many frozen fish from all their excursions  they want to  unload some to the neighbors with the "big fry".That will be fun to get together after a cool wet winter. Not to mention  good eating.

Granddaughter  will have a birthday this month.   17  already. HAPPY BIRTHDAY  to Becky.  love ya!!!!

 

 

BIRTHDAYS

HERE IT IS ANOTHER YEAR HAS PASSED AND MY GRANDSONS ARE CELEBRATING THEIR  BACK TO BACK BIRTHDAYS.  BORN A DAY APART BUT  3 YEARS APART.  HOW THE YEARS FLY BY.  YOUNGEST HAS GRADUATED AND IS ON HIS OWN THE OLDEST IS JUST ENTERING TRAINING FOR THE AIR FORCE.  WHERE DID THE YEARS GO?  FULL OF GROWING AND LEARNING AND LOTS OF LESSONS AND CHILDHOOD COLDS AND FEVERS, NEW ADVENTURES AND  OLD TRICKS  WITH  A NEW GENERATION THINKING THEY THOUGHT  UP THE PRANKS.  LITTLE DID THEY KNOW WE DID MANY OF THEM  OURSELFS  IN OUR YOUTH , THINKING WE WERE THE ONES WHO THOUGHT THEM UP.  KEEP GROWING AND LEARNING BOYS.  IT'S A BIG WORLD OUT THERE AND ITS ALL FOR YOU TO EXPLORE AND ENJOY.   JUST HOPE THEY CONTINUE TO SHARE THEIR ADVENTURES WITH THEIR OLD GRANDMA  THROUGH THE YEARS.  HERE'S TO THE BEST YEAR EVER FOR YOU BOTH..GOD BE WITH YOU AND WATCH OVER YOU  WHILE YOU STEP OUT INTO THE WORLD!

HERE IS A PICTURE OF OUR  $19  TREE AND $15  WORTH OF DECORATIONS.  NOT TO BAD I WOULD SAY!   WE DIDNT THINK TO BRING DOWN CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS FOR THIS YEAR.  TOO MANY OTHER NESSESARY THINGS TO PACK .  SO WE WENT TO OUR FAVORITE STORE (WALMART) AND PICKED THIS ONE OUT AND THE BULBS.  PRE LIT -HUBBY WAS  THRILLED HE DID NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH  MINI LIGHTS.   NEXT YEAR I WILL BE BETER PREPARED.  WE HAD A LOVELY HOLIDAY WITH OUTINGS AND NEW FRIENDS TO CELEBRATE  WITH.  GRANDCHILDREN WILL BE INTERESTD IN SEEING THE TREE THAT GRANDMA PUT UP THIS YEAR IN FLORIDA, WHERE IT IS COLD ENOUGH TO SNOW HERE THIS YEAR.  GOOD THING IT IS NOT STILL RAINING OR IT WOULD PROBABLY BE SNOW!

OUR  OLDEST DAUGHTERS SON WHO IS IN THE AIR FORCE, GOT TO GO TO HIS GRADUATION AS I MENTIONED BEFORE.  FOR CHRISTMAS  SHE SENT US  MOVIES OF THE CEREMONY AND WE COULD PLAY THEM ON  MY COMPUTER TO ENJOY JUST LIKE BEING THERE. ( WELL, AT LEAST I GOT  1 OFTHEM TO PLAY   -   ONE OUT OF TWO  ISN'T BAD FOR ME WITH  THIS COMPUTER).  ANYWAY,  HERE IS A PICTURE OF GRANDMA- GREAT  ENJOYING THE PICTURES.  SHE THINKS HERSELF PRETTY SAVEY  OPERATING THE  KEYS.

stoney acres

WE HAVE HAD A SINKING FEELING  IN OUR DRIVEWAY WITH ALL THE RAIN HERE IN FL.  THERE HAS BEEN 11 INCHES IN JUST THE MONTH OF DECEMBER THIS YEAR.  THEY SAY THIS IS VERY UNUSUAL FOR HERE.  WELL,  WE MUST HAVE BROUGHT ON THE CHANGE.  ANYWAY,  WE ORDERED A LOAD OF STONES FOR THE DRIVEWAY BECAUSE THE WATER WOULD JUST NOT GO AWAY AFTER THE RAINS.  SOME DAYS WE FELT LIKE WE  WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A LAKE.  LEAVING THE HOUSE  WE WONDERED IF WE SHOULD BE BUYING A BOAT TO GET TO THE ROAD.  THE STONES WERE DELIVERED AND BROTHER, HUBBY AND MYSELF WENT OUT AND RAKED AND SHOVELED UNTIL WE THINK WE FILLED IN THE LARGEST OF THE  PUDDLE SPOTS.  WE WILL NEED SOME MORE STONES IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR SURE IF THE RAINS KEEP UP.

MULE DAYS

DURING THE MONTH OF NOV. BROTHER TOOK US TO  AN OUTING  IN GEORGIA CALLED MULE DAYS.  IT WAS  VERY INTERESTING TO SEE ALL THE VENDORS THERE BUT THE MOST INTERESTING THING WAS THE MAKING OF CANE SUGAR.  HOW THEY CRUSHED THE STOCKS AND EXTRACTED THE JUICE.  THEN THEY BOILED IT DOWN AND PUT IT IN JARS  TO SELL.  TOOK THESE PICTURES SO I COULD SHARE THIS FASINATING PROCESS.  THEY ALSO SOLD SHORT STOCKS THAT THE KIDS WERE WALKING AROUND  CHEWING ON TO GET THE SUGAR TASTE OUT.

Here you can see the cousins with hubby and Grandma in the front.  Christa, Gary and Eric in the backround.  What a great  time we had together but the time was all to  short.  Hope they can come back real soon.