As the sun was setting, I walked to the covered bridge and then by the creek, passing friends and neighbors along the way, stopping to say, Hello, how are you? It's one of my favorite things to do. Familiar people, familiar pets, familiar stories shared. They make me laugh, they warm my heart. The first neighbor I passed was walking his dog, Mollie. Now I know that their next door neighbor also has a dog, Jackson, who is never far behind. Mollie is always on a leash, but Jackson is sort of a free agent. I think he knows where home is, but he's the kind of guy who believes that home is wherever he hangs his hat, or wipes his paws. Maybe he's right. I didn't see him, and so I asked, Where is Jackson? He was up there a minute ago, my friend said, as he pointed to a fenced in pasture area. He was rolling in horse poop. When he comes in my house tonight, he's going straight to the shower. I can see why Jackson might have some ownership identity issues. Now that's a good friend and neighbor.
On my return, I stopped at the dock by the lake joining neighbors and friends who were enjoying the water and the warmer temperature today. As the darkness fell, they dwindled to one couple and myself, and they asked if I'd like a ride in the truck the rest of the way home. I said, Sure, I'll ride in the back, that's adventure riding, I've always loved doing that. Just slow down at my mailbox, and I'll jump out... but they wouldn't hear of it and tucked me into the cab with them all cozy and safe.
That's my life in the country, it's nice.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
A Beautiful Winter Day
Today was beautiful, still quite chilly, but it's so nice to see the sun again, of course, it is winter, after all. But here in the deep South, we tend to reach for shorts when we see the sun. Usually we can get by wearing shorts and tee shirts nearly half the year, one of the perks of being below the Mason/Dixon line, where we say y'all and drink plenty of sweet tea. Ah yes, sweet tea, the champagne of the South, you gotta love it!!
Today is also my grandson, Jack's birthday. Mr. Jack is nine today, how can it be? Growing up too fast, but this Gram can find some solace in that soon she will have grandchild number eight in her arms to rock and love on. Baby Amelia Dale will be here in a couple of weeks now, and I can hardly wait to meet her. It will be an exciting time for the whole family, especially for her two big brothers. They don't know things are about to change in their world.
Listening to Sirius radio, only the best thing ever invented. Golden oldies right at my fingertips any time of the day or night I can crank it up and dance till my heart's content. Yes, I'm Gram, but there's a fifteen year old girl still living somewhere in this sixty year old body. It's one of the mysteries of life. Some things never change, and that's not a bad thing, in fact.. if you ask me, it's really pretty cool.
Today is also my grandson, Jack's birthday. Mr. Jack is nine today, how can it be? Growing up too fast, but this Gram can find some solace in that soon she will have grandchild number eight in her arms to rock and love on. Baby Amelia Dale will be here in a couple of weeks now, and I can hardly wait to meet her. It will be an exciting time for the whole family, especially for her two big brothers. They don't know things are about to change in their world.
Listening to Sirius radio, only the best thing ever invented. Golden oldies right at my fingertips any time of the day or night I can crank it up and dance till my heart's content. Yes, I'm Gram, but there's a fifteen year old girl still living somewhere in this sixty year old body. It's one of the mysteries of life. Some things never change, and that's not a bad thing, in fact.. if you ask me, it's really pretty cool.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Close of the Day
I'm sitting here at the computer, when I should be getting ready for bed.
Like as not, you are doing the same thing, sitting at the computer, saying I'm going to get up in a minute. But aren't computers fabulous? Amazing tools of the age. I'm glad that I have, at least, a toehold in the computer world. It's the future.
It is the close of the day for me, I had a good day at work. I'm a nurse on a med surg unit. I say I have a love/hate relationship with my work. It's hard and can be very stressful, nerve wrecking, but I love it, too, love meeting patients and their families, love problem solving for them, meeting their needs, for 12 hours, then I can come home, where I'm free to do whatever I want to do. My kids are grown and gone, and my husband is an independent kind of guy. He likes for me to be domestic, but he can fend for himself, too. What more could I ask for? It's a good life, and I enjoy it.
We live on a dead end road, it's a mile from the turn off at the highway to our house. We live at the end of the road, in the woods by the lake. The privacy is
delicious, but we have a few neighbors, good folks. Everyone is a little bit reclusive, I guess that's why someone would be attracted to the area, but we enjoy talking when we see each other, which is usually late in the evening when we do our daily walks (my daily walks are not always daily, but I try). It's beautiful here, quiet, lots of wildlife, the lake, the creek, trails, beautiful sunrises and sunsets. It's almost magical.
I'm off for a long weekend now, but tomorrow will be dedicated to carpel tunnel surgery for my better half. Hope it goes as well as the doctor led him to think it would. They give some good meds, he won't remember a thing. Once he's awake, I'll bring him home. Then I'm expecting him to nap all afternoon. I hope he does actually. That's what I would want to do.
Wow! I can't believe it's July already!!! Like I said before... where does the time go? Happy 4th everyone!!
Like as not, you are doing the same thing, sitting at the computer, saying I'm going to get up in a minute. But aren't computers fabulous? Amazing tools of the age. I'm glad that I have, at least, a toehold in the computer world. It's the future.
It is the close of the day for me, I had a good day at work. I'm a nurse on a med surg unit. I say I have a love/hate relationship with my work. It's hard and can be very stressful, nerve wrecking, but I love it, too, love meeting patients and their families, love problem solving for them, meeting their needs, for 12 hours, then I can come home, where I'm free to do whatever I want to do. My kids are grown and gone, and my husband is an independent kind of guy. He likes for me to be domestic, but he can fend for himself, too. What more could I ask for? It's a good life, and I enjoy it.
We live on a dead end road, it's a mile from the turn off at the highway to our house. We live at the end of the road, in the woods by the lake. The privacy is
delicious, but we have a few neighbors, good folks. Everyone is a little bit reclusive, I guess that's why someone would be attracted to the area, but we enjoy talking when we see each other, which is usually late in the evening when we do our daily walks (my daily walks are not always daily, but I try). It's beautiful here, quiet, lots of wildlife, the lake, the creek, trails, beautiful sunrises and sunsets. It's almost magical.
I'm off for a long weekend now, but tomorrow will be dedicated to carpel tunnel surgery for my better half. Hope it goes as well as the doctor led him to think it would. They give some good meds, he won't remember a thing. Once he's awake, I'll bring him home. Then I'm expecting him to nap all afternoon. I hope he does actually. That's what I would want to do.
Wow! I can't believe it's July already!!! Like I said before... where does the time go? Happy 4th everyone!!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Where Does the Time Go?
Sitting at my computer tonight and realizing that I forgot to blog for about, oh, two years now. Where does the time go? Story of my life, a good starter, but not always as good at staying the course. The blogging world is fascinating though, I must say, and I have utmost admiration for those of you who are fabulous at it. Where do all the words come from? Same place all the time goes, I guess - amazing.
I have no idea how or why anyone would look at this, or want to read it, but perhaps for the same reason I feel compelled to write it tonight, someone will. I'll be encouraged if anyone out there acknowledges me. Who knows, maybe there is still hope for my blogging future, since I keep stumbling in and out of the blog world. I love it actually, just haven't gotten very good at it yet, and certainly not consistent, but you never know.
I've been home most of the week, not venturing out much into the cold, but tomorrow we will be traveling for a few hours to visit relatives. Breakfast at Cracker Barrel in the morning with a favorite cousin and aunts, then to our daughter's. The granddaughters are singing in concerts tomorrow evening. They have become lovely young ladies, and our eight year old grandson will catch us up on all his many activities. Maybe he'll even act out Star Wars, complete with very dramatic light saber fight scenes. He knows all the words. In fact he knows everything Star Wars, really, everything. We'll return home exhausted, but feeling the glow of having been with loved ones, and happy to be home again, ready to crash in our own bed. It will be a full day, and I'm sure will provide me with some great blog stories.
Hopefully, I will return sooner this time, than I did the last time.
Ye kindly ole GRAM
I have no idea how or why anyone would look at this, or want to read it, but perhaps for the same reason I feel compelled to write it tonight, someone will. I'll be encouraged if anyone out there acknowledges me. Who knows, maybe there is still hope for my blogging future, since I keep stumbling in and out of the blog world. I love it actually, just haven't gotten very good at it yet, and certainly not consistent, but you never know.
I've been home most of the week, not venturing out much into the cold, but tomorrow we will be traveling for a few hours to visit relatives. Breakfast at Cracker Barrel in the morning with a favorite cousin and aunts, then to our daughter's. The granddaughters are singing in concerts tomorrow evening. They have become lovely young ladies, and our eight year old grandson will catch us up on all his many activities. Maybe he'll even act out Star Wars, complete with very dramatic light saber fight scenes. He knows all the words. In fact he knows everything Star Wars, really, everything. We'll return home exhausted, but feeling the glow of having been with loved ones, and happy to be home again, ready to crash in our own bed. It will be a full day, and I'm sure will provide me with some great blog stories.
Hopefully, I will return sooner this time, than I did the last time.
Ye kindly ole GRAM
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
passwords... umhh!!
Too many passwords! Is it just me? Or do you find that we need too many passwords to function in this modern world today? I'm sure it must be necessary, but I find it a source of stress. If anyone out there has a suggestion, I'm all ears!!
You can probably tell, I'm stuck on something right now, because I can't remember the password. So I'm a little frustrated, but it seems to happen to me too often, and I just wondered if I not alone. Maybe someone knows something I don't. Well, that's a given, but I'm willing to learn, if you're inclined to share.
You can probably tell, I'm stuck on something right now, because I can't remember the password. So I'm a little frustrated, but it seems to happen to me too often, and I just wondered if I not alone. Maybe someone knows something I don't. Well, that's a given, but I'm willing to learn, if you're inclined to share.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
A Great Gram Day
It's a GREAT Gram day here in the country on this early hot Georgia summer day. I rose early today. Papa hadn't expected to see me when I appeared in the kitchen with my stickie uppie hair, pink robe, and still wearing my nose strip (I thought I might want to go back to sleep later, wouldn't want to wake myself up snoring, now would I, you're seeing the logic now, right?). I love these days when I get to stay home and do whatever I want. It's like Heaven. My response to his surprize at my early rising was, "Seize the day", though I must admit, it didn't sound very convincing, even to me. None the less, it's been fun. I didn't go back to sleep, maybe I dosed off a time or two while watching the news, who knows. News gets old quickly and in my attempt to make the most of the day, I decided to go outside. It's so nice in the mornings, then the heat takes over and indoors looks more interesting. I found myself pulling weeds for a while, then I sat in the swing and just enjoyed looking at the lake and feeling the morning air. A big red cardinal flew down about twenty feet in front of me and landed in the yard, then darted off into the trees. There's some cool stuff happening out there, I should do that more often.
When I came inside, I decided to put a perm in my hair. I can get into all kinds of trouble when I'm left alone with no one to watch me. My girls shutter at the things I do to my hair, but I say, "Think about all the money I saved, and anyway, it'll grow back." Not to worry, today I was lucky, it actually looks pretty good. I only used half a boxed perm which cost probably $6, so I'm just out 3 bucks. Now that's a deal!
I'm going to finish the day gathering up clothes I'm not using and take a load to Goodwill. It's spring, well technically it's still spring, and I'm feeling the need to do spring cleaning. I'd better act on it before the desire fades away. I may not be modivated again till next spring. If only I could stop time, maybe I could catch up with all the things I'd like to accomplish. I won't get it all done, but still, it's been a GREAT Gram day.
Hope ya'll had great days, too.
When I came inside, I decided to put a perm in my hair. I can get into all kinds of trouble when I'm left alone with no one to watch me. My girls shutter at the things I do to my hair, but I say, "Think about all the money I saved, and anyway, it'll grow back." Not to worry, today I was lucky, it actually looks pretty good. I only used half a boxed perm which cost probably $6, so I'm just out 3 bucks. Now that's a deal!
I'm going to finish the day gathering up clothes I'm not using and take a load to Goodwill. It's spring, well technically it's still spring, and I'm feeling the need to do spring cleaning. I'd better act on it before the desire fades away. I may not be modivated again till next spring. If only I could stop time, maybe I could catch up with all the things I'd like to accomplish. I won't get it all done, but still, it's been a GREAT Gram day.
Hope ya'll had great days, too.
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