Grandad Jack and Grandad

Jerry's dad looked like John Wayne they even walked alike. He was called Grandad by all the kids. 

He was on the debate team that won 1st in state. I don't know the year. And he could recite the whole  speech the begins with "In aprille". In OLD English!! Very smart man!! I really loved him. 

But this is what my dad looked like

He was a sports caster on radio for years and then went to TV when we moved back to Dallas after mom died. My dad didn't debate or anything like that, but it did take him 5 years to get out of high school!! He would go to school a semester and had to work for the rest of the year. Times were hard and kids worked. Grandad worked hard on the farm and Grandad Jack worked hard too. 

My dad, as a sports caster, had to keep up with all the statistics of all the players. He could do complicated math and announce at the same time. And he was the only person who could work the computer at work when he died. 

More about grandmas next. 

Some Days Are Like That!!

Some days I wake up and I feel GREAT!!

I could clean all the kitchen. Scrub the icky sticky stuff off the TOP shelf..

Some days I just take it easy. I look at the dishes in the sink and think -- they can wait. 

Some days I fill the sink with water and let the ice cream bowls soak. 

And other days --

This is what I feel like. 

I'm gonna go eat worms!!

No body loves me. Know how I know??

Eatin' went on and I wasn't invited!!

They had ---- PIE!! 

YUMMO!!!!

I'm sad 

I think I better get happy coz I just heard the thunder!!  

AGAIN!!

Daylight's Burning!!

It's 7.17 in the a.m. and Sara is still asleep. 

And so is Jerry!! 

And that means it's cloudy today!!  

Yep!! It's supposed to rain again. 

I remember years when it rained like this in May!!  Jerry would come home from Libya or Tunisia or Nigeria or where ever and the grass would be more than ankle deep and I'd get that LOOK. 

Ladies you know which one I'm talking about!!

But his rule was -- wait three days to mow after it rained so the mower wouldn't get water and wet grass in it. 

So I would wait and sometimes in the '80s and '90s it rained every day for all of May!! 

Then it quit that so much and I could mow more often. 

I like to mow. No phone-wind in my hair-and it's not too hot. 

We've Had Visitors

This is what we see from the front window!! 

Clean Sheets!! Ummmm!!

There's nothing like clean sheets. They small so good. They're soft and cuddly. 

And Sarah likes her sheets clean too. 

At one time her house had a pink roof. The inside was teal and an UGLY pillow case. 

Since her house is in the living room I decided to make it match the walls. 

Did a good job too sheets for the bottom a pillow case for her pillow and a pretty brown mat to make it even more snugly. 

Now that it's been washed again she really goes in there a lot!!

Even furry people like their beds to be clean!!

Spiders in the Bird Feeders!

It's been raining here---a lot!! And more is on the way. 

So we kept putting bird seed in the feeders outside the front windows because those two are more sheltered. 

There has been a plethora of birds!! And what falls on the ground the doves eat. 

Today we decided that the birds that feed in the back yard needed their feeders filled. 

Jerry opened a feeder and pulled out---

this!!! YUCK!!!

A thousand legged SPIDER!!!!

And THIS---

You guessed it. A BABY spider!!

Actually and I cannot lie!!

The seeds left in the feeders had SPROUTED!! So much rain and cloudy days. 

NO spiders or their babies!!

Feeders are full and birds are EVERYWHERE !!