What A Gorgeous Day! A Few Other Thoughts.

Monday, September 22, 2014.

This morning the sky was so blue!  It was such a lovely azure color of the whole sky, with not a cloud in sight; my oh my, how beautiful. 

This afternoon I went to see what the Mailman left, and there were about eight or nine fluffy little white clouds scattered all over that astonishing azure sky. The Mailman did not leave those clouds, they just came to see what he was putting in everyone's mailbox. 

Late this afternoon, I went out to check on my big azure sky ~ the western sky was a lighter color, and the clouds were all gone. The outdoor temperature is seventy-seven degrees.  

The announcer on the radio just said that Autumn is going to Fall this evening at approximately 9:29 p.m. I had been wondering exactly when Autumn WOULD Fall. 

I've been getting quite tired recently, and have taken a nap a few times this past week. This afternoon I lay down for a little while, and it turned out to be about forty minutes. I'm happy that my six-month check-up at my family physician will take place on Wednesday. I would like to know what is going on with this 'sixty-six-year-old' body! 

I am going to wash the dishes now, and settle in for a more relaxed evening.  

Last evening I watched Miss Marple in A/The Caribbean Mystery, and it was quite interesting and enjoyable. When I was in my twenties, I read many of Agatha Christie mysteries, enjoyed them very much! I was on a binge for mystery novels. Miss Marple was a  character in Christie's mysteries.  

When I went to a rural school for fifth and sixth grades, I would go to the little-town little-library to borrow and read all the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, and Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. Now, that  was a binge, too! Before that, in earlier grades at a school, I read all the Bobbsey Twins books!  

Some of Hans Christian Andersen's quotes: 

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Where words fail, music speaks. 

That's the nice thing about the world, my friend: People.

No one's ever really alone. 

Just living is not enough ... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

(Thank you very much, Hans!) 

I'll see you at the Corner Post ...

Rain and Thunder Are Forecast; A Few Other Items.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014.
Raina and Thunder Are Forecast; A Few Other Items.

Good evening, my darlings! I hope all is well with you! 

The forecast for the next day or two is for rain, possibly thunderstorms. There were storms over Arkansas but they seemed to lose their strength. 

I am so happy that the hurricane in part of Arizona has moved away a little. Some of our family lives there. I hope the storm dissipates!

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Esther and Nathaniel are supposed to fly home to Denver tomorrow. May you have a very safe flight, Esther! Our prayers are with you, and I am so happy that you and Nathaniel could visit Grandma Marion and Grandpa. I hope you have been taking photos of the four generations while you are there, too, don't forget !!!

Also, a grandchild is leaving NYC tomorrow, to fly to the Mideast: may you have a very safe journey, a happy couple of months there, and then the flight back home. Our prayers are with you! 

First Lady Michele came to visit St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis late this afternoon -- her flight was delayed, so she was a little late.  

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I was thinking today of how I enjoyed attending games, performances, and many different similar events, to see my grandchildren playing in sports, running, singing, playing instruments, performing on school stages, and more. This makes grandparents so happy. And, of course, I think of how I attended so many similar doings at our children's school. It was very often that I went to BRCS to see many of these happenings. I felt so relaxed at that school! Seeing your kids or your grandkids doing all those activities makes anyone so proud and happy about their offspring. 

I went to evening adult classes at BRCS, to learn how to paint. I think it was about 1966. That was such a joy! 

I also remember that I learned some Hispanic / Spanish from a female student from Mexico, in a daytime class. It was so enjoyable for me to learn! 

In later years, I went to Scranton University to learn about linguistics, and then happily took a semester of Spanish I. 

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I've touched on several subjects, didn't I? I'll talk about one more. There was in the fridge, less than a pint of broth, and I decided to make a little soup a couple of hours ago. I cut part of a carrot into strips, 1/3 cup of fresh tomato, cut up some of those tasty, very small, sweet peppers (about five or six of them), added some seasonings; simmered it for a while, then added 1/3 cup of cooked chicken breast, heated the soup for a few more minutes. It was time to taste it. Oh, it's so delicious! I'll enjoy the soup later this week.  

Have a restful night's sleep! 

I'll see you at the Corner Post ...

One of My Drawings; Rainless THUNDER.

September 6, 2014.

One of My Drawings; Rainless THUNDER.

And a few more items: Chore Guy; West Nile Fever deaths; new cookies; trying to listen to radio Garrison Keillor and TV Lawrence Welk at the same time. 

Hi, dearest ones! I hope all of you are having a very nice weekend!  

I was browsing in one of my journal notebooks in the last several minutes, and came across this short paragraph: 

[ I drew four similar pictures of “The yellow-throated loop-the-loop telling his pachyderm friend MakOOMba all about his flight to Sardinia the past summer.” It is cute – for the children. ]     

I have a question: WHICH FOUR CHILDREN RECEIVED THESE PICTURES? I would really love to see those four works I drew and colored. In the journal just a couple of days before, there was a sentence saying that when we (Gram B and I) had gone to a drugstore to pick up her medication, I bought some crayons to use in my drawing something for my grandchildren. This took place in the middle of February, 1993. I was staying with Gram B because of her chemotherapy and her being so sick. 

Rainless THUNDER: This is some story! The sun was shining, I was in the kitchen and the blinds were closed because of such heat outdoors. I almost never open the blinds because I cannot see much anyway. I heard a noise like someone throwing lumber into a pick-up truck. It was very sunny and bright when I glanced at the window. I kept hearing the lumber being thrown every few seconds, for about five times, and wondered who is loading lumber in the neighborhood, and how much lumber.   

I continued what I was doing, and then I heard in the distance, a soft rolling thunder. I quickly went to the back window, and was really shocked to see a very dark area on the horizon to the east. "Oooh," I thought, "that looks like a bad storm." But then I realized that the lumber-throwing sound was very close claps of thunder right over the neighbor's house.  They didn't sound like thunder, but WERE! 

Within seconds, more thunder was rolling in, closer and closer. As I looked out toward the north, it was quite dark and looked rainy. It is forecast that we have thunderstorms and rain before one a.m. tonight.  

Right now I am listening to the radio and the TV, Garrison Keillor and Lawrence Welk. Why don't these media people ask me what time they should put the programs on?  

There have been two deaths in Mississippi from the West Nile virus. Mosquitoes are apparently quite dangerous. Some computer research will tell you about how to avoid them. Some mosquitoes like certain colors, certain odors and fragrances, and there are some things that they don't like.  

One of the Chore Guys in my family lives not too far from me. A family is quite lucky to have fix-it people in their families. All four sons are 'fix-it people' and got it from their Dad. I am so grateful that my Chore Guy fixed some things this morning, like the kitchen faucet, and the mailbox. The mailbox had been "in an accident" when someone was texting as he/she passed by our place, and knocked the mailbox down. There was quite some damage to it, but of course the mystery person didn't notify us that it was his/her fault. We had it repaired by an outsider, once, and the fix-it person repaired it a couple of months after that. Today he came to do some other repairs to make the little door stay in place.  

I like very much to concoct recipes for some foods that I eat, like soup, and cookies. Do you ever do this? New cookies are great! "Try it, you'll like it!", as they say in some advertisements. 

I'll see you at the Corner Post ...