Whew

Would it be redundant for me to mention how proud of Baby Girl we are? Oh well, so be it. It was busy around here leading up to that day and now, well now I’m looking forward to trying to get back into a lazy kind of schedule…for a couple weeks anyway. Hey, that sounds almost like a vacation only without the gas money, packing and driving part.


Omygoodness! It is soooo dry around here. And all my dear internets say ‘How dry is it?’ Ha, I’m glad you asked…it’s so dry that we are down to only watering the tomatoes and luffa. Okay so there are green beans and onions in the luffa bed. Our water barrels are so dry they are almost as shriveled up as the fruit trees. Let me put in terms of labor, normally by this time we are mowing the yard a minimum of once every 4-5 days but it has only been mowed twice this entire year. And truthfully the 2nd time was just to level out the height of the weeds. At our house we have been hand washing dishes, I know hard times, and catching the rinse water in a dish pan so we can toss it out in the pool. Because our city is on ground water and it’s low, they are heavily treating it so the pool veggies aren't that great because of it, there is now an…well let me just say the water bill is too high. But the luffa are ah growing they seem to really like this heat as do the tomatoes.

Luffa Bed after planting, replanting & replanting

Luffa Bed after sprouting, resprouting & respouting

So we had this cat move in to our backyard. Crazy I know but the danged ol’ thing won’t leave. I watched it go from a skinny thing to one that could hardly stand cause it wouldn’t leave to get food water. And now I have a stupid cat. It is ugly too, the hind end is taller than the front so it’s butt looks like it poking up. It has deep blue eyes, they are purdy, but when ya add in the Siamese cat coloring along with some brown splotches and long Persian cat hair…yep it’s ugly, did I mention the squeak of a meow. I would show y’all a picture but it’s such a scardy cat it runs from me. I’m sure it has nothing to do with me chasing it waving my arms and hollering ‘Get outta here – go home.’ And just so ya know my Beloved doesn’t like cats…at all. Now me, I don’t mind ‘em, I’m one of those that like cats & dogs kind of people. So Ugly, as it is now named, goes potty in front of the oak tree…El Yuck-o! Now here is the good part -- those crazy a$$ed tree rats, better known as squirrels, don’t come in the yard. Nope they just walk across the power line wave and wriggle their tales and bark. Oh but wait there’s more, recently someone told me that my animal totem was a cat…OMG, Lord please don’t let me turn into one of them crazy cat ladies.

I hope all y’all dear internets had a great long weekend! We did but I’ll save that for my next post, especially since I need some more time to conjure up something… yeah something hot maybe.

ATC (2 ½ x 3 ½) by moi – light it up

It's Done - Over

O my dear internets, what can I say. It was magnificent to see our Baby Girl achieve all that she has. I know some of y’all are thinking well it’s was only a high school diploma, but trust me when I say it was all a uphill, no a up mountain battle. We are just so glad she was able to do this. Okay that’s all I can type…we are tired as it has been a long night, day, and years even.

Now be careful on this long Memorial Holiday Weekend, get out there and be with your families and friends

AND

be mindful to NOT drink and drive cars or boats –––– the life you save could be mine, so thank you for that.

Bragging?

No way Bob! But I will regale y’all, my dear internets, with a smallish story of mother’s pride.

Last night we attended the Awards Banquet for the Juniors and Seniors of Baby Girl’s school. Yes she is graduating in a few short days, needless to say we are somewhat excited, after all she is the last of seven. Whew are we tired! No, I’m not even going to think nor talk of higher education ~ give me a break ~ first, umm let’s pretend I, we get summer off. Yeah a summer vacation then we’ll think about all that.

Oh, yeah I was bragging…oops I meant, of course, telling y’all about a mother’s pride.

So there we were, dressed up in a room full of strangers eating and making very little small talk. It was time for awards. We Knew Baby Girl would get a “Star Student” as we had to buy that, yes really. But then she got an award for A-B Honors in grammar. Wow she has come a long way from not capitalizing the first letter of a sentence. Then some other kids got some…

And then it was Baby Girl again! A trophy for being most Improved during this school year. See, she has come a long way. Then some other kid(s) then BAM, Baby Girl for the best Citizen within the school, and they drolled on and on about how she is conscientious and helps others and the staff and polite and blah blah blah every good thing YOU want in your kids. {SMILE} So there was a couple of awards for some other kids and Hole E Mole E Baby Girl got another one, this time for most Dedicated (she took extras courses so she could graduate this year).

Intermission – he Juniors entertained us by putting on a skit where in they impersonated the Seniors. It was so funny and as far as I could tell they Nailed it.

Now it was the Preachers wife’s turn to speak and she talked about the staff, students and blah blah good stuff. She talked about how when they started this school (a little church school) that the pastor wanted to give out an award every year to a Senior or Junior that showed – well he had like this major list of qualities and then asked if the three candidates would stand and BaM Ah Lam he called Baby Girl after two boys. We were so proud already and now to think she was considered for the biggest and bestest award. Wow, just Wow. So they sat back down and the pastor talked some more and then finally he called BABY GIRL! OMG, my dear internets…OMG Of course I knew when he used the term consistent during his speech that it had to be MY Baby Girl.

As we were gathering up ALL her trophies to leave there were tons of people congratulating Baby Girl and us. Telling us how much they like and enjoy her...Oh my dear internets, we are so proud and happy and sad that certain people of her life could not be there in person, but we know they were there in spirit.

Baby Girl your Mom, Dad, Grandmaw and Grandpaw saw it all, they are just as proud, if not more, as we are of you. And yes they will be there when you walk the stage to receive your High School Diploma.

Thanks for reading this little Prideful story from this very proud and very happy mother – little ol' moi.

! Birthday !

Boy

is today a special day for someone very, I mean super, close to moi.

I want to thank my Mother in Law and my Father in Law for this wondermous & fabulous gift of love they gave to me.

Happy Birthday my most Beloved!

Friday the 13th

a scary day for some folks. Here is a poem I wrote a few years back.

A Mother’s Superstition

(An Ode to Clifford Ware)

It was a Friday after school
You were at your friend’s house
Sixteen-year-old boys playing
With a grown man’s toy
“It was empty!” he cried out
To police, the world and then
Your mother
It was on a thirteenth,
Oh so many long years ago
I wasn’t superstitious then
And am not now, although
I suppose your mother is
Or at least she is now
And when that number comes
On what is typically
A good weekday you can’t help
But appear in memories,
Whether it is spring, winter
Summer or fall

~~~~~

Yes this is based on an actual event on an actual Friday the 13th. Please teach your children that guns are ALWAYS to be handled as if they are loaded.

No...Wait!

Don’t fire me! Not from my own blog.


Ah my dear internets I wish it would rain at our house. Have I complained about this already? Matters not, my rain barrels are dry, our yard is as crunchy as Grape Nuts cereal and the same color too…okay so there is a tad of green near the tomato bed. I feel bad wanting rain when so many are flooding throughout the greater Mississippi and Ohio River valleys; Their homes and lives being devastated when here in Texas we have wild fires. Last week there was one blazing a few miles from my home, thank God the firefighters were able to extinguish it within several hours.

I have been busy this day. Really I finished writing and editing a couple of poems, I would share them but they are a bit…umm let me just say they are on the adult side.

So um, I’ve been doing an online art journaling workshop…21 Secrets. It’s purdy neat and now that I have finished up a few ATC commitments and a class at the college is winding down I can really delve into the workshop and relax.

Here is that “under painting” Brian asked to see, now mind you I drew this with the canvas in a landscape orientation and bam a lam it’s supposed to be portrait orientation. Weird a$$ed art, hum maybe I should look at my poetry from a different angle…lalala

So really that’s all I have for y’all today. Please pray for all the flood and fire victims.

Cinco Posto

As I write this post our internet is down. Haha it makes me wonder what a chicken actually feels like with its head cut off… okay so not really. I’m one of those people that is okay without the web (for a bit anyway) after all I have tons of stuff I can do, including junk I like to do.


I suppose I could work on some poeming, but I’m just not feeling it today ya know. I did get my 5 favorites from the April Poem a Day Challenge sent in to Robert Lee Brewer. I have high hopes that all 5 will be in the top 50…prayer from you guys could help. BTW I entered them under my RL name. I don’t remember when he will make the announcement and I can’t check as the internet is down.

I could work on the current painting I’m doing…well actually I have already and I’m just waiting for a layer of paint to dry. Ya know sometimes I sit there and watch it dry – lalala Okay so I eat my breakfast or lunch and look at the paint drying... I call that multi-tasking, it’s easy and it doesn't take the internet to do it (well sometimes it does).

My type of multitasking on occasion drives my Beloved crazy. Its’ so funny I’ll like be online reading blogs and watching TV or watching a Ustream and TV, like this morning when the internet disappeared. Not that Beloved was home when that happened, nope I made him go to work today. Unlike the internet which isn't ... working that is.

The weather has been so wonderful at our house. Cool nights and sunny DRY days (but not too hot). We need rain; so there again I ask that y’all pray for rain at our house. Ahhh back to this loverly day, sometimes I blog out on the breezeway. Hum today would be a great day to do that but the internet is down.

Y’all know I could sweep and mop. I have already cleaned the bathrooms, put up the laundries, feed the birds – watched the birds. Lol laughed at the mean ol’ humming birds fighting each other. We have about 4 that argue over who’s feeders they are. I think one of ‘em is a couple as they don’t fight, 3 are those ruby throated type and 1 is black’ish / gray’ish. If the internet were working I’d see if I could find out exactly what type and tell y’all but as you know the internet is down.

Well I think I’ll go call them again and see if I can find out what’s up with the internet and just how much longer it will be out. Between me and you all day (4 hours) is long enough to be without the World Wide Web.

PS I miss you my dear internets worse then missing another shot of the fighting humming birds.

I hope I’m online super soon!

May Day

I think I’ve fallen and can’t get up. Can you – will you lend me hand?

Build me up, so that I feel better about me?

Tell me how much I am justified in my actions / reactions?

Insist that everything will be okay tomorrow?

Pray for me – send good vibes my way?

Clip and polish my toenails? (thanks Jannie)

Offer to clean my house? (please, anyone? hello?)

Compliment me and tell me, please, how brilliant, insightful and wonderful I am?

(purdy please with a whole jar of cherries on top)

Let me know how much I have taught you about life, love and even those little things you didn’t know you wanted to know?

So I was just wandering when you blog what do you expect from your dear internets? Well I mean don’t y’all want all those things and maybe more?

Or do you even expect anything?

Blogging is a great sounding board, a fairly harmless way of getting things off your chest. Telling your opinions out right, your beliefs, your concerns, lessons you have learned, information you simply must share. So many of us do it because we enjoy writing and get very excited when a post idea pops in our purdy lil’ heads or some headline or gossip line strikes our interest and we can actually offer our view point to the masses (that would be y’all my dear internets).

So the point of this post is What? Please take a moment and think this question over…think…mull…wander…consider… and a conclusion…So what’s your conclusion? Did you forget the question, ummm okay… I'll wait a bit longer… l - o - n - g - e – r

My point is – for the entertainment of my dear internets and for myself. Yes sometimes I have stuff I simply must say cause it makes me feel better, cause I want, no I need sympathy. Sometimes I just have to know that I’m not the only one that feels a certain way. Yes it’s true sometimes I need prayer and good vibes enough to fill the universe, or I want you to know something for your own good (information that is) sometimes it's just because.

But I read y'all on accounta I love reading y'all. So you are welcome, my dear internets.

And the final winner from April’s Give a Ways is Brian... Who by the way just happens to be a Poet too. Be sure to mail me (paigevonliber (at sign) gmail (dot) com your address otherwise you will Not get this Give a Way!