just me saying hello

Hello this Sunday morning...and yes it is still morning...ll:58 AM to be exact LOL...sun is shining...supposed to be another beautiful day here in Kentucky....

Breakfast (because we had overnight guests) was scrambled eggs, sausages and sausage gravy, biscuits and cantaloupe.....(an I was lucky to get a cantaloupe that tasted good for a change)!!! Everyone is gone now....it is quiet here...just hubby and I....I so enjoy company but enjoy it too when everyone is gone....??!!!

Not much else to blog aout...so guess I will read some....comments on a few...and go walk the dog....

hugs to all....

been a rough week...but I made it LOL

It has been a rough week for me...but I have made it...and I will live LOL...but for a while didn't think so....I haven't gotten any flu shot so far...later today for sure now that I am ok...

I have read a few blogs and commented but it just wore me out...so I didn't stay long anywhere...but it helped me so much to just read the blogs....folks I have never met...some I have...but they have made me a part of the family...we are blessed for sure...

This is a picture of my sister Marion who was so very sick...she was in her late twenties...isn't she beautiful...Marion is the sister that I called Mom until I was about five and it was explained to me that she was my sister not my Mom....I still slipped up from time to time....

When she became sick....of course we went to see her in Ohio....and I stayed behind for a few days....which turned into three months...I just couldn't leave her....she spent two weeks in the hospital after the diagnosis of Cancer....and then home...and had chemo....and after two treatments she decided it was a waste of money and time....it wasn't going to give her any more time...and they made her so sick...so we contacted Hospice...and they made arrangements for a hospital bed and someone to come by the house as my other two sisters and myself were going to stay with her for the "duration"...as the doctors didn't give her long...I won't say it was easy...not even a good thing....but it was something we had to do to show our love to her...Marion was the child who Mother depended upon so much in her life...put burdens upon her shoulders no young girl should have to bear...but times were hard...no welfare back then....hand to mouth you might say...dirt poor!!??? so her life was never easy....but she found the good things....just loved to grow things in her garden...she canned everything...everythng LOLOL....she was a great cook....and she loved her coffee (the pot never got a chance to get cold LOL)...and her cigerettes...if you came to her house early in the day....there she would be with her cross word puzzle....a cigerette....and a cup of coffeee....he quiet time after hubby went off to work....dressed in a clean and pressed work uniform and lunch....he knew he had a treasure and he made sure everyone else knew it too LOLOL...anyway....we had her bed set up in her living room...where she could see and hear everything...company came and went at all hours....some day and nights I just didn't sleep...so scared of how I would find her in the morning....she finally forgot she enjoyed coffee and cigerettes...no more...and she couldn't work her puzzles....she would talk to Mother on the telephone...I had to leave the room....take a walk outside....couldn't handle it....knowing Mother maybe heard her but couldn't respond....the nurses at the rest home would wheel mothers bed out to the desk in the hallway so she could reach the phone....so tender they were with her!!! anyway...Marion stuck around until January 1985....four days before her 61st Birthday....

Five days later we buried Mother.....and for both of the ladies....we couldn't have a grave side service because the ground was so frozen they couldn't dig the graves....so in the spring...we as a family gathered again....and laid to rest my sister Marion and Mother....two services in one morning....something I don't wish upon anyone....but something that was good!!!!

Now all of this was going on while hubby and children were in Lexington....checking out where we would like to live....and they found a house....we visited and toured it....we liked it...and we bought it...two years later the kids moved out and we were stuck with a four bedroom...two and a half baths....bilevel house....where hubby and I rambled for a while....

I still was having problems with ears...and dizziness...(I do believe I could have been called the "original" dizzy dame LOLOL)....and then I received a call...or I should say hubby did...from another sister....Leora....called by all "Toady"....

to be continued.....hugs all around...

one evening in KY

Last night..around six oclock...I knew it was going to rain...it was dark, cloudy, and overcast...it has rained earlier...but as I wasn't going to the football game...I just showered...and made myself ready for watching the game on tv...

After showering I glanced out the window and the sky was awesome...well it was to me...it doesn't take much to get me excited these days LOL....it was all pink, orange, a bit of gray....well you can see how it was by the pictures....I quickly put on my coat and went out back...with Max at my heals LOL...(he never misses a chance to go outside LOL)...and took these pictures....over a period of about fifteen minutes....and the sky just changed before my eyes...it was amazing and awesome!!!! Of course as everyone knows...a camera just doesn't capture it all....but you get the idea....and later the sky cleared...and it didn't rain afterall....but the wind came up and it got cold...right now it is sunny, chilly and 37 degrees.....

oh and by the way...the pictures are backward...hope that is ok....the first is last...the last is first....hey...I am good...just not perfect....yet!!!!! LOLOL

And we lost the football game...and all hopes of a "bowl bid" is probably all gone....but it was fun while it lasted.....and now the basketball season will begin...a new coach...a fairly new team....GO Big BLUE!!!!

and for today this is enough....hugs all around until later

a new life down the road a ways

It has been a busy busy week here....fixing party treats for the "Fall Party" for gson's fifth grade class....not a Halloween Party...but that is ok...as for me I would just as soon do away with Halloween all to gether....when I was a kid I don't ever remember going "trick or treating"....not much made of it at school...and certainly no pumpkin faces !!!! I do remember a big bonfire in the center of the cornfield....roasting marshmallows...hot dogs...singing...it was fun....it would start out with only our family which was big enough....but sooner or later the neighbors would join in....the more the merrier..and it sure is fun to play hide and seek in the dark with only the firelight and shadows ...LOL...and of course I know that we cannot build bonfires in our neighborhoods now....but we have our "fire pits" and they work ok....but tomorrow night is football....Kentucky plays Mississippi State....Go Wildcats...Goooooooo Kentucky !!!!!!!

For the treats we took apples and poked a pencil in it....wrapped in a orange napkin and tied with a green ribbon....and a goodie bag of candy....and chocolate cupcakes with white icing and orange sprinkles....one parent brought plates, napkins and another brought drinks....and a good time was had by all!!!

It has gotten up to 77 degrees today....and very very windy.....but a beautiful day....just gorgeous....but boy it looked like it was raining.....only not wet....it was leaves flying off the trees....one more day like today and the trees will be bare....

Now I haven't said much of anymore about our time at Fort Knox Army Post....and I do believe the last I mentioned is....Retirement Time is here....and of course hubby has had feelers out for a civilian job....any job....too young to retire completely....and as it would happen he landed as "part time" at the Veterans Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.....and like he says....get your foot in the door...and pray for more good things to happen!!!! LOL....and they did....

Now we have never bought a house....have always lived on the military post...so another new adventure is awaiting us....finding a place to live....in a completely new city and neighborhood....where we knew some folks....but not real well...just acquaintences you might say...and yes we made a trip to Lexington....to scout out the area....even talked with some realtors....checked out some places hubby remembered from his college days in Wilmore, Kentucky at Asbury College....but just didn't get the vibes we wanted as to where to live....so we stored most of our stuff....the Army would do this for up to twelve months....after that it is your job to pay for it LOL...and we found a nice mobile home to rent....or camp out in...until we could make a definite decision....kinda sorta sleep on it you might say...and it was a good thing....

There was the traditional "retirement ceremony"....kinda sad really....we enjoyed military life for the most part....saying good bye to a lifestyle of twenty years making....there was also a retirement ceremony from the Chaplains Section....nice dinner...nice gifts....and I will say that most of the chaplains we served with in our last two years at Fort Knox I didn't care for them anyway...so it wasn't hard to say "so long"!!!! We cleared the house....cleared the post....and then we cleared out....!!!

Mixon also retired from the civilian pastorate with the United Methodist Church....just a formality....but an income is an income....howbeit small....it was welcome LOL....

We coasted the summer....hubby only worked three days a week...but was on call most every night....that is what comes from being low man on totem pole as they say LOL...but I think he enjoyed it all....Dau and I were just checking out the town....malls....walmarts....you know how it is....

In September I got a call that my sister Marion was quite ill....and in the hospital....so we made a fast trip to Ohio to check it out....and while there she was released and sent home....with some meds etc....hubby and dau went back to Kentucky....I stuck around for a while....and had to put sis back in hospital...and it was found she had cancer....big time....given three to six months to live....I now camped out at the hospital....and checked on Mom from time to time...and I did have my other two sisters there....it was not a good time....but I was happy I could be there for her....her husband had died the year before from cancer...and she did have two step children....but none of her own....and she was the sister who would spend every day at the nursing home with Mom....things were changing....to fast.....

more later....hugs all around....

Today is a beautiful fall, showing off all it pretty colors, and hubby and I had a good morning with another blogger....Jack and Sherry.....of NC....we tried to out talk each other...didn't work...we all talked...and it was wonderful...they have a lovely RV they live in year round...and they have been to Arkansas and are now headed home to NC...via Lexington....and I am a happy camper to have been able to hug and eat and enjoy with them....and I know hubby enjoyed them also!!!!

I think I am getting the hang of this picture stuff....!!!!! and for now enough said....as I wanted to get this in my blog before Jack and company got home....whenever that will be LOLOL...and I pray them safe journey....

Sherry and I exchanged a bag of books....a bag from her and a bag from me....gonna be some good reading around here....I can tell!!!

And I said I was going to make some "carrot raisin bars" and will have to say they turned out really good....and I think another batch would be good for the Halloween Party at school on Friday.....

That's about it for now....happy day to everyone!!

and a good morning to everyone from rainy and chilly Kentucky.....well Lexington anyway...a good day for football...but our game is not until tonight...

Thursday evening we as a family went out and celebrated gdaughter 17th birthday....we went to Naga Sauke (spelling???) which cooks the food on the grill as you sit around the table...it was fun...and I of course ate too much...!!!

We came home and had cake and ice cream...in fact it was a cake/ice cream cake LOL...pictures will follow as soon as I get them downloaded or whatever!!!!

Last night we carved pumpkins...well grandson carved....and cleaned the pumpkins also...he did a good job...I just watched....today he wants to roast some of the seeds to see if they taste good....since he is such a picky eater I doubt he will eat many.....

My back and hips are a bit better but three days of rain has not helped them at all...but the pain isn't so very bad now....

I am rambling again...honestly....nothing of interest has happened for a while....but have to post cause I don't want anyone to forget me....LOL....Do y9u know if you play Solitare online you cannot cheat...??? no way...I tried LOLOL....makes for a short game when you cannot cheat...and I do enjoy playing solitare...online or with cards (the old fashioned way LOLOL)!!

I made potato salad this morning...going to make some cookies in a while...a new recipe "carrot raisin bars"....they sound yummy!!!!

ok enough...thanks for listening...or reading!!!! hugs all around

a bit of Halloween humor....enjoy...I did

Subject: Senior Halloween...........

You know you are too old to Trick or Treat when:

10. You get winded from knocking on the door.

9. You have to have another kid chew the candy for you.

8. You ask for high fiber candy only.

7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose your balance and fall over.

6. People say: "Great Boris Karloff Mask," And you're not wearing a mask.

5. When the door opens you yell, "Trick or..." And can't remember the rest

.4. By the end of the night, you have a bag full of restraining orders.

3. You have to carefully choose a costume that
won't dislodge your hairpiece

.2. You're the only Power Ranger in the neighborhood with a walker. And the number one reason Seniors should
not go Trick Or Treating...

1. You keep having to go home to use the bathroom.

No matter, have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN anyway.