~Mom's Day Today~

This is my mom, Violet Beatrice, and of course ME :-)

Mom's day today and I thought I would put some of my

mom and my grandmothers. I told a friend besides

having me all in common they all were excellent cooks.

My mom..was one of the best. and the thing was when

she was cooking those delicious meals..you didn't even

really notice it because she kept everything washed up as

she went along.. No matter what was left over or how much

was left she kept it.. She could make the best saffron buns

in the world.. My cousin June made them for me after my

mom passed. I sure miss them. Her baking of pies and

breads and cookies and cakes couldn't be matched by

anyone..She kept 3 different kinds of cookies all the

time, "just in case someone stops by for coffee" that was

her reason for baking. When my ex and I moved up there

she kept David well supplied in fresh bread and of course

his favorite brownies..There was never a time there was

not a container of them in the fridge..She would call and

tell me to send David by to pick up a loaf of fresh bread..

she even sliced it for him..Each one was perfectly even.

I think she knew I wasn't the best bread slicer :-)
This is Gramma Wales, my mothers mother..Her name was

Beatrice Violet...and she was born and raised in England.

She was the best cook and for a tiny woman very strong.. I

remember one day out at the cottage, we all were there, and

I had dropped a towel in the lake and was trying to wring it

out and Gramma took it from me telling me her hands were

stronger than mine.. I watched as she twisted that towel and

then opened it back up and I felt it..was almost dry, I was in

awe of how dry it was.. When I went off to college, when I came

home on the weekends, by then my gramma lived in a small

little 3 room apartment that she loved. She had a rocking chair

by the window that she sat in all the time. When Gramma knew

I was coming home she would phone and tell me she had made

some of my very best favorite green split pea soup. She made

the VERY best and I did not waste any time going down there

to taste some of that excellent soup.. One of the specialities

of both my mom and gramma were pastys..THAT is good food.

I used to make them but I changed mine from pastys to a meat

pie and its good too.. Pasty's are a favorite all over the UP of

Michigan..Most towns have Pasty Shops..some you can even

order online. Pastys are an English tradition, as the coal miners

used to take them in their lunch pails..theyre good hot but even

better cold. I love them..

This is my grandmother, my dads mother, Ruby Deliah, she

was a lovely woman with snow white hair and blue eyes and a

smile with a gold tooth, like my dad had as well.. This photo was

taken on her 50th wedding anniversary and I cropped it to just

have her photo. Her skin was so white and almost transparent,

her fingers were all bent from the arthritis she had in them, but

it didn't stop her from doing her tatting or crocheting or knitting.

She was very skilled in tatting and I have some handkerchiefs

that she put the tatting on, they are quite lovely. I have some of

her cook books dating back to 1920's.. She belonged to a lot

of the ladies groups and did a lot of entertaining. The one food

I especially liked that she made was Chop Suey, she made some

of the most tastiest of any ive had. I did NOT tell my mom this

though.. Cooking back then was something all women HAD to

be very good at, and most of them were and each had their

specialty. I have a few cook books from the clubs my mom and

gramma belonged to, and the recipes in them..theyre the

very best. I should put them all into one. :-)

As I was sitting here writing this I heard a noise out side and

there is Robert cutting my grass. He did front, back , sides,

all of it..He came in for me to sign the workpaper and told

me about his new riding mower he got..hes very pleased

with it.and with a yard the size of mine a rider is best.. He

drew my attention to his face, as he has a mustache and

gotee. I looked and it was darker..I asked what he did and

he said he got tired of the gray, it was snow white before.

I had to be honest, and I told him it looked great but it did

look good white too I thought and made his crystal blue

eyes show up better..He smiled. He did look younger, I

did tell him that too, which I think he was hoping to hear. He

did a good job on the yard, I hope the COA pays him enough

the price of gas is awful.

Im starved and havent eaten all day. I need to get one of those

old recipe books and make something.. I wish I had an oven I

sure would make myself a meat pie. I know how to make a

crust from scratch, I got lazy and started using the pre made

ones, but they are good too. Meat pie sounds good, but I am

hungry now not in 3 hours ..that's my problem I wait till I get

super hungry and then don't want to take the time to fix a good

supper..oh well..the joys of the microwave. I have no idea what

I will fix, anything I can find I think, then its TV time, and time

to say "Nitey Nite"

I didn't for get my Sunday photo.
Y'all have a good one Y'hear ? love ya and THANKS :-)

Always, Lois ****

God Bless you is my prayer today,

I'm so honored to call you "friend";

I pray the Lord will keep you safe

until I write again..