~Me and my Sis~ (surprise at the end)

talking about old photos..If my sister knew I was putting

this photo here she would probly yell..no- she would laugh.

This was ..wow.. had to be in the 70's. We had driven up

there, we, as in Willie & I, that car behind I think is the Chrysler

Willie drove, huge car and a dream to travel and ride in, it

was so comfortable. Shirley and I were having fun together

and Stanley told us to stay still and shut up long enough so

he could take a photo of us.. Its a doozy hey? I mean I really

look just stunning..No im GORGEOUS :-D .. The dress was

white eyelet with blue ribbon, a sun dress I made. I had on

a pair of my favorite slide on shoes, quite high too.. I loved

high heels..Shirley and I don't have too many photos of us

together..I think there is one other but I don't know where it

is..that's leading back to the same problem of photos all

over..well no..they are in tins..most are out of the albums ..

I take them out and don't put them back..then every time I

go to look for a photo I cant find it and it takes me hours to

try to remember WHICH album its in.. I think would be easier

to sort the photos by name, or year or something..But that's

me and my sis. I phoned her last nite she is tired, and working

hard getting settled into her new house..She and Stan sold

their old one after putting over 30,000dollars worth of re-doing

into it..they up and buy this new house on 13 acres.. Most of

that is swamp tho way behind their house.. they got it real

cheap but then who would want a swamp other than the bear

or deer? she said she counted over 13 deer in her back

yard the other morning..one doe had 3 babies she said..I

thought they only had 1 ..2 at the most..She is enjoying it..She

says that they are spending more on feeding the animals

than they are on themselves! :-)
The photo there is of my mom, she is in the kitchen of

course. Look around..you see she is cutting pickles to

put into that dish that she got out of that canning jar of the

ones she made..bread and butter more than likely.which

is a sweet pickle..now..look to the left..see the red and

white tiered container? it has 3 compartments..each white

is a layer. Inside that "cookie" jar were cookies..not store

bought..but homemade...3 different kinds.. See the basket

right there with plastic bag that has bread in it? that is all

homemade too..You can see the neighbors house next door,

that's Mr, & Mrs, Budzak. They had a daughter Gladys that

was challenged, she worked jigsaw puzzles out in the garage

to pass the time. They were great neighbors. Mrs Budzak

and my mom were the best of friends.

Its funny but I remember times..always on Monday ..that was

wash day, mom would look out that window and over at

Mrs. Budzaks, laundry hanging out on the line and comment,

"Frank must be sick, or Gladys, there is extra linen on the line."

I sat at that table you can see on the far right of it..on the far

edge of that window eating breakfast one morning, on a

counter sitting off to my left sitting was a radio..always playing

was a radio in every room of the house, bathroom and all..music

was always on. I was sitting there eating breakfast and outside

was a really bad bad storm..lightening and thunder.. As I sat

there I saw a flash go past my face and the heat of it or the

strength of it pushed me back .. I heard the radio go POP!

HUmmppppppp as smoke came out of the back of it.. My

mom came running into the kitchen making sure I was ok, she

was in the next room, dining room, headed into the kitchen,

she saw the bolt of lightening hit the radio. Scared me... I

have big respect for lightening..Ive seen what it could do..A

friends house got hit..and well there wasn't too many electrical

things worth a crap after that, plus 2 rooms were burnt by the

time the ball of lightening rolled through the house..

My dad used to be the local weather man..he had gauges and

thermometers outside and his were official readings that he had

to send in to the weather service..every morning the radio station

would call and ask my dad what the temperature was that day..he

enjoyed that.. He got lots of magazines on weather stuff and when

that house got hit in the next little town of Caspian, we went to see.

That's what you do in a small town..something happens you have

to go see...or life would be boring ..:-) they said a bolt of lightening

hit the TV antennae and it was going into the bedroom..the bolt

followed the antennae into the bedroom and out thru the TV and a

huge ball of fire rolled through the upstairs and scorched walls,

floor, burnt the blankets.. it didn't go down the stairs.. The man that

lived there said he saw it..and as fast as it was there and rolling

through his house it was gone that fast...amazing.. I keep thinking

of that John Candy movie of them camping and the man that got

hit by lightening a dozen times and stuttered so bad.. I laughed..

that was a good movie..

Well anyway, I got off on something totally different..ok ..back to the

window..the plants in it? are cactus..my mom loved those things..I

had found a package of seeds and sent it to her..she had the best

time growing those new cactus plants..She loved plants and flowers,

they were always in the house from early first flowers to the very last

mums in the fall..she picked them and had special vases for each

special kind..I have quite a few of her flower vases.. They are all out

in the kitchen... :-)

You KNOW when I mention kitchen, that my next is, its that time. I

did have a fairly good COA lunch, was a goulash or something meat

sauce with elbow macaroni..was one of their better lunches.. I did

eat it all..had green beans and garlic bread with it too.. was good..

Im just going to suffer and eat a lonely slice of my WONDERFUL

saffron bread..maybe nuke it lightly and put some butter on it.,

ok im gone. . . im in need of a saffron fix, "nitey nite!" :-D

Y'all have a good one now, Y'hear? love ya, and thanks...

Always, Lois ****

Ps.. SURPRISE~!~ :-)
I made 2 video clips today if you would like one..you have to write

and ask and say please of course, I will send to you..Nothing fancy

just me.. its quite large in size, over 6 MB. Its only 1 minute long, but

it does have sound.. me griping of course, I was getting on my couch

and well ..it aint easy you know... this is a photo from the clip...

NOW, is THIS GORGEOUS OR WHAT??? :-)

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.....