~Remembering~

Woke up to more snow and steady falling all day.. I sat

and looked out the window, remembering the place that

my ex husbands mother had, well where she lived with her

significant other, Jim..It was his house left to him by a very

special friend. The back of the house overlooked the St. Joe

River, sort of pretty high up, there was a long flight of steps

to get up to the deck, towards the end I couldn't climb them

at all... The view from the back of their house was wonderful.

They had sliding glass doors that went out onto a huge deck,

and the rest of the wall was glass.. lovely place. Jim's favorite

spot was a small table he had there by the window, that's

where he Sat during the winter or at night, other wise when he

was home he was out on the deck sitting..There was a big

pontoon down in the water, but I think all the years I was in

that family Jim only was in it one Time..and that was to show

David the safe route down the river to the dam...

The pontoon was huge, had table, radio, even a potty if the

need arose. Half of it was covered by a canopy, which made

it nice for in the summer if you cruised and needed some

shade. It had 2 huge inboard motors..and the captains chair,

well made you feel like you were captain it was such a nice

set up when you sat there and controlled everything on it..We

took the pontoon out every time we went there. Usually every

Sunday Jim would bbq, during the summer, and even some

times during the winter I remember him cooking steaks out

on his grill.. He loved to do that and he was good at it...of

course we loved the food too..Davids mother was an excellent

cook, well they both were..they cooked together, which is a

fun thing to do ..

When I married my last husband, well, he didn't even really know

how to make anything but soup..from a can.. We would cook

together.. I would do all the cutting and preparing, while he got

the meat cooking. He did all the stirring and blending which after

awhile David got to be a really good cook..and surprisingly he

really enjoyed cooking and using all the spices and seeing what

kind of new recipe he could come up with.. We had a nice little

convienent kitchen..easy to cook in..

I miss cooking.. I sit here and I think of different foods that I make

that I really like a lot, but to prepare them is actually a huge job. At

least here in this kitchen.. I have to keep everything in a certain

spot, then when I want to cook something, I have to move one thing

to a place to make room for what I want to use.. Like my electric

frying pan..be fore I can use it.. I have to make a spot for it, which

is on my wood dining room table that I have in the kitchen.. This

is my mothers table now, that im using, so needless to say I am

VERY careful what is put on it.. But to use my frying pan or my

crock pot, or deep fryer or even my microwave, I have to fix a

place where I can use it so it wont damage my table..

I had some McD's cini mini's which are SO good, very easy to make

at home too, I put them in my microwave to heat up a bit, and when

it stopped they were way on the back of the turntable, I couldn't reach

them, I had to turn it on again to get that table to bring them to the

front where I can just barely reach them.. I love my microwave..its a

combo one..it will cook as a microwave, but also as a regular oven

that I can use metal pans.. There is are 2 tray things you have to use

when you use it that way which I keep on top, which means moving

the spice thing I keep on top of it..which is again moving stuff to be

able to do just one simple thing.. The joys of a small house.. Of course

it would be different though if I could stand and move around in there,

then I could reach everything.. Although when it comes to reaching, I

always seem to keep the cookies with in reach.. Now I wonder why?

I had an excellent visit with Dawn and Ralph, was really nice to see

him again..He and I both were recuperating at Donnies at the same

time, he stayed in his own trailer he had there though, but he was in

a chair, so he knows the joys of it..Hes doing really good now , but

sadly said he got laid off from his job in Ohio, I hope he can get a

new one.. He may move back around here as this is where most of

his family is.. He looked really good, fatter and uglier I told him..he

told me I had a lot of room to talk..we laughed. They stayed for quite

awhile..which I was glad.. We talked about old times..he plans to go

back to Ohio on Sunday.. I hope all is well there for him..hes a nice

guy and a good friend and he has the same name as my dad..Ralph.

good name..

Time to get some dinner and post this and get out Of this chair for

today, some days I can stay in it longer than I can on others, but

today is a short day for chair sitting for this SHORT GORGEOUS
WEEBLE.. "Nitey Nite".. :-)

Y'all have a good one now, 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.....