~The Deck~

Donnie & John

The deck is getting done! I'm so glad. I
cant wait to get out there . Donnie and his
brother John worked all day yesterday and
despite the heat got a lot done. Its looking
so good.

They were so hot, it was miserable yesterday.

They had to stop quite often just to cool down.

I was getting worried they might get heat

stroke.
The deck will have a railing too, Donnie was
not going to put one on, and just a bumper
strip around the edge, but no, knowing me

that strip wouldn't stop this chair from
going over the edge if for some reason I got

to close to the edge. The railing would make
it more noticeable and I wouldn't go too close.

But being blind in one eye I have no depth

perception and I could easily fall off.
Its a hot weekend but nice, ive not been

sleeping too good, ive been getting up too

early. 4 am is early. For me, Donnie gets

up that time every day to go to work, he

has about an hour drive, plus he works in

Indiana and there is a 1 hour time difference.
I'm a tad hungry and need some lunch. I have

left over potato salad it is so good. The guys

sure liked it... So, this GORGEOUS WEEBLE
is gonna post this for today. Keep well and

God bless...

Always, Lois ****



"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~Busy Day~

Busy day today, so this is gonna be short.

Plus I'm tired.. I woke up to loud thunder

and pouring rain. The lightening was awful.

Lit up the whole inside. The boys are what

really woke me up, whining and walking all

over top of me..
Penny is making spaghetti sauce and we are

making potato salad. As far as I know the

boy will be here tomorrow and I will have

to feed the kid. :-) Were having rotini

pasta.

The rain and wind almost knocked down my

sunflowers.. theyre ok.. Penny went out and

took a photo of the outside facing the back

door to get a better idea of how it looks.. I

wrote to Joe and sent the photo and nicely

mentioned how wonderful a sliding glass door

would be in stead of the door and window !

I hope he agrees.,.

Time to mix the salad, gotta go, plus this

GORGEOUS WEEBLE is hungry,, keep

well, happy weekend and God Bless.

Always, Lois ****

"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~Midnight Visitors~

At 3am I was up and like always I was

looking out the door. I was so glad to see

the black kittie, that is injured, and I think

the one that looks so much like Dutch is

her baby. They are always together. The

baby cant be over a year old. Shes very tiny

and is identical to Dutch. They were hungry.
They are both very afraid of me, I only had the

porch light to take photos by and I tried

the flash, but it reflected in the glass. So

I only could hold the camera up and hope

I got them. When they see me the baby

runs, the black one will run if I open the

door. I sure would like to get to be a

friend to them. That baby is so cute.
the boy
the girl

I saw hummer and got that good photo

of him this morning, he left then the

female came by. They are so fast its

hard to get an unblurry photo!! But I

did..
Fuzz came by for breakfast as usual,

and I got that cute photo of him showing

his teeth :-)
When he left across the yard, I was

watching him and he stopped by the bird

bath and I quick grabbed my camera cuz

it looked like he was IN it.. I showed the

picture to Penny, she said "HOW did he

get up in the birdbath?!" I then pointed

out his tail .. :-) I thought it was a good

photo :-)

Penny is frying up some green tomatoes for

lunch and has made a batch of pineapple

cookies.. It smells great in here, so....

Needless to say, this GORGEOUS WEEBLE
is hungry :-) Stay cool and God Bless..

Always, Lois ****

"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~Family~

I found out I have a lot of family on my

dads side. The Woodworth family. There

is a website and a yahoo group that of

course I belong to.. Ive found I have

cousins in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and

Grand Rapids. Ive talked to my cousin

Mary, shes very nice, and not far, so

I'm hoping she might come and visit me.

Id sure like that. She has a sister Gayle,

like I did.
Milk House

Our cousin Lowell that's in charge of the

yahoo group, lives in FL, came up here to

Grand Rapids on his way up to the Soo, he

and his wife stopped at the Woodworth farm

I wrote and told him about. My cousin Earl

(Hap) Woodworth lived there. I found a

newspaper clipping that told of a celebration

there in 1982 for the 100 year birthday of

the farm. It was purchased in 1892 by Irving,

Haps dad. The farm is in Grand Rapids, it used
to be a dairy .
15 room farmhouse
I sure would love to go and see this farm. The

15 room farmhouse is still there and the milk

barn and the big barn. There is 240 acres there.

Sadly it was sold to the Grand Rapids Gravel

Company and is rented to someone. The renter

was very nice to show Lowell, Kathy and 2 of

our other cousins, Mary and Gayle around. The

photos are Lowells. So amazing to see the road

sign of my familys name. If I could get a ride, I

surely would go. :-)
Barn

I talked to my boy last night and he promises to

come over the weekend to finish my deck.. I cant

wait. I promised him I would make some potato

salad for him, one of his favorites too. I have to

admit my potato salad is the best of any I have

ever eaten.. :-)
Almost lunch time and I'm still waiting for Rebecca

to come by.. The ants were all over hummers feeder

and he sure was mad. You can see the ant legs even.

Its sugar water in there so its sticky :-) I'm gonna

post this cuz this GORGEOUS WEEBLE is hungry,

stay cool, keep well and God Bless...

Always, Lois ****

"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~Foggy In The Morning~

Its been foggy in the mornings the past

couple days. We still have the heat tho.
I keep hoping it will slack off so Donnie

can come up and work on the deck again.

Sposta be hot all week. I am patiently

waiting :-)
My sunflowers are just wonderful. I am

really enjoying them. There are lots of

blooms on each bunch of them, but more

on the ones by the cat house. The seeds

are those we buy for the birds.. Next

year Pennys gonna plant them all around

the deck, it will be so pretty.
That one picture you can see me sitting

in the doorway. Penny snapped it when I

wasn't looking. I was calling Tigger. Hes

so afraid to be out there, hes constantly

on guard, on the look out for Dinky. If

Dinky sees him he will attack and be all

sorts of mean to him. Dinky thinks he

owns this place, altho he does allow Fuzz

and Earie to eat, once in a while he lets

Graybelle depends how moody she is. :-)
Rebecca is due tomorrow and I'm glad, Ive

not seen her in quite awhile and I worry

when I don't. She has just been super busy.
Today Penny brought some green tomatoes

from her garden! So, guess what I'm gonna

have for lunch? Yup, fried green tomatoes.

I cant wait. I can almost taste them. We

were gonna make potato salad today but

spaced it out so Wednesday that is on the

menu,, I LOVE my potato salad, its my moms

recipe and MMMM wonderful..

Post time and food time for this GORGEOUS
WEEBLE, hope you had a nice cool weekend,

keep well and God Bless...

Always, Lois ****

"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~Goldfinch Is Back !~

While I was talking on the phone this

morning and looking out the back door, I

had the nicest surprise! You see the photo,

a goldfinch was on the sunflower..
They are the most beautiful bird. Well

they all are, but I enjoy the finch, it

reminds me of the canaries my gramma

Wales had. She loved those birds and they

loved her...
Their names were Pete and Repeat.. :-)

Really...She would go up to the cage and

tell the birds," are you going to sing for

me today?" They would start to warble

and get louder and louder and gramma

loved it.
If they sang during the day when gramma

hadnt asked them she would say "listen, the

birds are happy, you can tell by their singing".

She had those birds a long time and even had

baby canaries. Gramma loved her birds.. I guess

I'm like my gramma, cuz I love birds too... I

miss them when they don't come by. We keep

the feeders well stocked with food.
Its another hot day and no relief in site, it

did rain for a short time yesterday but not

enough to help my grass. I guess I should

get a hose and sprinkler, I bet the birds

would like that, but I cant get to the faucet

outside, well once I get my deck I can, its

on the side of the house.
All my sunflowers are doing great. Here by

the door and over by the cat house. Lots of

flowers for the finchers :-)
Its lunch time and I'm having some fresh

from Pennys garden green beans. They are

so good I almost cant stand it. We put some

bacon and a little diced onion and they are

wonderful.. I wish I had more. Penny is going

to bring some more on Monday YIPPEE!!!

Until tomorrow, this GORGEOUS WEEBLE

hopes you have a great weekend. Keep cool

and well.. God Bless...

Always, Lois ****

"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~Hot Kitties too~

the red ^ mark where the cats are.

The heat has been and still is just
unbearable. It was 94 with a heat index

of 104. I don't remember heat like

this since I lived in Texas. My air

conditioner is steady running and is

making me worry as to how high my

electric bill is gonna be. Usually at

night I never hear it come on, I have

the past few days its going full out.
I came into the kitchen yesterday
about 5 and like I always do I looked

out side to see if any of the kitties

were out there. 4 of them were. Earie

and Dinky and Graybelle were in the

yard in the shade and Tigger was up

here by the peonies. They looked hot.
Graybelle was laying so still I thought,

Dinky maybe got into it with her. She

was on her back with her leg up in the

air. I had to laff and of course took

pictures... :-)
Franesse, my nurse came yesterday. She

gave me one of her cards that's how I

found how to spell her name! My BP was

sky high.. 174/97. I was upset is why

and explained to her what was wrong.

Other than that I'm doing ok..
I guess I can say why I was upset, I

wasn't going to but.... again some one

has violated one of my photos and put

it into a video clip with other amps and

then posted the video on You Tube. I

am so sick of this and these people that

do it should think of how we feel. The

person that posted them is named

amputeesuperadmirer. How untrue a

name. Admirer. He must hate us to

violate us like this. I filed a complaint

with you tube, he has 48 hours to do

something.. this is so wrong , I bet

most every woman on all 54 of the

videos he posted have NO idea they

are on it.. Pathetic person. and I am

totally fed up with this.
Well now that I got this GORGEOUS
WEEBLE thinking about this again I'm

gonna post this and go take a 5.. I hope

y'all are cooler than me, happy weekend

too! Keep cool and well. God Bless..

Always, Lois ****

"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~The Deck Has Started!~

My deck is in progress!!! Donnie got here

about 5, hoping it would have cooled down

but it didn't. It was SUPER hot. He got

the 4 posts in.
He had to stop every 10 minutes or so to

come in and cool down. He was starting to

worry me he was sweatin so bad.
He had to dig the holes, then put the posts

in, he'll cut them off later. Then he had to

pour cement around them to keep them in

place..
Then he unloaded the rest of the wood off

his truck before he left.. His saws etc are
here under my kitchen table :-)
Dutch of course had to watch and supervise.

He checked out the tools too, he wasn't too

impressed with them... :-) specially under HIS

table. He doesn't like Donnie very much and

I don't know why, well maybe its cuz hes

so big and kinda loud.
Penny came today and made some of that

good goulash and pineapple cookies. She

took some home for Mike, he made some

brownies for me a while back so it was

just kind of a thank you...

Squirrley came by today! I was SO glad

to see him. Hes not been here since Tigger

chased him up the tree! Penny had just

put fresh seed out there. She cleaned

and filled the birdbath too, the one with

water in it. The birds have been steady

in it. They have a nice spot out there.
Its time for this GORGEOUS WEEBLE

to eat some goulash and have a cookie.

Stay cool and well and God Bless..

was 93 yesterday with a heat index of 102.

Always, Lois ****



"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...

~Pineapple Cookies~ BestI In The World~

Ive been asked lots of times for some of

my recipes, specially my pineapple cookies.

So today, I'm posting my recipe. It came

from my grandmother. It was one of my
moms favorite cookie recipes, and I have

ALL of them. Her recipe box is my most

prized possession..
That photo up there is my mom fixing lunch

I think, but if you look there on the counter

on the left you see a 3 tiered red with white

lid cookie jar. She kept 3 kinds of cookies

in that, all homemade. I never remember her

ever having store cookies in her house. Same

with bread, she made it herself.
That is the bowl my mom used for everything.

I can remember scraping out that bowl when I

was very small. If I had a dime for every time

mom and I used it Id be rich. :-)

That is her recipe box, full of wonderful tasty

recipes. This recipe is there, in her handwriting

notice she spelled cookie .... cooky.. I miss her.

Try the recipe and let me know if you liked them.

I have NO doubts you will.. In the meantime I

am still a GORGEOUS WEEBLE.. Keep well

and God Bless...

Always, Lois ****

Pineapple Cookies

Ingredients:

1 stick (8 Tablespoons) butter

1 egg

1 Cup brown sugar

3/4th cup (small can) crushed pineapple

(drained)

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2 Cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup diced nuts (walnuts) cut small

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Mixing:

cream butter and brown sugar together.

Add egg, and pineapple,

mixing well after each.

Add the flour,salt, soda, baking powder,

mix well. add vanilla and nuts. Mix Well....

Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes,

until lightly browned.

"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...



~Eaten Sun Petals~

Something has eaten all the petals

off the sunflowers! I have no idea

what! The finches will be pleased

they don't have to work around them

but they arent as pretty for me! :-)

The red arrows show the ones fixin

to bloom..
Woke up to rain this morning and we

are under the gun for storms this

afternoon.. I can hardly wait! Ya,

right! The grass does need it tho.

The lawn looks awful its so dry.
I don't have a hose or sprinkler

plus the fact I couldn't reach it

to turn it on or off anyway.
I had thought once I get my deck

I want a table for out there, but

I cant have one with an umbrella

like I had in Elkhart on my lanai.

I couldn't leave it up all the time

with the storms and just be no

way I could close it up. But I will

get one of those umbrellas that

can clip onto my chair, that will

work. Donnie will be here tonite

or tomorrow to pour the cement

and put in the posts. I told Penny

that when I leave this place I'm

taking it with me or Donnie has

instructions to take it if I die. I'm

not leaving it here for my landlord

that's for sure, and it wont be

attached to the house so it could

be moved

Today Penny is making some sketti

sauce, we havent had it in awhile.

I had her pick up some pringles

potato chips as LB LOVES them.

When I open the can he hears it

no matter where he is and comes

running, then I have to sit there

and feed them to him one at a time.

He usually eats about 3 of them. :-)

Hes spoiled.

I was telling Penny of how I had to

learn to make Italian food. My first

hubby, Danny, the father of my 2

sons was Italian and Hungarian. His

dad was full Italian, and the whole

family loved to eat. My next door

neighbor was Mr and Mrs Rossi.

She was a wonderful cook and taught

me how to make pasta. Mr Rossi was

a wine maker of Dego Red, talk about

some killer wine! We loved to go over

there and visit cuz Mr Rossi always

said "you wanna taste of my wine?"

He would give us a water glass full

and MMM it was good.

Well this has drugged on, I better

post this and get ready for spaghetti,

well rotini. I'm still a GORGEOUS
WEEBLE ! Keep well and God Bless..

Always, Lois ****



"God Bless You" is my prayer today,

I'm honored to call you 'friend'.

I pray the Lord will keep you safe,

Until I write again...