Just Bragging..

I really don't have anything to blog about today but do have some new pics of some of the grandchildren. I hope these don’t bore ya, I am so proud of each and everyone of them!!!

Brice looking at himself in the mirror.

Brice on Daddy’s shoulders.

Brice in a metal tub, supporting the South Carolina Gamecock’s!!

Morgan, Taylor, Cooper & Sydney

Taylor

Morgan

Sydney

Cooper

 

Hope everyone has a splendid week. David is off next 2 days. Yay!!!! Hope that you enjoyed the pics.

Until later~

God Bless~

Friday

Jojo's comment on my comment page, made me realise I had not blogged about my Mom. I put it on Face book, but not my blog. My Mom came home from the hospital last Monday and is doing well. Thank you Jojo, for asking and for caring!! I will try and do a better update this weekend.

God Bless~

Award for me :o)

Thanks Linda for this award! I feel so honored! Rules for this award are simple.

Pass it on to five bloggers who leave "Super" comments on your blog.

The rules are simple, but passing it on to only five bloggers is hard. Because I LOVE each and every comment I get.

Check these "Super" blog commenters out...

Susan at The Wishing Wells/

Beth at http://endeanmom1.blogspot.com/

Jojo at http://myrandominsanities.blogspot.com/

Deb at http://msdebagain.blogspot.com/

Becky at http://www.smithellaneous.com/

I enjoy all my comments and would pick everyone. So all of you get this award also!!! I love you all!!

God Bless~

Prayers please...

My Mom was admitted to the hospital last night. Her heart was racing and her electrolytes are all messed up. They are giving her potassium, magnesium and something else, can't remember via IV. They have her stabilized now, and did a echo cardiogram on her today. They haven't gotten those results back yet. I just got off the phone with her. She sounded OK. She is 78 yrs old. Please keep her in your prayers. Her name is Jean. She will be there over the weekend for sure. She lives in Charleston, SC.

Here is a pic of her with my daughter Carrie on left and my niece Dana on right. Mom is in the middle.


My doc's office also called today and my sed rate is still elevated. I see him Tuesday and they are going to repeat the lab again in 4 weeks. We do not know why it's elevated.

It has turned cool here. Tomorrow's highs are due to be in the 60's. Feels like fall out there!! Summer, please stay!!!!

Until later..

God Bless~

Surprise visitors and a surprise in my mail!!

Tuesday on my way to the doctor’s office for lab work, the doc is rechecking my sed rate, I got a call from my daughter asking if it was OK to come for a overnight and day visit. I said, now, Carrie, what do you think, OF COURSE!!! Any chance to see my children and grandchildren, is wonderful. She said her hubby Chad, wanted to come and clean out our gutters again for us. What can I say but, I have great kids!!! This is my daughter with 4 children. Taylor 14 yrs, Morgan 8 yrs, Sydney 6 yrs, and Cooper 2yrs. After blood work, David and I stopped by the grocery store for some food. Feeding 8 is way different than the 2 of us. By the time we got home, they were here within 10 Min's! We had a blast of course. Yesterday I fixed them a big breakfast, and then we grilled out burgs and dogs for supper before they left. Lunch was sandwiches, chips, etc.

In the afternoon, they took me to Lowe’s and got me some more mulch and some rocks for a flower bed. They put the mulch in my back bed, and the rocks on a bed my the patio. My gutters are now clean!!

They brought their 2 fur kids. here’s Morgan with Allie, their dachshund.



Here's their chihuahua, Ma Gale. Not sure if I spelled that right. It's a Mexican name.



Here are some pictures of the kids.

Here is Morgan, Taylor and Sydney.


Here is Cooper.


Cooper kissing Grandpa. I love this pic!!!



Another of Cooper and Grandpa.



Needless to say, I enjoyed every minute of those 24 hrs.

Today my doorbell rang and I went to get the door and it was the UPS man bringing me some of my mail order meds and a box. I opened the box, and guess what David had ordered me online as a surprise?




Yes, a Slap Chop!! I have been wanting one for a long time, and we couldn't find one. Guess I will let y'all know how good it works!!

I tried to use Windows Live Writer to write this, but, it would not let me add pics tonight, and this blog needed pics!! LOL.

Until later!!

God Bless~

Clothes Line.

THE BASIC RULES FOR CLOTHESLINES:  OH, HOW I REMEMBER THIS~~~

You have to be a certain age to appreciate this. 

Some can hear their mother's now....

THE BASIC RULES FOR  CLOTHESLINES:

(if you don't know what clotheslines are, better skip this)

1.  You had to wash the clothesline before hanging any clothes- walk the
entire lengths of each line with a damp cloth around the lines.
2.  You had to hang the clothes in a certain order, and always hang "whites"
with "whites," and hang them first.
3.  You never hung a shirt by the shoulders  - always by the tail!  What
would the  neighbors think?
4  Wash day on a Monday! . .. . Never hang clothes on the  weekend, or
Sunday, for Heaven's sake!
5.  Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you could hide your  
"unmentionables" in the middle (perverts & busybodies,  y'know!)
6.  It didn't matter if it was sub zero weather  . . . Clothes would
"freeze-dry."
7.  Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes!  Pins left
on the lines  were "tacky!"
8.  If you were efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item
did not need two clothes pins, but shared one  of the clothes pins with the
next washed item.
9..  Clothes off of  the line before dinner time, neatly folded in the clothes
basket, and  ready to be ironed.
10. IRONED?!  Well, that's a whole other  subject!

A  POEM
A  clothesline was a news forecast
To neighbors passing by.
There were no secrets you could keep
When clothes were hung to dry.
It also was a friendly link
For neighbors always knew
If company had stopped on by
To spend a night or two.
For then you'd see the "fancy sheets"
And towels upon the line;
You'd see the  "company table cloths"
With intricate designs.
The line announced a baby's birth
From folks who lived inside -
As brand new infant clothes were hung,
So carefully with pride!
The ages of the children could
So readily be known
By watching how the sizes changed,
You'd know how much they'd grown!
It also told when illness struck,
As extra sheets were hung;
Then nightclothes, and a bathrobe, too,
Haphazardly were strung.
It also said, "Gone on vacation now"
When lines hung limp and  bare.
It told, "We're back!" when full lines sagged
With not an inch to spare!
New folks in town were scorned upon
If wash was dingy and gray,
As neighbors carefully raised their brows,
And looked the other way . . .
But clotheslines now are of the past,
For dryers make work much less.
Now what goes on inside a home
Is anybody's guess!
I really miss that way of life.
It was a friendly sign
When neighbors knew each other best
By what hung on the line!

I got this in a email today, and it brought back such memories. And yes, I am old enough, that I have hung many clothes out to dry. I do miss the smell of fresh sheets off the line!!!

God bless~

Debbie Jean

Dogs and Frogs

We had loads of rain this morning and early afternoon. I think they said like 3 inches. When it rains like that, we have a frog that comes to the patio and hangs out. Bucky & Baby don’t really hurt or bother the frog, they are just very interested in it..LOL.

They would not hurt it, but bat at it and smell it. It just sat there and let them play with him.

 

They had a good time, and so did watching them. The frog took hiding under my tomato plant.

Speaking of tomatoes. We have our 1st!!

I did a test. I planted a plant in the ground and one a week later in a Topsy Turvy. Now you decide which is doing better?

 

I do not know what I did wrong in the Topsy Turvy, but I will not use it again for tomatoes.

I used a new program that Helen at  Helen's blog told me about and I seem to love it! It’s called Windows Live Writer. Thanks Helen, I love it!! It lets you easily put pics in, links, etc.

Well, I am getting sleepy and HOPE I sleep better tonight. I didn’t sleep at all last night.

Until later….

God Bless~

Debbie Jean

Too Funny!!

David and I were going thru McDonald's drive thru for a pop last night when he started laughing. Do you see what he was laughing at? I had to take my cell phone out and get a pic. Don't see that on a Chevy truck very often...LOL.. And yes a woman was driving it!! Hope this doesn't offend anyone. It's not intended to.
Click on pics to make them larger to see.





God Bless~

Sunday after the 4th.

Well, I hope everyone had a Happy 4th. I guess for most it was extended into today, and most had a 3 day weekend. Of course David works retail, so that's out. But he did have good hours this weekend, 7am-4pm, so he was home early. I can't complain to much!!

We cooked out both yesterday and tonight. last night we cooked out a steak and we had baked potatoes, and today we did the burger thing. It rained yesterday, but we have a covered patio, so we still could grill out. We ate indoors. It was very good!!

Here is David cooking the steaks.


Can you see all the wet little doggy paws on the patio floor? They smelled them cooking and was dieing..LOL.


They did get some. They are spoiled little things!! They ate it so fast, I didn't get a pic fast enough before that steak was gone!! LOL.


Afterwards I cleaned up the kitchen and David sat with the furbabies relaxing some. He had worked all day.




Today was a much prettier day, weather wise, but I didn't get any pics of anything. I hope everyone is happy, safe and had a great holiday!!

God Bless~

Happy 4th of July!!!

1st off all I would like to wish everyone a Happy & Safe 4th of July!! David has to work of course, so enjoy your cookouts for me!! LOL. It's suppose to rain here tomorrow afternoon and evening. Since my last blog, it has cooled down quite a bit. It did warm up some today. Ohio can not decide what season we are in. LOL.

We celebrated David's 56th birthday on the 27th. I cooked him a nice dinner and made him brownies. He is not a big cake eater, so I made brownies, put vanilla ice cream on top with a cherry and he was happy as punch. He had to work that day also, so I tried to make the day as special as I could. He's a good man and deserves it.

I saw my endocrinologist on Wednesday and my a1c had gone up to 9.2 so once again, he upped my insulin doses. UGH!!!

I have a few grand kid pics to share. 1st one is Dominique and her 1st pair of glasses!! Isn't she a cutie? Picture is a cell phone pic, so not best quality.




Next is Cooper with his 1st shiner.. :( He was running and hit the corner of the kitchen table. Bet he won't run again in the house...LOL.. Think I am wrong? He's so cute.



Next is Brice and his Daddy, my son, Jeremy. Brice has on his new cap (South Carolina Gamecock), that his big cousin Dana sent him. He is growing up way to fast!!!! He was 4 mos. on July 1st.



Here is Brice with his furry brother Sarge. They are checking each other out..LOL. Wonder what each is thinking?



Well, that's all for today, folks!! Everyone please have a safe and Happy 4th!! Summer is going by way to quickly for me!!

God Bless~