I am so glad to be back to "work"! I can't wait to start getting some new stuff done! I have so many ideas....it will be a challenge to work on them and my studio at the same time. I wish it was ready to move in, but it will be a while!
I didn't get to transport the doggies today. There were 8 dogs so I was going to take some and another guy take some. Two were adopted, so he just took all 6. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to go, but they got to go and that's what was most important!
I thought I would share another photo....That's me in the middle holding my brother, Jason. My sisters Ranee' (right) and Lisa (left) on each side of me. (My youngest sister, Jamie, is missing, but that was before her time!) We're in the back yard where I grew up and where my parents still live. Where we had picnics, made mud pizzas and had funerals for Junebugs we found on the ground. Where we chased lightning bugs, ate watermelons until we were sick and played in our playhouse. (I will tell you about me playhouse another time!!) Those trees in the yard behind us are HUGE now! The grapevines are gone and there is a shed on the right now. Past the edge of the yard is where Daddy always had his big ol' garden. I thought it was big, but now he has another big ol' garden on the other side of the house! See that tree in the back on the right? That's where I went to have a picnic with one of my sisters one day. We spread out the quilt and right when she was about to sit down, I saw a snake where she was about to sit!! We were always seeing rattlesnakes there, so I'm sure we thought that was a near death experience!! ha! Way down the dirt road to the right (just out of the picture) was where we had a well house and there was a big wild cherry tree there. Have you ever had wild cherries? They are really good, but so tiny they barely seem worth the time to pick them up!! I just realized that they are about the size of those cherries with a Hi-Ho Cherry-O Game!
It has been fun going through these old photos....I will share more with you later on with some stories that I hope aren't too boring!! Now back to work....working on some projects for Create & Decorate magazine!
Awww Denise, you talking like that and describing your happenings brought memories back to me of spending summers at my Gramma Annie's in West Virginia. Nothing like those hot summer days and watermelon! Oh and the outhouse...hehe course you probably didn't have one of those!
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Well....we didn't have an outhouse, but we stayed with a neighbor sometimes that didn't have a bathroom. She didn't even have an outhouse. We had to go in the corn field!! That was strange to me....we tried to hold it until we got home!! She also "drew" her water from a well. It was so good and I loved drinking it from the dipper....she still lives in that old house. I wonder how old she is now???
ReplyDeleteOuu yeah drinking out of a dipper. My aunt Martha didn't have running water at her house so they had to carry pails of it from my gramma's house to their house and drink from the dipper..remember the pottys? I think everyone should have to experience what it's like to not have the amenities we take for granted these days huh?
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We didn't have a potty, but my neighbor did. We tried to hold it in until we got home!! lol!!
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