tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4832167118858223692024-03-14T06:59:45.914-05:00Gramma's CornerOur Life--Our WayGramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.comBlogger631125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-45462703399022183752024-03-02T18:51:00.002-06:002024-03-02T18:51:19.916-06:00I Say<div style="text-align: center;">The English language is an interesting one and depending on where you live and who raised you, it can have entirely different ways of saying things. So, over the last several months, I've been collecting more "ways of saying things" and idioms.</div><div style="text-align: center;">There is a chance that some may be already in my collection, but those lists are so long already, I don't feel inclined to check them out. So, here we go. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Clear as mud</div><div style="text-align: center;">Didn't bat an eye</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't get your tail in a knot</div><div style="text-align: center;">Get off scot-free</div><div style="text-align: center;">Get the short end of the stick</div><div style="text-align: center;">Giving the cold shoulder</div><div style="text-align: center;">Got up on the wrong side of the bed</div><div style="text-align: center;">Grasping at straws</div><div style="text-align: center;">If the shoe fits, wear it</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jump at the chance</div><div style="text-align: center;">Muddy the waters</div><div style="text-align: center;">Nit-picking</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pipe down</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rain on my parade</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sticks in my craw</div><div style="text-align: center;">The straw that broke the camel's back</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thin as a rail</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wait for the other shoe to drop</div><div style="text-align: center;">What's bred in the bone, comes out in the flesh</div><div style="text-align: center;">Use your head to save your heels</div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-7174681435810171952024-02-04T19:33:00.007-06:002024-02-04T19:33:42.295-06:00It's All About The Floor<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's been a year now, since we started redoing the floors and replacing the fireplace. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim doesn't have time in the summer to spend on in-house projects, there is too much to do outside. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">During the fall he spent a little time in the evenings chiseling the bark off the slab we plan to use for the mantel. After sanding and experimenting with different colors of stains, he installed the metal plate he will hung the mantel on. It is called a floating bracket.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Look closely at the 4th picture down. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDLyP0WYuADEwhOXmZPQww6jez_JVt0Y1L77YCv47ETb1Xyv5ZUkVxrMx_oQSmkH2bXfDp85OqEHu3GmEqx_jy42O22Tj0wbiEe51zDGIo0AJ_UIHofcRafzqMrNOT8IiwPzw70IJF47b1ePfHNcu3vqlwzgNT0NR2YZGKrVucLq67Rl6Eio_ipxGH2c/s4592/9dec%20(3).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDLyP0WYuADEwhOXmZPQww6jez_JVt0Y1L77YCv47ETb1Xyv5ZUkVxrMx_oQSmkH2bXfDp85OqEHu3GmEqx_jy42O22Tj0wbiEe51zDGIo0AJ_UIHofcRafzqMrNOT8IiwPzw70IJF47b1ePfHNcu3vqlwzgNT0NR2YZGKrVucLq67Rl6Eio_ipxGH2c/w300-h400/9dec%20(3).JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I sure thought I took a picture after it was installed, but I can't find it so I took one today. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj1H3j6LrbeJQ8PnCJh3Z1IoqTWEoALi0VaOtU_epzuT4756Zrw7hszV6c1B3k95e-LPk3jrfJFFLMvQ12fjS328ON-R3G2X4krrmB83eFrfTLLSKuA5BR9KTsVIrG5Te6GS7FDg1DFW0q5_7keqkUymdYty7vBgCwdVJJM82WsHhmT48nEmOwjZFDXIo/s4592/P1030639.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj1H3j6LrbeJQ8PnCJh3Z1IoqTWEoALi0VaOtU_epzuT4756Zrw7hszV6c1B3k95e-LPk3jrfJFFLMvQ12fjS328ON-R3G2X4krrmB83eFrfTLLSKuA5BR9KTsVIrG5Te6GS7FDg1DFW0q5_7keqkUymdYty7vBgCwdVJJM82WsHhmT48nEmOwjZFDXIo/w400-h300/P1030639.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Over the summer, while we enjoyed our new plank flooring in the kitchen and dining room and not enjoying the worn out and dirty carpet in the living room, we thought about replacing the carpet. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Eventually, we decided that we liked the plank flooring so much, that we would continue into the living room and forget carpet altogether. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Because this is an add-on project, rather than a continuation, Jim had to take the planking out of the closet and entry way. The way the planking fits together, makes this a necessity. Each piece connects to the previous one very tightly to made a watertight, no gap seal, so you just can't insert a piece in the middle. It all has to be worked one way. Jim marked the entry way pieces so he could put them back in the same way without cutting new ones. Some worked, some didn't and he could use some of the other pieces elsewhere. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another nail-biting issue was if the house was square and Jim's work was square so the planking would meet up to the planking in the entry. It did, to a half-inch, which was wiggled around and hidden under the trim. I have no idea what we would have done if it didn't match up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Getting ready to start</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcXC_fIfTnXMdqqCm6OHhtP2UMF0IROXA5A9wyRnxQchpU8vpJOYLau3Wq-Rq0B9hut2WQFhWCY3NVizXn4mcjqJ1sMcQ6WZbCgYyFahWozp2fFHfEFqND3zeo_KO9U3sTWbTOnXPhEa0V48eg2NS0Pj46Ldbl9vatI4VMwKH1vZHnfKmNlj90JrVFjk/s4592/P1030603.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcXC_fIfTnXMdqqCm6OHhtP2UMF0IROXA5A9wyRnxQchpU8vpJOYLau3Wq-Rq0B9hut2WQFhWCY3NVizXn4mcjqJ1sMcQ6WZbCgYyFahWozp2fFHfEFqND3zeo_KO9U3sTWbTOnXPhEa0V48eg2NS0Pj46Ldbl9vatI4VMwKH1vZHnfKmNlj90JrVFjk/w400-h300/P1030603.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Matching up</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRUkC8vB5RCZqd9JLl-dHqIf03HoqNTxXWPs-9v9HikR6atxxLEgky5xktNLtA-KH_1NWiW5i9jPjqdq8Fxe_dkRwJqAqd22RHQjgkP08TnTP0Vz25QxSoRAGwkYHV6v4o5K2vlfLFqHI7NvxrZ_kw8r-VHLoslsyZXfkUXnwKAFpwzSEt73bzqbVQWE/s1008/2feb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1008" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRUkC8vB5RCZqd9JLl-dHqIf03HoqNTxXWPs-9v9HikR6atxxLEgky5xktNLtA-KH_1NWiW5i9jPjqdq8Fxe_dkRwJqAqd22RHQjgkP08TnTP0Vz25QxSoRAGwkYHV6v4o5K2vlfLFqHI7NvxrZ_kw8r-VHLoslsyZXfkUXnwKAFpwzSEt73bzqbVQWE/w400-h300/2feb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nearly Done</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtD6VWBHvj1OMm1Mi03XuzeABH5U-YLSi4Jo0OBGRa_d4cS0EQTKhJAgoXjXer1zEnoWCZwxuzJFQqFHNsGxvSjsdgLO61XsOrHr1A-BcToXu7kK7lsHqKTETOfUWnvV5fYaI6RvjpcxyV1zhbRAalTMrQ8KfFTZNEuMhpmO4ooOOdOttiMp3N2_IPgw/s4592/P1030637.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtD6VWBHvj1OMm1Mi03XuzeABH5U-YLSi4Jo0OBGRa_d4cS0EQTKhJAgoXjXer1zEnoWCZwxuzJFQqFHNsGxvSjsdgLO61XsOrHr1A-BcToXu7kK7lsHqKTETOfUWnvV5fYaI6RvjpcxyV1zhbRAalTMrQ8KfFTZNEuMhpmO4ooOOdOttiMp3N2_IPgw/w400-h300/P1030637.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZh6S0Dx0ibpHZGEBWegFcJ-B8oJlwkpq97_dBbmI1NpgJQ3ILHqZG3cLI2puUyBJOmZqtthed0IqflCQqwKF6Rzv7WzRpHicv68UDxiKvoebIvZipkp3hAdLB4751qA9rAjcdtgp2zFyQkbvnaz6aPV4BLjYFTDK9Wm6RK338JRYMAnfQYkjqtpwueTY/s4592/P1030638.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Lynette and Calla made a visit to our house in September while Anthony and his dad went out to Idaho elk hunting. No elks were harmed in the process. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Since Calla is numero uno around here, we just about had to take numbers. We held her, played with her and spoiled her. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0Fw82IzKvSYiDcgv2ciIhnkDERz-07RCBOwxllCuPcJIgBSwQW0oM_iPH-5iJ9EIIlGNG9TQTT5HeO8V91mAik54_fjmwyzUtNbFFg-yd8p7_ujLWZ5TqLF_qyT-7jpkvOJELmGHC1HQcC69jrFWZ18reVC4VBum2-tG2aDbv6k1Jbazs66fZspLV4Q/s1574/16sepc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="1181" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0Fw82IzKvSYiDcgv2ciIhnkDERz-07RCBOwxllCuPcJIgBSwQW0oM_iPH-5iJ9EIIlGNG9TQTT5HeO8V91mAik54_fjmwyzUtNbFFg-yd8p7_ujLWZ5TqLF_qyT-7jpkvOJELmGHC1HQcC69jrFWZ18reVC4VBum2-tG2aDbv6k1Jbazs66fZspLV4Q/w300-h400/16sepc.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqCnsib8SPxvfLglZ1Li18-q1gwNzEqpccjrt4WpYNn6FWN5alnfN9e6iHBchLHoB__yCJ-eNJK94-ugJszRgWayLpzEDox98NaO2ZDYZNnPEcJogPITpMANLoRc9Ur1VHKE9HMfoSG41VQnzTDLiJhRXpRzmFu5TkzzehnZwJEKqNVRJZ4BU0tLKOwE/s1325/17sep5c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="1325" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqCnsib8SPxvfLglZ1Li18-q1gwNzEqpccjrt4WpYNn6FWN5alnfN9e6iHBchLHoB__yCJ-eNJK94-ugJszRgWayLpzEDox98NaO2ZDYZNnPEcJogPITpMANLoRc9Ur1VHKE9HMfoSG41VQnzTDLiJhRXpRzmFu5TkzzehnZwJEKqNVRJZ4BU0tLKOwE/w400-h300/17sep5c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHa8cVOspw5g7Ing31M4QiHtxJrw-q0r2TgupLUtqAOxcY7dUhPK9MaW1feyCnlMQXo-RPFCnC7VQ27wMFBW4G5K0CRcPlKjd3mABhFSWL4LEHt8H5EcF-sBezROVusXFLp_8w7-8LhFzrTo_-Lvbno_DUPwnmrqruECuo123fOX7JW5r8Qf7dkcOvug/s848/17sep11c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="560" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHa8cVOspw5g7Ing31M4QiHtxJrw-q0r2TgupLUtqAOxcY7dUhPK9MaW1feyCnlMQXo-RPFCnC7VQ27wMFBW4G5K0CRcPlKjd3mABhFSWL4LEHt8H5EcF-sBezROVusXFLp_8w7-8LhFzrTo_-Lvbno_DUPwnmrqruECuo123fOX7JW5r8Qf7dkcOvug/w264-h400/17sep11c.jpg" width="264" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDz3D5PPV_3_9ydsBz5jM75ZFJ0SD4tcsE31pn3mXXj05lQtzFTgdXNkRPS0YLGWpsWSgWqJoiLvksoPb8R0Rdz7dZMGSyy_-lffqrZ9uYTZZm-C7eICS3jwNFrbxHYYhyphenhyphen9Ssvmv1kQA6gz38qK8gC2hmIqlNT6VHmTNpgfwX5_4GX47mBUDE0j8MIjs/s2048/18sep3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDz3D5PPV_3_9ydsBz5jM75ZFJ0SD4tcsE31pn3mXXj05lQtzFTgdXNkRPS0YLGWpsWSgWqJoiLvksoPb8R0Rdz7dZMGSyy_-lffqrZ9uYTZZm-C7eICS3jwNFrbxHYYhyphenhyphen9Ssvmv1kQA6gz38qK8gC2hmIqlNT6VHmTNpgfwX5_4GX47mBUDE0j8MIjs/w300-h400/18sep3.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> We had family dinner and we spent the evening outside, doting on Calla. We've taken a lot of photos our our front stoop, but this time we forgot to take into account the shadows. We have to be judicious in these cases. The older the cousins get, the fewer photos they want to sit for. k</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97k5keOm1UWxuM3TgQqPMhY-VTPChbuEONQzseeV7yH5yZd0M0eK5vf8HPtlcHAuR7qU3J9t3hSD4_-9aLNKzoeMTqBTuIm7bP74kVAJ8LnZA0Ujt3LdubWcdywGH7tGhgq4tECde3AmhMtqYp5J-GBJ0QZGE6dTdXluf-umrOlJHBumTXwzPfAl5Sqc/s2048/17sep8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97k5keOm1UWxuM3TgQqPMhY-VTPChbuEONQzseeV7yH5yZd0M0eK5vf8HPtlcHAuR7qU3J9t3hSD4_-9aLNKzoeMTqBTuIm7bP74kVAJ8LnZA0Ujt3LdubWcdywGH7tGhgq4tECde3AmhMtqYp5J-GBJ0QZGE6dTdXluf-umrOlJHBumTXwzPfAl5Sqc/w300-h400/17sep8.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's a kitty.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNrIeKLq0IFugq68XHdVAU57u1rnwNReMSzfASGHJhUxv4_b5YxqaguoHrkHIbzrpfAK6DmHWuyJbhz-g-3zwe1LMXCF9vTL_VqdWkOsj43oaCMT9K4Gc_rFxGuJsOu7LoOFsTprXLaWJR8v3Wc9yWpb9sUBMJ29bAdIuhhIAgF7U9VPe78mRW-0YFS0/s2048/17sep10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNrIeKLq0IFugq68XHdVAU57u1rnwNReMSzfASGHJhUxv4_b5YxqaguoHrkHIbzrpfAK6DmHWuyJbhz-g-3zwe1LMXCF9vTL_VqdWkOsj43oaCMT9K4Gc_rFxGuJsOu7LoOFsTprXLaWJR8v3Wc9yWpb9sUBMJ29bAdIuhhIAgF7U9VPe78mRW-0YFS0/w300-h400/17sep10.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveTe-v1RwShyphenhyphenBoQo2eQVRp-BpHLc50-Hx7KVk8Hqi2lNDePI2aeYIKx97MZ6fQI8QcgRvPK_wDOmKX87Lbo-rlPFwO9Z84x56IR6sBcyBrUvZb1M1OAjriKyBKdMVoLuqpuxWFAM7z12jPQK6GJnjdqVNexgfKq_oy0RX_AZ3S1A-9KlLkTyTsgP2wyk/s4592/P1030351.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEintbbUCgTB8AYEhDXLKcCAAlvkEFZqh_-1bbsSyZJyistpJsWlyfUFj3fDucJdeVenFiYaPt9_JR1Zjf72s5e8EPIYIdcLfnLifR5zWZcMhzQWqFvFCvVqSaZaP3IiDcug3VDU7hMKfA8ThUDws0qbf7q_JaA1bmItEd8iliDZGOknfAZ2SHYix1lxF6g/w320-h400/16sep3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We gave this pound-a-ball toy to Lorene on her first "gotcha day". It has seen hard use with all the kids that have gone through our house. Calla figured it out pretty quickly, push a ball in and it comes out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKnG7wUx63a2mxmqVJYNscHjS2w9XJ7iPi09PWWJ_dhDab54ZfyImWcQoAA9kj72SSR2umPCKe4YFjP-6IsdIQesib9XRcZkIDMk7meyjccvjp-zKEPXjWsAEr2vsw0rXutMOhm3LVjxc150idzhPoX-OISKkTNdZwYCDGGAWVzjyOxucyWKGnQZ4yyY/s1080/18sep9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKnG7wUx63a2mxmqVJYNscHjS2w9XJ7iPi09PWWJ_dhDab54ZfyImWcQoAA9kj72SSR2umPCKe4YFjP-6IsdIQesib9XRcZkIDMk7meyjccvjp-zKEPXjWsAEr2vsw0rXutMOhm3LVjxc150idzhPoX-OISKkTNdZwYCDGGAWVzjyOxucyWKGnQZ4yyY/w300-h400/18sep9.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I took photos of all our kids looking out the front door waiting for Daddy to come home. I don't have a picture of all of the grands, but here's Calla. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp-wCHTS3oK-ZvTwI8Q0IWccdvfeMRzRWuwAyjSLRqey_78jTno6h6DaJPkbWHJEv8wS-67mI52ukH61mEW3zTK_ZifOcRw4gUB6Rk3KIkmNTEdKLy44j658YyhU-BUaXYzL2zS6Z4H72GSwHokc05JHVttU7LCPJ5p_qShHipACH36IxNxgNr4AmMrs/s4592/P1030342.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp-wCHTS3oK-ZvTwI8Q0IWccdvfeMRzRWuwAyjSLRqey_78jTno6h6DaJPkbWHJEv8wS-67mI52ukH61mEW3zTK_ZifOcRw4gUB6Rk3KIkmNTEdKLy44j658YyhU-BUaXYzL2zS6Z4H72GSwHokc05JHVttU7LCPJ5p_qShHipACH36IxNxgNr4AmMrs/w400-h300/P1030342.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-61258815209599036072023-10-12T10:32:00.041-05:002023-10-19T17:11:09.284-05:00Road Trip and More<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A couple of weeks ago, Jim and I took off across Nebraska into Colorado to pick up a trailer to make it into a boring trailer, which hauls a boring machine and a mix system. Since it was a 4-hour drive, Jim likes me to come along. It makes the drive more interesting and helps him stay awake. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Several years ago before we became empty nesters, Jim and I started to do a few more things together. It made easier the transition from having a houseful to just the two of us. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It also helped that Lynette went college in Kearney so for those years she was in and out. Also, our other two kids live close enough to see often. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The trailer dealership was right next to the sale barn in Brush, Colorado, so after we inspected the trailer (Jim) and paid the check (me), we asked for recommendations for a good place to eat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were told the sale barn cafe was as good as any and better than most, so we went and enjoyed our meal very much. So much, in fact, a couple days ago, Jim was wishing to go back. A bit far, of course, but perhaps there's a plain ol' cafe closer, that sells good ordinary food. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The decor was metal signs over the whole of it. These were by our table, and I would have loved to go around and read and photograph them all, but that wasn't practical. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I read the first one to Jim in the way a woman would say it and, well, all my women friends will likely understand why I liked the other. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHWEVi6OWJKliIounGrRJ0x0w-BdXB_deK7zCRnlIqhV5cUxkaidCzfEzkvzqEqPwZfnFjgB6wwZ8MQZ6QruogNMmK2dur-YRJV_y74vVSIo_m7m4WutWLKsEn7gwHn2Z0kNAzEjPYc5mbTDpRSFkhi9p-a6kW0Dm6EYcCAeQZ3FQoAJtc2QP_lqMz0I/s1080/21sep5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHWEVi6OWJKliIounGrRJ0x0w-BdXB_deK7zCRnlIqhV5cUxkaidCzfEzkvzqEqPwZfnFjgB6wwZ8MQZ6QruogNMmK2dur-YRJV_y74vVSIo_m7m4WutWLKsEn7gwHn2Z0kNAzEjPYc5mbTDpRSFkhi9p-a6kW0Dm6EYcCAeQZ3FQoAJtc2QP_lqMz0I/w300-h400/21sep5.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the way home, an hour away, I guess, we overtook or were overtaken by a rainstorm. It rained so hard we couldn't see and everyone on the interstate had slowed down using flashers. Then everyone started moving on to the shoulder. It was a bit surreal to see vehicles lined up on the shoulder, lights on and flashers going and no traffic. Then it started to hail, so we sat while the thumping went on overhead. The largest hailstone I saw was walnut sized. As if things weren't bad enough, I got a tornado warning on my phone. Well, what to do now? Can't get in the ditch, might drown. Too rainy to drive away. So, we sat. I felt a curious sort of calm come over me. There wasn't anything I could do about the situation I was in and I knew it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After a bit, the rain let up and all the traffic started up again. We drove along watching the weather radar on our phones and realizing in less than a half hour we were going to meet up with another storm and sure enough, same song, second verse. We waited again by the side of the road. Not as long this time. and when we got to the shop to drop off the trailer it started raining. We only got .80" at our place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It took us an hour to drive the last 20 minutes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These next photos have nothing to do with Colorado, cafes, or storms.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Barry got a bearded dragon lizard for his birthday. It's cute now. I'm not sure how "cute" they are when they are 2 ft. long. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiOb3v2dQ1T0a8Nk07mRmGdGlSGXakCUkYX-PIVosc7oIsXc6KbvichgxXb4YWWwQ6zbAf5MPBhCs2KrmdMh3xE7Rdqne6yYz9HK_kqDiyTL1E-mt36dCM5pSN5OFWNdsdxabb_LdANZek8NZDsvOL3_D95Wh6896-Q82avhHEtxqYmdcK8Dd_uSoiyHE/s4592/P1030336.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiOb3v2dQ1T0a8Nk07mRmGdGlSGXakCUkYX-PIVosc7oIsXc6KbvichgxXb4YWWwQ6zbAf5MPBhCs2KrmdMh3xE7Rdqne6yYz9HK_kqDiyTL1E-mt36dCM5pSN5OFWNdsdxabb_LdANZek8NZDsvOL3_D95Wh6896-Q82avhHEtxqYmdcK8Dd_uSoiyHE/w400-h300/P1030336.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This really is the same person, Barry just had a haircut in betwen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQkK_SqcPOHHse1FVvzzs-WfRp8o3HDUWEkVTOTJ28J9tKwPVEUOcCXbYQPaTB3BisyrO0Fodhhew60Y1owwWYiygL7IHfYNV0rWbnsZ_J1FA6h6Xx8dRfHqFgIwFHOlOTT9DHhXTTSpSmUHCGNhTROUUgWetgiituYRgOjl2hZtW_UQyXh-BLaA3Wos/s1440/21sep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQkK_SqcPOHHse1FVvzzs-WfRp8o3HDUWEkVTOTJ28J9tKwPVEUOcCXbYQPaTB3BisyrO0Fodhhew60Y1owwWYiygL7IHfYNV0rWbnsZ_J1FA6h6Xx8dRfHqFgIwFHOlOTT9DHhXTTSpSmUHCGNhTROUUgWetgiituYRgOjl2hZtW_UQyXh-BLaA3Wos/w400-h400/21sep.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> One thing Jim likes to do is go 4-wheeling at the farm. We spent an hour roaming about and being bounced to death over hill and dale and creek crossings. At least, I was. I was very ready to be off and back in the pickup. I don't know why it seemed worse bouncing than usual this time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2E2L5PVNXaJbSVfVXZLkLO9bmVc6Fq4kcQKaTxFSFj-88hN7YgzWL6Wg-mWasjUiaqbM-WJorJqXGs5bVqETRNpwg8lz7xLCY0BIjEfG8dd6xuCRMYLEbLlOdVSxuh-euTNQJF6Wf80RAIM_S0W3t72ZAzlI4v2JKsE1BUBiw_m0ujs9DOC1N9bnmrEE/s1080/labor%20day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2E2L5PVNXaJbSVfVXZLkLO9bmVc6Fq4kcQKaTxFSFj-88hN7YgzWL6Wg-mWasjUiaqbM-WJorJqXGs5bVqETRNpwg8lz7xLCY0BIjEfG8dd6xuCRMYLEbLlOdVSxuh-euTNQJF6Wf80RAIM_S0W3t72ZAzlI4v2JKsE1BUBiw_m0ujs9DOC1N9bnmrEE/s320/labor%20day.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-68024901339064086312023-09-15T17:11:00.001-05:002023-10-19T17:26:30.069-05:00Old News Made New<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Family resemblances aren't everything. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Families are made in a multitude of ways and a multitude of looks, but when resemblances <i>do </i>happen, it's very interesting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Top: Lynette, Bottom: Calla</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpnphmNI-f3GBZw7i6IIfaor-VEqL0MruU8sdxlbfHRHHdOSQ5DbjnILJXPZksccUcpw10BuEgt6h9EadQ_DdHF-WiB-XRiefAKygsPcqvYWhClmE3reJK4K58lRftMTYcbDL_ck4Yf1i5aeQT6greuz8Y9X_ypd1P4jb6hZn7enxaSpofAwa5A6fLRJc/s1854/calla%20and%20lynette.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1854" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpnphmNI-f3GBZw7i6IIfaor-VEqL0MruU8sdxlbfHRHHdOSQ5DbjnILJXPZksccUcpw10BuEgt6h9EadQ_DdHF-WiB-XRiefAKygsPcqvYWhClmE3reJK4K58lRftMTYcbDL_ck4Yf1i5aeQT6greuz8Y9X_ypd1P4jb6hZn7enxaSpofAwa5A6fLRJc/s320/calla%20and%20lynette.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Uncle Lowell</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8oo9AMimNMe5kF6LqUatKzffh-uvWoL1pAZIiTGfdJplasL04JT6EClG94jrH-kf9XMTKnawj3aQK-qkhk5QW2w2LAVUTM4fbW7-S3PLBOTw_wzWNS_ZNoyw5lcWozXx6gdz0wvUT7g7LK7jOhw-m69s2m2PT2qYq9NEYPPBX2mcmZT4hVTESiVSIV5Q/s896/uncle%20lowellc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="690" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8oo9AMimNMe5kF6LqUatKzffh-uvWoL1pAZIiTGfdJplasL04JT6EClG94jrH-kf9XMTKnawj3aQK-qkhk5QW2w2LAVUTM4fbW7-S3PLBOTw_wzWNS_ZNoyw5lcWozXx6gdz0wvUT7g7LK7jOhw-m69s2m2PT2qYq9NEYPPBX2mcmZT4hVTESiVSIV5Q/s320/uncle%20lowellc.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lynette and Calla as babies look very much alike.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I always thought Uncle Lowell's head shape is like both of theirs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Resemblances change as babies change into toddlers, then little kids, then big kids.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have a photo of Zane at 3 where he looks just like Lorene at that age. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-77662223597503964142023-09-03T18:51:00.002-05:002023-09-03T18:51:29.166-05:00Reading--It's Made Me Who I Am<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"> Someday I would like to write a post about how certain beloved books have defined the way I think about things. Two that come to mind are the "Little House" books and the "Anne" books. That would take the time that I haven't had or prioritized this summer.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I just finished reading "The Questions That Matter Most", by Jane Smiley, or rather most of it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This Jane Smiley has written loads of novels and I have never heard of her. I mostly read non-fiction and this one was in the new non-fiction shelf in the library. It's a book of 'essays', and the ones I enjoyed where of authors or books that I knew. I didn't read the ones that I had never heard of. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There are a few pieces of the book that resonate with my feelings of books and I want to keep them...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Quotes from "The Questions That Matter Most": </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Page 232..."The moments are what come to mind when I think about thee books I like best --moments that stick in my mind as pictures. When you're deep into reading a book that you're very fond of, the images pass through your mind and leave a permanent impression."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Page 233..."The reader has to have images to feel oriented in the world of the novel....Your images may not be the same as my images--different readers will perceive a novel's world differently depending on what they notice and respond to in the descriptions--..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Page 238..."To read a book is...an act of freedom--at any point I could say, I'm done with (whatever book I'm reading), I'm moving on to (another one). As long as you're reading you're there voluntarily." </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is another piece of this book that I liked on page 74, but not because of what is written down. The paragraph is about the author's take on the difference between movies and books.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't make a habit of watching movies, and after the few I have seen about some favorite books that don't match up with what I have in my head, I'm not interested in seeing anymore of those. </div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-58819763337810458982023-07-14T14:12:00.004-05:002023-07-14T14:12:55.168-05:00A Trip Around The World...<p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;">Last year Jim decided we would take Zane on a trip this summer, with his input on places he would like to go. One of those places was the Holiday World amusement Park in Santa Claus, Indiana, so since we wanted to head east, there were other possibilities like visiting Lynette and going to the Classic Green Reunion in Tennessee. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Leaving Sunday afternoon we made our first stop in Hutchinson, Kansas to go see the Cosmosphere the next day. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">This is an American Mercury Redstone rocket outside the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS. The Redstone ballistic missile was repurposed to lauch Mercury astronauts into space in the early 1960s.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip86jD8ihJr3TWL_vhrmwgotk336KbmIXuCpyCmBOU6Xf1V6QnKfGCS_hM-6pbKUSMzCU14Q0inBUv5gFAB6yMYkE9oMGhxZtmCPA8wV_LCLH5znEDNhQM-0JYDBtY1lHBA1tocAY00X54Tj16uN5KVkU24zih2wZMY-XAx9UDOUF3y8VqgFhN-ZJddrU/s4592/12june%20(3).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip86jD8ihJr3TWL_vhrmwgotk336KbmIXuCpyCmBOU6Xf1V6QnKfGCS_hM-6pbKUSMzCU14Q0inBUv5gFAB6yMYkE9oMGhxZtmCPA8wV_LCLH5znEDNhQM-0JYDBtY1lHBA1tocAY00X54Tj16uN5KVkU24zih2wZMY-XAx9UDOUF3y8VqgFhN-ZJddrU/w300-h400/12june%20(3).JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkT772hKtb1xE9h6nGOMDawn8fkJVWrOAelf_GQL15XWc6rP6kmj3pXJzZHQvECTWEZoggkwJDedtIK3eDKUdfs__gGOjuhdZMG9QTPBIrIYQoTMeap_LtSBK5cQj3H-PhWaK-uGdma2NyY0saoj6gZQP6oL1XtBrTNVbou8RGiSLrmQc2_B3456ti7Q/s4592/12june%20(4).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkT772hKtb1xE9h6nGOMDawn8fkJVWrOAelf_GQL15XWc6rP6kmj3pXJzZHQvECTWEZoggkwJDedtIK3eDKUdfs__gGOjuhdZMG9QTPBIrIYQoTMeap_LtSBK5cQj3H-PhWaK-uGdma2NyY0saoj6gZQP6oL1XtBrTNVbou8RGiSLrmQc2_B3456ti7Q/w400-h300/12june%20(4).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We spent most of our time reading about the history of the space program, which was very interesting to me and we found that Zane knew most of it already. He was telling us about things, before we read about them. I didn't take any photos inside because the SR71 Blackbird hanging from the ceiling, the lunar module that we looked down on, and the space shuttle where we stood on the wing, were too vast to get decent photos. It was fascinating. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Zane tried out this wind machine with 70 mph tornado winds. </div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiXAmX3ubhaOs9hmu9W2gS24_lvsk-z_a3UOA62L4UYi6g0jyd3eDfQUsZ606M6V91GZetVA0HE6TdkQtBtg0Td14NqXimH3ubCF82BpQ8nYi_WbMvPPUbNXKx7rJAYLdsn5yvlLXbjr9c0BUSOR2PpkCcG15VM9ED8jzTCjanolif_s53FnWJs1L9tk/s4592/12june%20(5).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiXAmX3ubhaOs9hmu9W2gS24_lvsk-z_a3UOA62L4UYi6g0jyd3eDfQUsZ606M6V91GZetVA0HE6TdkQtBtg0Td14NqXimH3ubCF82BpQ8nYi_WbMvPPUbNXKx7rJAYLdsn5yvlLXbjr9c0BUSOR2PpkCcG15VM9ED8jzTCjanolif_s53FnWJs1L9tk/w300-h400/12june%20(5).JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From there we heading toward Missouri and stayed the night in Olathe, Kansas and had supper at Chick-fil-A's because Zane wanted to. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">...or rather around part of the country. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I was feeling pretty sorry for myself because 5 days ago I had esophageal dilation, that I wasn't going to mention, but it was so much a part of my days at the time, that I must. This time the dilation was so painful I couldn't eat for two days and then I had liquids and by the time we left, the pain was dulled by taking Tylenol and eating miniscule bites of things, and preferably soft. So, I had soup </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">for supper that night. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Day 2 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Jim and I visited the "Treasures of the Arabia" Steamboat museum two years ago. Jim was fascinated by it, so we visited again. I spent my time reading about westward expansion, while the others looked at the machinery and the stuff that was unearthed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSozc3nm3m99e7oQ6UHkGYlRAmFCc8na9Zy8WLrfnKQUvBuqTczy8uD1kQ5EBTJbelQB_UpuMfYX12mmKy2T3b3jysUrJtrCuodR8ZVA1Y5lwf1g2LgHS6LrBLGc7TMmBiYWASelOXoF8xEu2u034CAqsGjAoaufDMtEycIUVClPAWJrFSI4OR6K1AuXI/s1078/12june.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="804" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSozc3nm3m99e7oQ6UHkGYlRAmFCc8na9Zy8WLrfnKQUvBuqTczy8uD1kQ5EBTJbelQB_UpuMfYX12mmKy2T3b3jysUrJtrCuodR8ZVA1Y5lwf1g2LgHS6LrBLGc7TMmBiYWASelOXoF8xEu2u034CAqsGjAoaufDMtEycIUVClPAWJrFSI4OR6K1AuXI/w299-h400/12june.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The following paragraph is from the Arabia website. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif" style="color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 16px;">The Steamboat Arabia was one of many casualties of the perilous Missouri River—the longest river in the United States that claimed nearly 400 other steamboats over its 2,500-mile course. In September 1856, the Arabia was carrying over 200 tons of cargo intended for general stores and homes in 16 midwestern frontier towns. The steamer was still fully loaded when it hit a tree snag and sank just 6 miles west of Kansas City. Due to erosion, the Missouri River changed course over time, and the Arabia was buried underground for over a century – along with all of its precious cargo. Lying 45 feet deep beneath a Kansas cornfield, the Arabia’s payload was protected from light and oxygen and, thus, was remarkably well preserved.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif" style="color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="helvetica-w01-light, helvetica-w02-light, sans-serif" style="color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2f2e2e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are more artifacts being cleaned every day and added to the museum.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2f2e2e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We don't like driving all around in big cities even with GPS, so someone directed us to the "City Diner" across the street. It looked like something left over from the 50s, and not updated since.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2f2e2e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The food was good and the prices reasonable. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim had a port tenderloin sandwich. The pork was three times the size of the bun. I had grits because I went for something easy to eat. I enjoyed them, too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope Zane really likes the omelets, since he had them more than once. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmZi-cGquFVu20xYStWK_tUqIA7hM80uOz121OlzZCfNHpoAlm6BOlCN0MGxRaL2ofsM1_W_tNRgiZEmd126bvMh7cW581r6zJuRO3AAYNbwyqb8szfpEq5WCkbkgqlI4OCOvGFxGgLEZ2Kok-1SkmzmanWFC8Sn4KIBRo8KD3bH5V1S-LheT2V4YAlU/s1076/12june4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="807" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmZi-cGquFVu20xYStWK_tUqIA7hM80uOz121OlzZCfNHpoAlm6BOlCN0MGxRaL2ofsM1_W_tNRgiZEmd126bvMh7cW581r6zJuRO3AAYNbwyqb8szfpEq5WCkbkgqlI4OCOvGFxGgLEZ2Kok-1SkmzmanWFC8Sn4KIBRo8KD3bH5V1S-LheT2V4YAlU/s320/12june4.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUQFBqx0Tjkmct-QmBH2qFqfubd_yQzK9hZZQVepl-HNIN28Ud-KZW-thfZ12KCN5meCz54Fu1Br3jsTnZesNlMd6tBwFjatYJOIgHRyVS4-NUAUAVLuzUCKVlOOnRvbtny2TqzI_7so08Zza5zicMBjTjSaiKSGDXgf3kd1NrKAntu7I72dd_WOl4S8/s1080/12june5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="804" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUQFBqx0Tjkmct-QmBH2qFqfubd_yQzK9hZZQVepl-HNIN28Ud-KZW-thfZ12KCN5meCz54Fu1Br3jsTnZesNlMd6tBwFjatYJOIgHRyVS4-NUAUAVLuzUCKVlOOnRvbtny2TqzI_7so08Zza5zicMBjTjSaiKSGDXgf3kd1NrKAntu7I72dd_WOl4S8/s320/12june5.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GVZ6Yl3iEWgxZYkCnf5ajHQMw1gpXgFyf-es7V1DgPe9Kx7NSK7jsRRvm-xDCeNHJ6FdtyxDQgMoOwIRjG2OC5OsFkhZ0WScXf5W_vT-xy-s6XjA9s2TqW-rOFLVR5rI61AigU_O3KHw0Wn7a5DL8--luzfjX5S3R-9aSiJVLRCYg8Z_oyh1jcQeuM8/s1072/12june3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="804" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GVZ6Yl3iEWgxZYkCnf5ajHQMw1gpXgFyf-es7V1DgPe9Kx7NSK7jsRRvm-xDCeNHJ6FdtyxDQgMoOwIRjG2OC5OsFkhZ0WScXf5W_vT-xy-s6XjA9s2TqW-rOFLVR5rI61AigU_O3KHw0Wn7a5DL8--luzfjX5S3R-9aSiJVLRCYg8Z_oyh1jcQeuM8/s320/12june3.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After lunch we went to the LEGO store which was fun, because I like LEGOs, too. We enjoyed looking at all the sets and other things they had for sale. It would have been a lot more fun if we had several hundreds to spend, but we didn't. It was rather a shock after we left the parking garage that we couldn't leave without paying the $11 fee!! We were there for 45 minutes. That was the hourly fee, I'm glad we got out in time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From there we tootled over to St. Louis and exhausted, we found an exotic pizza place, ordered a half cheese, half sausage pizza and ate it in our hotel room. I was able to eat a <i>whole </i>piece, taking miniscule bites with hot water to wash it down. My throat is finally feeling like I will be back to normal soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We left for the Gateway Arch at 8:30 for our 10:00 "ride to the top", planning for rush hour slow spots and construction. It's a good thing we did since we didn't know where to go when we got there. Getting to the parking lot was the easy part and after wandering around awhile under the arch and watching other people, we found our way to the underground entrance where the museum, theater, café, and gift shop ... (I would have liked to spend time in the museum, but this wasn't my trip.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAx1xvTvvVUX22P82Dul97YG2WI2EA7FWEgNMZKjDlcuW5mbHBY15U0MXqF89oxYy4f7oLX4gfCdOeYXW7udwhqCimg66QvVxVkcfSFw6QhlZRT2wBC6Gu0LSkJGenwTRjh0rmzGAEey0K7UMNYHqmfBgSN8BFsVcYMAI26H0ePrsPLM3ajqe_y8BOJ9w/s4592/14june%20(5).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAx1xvTvvVUX22P82Dul97YG2WI2EA7FWEgNMZKjDlcuW5mbHBY15U0MXqF89oxYy4f7oLX4gfCdOeYXW7udwhqCimg66QvVxVkcfSFw6QhlZRT2wBC6Gu0LSkJGenwTRjh0rmzGAEey0K7UMNYHqmfBgSN8BFsVcYMAI26H0ePrsPLM3ajqe_y8BOJ9w/w300-h400/14june%20(5).JPG" width="300" /></a></div></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLc3Vr2Z7hti2JO3M5-9Z0kWDljYBEZRLTQA285setqiMMmy2KTSWDB8ViHLS88BHbDgaHAbl7CLcRzXgUItMyWope3adUEHfjYc_NNnr6hTtijh3a8gU6sSxNGHLveYi8CeHF_vwOTZ94XQRpRnNwbCLP3X10-WSyHujmLnU9VpYSZJpC_J7CNtGqNI/s4592/14june%20(6).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLc3Vr2Z7hti2JO3M5-9Z0kWDljYBEZRLTQA285setqiMMmy2KTSWDB8ViHLS88BHbDgaHAbl7CLcRzXgUItMyWope3adUEHfjYc_NNnr6hTtijh3a8gU6sSxNGHLveYi8CeHF_vwOTZ94XQRpRnNwbCLP3X10-WSyHujmLnU9VpYSZJpC_J7CNtGqNI/w300-h400/14june%20(6).JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And ... the "ride to the top" entrance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, <i>that </i>was fun. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When our time came we lined up where we were supposed to and received a number. Each group got a number. Groups being people coming in together so we weren't put with strangers. Then we went to an open place with screens and numbers on the floor, stood on our number and watched a video with highlights from the 50s and 60s. Think MLK, Elvis, psychedelic colors and patterns, cars, and what have you. I wonder how many people standing there remember any of that. I think we were the oldest in the group and WE were hardly around in those years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next, we file out, number by number, pausing for them to take a photo, (always looking for money), and then on down some stairs to our number again. We were number 8, which was at the bottom, so we went first. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here we waited, in front of this door, which was our way into the tram. I couldn't get a very good photo. If you look closely you can see the outline. That 4 ft. indention in the wall before us, which we guessed was the door, opened into a very small space with 5 seats, close enough to bump knees. It was too small to get a picture of, well, of the smalless. Since we've never been, and this was all new, it was fascinating and interesting. (The space is lit, by the way. We weren't riding in darkness.) And, then, the doors close and up we go. The doors of our capsule are glass (or see through anyway, who knows if glass is used anymore) and we were whisked up 600+ feet inside the arch seeing wires, pipes, stairs and whatnot, feeling the shift as the car adjusts to the curve of the arch. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When we stop, the 4 ft. door opens, our "glass" doors open and we sstep out and stand on another flight of stairs, the bottom, since we are number 8, wait until the previous group descends, we ascend (ha, I was just going to use 'go up', but decided to be funny), they get on, and away they go and we are at the top of the arch. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4k5kVp4LR5pl2emyxzbZJL8ygMb5YYJZUd0pkC0RzUjVrqWe-GajfPQEd4eR-5dGnW3CWMTPwSn8FVykDK1yUmHTq_TWSX06xXqTD7ZZYxAmyDS0fcJonGSXoqo1l8D72CwuX6GSD5SKWk9dY08QHwg8hHibVhcNzQHpc9YWdIloCWnJSJqiXNR9WolU/s4592/14june%20(8)c.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4k5kVp4LR5pl2emyxzbZJL8ygMb5YYJZUd0pkC0RzUjVrqWe-GajfPQEd4eR-5dGnW3CWMTPwSn8FVykDK1yUmHTq_TWSX06xXqTD7ZZYxAmyDS0fcJonGSXoqo1l8D72CwuX6GSD5SKWk9dY08QHwg8hHibVhcNzQHpc9YWdIloCWnJSJqiXNR9WolU/w300-h400/14june%20(8)c.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaUzWHWuduSDEPnMJEsIcq_Op0UHXK07ERi4NkBEdIWGdy54Kk8bX0g5CAGPhntfAWDPM3TLrzAaEK2VSPAf_ZswM1tualipWHUbOCcyD04o6Oahp_7GZw1MbPHRrsi8B77hDaFHF4pm5HiLfI5xW5XpHdH9XlBrmTqsCfOc5skQmTaxH5sjbc-vKqeCU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaUzWHWuduSDEPnMJEsIcq_Op0UHXK07ERi4NkBEdIWGdy54Kk8bX0g5CAGPhntfAWDPM3TLrzAaEK2VSPAf_ZswM1tualipWHUbOCcyD04o6Oahp_7GZw1MbPHRrsi8B77hDaFHF4pm5HiLfI5xW5XpHdH9XlBrmTqsCfOc5skQmTaxH5sjbc-vKqeCU=w320-h240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy2iPqSz8YnYM_v2m7TPCsPsTyH-4TdhDkXpvryZ_oTZStNo_XIYT5Wz9s9Zdz4_M3POBIEflidbXhak1cNHSg-OojitLLKpKnbrZxJkTxJDOjGlrBjjn8JsZg8vD8uheOUsr0wJqJH4I3v9k76V3V2kXt43U1yLbcZzdB3FC1Ges5KKPC_LmdEqdTHe4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy2iPqSz8YnYM_v2m7TPCsPsTyH-4TdhDkXpvryZ_oTZStNo_XIYT5Wz9s9Zdz4_M3POBIEflidbXhak1cNHSg-OojitLLKpKnbrZxJkTxJDOjGlrBjjn8JsZg8vD8uheOUsr0wJqJH4I3v9k76V3V2kXt43U1yLbcZzdB3FC1Ges5KKPC_LmdEqdTHe4=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />It feels like a room up there. It is carpeted, has information posters, and small windows and a bench sort of thing to lean on to look out the windows. 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After 10 minutes we were set to stand on the stairs in front of our car until the next group coming up got out. We get in and away we went, down. It's 4 minutes up, 3 minutes down. Don't ask me why. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We also watched a video about the building of the arch. I wanted to say film or movie, maybe I fit in the 50s and 60s after all. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had lunch at the Gateway Café then at the gift shop bought all the things we looked at while we were waiting. 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And the parking lot really looks like this. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMceLquN-UIfEJ_H9uuBgYYE-L9RpJVkmdU8AoOyFsXapFIv21mTT2cPgsz0tmvZZvTb2-agD5N73ziKYphUxkl4T3C51tcitYhS8YT-ZZSUDiOi1fZqa0ep_F41VIdU6QnfAZu1msnA0_W5niyAWzHf7UJLZQUW_hWWVA8MXMKGpFAkF6AWLA3Q-b3k/s4592/14june%20(35).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMceLquN-UIfEJ_H9uuBgYYE-L9RpJVkmdU8AoOyFsXapFIv21mTT2cPgsz0tmvZZvTb2-agD5N73ziKYphUxkl4T3C51tcitYhS8YT-ZZSUDiOi1fZqa0ep_F41VIdU6QnfAZu1msnA0_W5niyAWzHf7UJLZQUW_hWWVA8MXMKGpFAkF6AWLA3Q-b3k/w400-h300/14june%20(35).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the road again, to Indiana and Lynette's house where we were warmly welcomed with Calla and broccoli cheese soup.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAU0Zkw7MuFrlqtA_YLWnwaTyaYBrpnIkxNT4wz5p55KUQOnh3xVB94XFC7twCwRHBFr23Z8q-46QFz7zmpHackPBL5jk8pPa5v0qD_lImRDCQt5Uf1uC5zZO4ca7xPH6vbxbnkhLHEY6zxZx0aAoxBlvwOOz060wJXL5PE7bjTXFnU8yE68-68ULEH6Q/s543/14junecopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="543" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAU0Zkw7MuFrlqtA_YLWnwaTyaYBrpnIkxNT4wz5p55KUQOnh3xVB94XFC7twCwRHBFr23Z8q-46QFz7zmpHackPBL5jk8pPa5v0qD_lImRDCQt5Uf1uC5zZO4ca7xPH6vbxbnkhLHEY6zxZx0aAoxBlvwOOz060wJXL5PE7bjTXFnU8yE68-68ULEH6Q/w400-h300/14junecopy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We left Zane in Indiana to entertain and be entertained with the Troyer's while we went on to Classic Green in Tennessee. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Zane went to Holiday World with Anthony and they did some other things like play video games and miniature golf, and swim, but, I have no photos of that time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Classic Green, the John Deere Show that started in Grand Island, Nebraska was held in Lebanon, Tennessee this year. It is an every other year event to complement the Gathering of the Green Show in Davenport, IA on the other years. The last Classic Green was in Columbus, OH, and we were there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't take many photos. There are only so many photos of green tractors I want in my library. "You've seen one you've seen them all." I could get in trouble for that statement. And really, there are a lot, a really lot, of different kinds, and it is interesting, but I'm not into making a photo book of them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This shirt really says. "I LOVE when MY WIFE lets me work on tractors", or close enough anyway. Jim got a lot of stares, laughs and questions on where to buy one. They bought them two years ago, in Ohio.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnayO_ZV0WyIDqYnXyYFHnWfBr4Xx4cP-F6GcovIOtm2fB-UPR6MLRTMthhC_7nbWarcsLcQueeJk2bpSwlqezEtTztL1jnI3u3kHc3ObbJsKv28CZuFd5n3C_GbGFHwo-C9SUUUtwMSLfDdqgp0gllONyWFueXJRtu3iZddW5lJMM4IO2ODS2vNYqBbo/s1073/16june1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1073" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnayO_ZV0WyIDqYnXyYFHnWfBr4Xx4cP-F6GcovIOtm2fB-UPR6MLRTMthhC_7nbWarcsLcQueeJk2bpSwlqezEtTztL1jnI3u3kHc3ObbJsKv28CZuFd5n3C_GbGFHwo-C9SUUUtwMSLfDdqgp0gllONyWFueXJRtu3iZddW5lJMM4IO2ODS2vNYqBbo/s320/16june1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is scale model of a huge 8020, a picture of which is at the bottom of this blog.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ZPI0K9JLjBW6gS5FgwmRxVgRmJWGiqL1O5ABHE42TsidvH3SCw2ef9t736Y-2StOJuU4LBbVpugKuS33YK8eAJJ-nVolAxDtK82-3Oky0ZU8t68NfbPzRcLM48tGHWEFEaohB0nALpj4VHpN8HAPhvvbWKWoM23p2Tu6f194RUDuY1tNn16MX4jdf48/s2786/17june%20(1)c.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2092" data-original-width="2786" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ZPI0K9JLjBW6gS5FgwmRxVgRmJWGiqL1O5ABHE42TsidvH3SCw2ef9t736Y-2StOJuU4LBbVpugKuS33YK8eAJJ-nVolAxDtK82-3Oky0ZU8t68NfbPzRcLM48tGHWEFEaohB0nALpj4VHpN8HAPhvvbWKWoM23p2Tu6f194RUDuY1tNn16MX4jdf48/w400-h300/17june%20(1)c.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This took place at the State Fairgrounds and there were tractors everywhere, inside the many buildings and outside. This year's "features" were D's, Generation II's and 110 lawn tractors. Of course, they welcome all kinds of "classics" restored or not. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTomhuJzd_SWrULInPmv06x4UMtlP2Icb_5-H6gzzuNg6h1WVvSG7uYdhcrVNURFSExgXTfCxYs9L0soO7vNs3g_9WzFXy8xavBHPW__m8pRH-dRC3sBZkysfVzKYzBBgHkh193pNSRkuOp3ZaVtugksYd3ml28z4upDgUQdL_phaNoNzldmvzeEwYPNk/s4592/17june%20(4).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTomhuJzd_SWrULInPmv06x4UMtlP2Icb_5-H6gzzuNg6h1WVvSG7uYdhcrVNURFSExgXTfCxYs9L0soO7vNs3g_9WzFXy8xavBHPW__m8pRH-dRC3sBZkysfVzKYzBBgHkh193pNSRkuOp3ZaVtugksYd3ml28z4upDgUQdL_phaNoNzldmvzeEwYPNk/w400-h300/17june%20(4).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOFG_Xzxf4Y6IBI8hvpmMT15j6gnvQMyD-qrPZ95piEN2x7zY6tDUxTCvsb6kCabjsPtziw0ywz-q3mwaTdrgXFznKtzeldtoKhFUdv0lNudKyew1uhOUveq5LRic-4nC4FLSh3LZK-WoBHNMEGXLnpCDO81TIQAN7kqWcjW0QX7JbqqZdCh-NTAl9lw/s4592/17june%20(6).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOFG_Xzxf4Y6IBI8hvpmMT15j6gnvQMyD-qrPZ95piEN2x7zY6tDUxTCvsb6kCabjsPtziw0ywz-q3mwaTdrgXFznKtzeldtoKhFUdv0lNudKyew1uhOUveq5LRic-4nC4FLSh3LZK-WoBHNMEGXLnpCDO81TIQAN7kqWcjW0QX7JbqqZdCh-NTAl9lw/w400-h300/17june%20(6).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's not the sort of place you can look at everything in one day. We were there parts of two days and the whole of one. One day we sat in on a "seminar" about cotton. It was interesting and would have been more so if I could have heard what they were saying. After awhile I got bored with trying and looked at my phone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cotton machine mounted on a 3010</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjUOzlUGuv184icSJHjXk0YXlx7dc7SwjjXHwZy-BeBwuM95h-UsOgUNecONF9MELz68rBHmXs7pmq30E8f346Pm85LR0NutGr16j5YGg5TFZ2AYDEWMQvKwYKOJ3LotOdXfKOoP7u7f13tQEj7B6RAMvOV79wmS_f7IGaF_r8cKtV7Al7CdI4Cu1eQVs/s4592/17june%20(8).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjUOzlUGuv184icSJHjXk0YXlx7dc7SwjjXHwZy-BeBwuM95h-UsOgUNecONF9MELz68rBHmXs7pmq30E8f346Pm85LR0NutGr16j5YGg5TFZ2AYDEWMQvKwYKOJ3LotOdXfKOoP7u7f13tQEj7B6RAMvOV79wmS_f7IGaF_r8cKtV7Al7CdI4Cu1eQVs/w400-h300/17june%20(8).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMhN66GZgGQeQTVC_PpBSYErTfTovXxF_AC0c_23bxjM1kxYVq78AE-4eaHeTkIYzemoKU5yntfCAigM4sgEBt1aD-XwwgQxqgpFpzkHNcE5jAcY_GGRsGGceMp6H72wI5Z79zSG437NbFm2w8jWO2CXM3ylcLAqcSIZgUvNwwYzaAplXU7dJcNxzaIY/s4592/17june%20(10).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMhN66GZgGQeQTVC_PpBSYErTfTovXxF_AC0c_23bxjM1kxYVq78AE-4eaHeTkIYzemoKU5yntfCAigM4sgEBt1aD-XwwgQxqgpFpzkHNcE5jAcY_GGRsGGceMp6H72wI5Z79zSG437NbFm2w8jWO2CXM3ylcLAqcSIZgUvNwwYzaAplXU7dJcNxzaIY/w400-h300/17june%20(10).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This GP resembles the one Jim's dad had. His had steel wheels.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_S2UhuPZJAQxMkSjJxKu8EferimULL7NP_P0VWJ-gLq1FVTF1Bj6Q36TTTCaexU_UhSm6KGcjEa-K-EFS_n2uU4I7zPcuIB3-lMNd7xo0X0PclNUWrnvhf6OEUm_-ZUJAg9L3UaYFuZLDdyuvLiSBnbhgkCP6TR423A_KmqfarlMVmz-eJpha4nqZSjo/s4592/17june%20(11).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_S2UhuPZJAQxMkSjJxKu8EferimULL7NP_P0VWJ-gLq1FVTF1Bj6Q36TTTCaexU_UhSm6KGcjEa-K-EFS_n2uU4I7zPcuIB3-lMNd7xo0X0PclNUWrnvhf6OEUm_-ZUJAg9L3UaYFuZLDdyuvLiSBnbhgkCP6TR423A_KmqfarlMVmz-eJpha4nqZSjo/w400-h300/17june%20(11).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Friday was our full day at the show. We arrived at 9:10, just before the flag raising. A hush fell over the grounds and people took off their hats while the National Anthem played. Patriotism and honoring the flag is still among tractor enthusiasts. Is it because they are older, more conservative, more respectful? People of all ages come. There are young people who love old tractors and children that are learning to. There are mothers and fathers and grandparents. All here, because Old John Deere Tractors mean something to them or to someone they love. Maybe appreciation for what has gone before helps us appreciate what we have now. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">JD 8020</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This may be the only one left. There aren't any parts anymore to be found for these.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I think)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjZ2tKPIN7bqDIs06Ock3uL6QzaNAIHTU7a3cBUrOjPFO8pHcs49huyWZaa5MDDXqd0Y-6WkzXmG3HgzEO8sXx6l92d8rsU6WHVTZgbx677KW5gSFUXmuMHZKu1HMIlMpoFotuNT2Oit5E0wifZ5mg_6XgkpDUwj0OJRmvHvkq5b2KYEOpzlRx_1X8ws/s4592/17june%20(12).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjZ2tKPIN7bqDIs06Ock3uL6QzaNAIHTU7a3cBUrOjPFO8pHcs49huyWZaa5MDDXqd0Y-6WkzXmG3HgzEO8sXx6l92d8rsU6WHVTZgbx677KW5gSFUXmuMHZKu1HMIlMpoFotuNT2Oit5E0wifZ5mg_6XgkpDUwj0OJRmvHvkq5b2KYEOpzlRx_1X8ws/w400-h300/17june%20(12).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0gyNpeLYMjoKMXuazDfzCXbPi7hs3vH6gh-bs1LiF3_sKJwCEgYO6snLKwAGRCGTBp9gpZzPAzplyvJCJlrR_KaBc-dJvTgNUqeCp1FmwhFklqg6S0vuhpVZLQecld6K6nTIUCjNJqdvg93eRlpiUKCuaR3-u-plo0Zw2xToswYZdI_tIAjueDp8SIk/s4592/17june%20(13).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0gyNpeLYMjoKMXuazDfzCXbPi7hs3vH6gh-bs1LiF3_sKJwCEgYO6snLKwAGRCGTBp9gpZzPAzplyvJCJlrR_KaBc-dJvTgNUqeCp1FmwhFklqg6S0vuhpVZLQecld6K6nTIUCjNJqdvg93eRlpiUKCuaR3-u-plo0Zw2xToswYZdI_tIAjueDp8SIk/w400-h300/17june%20(13).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Abraham Lincoln Bridge at I-65 over the Ohio River going into Kentucky.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was a toll bridge supposedly by camera. I haven't got a bill yet. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Old on left, new on right.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Bl21l0rh7CsZY0NNxSqxE0GrJxpVbRpK3eVsJUSw9ax3T-cV6KOKfQcWhp5E-ztYpC4drnbQk34a9khd29p6GgjoZFdXmG1wDlUBs8kP-Y_IZEN-SykDxBQb3KhzLNjQVW1JBQLgeHnA2-dTdKwgi21pNked1ydx_v_ABfLhjcxdNX7dUuSNv3vmtNI/s4592/17june%20(15)c.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1933" data-original-width="4592" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Bl21l0rh7CsZY0NNxSqxE0GrJxpVbRpK3eVsJUSw9ax3T-cV6KOKfQcWhp5E-ztYpC4drnbQk34a9khd29p6GgjoZFdXmG1wDlUBs8kP-Y_IZEN-SykDxBQb3KhzLNjQVW1JBQLgeHnA2-dTdKwgi21pNked1ydx_v_ABfLhjcxdNX7dUuSNv3vmtNI/w400-h169/17june%20(15)c.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After our stint in Tennessee we spent Saturday evening and Sunday with Lynette. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Calla is the star of the show there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLV1DVkLGN3umJw6QY1a_a_S4-LwZYI013wpaQxnDAXrX7LAbyyhG6lm6rNqVEw-mE_vynC-8REI9PPuY7hk9TJQ-oobJ_eAuvipYev0SDIJoHeDhm8UxOoPE5oTFJLObRMopbZMc3HVNuEwiwRV91uLWi92XC9M3pK0HvnnBN2K5bdUc8BadsMCZXJw/s4592/18june%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLV1DVkLGN3umJw6QY1a_a_S4-LwZYI013wpaQxnDAXrX7LAbyyhG6lm6rNqVEw-mE_vynC-8REI9PPuY7hk9TJQ-oobJ_eAuvipYev0SDIJoHeDhm8UxOoPE5oTFJLObRMopbZMc3HVNuEwiwRV91uLWi92XC9M3pK0HvnnBN2K5bdUc8BadsMCZXJw/w400-h300/18june%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQ8bYJcTa_ZVAHuHG-5pczPHxVsP2E2IyS5m8tUdz-7LlodDn_ue3Zz0AAXBSG8cFZU3DqUEKumEsnKiQ8yiXyyxtLbtALJKigzknLqTUfIwlVs_df_rEim57-LZ7r2t8D8wlbPxQcc9E5utSL35eiEp0MR4gIgGRzel6TqwUB0ShZJjcxBeCUEhOX3o/s4592/18june%20(3).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQ8bYJcTa_ZVAHuHG-5pczPHxVsP2E2IyS5m8tUdz-7LlodDn_ue3Zz0AAXBSG8cFZU3DqUEKumEsnKiQ8yiXyyxtLbtALJKigzknLqTUfIwlVs_df_rEim57-LZ7r2t8D8wlbPxQcc9E5utSL35eiEp0MR4gIgGRzel6TqwUB0ShZJjcxBeCUEhOX3o/w400-h300/18june%20(3).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCbSbifjHHSvkQwwXjum4--0ire8THhcULStdT988bGW2pc9uC_Uj8pLZqqwSXEeYYP2L01RKAvyYjzAyu-LPCdgNlmObXeC97QL4YDzjMLC5aI0c1jtD3kIP0PDgLK-VompLoJLGTCRjJWJQTK1J9ghj1xru88H_R4DMsQUo1Y19eqizMoa4WAVlyy40/s1272/indiana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="956" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCbSbifjHHSvkQwwXjum4--0ire8THhcULStdT988bGW2pc9uC_Uj8pLZqqwSXEeYYP2L01RKAvyYjzAyu-LPCdgNlmObXeC97QL4YDzjMLC5aI0c1jtD3kIP0PDgLK-VompLoJLGTCRjJWJQTK1J9ghj1xru88H_R4DMsQUo1Y19eqizMoa4WAVlyy40/w301-h400/indiana.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It has taken me a long time to get this written up. The internet at our house is a joke at the moment. I had this partly done, and lost my progress. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We enjoyed our trip. </div><br /> <p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-20536773029578022602023-06-09T20:12:00.003-05:002023-06-09T20:12:38.141-05:00Picnic At The Farm<div style="text-align: center;"> Every year we aim to have a picnic Memorial Day weekend at the farm.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Whether we get there or not depends on the weather. It seems like if we choose to do something on a day of that weekend, it rains. Jim doesn't remember that, but every time we wanted to go put flowers on his folks' graves, it would rain on the most convenient day. I suppose it didn't rain <i>every</i> time, but a lot of them and the last time we went, it was very cloudy.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">However, this year the weather was beautiful. It was sunny with very little wind and we set up camp in a shady place. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These pictures are in no particular order having come from all of our cameras, but it is a representation of what we did. </div><div style="text-align: center;">We cooked, ate, climbed, shot, explored, 4-wheelered, hauled wood, made fires and burnt marshmallows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAv5Ud6f1gSi0e17yd8QIdvH0Vq2NuHJAcJFCxk3fSr1J-lMWdQL2lsPhbAt8M8zwAGhfVcIC2_QySf7XeS8bqMj2p00CTs1UcROT1YoPSkIkCn-2x18_ZRBpzt3mGXphy3o9_-yLqooTY0b4TSAAS5rF3z4XHjU--vD2oQa36mMtfnQO9-IPF8GG5/s4592/29may%20(27).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAv5Ud6f1gSi0e17yd8QIdvH0Vq2NuHJAcJFCxk3fSr1J-lMWdQL2lsPhbAt8M8zwAGhfVcIC2_QySf7XeS8bqMj2p00CTs1UcROT1YoPSkIkCn-2x18_ZRBpzt3mGXphy3o9_-yLqooTY0b4TSAAS5rF3z4XHjU--vD2oQa36mMtfnQO9-IPF8GG5/w400-h300/29may%20(27).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I left out some photos because they didn't turn out. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is not May, it's April 26th, but I wanted it in anyway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eS1zXmnuCqSWEcOf3lR3w9Co1Y9TU8DxP5DlSx8GjS5V9-FfQ6CuWcvIrM4Fk7ynxYEybZtBpRWGpKVBbiH1YJVAP4kldCeM9vR2mdh-AtCnhyn5lbOFQM0XS2TSH_8MePEh113_BHciMUCfcEc0jluL1eeCcsiJD3zIxsKRBJWLDBSv12fPEXJ8/s1800/26apr2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eS1zXmnuCqSWEcOf3lR3w9Co1Y9TU8DxP5DlSx8GjS5V9-FfQ6CuWcvIrM4Fk7ynxYEybZtBpRWGpKVBbiH1YJVAP4kldCeM9vR2mdh-AtCnhyn5lbOFQM0XS2TSH_8MePEh113_BHciMUCfcEc0jluL1eeCcsiJD3zIxsKRBJWLDBSv12fPEXJ8/w320-h400/26apr2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7TUogUT_gJ984f2vLV42JWCcy81K2gViAhnyao8ZrDigtidMM21lZ8RCQXUCzBs_LD-ZRfZV2nKehjIhMV0yBQqGuRGrfEWYNxjlKV90u8kZH12UN0-jRWq3-c5sxPUMWSulK4Ew_nDUxCZ2pWmtKT8XfKv_z6PolfVSIpHg3kiX8cK8jlIpZc_Pe/w300-h400/field%20day%2050%20100%20longjump.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Barry and Christian run for their "play day", but also do things like "egg in spoon races, hula hoop races, jump rope races, and skipping races in the morning, (the eggs are ping pong balls) and things like frisbee throw, baseball throw and corn hole in the afternoon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I didn't seem to get my camera ready in time and it's hard to take a picture on one kid in a running mob.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I got to a couple of Zane's track meets. I missed the one where he did a 5' high jump. He's also doing 200m hurdles and the 400m run. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> That </i>meet he got 3rd in the high jump and hurdles and 6th in the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">400. The meet in the photos, was a 10 school invitational and Zane got 6th in the 400.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I enjoy watching the boys do things.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZ3zhWK_w25dFCe3Czn9mbCGlPoh5zbcgYNyw5DlLFwlFxbYssUHeEc8peAxsDwKkwe3FHjx47GykMIgvNeVeuLibPvvR5xYbqhTz71Vpiticgzf6ZhbW11643mubaWAe6alkaMOG41x-xO1TJQQC8QoqpJm6pncxxDw3CMJUymY7tGypieBkkoo6/s2274/8may1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1594" data-original-width="2274" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZ3zhWK_w25dFCe3Czn9mbCGlPoh5zbcgYNyw5DlLFwlFxbYssUHeEc8peAxsDwKkwe3FHjx47GykMIgvNeVeuLibPvvR5xYbqhTz71Vpiticgzf6ZhbW11643mubaWAe6alkaMOG41x-xO1TJQQC8QoqpJm6pncxxDw3CMJUymY7tGypieBkkoo6/w400-h280/8may1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="3023" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkXif-WFBB_17i58KV_Fk21hFuLXDNgT1Ot9m0_-ZjJ1SL4YqxhytL-2IGQ0v5zgE4qWjcUU39iOO4pnp70gkWAJvmQYSZhexwBQi45IgInqQwmOCbolzuzc0DsO-xt7zpWeoOUw645sjsR3JkS41EMyN5UO5SLhHQ7PzRxv4dHHtms6QbWsM2Rw6M/s320/running%20for%20home.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I enjoy watching the girls do things, too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">here's some more sayings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shoot yourself in the foot</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When pigs fly</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All the tea/rice in China</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not the foggiest idea</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Honest to Pete</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lost your marbles</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's all well and good</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Disclaimer: I don't really care if some are repeated from earlier posts.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-37600485634357402722023-05-18T14:42:00.007-05:002023-05-18T14:43:30.986-05:00Fireplace Phase Continued<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Work is slow going on this project because spring is here and there is more outside work to be done.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the last week of April Jim started on the felt paper and expanded metal that goes underneath the first mortar coat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim is methodical and careful so he taped off all the edges.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWAA4TYcLrgvy8Au6ZFSEVyA7d_zYq6xr7v1-uIj9FHTRKfSDR4OXPI0sirSm-efGGkON5vxBTTptbyH9-M43lRPSnpXMGJHNaTwkB7oS2Ab_hR44Akv6kLzlS0ZsHqQmTQUcBlmfHUXXcDKO0bThk9tsPdnw1zEdCdSivKveXiUVd9vOoMHKM2Nj/s4592/P1020823.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWAA4TYcLrgvy8Au6ZFSEVyA7d_zYq6xr7v1-uIj9FHTRKfSDR4OXPI0sirSm-efGGkON5vxBTTptbyH9-M43lRPSnpXMGJHNaTwkB7oS2Ab_hR44Akv6kLzlS0ZsHqQmTQUcBlmfHUXXcDKO0bThk9tsPdnw1zEdCdSivKveXiUVd9vOoMHKM2Nj/w300-h400/P1020823.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMrhcyF0Vzh4DHXF1lii4PVf8ia425WivkGhdl8GftBz4Fa5b3LgElc1Obnl_EG4qsZIxstEWP6ihRJmGdoFxrLpdbkNfSkTQ8NEtM8Jq9EmgtPPS2CWFE3yTbugYXQpi4QpoJsYTvFwthMW15LyG5lVDcwUhgifPDmbAP1MYnZFiPcWc36Nevpdo/s4592/P1020825.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMrhcyF0Vzh4DHXF1lii4PVf8ia425WivkGhdl8GftBz4Fa5b3LgElc1Obnl_EG4qsZIxstEWP6ihRJmGdoFxrLpdbkNfSkTQ8NEtM8Jq9EmgtPPS2CWFE3yTbugYXQpi4QpoJsYTvFwthMW15LyG5lVDcwUhgifPDmbAP1MYnZFiPcWc36Nevpdo/w300-h400/P1020825.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A close up look.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8p633SvDvMGv0yA2aQTC0MxrnupxFMbuCsMKb3i6F1mUQ6TeDpu3ms7TXv6QQEHciz92PN4S5kM59mABaPHlWiXmvNHVrzdJtzSSKahaMHwFYYQJbSUdMRCWjJH0zYw1nOKfogZ6sI7xBL4Hk-UUjto8vGq7M6mi6xuAqSKEKyV1wXH8iUUgeXW4S/s4592/P1020826.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8p633SvDvMGv0yA2aQTC0MxrnupxFMbuCsMKb3i6F1mUQ6TeDpu3ms7TXv6QQEHciz92PN4S5kM59mABaPHlWiXmvNHVrzdJtzSSKahaMHwFYYQJbSUdMRCWjJH0zYw1nOKfogZ6sI7xBL4Hk-UUjto8vGq7M6mi6xuAqSKEKyV1wXH8iUUgeXW4S/w300-h400/P1020826.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The taped off board is where the mantel will go.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKk2D4KRiQ_hL3Mdu0fvja_9Gy3spk9PkFi8l9YF2MWNJuIJnr4bu4NU6teZ9AX09BFTcjxzHtF-HSx50s2zAAT_Gsc7QiaDY3i301XexiQ0uDboc_Z4WuSEJHH1lBfV9ai0gr8uy1T2i2ovCqf9oJfYPv6OML2IyxKrPlY5IYWWLv7S0czFxTWUPB/s4592/P1020827.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKk2D4KRiQ_hL3Mdu0fvja_9Gy3spk9PkFi8l9YF2MWNJuIJnr4bu4NU6teZ9AX09BFTcjxzHtF-HSx50s2zAAT_Gsc7QiaDY3i301XexiQ0uDboc_Z4WuSEJHH1lBfV9ai0gr8uy1T2i2ovCqf9oJfYPv6OML2IyxKrPlY5IYWWLv7S0czFxTWUPB/w400-h300/P1020827.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim put in these can lights sometime during this process and the mortaring in done, well you can see how far it is done.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDkzxbcBf8ZOxqVL7808GREUWS2Xwm1HAE-ZQyndDoMDaacaQ1RLdnCArmHmzJEa6Cq7AbQD1I6a21yUUkfVfPQve9YxUgQgrf1EkNmQBwAFvmWL7DrZ9gTBsAwOwVoAXLFZsFZrfYEzWU7HZ56NJed4iDWulpOqe3m5AK2bGLVE42Hnu9vR3uHvb/s4592/P1020828.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDkzxbcBf8ZOxqVL7808GREUWS2Xwm1HAE-ZQyndDoMDaacaQ1RLdnCArmHmzJEa6Cq7AbQD1I6a21yUUkfVfPQve9YxUgQgrf1EkNmQBwAFvmWL7DrZ9gTBsAwOwVoAXLFZsFZrfYEzWU7HZ56NJed4iDWulpOqe3m5AK2bGLVE42Hnu9vR3uHvb/w300-h400/P1020828.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The mortar was all smoothed on and them combed to make ridges so the next coat that is under the stones will stick.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvqttpTFz-VvpClLC8BkdPbV74K1Gr2zKXGY4ljHqmsJzdQnHyTlSYHCy395ZCMZl5lPyRm5lieMjhgwZseRMS54YIja8FlcoaSr_bCIy7JZr2hL_lvfuwQJd80bGPg32Esf1FtOFEdBbBpHGrGadXz6pitQO_SNsdifyJeJwQPZA5jiDePF9WT-W/s4592/P1020829.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvqttpTFz-VvpClLC8BkdPbV74K1Gr2zKXGY4ljHqmsJzdQnHyTlSYHCy395ZCMZl5lPyRm5lieMjhgwZseRMS54YIja8FlcoaSr_bCIy7JZr2hL_lvfuwQJd80bGPg32Esf1FtOFEdBbBpHGrGadXz6pitQO_SNsdifyJeJwQPZA5jiDePF9WT-W/w400-h300/P1020829.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim put vent holes up at the top so heat can escape and is here cutting out the hole so stone can be put around it and then a vent cover eventually.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXG2q3VEQxGMyFLuQby4VXbbblZefS70SREnFwY-8Bo0hRVjzvlrHN7tjE3GJYeZHkjaGj5qxFPFxXP5VfiUERT6xWnFgE26xEeiETgznkG_WWvo5mE10cu7ub59JCMujbrX8lh8CJavkxxzfqmW7GrRGvO9y68NrY0vk06b5ljXWchHjL0BIOJBf-/s4592/P1020995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXG2q3VEQxGMyFLuQby4VXbbblZefS70SREnFwY-8Bo0hRVjzvlrHN7tjE3GJYeZHkjaGj5qxFPFxXP5VfiUERT6xWnFgE26xEeiETgznkG_WWvo5mE10cu7ub59JCMujbrX8lh8CJavkxxzfqmW7GrRGvO9y68NrY0vk06b5ljXWchHjL0BIOJBf-/w300-h400/P1020995.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim found that putting up the stone went quickly and easily. It took more time to lay out the patterns than it did to put it up. Here we have the next section laid out with discarded choices all around.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIHhSjtpIyXbCI-T_EgSgfGtn39kj4a48e0MmF0XBHIai0LaiHPs9OZVwTG8UWZfoVCYH38u19T6swlmQa1YiPqG_FBM7E3wtOFfXlV1eGMB3NYbH9wUxfst9qf0-rt6WWIgs_0TWIoramlxpWoimM-emvCG6EJPogHdYO1ACSlW1qs6MpTwG2lThY/s4592/P1020999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIHhSjtpIyXbCI-T_EgSgfGtn39kj4a48e0MmF0XBHIai0LaiHPs9OZVwTG8UWZfoVCYH38u19T6swlmQa1YiPqG_FBM7E3wtOFfXlV1eGMB3NYbH9wUxfst9qf0-rt6WWIgs_0TWIoramlxpWoimM-emvCG6EJPogHdYO1ACSlW1qs6MpTwG2lThY/w400-h300/P1020999.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM8wsdxcuxJqBccG0iyBzvufC6e9aV9AAhTpMJIG7oL02Wl2kFQcr2EFz7TlGRuwDfQrsG2KtFESZfen4SNUM_tUfIAO4hYAY76QCSalbCH3yR26nDYiMjJLLmwjmhS4HWbJepBgN47dgs_gPp223VgvpQwhTFRvRbN4XpLhT_84BYjWRDsPpLTFRG/s4592/P1030001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>All we have finished so far.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyl_Ukhq43VUXIP7in42_x3hRP1mEDexMTKSpiRNdgar4W3CrMNLtfWcGGozcd7HJFihsQ_npkBIi-Y77biGB0uZOQBmNSrb48yhKU2GpHn-BAbWzogDj7OjS5wI9VZvAJcE0nzg-HeSLJ4V35u26ikBgrqHn8eqBQfZQ6dKJD54S2SqXqarl4YZtG/s4592/P1030019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyl_Ukhq43VUXIP7in42_x3hRP1mEDexMTKSpiRNdgar4W3CrMNLtfWcGGozcd7HJFihsQ_npkBIi-Y77biGB0uZOQBmNSrb48yhKU2GpHn-BAbWzogDj7OjS5wI9VZvAJcE0nzg-HeSLJ4V35u26ikBgrqHn8eqBQfZQ6dKJD54S2SqXqarl4YZtG/w400-h300/P1030019.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />I have been missing this clock. It hasn't been on the wall for a few months and I was still looking at the place it wasn't for the time. Jim made this from an ash bole before we were married and since I don't wear a watch and spend a lot of time in the living room, a quick glance tells me the time. Jim doesn't have all the grouting done between the stones, but he set in a screw for the clock to hang on and it will be there as long as the fireplace lasts when the grout is put in. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-42356339536741764402023-04-29T17:12:00.006-05:002023-04-29T20:40:21.196-05:00Shoot Off Your Mouth...<div style="text-align: center;"> ...or shotgun as the case may be.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've been hauling Zane to his trap shoot practice nearly every Monday, picking up the other two boys from school part of the time, and zipping over to Ravenna where practice is held. It's been an enjoyable part of my week. I always plan better when something extra is going on and it's a good chance to talk to the boys. </div><div style="text-align: center;">"Seeings as how" they are kids, and I'm not very good at asking questions they want to answer, some days there is more chatting than others. Of course, cell phones can get in the way, but there are enough stories on that issue so I'm not going to get in it here. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I would like to know how schools are run these days, but all school is to most kids a "necessary evil," there is not much information forthcoming from them. I do know that they think school lunch is not enough and disgusting. From pictures I've seen, it's true. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Lynette took her lunch all through high school, because when she was a freshman, her class before lunch was so far away that by the time she got there, the good food was gone and all that was left was "lunch B" and the fast food options. All the nearly 1500 kids had lunch at the same time, there wasn't room in the cafeteria to seat them all, and juniors and seniors could leave campus for lunch without needing a parent sign off, which led to a number of other problems not the least of which was several hundred kids wandering around fairly busy streets to find a place to eat. </div><div style="text-align: center;">There is a new school now, far away from any fast food places and with a closed campus. I hope some of the smoking, drinking, hooliganism is also curbed. I haven't been in the new school. Lynette graduated the spring before the move.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But I digress...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thursday was the state trap competition. In Doniphan. Fifty miles away. Zane needed to be there at 7:15 because Ravenna Trap had an early slot. We left at 6. I over estimated the driving time and we were there before 7. There was a team picture and the first round of 5 shooters started about 7:30. It took them nearly an hour to shoot their 100 rounds. Zane was in the second group and with only 4, they were done about 9:30. Zane didn't need to be back to school until 11:30 so we looked at the trophies and the vendors, got some ice cream and left for home. </div><div style="text-align: center;">With (I'm guessing) several hundred kids there, the chances of a first year bringing one home is slim to none. Zane has done very well, this first year, never having fired a shotgun before. He did the best he's ever done, with 75 hits out of a hundred. I find it hard to keep my eye on the clay pigeons (blue rocks where I grew up) even though they are orange. My long sight isn't very good anymore. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEax7FOgJbCd_Fak9wSLoQlJrkrjVKH_0hUR1RMt2h78eimskBSODNeT9T3AtuA2jDvLF-Tzh15tcIlkp6FatTOUJY2J11ktEuP74LJo4YT3FulHrIg9Ke_WUttN8fAi2E_63glqloBmY1pv7nfkn_o3mfp98oA3leAjkJmewO9yG_-kXRTqW1iDMH/s2387/27apr%20copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2387" data-original-width="2006" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEax7FOgJbCd_Fak9wSLoQlJrkrjVKH_0hUR1RMt2h78eimskBSODNeT9T3AtuA2jDvLF-Tzh15tcIlkp6FatTOUJY2J11ktEuP74LJo4YT3FulHrIg9Ke_WUttN8fAi2E_63glqloBmY1pv7nfkn_o3mfp98oA3leAjkJmewO9yG_-kXRTqW1iDMH/s320/27apr%20copy.JPG" width="269" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On another note, I am still collecting idioms or sayings or "our way of saying things".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here are today's.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some I use, some I don't</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fat as a roll of butter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looking down your nose (at someone)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hanker after (something)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All gussied up</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Strike while the iron is hot</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Raining cats and dogs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Brand, spanking, new</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*and the starred ones in the post</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-79128868220718026742023-03-29T21:10:00.000-05:002023-03-29T21:10:42.416-05:00New Project -- Fireplace Phase<div style="text-align: center;">March 17</div><div style="text-align: center;"> This week we had the fireplace installed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It was so heavy that it was a struggle to get into the house. Jim helped the three guys that came with it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here it is ready to go in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvLCb124DDIudO45Y0QAuWXynOXylZhN4vSlu5OWs0g0UEF_nB8R7qrs4EUcynw9nDp2IwEku0afaL1Zk0UoMPX0OvzdJnN4kwsvEYUIyvqkUlsR1dYmYMU3RlOW4FKYeHrWUCLGiErPK6YwHc7-CQsL-zRCoGbpiS-n4m3K3Eii1W-JF13ScmtDp/s1080/14marjpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvLCb124DDIudO45Y0QAuWXynOXylZhN4vSlu5OWs0g0UEF_nB8R7qrs4EUcynw9nDp2IwEku0afaL1Zk0UoMPX0OvzdJnN4kwsvEYUIyvqkUlsR1dYmYMU3RlOW4FKYeHrWUCLGiErPK6YwHc7-CQsL-zRCoGbpiS-n4m3K3Eii1W-JF13ScmtDp/s320/14marjpeg.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I left during the process so I didn't see all the hoses and ducts put in. We had a duct put in to push hot air into the basement. Jim installed the fans for that and for the main fireplace the next day. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinC3t1Lc_QyeXIqgkGBhq-OO6v2wwo0V5aLM1XPLw3eNAmqTs32RyZA7ZBl__y5I3ohuFtnypZTfIZDvpSYq2qlyib1l-UnSkGn0PvMFM9iEDCz0-f5NNphLFfVeeqzbT2c0Qw-R_pM9gLEuXSZ64kf-ipnqazO9lkuHcd36ADU6Fiqe8J7G2sC8AJ/s1080/14mar1jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinC3t1Lc_QyeXIqgkGBhq-OO6v2wwo0V5aLM1XPLw3eNAmqTs32RyZA7ZBl__y5I3ohuFtnypZTfIZDvpSYq2qlyib1l-UnSkGn0PvMFM9iEDCz0-f5NNphLFfVeeqzbT2c0Qw-R_pM9gLEuXSZ64kf-ipnqazO9lkuHcd36ADU6Fiqe8J7G2sC8AJ/s320/14mar1jpeg.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This morning we started a fire. It promptly blackened the door so we couldn't see the fire, but a little fire goes a long way since the brick lining really holds the heat. It is going to be a learning process to manage this fireplace so different than the one we had. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm relaxing in front of it, knitting. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8KhD8iJffmEVmrWyPpLIahF1Ixwjxs8sW1MuTGko5oQntzxkim9bDtz1bFsJL8QR2OFo25Ggf8vFotOC7ouK8hMbn6_SYcb-Jr0GwnbjEuueiNN9iEBg9vxiGANCrxFN_gRbPH6MrFnNu0M5RibDmGaFPGpu-JAnl3ECFx9XvZ_5jacIQ674rqDs4/s1080/17marjpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8KhD8iJffmEVmrWyPpLIahF1Ixwjxs8sW1MuTGko5oQntzxkim9bDtz1bFsJL8QR2OFo25Ggf8vFotOC7ouK8hMbn6_SYcb-Jr0GwnbjEuueiNN9iEBg9vxiGANCrxFN_gRbPH6MrFnNu0M5RibDmGaFPGpu-JAnl3ECFx9XvZ_5jacIQ674rqDs4/s320/17marjpeg.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As of today, March 29th --</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The fireplace is enclosed in particle board. That was done a couple of weeks ago and last weekend, Jim put down the hearth stones and last night, he got the lights up. He had the wires ready several weeks ago, but after some trouble with breaking sheet rock with the 4" lights he wanted to use, we ordered the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6" ones and had to wait a long time for them to come. They slid in their holes easily where the other ones didn't. Lorene was there on that day and sawed the holes, relieving Jim's aching arms. It's hard work working with your arms over your head. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now that I think about it, the sawing part was Monday and the hooking up the electricity part was yesterday, because Lorene and the boys were here for a bit. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVvw-9cP7AibvhrDqWfGzCCjrObKwSk0eoGIg-VU5jNE115_dlxgT9siMc-7GjdgIF8sl33Lfy33cDJM0BY7e9U-Dj7-bL0j9CAfPqaKiDG64P0e4AqeFgt7XQe0pGuHhw0qy9uNBwOPCJTQdhMvS6JXCah_eptmWzehcpfWbKilignmNNfNA5ij0/s4592/P1020771.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVvw-9cP7AibvhrDqWfGzCCjrObKwSk0eoGIg-VU5jNE115_dlxgT9siMc-7GjdgIF8sl33Lfy33cDJM0BY7e9U-Dj7-bL0j9CAfPqaKiDG64P0e4AqeFgt7XQe0pGuHhw0qy9uNBwOPCJTQdhMvS6JXCah_eptmWzehcpfWbKilignmNNfNA5ij0/s320/P1020771.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJNwT1Zgb0Pj4zTqsFvYn5qBrT34rAxeUV1w1qxASlyw_Mej8SnFWD1qvApRSZYwX2Lpfyj1Teb0_zy9z661Z4GrmlT-hvz70PZ-Rf7q-jXJ5txEXJ2E27oVbG5FtA2KPPKdsqAOWzmfZeiekvgwrF6-BdcjR186vF183fZ6RDcXvsDRAIrGcOg0L/s4592/P1020772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJNwT1Zgb0Pj4zTqsFvYn5qBrT34rAxeUV1w1qxASlyw_Mej8SnFWD1qvApRSZYwX2Lpfyj1Teb0_zy9z661Z4GrmlT-hvz70PZ-Rf7q-jXJ5txEXJ2E27oVbG5FtA2KPPKdsqAOWzmfZeiekvgwrF6-BdcjR186vF183fZ6RDcXvsDRAIrGcOg0L/s320/P1020772.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyFSZZAmPGA2pWlrSIJYx9lU38eZ9M8j5ps6E6SboRiy4DId5tKl9A4-s5Y7vZrP8r9Fu9N10MrU4DAETlxmMbnxsiTiHhZvQrftXONR613W_IH1nQhIl31h7qULUh9u5ItWFse17KArwYKTuj_QKzJg0DxeEz6RceHBQrUVyIsSRjcSQ2AA9lsOT/s4592/P1020784.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyFSZZAmPGA2pWlrSIJYx9lU38eZ9M8j5ps6E6SboRiy4DId5tKl9A4-s5Y7vZrP8r9Fu9N10MrU4DAETlxmMbnxsiTiHhZvQrftXONR613W_IH1nQhIl31h7qULUh9u5ItWFse17KArwYKTuj_QKzJg0DxeEz6RceHBQrUVyIsSRjcSQ2AA9lsOT/s320/P1020784.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, what will be next, carpet or stone?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-25327331757884414512023-03-17T14:59:00.000-05:002023-03-17T18:31:54.172-05:00New Project -- Phase 2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Where we are as of February 18th.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The problem with starting any new project is the other things that come up that have to be done. The "one thing leads to another" that happens. Jim has wanted to redo the floors in this house for a couple of years. As of now the kitchen, dining room and hall are all finished with the new flooring except that the transition strips from the vinyl flooring to the bedrooms off the hall are taking an inordinately long amount of time to come in. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim decided we needed to redo the fireplace this year as well. Our house is 55+ years old and we've lived here 33 1/2 years and used this fire place heavily for 5-6 months out of the year. We can keep the front of the house warm while turning the furnace down because it has a fan that pushes warm air out. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The metal in the chimney is starting to warp and Jim felt it was time for a replacement. After much thinking and talking and looking at the fireplace store, we ordered the fireplace with a 6 week wait time. Then we spent additional time talking and thinking and looking and getting advice from some friends that have interior decorating experience we decided on the stone (in stock) and as of February 18th the jury is still out on the hearth stone. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The fire place itself is gone. Jim dismantled as much of the outside until the fireplace guys came to take out the fireplace part itself and shore up the chimney until Jim gets the framing done around where it goes and then it will be installed. And since "one thing leads to another", the painted paneling is coming off, a thin layer of sheet rock going on over the stuff under the paneling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The inner blue tape line is where the front of the fireplace will be and the hearth will be somewhere between the other two tape lines. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUmkV6Lhq_dtYD6xSwgvt82sGlKAwBu82HtHT25zasVTFRLSEsjEjQxb0a_Kqbw8biJlJgZtLmrTUK_LMDWkQ8K4_B86hhixVZvuvoz0HZ--2O4AwTxBi6vcLN2HE_EvJlAzMr2M_rkwUIHFG9pUWk8FDh2JydFcHPlkADsrhNawm-7M7VaoWgEyR1/s4592/P1020663.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUmkV6Lhq_dtYD6xSwgvt82sGlKAwBu82HtHT25zasVTFRLSEsjEjQxb0a_Kqbw8biJlJgZtLmrTUK_LMDWkQ8K4_B86hhixVZvuvoz0HZ--2O4AwTxBi6vcLN2HE_EvJlAzMr2M_rkwUIHFG9pUWk8FDh2JydFcHPlkADsrhNawm-7M7VaoWgEyR1/w400-h300/P1020663.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The last fire in this fireplace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh84_-_IjofBIH4vxyidFHs94vrsekFrNHZ1o039hsOV25FdTY0toxLkXfld7EIMplhUZ5LPV71nj56hnel-6aG7sSzbUx9ynUlwwSoCKJaGyGY4Qc2iwnKuCMUqLPYL4BCEQvPl68v9OrEHZT8kbITJ5hVNtqwC_7MSNLaGoo0Ow7EOXTNspXaAREI/s4592/P1020677.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh84_-_IjofBIH4vxyidFHs94vrsekFrNHZ1o039hsOV25FdTY0toxLkXfld7EIMplhUZ5LPV71nj56hnel-6aG7sSzbUx9ynUlwwSoCKJaGyGY4Qc2iwnKuCMUqLPYL4BCEQvPl68v9OrEHZT8kbITJ5hVNtqwC_7MSNLaGoo0Ow7EOXTNspXaAREI/w300-h400/P1020677.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The original was 1/2" under the paneling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirttFa6wmr6olE6w2DgvfSNlZowajl73PoAVcIfOaYY9JMgB49CgsygFw44ddJmfsVQvidlooJdeIFUYodsswM-QhBDTrzBK2Ix7jphUGUKhWxrgiT4QxWBNLDyxBVqdp8ibxEfFOIv-AsFcH6X5DZxqcBF6Pu0YMIst6M8zPG9RlWKUbD9lHsaTJJ/s4592/P1020699.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirttFa6wmr6olE6w2DgvfSNlZowajl73PoAVcIfOaYY9JMgB49CgsygFw44ddJmfsVQvidlooJdeIFUYodsswM-QhBDTrzBK2Ix7jphUGUKhWxrgiT4QxWBNLDyxBVqdp8ibxEfFOIv-AsFcH6X5DZxqcBF6Pu0YMIst6M8zPG9RlWKUbD9lHsaTJJ/w400-h300/P1020699.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After installing the 1/2", he put on 1/4" sheetrock to take the place of the paneling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim found that a sander that attaches to the shop vac is a bit awkward, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but amazing for keeping the dust at bay.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KocDtyWSC0cp6rytAvUwSuMijuV7gvHvjLmuFlP93PVrcSDLn85_vXCEaD60CyPZFJ7GXuY-6n76MOHMBRe3YwentDOCYRAWFbRVy9p0_o4OlZPoLRD5E3fdoYJAZHHrfwN6warSkPtH23rYQS_1ZpRxdHIuObROzRCaO1DdvjHSNTIOGkegH8pp/s4592/P1020740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4592" data-original-width="3448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KocDtyWSC0cp6rytAvUwSuMijuV7gvHvjLmuFlP93PVrcSDLn85_vXCEaD60CyPZFJ7GXuY-6n76MOHMBRe3YwentDOCYRAWFbRVy9p0_o4OlZPoLRD5E3fdoYJAZHHrfwN6warSkPtH23rYQS_1ZpRxdHIuObROzRCaO1DdvjHSNTIOGkegH8pp/w300-h400/P1020740.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next stage is installing the fireplace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div> <br /><p></p><div><br /></div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-68121790505836320372023-03-03T12:26:00.004-06:002023-03-03T12:26:41.217-06:00The Quote Collection<div style="text-align: center;"> I collect quotes and then I don't know what to do with them. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Today is Friday and since it is still cold weather Jim is not working in the formal way that is the usual 10 hour days on Monday through Thursday. However, since everyone else concerned with utilities </div><div style="text-align: center;">work 5 days a week and sometimes 6 or 7, he has a few things pertaining to work today. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He has to meet a couple of people that mean more work in the coming days and months.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We've had more snow this winter than we had the last two years with some rain as well. We have been on a see-saw with the weather as well, having a week of zero-hugging days, then another week above freezing. While not all the cold weeks were that cold, the fluctuation made for some soggy days that made our subdivision roads, the end of our driveway, and the road to our home shop a mess of sloppy, rutted mess. Then after a freeze again, we would bounce over ruts and into potholes. Jim got a couple of truck loads of concrete millings to use on our property and then a little leftover for some of the potholes. I haven't been out to see how it is working, but the end of the driveway looks like we won't be sinking when we drive out anymore.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And what does that have to do with quotations? Nothing actually. I'm spending the morning tidying up some little tasks that are written on slips of paper piled by my daily to-do list and I found some quotes I saved and since I don't want to lose them, I'm going to add them here. </div><div style="text-align: center;">As for the rest of all the writing. Since it is morning (or not very much past) and I still have most of my brains intact, I just like to write things. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Do not judge someone's journey by the chapter you walked in on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We are all part of a family, so by helping the family we are helping ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe that's a gift of a long marriage, that you give up a part of your individuality to be a part of another person and he gives his up to be a part of you.</div><div style="text-align: center;">-- Laura Kalpakian </div><div style="text-align: center;">GH 2006 "The Key of Love"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Even the closest people to you don't need to hear your every thought on a subject. These people are allowed to have opinions of their own. They can make decisions on their own. If they desire an outside opinion, you can give it, carefully.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thou shouldst eat to live, not live to eat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What can you do to make someone's life easier today?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>Hope in the Thing with Feathers</div><div>That perches in the soul</div><div>And since the tune without the words</div><div>And never stops at all.</div><div>--Emily Dickenson</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-79364965075432671532023-02-27T11:54:00.002-06:002023-03-18T21:15:38.331-05:00Too Wordy for Me<div style="text-align: center;">I love words. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> I said this before in the other three posts of idioms and sayings. I found a list on the internet and they are called idioms. Most of them I would call sayings. Sayings that make our language more colorful and more confusing to someone learning it. I love the twists and turns that words can make. I added to that list of things that I know and use.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>Add insult to injury</div><div>All the tea/rice in China</div></div><div style="text-align: center;">At the eleventh hour</div><div style="text-align: center;">Avoid like the plague</div><div style="text-align: center;">Back to the drawing board</div><div style="text-align: center;">The ball is in your court</div><div style="text-align: center;">Barking up the wrong tree</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beat around the bush</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bell the cat</div><div style="text-align: center;">The best thing since sliced bread</div><div style="text-align: center;">Beside yourself with joy</div><div style="text-align: center;">Best of both worlds</div><div style="text-align: center;">Black sheep of the family</div><div style="text-align: center;">A blessing in disguise</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blow hot and cold</div><div style="text-align: center;">Between an rock and a hard place</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bite the bullet</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blind as a bat</div><div style="text-align: center;">Blow off steam</div><div style="text-align: center;">Your back against the wall</div><div style="text-align: center;">All in the same boat</div><div style="text-align: center;">The ball is in your court</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bit off more than you can chew</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bob's your uncle*</div><div style="text-align: center;">A bolt from the blue </div><div style="text-align: center;">Born with a silver spoon in your mouth</div><div style="text-align: center;">Break a leg</div><div style="text-align: center;">Break new ground*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Brought everything but the kitchen sink</div><div style="text-align: center;">Burn your bridges/boats</div><div style="text-align: center;">By the skin of your teeth</div><div style="text-align: center;">Call a spade a spade</div><div style="text-align: center;">Call it a day</div><div style="text-align: center;">A cold day in July*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Come rain or shine</div><div style="text-align: center;">Couch potato*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cross that bridge when you come to it</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cost a bomb*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cry for the moon*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Crying wolf</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cut corners</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cut to the chase</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cut some slack</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't cry over spilled milk</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't give up your day job</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't judge a book by it's cover</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't run before you can walk</div><div style="text-align: center;">Down for the count</div><div style="text-align: center;">Draw first blood*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Eat like a horse</div><div style="text-align: center;">Egg on your face</div><div style="text-align: center;">The elephant in the room</div><div style="text-align: center;">Face the music</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fair and square</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not the only fish in the sea</div><div style="text-align: center;">For land's sake</div><div style="text-align: center;">For goodness sake</div><div style="text-align: center;">In full swing</div><div style="text-align: center;">Full as a tick</div><div style="text-align: center;">Full of beans</div><div style="text-align: center;">Get out of my hair</div><div style="text-align: center;">Get your act together</div><div style="text-align: center;">Get your wires crossed</div><div style="text-align: center;">Give it a whirl</div><div style="text-align: center;">Go cold turkey</div><div style="text-align: center;">Go down in flames</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wild goose chase</div><div style="text-align: center;">Green thumb</div><div style="text-align: center;">Your guess is as good as mine</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hold a grudge</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have a beef about</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have bigger fish to fry</div><div style="text-align: center;">Heard it on the grapevine</div><div style="text-align: center;">My heart is in my mouth</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hit the books</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hit the nail on the head</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hit the road</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hit the sack</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hold your horses</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ignorance is bliss</div><div style="text-align: center;">The last straw</div><div style="text-align: center;">Johnny on the spot</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jump on the bandwagon</div><div style="text-align: center;">Jump ship</div><div style="text-align: center;">Keep an ear to the ground</div><div style="text-align: center;">Leave no stone unturned</div><div style="text-align: center;">Left in the dark</div><div style="text-align: center;">Like a fish out of water</div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking to your laurels*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Look before you leap</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lose your marbles</div><div style="text-align: center;">Make a hash of</div><div style="text-align: center;">Miss the boat</div><div style="text-align: center;">My old stomping grounds</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not my cup of tea</div><div style="text-align: center;">Once in a blue moon</div><div style="text-align: center;">On cloud nine</div><div style="text-align: center;">A one trick pony</div><div style="text-align: center;">Over my dead body</div><div style="text-align: center;">A penny for your thoughts</div><div style="text-align: center;">Play devil's advocate</div><div style="text-align: center;">Play it by ear</div><div style="text-align: center;">Play your cards right</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pot calls the kettle black</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pull someone's leg</div><div style="text-align: center;">Raining cats and dogs</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rain on my parade</div><div style="text-align: center;">Right as rain</div><div style="text-align: center;"> That rings a bell</div><div style="text-align: center;">Run around in circles</div><div style="text-align: center;">A sandwich short of a picnic</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sat on the fence</div><div style="text-align: center;">Scrape the bottom of the barrel </div><div style="text-align: center;">See eye to eye</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sell like hotcakes</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shed light on</div><div style="text-align: center;">Shoot from the hip</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sit tight</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sleep on it</div><div style="text-align: center;">Something the cat drug in</div><div style="text-align: center;">A stone's throw away</div><div style="text-align: center;">Smell a rat</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snowball effect</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snug as a bug in a rug</div><div style="text-align: center;">So far, so good</div><div style="text-align: center;">Spanner in the works (UK)*</div><div style="text-align: center;">Spill the beans</div><div style="text-align: center;">Speak of the devil</div><div style="text-align: center;">Steal someone's thunder</div><div style="text-align: center;">Step up your game</div><div style="text-align: center;">Straight from the horses mouth</div><div style="text-align: center;">Swan song</div><div style="text-align: center;">Taste of your own medicine</div><div style="text-align: center;">Like two peas in a pod</div><div style="text-align: center;">Take a back seat</div><div style="text-align: center;">Take it with a pinch of salt</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tickled pink</div><div style="text-align: center;">Third times a charm</div><div style="text-align: center;">Throw caution to the winds</div><div style="text-align: center;">It takes two to tango</div><div style="text-align: center;">Through thick and thin</div><div style="text-align: center;">Two shakes of a dead lambs tail (or maybe a live one)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Under the weather</div><div style="text-align: center;">Up in arms</div><div style="text-align: center;">When pigs fly</div><div style="text-align: center;">The whole nine yards</div><div style="text-align: center;">The whole shebang</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wouldn't be caught dead</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can say that again</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">*these are not part of me</div><div 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Two winters ago, we replaced the upstairs windows and added insulation and new trim and very nice that has been to </div><div style="text-align: center;">our gas bill and comfort.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This year, it's the floors. We decided to replace the carpet in the dining room, entry and hallway with vinyl planking, later to change the carpet in the living room, to more carpet. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When we moved in we put new flooring in these areas so it is all 34 years old. I've learned a few things from those decisions. Thus, it's better to have flat vinyl in the kitchen, carpet in the dining rom is iffy and the pad even more so, and as beautiful as my high quality, smoky blue was don't buy </div><div style="text-align: center;">carpet that is all one color. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Actually, we started this project in December using the extra time off over the holidays to get work done. The first part was a vote for the color of choice. Most people chose the darker color.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim started in the entry. Here as in all areas were spots that needed leveling. Jim had to plan for that because the concrete like stuff had to dry before laying the pieces.</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNY4ezhQLil8psjT6nB0D-3caq9bLhxDtnQUDwaqXbozkIaeSfL7jCyPDD80Upt8Yas3Z-Zt7Bea1Gow0ekvhpExNjJVr3YPLmFDWAHZ639BvaUh755dm_pQzf6JSsnGJqcTn_PHCxLvFdtDUlkJWUvfnLEhUb2VsUvIavWhY8aPQIYI3Sh30Gq0LW/s4592/P1020560.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNY4ezhQLil8psjT6nB0D-3caq9bLhxDtnQUDwaqXbozkIaeSfL7jCyPDD80Upt8Yas3Z-Zt7Bea1Gow0ekvhpExNjJVr3YPLmFDWAHZ639BvaUh755dm_pQzf6JSsnGJqcTn_PHCxLvFdtDUlkJWUvfnLEhUb2VsUvIavWhY8aPQIYI3Sh30Gq0LW/w400-h300/P1020560.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyqPvRejmD9JlcGhAKGj6wAd0021RKaGOmV8Ud5pADOoiOLqdSHlsBO-gwcsKTvZ7okIpfVayojp0iq_2DOET5KaddLJGI_EqvJE2pWCv1Yr1Y-Ip6kDbXUV2mqGvvd99OUSRksnbTSl23m7K-xqkAV9X5lix0hMtL1eUAKaNV5ThKK6zvPyTzRzMV/s4592/P1020563.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyqPvRejmD9JlcGhAKGj6wAd0021RKaGOmV8Ud5pADOoiOLqdSHlsBO-gwcsKTvZ7okIpfVayojp0iq_2DOET5KaddLJGI_EqvJE2pWCv1Yr1Y-Ip6kDbXUV2mqGvvd99OUSRksnbTSl23m7K-xqkAV9X5lix0hMtL1eUAKaNV5ThKK6zvPyTzRzMV/w400-h300/P1020563.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsK-iBzFQbXUVkf5y824yV6XxUEUazahZVy3GprMW0DngG_oKA7gRdyrZHJ8qvbFbQ4hm5nY7K-StKrSNglCKhVU3aJ5Wp08B0Pg97wCS-My3m47eCw87UIdVWlA-470EpwoV0lG8-CKGCrmc-AcLwv_gFHNWj2JMGuO9ofstVck-92oUcfRq9vfrx/s4592/P1020564.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsK-iBzFQbXUVkf5y824yV6XxUEUazahZVy3GprMW0DngG_oKA7gRdyrZHJ8qvbFbQ4hm5nY7K-StKrSNglCKhVU3aJ5Wp08B0Pg97wCS-My3m47eCw87UIdVWlA-470EpwoV0lG8-CKGCrmc-AcLwv_gFHNWj2JMGuO9ofstVck-92oUcfRq9vfrx/w400-h300/P1020564.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After Jim finished the entry and the hallway, including trim. He started on the kitchen, doing the floor part under the fridge, then moved it back before finishing the dining room. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzD9OpmWu_BXgjpTszRtsUUfDBIcN0buvCvC5pvhjoc2LyFek-P5YR_lOZuN_6BpVtjRoNSQl1RkjGm6c902b-Yc9hPf9qmQKXugda72u503odRqp47Djt5m_PRXuYKkbvEmVnm2aJ8Frz7XsYSh0XHVuY-EGlHMldDN5lj77elrrafcEAu0zH_cRp/s4592/P1020567.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzD9OpmWu_BXgjpTszRtsUUfDBIcN0buvCvC5pvhjoc2LyFek-P5YR_lOZuN_6BpVtjRoNSQl1RkjGm6c902b-Yc9hPf9qmQKXugda72u503odRqp47Djt5m_PRXuYKkbvEmVnm2aJ8Frz7XsYSh0XHVuY-EGlHMldDN5lj77elrrafcEAu0zH_cRp/w400-h300/P1020567.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzk5mAzLKMrJ7zzuNypxIf0urWbVoWoXP6hEYHQA8W_oUPmROPr7fjhEk8Hdsditl5M59YdQCoKDnZkrTrqGQ82PHf8xrUohTzZo0RxKJigeygDr9FwcauP8lXFjsOIN2htBrTT6mhYkJYSW1JfbIFA2b1CovdbPODCpsyx6WtzwF-eHy7LYRoPP5o/s4592/P1020568.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Jim planned on doing the kitchen in sections so that the stove and the dishwasher weren't out of commission at the same time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That was all well and good, until he discovered that the floor in front of the sink was pretty "squishy".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, he took up the floor there, put a new section of floor down, and then the underlayment. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jim had intended to replace the underlayment in the kitchen, because kitchens tend to have more water involved in spillage and leaks, but the subfloor was extra. Any project always has something more than you bargain for. Another extra we hadn't planned on was the underlayment for the kitchen and dining room were thicker than the hall and living room. That didn't matter when we changed from vinyl to carpet. 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Jim drilled a hole to reduce the height of the pad. 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It's one of the prettiest times of the year. One year I was driving west on I-80 and the cottonwood trees by the river were dressed up in yellow shiny leaves against the best blue sky that October can offer. Blue is my favorite color and October blue is the best blue there is. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A lot of other good things happened in October this year and they all add up to family:</div><div style="text-align: center;">The sweetness of a new baby.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The bittersweet days of remembrance.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The joy of boys and cookies and leaves.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Baby cuteness...And...</div><div style="text-align: center;">The love that keeps our family together. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7oHYYhbawDCZIHbOSOd7k2oB5Zo9eS-vBnaQsyH-dk-G-w9Q93_oAJQMMRGdhburu7HaNI-MC6G-wC2pZmUwxvDNPp4GFFA0zBLMOk1K5Awk1gPla2pAhghpUCeaTZ3JborqomRcuPtajT96Zf8azXrFdI7S_4MP6SqK5E0VIJjillOyhDD5doWN/s1440/3days1jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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It depends on weather, wind, and leaf fall and whether or not letting the leaves lie interfere with lawn mowing. It's a little fun time to make some memories and take some pictures.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-66695033254098826182022-09-30T10:54:00.001-05:002022-11-21T12:07:31.311-06:00Moments in Time<div style="text-align: center;"> September 28, 2022</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On this day a baby was born. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIiXNpL3U08gHkmrDU14xJ6aY1iJxWRqbl2CUDZstWWmAQnnSVLyRgMXmNZkGUXV_C49IqU9NWcfhwB6ih7XMTTL3fV3uWuAc_2h1cDZffSUb4JvbnqEvKgtG87ykI1jZKyl_CDwbn0ZkqDnYYU46-tB4lsxahHToXal8k-WficUcRrtiMmjlqAc1e/s959/28sepcalla%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6jzPx2SlS8dACPoH0qtYdUSsG_dKkXzpyZ2E3iYOE790ooHoS7Mmq2nCt1qCRq3Dx_0rB8J-mqcM12bZ8_YX3l_FkEaly4l95JG6D9un-tTa1KfXMxaS__MItAJ4YNSLg0kwdJf07qa_WfK9A8WDPVBvJr_Sdf-TyBOgxpdmgndLg9iLkuGiJBnlQ/s320/Sept%2028%20316%20am%206%2313,%2018%20inchesjpeg.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On this day, a much awaited baby girl to add to the story of the Troyer family.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A baby girl all the more precious following the loss of Bennett Wilder in April 2021.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We got the news at getting up time and started to make our plans. We arrived in Indiana Thursday night and got our snuggle time at the hospital.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjacpL-sr1rf99EY5Gk4Oiku9K29IMVFUmS-9HZccnKZtqVAfIScvP5NZhKRM6Z9FXFKpqrOXZThXHABFjPL8rGsRV3bJtSNSqBbNuIbSK8PCNlmYRb2_BYRpIbPW5GEUr8pMzOiCFwO0rzFRS__1KwMvDBSD_S9uCn7-mzyxVpkz4L0GSZS2zDmcv7/s1080/30sep%20(2)jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjacpL-sr1rf99EY5Gk4Oiku9K29IMVFUmS-9HZccnKZtqVAfIScvP5NZhKRM6Z9FXFKpqrOXZThXHABFjPL8rGsRV3bJtSNSqBbNuIbSK8PCNlmYRb2_BYRpIbPW5GEUr8pMzOiCFwO0rzFRS__1KwMvDBSD_S9uCn7-mzyxVpkz4L0GSZS2zDmcv7/s1080/30sep%20(2)jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjacpL-sr1rf99EY5Gk4Oiku9K29IMVFUmS-9HZccnKZtqVAfIScvP5NZhKRM6Z9FXFKpqrOXZThXHABFjPL8rGsRV3bJtSNSqBbNuIbSK8PCNlmYRb2_BYRpIbPW5GEUr8pMzOiCFwO0rzFRS__1KwMvDBSD_S9uCn7-mzyxVpkz4L0GSZS2zDmcv7/s320/30sep%20(2)jpeg.jpg" width="240" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nTg6rvVjjCLSk7wOFZV2hJQo1OJK3yv7X13NmUMsxkIkJ6tWzDurtBPvS1ShA0T1ggavP3OaK7jXhpAheCC8iv9kmFx5KugPaE5LwpS26J6yW1yDdGc90YMjVJn2zTu6FG8qQO0-gEMzf4nN_paQqMHD1Jsey2vDU6TyG8kSfRzOanpltee-5PGj/s810/29sep4%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="607" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nTg6rvVjjCLSk7wOFZV2hJQo1OJK3yv7X13NmUMsxkIkJ6tWzDurtBPvS1ShA0T1ggavP3OaK7jXhpAheCC8iv9kmFx5KugPaE5LwpS26J6yW1yDdGc90YMjVJn2zTu6FG8qQO0-gEMzf4nN_paQqMHD1Jsey2vDU6TyG8kSfRzOanpltee-5PGj/s320/29sep4%20(2).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And now, on the way home to start a new chapter of life. </div></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCZrxFC0Q58TslBrcF-6akFLsdbKc4Y4Qe4cLbB_MXqTN0ms5fCTFDQf6k4TwJgRqF8pul1d1poIkClOuloJ2E3VTHG9E6iirTMgBBmlF98Ooo8ei810d8_HOqZMxdxRs76gBcx3Ki87iSKY5nJF5ZQ9Vphme2gQNSn0W_dJ3ukVmfd9YuBn5op2t/s1800/28sepcalla4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCZrxFC0Q58TslBrcF-6akFLsdbKc4Y4Qe4cLbB_MXqTN0ms5fCTFDQf6k4TwJgRqF8pul1d1poIkClOuloJ2E3VTHG9E6iirTMgBBmlF98Ooo8ei810d8_HOqZMxdxRs76gBcx3Ki87iSKY5nJF5ZQ9Vphme2gQNSn0W_dJ3ukVmfd9YuBn5op2t/s320/28sepcalla4.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-71952439969287222522022-09-26T12:16:00.007-05:002022-11-21T15:13:48.287-06:00A New Season<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pieces of this summer have been very busy and in September we aren't seeing any let up. Zane, in 8th grade still has afternoon football games and Barry and Christian had a month of soccer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcj-LnBy-N7dzvn4NTjLJ_uq_ajDsNYKAMt6rD9D1hTNAAnP87htZbmd2QMaCnl-TZwPsPg_DbUOWS5HUHAmaKm1SFIjo2mfyGBhqliwa2-4eFMaxN3lLhmCSRfOFj9g9GCoKGdDY5zs_OmYnUzKFW_8JHxfqYviHUdeZnYPFJDZc7Rk5eBVdb89ap/s960/7sept.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="958" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcj-LnBy-N7dzvn4NTjLJ_uq_ajDsNYKAMt6rD9D1hTNAAnP87htZbmd2QMaCnl-TZwPsPg_DbUOWS5HUHAmaKm1SFIjo2mfyGBhqliwa2-4eFMaxN3lLhmCSRfOFj9g9GCoKGdDY5zs_OmYnUzKFW_8JHxfqYviHUdeZnYPFJDZc7Rk5eBVdb89ap/s320/7sept.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKa5BD2jBw9p5-5VzvxJ5f5X_NNwzyuxmHTZ4yHp1Df7sMf4Uxb8ENd38ZuyfDHU6LQlR9MBPMGaXsSgSr189_LIyIFL20dBGe9l2wfRVJNG0aDl8_G8BKOaYyL6pagx7beAUXs9G_8F4YX-_YAuTk5hRAgqtjh3DKIylpnLSHOPIOePOKHoBqScP7/s960/11sep2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKa5BD2jBw9p5-5VzvxJ5f5X_NNwzyuxmHTZ4yHp1Df7sMf4Uxb8ENd38ZuyfDHU6LQlR9MBPMGaXsSgSr189_LIyIFL20dBGe9l2wfRVJNG0aDl8_G8BKOaYyL6pagx7beAUXs9G_8F4YX-_YAuTk5hRAgqtjh3DKIylpnLSHOPIOePOKHoBqScP7/s320/11sep2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXnJkjSnrLuotDthAdna6A2b2weUR0E_vI4rUhUD3EImixGFYUwUZ6euDf6L22iBS5yOQkZcFfBvBh--qDWEqiR-IKxQHnvdBicyheiEX77K8RHYmrNI7oiwqFWE5Po2BHvjhFlG54aoVpTS3weval7bNtPa_wXndZfpSw45kGg1P2HTQIbNEqlef/s960/soccer8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXnJkjSnrLuotDthAdna6A2b2weUR0E_vI4rUhUD3EImixGFYUwUZ6euDf6L22iBS5yOQkZcFfBvBh--qDWEqiR-IKxQHnvdBicyheiEX77K8RHYmrNI7oiwqFWE5Po2BHvjhFlG54aoVpTS3weval7bNtPa_wXndZfpSw45kGg1P2HTQIbNEqlef/s320/soccer8.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Christian and I haven't done much piano playing lately, but here we are playing </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I love coffee". 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Mittens has settled in and while she catches a few mice, she love to play with people the best.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9M3GPRe7bfrAAXrsj4-2r9jaT992f8AoIPwpe-xUzOupguQAbzZlrEuLKXYKGlKM7iXUzfJzp6lJpgoT2kOmoZKnRWSjI82RgL8KvbQhkvFXY_4_emy5R1lRGd2T6vDmva1YBznF3ZXu7C_73y-eDPlfGgIGXnAcQzv048ePLomYmd0sduwmGopoi/s4592/18sept%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9M3GPRe7bfrAAXrsj4-2r9jaT992f8AoIPwpe-xUzOupguQAbzZlrEuLKXYKGlKM7iXUzfJzp6lJpgoT2kOmoZKnRWSjI82RgL8KvbQhkvFXY_4_emy5R1lRGd2T6vDmva1YBznF3ZXu7C_73y-eDPlfGgIGXnAcQzv048ePLomYmd0sduwmGopoi/s320/18sept%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you look for number 45, that's Zane.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AozGPe1jkW_LF7Mu88o9TfkZqS0q7GCaeyfHn-onCJNxYZqSTLD4ZuGUctXvqCzlqP_S1y-os1JxQ_Vezj6JH_LcfzevBNIRdG_nWm_FvSL8VYNP3j5B8Nu1sTomgQNBhSf87Wa_AL_vICVoLTmOF-y8ZrYwb-vGQrLU8INWYAfQhKCqRD7VzvQR/s960/26sep3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6AozGPe1jkW_LF7Mu88o9TfkZqS0q7GCaeyfHn-onCJNxYZqSTLD4ZuGUctXvqCzlqP_S1y-os1JxQ_Vezj6JH_LcfzevBNIRdG_nWm_FvSL8VYNP3j5B8Nu1sTomgQNBhSf87Wa_AL_vICVoLTmOF-y8ZrYwb-vGQrLU8INWYAfQhKCqRD7VzvQR/s320/26sep3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-70615381205408557672022-09-05T20:06:00.001-05:002022-09-06T20:07:05.847-05:00Busy Weekend<div style="text-align: center;">I am enjoying this Labor weekend. It is always nice to have a Monday off from thinking about going to the office. It's nice to have a day to get a bunch of things done at home without having responsibilities and places to go. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We started the weekend with my yearly visit to the retina specialist on Friday. and it threw the days plans into disarray. I had planned to go to the bank, the courthouse, and the post office and then I remembered that appointment. I took all those things along so Jim could do the driving and those things get done anyway. I don't mind driving from a Kearney eye appointment, but my doctor (based in Hasting, with an office in Grand Island and borrows a Kearney office once a week) has decided that non-emergency cases don't have priority to a "home" office. I'm glad I'm not "serious" anymore, but it is a pain to have to drive somewhere besides here. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Before the weekend, Aaron and the boys (enthusiastic helpers) cut 6. SIX, mind you, Walmart bags stuffed with elderberry heads. After reading that the stems and leaves are toxic, I painstakingly stripped the berries off to get 12 cups of the tiny berries to make jelly. I got syrup the first time because the recipe called from sure-jell (powdered pectin) not certo (liquid-pectin) which Jim has been eating enthusiastically on toast. So, I did it all again, 3 hours of picking over (no help from Jim this time) and using sure-jell, I made beautiful jelly. I wish I could taste it. My mother has been unenthusiastic from the start saying she had elderberry jelly when a girl and it was awful. I wonder if it was really elderberry jelly or had less sugar or as Mom said, she was a girl, not grown up. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The evening of the successful jelly day, we went to Zane's cross-country meet. It was an invitational with 10 or so schools there. It's our first meet so we were unprepared for what to expect. Meets take place at golf courses and there is no parking for the myriad of parents and grandparents that come who all must take separate cars. We got there just before 7:30, the starting time and parking down hill on what seem like a half mile away and was likely a quarter-mile. The Jr. high kids only run a mile, which the high schoolers run three and it is a brutal course with steep hills. One high school boy collapsed just at the finish line and couldn't go any farther. I didn't see what happened to him because we had to be somewhere else, but on the way home and an ambulance was coming back, so I wondered if it had transported than boy. We watched Zane start and finish. There must have been about 30 runners with him. Last week he ran in Burwell and got 7th. It wasn't such a hard course as this one. It was hard on everyone. Jim and I went home driving into the setting sun. I dropped Jim off at Underground Construction and went on home. Driving into the sun was absolutely blinding. I'm too short for visors to do any good, and turning from a side road onto the bypass was terrifying. I could see nothing. I blocked the sun with my arm and hoped for the best. </div><div style="text-align: center;">As you can read, I made it home alright.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Zane is second from the left, making a start. I didn't get any at the finish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrURKmdPgy_1zzfwqDRGATWCoAPh2TZteT5HTsdhA-9xEfBfO-4jiLmcV1gI1ie4rn92_WuFPi0gsrxAvXUCH0WG7gL_7id9_o_9RNjUrNg-dv11UmOUBngpoBmbSqv34XTiCuSegIm6qEy3EYxpmX2Pq2agc1M62KLiNIn42EmkNEGegTVAdG5S9i/s2613/P1020289.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1962" data-original-width="2613" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrURKmdPgy_1zzfwqDRGATWCoAPh2TZteT5HTsdhA-9xEfBfO-4jiLmcV1gI1ie4rn92_WuFPi0gsrxAvXUCH0WG7gL_7id9_o_9RNjUrNg-dv11UmOUBngpoBmbSqv34XTiCuSegIm6qEy3EYxpmX2Pq2agc1M62KLiNIn42EmkNEGegTVAdG5S9i/w400-h300/P1020289.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After that Thursday and our uneventful Friday, we spent Saturday at the Zoo. We've been wanting to go by ourselves for several years and as the weather was mild (82), we made our plans and went. We saw nearly everything we wanted to, including the baby elephants and by the end of the day after watching the sea lions being fed, we were exhausted and glad to get on the road for home. We stopped in Lincoln and had a lovely early supper at Cracker Barrel and went to bed early. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Sunday we had a little respite from the hot weather and we took our bikes out to ride. We rode from the interstate to Fort Kearny State Park, which is Jim's favorite. We rode all around the park because we haven't done that before and Jim wanted to look at the progress of a job he did out there that he was supposed to finish. It was obviously finished without him and the leftover materials are with them, not us. It was still nice out so we had a fire in the fire pit and Jim made s'mores with fudge stripe cookies, which I can't eat. Not having any supper, we were casting our minds around what else we could cook out there. I didn't think I was hungry until Jim was making fried egg and cheese sandwiches in our cast iron skillet and roasting one potato in the fire, which we halved. I buried the potato in the coals</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">wrapped in foil for barely a half an hour. It was yummy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We stayed by the fire listening to the frogs by the pond sing until it was dark and then we went to bed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We spent Labor Day, laboring. Jim helped me with tomatoes, we got 10 dozen quarts of juice. I finished knitting a pair of baby booties, paid my bills, reconciled my accounts and found that my bank is now charging me $35 a month, bye, bye, bank. I also tidied up some little jobs and washed three loads of laundry. Jim spent the part of the day that wasn't tomatoes by working on enlarging the chicken run and the chicken waterer. I enjoy a good working day. There is a satisfaction in accomplishment. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh by the way, my retinas are just fine have been staying that way for awhile.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-28090328300357283372022-08-19T14:53:00.002-05:002022-11-22T16:19:54.193-06:00John Deere Travel<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On our way to Indiana this summer we stopped on the way in the Davenport, Iowa/Moline, Illinois area at the John Deere Pavilion. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Since Jim is interested in all thing John Deere we wanted to see what they had to show. There were some old things to see and also some very new ones. There was the very newest combine there which has to be one of the hugest things I've ever seen. I don't know why they have to be so big. It was more than twice as tall as Jim. A picture on my camera can't show the size. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ye-hVDMUZV-PqkBSttBd6d98cFlVsskt5KhgcG-fD1ldocm-sE4sDzvZwW_mph-GXZpGLDWlpgjsu7Sky49DCHVhSVt8VcciHv_1wuiAv87ySFuts-b--ZzIDVzJ62kwRgGBrQtcq02okPNYZGbU6jRX5Ix_0cXtAM4_cgc6j_O4diiak1JUTcZB/s4592/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(14).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ye-hVDMUZV-PqkBSttBd6d98cFlVsskt5KhgcG-fD1ldocm-sE4sDzvZwW_mph-GXZpGLDWlpgjsu7Sky49DCHVhSVt8VcciHv_1wuiAv87ySFuts-b--ZzIDVzJ62kwRgGBrQtcq02okPNYZGbU6jRX5Ix_0cXtAM4_cgc6j_O4diiak1JUTcZB/w400-h300/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(14).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhabiQWNwKSWnuXo1Di4V7FSF9LnILRhLtd4YuVAeqqyPqMwJR1WQkeYD8Ak7N3xrj4lCWdl4TwfBlffnlpIZp38UYQHjgQk8ytf9alyUy84alZypL8YNbraqTpZj3eX3wvkeJKiY_7NdqsMiIHDBUG8Wva9a181wcFvVVOaXoN9NIa5k_ssxDGY_Vm/s4592/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhabiQWNwKSWnuXo1Di4V7FSF9LnILRhLtd4YuVAeqqyPqMwJR1WQkeYD8Ak7N3xrj4lCWdl4TwfBlffnlpIZp38UYQHjgQk8ytf9alyUy84alZypL8YNbraqTpZj3eX3wvkeJKiY_7NdqsMiIHDBUG8Wva9a181wcFvVVOaXoN9NIa5k_ssxDGY_Vm/w400-h300/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(1).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXWoQnTB3qd3ojRd1RMQd2m-uIsEvzsB7xaJbDVIh0Wn4JLu6SyKurEmV6OSdNRlMk-ZvDB39WAePju4yEr8OdUwv86ZxG8rG6gdxe6t-MdnbK_IompGPC4ZOp8pwco949bENgP-qBzoL7GognC17SlDpgImE8eTFkojImBNgCg4TPCAFMUPlUeqG/s4592/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(5).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXWoQnTB3qd3ojRd1RMQd2m-uIsEvzsB7xaJbDVIh0Wn4JLu6SyKurEmV6OSdNRlMk-ZvDB39WAePju4yEr8OdUwv86ZxG8rG6gdxe6t-MdnbK_IompGPC4ZOp8pwco949bENgP-qBzoL7GognC17SlDpgImE8eTFkojImBNgCg4TPCAFMUPlUeqG/w400-h300/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(5).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6ESqJxnyJJz1w5Kv6Xxz24d7I2foDZKc4PhAdmKT1IBvvRptDwog82BAYcUIQj4xuQvy9ueB121DrAhHWNCnTJBGV_aDuiHqkzj2BjIdEC6EHF1O3kg9QvmVQSZHf9OqwIp_c7-CI8QfGgJtgzrZygJRIV6XHefDSUe_AbxvkPomaNRPhyQE4Y40/s4592/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(10).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6ESqJxnyJJz1w5Kv6Xxz24d7I2foDZKc4PhAdmKT1IBvvRptDwog82BAYcUIQj4xuQvy9ueB121DrAhHWNCnTJBGV_aDuiHqkzj2BjIdEC6EHF1O3kg9QvmVQSZHf9OqwIp_c7-CI8QfGgJtgzrZygJRIV6XHefDSUe_AbxvkPomaNRPhyQE4Y40/w400-h300/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(10).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I probably enjoyed browsing the gift shop the most. We bought some new t-shirts for us and something for the new baby girl on the way. This auger set up reminds me of the auger my brothers had. We didn't have a grain bin, but we spent lots of time auger-ing up popcorn into some sort of wagon.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUe4y8qA9UzxvxWxzATD7J_R_AWKmYh-IjYlbr_rrog1UW50Xwzm_kWWzuPF_fUaa_ZQTbcVl4aTaFpqiyQcqVNbALw5X4U8_7oJfqxv-r8_m-VF-bxa5kp_aX-3q1GpwZfkmrwVMsZWqe4-XKV3sMIo8L9y2pgWzR86FpzqsmHpXRllch1gKAIvV/s4592/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(16).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUe4y8qA9UzxvxWxzATD7J_R_AWKmYh-IjYlbr_rrog1UW50Xwzm_kWWzuPF_fUaa_ZQTbcVl4aTaFpqiyQcqVNbALw5X4U8_7oJfqxv-r8_m-VF-bxa5kp_aX-3q1GpwZfkmrwVMsZWqe4-XKV3sMIo8L9y2pgWzR86FpzqsmHpXRllch1gKAIvV/w400-h300/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(16).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had our supper at a cute little place just across the street...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvjtS3-0dkmJjlsbadP1fk9U3z56KacbfyfWeRaxyCDTXLowIn8PRU3vKH4gDpaL74C9tv_yn16i4SHt2b_37Y7BZ-rCi7nYEO8pBUH7wOVLVMVH8BKMRMHjiOpysD2dyJacMKdVQr2It0T46htVKFCXI0I_HPg63WtdQDWQznGOEIdu1g_NJYmi_/s4592/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(17).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvjtS3-0dkmJjlsbadP1fk9U3z56KacbfyfWeRaxyCDTXLowIn8PRU3vKH4gDpaL74C9tv_yn16i4SHt2b_37Y7BZ-rCi7nYEO8pBUH7wOVLVMVH8BKMRMHjiOpysD2dyJacMKdVQr2It0T46htVKFCXI0I_HPg63WtdQDWQznGOEIdu1g_NJYmi_/w400-h300/Davenport%20Iowa,%20JD%20Pavillion%20(17).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...then walked by the Mississippi and took a Channel Cat ride down the river.</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYq1UHknoR7uRb0P__mwTROGfATlpdaKEdntooeTU1m2MQeN_iLQLagU7r3gMFCNP4xEYCRsjlXUGb-3eWKyJDS0nYTedCAtdeP2Il4leGvXwzvFLwFaCFZ6fuiK8AgFswPwIG_901P49XDxFcZQu8iSdQirDPgQQAUXuitqEJirPDM_vBpFTnsnf/s4592/Davenport%20Iowa,%20Mississippi%20River%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYq1UHknoR7uRb0P__mwTROGfATlpdaKEdntooeTU1m2MQeN_iLQLagU7r3gMFCNP4xEYCRsjlXUGb-3eWKyJDS0nYTedCAtdeP2Il4leGvXwzvFLwFaCFZ6fuiK8AgFswPwIG_901P49XDxFcZQu8iSdQirDPgQQAUXuitqEJirPDM_vBpFTnsnf/w400-h300/Davenport%20Iowa,%20Mississippi%20River%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It has been rather amusing to see what other people have found. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Close but no cigar</div><div style="text-align: center;">Don't look a gift horse in the mouth </div><div style="text-align: center;">Go big or go home</div><div style="text-align: center;">Healthy as a horse</div><div style="text-align: center;">I feel like death warmed over</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lollygagging (wasting time)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not all it's cracked up to be</div><div style="text-align: center;">Over egg the pudding</div><div style="text-align: center;">Strike while the iron is hot</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thick as thieves</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Jim's dad's favorites</div><div style="text-align: center;">It can rain pretty easy once it gets started</div><div style="text-align: center;">All signs fail in a drought</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-48090823422500548982022-06-16T18:44:00.002-05:002022-06-16T18:45:21.867-05:00Going Home<div style="text-align: center;"> I'm in my home town this week.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have a home in another place. I've lived there for nearly 40 years.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Somehow, "going home" means going to the place where my life started, </div><div style="text-align: center;">even though I was there only 18 years. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I took a walk to the grocery store the other morning. I wanted potatoes for supper and I needed some exercise. It's only about 6 blocks to the store. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> As I walked I remembered: </div><div style="text-align: center;">This house had a big tree in front and it's gone. Woodland phlox bloomed bluely under that tree in the spring.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had friends in this house. The cellar under the house was small and dark. I remember when they jacked up their house to put a half basement under it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">These two houses I'm going by weren't here when I was. I don't remember what was here before.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This next house was on my paper route. The lady of the house asked me what grade I was in and I told her "Junior", and she said, "How nice to be in junior high." I was the tallest I ever was then, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and I'm no taller now. </div><div style="text-align: center;">On my way home I took another street, the one I walked up and back down to school first to the elementary school and then to the bus parked there to go the the Jr./Sr. High School.</div><div style="text-align: center;">There was the house that everyone said a witch lived in, so we never walked on that side of the street. </div><div style="text-align: center;">In later years when I was delivering papers, I discovered that she was no witch, but an ordinary, nice lady.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I walked past the house where a friend and I heard banging and a cry for help. We went in and I stayed with the lady while my friend ran for help. I think she broke her leg. I don't remember anymore of the incident.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the alley behind that house lived a Shetland pony for a few years and we would stop after school to feed it grass. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This next house, resplendent with Victorian trimmings had a dog. I was afraid of dogs.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here lived a family with a girl my age. Once bicycling madly home from there I fell off my bike onto my face and had lovely scabs and bruises for school picture day. It was there I saw that the speed of light is faster than the speed of sound. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The next house is a big stucco one with an enclosed porch. My parents were friends with them since they both belonged to the school, one a teacher, one a principal. I never got to see in that house, and oh, I wanted to. It was there, after putting a washer on my finger (in my defense about was about 6), the man of the house put the washer with my finger in it in his vise and filed carefully through it. I haven't put anything more on my fingers except my wedding ring.</div><div style="text-align: center;">.And THIS house -- the band teacher lived there and my friend and I had a crush on him. He built an airplane in his shed and we would go and watch.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Some relatives of the stucco house people lived behind the airplane builder's house and I would go there to visit. Those two old ladies would give me a cookie.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Another house to go by and I don't remember the names of the people that lived there. They would sit in their driveway on nice summer days and chat with the kids that came around. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This last house before mine, my friends house. She was my best friend. We walked to school together, played together, biked together. We played at each others houses. There were a lot of kids in our neighbors so we could play lots of different games the required more people. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Across from my friend's house lived an old couple. I would take them violets in the spring and chat a little. I did the same to the old lady in the house beyond ours. I think there were others my friend and I would take violets to, but I don't remember. I wonder really, how old these old people really were. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Farther on was the house where the owners of the trailer court where I lived my very first years. It was there I learned what "running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" means. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Heading back home, another block over, there was a pig, a great big sow I think. There's no place for a pig there now and on beyond and closer to the river are more houses that weren't there before. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I've written this story before, in other place. Somehow, those early days leave an impression that isn't forgotten and it moves me when I walk around the town again. </div><div style="text-align: center;">There's more I know. The park so near us where we would play in the "back of the park", the wooded area where we would have forts and picnics. the "canal" we would jump over than was just the storm drainage ditch from town. Farther away, the apartment house where we lived after the trailer and rents out later. I could walk there. The trailer court equally not far away. I had friends houses scattered all over the town and the biggest of all where I had piano lessons and longed to "go over the whole house". </div><div style="text-align: center;">I like to remember the good times.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><br /></div>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-34865221773173635652022-05-20T08:20:00.003-05:002022-06-16T19:26:41.063-05:00Ready for Summer<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We did a lot of things in May.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Summer is a busy time with parades and ball games and gardening and grandkid fun.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some things we do every year and some things are new.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This year Jim and our neighbor decided to put their restored tractors on show and get some photos. The two on the left are Jim's. The end on is the MT he got last fall and while it isn't completely restored it is in a usable condition and it as already seen duty as a plow and planter in our garden. The others are Leroy's. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizd7Jh3IdAwxsBexo-eVG-SliYgX4mB57YdJzENAiJeEbgHeSSe-379TKTxWQ95RYTh-8Vg3xs6WmKa7FoPfPjyXSeCxZpN0o93HCB3N8Syt9uLvN2DNDbCS2CeqWJRE-UoAj4oSzR7eQ5iguPCjUBxbo_2KpL3jyrLBnRsUHE9TgUaBJogbV22__V/s4592/13may%20(20).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizd7Jh3IdAwxsBexo-eVG-SliYgX4mB57YdJzENAiJeEbgHeSSe-379TKTxWQ95RYTh-8Vg3xs6WmKa7FoPfPjyXSeCxZpN0o93HCB3N8Syt9uLvN2DNDbCS2CeqWJRE-UoAj4oSzR7eQ5iguPCjUBxbo_2KpL3jyrLBnRsUHE9TgUaBJogbV22__V/w640-h480/13may%20(20).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITEl3XVAre3ohT-2tm-Ph_kOMxIxawTfHA3CsuKRtzoaH1XThgpatB73gN_HwXJVZ9ctaCo_vOBkIJ5OsOsAFQaVmwbsKm8S8kjtnkTvNKcu4YArXMn7mHCa7ziV5KE6S2rig0q3_y9_QsugOle_BUVxZuokCl1lyqAF7WHRGQCNfk7DGyW58Ynlf/s4592/13may%20(21).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITEl3XVAre3ohT-2tm-Ph_kOMxIxawTfHA3CsuKRtzoaH1XThgpatB73gN_HwXJVZ9ctaCo_vOBkIJ5OsOsAFQaVmwbsKm8S8kjtnkTvNKcu4YArXMn7mHCa7ziV5KE6S2rig0q3_y9_QsugOle_BUVxZuokCl1lyqAF7WHRGQCNfk7DGyW58Ynlf/w640-h480/13may%20(21).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One thing we do every year is clean out Lorene's pool with the vacuum excavating machine, scrub it down and she fills it and does all the chemical things so it's ready to swim in.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This year she bought a new pool because pool wear out, you know so we (well everyone but me who stood around taking photos) started from scratch.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I guess I helped pull the mostly empty pool out of it's place. We were trying to keep the water inside and off the ground, but it didn't work. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWH8ywc8PRgKsCrb8axwjzBLlJF4aqiWQ5KF3VW5nkjAOYTx0pajoVjHa5NoB67ZpMb6r511jq_UirM4E8RXeqkiJulVxJjIIZuMOhS97ccoe7ZRpUjuiar5gxSiMfkRs_7G1f7qwU3QjMncS5nwBZQZpGmHQT2iDOUXChsKIgrZPIYBLGCVLVY4Dq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="215" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWH8ywc8PRgKsCrb8axwjzBLlJF4aqiWQ5KF3VW5nkjAOYTx0pajoVjHa5NoB67ZpMb6r511jq_UirM4E8RXeqkiJulVxJjIIZuMOhS97ccoe7ZRpUjuiar5gxSiMfkRs_7G1f7qwU3QjMncS5nwBZQZpGmHQT2iDOUXChsKIgrZPIYBLGCVLVY4Dq=w215-h400" width="215" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2g24JdPZuLpzA4j-E4SFHzDn_IRSO_E4MlqRfVTFo_QjQqjXTHLa78-q01BxM5tdfUKbbXfnb8xtVrrQquyC3zbI6F9RF3cAH4joy1fCshMugFi4KFL3VSojCcCMJ7QtFYZGrxavFaKcR9bdEz195VnU8S82rxJ2qAJJb6xtO3oOnCcM3aCu-dR8/s1791/15may5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We didn't have enough single candles to make 9, but we can all add. He wanted Benny footprints and it was Zane's idea to use hardening chocolate.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigi5kvRHB6Ij6dvKvwhbgw1doRs1hUinGl_Is9gACaGX-nVZqkvkuVHIUPIi035rZghaxUkaTJpjWCfO_Mf_ARnfy5CBlW6uLo0A30KWYXRDjlIuFiAHAv2MA3Tv3cbga8Td_DdRnhMD2fbIEqbyyifeY5I6wndjlylE_TSar4IVPn_qvwVMUj4ZAe/s4592/15may%20(24).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigi5kvRHB6Ij6dvKvwhbgw1doRs1hUinGl_Is9gACaGX-nVZqkvkuVHIUPIi035rZghaxUkaTJpjWCfO_Mf_ARnfy5CBlW6uLo0A30KWYXRDjlIuFiAHAv2MA3Tv3cbga8Td_DdRnhMD2fbIEqbyyifeY5I6wndjlylE_TSar4IVPn_qvwVMUj4ZAe/w400-h300/15may%20(24).JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><br /> <p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-483216711885822369.post-13665777407574660012022-05-18T15:51:00.001-05:002022-05-31T20:05:46.481-05:00End Of School<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time doesn't always fly by, sometimes it crawls, or meanders, or plods, or walks, or runs when you're wading through it. But, looking back, it flew. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here we are at the end of another school year. Zane is done with 7th grade, Barry with 5th and Christian with 4th. It went so fast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Paislee is done with Pre-K</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Zane ran the 400, the 4 x 400 relay and the 1 x 400 relay and maybe some other ones.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNU_0DQSq7IxVd05wT6KenJGDTz1BjN9SD78kYaPZ-KQsGMDFejalm0io1-it2NZht8gcy3uepLmnoPSfxoLAhD6HPQLSeS5kBmuEmuosRAEDgwdJ6fN-QIru9PBypnwsiV8fV0jApM-wsvzloVJW5a-xD-NIz5l8-nt6l41hCGSvA8zhv6WzHqMZu/s2416/9may%20(34).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2416" data-original-width="1814" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNU_0DQSq7IxVd05wT6KenJGDTz1BjN9SD78kYaPZ-KQsGMDFejalm0io1-it2NZht8gcy3uepLmnoPSfxoLAhD6HPQLSeS5kBmuEmuosRAEDgwdJ6fN-QIru9PBypnwsiV8fV0jApM-wsvzloVJW5a-xD-NIz5l8-nt6l41hCGSvA8zhv6WzHqMZu/w300-h400/9may%20(34).JPG" width="300" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIvvvHdIDMmkLKOc_1jbcfRfAm46r89fUVRlNsUVuSvJ9k5CD7aB-aWETrFUw1sU58A6Sl-M3tzo8UGCwBKgDxZhfhSYIN5l5O3tMW3BqsE6cOOVmI-piT8Bha8PxG9eBnsPRqfB6Uhty6dtXtS_yr-wXZzXad4PTa8Acro00vcnYRESA8f2-H0vm/s2547/3may%20(23).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">First Day of School</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlhmyYZ45pUv5FyXWs2et2VUloJ6QQfjCoEIiiFtG1EuniH6ernj2FdiO4L6uW9Z_LKaAmfa6tj7rMtYptnJfcLMkhD8M8pM0qjF_-6wPpC1aAD4nBPnuJLiXtMepIoDYhzfCNPCLYx5mywTQOIJ53TIWbKg0tSVuUUiW_c4lw6Zsi1jhcCWeDkHAo/s2283/15may%20first%20day%20of%20school%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2283" data-original-width="1713" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlhmyYZ45pUv5FyXWs2et2VUloJ6QQfjCoEIiiFtG1EuniH6ernj2FdiO4L6uW9Z_LKaAmfa6tj7rMtYptnJfcLMkhD8M8pM0qjF_-6wPpC1aAD4nBPnuJLiXtMepIoDYhzfCNPCLYx5mywTQOIJ53TIWbKg0tSVuUUiW_c4lw6Zsi1jhcCWeDkHAo/w300-h400/15may%20first%20day%20of%20school%20(3).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last Day of School</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Her EMT certification gave her the opportunity to apply to spend a day with the AirCare team.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4yyqnNnoWWPmMJO7z5hZTVbkn7vtm3M3Z0DbR-KRQU2Da8j-G3zf-mQMzKECqoVNIZv-spTwWO1Q1QAxKN5ewjR3r-rOhBrxYF0u2q5bXHXI_-pcttLMpk0clhorcRH5ACjH-g_pkwiVfWgea2Slf55hMrexe9sD9Z70kQjaOWAxreBBM8JRhsTvJ/s830/12may1%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="830" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4yyqnNnoWWPmMJO7z5hZTVbkn7vtm3M3Z0DbR-KRQU2Da8j-G3zf-mQMzKECqoVNIZv-spTwWO1Q1QAxKN5ewjR3r-rOhBrxYF0u2q5bXHXI_-pcttLMpk0clhorcRH5ACjH-g_pkwiVfWgea2Slf55hMrexe9sD9Z70kQjaOWAxreBBM8JRhsTvJ/w400-h300/12may1%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><br /> <p></p>Gramma's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11989938887191987414noreply@blogger.com0