Sunday...A lazy day...

I picked up a book at the Library this week and read it today, "Twelve Mighty Orphans" by Jim Dent. It was a true story about an orphanage that was fortunate enough to get a great football coach and turn around the lives of many young boys. It was back in the Depression Days...

I have always enjoyed sport stories and movies...One of my favorite movies was called, "Hoosiers" It really is a little nothing movie staring Gene Hackman and it was about basketball in a very small Indiana town, set in the 50's. I read a review once about the movie and they said, 'When they showed the basketball game in that small gym in Indiana, I could smell the popcorn." I remember going to Basketball Games in the 60's and the gym always did smell like popcorn....My grand kids will never know that simple kind of life I had back then....

On any summer day, my Sisters and I could be roaming the hills for hours and I am sure Mama never worried that someone might have hurt us or we might be harmed in any way. When My Kids were teens and pre teens I would let them go off in the neighborhood and have them check in every hour. Now just a few years later, you are scared to let the kids play in front of the house by themselves...Oh how times have changed and I long for simpler times....

Daddy's Birthday

I saw some Salmon in the cupboard and it reminded me of how much Daddy liked Mackerel. So I thought I would make some Salmon cakes. I made up about 1 cup instant potatoes, threw in 2 hand fulls of oatmeal, 2 eggs, a chopped onion, and 2 small cans of salmon. I rolled the patties in corn meal and pan fried them using less than a Tablespoon of olive oil....so maybe we would not call it fried....also you know I never have corn meal so I opened up a box of Jiffy mix and used a little of that. They made so much I will have to eat them at every meal for 3 days to eat them all...I had some fresh spinach I wilted down and some steamed asparagus. I made some peach tea earlier today using frozen peaches and it tastes almost as good as Olive Garden's peach tea.

I had been having a bad week this week, more mentally than physically, I think. I thought surely I was not this bad last year on Daddy's Birthday so I pulled up that post on my blog last year...I was worse, much worse than today.. Don't bother to look Sisters because I was pitiful! This time last year was when I was taking that chemo that made my blood pressure go through the roof...I was off my rocker for sure..

I'm glad I looked though because I all ready feel much better just knowing I am not as crazy as I was last year at this time...

Iraq

Another 100 Army Reserves left Mesa Airport this week ultimately heading to Iraq...Their second tour over there....Obama, this is not the direction I was hoping things would go....

This Week...

Benjamin was with me some this week...he made a mask to scare me to death...

Then he took a picture of me with no make up... to Scare him to death...

and our feet...

and about 100 other pictures...

Daddy's Birthday..

Today my Daddy would be 94 years old if he was alive. I don't want to live to be 94 and I am sure he did not want to either. Living to 94 when you are 30 sounds pretty good but if you are in your 50's, 60's, or 70's and not feeling so great, living till you are 94 does not sound like such a good deal... Here is a picture of my Daddy's only three boys. Out of these 3 men only 2 Powell boys were born. I figure there is still a chance for Gilbert and Clayton to have another Powell off spring but they would need to hurry...

I know this is not likely considering they would have to find younger women....I don't think their wives need to worry...and I do love my brothers but finding other women would not be so easy for them...They do have that weight issue as most of us do. This would not necessarily turn off a younger woman but it does kind of have the same effect as it does on an old dog, it's just a lot of effort to leave the porch.
Maybe we had just better be happy with what we have...As Rhea King says, 'It is, what it is.'