Hope springs

 Eternal!  Jorge said I should have my car by Monday! Oh I hope it’s fixed!

Tonight Kenzie is hosting her family meal. I hope they all show up. 

Fleta is off work tomorrow. She has to go to the eye doctor. She is going to take me to the bank to get cash out for payment on my car. 

I tripped and fell hard in the kitchen today. I am putting it on the blog so I can remember what day it happened. It’s a wonder I did not knock a hole in the floor. I hit really hard. 

It did not rain today. It has been sprinkling at least for several days. 

September 24th

 It should be a national holiday. It was the day Clayton was born. 

Clayton was special to me and I think to most of us kids. But I’m only going to speak for me. 

He was 10 years older than me and he drove our bus for 3 or 4 years while he was in high-school. That was a perk to me because I was the baby for a long time and I was very spoiled. I thought it was great Clayton drove me to school.

Clayton was also somewhat popular. He played high school basketball when basketball ment EVERY THING to Green Forest Hi. 

All of my class mates knew Clayton and thought he was so good looking. Really it was his personality and charm that made him so attractive. He always knew just what to say to people to win them over. 

His senior year he had pictures of all of the pretty girls in his wallet. There was one picture of a SR girl laying on her bed on her side with the biggest valentine box of candy I had ever seen. Holding it in front of her. I don’t think she had anything else on but I’m not for sure. She wrote something mushy on it. I don’t remember what. I’m sure I was not to be looking in his wallet. 

Clayton had a letterman jacket with his bb letter on it. We did not have money to buy one but someone donated it to him. I’m not sure who it was but I have a good guess. He was very proud of it . all of the players had one.

The school bus he drove was a van. He would even drive it back to town for ball games. I imagine that was against the rules but I’m sure the coach. Principal, and  superintendent even knew he did it. It would not be allowed these days but he did have a way about him   I’m sure all of the teachers liked him.

After we both got older and he moved back to GF we sisters could call on him and he was always there to help.

He passed away doing what he loved… sitting in his recliner watching sports.. we girls laugh about that because so many people say that about a race car driver that died while driving. Or a sky diver that had a mishap and died. Maybe a pilot that died flying a plane. But not brother. He was just relaxing July 2, 2014 watching a ball game.

Sister Patsy said,

when Clayton died it just took all of the joy from her life. I think we all felt a little like that.

Ahhh a great day

 For cornbread and beans! They were so good.

Other than making the bed showers ,2, putting on make up fixing my hair and getting dressed. I did very little else. But it was so amazing how much I loved the fat.it rained on and off most of the day. The air was cool and fresh. The pond is almost running over from so much rain in the last week or so. Me running the hose to the pond last week and filling it with city water was not necessary at all. 

I cooked corn bread and beans and they were perfect . Nice and soft and the skins came off most of them. I added jalapeños in the instant pot and cooked them 30 minutes. A whole pound of them. I split the cornbread with Fleta she loves cornbread and milk. 

I made banana bread Sunday and shared with fleta. I put mine in thefrig in Fleta’s freezer bags and I only ate a little. So I walked down to her house minutes ago and dropped them off for her breakfast. I put a hand full of flaxseed in them and some nuts they were good. 

Fleta is having food provided tomorrow at work.

She is so very good to me. I think I depend on her more now than she does me. When the kids were smaller I helped more but not so much now.

I called Kelly today and told him my quilt top was done. I still have to get batting. Tack it together and then sew the edges. It’s going to be super warm.  I always love to talk to Him. It’s always a laugh a minute. So reminds me of my 3 brothers. I miss so much.

Hope to get a car this week fingers crossed!

My knees are awful. Sister Betty says motion is lotion. So I have been laying on my back and doing bicycling pumps just in the stand that even hurts! Sicko…

Let me find a picture of something.

I’m going to start minting rocks this winter  I used to be very good at tile painting and I think I can do these. There are a ton on the interned to basically copy from. Something new to do.

Not done much

 Today.

I did the floors and I cut my hair. I had spaghetti for afternoon lunch. 

I think I will sew a cover for my spa chair. I want to make a pillow like thing for my neck. 

Fleta came to see me twice today. The last time she brought me a peach. It was pretty good.

Lex is playing volleyball and Seth is playing football. They are both number 7.Seth is so tall! 

Continue

 To rain most of the night on and off. 

I finished the top 🔝 f Kelly’s quilt.

I cleaned out under the bathroom sink. I threw out almost everything. I have an entire kitchen bag full of stuff. I then wiped out all drawers and underneath with strong disinfect. I have a big mouse problem. I ordered new poison and have had it out for at least a week. Now I need to clean out the cabinets on the sink side of the kitchen. The other side I did last week. 

Last night I fell asleep watching Hells Kitchen. It apparently played all night. I dreamed I was a waitress. At my current age and health. Thank goodness I woke up at 4AM.

Fleta got home from Betty’s. Betty made 3 baby blankets for my grand girls. They were all beautiful. She is such a good hooker. Much better at it than I am.

I made homemade spaghetti sauce with meat balls. It was very good. I called Eliseo and he came up and got a trey of it.  I also made homemade rolls they were very good. I shared them with Fleta only. I sent frozen French bread with butter and garlic with Eliseo. 

Betty sent me a bag of dress pants to me. Fleta and I went through them Fleta took a few things. 

I have had allergy problems today. I found a box of new allergy pills and I kept them. They were under the sink.

A picture of Greta, Betty’s grand daughter. She found a dress to wear to a dance. Since I got to post it first Betty will think twice before sharing with me. Greta is one of my favorites. She is so pretty and such a good athlete.