Southern Living Yankee

Wow! Blogger obviously doesn't realize I'm checking out other blog platforms for ease of use and presentation! The copy and pictures are not jiving at all today! So I'll number the paragrahs 1-4, and hope you can understand what picture they're meant to go with. Compare this to my new blog with Wordpress (which has a funny video today, and in all fairness, that's easy to do with Blogger, too) Check out my Squawks here 1.  Here's me and my brothers and my parents at my nephew Sam's graduation party. Although this is Sam's big party, his picture is last because I can't waste any more time trying to coax it up here for you to see first and say "oooh and aaaah, my has he grown!" But let's just tell Sam I'm saving the best for last, OK? I have a sister, too, but she couldn't come. Plus she's tall and beautiful so she would have ruined it for the rest of us. 2. This picture is WGSIL (Worlds Greatest Sister-In-Law) with her si...

Widows Christian Place is catching up. In the almost four years I've been puttering away at this blog I've written 186 posts. Since February I've written 140 on WCP. In about 2 month WCP will surpass this one, Deo Volente. As if that's not enough, last week I started my THIRD BLOG! Am I crazy? Yea, probably. But the other reason I started it was to try out a different blog platform. So I'm experimenting, OK? That's all. I've heard it had more features and was easier and more reliable. If you'd like to see it, click here and laugh . WRITING UPDATE: Tammy, chapter 5 is still a booger. Thanks for checking in on me! I appreciate your prayers! (Picture credit: mad scientist by dzingeek on Flickr)

Mrs. Gee wanted a ribbon to match her teapot and I was the only clerk. The blue wouldn’t do, the rose was the wrong shade. I brought out bolt after bolt of ribbon but not one was quite right. Finally, a plaid ribbon caught my eye. Stripes of royal blue, green gold, and spring yellow played with just a touch of mint green and matched her pot perfectly. “Splendid!” she cried. I picked my way across the yards of fabric and tulle that she had shuffled through while scrambling to find her ribbon, stepped over the piles remnants she’d unloaded and left for me on the old wood plank floor, And then shifted back through again and again while we tried to uncover the teapot my cutting scissors. It was a mess. My boss would have a fit. Especially since this would only bring in a $1.35 sale. Now for a $1000 dollar wedding dress, or even a $200 bridesmaid’s dress he wouldn’t have minded this little catastrophe, but this was too much for $1.35! Plus, I had my life preserver on. (I told you thi...

So I'm at Home Depot spending way too much on potted plants when I see hanging pots of strawberries! Ten Bucks. Hmm . . . this is either a really good idea or the world's most expensive strawberries. I found the pot with the most buds on it, brought it home, unhooked the hanger and put it on my picnic table so it'd get the most sun. drum roll . . . Ta da! The strawberries are ripening! The first day I got a total of 3! Then there were 4, 1, 5 to pick! That's a total of 13 sweet strawberries so far at a cost of  $.76 each. But I've got the rest of the summer to bring the price down, right? They're everbearing! I'm also seeing red in my house! Tom heard me saying how starved I was for color in this house of beige and how it was driving me crazy but how I hate painting. That's a no win situation: go crazy or do something I hate? You decide. However, my hero that he is, Tom said he'd paint. AND for our anniversary (which, by the way, you ALL f...

Today's title pretty well sums up what I'm up to this week. I had a lovely weekend: sad, glad and everything in between. Check out today's post on my other blog for more about that. Right now I'm on my day off and realize I have to write ahead quite a bit in order to get away for some graduations and other fun stuff. Let see: Thursday night dinner with Mom's In Touch, Saturday graduation party, Sunday shower for a friend, next weekend a trip to my nephew's graduation . . . So, if you'll excuse me, I'd better get at writing all the other stuff! Especially the book! Thanks for checking in on me. Please keep praying!