Thankful Thursday

 

Thankful today (and every day) for my husband.  49 years!  He is the brave to my fear, the calm to my crazy, the happy to my sad, the positive to my negative, and the patience to my impatience. 

We decided to forgo anniversary cards & gifts and just go out to eat after riding around the lake.  This photo was taken from the boat ramp at one of the camping areas.  We kept getting closer and closer and this bird was not moving. You can barely tell that there is water beneath him because it was so dreary out. 

I hope everyone has recovered from Thanksgiving. I am trying to get started on Christmas but I seem to be spending more time on planning that actual doing.   :)

Have a great weekend, everyone! 

 

sharing with   Michelle for Thankful Thursday and Eileen for Saturday's Critters

Reflections & Critters

 

Lots of reflections on the still water downstream from dam.

sharing with James for Weekend Reflections

Invasion of the green heads

Cowbirds/Grackles?  

I have no idea, but they sure are loud in the tree tops 

and when incoming to our field. 

Ever hypervigilant, and always a bit psychotic.

My son Michael sent this video to me. 

Squirrels are such a nuisance, but I thought they are so cute!  

Rats with tails, I guess, but still. :)

sharing with  Eileen for Saturday's Critters

Thankful Thursday

 

Thankful for my littles.  What a blessing they are.  Hadleigh stayed with us a few days last week.  She loves horses and was not happy until her Pawpaw let her meet Little Man up close and personal. He is the last horse of the bunch, and the orneriest, meanest, stuck-uppist, mule-ish horse of all and there they stood- tiny tot to quarter pony.  You see Pawpaw is between them and even has a hand on him.  She got to feed him carrots and was just as happy as could be.  Man behaved himself, but he really had no choice. :) 

I hope everyone has wonderful holiday, and even if you aren't celebrating Thanksgiving where you live, just have a wonderful day.  Life is so short, we can hardly blink away a second of it. 

Thank you for reading my silly little blog!

sharing with Michelle for Thankful Thursday

Time Travel Tuesday~ 1940's

  

1940ish

Rural Southwest Arkansas

My grandmother & grandfather on my dad's side-

Lela & Clarence.

I assume the gun and tote bag means 

he had been squirrel hunting.

The truck is a good old Chevrolet, 

I think called a stake truck, but I could be wrong. 

I know they had that truck for a long time because 

I have photos of all three kids standing beside it 

and they were in their teens. 

My grandmother is wearing a dress, which was her norm 

until after my grandfather died, I believe. 

She made all of her own clothes, and her daughter's also. 

This shirtwaist dress was pretty popular back then 

and on up to the 60's or later. 

She added the rolled up stockings later on and 

I remember those well. 

They were thicker than regular nylons. 

Lela was the daughter of  Earnest Luther & Harriet Cox 

Barrett and Clarence was the son of  James & Linnie Clark Sutton

I miss them both.