Memories

This is a quilt Mama made for me probalby over 30 years ago. I have 3 others about like this. They are all worn and tattered, like this one, because I use them all the time, and all full of memories. The blue print was one of mama's dresses. I think the red print with the white and blue flowers was once a cover for her rocking chairs.


This is a quilt Mama made for Jr. The red was one of Debbie's outfits. The light purple was one of Mama's dresses. The orange I remember seeing but not what it was used for. She made one for Jr and one for Greg when they were about 8 or 9 years old. Greg's is gone, but we use this one very day.


I am going to use this to make quilts for my littlest grandchildren. The pink is for Hannah and the red and blue is for Robert. The strips will go on Hannah's and Roberts will have something red or blue or both. They will be very warm casue this is fleece. I wanted fannel for the backing but could not find any I really liked. They will be full sized quilts becase the fleece is very wide. I was going to piece the tops but I do not like to piece so I think I will just use one piece of material for the top. If Mama was here, she would piece the top for me. Maybe 30 years from now, my babies will still have these quilts Grandma made.

Trust

Patsy has a post about NASA planing to shoot down a satalite that is going to crash to earth in March. NASA's story is that there is dangerous fuel aboard this thing that could harm people if it hit them on the head. I am sure that it true, but the if is a very big

IF

. I have never heard of a satalite falling to earth and hurting someone. It may have happened, but, I doubt it or NASA would have mentioned that when trying to justify shooting at this bus in the sky, and they did not. This is not the first satalite to fall from the sky, nor is it the first attempt to shoot down a satalite. China recently shot a satalite or some similar object from the sky, (google it if you want to know, it may not have been a satalite, but they made a similar shot as NASA is planing). Our goverment protested China's actions with sincere heartfelt objections at that time becaue China was testing an anti-rocket weapon. But, NASA is not testing the weapon they are intending to use for this shot. Unlike China, NASA has the lofty goal of protecting the human race from a dangerous object falling from space. Do you think the Chinese thought maybe someday there might be a dangerous object coming from space toward their people?

You know what is so scary about this: The DECIDER. You know who the decider is don't you? Mr. George W. Bush. To me that is scary because I do not trust him to make this decsion. That is also very sad, becasue I really do not even trust him to be capable of understanding the situation and making an informed decision on the true facts. Never mind that I do not agree with his political opinions, even if the decision is not political on his part, I do not think he is capable of acessing a situation and putting his personal politics aside to come to a decision for the good of the country or the world. And he is the decider. He told us so. He is the most important person in the world, in his view, and he makes all his decisions from that perspective. He will shot the rocket from the sky becasue he wants to and the true facts will not deter him from his mission.

Obama

I think Obama is going to be our Democratic presidential nomominee. If he is, I am going to write an article on him and his Carroll County ancestors for our Historical Society Quarterly. I am not sure Shirley will print it, but I am going to write it.

Patsy, I tired the spell checker on this. It does not do anything. I would say the code is broken.

Wondering the world

In stumbling around the blog world, I found this blog

http://oldladylincoln.blogspot.com/

That must be written by someone like me, because she had jokes that I thought were funny. At work people are always forwarding these emails that are supposed to be funny, but do not seem just plain stupid to me. But, this was funny... And very timely....

Campaigning

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. "Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you." "No problem, just let me in," says the man. "Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity ." "Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the senator. "I'm sorry, but we have our rules." And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne. Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises... The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St Pe ter is waiting for him. "Now it's time to visit heaven." So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. "Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity." The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell." So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above. The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?" The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning...... Today you voted."

The Old Woman and her Computer

Tell the truth, would we have ever in our wildest dreams thought that someday Sister Patsy would be know far and wide as the Old Woman with the Computer. Who would have thought that the sisters would be turning to the Old Sister for help with computer problems. Who would have ever thought that she would learn how to turn a computer on, or even want to. And then, she got us all started on this bloggety blog thing.

I have to admit that even though I enjoyed reading her blog, I never thought I would do this myself, but I do, just not as intense as she does. And she goes all over the web reading blogs from all over the world and making new friends. I have tried this a little, but usually do not find that much of interest outside our family blogs, certainly I can not get into the chicken blogs the way she does, but I have recently found a couple of blogs from England (by following posts on other sisters blogs) that are interesting.

Here is one
http://womtig.blogspot.com/
right now he is featuring bird pictures, but I like it the best when he posts pics of the countryside around where he lives in England.

And here is his friend Peter
http://easynowoldchap.blogspot.com/
His scenery photos are wonderful, but I like his odd prespective on the little things.

Before Patsy got me started on this, I had never even considered looking at a blog, let along making one of my own. I wonder what wild things she will get us into next.

Down to the Creek and back

This is maybe an eighth of a mile down from the old slab across Dry Creek. As long as I have lived here, I have never went this far down the creek.


I walked up the creek past Frank Marr's place into the bottom Daddy used to own.



And up through Dan's pasture to the road just past my house.



If you look close, or click to enlarge, you can see Clayton's house in the distance.

All in all I had a good day playing hooky. Now, we are having steak, baked potato and cherry pie and ice cream for supper. No diet today.

Walk

I went up to the top of the hill right behind my house, then down this fence line between us and David Combs (the old Hampton place). All the plants were covered with ice.




This is an old tree stump that sits on the line between Frank Marr and David Combs. Maybe Daddy and Floyd first nailed the fence to this tree.




I followed the line across the top of the hill and on down into David Combs pasture (the old Jack Robertson place). I was going to go on across the next hill and drop down to the creek on the other side, but David was over there feed cattle, so I followed Frank Marr's fence and started down a little draw that I thought probably went to the creek.

Ice road, no trucking, all in all a beautiful day

We have ice this morning, but we almost dodged the bullet again. It is much wrose just 20 to 30 miles north of us. I am playing hooky from work, so it is not a bad day for me. George came home at 7 am and said the roads were clear, but still, I am not going in. I think I will just do whatever I want to today.

I think I will go for an icey walk right now. I hope I do not loose my hat.