Day Twentyone

Today was cold and disagreeable.  Google says the high was 38, but it is 31 now.  But, I looked at last year and the high was 30, low 9.  I guess today is a little better than that.

I downloaded 3 books to read.  The first was Ma Yan a diary of a 13 year old Chinese girl.  It was somewhat interesting.  Her life was so very hard trying to go to school with only one bowl of rice a day to eat much of the time.  She is saying that she needs to go to school so she can have a career and get her family out of their poverty.  It does not sound to me like there was much hope of a better life for her. But then a French journalist comes to the village, Ma Yan's mother gives him her diary.  He gets the diary published.  Ma Yan and other children of the village get help going to school and food in excess of one bowl of rice a day.  Ma Yan later gets to go to Paris and attend a University.  Her life is so much different today all because her mother gave her diary to a stranger.

If the stranger had not taken such an interest in her and her plight, it is likely she would be working the fields like her mother still existing on a bowl of rice a day.

If you watch the video you might notice that no one there has a problem with obesity.

 

Eula Flowers

Died, January 18.

http://cosmicexchange.infosaic40.com/Obituaries/SingleObituary.asp?ObitID=4565&email=nelson@nelsonfuneral.com

Day Twenty

This is a story about getting old.  Sometime probably ten years or more ago I lost my SS card. I have not needed it for anything, so I have not went to get a replacement.  Next year, or maybe the end of this year, I will be so old I will need a SS card for something.  I looked online to see what I needed to get a replacement.  I printed off the application and started filling it out.  It asked for my parent's SS#, if I knew them. I did not but thought I would find them in the SS death index online.  Well, I found Daddy's right off, but I cannot find Mama in the index.  What I did find was Aunt Lovetta with a death date of September 15, 1992.  That is just 1 week after Mama died.  I do not remember that they died that close together.  Today, I took my camera to work and stopped by Uncle Floyd and Aunt Lovetta's grave to see if the SS list was wrong.  No, Mama and Lovetta died within a week of each other.  I still do not remember it that way.  But, then, I am old. 

Big Bird in a tree by the 'little pond' just past Clayton's house.

Day Ninteen

Happy Birthday Emmy.  Big eleven today.  Two more years and a teenager.

Today was a beautiful day, up in the 60's.  George spent the day playing on the tractor.  This is Gustav, the stump of a huge oak down on the fence between us and Dan that was blown over the night Gustav blew through here at the end of August, 2008.  He started working trying to dig it out last fall.  To me this is just stupid make work but George sees things differently.  I do not see that it makes any difference in anything whether the stump is here or somewhere else.  It is a big waste of money and time trying to move it.  Besides, how many people do you know that have a stump with a name.

Tomorrow, end of the work week.  Hurrah!

Day Eighteen

Today is Grandma Powell's birthday.

This was taken at Grandma's house on North Springfield about 1958-59.  I remember at least 3 really large trees in Grandma'a yard.  I think there was one to the right of us here in the front yard and one to the left back about the middle of the house.  In the 1910 photo Betty posted there are only small trees on the north side of the house.  The huge trees that were in Grandma's yard had not even been planted yet in 1910.

Betty says Grandma bought the house from a Brasswell.  I do not remember.  I looked at the 1910 Green Forest census and there are only 11 households listed on North Springfield in Green Forest.  Someone on this list lived in Grandma's house in 1910. Anyone recognize this first name?

Green Forest town, April 15 1910, North Ward

HH#	Fname	Lname	Relationship	Age
1	Crawford	James	Head	26	Salesman, Commission
		Dollie	Wife	24
		Buel	Son	1
2	Coxsey	Mike S.	Head	44	Salesman, General Store
		Maudie	Wife	31
		Willie G.	Son	20	Cashier @ Bank
3	Phillips	John W	Head	54	Stone Mason
		Mallie	Wife	54
		Ray	Son	18
		Cecil	Son	15
4	Rhodes	James L	Head	62	Post Master
		Minta	Wife	37
		Pearl J	Dau	20	Deputy Post Master
		Clarence M	Son	13
		Clyde G	Son	12
		Thelma C.	Dau	1
	McDowell	Mary J	MIL	74
5	Villines	Floyd G	Head	28	Minister
		Sally M	Wife	21
		George N	Son	4
		Sarah	Dau	1
	Price	Willie	Sister	24	Music teacher
6	Reynolds	Tim	Head	35	Clerk, grocery store
		Contis??	Wife	36
		Jewel C	Son	14
		Ruth M	Dau	2
7	Coxsey	George W	Head	46	Owns dry goods
		Ona	Wife	29
		Pearl	Dau	4
		Carl	Son	3 / 12
8	Sneed	Willie L	Head	25	Stock dealer, buys & sells
		Grace M	Wife	24
		Millie	Mother	57
	Baker	Denton	Hired Hand	25
	Fultz	Alice	Servant	21
9	Wise	Eliza	Head	50	Blacksmith, owns shop
		Thelma A	Wife	53
		Mary J	Mother	77
10	Edgman	Alice	Head	43
		Ruben	Son	20	Cashier @ Bank
		Clyde	Son	18	General Farmer
11	Pickines	Americus A	Head	83	from New York
		Mary N	wife	76
	Skinkle	Corneal	SIL	70	General Farmer
		Nora S	Dau	57	From Michigan

Day Seventeen

No picture, no news.

Day Sixteen

Russell Molder died this weekend.  He was 77.

It has been a warm, windy day.  Tomorrow it is supposed to turn cold.

George said he saw a buck right out in front of the house in the road today at 10 am.  Something must has spooked him to be out in the open at that time of day.

Today is a no picture day.

More Fifteen

This was Day Fourteen that did not get posted.  Hannah with a treasure she found, a sparkely  rock.

Does this remind you of anyone?  Looks like Grandpa to me.

And Sunset over the Rock Quarry. 

A beautiful day overall.

Day Fifteen

We had lots of grazers this morning.  George said they looked like a herd of cattle.

Winnie says her friend is home from the hospital and doing well.

The babies are still here, but we will take them back this afternoon.  Hannah gets to take her kitchen home.  It was raining the last time when they went home so she did not get to take it.  She really enjoys playing house with it.  I think she is related to Aunt Helen.  She straightened up their room, and picked up all there toys yesterday.  She does a good job of picking up.  She even made the bed in my room.

Today is supposed to be in the 60's but George is complaining about the wind.  The sunshine looks so much better than the grey we have had.  I like bright days.  Actually, as I get older, I want perfect weather more and more.  I dislike hot and cold equally.