Colorado

 

George and Michelle are out west tonight visiting the little one. She is just the cutest.

Found Next Door

 

Wind has been howling all day.  It is 70 now, but will really drop tonight.

This cabinet was on Helen's bathroom. I thought it was attached but saw it was freestanding. Greg and Robert moved it for me. I am going to put sheets and towels in it.

Most returned Christmas gift

 

For the Birds

 Can you believe, day after Christmas I am sitting on my deck early morning watching my new bird feeder in pj's. Hannah and/or Eliseo got me this. I do not have bird seeds I used cereal with nuts and berries and unsalted peanuts. Bird woman Sister can let me know if that is acceptable. Wearhet thermometer says it is 65 out here at 8:30. Glory be!

Christmas 2025

 

Greg left before picture time.  Everything went great. Good food, good company.

All down hill from here

 

Because today was the shortest day of the year.  It has been warmer and I am glad. I sm not doing good with the cold.

I have Christmas done now.  Bought the last present today. Em is just getting cash.

Windy night last night

 

The wind really howled around my house last night. A dead tree blew down on the Meek hill, but no dead trees blew down on my house.

KM

 

This is Kathy's Christmas present.  Helen was supposed to fix the K M for me but that didn't happen.  They look a little messy, but it is done.

This is what is in the box.  This all came from junk stores. My favorite type of shopping.

Books I bought today

 Today I bought 4 books on Amazon intending to give one of the four, or maybe more, to my son the reader for Christmas.  My son does not read my kind of books.  All four books are my kind of books.

1. American Predator, The hunt for the most meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century, my son likes fantasy books about fantasy sociaties.  I don't think this is a fantasy book.

2. The Warmth of Other Suns, The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.  This about three unique African Americans that fled the south 1930-1920 time period.  Not a fantasy.

3. To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment – A Dramatic Biography of the Founding Fathers and Early America's Struggle for Unity by Bret Baier....Not a fairy tail.

4. The Outlaws of Brunswick County Paperback – by Dean Smith (Author)

Think you know the real rural South? The Outlaws of Brunswick County is a searing, sharply observed memoir that tears through the myth of rural simplicity and lays bare the beauty, brutality, and contradictions of life in the forgotten corners of America.

This a a memoir written by a known writter.  I know I will really like this book, so I think it is the one I will give to Son for Christmas.  Here is what he wrote about this book.

Maybe not a fairy tale.

Burr...

 

Sunny and bright this am but looks are deceiving.  The low this morning was 11.

Now at 9, it has warmed up to a balmy 14.  It is not supposed to get above freezing today. Tomorrow is supposed to be much better but still cold at night, then a nice warm-up for the rest of the week.

New cookware

 

I bought this for myself today.  I got down to just odds and ends cookware. The other day I couldn't find the lid to my big fryer.  I finally found it, but not when I needed it. This set does not have a big fryer, but I usually only cook for 2 people. I actually choose this set because it was pretty. I will see if Hannah wants any of my odds and ends.

Uncle to the rescue

 

Hannah's new cook stove is installed and working.  Maybe she will bake a cherry pie 🥧. 

Fire in the Sky

 

Deary weather

 

Yesterday it got to almost 60 with beautiful sunshine all day. Today was cold and deary with a high in the mid 40s. I am ready for summer.

Firewood

 

Greg has been cutting the yard tree into firewood for George Jr. He is going to use it at work in the shop because they have a wood stove. Greg about has it all cut into firewood lengths.

It has been cold. I am not liking it. Today it almost made it to 50 degrees.

2026 Calender

 

Gloomy and Cold

 

I am ready for sunshine. We got a little spitting on white stuff and sleet but it did not last. Tomorrow it is supposed to make it to 40. I do not like winter.

Family Photos

 I have been going through my pictures picking out ones to give away.  I decided to put a few in frames and display them by Helen's picture.

I am thankful

That Thanksgiving is over.

Remembered Days...

 They say there are days everyone remembers.  My rememberer has never been as robust as that of many others rememberer, but there are days of my life that I remember well, even to the clothes I was wearing at the time.  When I googled days everyone remembers, I could remember some, but not nearly all that were listed.  Of course, some of these were before my time, but not many.  Anyway, here are some of my remembered days.

August 18, 1954.  Sister Helen was born.  Daddy woke me and Betty up and took us up the road to Delbert O'Dell's home.  Dr. McCurry came to our home and delivered Helen and we came home to a new sister.  I remember thinking that we could play with her in our doll funiture like a doll. Sister was not a doll.  I remember having to watch her while Mama did her housework.  I would lay Helen on the bed in the back bedroom and bounce gently on the bed until she went to sleep so I could go outside and play.

May 2, 1956.  Debbie Lee was born.  We came home on the school bus. Richard was on the hill above the road cutting brush with an ax.  He shouted down that we had a new baby sister.  I did not believe him. She was our greatest blessing.

July 13, 1961.  Gilbert Melton Powell was born.  Daddy and come of the kids were down below the pond at the garden he had in the middle of the pasture digging potatoes.  Mama went out in the yard and yelled for them to come to the house.  I spoiled little brother to death.

November 22, 1963. JFK was shot had killed.  I was in the 10th grade at Green Forest working in the library as an aid to get out of study hall.  I was sitting on a stool, wearing my cool white jeans.  Geneva Waterman told us the President had been shot and killed.  That was all that was on TV for at least a week.  I remember watching, watching, watching.

June 5, 1968. RFK was shot and killed.  I was working at Franz Foods in Green Forest.  The next morning, as I left the yard to go to work, the raido said RFK had been shot, tragedy upon tragedy.  I was wearing a multicolored orange shift style dress. To me, it was an even sadder than when JFK died.

July 20, 1969. Apollo landed on the moon.  I was living in Kansas City with George's cousin's family.  Sharon and I went to a drive in movie that night because we knew nothing would be on TV except for the moon.  We were not interested in the moon.

November 3, 1992.  Our very own Arkansa man through and through, Bill Clinton, was elected President.  Never before had one we considered one of our own achived such heights. I was working night shift at Tyson Foods.  Clayton and John Fisher, both supervisors, stayed in the breakroom all night watching the returns.

9/11/2001.  I was working day shift at Tyson Foods.  Bob Costello told me about the planes and as I walked by a TV in the hallway I saw people falling from sky scrappers above New York. 

Feburary 1, 2003.  The Space Shuttle fell to earth, killing all seven onboard.  I was in Harrison shopping and saw it on a TV in a store window.

That's my list. What is yours?

Tree be gone

 

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Robert has wheels

 

2018 Ford F150. He is well pleased. He also purchased a 3 year extended warranty on the power train thru the dealer. The payment is well within his means, at $200  below what he takes home in one week.

Gone like a white truck

 

A white pickup with no engine has been setting here for 2 years. Someone stole it today. I am glad it is gone.

Trees

 Betty is posting trees and writing about what kind they are.

This is a dead tree.

Visiting Sister

 

I got up just after sunup Saturday and drove down to Sister Betty's.  We had a good visit and I bought some presents to send to the great grandkids in Colorado. I want to mail them the first week in December.

I have already put up my Christmas  🎄. So when people send me presents, I will have a place for them.

This the coffee pot I got from work in 2018 for time served. It has served me well, but about a year ago the buttons to set the time stopped working. The buttons to set when it starts still worked so I just adjusted the start time as needed.  Today I was determined I was doing to set the time.  After repeatedly punching buttons, hard, I got the time set. Then I get the start time for 3:30 am. Ready to go. No! At 3:30 pm it started making coffee. Now, I think I have it all ready for tomorrow's work day.

Dead trees

 

The electric company trimmed up my dead tree today.  George Jr is going to rent a lift and finish it off.

 And I walked to the top of Meek hill this morning. Started at sunup,. It is about 3 miles round trip.