" The Tacky-nology of the day."

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I found a few old music sheets at a sale the other day...
Who can even stay on their feet when they play the Andrews sisters...
" He's the Boogey Woogey Bugle Boy of Company D.."
Do I have any fellow big band lovers out there, or do everyone think I hit my head..

Well, as a matter of fact I did..
You gotta know how we are, coming in the house with two armloads of groceries, it's so nice outside...the house seems warm to me, and I just decided to prop the front door open while I was at it...I took my foot and scooted over the 20 pound plaster cat that we prop it with..
What can I say... something went terribly wrong, the groceries went one way and I went another...splat on my rear and I didn't stop there...I did not have a single second to catch myself, and I went right on back and hit the back of my head on the heavy, solid coffee table at breakneck speed.
I saw stars.
I didn't know if I was gonna live. or. not.
It hurt so bad, I couldn't find a place on my head and neck that didn't hurt.
I have a goose egg to prove how silly I can be...it's like..
so ya could'nt wait till you put the groceries down before you prop the
blankety blank door open. good grief!!!!
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On another note...pun intended.
I happened to notice the name Whaley on this sheet...
Hey, that's my maiden name, and I know we had kin that stayed in old New York.
hmmmm!!! Investigation involved on this!
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So now we move on to the title of my post..
Let me preface this by saying "I love gadgets, too."
I was lonely Sunday afternoon, hubby sleeps a lot...and I knew some of my family, grandbabies and all were visiting up on the hill.
So I wandered off up there to see what was happening...they were eating supper, so I sat and visited until they were through having their supper.
As soon as the last fork laid down, the gadgets came out, and the visiting was over.
Like I said, I love gadgets, too.
But if that's the way it is, I'll have to learn to "Love What Is"
Tacky-knowlogy wins again.
I love them all anyway, but I just had to leave...I'll look at FB when I get home..
and find out how everyone is...LOL

"The census takers"

My Great-Grandfather
Thomas F. Whaley
Deputy US Marshall
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there's a few things i wanted to talk about today...
i've been having the most rewarding experiences the last two weeks or so.
most of you know I have been helping with the 1940 census.
I've been working on the cards the men filled out for the draft board.
I do take the time to read everyone of them because I appreciate the sacrifices they might have made for me...for my family...for my fellow Americans...
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i have wept as I went thru their lives with them...most had families,
businesses that may die of neglect if they go off to war.
I have been touched by the the amount of immigrants we had then.
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We need help, and a lot of it, to get this done...
If you should have a few extra minutes to devote to this.
That would be wonderful...Thanks!

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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

"Kleenex Alert"

My daughter Kim just shared this on facebook...

 and I wanted to share it with you.

Kleenex alert !!!!!

I took Sadie to the dentist this morning for her beautiful Mommy..

The dentist has a TV mounted to the ceiling so that kids can watch a movie while he works on their teeth. 

She picked "Hello Kitty". She laid back in the chair, they put the piggy-snout nitrous contraption over her nose, and turned the light on so they could look at her teeth. 

The light hurt her eyes, and the nitrous was blowing ...around and into her eyes, so they gave her sunglasses. 

A few minutes in, they gave her the injection in her gums so he could fill her tooth. 

He sits back to wait till the numbness takes effect. Sadie, in her shaded, nitrous stupor, raises her head off the chair, looks at me, and tells me she loves me in sign language. 

Now THAT was a Kodak moment!! Too bad I didn't have my camera!

This sweet girl has juvenile diabetes, too.

God Bless Sadie!

 

I ran across this picture today, and it always brings me joy...

our grandies were the cutest little patooties you ever saw in your life..

They always begged to sit on the kitchen counter when I was cooking..

I miss that...

so much..

just take a second and look at these faces.

the bottom left one is priceless..The look on their faces makes me smile everytime i see it.

The one on the top right is so funny, looks like Becky is pretty disgusted with the whole Easter thing. I have no idea what she was thinking. She's got two kids of her own now. Wow!

The middle one on the left I took with a 35 millimeter I found at a yard sale.

that was before the digital ones came out.

The bottom right one used to think all the dirt roads out here belonged to me.

"Granma, somebody was on your road today!

Me; well, did you run them off.

She says yes.

Good girl..i respond, and she scampers away to play, all proud of herself for protecting Granma*

Thanks for indulging a granma today..while she brags on her family.

"Earth Day"

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I see that today is Earth Day.
God made us a beautiful Earth, didn't he.
A garden of Eden to live in and take care of, and there's one little area in my eden I can finish today, at least I hope I can...I've been looking at " Cozy Little House" and drooling
I bought some geraniums to put out there, because they like full sun. I have always struggled with flowers, one could say "She doesn't have a green thumb" you know...and one would be right.

Wrestling with that and cleaning the yard a little more is my agenda for today.At least I hope to do that today...I'm already breathless and ready for a nap...I'm still so weak.
Hubby says I need to get out my chair and off my computer and do something, says I'll feel better. Pffftttt....on that..
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I have all this beautiful ground cover I need to transplant. Everyone that comes to the house wants a start of it, it's very lush and green, and it's easy to take care of.
I have some ground that won't grow a thing...
So I guess I'll try transplating this into some of those areas.
That 5 inches of rain we got while I was in the hospital really made it grow.
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In the top picture you can see the wooden walkway hubs made for me...Love it!!!
Well, it needs to be redone, too. It's pretty unstable now, not meant for old stumbly feet like ours.

So we either take it out, or try to lay a new one down. and I sure don't want to take it out.
But I can't do it, and he can do less than I can.
I  thank God every day for our son-in-laws..the one next door has to do everything now.
I feel so helpless.
But I did get some transplanting done yesterday...maybe that's why I feel so bum today.
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I woke up this morning feeling so much better, the cold and congestion I have had seems to be getting tired of me and it wants to go and find somebody else to bother. Well, that's certainly ok with me...So "off with your head" sorry cough.
I've been thru quite enough lately, thank you very much...!
It's very nice outside today, and I have so many things I want to do.
I have a few flowers left I need to plant.
I want to redecorate the front porch, too.
Everything looks so sad out there. I gotta do something or go stir-crazy, ya know.
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Being confined to this easy chair is not doing the old tush any good, either.
Well, I just wanted to say Hi this morning..
Just to see how you are, so I am going to go and clean off the porch while hubby is out of the way...He can't do the dust thing...allergies, you know.
I hope your day is good.
blessings