Calling ANDREA!!!!!

What size do you wear? The seller wears a 9 but these are snug on her with bare feet.

$25.00 + $7.50 shipping Go here

I found them doing a search on "fire alarms" trying to find a part for out vintage , refurbished school fire alarm that we want to mount on the house.

AREN"T They AWESOME!!!!

M :)

Lists!

As I'm sure all of you are, I have been making lists and the list making intensifies as the school year approaches doesn't it? So when I ran across THIS list I did a double take and it took me a moment for it to register. Of course it is a list that Connor and I made together before he went to bed here around their Easter (and Grace's birthday) visit last spring. He had a very busy DAY!!

Very good short story.

My sister, Donna, sent both Lisa & I a copy of World Enough And Time by Linda MacCullough Moore.

It is ironic that it is about a woman who is dying. It took me awhile to get through the part I quote below because I was LAUGHING so hard. :

WHEN NANCY WAS SIX and I was eight, she told me that a witch lived underneath our bed and then would throw my pillow on the floor, where it would lie till morning. One day she tied a string across the middle of our room and said she would tear my eyes out if I put one foot on her side. The door was on her side.

When she was miffed, Nancy could be stone silent from after lunch till bedtime. She would play dead in fights, stop breathing, feign sincere unconsciousness until I begged and pleaded and promised I’d be her servant my whole life — a promise I now wonder have I kept.

She told our little brother Ricky if he wet his finger and put it in the electric socket, ice cream would come out. She promised if he jumped off the six-foot-high armoire, he could fly. Inspired by the first seat belts, she chained him to his tricycle and pushed him down a hill.

Oh, Nancy would give you anything. She was always generous. And she was mean.

I can’t tell you just what it all amounts to, but I do know that I am afraid of her to this very day.

To this day I am afraid of Donna.... I wonder if she is afraid of me?

F :)

ps. as usual the card itself that she sent the story in & how she sent it .... 8 pages folded into a 3 inch square, stuffed into the envelope making it near impossible to read
is so typical DONNA that I was laughing before I even got the darn thing open!!!

THE CARD: Pretty sure this represents me although I can't be positive which makes it all the more hilarious. Donna has always admired my interests in shooting/hunting and now riding a motorcycle. We are different that way.

More intense than I thought.

I have to tell you about my motorcycle ride to Wilmar yesterday but first I want to tell you what I just bought at Cashwise:

1) Small bottle of citrus flavored vodka
2) Small bottle of white rum.
3) Lemonade.
4) Six limes (they were 2/$1.00).
5) Club soda.
6) Fresh mint leaves.

If you have any specific suggestions for recipes ( I have some ) or ways to mix a drink... just comment. I am blogging BEFORE I mix a drink:)

Ok. Yesterday the group above met in Clearwater to go to Wilmar to visit a woman who belonged to WOW for many years. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer & is in a nursing home. TWO things ( or revelations) were more intense than I had anticipated... actually three make that four:

1) It was more sad than I thought.

2) When facing certain death acceptance truly is a gift.

3) Even strangers can bring a ray of light to a dark situation and don't ever forget it.

4) My back took a beating and I didn't realize it at the time. I really, really hurt right now... thus...a drink..a DRINK! not yet Mary... it is way too far from bedtime. patience.

M
ps.

The motorcycle we are all behind is FlashG!

Want to Hear Maryjo?

That was the subject for the email I received this am from LDS ( Low Down Sinner) whom I sold my banjo to. Here is the body of the email:

I've been recording a trio of young women this week. They're quite talented and play a plethora of instruments, violin, mandolin, guitar, and some banjo. They brought a pretty raggedy old banjo that honestly sounded like crap, so I pulled out MaryJo. They were nearly as delighted by her as I've been.

Anyway, I've just finished up the first rough mix (thus the RM1 in the title) of one of the songs they played her on, I thought of you when they started admiring it. I thought it was only fitting that you be the first person outside of the studio to hear the track. It's going to be on their upcoming album I'm engineering and producing for them. Please keep this close to the vest until after the release (probably sometime in September).

I'll send you links to the other tracks as they become presentable, if you'd like.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Here is the link

Granted, the quality of the recorded song isn't that great, the banjo actually isn't tuned perfectly, and the voices aren't perfectly in tune as well..... but I LOVE the lyrics! AND I am sooooooo very excited that my banjo ( he named it Maryjo) is being appreciated.

Flash!

FAVORITE quote for the "years"!!!

"rubric" is academic, educational, public school 'gobble dee gook'. Excellent."

My dear mother. RIGHT ON MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I snuck a ride in!!!

The air lightened up just a bit and I got a 50 mile ride in!

M