Leona's profileDell Girl's Live SpacePhotosBlogListsMore  |  Tools Help |
|
July 04 Happy 4th of July
Remember our veterans who sacrifice so much for the freedoms we enjoy. Pray for them and for their families on this our national day of freedom celebrations. Visit a veteran if you can. Call if you can't visit, let them know we appreciate their service to our country. Call a veteran's mother, father, wife, husband, or family...wish them well on this day. Happy 4th of July. July 02 Last Week Was a REAL Trip!Mahnnn, when I tell you last week was a real trip, believe me! It was some trip! Not convinced? Well, grab your seatbelts and hang on. Imagine you’re riding shotgun with Jordyn at the wheel in the Indy-500 finals and you know what you have to do.
Neighbor: “Shank, baby [she calls everybody baby and honey] I hate to call this late but, Carl had a massive heart attack early this morning. I just wanted to let you know because he’s not doing too good. The doctors didn’t expect him to make it through the day but, he did and he’s just laying there.”
More conversation, I grieve with her over the phone and, promise to see them both soon.
Me: “OH, good lawdy! What!? When!? Where!? What happened???” Mr. DellGirl: “Calm down, calm down. They promised me over the phone they were okay. You just calm down and I’ll keep you posted.” Me: “Okay, you be sure to let me know.”
Time to burn up the phone lines I call sister-in-law #1. No answer. Call other nephew. No answer. Call niece. No answer. Call sister-in-law #2. Finally I reach a live person. She says the same as Mr. DellGirl, Mom-in-law and nephew said they’re okay.
· 3:00 pm – Sis-in-law #2 calls to say she’s going to see for herself if everyone is really fine and, asked if I want to ride with her. Yes, I do. · 6:45 pm – We hit the highway headed to the East Texas Piney Woods to check on family. Everyone is fine, just like they said. We visit a bit and, I take a short trip across town to pay a surprise visit to my mom. Mom and I had a good unexpected visit.
Now that we know everyone is really okay, we hit the highway back to Houston.
Mid-day: Mr. DellGirl prepares for a routine doctor’s appointment at the VA while I catch up on a few things.
We stopped by the meat market on the way home to get something to cook. At home we get comfortable, cook dinner, eat, and settle down to relax. Finally - to bed.
“Huh? What? What time is it, what day is it? What do you mean, get up? I’m not moving. Ummm…back to sleep. To rest rejuvenate and -- do nothing.”
WHAT a week, I hope I don’t have another one like that for many years to come! June 21 Fathers Are SpecialHappy Father's Day to fathers everywhere, especially to our Spaces Live Fathers. May today bring you much happiness and love!
A father is… - a person who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic- neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there - someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow - a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be - a banker provided by nature - not someone to lean on, but someone who makes leaning unnecessary - makes his baby girl into a little woman - someone who carries pictures where his money used to be - a thing that growls when he feels good and laughs out loud when he is scared half to death Really Great Fathers. . . - make bets with insurance companies about who'll live the longest. - learn a lot from children about coping with life. - are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough, so that they can have children that are smarter than anybody's. And, while mothers cry where it shows, fathers stand and beam -- outside – and die inside. June 16 Change of Plans
Sunday didn't turn out the way I planned - - at all. Instead of cooking and retiring to my chaise lounge to watch the aquarium, things quickly turned on a dime. Half way through my post, baby son called. He wanted to know if I had any sweet potatoes. Ummm...now, what's up with that? I asked and he answered, he wanted to make french fried sweet potatoes...when he came over. I had one small one. I finished my post, headed for the kitchen, and started dinner. I made the cornbread and popped it in the oven, cut up and seasoned the chicken to go into the oven too. Danged, this sure is an 'itty-bitty' chicken, that thing's not going to last very long. I took a 3-lb. bag of turkey wings from the freezer and put them on to boil. Okay, enough itemization, I'm making myself hungry. Mike came in just as I took the turkey wings from the boiling water and placed them on a pan, then the questions started. He has tons of questions about the whys and wherefores of cooking, since he now lives on his own and has to prepare his own meals sometimes. I explained par-boiling, well actually, boil-boiling ... to tenderize tough meats before putting them in the oven. He listened, said he understood, and started peeling his 'lone' sweet potato. We each worked on our separate dish talking all the while. He questions, I answer. I question, he answers. Quite a lot of laughter seasons the atmosphere as we prepare our Sunday dinner. As he finishes the potatoes he asks is that all there is to it, I don't remember (I haven't made those since before he was born). We discussed a few options and settled for coating them with Confectioners sugar. Ummmm...delicious, what a treat! We munch on these as I season and mash regular potatoes, the last thing I need to do. Everything that needs to simmer is turned down and dishes are washed. We leave the kitchen for the den where we visit chat and catch-up on last week's happenings as we wait for the food. Things didn't go as I planned Sunday. They turned out way way better than I could have imagined! June 13 My AquariumCompliments of baby son, Mike.
 I have no words today, I am all worded outnothing to share, too tired to research
no cute quotes,
nothing!
After I cook, I'll sit
stare at my aquarium
admire the beautiful tropical fish
let them lull me as I rest,
relax and rejuvenate.
I need restoration
this is it! June 10 Leave A Message After The BeepHello. How are you?
As you can see, I am otherwise occupied. I'll get back to you as soon as I finish lunch.
"Ummm (smack smack)...yummmmy...Oooooh, this is soooo good!"
Ok, gotta go. Bye, bye now. What are you getting into today?
Today's humor @ June 04 "What Are We Doing?"Me myself and I are at it again. My laptop died, I can't work in bed until the wee hours of the morning anymore. I've spent time I would have been blogging writing instead, I've made progress in one direction and lost ground in another. So! They can't decide who's in charge of what or who's supposed to do what. This is how it goes. Me: "What is this string doing on my finger?"
Myself: "I don't know, why you asking me? I didn't put it there."
I [said]: Quiet, you two. That's to remind me to update the blogs and website today. Or was it tomorrow? Oh, didn't I make a schedule for dates, places, and content updates?
Me: "So, what's supposed to get updated today?"
Myself: "It's the Spaces.Live blog. Right here. This one. That's what we're supposed to do today."
I [said, irritably]: "Oh, all right! I will, just as soon as I find the chart where I made the schedule, so I can be sure I'm not supposed to be doing one of the other sites today instead of this one."
Me: "What schedule? What are you talking about? Remember you joined that Twitter thingy and that new one, Squidoo. Don't forget them!"
Myself: Don't forget, you're supposed to start getting your...errr...umm...ahhh...the uhhh... ."
I [the head CEO, said]: "OK, ok - now - What are we supposed to be doing?"
And, so it goes around Dellgirl's place. What are you doing? Tell me something good, make me laugh. I need a good one right about now.
© 2008 by Leona G. Shankle - All Rights Reserved ▪ Dell Girl Publishing May 31 Incredible DaysSunday I am so fired-up! I just finished the most productive four days! I got more writing done over the past four days than I have since I finished my book and started blogging. 3,ooo words. And, not one of them on a blog. The best part is that half of it, roughly 1,500 words, is tightly edited and ready to go. The downside to that is, I had to stay from my blogs, website, and all my friends. Now what kind of trade-off is that! At one point, I searched my saved files and flash-drive for unfinished pieces. I found this beautifully written, soul-stirring poem. As I finished reading the last line I thought, "Wow, this is nice. It's hard to believe I wrote that." Needless to say, that raised my resolve to write and my energy level 200 degrees. Most of Wednesday and, all day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I wrote. With that said and with so much accomplished, I am fired-up! Ready for tomorrow. May 29 Hold On, I'm Coming!I've been around to a lot of your spaces and places. Now I'm working on getting to the remaining few, see you soon.
 What are you doing tomorrow? I need to go grocery shopping, and run a few other errands. Maybe I'll cook, maybe not. We'll see how that goes. Today I ran around with Jordyn while she did her errands, pretty hot out there it was. She didn't do the "hot rod" today. We took it slow and listened to Christmas music on her Zune...yea yea yea...I know. But, I USED to listen to Christmas music year round. It always puts me in a wonderful mood.
Hope you all have a gloriously happy weekend! May 27 Gone FishingThat's what they used to say when they were going to be away from the Country Store for a while.
I'm gone ... of a different sort.
"Gone Writing"
I hope you're having a nice time, enjoying yourselves and keeping out of trouble. I'll see you as soon as I can. Enjoy your day and have a Happy Thursday! |
I'm beginning to look like the "RUBBER-BAND-MAN" - stretched...
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
