I am very fortunate to come from a close family with three sisters and one brother. The girls get together periodically for a girl’s night out. For some reason, my brother, bows out on our girl’s night out. We gathered this time in honor of Mother’s birthday and Mother’s Day. In the second picture back left is me , 2nd daughter, back right, Phyllis eldest daughter, bottom left Mother, bottom center, Connie 4th daughter, bottom right Marilyn the youngest. In the third picture, Mother is reacting to being kissed by Marilyn’s little dog.My brother Bill is pictured with my Mother in the top picture. In the fourth picture, a dear family friend, Elaine, joins us. We had a wonderful night, laughed till we were exhausted, and enjoyed every minute together.
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Kissing Cousins
Bud and I were discussing family relationships with my little old Cousin Kat from a small village in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She was born a Perkins, married a Perkins, and explained there was another group of Perkins living in the same small area, explaining they were all unrelated.
“Weren’t you and your husband and the other Perkins family at least distantly related?”
“Oh no. We are all descended from different brothers.”
“Oh.”
Cookies for Peace
Bud went on a diet. This means he’s polished off everything easy to grab in the pantry so never plans to eat again. After forty-five years, I know his habits. Trying to forestall a late-day panic, I asked early in the day if he’d like me to make something light. I was thinking, fruit salad, jello with fruit, something like that. “No, I am on a diet.”
He went all day till he caved about five, Dinner was pinto beans with lean pork over brown rice, a nice salad, and cornbread. Dinner again at seven with pinto beans, pork, rice, cornbread, but to cut calories, no salad. About eight, he jumped like he’d been poked with a hot-shot, exclaiming proudly “I know what I want! Tea cakes!” You’d have thought he was an astrophysicist with a new theory,
Deep in WordPress, I’d already settled for the evening. “I asked you earlier today if you wanted me to make something and you said ‘No.’.”
“But you didn’t say anything about teacakes.” This could end peacefully only one way. He said he’d help.
He got all the stuff out. I measured and put them in the bowl as he told me about a dozen things I was doing wrong. I ignored him. I’m the best cook I know. In about ten minutes the cookies were done. There are four of them left. He will probably be on a diet till about three. If you hurry, you can get here while the coffee’s still hot.
Surprise
I need to change my expectations. Bud and I have been married a long,long time. He just called me out to the shop to see a Big Surprise. I was somewhat caught up in it since I had asked him to do a number of things for me. He had cleaned off his fly tying bench and installed some repurposed speakers. I couldn’t spot the surprise. Where would a person ever get the idea a surprise was for them? I need to work on myself.
Charity Begins at Home
It is a bad idea for me to carry cash. If someone comes by raising money to treat nail fungus in chimeric tigers in Bangladesh, I’m in. Someone near and dear to me balances me out very well. When I was recently gathering up donation items for hurricane victims in Timbuktu to take to a drive at work, he came through and did a last minute rescue of Continue reading
Magic Circle
Repost of earlier post:
Shay woke early between Kay-Lonnie and Lena but their eyes were already open, waiting for her. They never wiggled till she woke, seeming to breathe the same air, thinking the same thoughts. Her big sister Susie pulled the quilt over her curly head on the other side of the big bed, grumping about Shay’s cold feet. Continue reading
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