Yesterday would have been my Grandma's 90th Birthday,( if she had lived anouther year and a half.) Needless to say i was sad, so I went Bloggin', just reading, commenting here and there. The blogs got me thinking, even more about grandma..and how funny she could be, today when my sister called to tell me that Grandmas house number 415 won on the lottery numbers ( smack on her birthday) we laughed, we was both holding grandma when she died, and it was odd she died at 415 am.....let alone this. Anyway we got to talking about the funny things grandma did & said.
One day around 7 years ago, grandma called me up, she said, connie jean, Mary lou just pulled out of Marthas house and all i saw was the back of her car. you wouldn't believe what she had on the back of that car...it was terrable..Right there on her bumper..I said , what did it say grandma..She said " it said Jesus Christ" now, when she said it she didn't say it soft and smooth...she said it like a cuss word..everytime she said it...Jesuschrist!, I said Grandma she's not cussing she's talking about Jesus, He's in the Bible. Grandma's voice got real soft, she said," Honey,I know who Jesus is but she's driving around saying Jesuschrist! with everyone reading it.She's got a cuss word on her bumper. I thought mary lou was a good woman, she goes to church every Sunday. ".
I just couldn't make her see, it wasn't cussing. Remembering back, that's something we all hated... when grandpa would start cussing, it would have been better, I think to have heard, the F word or anything else, except Jesuschrist! or Goddammnit! We all hated that. they didn't use other cuss words..so to her, it was cussing. and it's sad.But was too funny to me, when it happened.
I had a grandma till i was in my 50's, my kids was in their 30's and not only had a grandma but also a great grandma..my own grandkids called my grandma, grandma. I was so lucky.I can't emagine growing up without a grandma..but lot's of people do.
Grandma never drank, or did anything bad to anyone..( she did cuss)..but she was loved by many many people & ran a store all her life.She was only 4 foot 10 and talked ALL THE TIME>>>> but i do miss her.. If you still have a Grandma, be thankful and take the time now, someday it will be too late.
if you have a funny or silly Grandma story, please post it so we can all enjoy it...

My daughter's best friend "Heather" just sent me the address to her new blog..Any picture lovers out there will love this blog..she's quite talented. Of course i'd love her even if she didn't take photo's BUT, I recomend viewing her blog..it's at the right of here, listed under "Sites I Like".I want to remind people that on the blogspot blogs all you have to do is click on the pic for a larger picture....Enjoy....................

You'll call me crazy but I just lately
(like this morning) really could see...
Winter is past , it's over (at last)
Spring's dancing a dance around me.

The wind holds the smell of fresh cut grass
and I see birds building nests in a tree
I knew it was coming, some signs i did see
But now it's dancing A dance around me...

Leaves are bursting from the trees
Tulips are putting on a show.
violets seem to sing of spring
as a child i loved them so.

I've already made my first wish
blowing a dandelion (shame on me)
But I can't fib, I'm like a kid
when spring is dancing Her dance around me.....

"The Easter bunny came" he cried
"without a trace" (someone had lied)
'Yes my son, the rabbit came
but we both know it's just a game'
"Can we go to hunt the Easter eggs
when we get dressed?" the small one begs
'Yes, we shall, but first let's pray
it's more than just a Holiday,
The Easter Bunny's not the one
who gave me You, my only son'.

"He's too small to understand"
grandma smiled, patting my hand.
"The Easter Bunny's all he knows
he'll learn the truth as he grows"
yet though my mother raised me well
I have stumbled, i have fell
I want to do the best i can
to raise this boy to a wise old man.

Suddenly a soft voice said
as if it was inside my head
'If the boy learns on his own
too many years he's walked alone
time and truth are best at hand
to raise this boy to a wise old man,
For, though be wisest of them all
All will stumble, all will fall..'

I wish everyone a Happy And Safe Easter weekend. And may your kids and grandkids not be hyped up too much with candy. ( I know mine will be)
I wrote this poem in 1980. It was on the front page of our little local Newspaper...Easter morning 1980.

When I posted the pictures of the sinking boat, I didn't know there is a "story" behind the boat...You know how stories are...but this one seemed to me to maybe be true, because a abandoned business was near to where the boat was sinking... So, I'll tell you what I was told....
It seems this boat was taken or confenscated by the county for back taxes ( and maybe other things)...and the contents was taken by the cops..but then the boat started sinking and now the county wants the people to take the boat back. I's supposed to be in the courts now..but this is just what I heard. I wish i'd gone into the sinking boat.

the door was right there open and all ( actually i saw two doors on the side i was on)



You'd think , me being a river rat and so proud of it, that i'd for sure go inside the thing..but i didn't-as you can see, i got close but- no go inside...

i do plan to go back to this one though. and to for sure, get me a pic. of it from the "other side of the river" cause that's where you can see how bad it is sinking, on the one end.
I do think this boat must have been fine...with lots of rooms and space...maybe more stories are out there abut this boat. after all it does have a name still on it...