Great Week With Great-Grands

Recently the whole family was in town to celebrate our daughter’s 50th birthday. All four grandchildren and both great-grands were here most of the week. While in town the greats spent some quality time with Nana.

The youngest great-grandson spent time in the kitchen with Nana. They were making mini-pie shells for little lemon meringue pies…our daughter’s favorite flavor.

Needless to say, “There were good times in the kitchen!”

The new star of “Flavor town”.

Meanwhile, the older brother was crafting a special birthday card for our daughter, his Nina, and spending time checking the tomatoes and cucumbers in our garden.

Nana is a “hands-on” great grandmother and while the grands enjoy their quality time with Nana I get some awesome photo ops. Have a blessed week.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

Jul 6th Around the globe early July, World UFO Day is observed. Prompts this week you might consider is anything space related – stars, aliens, spaceships, galaxy, …. Get out of this world wild while having loads of fun discovering music to share! Now that you know the theme, here are my thoughts. Rocket Man, Sky Pilot and Moon River were just too obvious, so I headed to the country and found these tunes for your listening pleasure.

House Princess

Celebrating Our Daughter’s Birthday

50 years ago you could not have convinced me that one day I would be celebrating our daughter’s milestone birthday…but here we are and the whole family was in town for the event.

Our Birthday Girl

This party is brought to you by Nana and the Sisters!

A Family Celebration

Monday’s Music Moves Me

This week is a whatever music moves you week. Let’s give a listen to what is happening in Country Music these days.

Saturday Morning at Local Farmers Market

Aww…some Monday

We recently spent four days with my cousins in Illinois. They are the cousins I grew up with and are like my little brother and sisters. One cousin lives on a lake and there were boat races during our stay. We took a boat up to the site and spent an afternoon watching the races. I had taken my small camera and a short zoom lens for some family photography, which I didn’t really do. I captured some images of the races but the lens was totally inadequate for the task. As a result these images are heavily cropped and not as sharp as I like, but the day was good. Next time I will take my good camera and the appropriate lens.

The smallest class was open cockpit V-Hulls. Just imagine taking your grandpa’s 16′ aluminum fishing boat and make it go eighty miles and hour on choppy water. It’s a lot like bull riding at the rodeo.

Open cockpit hydroplanes put on a great show. You just gotta love that rooster tail of water trailing behind the boat.

The showstoppers were the closed cockpit hydroplanes. The scoot across the waves in excess of 100 mph. If you’re not in first place, I’m not convinced you can see anything. Great fun.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

This is a whatever music moves you week at 4M. Last time I featured the group, Red Clay Strays. Well, their newest music just dropped this week and the title song of the album is Grateful. Despite all of our troubles, we live in the greatest country on the planet. Despite decades of problems in government, we live in freedom that is the envy of the world. Americans seem to be focused on their troubles and not grateful for the benefits of living in this great nation. When it comes to our individual lives, we can focus on every daily problem, but if we look over our lives we can see where God has been good to us in the middle of our trials. Red Clay Strays hit the nail on the head with Grateful. Have a very blessed week.

A Day at The Stable

Patriotic Kitchen Display

Aww…some Monday

How did we get from this little 3 year old girl in 2003, to the young lady below in 2026? “how do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog – it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” James 4:14 NLT And just like that, 23 years have come and gone!

She is living life large and in charge. She loves her job and the people she works around. She is enjoying every minute of every day that the good Lord has given her. We should all be this happy. Love our middle granddaughter to pieces!!!

Monday’s Music Moves Me

This is a whatever music move you week and 4. There is no theme, so we can post anything we like. Of course I have taken the liberty to do that on weeks when there was a theme for our guideline. Today I’m going to feature the group Red Clay Strays. They are a country band that plays a sound similar to combination of old school country (Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline etc.) mixed with bluegrass and a more contemporary sound. I really like what I am hearing from this group. Like many bands, they’ve been around a lot longer that you know and they are still not arena fillers, but in large clubs in Austin, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dallas/Ft. Worth and the southern belt of Georgia, Mississippi, they are well known. Give a listen. Have a blessed week.

Oodles of Doodles at Farmers Market