Looking for something to post....

This is another song that is one of my all time favorites....does it make you feel sort of melancholy and sad and happy all at the same time.

I sat looking through photographs last night and got so sad for times past...even though they brought back good memories.

Then to top it off talked to Sarah, and Lorelei was hardly interested in talking to me...did not even greet me with I LOve you Mamaw...didn't say it at all...at first...then before Sarah and I hung up, I asked to talk to her a minute and it was I love you Mamaw--can I come to your house? Sweeter words were never said...

Come on over to my pad....

It was a misty day when I took these...the above shows lily pads up at the Heron Viewing Station. It is just amazing to actually see all of them. I think they are gorgeous plans and sure would love to have a way to grow them here.


I do not know the name of the above plant...hoping someone here will tell me. I think I have seen it somewhere on someone's blog but cannot remember the name. It is at the edges of the marshy area up there. The leaves are way bigger than my hand...
These last two photos are of the bloom--before and after it has bloomed.

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I cannot seem to get back to posting regularly....no excuse. I have just simply been being lazy for the most part.

I have been sewing some...I am making a small log cabin quilt. It will either be to use as a table topper or a small lap quilt. It is in reds and off/white tans. I have 16 blocks made and sewn together. Now I have to put borders on it. That will take a while if I stick with my original plan. I have to look and see how much fabric I have left to see if I have enough to follow through. Anyway, I am wanting to get that done...I have plans to give it to one of our daughters. Just hoping she will like it.
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One of these days I may have a quilting partner....Lorelei always wants to go down in the basement at least one time when she is here to mess with sewing. She wants to sew but does not have the control to press the foot peddle to sew slow, and it scares her when it sews so fast. (I have control of the fabric when she is pressing on the foot peddle.) So she sits and plays with the pins and likes to clip threads for me.

Another week come and gone

I always love to see photos of cows under trees, but the photos I take are never great. Yet there is just something restful about them whether they are good or not. Just seeing cattle resting and chewing their cud makes everything seem right with the world.
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Our little Toot stayed two nights with us, cried when we told her it was time to go home...told Papaw as he put her in her carseat that she was afraid she was going to miss her Mamaw. However, she was his constant shadow those days.

I don't have a lot to tell, but will tell this little incident. She wanted to sleep with me so I let her. Now what you don't know is a lot of us in our family like our back tickled, scratched or rubbed. Lorelei is following suit and most nights wants her back scratched a little bit before going to sleep.

The first night she wanted me to scratch her back. I told her she first had to scratch mine...just wanted to see her reaction. She says, "Mamaw, do I have too?" and I tell her yeah...and we go back and forth with it...she says, "Mamaw, I have an idea!" I asker her what it is.

Now this is not her exact words, but it was something along the lines of 'First you can scratch my back and then later you can scratch my back'....I cannot for the life of me remember her wording...but her meaning was just that...she was totally leaving out the part of her scratching my back...and she just giggled when she said it and said something along the lines of How do I like that idea? She is just too smart for words.
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We are finally getting some much needed rain...has been raining steadily all morning long.