Turkey Day Memories

Back in the day most of the moms and grannys did not work. My granny was a cook at the mill. She was a home style cook not a chef or gormet style.

To get ready for Thanksgiving she would cook all week for turkey day pies, and cinnamon rolls early in the week then it was the breads for stuffing. On turkey Thursday I would go to grandmas house who lived next door she woud entice me with the TV and turkey day parades. We did not have a TV until I was six so this was before then. I helped set the table and do other "go-fer" tasks. I can still remember that the Yummy smell of turkey and watching the parade on the ole' black and white TV!

3 lbs.

More winds headed our way tonight. Time to secure anything that might become airborne.

Last night I watched a new show 3 lbs. I think it refers to the brain weighing three pounds but I’d think that each brain is different in weight according to the size of the person maybe not.

The show was about surgeons and high tech. medical brain equipment, patients and the way they deal with surgery. Amazing how they can resolve stuff in an hour on the TV. I enjoyed this show.

I tried to flip back and forth between the Unit and House. I don’t think I got much out of either of those two shows.

The Power of the Protecting Hand of God.

Have you ever known that God protected you without a doubt?

I was woken up today with a phone call at 5:30 a.m. on a dark Monday morning. It was hubby saying that the gale force winds had blown the truck he was driving over but he was okay. This is not the first time that this has happened. The last time it was on the front page of the local news paper.

He called from the cab of a fellow driver who stopped and they were waiting on the state trooper to show up. I suspect that they will close the roads until these winds slow up some. That is their normal case of action.

The Calico Bears

I have two calico bears that I have collected on my rounds they have been among my “finds” over the years. One is a Christmas print and he had to go to the bear doll hospital. After his leg was fixed he was good to go on the Christmas quilt that Mom made one Christmas for me.

This year I made addition of a bear with a pink rose calico print bear she wears a pink calico hat. The dear grand daughters like to play with them and made a bed for them to sleep in on the floor with the afghans I keep on the couch. So for now the bears are happy at granny’s. I just hope that they can get along with the calico bunnies okay when I put them in storage. Maybe I need to separate them.

Buffet

We got a lovely walnut table the table was nearly a hundred dollars off and cherry buffet over the weekend at the antique shop 20% off. We are using chairs we had here. The buffet [aka side board as granny used to call them] has a reddish accent that goes with the piano in the living room and the ten dollar solid wood door I got at the thrift shop a few years back that hubby refinished on his vacation one year. I think I remember him promising never to do that again!

I had to go to four stores for old English dark furniture polish for the table and the buffet. I worked on cleaning and polishing them up this week end. I've been getting the Christmas tree dishes up stairs and clean up put them in the buffet. The candles are out and I have the lights on the front rail of the house now too.

Book Wish List

My book wish list from the North light book club catalogue

Colored pencil techniques the complete guide

Painting people
drawing & Painting buildings
By Richard Taylor

Great portrait drawings & Paintings

The artists complete guide to drawing the head
William L. Maugham

The artists guide to perspective
Janet Shearer

The colored pencil solution book
by Janie Gildow & Barbara Benedetti Newton

Painting with your artist’s brain
Carl Purrell

The watercolorists Essential note book: Landscapes

One stroke brush rest

Tom Lynche’s 100 water color work shop lessons charts flip chart lessons

Drawing mastering the language of visual expression
by Keith Micklewright

School Canyon Fire

School Canyon Fire two years ago

was here. 50,000 acres were burned

in Eastern Washington.

It was in Oregon too.

The bend in the road

The bend in the ATV road
less traveled and it's lots of fun
to leave the cob webs in the brain behind
after a day in the fresh air!
That's all for now folks!

The road less traveled!

The road hubby said put on of the road up!
So here it is
not a very wide one at that
dirt and rocky it gets narrower in spots up the road a ways.

The Photographer!

Dear son the photographer on the ATV ride in Oct. this fall.
What a blast to do this check out that back ground scenery!

Ready to roll

Unloading ATVs ready to roll!
This is always an exciting moment getting
ready to ride! We secure the cooler, gear and bags
with bungie cords so we don't loose any thing.
Most of the time it's is successful but a pair of boncoculars went
airborne this trip and dear son had to stop and get them.

Elk

Elk are at the top of the hill lots of them.
Dear son took a lot of pics.
on the atv ride he used my machine.
Had a blast too!

Wild Turkeys

Dear son took this pic. of wild turkeys on a ride last month
with his dad on my machine. More pics to come laer
it takes a while to upload them so I can't do them all tonight.