Cute-Ness Run-Amuck: Granddarling Kale is 3 months old!!

My, what a great three months!!  Grow baby Grow!!!

Bloomin' Tuesday: 08/10/2009

The beautiful "cleaned" beds at my mom's on wedding day:






My plants fit in beautifully and made a beautiful back drop.
Yard upgrade and actual wedding photos to follow...

Happy Bloomin' Tuesday!

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A Life Well Lived: My First Love Story

Growing up, I did not realize my mother and father were a love story.
I came to realize that later...
But I was very aware of my grandparents.
My maternal grandparents were such an example of enduring.
My papa (pawpaw) was a handsome fellow, turning many an eye.
He and grandma were a 'steady item' til they 'broke it off'.
This went on for a while,
and he was seen at many a party with another girl.
BUT when he saw grandma with another fellow,
Papa decided it was time to marry my grandma.


Grandma would tell me her love stories.
And I so saw it in her eyes when Papa was diagnosed with lung cancer.
They fought it together, but it was to strong, and won.






That Christmas,
my uncle gave grandma this pencil print he had made for grandma,
she wept,
we all wept.

It still hangs proudly in their home, reminding us of their legacy.
Their life well lived.
Nolan Nelson 01/1915-01/1981
Joycelyn Imogene 11/1918-11/1996
Married 11/1935
Sealed 02/2003

This print is taken from a photo grandma & papa had made previously, it is surrounded by flowers because both grandma & papa loved flowers. Red roses for him, Anything blooming for her.

On Saturday the second wedding will be held at the house they built, on the land they cleared. Love never ends...

Bloomin' Tuesday: 08/04/09

We have had tons of rain (Big Smile) and my plants are loving it!!!
(so are the weeds)
The poke berry plants has just about covered the potted plants I plant on using in the wedding. But the contrasting colors are wonderful.

So I decided to pull the potted plants to give them a chance to straighten up.

I put them on the walkway (for the week),
you can see further on the secret garden is growing wild.
My wagon will be in the wedding also.
Can't wait to see how the girls decorate it.

Wow, this poke berry really needs to be trimmed, see the holes where I pulled the pots?

You can barely see the other large pots.
Yep, Mr. Poke Berry is getting a serious trim.

My new lantana plants are doing well, and blooming, totally loving the rain!!
There are three different ones in this photo.

The moon plant has really spread, look at all the 'candles' ready to bloom.
Wish we had this size plant at my mom's for the wedding.
It is an evening wedding, and this baby really blooms like crazy with sweet citrus blooms in the evening.
Also there is pink Turk's cap, and yellow lantana here.

Currently my fleece flower, Red Dragon, is really growing.

Now I remember why I planted the obedience plant in front of this grouping, since it is a sprawler.
Fleece flower, and sweet spire on the left, then obedient plant

The obedient plant started out tall, then was weighted down by the blooms, and falls.
But then it turn up and blooms.
AND blooms along the fallen stem.
You really get more blooms that way.

Just masses of loose purple blooms. Star of my yard now.

Happy Bloomin' Tuesday!

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Christmas Treasures: Special Stockings

My mother is a marvelous crocheter
Growing up, my brother and I had HUGE crocheted stockings,
One year I asked her to make matching crocheted stockings for all seven of my children, and hubby.
Each 'top' was different:
Out of nine we are now down to these: this is 18 yos (the baby)

 

Hubby (whose mother was also a crochetier) loves pineapples:

 

Mom topped the stocking my grandmother sewed and appliqued for me:

 

Instead of a chimney, our stockings are hung on the fishtank with care...
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

 

Santa always takes our stockings down, and leaves them filled under the tree,
I hope you all had a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Show & Tell: Hero Reminders...(pt 2)

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Today I share my heirlooms-
First a little Tell:
Growing up I had the best grandfathers. To one I was his favorite (this required being VERY well behaved), I spoke of him last week. He was a quiet man. And I adored him.
My paternal grandfather was FUN! Teasing, playing, teasing, tickling, teasing-well you get the picture. At his house I was just 'one of the many' and it was wonderful. He told grand stories and was, well, fun. I figured he was where my dad got his 'twinkle' in his eye!
After this grandfather passed away (to prostate cancer) in the 90's, I learned he was a man of God. Who knew?

{As a small girl I visualized that I was the girl in Jesus' lap}
This paint-by-number was given to him by his sister-in-law and always hung in his house. I thought it was more his wife's choice than his. However after becoming an adult I was amazed as I remembered it was my father who saw that we went to church, more than mom, is it possible this was from the example of his father? I learned that this Papa was a Sunday School teacher, and yes, a man of God. My faith is quite generational-and I am very thankful!

This is now hanging over the table (actually since I received it, it has hung in over our table), my plans are to add a plate with the Lord's Supper on it (also this grandfather's), and a metal/wood book scripture plaque (maternal grandmother's), when I unpack them. Representing the deep roots already started for me!

God Bless!!!!

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