Thursday, August 18, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Looking back...50 years and counting!!
The years have gone by so quickly it seems. Tomorrow will be the 50th wedding anniversary of my sweetheart and I. The few lows have been quite low, the highs outweighing them by far, our love growing through thick and thin. Just like a garden, love takes care and nurturing. Without constant weeding and watering, danger lurks, in the form of weeds that take over. I liken weeds to a withering of love, if not remembered daily, by both partners in love.
Love is a lot of work but is made easier when two are pulling together in the same direction. Hand-holding in the park, smooching in the movie and caring more about the other than yourself. These are the things it takes to stay together. Commitment is prime. It is so easy now-a-days for couples to ed a relationship over relatively minor issues. They may seem insurmountable to overcome when you are in the middle of them, but that is why it is so important to step back and take a breath before making life-changing decisions.
Our lives, mine and Russ', have taken us across oceans, continents, to other countries and back. The family we have created from our love grows and grows. We look at the children we have born and are in wonderment at what we started! Five children have turned into, at last count today, fourteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.....and counting!
From California to Japan and back again, our life began as a three year honeymoon. Our baby son was with us and we loved every minute of our time in foreign lands. California again and two girls later found us a few years later buying a farm in Missouri, where we took up residence and for the next five years created another little part of our Eden. The ground and I were both quite fertile, it seems and two more kiddies were brought forth...a boy and a girl, only 13 months apart.
Not long after the lat birth, we changed farms, going from the 130 acres to a little 20 acre plot. This is really not a history! I am just touching the high spots!
Manhattan, Kansas became our home for several years after that, about 10 of them, I believe. Hawaii became our home for about four years while I attended Brigham Young University, in Laie. It was a great time for Russ and I but school was a bit of a trial for the our two youngest still at home. So very few words here, for this time, but that belongs in a real history!
Colorado, then back to Missouri. And here we are, having planted children in lives of their own, growing their own little 'weeds', and turning them into flowers. As gardens do, this one continues to multiply, adding little flower treasures to our family generations.
I am going all maudlin on y'all! Memories take me back to early times and make me wish I were there again, starting all over again. Not much would I really change, just a few things. But then who knows what havoc that would wreak on the world! You never know, but remember how the flutter of the wings of a butterfly in the Amazon is said to be able to cause hurricanes far away.
So, my happy reader, this is our life in a very tiny nut shell. As time goes by, there may be more here on this very same subject, but then maybe not!
Come back an find out!!!
See ya on the go 'round
Love is a lot of work but is made easier when two are pulling together in the same direction. Hand-holding in the park, smooching in the movie and caring more about the other than yourself. These are the things it takes to stay together. Commitment is prime. It is so easy now-a-days for couples to ed a relationship over relatively minor issues. They may seem insurmountable to overcome when you are in the middle of them, but that is why it is so important to step back and take a breath before making life-changing decisions.
Our lives, mine and Russ', have taken us across oceans, continents, to other countries and back. The family we have created from our love grows and grows. We look at the children we have born and are in wonderment at what we started! Five children have turned into, at last count today, fourteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.....and counting!
From California to Japan and back again, our life began as a three year honeymoon. Our baby son was with us and we loved every minute of our time in foreign lands. California again and two girls later found us a few years later buying a farm in Missouri, where we took up residence and for the next five years created another little part of our Eden. The ground and I were both quite fertile, it seems and two more kiddies were brought forth...a boy and a girl, only 13 months apart.
Not long after the lat birth, we changed farms, going from the 130 acres to a little 20 acre plot. This is really not a history! I am just touching the high spots!
Manhattan, Kansas became our home for several years after that, about 10 of them, I believe. Hawaii became our home for about four years while I attended Brigham Young University, in Laie. It was a great time for Russ and I but school was a bit of a trial for the our two youngest still at home. So very few words here, for this time, but that belongs in a real history!
Colorado, then back to Missouri. And here we are, having planted children in lives of their own, growing their own little 'weeds', and turning them into flowers. As gardens do, this one continues to multiply, adding little flower treasures to our family generations.
I am going all maudlin on y'all! Memories take me back to early times and make me wish I were there again, starting all over again. Not much would I really change, just a few things. But then who knows what havoc that would wreak on the world! You never know, but remember how the flutter of the wings of a butterfly in the Amazon is said to be able to cause hurricanes far away.
So, my happy reader, this is our life in a very tiny nut shell. As time goes by, there may be more here on this very same subject, but then maybe not!
Come back an find out!!!
See ya on the go 'round
Saturday, April 02, 2011
mobile posting and other electronic stuff
Well, I did it! I have not fallen to twittering, but I am figuring out how to blog on the go! There may be a learning curve...shoot, I guarantee there will be a learning curve, but once I get it figured out and why I would even want to do it, I will play around with it, and see how I like it. It will probably be an effort not appreciated by anyone but myself, since I don't think there are many folks following my blogs yet! The fun thing about it is, I think I can send pictures to it, on the go! That might be cool...we will see. ...see ya on the go 'round
Thursday, March 31, 2011
kindle...
I might be getting a Kindle sometime this year for our 50th wedding anniversary in May!! I am so excited... I am getting a jump-start, however, in the Kindle experience...I have been able to use my Blackberry to be a mini-kindle!! It works great, even though small and you have to click space bar a million times to get through a book! Small screen, ya know.. Actually, Amazon has made it possible to even use your PC a a Kindle. Not as handy as a real one, but you can read on your laptop or home computer. Also, if you are reading a book on the Blackberry, and then go to the PC, it keeps your place and you can continue reading back and forth, as you need to!! Pretty cool. They call it seamless reading, or something like that. Amazon, you owe me for this Kindle ad!!!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Looking forward to 50 year wedding anniversary!
Yes, I said 50! Five-oh! Fifty! Half a century! I could have done with out that last one, though.
Seems like only yesterday that I met my sweetheart and fell in love. Fifty years is but a drop of honey in the honey jar, when you have committed to forever and always, no matter what.
Never a smooth sailing, living and loving each other as we have done has presented, I hope, a bright and shining example to our five children, giving them hope for what can be, looking forward, no matter what...the past is behind you ...don't go there...it is what it was and the future holds promise.
Needless to say, if we are celebrating 50 years together, so also is my fiftieth high school reunion showing itself on the horizon in 2012. Something is being planned, I hear, but no news yet.
Russ (dad, grandpa) and I have been wrestling with what to do on this memorable event and have yet to come up with a valid choice. A few years ago, before the economy went south, we would have gone on a cruise, anywhere, just to make it unforgettable. The way things are now, however, we will be lucky to get to Branson,which was not high on our list of options, really.
One idea we had been floating recently was taking a flight over to Japan, where we spent the first three years of our married life. That was before the recent disaster befell that beautiful island country. Now we probably should not go there, given the state of affairs there. We could opt for Kyotoa, or Nara, or Osaka, where all the northern folks are heading to, but we are not sure that with our luck, another earthquake would not strike, as it very well could.
Better, perhaps, to take a chance on California and go back to where it all really began, my hometown of Fortuna, California, way up in the redwood country of Humboldt County. My mom would be happy to see us.
Of course, we will for sure have a family celebration at home, most likely. I guess I should plan it, since I don't think anyone else is! We will miss Russell and Colleen, numbers 1 and 3 of our children. They are in Mesa, Arizona and Lehi, Utah, a far stretch to travel. They will be in our hearts though...
Enough lamenting for now...see ya on the go 'round.....
Seems like only yesterday that I met my sweetheart and fell in love. Fifty years is but a drop of honey in the honey jar, when you have committed to forever and always, no matter what.
Never a smooth sailing, living and loving each other as we have done has presented, I hope, a bright and shining example to our five children, giving them hope for what can be, looking forward, no matter what...the past is behind you ...don't go there...it is what it was and the future holds promise.
Needless to say, if we are celebrating 50 years together, so also is my fiftieth high school reunion showing itself on the horizon in 2012. Something is being planned, I hear, but no news yet.
Russ (dad, grandpa) and I have been wrestling with what to do on this memorable event and have yet to come up with a valid choice. A few years ago, before the economy went south, we would have gone on a cruise, anywhere, just to make it unforgettable. The way things are now, however, we will be lucky to get to Branson,which was not high on our list of options, really.
One idea we had been floating recently was taking a flight over to Japan, where we spent the first three years of our married life. That was before the recent disaster befell that beautiful island country. Now we probably should not go there, given the state of affairs there. We could opt for Kyotoa, or Nara, or Osaka, where all the northern folks are heading to, but we are not sure that with our luck, another earthquake would not strike, as it very well could.
Better, perhaps, to take a chance on California and go back to where it all really began, my hometown of Fortuna, California, way up in the redwood country of Humboldt County. My mom would be happy to see us.
Of course, we will for sure have a family celebration at home, most likely. I guess I should plan it, since I don't think anyone else is! We will miss Russell and Colleen, numbers 1 and 3 of our children. They are in Mesa, Arizona and Lehi, Utah, a far stretch to travel. They will be in our hearts though...
Enough lamenting for now...see ya on the go 'round.....
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Long time, no see....
Well, so sorry I have not been on here lately...life is hectic, but I am not alone in this, right? My last post had a lot to do with my youngest daughter, Jill, and her dog/companion Fen. Well, Fen has stayed put and not gone exploring anymore. As a matter of fact, Jill has moved to our former house up on the hill for a while. The house she was in previously, that she rented from us, had roof damage from ice and wind. Caved in her bathroom ceiling, as a matter of fact!
So, as of today, roof is repaired, ceiling is not, and eventually Jill will relocate back to the town she moved from, but probably not in the same house. That one we hope to repair and sell. Move on, so to speak.
Russ and I have been trying to stay well, keep the home fire burning to keep warm and writing. We write articles for an international company and we have found it to be interesting, if not extremely lucrative yet. Time will tell. Jill is actually doing it as well. She spends much more time at it, so her results are sometimes surprising!
Tonight it will get well below freezing and start a round of freezing rain and snow for the next few days. We tucked in today, after filling the wood pile in the garage and making sure we had plenty of food. We are set for whatever. We are supposed to make a trip to Bolivar on Tuesday but we will see how that goes.
Keep looking back, I will do better at this blog thing!
See ya on the go 'round!!!
So, as of today, roof is repaired, ceiling is not, and eventually Jill will relocate back to the town she moved from, but probably not in the same house. That one we hope to repair and sell. Move on, so to speak.
Russ and I have been trying to stay well, keep the home fire burning to keep warm and writing. We write articles for an international company and we have found it to be interesting, if not extremely lucrative yet. Time will tell. Jill is actually doing it as well. She spends much more time at it, so her results are sometimes surprising!
Tonight it will get well below freezing and start a round of freezing rain and snow for the next few days. We tucked in today, after filling the wood pile in the garage and making sure we had plenty of food. We are set for whatever. We are supposed to make a trip to Bolivar on Tuesday but we will see how that goes.
Keep looking back, I will do better at this blog thing!
See ya on the go 'round!!!
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