Just stuff...

Aunt Amelia has got me all stirred up to change my blog banner.  You never know what that gal is gonna to have on her banner from day to day.  So.... I decided to change mine. I'm tired of lookin' at dead grass and bare trees.  Let's have some flowers and leaves and birds and grass to mow and stuff!

I'm feelin' so much better - thank ya'll for your well wishes. Almost back to normal.  I don't have my bucket with me at work anymore - a simple "slurp" is takin' care of the drainage problem at the present time and I expect the waterworks to dry up just anytime now!

Well, let's see. Daughter is comin' home this weekend, so that'll be nice. Of course, she's bringin' the RAT with her.   Adam is in Hershey, PA, for a gig, then down to Florida, and back through Georgia before they head back to Nashville.  Hope that all goes well and I pray always for safe travel for all.

Remember my little cabbages and broccoli plants I told you I set out?  I'm thinkin', yeah, they're cool/cold weather plants and it gets so stinkin' hot around here so early. So I go ahead and plant 'em.  THEN, comes the hugest snowstorm East Texas has had in 30+ years.  Well, I got all worried about my little plants so here's what I came up with - "make do or do without" type idea.

Can ya see what I did?  I had two rows, so I turned some of my yard chairs upside down to make a top, and covered all my little babies with painters dropcloths and anchored them on the edges with rocks.  I was still worried about 'em with the weight of the snow, but after I kinda shoveled the snow back, they could see daylight again. Those cheap plastic chairs (which I'd like to throw in the dumpster) tore thru the plastic with the heavy snow, but still protected the plants.  I checked on 'em yesterday, and pulled all the plastic and chairs off of 'em, and they were all standin' up just fine and ready to see some sunshine!

You probably can't see 'em but they're there. Ya know, they don't cost much, but I figger, if there's somethin' little I can do to keep 'em from dying, why not? So I did.  I hope they are grateful that I saved their lives.

Well, it's been a struggle to find something to post today, and that's about all I can come up with, so I guess I'll close.  Ya'll keep your dress down and I'll see ya next time!

Sunday Evening Nonsense

Sitting in bed, in my jammies, laptop on lapdesk, eating Reeses minis, loaded up on Robituss*n, aspirin, Benadr*l, Vicks rub all over my chest, & I can't decide whether to hang a bucket around my neck or stuff a tampon up each nostril to stop the steady snot-flow from my nose.  (NOTE:  I looked on the web for pictures of this, and just couldn't post one - you wouldn't believe all the junk that comes along with that subject - oh, yeah, you would, too!) So, suffice it to say that I'm pretty  miserable this weekend!

On a bright note, Tony and I did get out yesterday for just a little bit - he took me to the mall, and surprised me with some diamond stud earrings for Valentine's day!  Isn't he a sweetie!  I had some tiny little "dots" of diamond studs way back when we were first married, but he wanted me to go and pick some  nice-sized ones out! So I did! I didn't know if we really needed to spend the money on something so frivolous right now, but he insisted. I've been wantin' some for quite awhile, but you know there's always something that is way more important than frivolity.  He's so good to me ~ sometimes I don't think I deserve him.  He's always doing nice things for me - even when I'm being a pill.  So I had a VERY nice Valentine's Day!

My oldest son, Adam, sent me some pictures from last week in Nashville.  He is a song-writer as well as a musician. Back in the fall, he and a couple of other writers wrote this song called "The Gospel According to Jones". (George Jones - don't worry, it sounds sacreligious, but it's all about country music)(hey, they don't ask me what I think of their song titles...).  Adam has his own band, and he also plays in a band with Eric Lee Beddingfield. ELB is an up and coming band and Adam plays lead guitar and sings vocals. 

Well, there is a part at the end of the song where they invited George Jones, old  "Possum" himself, to come record with them.  Well, HE DID IT!  He met with them in the recording studio last Monday, I think, and did the recording!  Adam was so excited as were all the band members.  They got to meet and greet George and his lovely wife.  He said they were just  very nice regular folks like you'd run into anywhere.

Adam sent me a few pictures that they took of the ELB band and George and I thought Id like to share them with you...can you guess which one is Adam?

Adam is third from the left.  This is the Eric Lee Beddingfield band. Eric is the big guy in the middle. Good looking group if I do say so myself.  A couple more shots of Adam being Adam - he's always a clown and always cuttin' up, but he's always fun to be around...

There's no telling what he was saying or doing to Eric - just no telling.  I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they are in the studio.  I'm sure its a hoot!

Well, I've been able to do a little visitin' around today. I'm trying to get around to everybody.  It's been nice to have some time to do that. I have to go to work tomorrow, cold or no cold. I do not have a back-up.  At least I work in an office by myself so I can keep away from other people.  I'll take my arsenal of medicines and my bucket with me, and hopefully, in a few days I'll be feeling better.  I hope you all have a great week, no snow, and remember to keep your dress down!