A HUNGRY BABY!

Happy Birthday Jeff !!!

We tried to gt him good a couple of Sat. ago w/ a little surprise party. I think it turned out very well! Everyone "cut-a-rusty" as Granny would put it! We had way too much to eat as usual! It was just a good enough reason as any being Jeff's birthday to call in all his buddies! Him & Dylan did alot of karaoke singing! Dylan did his version of "Chicken Fried" also! Everyone loved hearing Doc & Emily sing too! His birthday is today, but w/ college football getting started up we had to back up & punt. This is his favorite time of the year. So we just backed it up a Sat. or so.....

Angel Trumpets

These are our Angel Trumpet trees! Granny's is a pinky-peach color & mine in a dwarf dark purple in the top picture. Granny's is over 5ft tall & mine maybe a foot at the most, very small!

Spice Towels

~When Granny isn't fishing she is either reading or sewing on something! Here are my spice towels, I have searched high & low for someway to show them off! This is a rack I found on one of my junking trips! It's all by hand ! She don't need a machine!

sweet babies!

We love to go check the deer camera. I get SO excitied! Here are a few of my latest pictures! I love,love, love them. Sweet Babies!

Turtle & Fish Traps

Well, things can get ugly when you let Jeff & Hamp go off to town together! They came home w/ 2 traps for the pond! Them pesky turtles have been eating Granny's bait & that's not good! These 2 love to go check the traps & see what they have, so far they have 7, counting the one Mr. Bill hooked w/ his rod! My contribution to this project is the pigs feet for bait. You can never go wrong w/ pigs feet as bait! =)

~EHS class of 1959~

Sr. Yearbook picture

Some nutt she went to school with?!

This is her 2 best buddies Doris & Nancy.

~Last Friday night I took mother to her 50th class reunion! The house was full of folks from

as far as California. Some was there who had never been to one before! The count was about 144 outta about 200 classmates. The food was good & lots of entertainment. She went w/ one of her friends on Sat. to the Golden Oldies reunion, it was for anyone from 1959 class & older. She said about 450-500 showed up for that one!

Granny 's 5lb 11oz catfish

When we was coming home late Saturday eve. from the amish tour. We passed by Granny's & I told Jeff she's at the pond. Imagine that! By the time we get to our drive & beginning to unload, I saw a little "black dart" coming across the dam of the pond. I told Mrs. Miller "OH Granny has got something going on!" My poor Cocoa probly had her claws dug into the bed of Paw-paw's truck cause Granny is HAULING IT! By this time Jeff is watching her we knew she'd got a big one or a turtle! When she caught her breath & Cocoa got the bugs outta her teeth! This is what she had a 5lb 11oz catfish! She wrestled him in & put in the fish basket for Jeff to clean!

~Our Amish Tour~

These signs tell you what the family sells or makes.

A sweet little Amish boy & his dog.

~Doorstep brothers~

Cutting hay..

... gathering the hay, this is a half load too!

We took of Saturday morning on a Amish tour w/ the Miller's to Ethridge,Tn.
Mr. Miller done a fine job navigating us through the country considering he had a faulty map reader. (me) Most everyone was busy working in the fields cutting hay or gathering vegetables to sell. We'd been in big trouble if we'd drove a truck when we got to the family that made swings & gliders! They we're so pretty made from heavy cypress. It was something to see.

"SAVE THEM SEEDS JILL!"

Uncle Melvin & Aunt Eugenia is always spoiling us! I love to go up the their house & see what he's gathered outta the garden & going to the market ! He brought us home this huge "yellow meated" watermelon. I was so excited, I love watermelon for breakfast & any other part of the day! I was jumping in the mule to come home when he yelled to dry the seeds & He'd grow me some next year! You can't beat that with a stick!

My CORNIEST Posting Yet! =)

Uncle Melvin's corn is so pretty this year! He has white/Silver Queen

& the prettiest yellow corn also!
We've picked few bushels this weekend & got it all worked up. Below Jefferson is silking it for me, he's a good corn silker!

Wasn't to many of these wormy fellers in our corn!My stove was full of boiling pots of corn!

~Here is the Horton's Corn Queen 2009,~

CHOCOLATE CHIP POUND CAKE

Oh...LOOK YA'LL

She's for real ! You know when you was little & you met one of your life long best friends? You can't really remember if it was at the coat closest at school or if she lived next to your Nanny's? Well here she is....This is Tina from Cherry Hill Cottage ! I can't remember how we ran up on her while we were prowling around some blogs, I can tell you this much I screamed when I spotted her pretty Christmas bed! I love it! You can also she her little "wee-weiner" dog who found the chip bag! :-) Here at work my partner in junkin' crime Deb & myself we have to check her site out daily! We'll say "oh gosh" go to Cherry Hill she's been cookin' or doodlin' up her porch! We'll....to make a long story short Deb ran across a few pieces of dishes that had a cute cherry design on them & we emailed her & she's real & she replied today! We figured she was to busy maybe getting ready to go on Oprah or Regis & Kelly. Well, we're gona box them up & get'em in the mail and hope she loves them!

a little piece of heaven.....

~Granny & Cocoa has a standing date every evening at the pond~

LOOK AT THAT PRETTY GIRL

~SHE'S BEEN SHOWING UP FOR A LITTLE BITE DURING THE DAY TIME. BUT, I'M THINKING FROM THIS SHE MAY JUST LIKE TO HAVE HER PICTURE TAKEN. WHEN WE WAS AT THE HOUSE CLEANING OUR FISH THIS MORNING WE COULD SEE HER! SHE GOT HER A BITE THEN WALK AWAY THUR THE HAY FIELD.

Crappie for the day~

We slipped off around sun rise this morning & did a little crappie fishing. The weather was wonderful. We brought home about a dozen or so of the beauties. Jeff cleaned them & we'll have a little fish tomorrow for lunch! YUM-OLA

Poor dog didn't see it coming....a bath!

I FOUND HER RELAXING IN THE GARAGE IN NEED OF A GOOD BATH,

I SEARCHED HIGH & LOW FOR A "TUB" TO GIVE HER THE WASHING SHE NEEDEDAH-HA!!! I FOUND IT! YOU PULL THE "MULE" OFF THE PAVEMENT SO THE WATER WILL GATHER AT THE FRONT OF THE BED. SHE STILL DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE AT THIS POINT.

THEN YOU TELL HER TO "LOAD UP",

FOR THE RECORD SHE KNOWS NOW!

I SCRUBBED HER FROM ONE END .......

TO THE OTHER!!!!

AND YOU GUESSED IT........SHE RAN ALL OVER THE YARD & ROLLED IN THE GRASS THEN TOOK ABOUT A 2 HOUR NAP ON HER GRANNY'S PORCH!~

~Crafty Cat Show~

Ok folks! Today on the Crafty Cat Show we're gona make a beautiful

chalk board. You'll need a frame in the size of your choice.

Mine, above is a old rough barn wood.

Then you'll need to find a "slick" sided piece of wood. This is what you'll spray w/ the chalkboard paint that you'll get at your local "Wal-Mark's" it'll take 3-4 good coats. More the merrier!

Once your coats are dried good place your chalk board in it's frame like so above!
This is it folks! Now, you can write your husband a sweet note or just doodle anything you want, just try to make it sweet & pretty. Hope you enjoyed it!

~ See you next week.

The Crafty Cat :-}