Another Wednesday

Kent is at the shed with the boyz. I know he loves his Wednesdays. I still have not got the courage to buy more paint, so the porch is not completely finished. Looking for that day though. Carla came by to see us this afternoon, I have missed her and was real glad to see her. It is like she is on the other side of the world in Winnsboro, a whole 30 miles away. I want to go see her new house and just have not made the time, but I will I promise. Janie and her family came down and had supper with us tonite, I didn't think there would be enough but sure enough every one got full and they have all just left. Jeannette was going to come in this weekend for Canton, but with the rain coming she backed out so I had the house cleaned for just me, wow it sure feels good to come home to a clean, smelling good house. Since we/Kent started working on the porch I have just kinda let everything slide and it was sure showing. I think Jeannette should just call me once a month to say she is coming up just so I will get my ass in gear to clean. It is real important to me what she thinks when it comes to my house. She treats me like a queen when I go visit her, she always has a little surprise on my pillow....I love that. I do good to put clean sheets on the bed for her. Granny Jennie has been gone 3 year on the 26th of the Month. I miss her so much, for the last 10 years of her life she was in the nursing home and just knowing she was there and going by to visit was a comforting feeling for me. Even though she couldn't get out and walk the pasture or chase the bull with the umbrella we could still talk and laugh and she always could make me laugh. (crying, wonder if I ever will think of her and not cry)I want to be just like her to my grandkids. I want them to always want to come to my house and don't ever want them to think they are a burden. Janie, well that's a different story...just kiddin Jane, you have no idea how much I love you and wish I could have been a better Mom, one of them that always knew exactly what to do and when to do before it needed to be done. Like you are turning out to be. Enough with the gooy shit, she should know I love her or I think a lot of that kid, that is what Granny used to tell us..."I think a lot of you kids" never heard her say I love you...WELL LISTEN TO ME GRANNY JENNIE " I LOVE YOU AND THINK A LOT OF YOU, STILL."

Liquor Cabinet

Get your attention? Well some might know this others not, Kent has been screening in our back porch for month's now, got it finished and it is wonderful. We had a lot of old barn wood left over and he decides to make a cabinet for the porch. (Deep breath, exhale) It has taken every spare moment and weekend since the last piece of screen went up to complete this cabinet. IT IS AWESOME. He is so picky when it comes to shit like this. He is also a machinist, which will drive anyone with a random thought crazy. He had the plan in his head and NO ONE is allowed to know what the plan is until he reveals it. It is so heavy, I could not move it or help him move it from the garage to the porch, so he called in reinforcements. Thanks Pete, (use a heating pad and ice bags, alternate it will help.) Anyway, while Kent has been really busy on the cabinet, I have tried to keep myself as busy, so I thought I would paint the raw wood on the outside of the porch. Got my paint, brushes, rollers and straight edge, opened that canof paint.....Now mind you I love the color RED, but candy apple, whore house red is not my favorite, so guess what color I managed to bring home..candy apple whore house red...I painted one board, thought maybe when it dries it will be darker, so I went to the west side of the porch and painted another board thinking if it dries faster in the west sun maybe it will be darker...So I stop Kent and I ask him, what do you think of this color of paint, he said "You remember your Mother's dining room?" I said " I think I will find another color of red, that better suits my taste and not my Mom's"
To be continued..

TV BLUES

I stayed home today with a sick belly, last night our big TV in the LR went out again. Probably why my belly hurts. Staying home without a TV sucks. Especially when you feel to bad to even be outside. Janie is still home looking like Alvin of the chipmunk fame, so I called her today to see if she needed to get out of the house for a while. Glad no one was taking pictures for "The people you see at WalMart" because we would have been Poster children for the publication!
This kind of spring is awesome and all I am wanting to do is be home with all the windows up doing Spring Cleaning with Old country music playing loud on the radio( because my damn TV is broke and it has Sirius radio on it) Right now KMOO is about all I can pick up real clear in this area I call home.
If I ever get to the point where I can stay home all day, week, month or year, all I am going to do is cook and mow the yard. That's all I want to do now, but by the time you work all day then come home to the washing and cleaning it just takes a toll on me.
But one day I will be Granny Jennie, (outside person) Momma, ( the cook) and Aunt Myrtle (one of each) Right now I am Gurney, who worked all day to come home to work some more.
Love to all who reads this, Nen

Wednesday Nite Car Club

Every Wednesday for as long as I can think back, the "men" in the neighborhood meet at Stack's shed. At first it was a great opportunity to work on old cars and they all had something to give to the project "Gasser" For whatever reason it has now turned in to a bullshit session and they all can just out lie each other. No girls allowed! kinda club. So this gives Tutz and I a nite off of cooking so we take advantage and go out and eat. It is all good. Tonite however, we did not go I backed out because my daughter had all 4 of her wisdom teeth cut out and was a little whiney...I mean bitchy, so I hated to leave my grandchildren in harms way, hopefully the moon will change or the teeth will grow back and she will be her sweet self again.

Given' it a shot!

Okay, I have read Pam's blog and cried right along with her, have visited Cords blog and as always amazed beyond belief, so not wanting to be out done, I am trying it.. And yes I am still on a old fashioned dial up internet connection....It thinks a lot faster than I do anyway, so surely it will be able to keep up with my thoughts. Right? I love facebook, but so many pictures takes so long to load on granny dial up sometimes it just a waste of time for me. So I will blog..Sounds like blah blah blah, kinda. Who's gonna read it anyway? I write in my journal from time to time and this might be better. who know's. Whne setting it all up I kinda was looking for a really patriotic background but didn't see one on the first page, so I though simplicity would be more suited for me.
I liked Pam and Danny's title so much I hope she don't mind me mimicking hers in the same fashion. I think we have a happy house, it smiles at me when I come home each day. Kent and I are happy, managed to raise a happy kid, a few little road bump along the way. Just taking a little sip at a time. Since it my first time, a true virgin at this, I won't bore who ever is reading this and take up a lot of space. So Happy Trails to all and to all a Good Night! (a form of my humor)