Hey Yall

The husband, was playing on the tractor while I was gone and I think he messed up our phone lines. So if you need us call my cell phone. AT&T said it would be Monday or Tuesday before they could fix them.

Thank you very little.

Funny

THINGS I LEARNED IN GEORGIA

1) A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

2) There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Georgia.

3) There are 10,000 types of spiders, and all 10,000 of them live in Georgia .

4) If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bitecha.

5) "Onced" and "Twiced" are words.

6) It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.

7) "Jaw-P?" means, "Did y'all go to the bathroom?"

8) People actually grow and eat okra.

9) "Fixinto" is one word.

10) There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper.

11) Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar.

12) Backwards and forwards means, "I know everything about you."

13) The word "jeet" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat ?"

14) You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

15) You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

16) You measure distance in minutes.

17) You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.

18) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.

19) You know what a "Dawg" is.

20) You carry jumper cables in your car - for your own car.

21) You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete, Tabasco and ketchup.

22) The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and high school football.

23) You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

24) You find 100 degrees "a bit warm."

25) You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

26) Going to Walmart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Walmartin" or "off to Wally World."

27) You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good hog killin' weather.

28) Fried catfish is the other white meat.

29) We don't need no dang Driver's Ed.. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dag-nabbit.

30) You understand these jokes and forward them to your Georgia friends and those who just wish they were from Georgia.

**Harry's cousin who lives in Utah and loves to visit us in Georgia sent this and she thought it was pretty funny. Sad thing is, they are for the most part TRUE!!!!

Go Green

Baby Turns 2

Happy Birthday

Reagan

Reagan Kendall Griffis

February 26, 2007

1st Birthday

Happy 2nd Birthday Reagan

Out of all the pictures I tried to take of her I didn't have the first one of her looking at the camera. And look at that little shiner. That was my fault, not really, but she was with me when it happened. She somehow fell on the slide. And she cried and it really hurt and today it is about 5 different colors. Poor baby.

Afterthought, look at the three of them.

Pretty girls.

Look how different their hair coloring is, Shelby's is closer to Harrison's shade. But look at how blond Rea is!? I must say that Christon's mother has really blond hair and is very fair skinned. It's just sort of hard to believe that this little mama and daddy have these very different looking children.

I took little mini (sugarfree) cupcakes for her class today at school. They let them eat them outside on the playground. Good Idea!

This was my lame attempt at

making her birthday cake.

Oh, well I tried.

Maybe I should send this to 'Cake Wrecks'

Her parents are taking her and Shelby to 'Dinny Wold" All I have to say is good luck with that.

Hope yall have a good time.

Reagan is my 2nd Grand Girl.

Suspicious?

There is a home in our

neighborhood that has been

for sale for over a year.

One night last week it burned to

the ground. Do you think

that there is anything

suspicious about that??

Well apparently the Police

think so because this is

what surrounds the place now.

2 Things

I'm sorry.

Please forgive me.

If I've hurt your feelings or

offended you in anyway,

please except my apology.

Thank you for stopping by

day in and day out.

I know I don't tell you often

enough but I really appreciate

those of you who visit and especially

those that take the time to comment.

I've made some really sweet 'invisible

friends', as Katherine puts it.

It's good to know you,

and some of you I feel like

I've known for years.

And thank you to my family and

friends who know me and love

me anyway.

Thank you, I love you!

A Favorite

This simple little thing is called a 'French Spatula' and besides my Kitchen aid mixer, this is my favorite kitchen tool, accessory or what ever you may want to call it.

It is very thin.

See what's left in the bowl when you just scrape it with a spoon.

Hold it like this and scrape the sides all the way around and back up to the top. You can almost do this in one swipe.

And Wa-La!

Nothing wasted!

I love this little tool.

And if you'll look at the picture just above this one. You will see right by my thumb that I've used this so much that it has a crack in it. I need a new one and so my search is on. I've looked at Wal-Mart, Target, Bed, Bath and Beyond and even searched the web. I can find all kinds of other Spatulas but not one like this. They aren't very costly. The first one I bought 30 years ago was only $.99. So if you come across one of these let me know where you found it. Buy one and use it. I think it is great!

Sunday, Sunday

Artist: Liz Lemon Swindle

What?

It's 6:53 A.M.

And 27* this morning!

What is up with that?

A little cold for planting potatoes.

Maybe this is the last of

the really cold weather.

Spring has got to be around the corner.

Pictures On My Fridge

I finally got my Printer/Scanner hooked up and decided to scan something. So I took the pictures down off the front of my fridge and scanned them into my computer. Here they are in the order I scanned them.

Harrison, Harry, Gigi and Travis

Uncle Sam and Daddy in back ground.

(No date on back of picture,

this has to be at least 15 years ago.)

Harrison and Reagan

(She wasn't even a year old here

but I love her little round face)

Shelby

18 months old

Monarch of the Dale, The Queen, Princess and the 2 Princes

Crenshaw Family

the day after my parents 50th Wedding

Anniversary Celebration in Palatka, Florida

Now, what pictures are on the front of your fridge?? I tag you all to share what's on yours or is there anything?

Fat Cat

Did I ever tell you that I have a fat cat?

25 pounds worth!

His given name is Gizmo and he

is a Maine Coon and 8 years old.

When Shelby started talking

she called him "Mo".

So that is what he goes by now.

He pretty much doesn't

answer to anything.

Hey, "Mo"

Yes, you!

I'm talking to you!

He gets lots of grand girl kisses.

Not so many from Shelby these days.

But he still gets lots of kisses and hugs

from Rae. He's so big that when both

girls started walking, they

tried to ride him. He would just

flatten out with a grunt. He

tolerates them pretty well,

thank goodness.

He is Harry's baby and our alarm clock.

There is no sleeping in this house past 6:30 am and some mornings he wakes us around 5. I don't like him at all in the mornings. I've been known to yell at him.

You would too if a 25lb cat jumped up on your bed and licked you in the face first thing in the morning!

He really, really misses Bell. We've never found her. It's really sad at night when he sits at the front door and calls her. He is still grieving her loss. I can't bring myself to replace her with a new friend for him just yet. Maybe soon. I'm just not sure I can break in a new kitten. No not now.

Presidents Day

Just precious when they are sleeping!

I brought big Anna home with me from Kingsland, Sunday afternoon, after Stake Conference. (Shelby has taken to calling her Big Anna because there is a girl in her class named Anna and this is the way she distinguishes them.)

Harry and Anna then went and got Shelby to spend the night with us. Reagan was not happy about her 'Bella' being gone. Next time she'll have to spend the night too.

Monday morning after breakfast we went to fly kites on the beach. The day's forecast was to be Sunny and high of 65*. We got to the beach and it was cloudy and 55*.

Soon as we get the kite in the air the sky changed to this color and no more sun. Just cold wind.

I show you this picture so you can see how the wind was blowing Shelby's ponytails? And it was COLD. We did not last an hour.
That's right Rea, zip your jacket up!

After leaving the beach we decided to feed the birds with the $1.00 loaf of old bread that we got last week to feed birds but never got around to doing. That was a big hit but the birds got very aggressive before we got through. Shelby was up under my arm trying to get away from them.

Soon as that was over we went and had lunch and went to lunch at Chic-Fil-A and then to Home Depot for gardening supplies.

My very nice brother in law drove 30 miles from Kingsland.

He brought his trusty tiller. I didn't say rusty tiller, because it isn't.

To do this to my yard! He got my garden started for me.
See the picture above this one.
The black bucket right behind the tiller.
That is his left over seed potatoes that he gave me.
It's time to plant potatoes, onions and carrots if you are going to plant them. Aunt Patsy and Uncle Sam planted theirs last week. I'm going to try and stay up with them and I'm already a week behind. But it'll just have to be OKAY!

That was not all of the day. As soon as Anthony, Carla, Jami and big Anna left we went to Sears and Harry bought a new lawn mower. Whoo hoo! Last years model at a great discount. So we did our part to help the economy to grow.

Do you recon that was a fun filled day or what?

As If...

...brownies on their own aren't rich enough!!

Over on Bakerella last week she was thanking Betty Crocker for this wonderful recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies!

How could that title be more enticing? I had to go there... then as always I HAD to give them away quickly!

Oh, me, oh my!

Little secret here, I didn't have a box of cookie mix. I never make cookies from a box so I just made a batch of my favorite chocolate chip cookies and used that on top of the brownie mix. I only used half of the cookie dough.

Once you get to this point it's not over. Then you ice them. Betty Crocker chose her Rich and Creamy Chocolate Frosting. Bakerella chose a Chocolate Ganache. I just made up a quick chocolate icing from a tablespoon butter with a 1/2 cup chocolate chips melted, a splash of milk and some powdered sugar. Mm, mm good!

But remember, hurry and give them away!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies
1 box Betty Crocker Original Supreme brownie mix (with chocolate syrup pouch)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup water
2 eggs
1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® chocolate chip cookie mix
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg
1 container Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting
1. Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease bottom only of 13x9-inch pan. Make brownie mix as directed on box, using oil, water and 2 eggs. Spread in pan.
2. Make cookie mix as directed on pouch, using butter and 1 egg. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls evenly onto brownie batter; press down lightly.
3. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out almost clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Frost with frosting. For brownies, cut into 8 rows by 6 rows.

Harry Update

Warning: Picture of

Below the Knee Amputee

(Just in case you didn't really want to see this I thought I should warn you.)

But it seems that everyone is curious about what it looks like. Most haven't seen it because he usually has on his prosthesis. But it healed beautifully! He is a very blessed man.

He saw the orthopedic surgeon a few weeks ago and he was so thrilled. He held Harry's stump in his hands and was so pleased with how well it had healed. He even said something about it being a miracle. Apparently a lot of times things don't always heal the way the Dr's. would like, but this time it was perfect.

See right where the pointing finger is, that's his scar. It couldn't be more perfect. Only God knew how all this would turn out. For a man who had an amputation, MRSA* and coded in September while in the hospital and nearly died, he's lucky to be alive.

(*MRSA infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — often called "staph." MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It's a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. MRSA can be fatal.)

I guess a lot of you must wonder why you still see him riding a scooter or me pushing him in the wheelchair? Well, it doesn't have anything to do with his prosthesis, it's great. It's because he has no equilibrium. When he had his heart attack and during bypass surgery he suffered a slight stroke. That caused him to lose the hearing in his left ear and his balance. So with his equilibrium gone he doesn't walk around a lot. When he was having physical therapy they tried to teach him to use a cane but it just seemed to trip him up even more. He just gave up on the idea. He's afraid of falling. So to be on the safe side he rides or is pushed. He does walk short distances if he has some one's arm to hold on to or a wall or handrail. I'm not sure why he won't use a walker, maybe he's embarrassed, I'm not sure.

So he can walk, he just doesn't trust his self to do it very often. But that hasn't slowed him down much. He seems to get anywhere he want's to be.

On a different note, he also saw the Internist last week. All of his blood work and tests were normal!!!

Let me say again, HE COULDN'T BE MORE BLESSED! He knows that and I know that. I thank each of you for your continued thoughts and prayers. We just couldn't do it with out the Lord's help, and He helps and blesses us so much. He is our strength and we owe Him the praise and glory!

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