Picnic

The GRAND~girls and I went with Mom Griffis to put flowers on Dad Griffis grave today.

It was the first time the GRAND's had been there.

They loved it there!

They thought it was so pretty that they

suggested we could have a picnic there sometime.

We got so tickled at them, they are so

precious and say the funniest things.

It is a beautiful and peaceful place and they didn't want to leave.

I guess we will be visiting often.

Clemon Herschel Griffis

Clemon Herschel Griffis

October 4, 1931~August 12, 2010

Most of you know that my father in law passed away August 12.

You may read his obituary here, if you are interested.

I just wanted to share a few family pictures taken the days after his death.

This is his older sister Juanita.

I said, "smile, Aunt Juanita!"

She said, "I am smiling."

That is not true because I have a beautiful picture of her smiling.

I'll share it with you some day.

I'm sorry to say that Aunt Juanita is in the hospital at this time.

She took a fall and fractured two vertebra in her back.

We saw her yesterday afternoon and she is doing

better and not in as much pain.

She is looking forward to coming home in a few days.

She lives here in Brunswick.

This is Clemon's baby sister, Betty Jean (aka, Betsy) who lives in Sandy, Utah

and his younger brother LeGrand who lives in Dallas, Tx.

This picture was taken on Friday the 13th of August,

Betsy's birthday, the day after Dad passed away.

This is Kathleen Floyd Griffis

my mother in law. Her and Dad would have been

married 60 years this coming Jan. 13th.

She is a beautiful woman inside and out and a

wonderful mother and MIL.

This is their oldest daughter, Gloria Sue Jacobs
pictured with her son, Joshua Jacobs.

This is their oldest son and my Sweetheart,

Claude Harry Griffis

holding our oldest GRAND~daughter Shelby Bailey Griffis.

This is William Brad Griffis, the middle child

with his wife Shelley.

My apologies to Brad for not getting a picture with his eyes open.

This is Roger Clem Griffis the youngest son

with his youngest daughter Ali Griffis.

This is the baby of the family, Mary Angela Ripley aka Angie

pictured with Moi'!

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Just wanted to thank each and everyone of you that left such sweet and comforting comments along with your thoughts and prayers. It really meant a lot to me, you're the best blogging friends EVER!!

Back To School

11 Months old Collin

Riding Shotgun

Now look at that right ear!

It is still standing at attention, don't ya just love it??

Bentley Boy is great company.

First Day Of School 2010/2011

Shelby will be in Kindergarten this year.

She was very ready for school to start.

She doesn't want to take dance this year.

So she is going to be on a little swim team.

She sort of taught her self to swim this

summer and that is all she wants to do is swim.

Reagan will be in the 3 year old Pre School class.

She didn't want to go to school this morning.

She wanted to go to big girl school with her sister.

She still has another year before Pre-K.

Her cousin Mackenzie will also be in the same class.

Watch out Ms. Charity!

My niece, Leah, cut her hair yesterday.

She really wanted it as short as Shelby's

but I think this was short enough.

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I'm still running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.

I can't see it calming down until after the Labor Day weekend.

We still have relatives in town from the

funeral and will have for another week.

We've had some really good times with our extended family.

I hope to get back to my regular blogging and

visiting yall soon. Probably another few weeks.

Miss yall.

Pop Pop's New Tattoo

Compliments of the GRAND~girls!

(Could it be any uglier? I really wish they would have put a little forethought in to the design! And thank goodness for washable markers.)

What?

Can someone tell me what

happened to summer and how it

got to be the middle of August already???

Back in the Real World

Woo Hoo!!!

Dad Griffis

Clemon H. Griffis passed away this afternoon,

August 12, 2010 he was 78 years old. He will be missed by many.

Love you Dad.

Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him,

Well done, thou good and faithful servant:

thou hast been faithful over a few things,

I will make thee ruler over many things:

enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

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I miss yall.

I finally get telephone service and

Internet tomorrow afternoon!! Whoo Hoo!!

Give me one more week and I'll be back with you.

Stay out of trouble and try and stay cool.

I'm Outa Here!

Taking a bloggy break.

Don't really know how long I'll be gone.

Gotta get some things done around here and still no Internet.

I'll miss you, my boggin friends.

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Photo Friday

Michigan Barn May 2010 Just surviving the Dog Dayz of summer. Just not around a computer much these days,

Okra and Tomaotes

What to do with fresh okra?

I was given a mess of okra last week, oh what a gift!

I put it with the okra I had from my garden.

Then I sort of came up with this recipe.

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In my head it started out somewhat like that great

Poppin Squash Recipe I got from

Katherine Mt Smokey Mt. Cafe.

But ended up differently but oh so yummy.

I've made this three times in the last couple of weeks.

Fry up a few pieces of bacon.

Remove bacon from pan, crumble and save for later.

Throw 2 cups chopped Vidalia onions (or sweet onion) and

saute until they start to get translucent.

Add two teaspoons minced garlic and cook a minute more.

Add 4 cups chopped okra and saute about 5 minutes.

If you have fresh tomatoes add 3 - 4 cups.

If not, use two or 3 cans of petite diced cans of tomatoes.

If you want to add little spice, add a can of Rotel tomatoes.

Add one or two tablespoons of sugar.

Add two chicken bullion cubes crumbled.

Stir all together and cook until okra is tender.

In another frying pan saute a pound or more smoked sausage.

Add bacon and sausage to tomatoes and okra.

Serve over a bed or rice!

I've been craving this everyday this week.

Shutter Love Tuesdays

This weeks theme: Weddings

Got a favorite wedding picture you'd like to share?

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Great Picture

I 've always loved this picture of Dad Griffis, my F.I.L.

It was taken at my youngest son, Travis and Jordan's wedding.

I think I love it because he has a great smile on his face.

He doesn't smile a whole lot.

The Sweetheart and I were with him last night when he suffered another stroke. He had a quadruple by pass two weeks ago and was really doing pretty well. They moved him on Tuesday of this week to a wonderful Rehabilitation hospital, Brooks. They ended up taking him back to St. Vincent's last evening around 5:00. They got him moved out of the ER around 11:00. He finally fell asleep around 12:30 this morning.

Around noon today he had a turn for the worse and they had to put him on a ventilator and moved him to CCU.

He's holding his own tonight.

They told us to come home and come back in the morning.

It's been a really long day.

Due to 3 dogs and the idiot AT&T people for not running the wires above ground like we have begged,

We Again Have NO Internet service

or phone service at our home.

If you need us use our cell phone #'s or work #!

Just don't even ask me how MAD!!! I am about this!!

It was the STRAW that broke the camels back!!