Wednesday, August 22, 2007

blogs

Those Burka Boys sure can keep us informed about what's going on in their lives. They must have inherited some of Hugh Allen's writing genes...Oh yes, Laura is also good at writing details about her life. It makes happy reading for a grandmother..

We go today to get our pictures made for the Fair Badges...We will be sitting at a table like Todd described in his blog. He prepared us for dealing with the public. We won't be giving out pens; we will be asking people to vote on pots and ceramics...very exciting stuff.

Our boss, Bettie says that we will be sitting across from the White Lily flour booth, and every day we will get to eat biscuits hot out of the oven..Oh Boy...We will get to hear the entertainment at the outdoor theater...It will be right across the way from our booth. Since our building won't be air conditioned, the doors will be open to everything that's going on outside.

We are driving a bright blue Chrysler Sebring...For explanation, look at previous blog.

We go to a birthday party today for a friend who is 96 years old. He is in our water class...

Monday, August 13, 2007

this and that

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year here so far...97 degrees. We have been reading a lot because we can't go outside much. I am rereading NORTH WITH SPRING by Edwin Teale...my favorite book. It's just as good the second time. Next I'll read his summer, fall, winter books. I have them all. The only other book I reread was TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE. ...LOVE that book.
We went to church last night before supper and I started thinking about a hamburger and a piece of strawberry pie at Shoneys. We never go there, but it just had to be last night. We went after church and the hamburger and onion rings were so good, and the strawberry pie was as good as it used to be.
Edith brought some just-picked okra to church and told me how to cook it. She said to cut it into small pieces and soak them in buttermilk...Then roll the pieces in a mixture of half self-rising flour and half self-rising meal. She deep fries, but I'm going to just fry in oil...We'll try that for lunch today along with some corn on the cob...I put corn in the husk in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes each...then take it out and pull the husks off...soo good...
My Michigan friends from the campground taught me that.
We are going to Chilhowee park tonight to a picnic for Fair workers. We start working at the Fair in September. We will be in charge of the pottery and ceramics booth...We checked out all the books the library had about pottery so we will know what we are doing. Rose and Paul will be the judges for our booth.
The bad news is that we have to stay there every day until the fair closes at 10:00 p.m. And the building is not air-conditioned. Wow!

Thursday, August 02, 2007

new bumper and right fender and headlight

compliments of State Farm Insurance. Well it was HER fault so her insurance is paying.
I was merging onto the interstate in a construction area with concrete barrier on my right. She was merging on the other side of barrier. She didn't yield and I hit her..She was driving a new Saturn and it didn't even dent it...
I realize that this puts another brick into the nursing home...Butch already has us looking.
Rose wants us to take
safe driving course at the senior center..