SPIDER LILLIES

It is time for thoses amazing flowers popping up in all surprizing places. After we move (some day) whoever buys this house will benefit from a lot of surprizes. My creative husband (?) has planted so many things all over the yard. Something coming up all the time. He says it is for me. I think he enjoys seeing things grow. Anyway, these spider lillies are amazing. They pop up over night it seems and give you a burst of red frills for a few days and then green leaves and finally go back to sleep till next fall. How wonderful.

Sweetly Be
Betty Boop (MaMaw)

SPIDER LILLIES

SPIDER LILLIES

SPIDER LILLIES

STILL HOT !!!!!!!

Hello All, Physical Therapy over. Glad. I still do exercises two times a day but they are not hard--just time consuming. I do have better range now. I am glad. Amy and Jan for the last 3 Fridays have spent most of the day helping me clean out closets and drawers of unused and unwanted items. Now when we do decide to move to smaller "digs" it will be eaiser. I can not believe how much comes out of the closets, under the beds and shelves. My o my it feels good. They even haul it away for us. I owe them big time. I would guess we have at least 4 more days to really get done. Some days I am sure we are ready for independent living or assisted living even total living. There are so many different ways to go. I guess we are not ready yet. We will know when the time is right. We have lived in this house (which we built) for 40 years. A lot of living has gone on in that time and a lot of memories. But the memories will linger as long as we can remember. We are both getting very forgetful. Can"t remember anybody's name. Jan said she is like that way too. Off to France for her next week. I know that will be fun. Keep those blogs coming. I do enjoy so much knowiny some of the things you are doing.

Sweetly Be
Ma-Maw--Betty Boop

P. T.

O how it hurts!!! I do hope it is worth it. Physical Therapy is taking a lot of time and with SILVER SNEEKERS also and exercise two times a day--o boy. It is still so hot that anything you do is no fun. Jan and Amy are coming this morning to help me cleans my closets. I should feel great then. Wish you were all here to take some of my junk to your house. Hate to throw it away. Such a part of me. I should not be such a "pack rat" I will tell you how it goes.

Betty Boop (MaMaw
Sweetly be.

BACK HOME

Hi! It is hard to get back into the "REAL life". SILVER SNEAKERS" was hard. Got my PI appointments set back up too. I am still cooking fresh veggies I bought from the coast. The corn is still good. And peaches make my oatmeal real good. Finally caught up with washing clothes and ironing. By the way-- have I ever told you that I love to iorn clothes? I even iron T shirts!!!. Crazy. some people would say.Love to cook too. We had fried eggplant last night. I made up a way to add a new twist to it. So good. Had corn on cob, yellow squash, sliced tomato and cornbread. We are still eating too much. Must come down a little. Must run and get this day on the road to real life you know.



Sweetly Be
Betty (MaMaw) Boop
P.S. I went to pick up my pictures at CVS and I had turned in film that had never been used. Now I was so mad at myself. The ones I had taken were sitting here ar home laughing at me. Oh well that is Par-for-the=course for me lately.



Dot

HOME

Back from Gulf Shores. Very surprized at how beautiful the beaches were. Clean for the most part. What was sad was the lack of people. We almost had the beach to ourselves. Good but a little sad too. Not many crowds in resturants and stores. Not much traffic as usual. We had a good time 20 in all. The best food yet. Man thoses cooks are getting better and more creative and so many are interested. No resturant has it better. I did enjoy the Oyster House for lunch one day with my three girls. Another tradition and one I look forward to. We had plenty of good seafood all week. Seeing Jacob Parker, Andrew and Liam was the highlight. I can"t believe how they have grown and how much fun they had in the pool. But for all the fun we had it is mostly for me the time together that counts. Family is so important to Truman and me. May you all carry this tradition on for many years to come. Being connected, yet living your own lives is what I wish for.

Sweetly BE
MaMaw

SHORT HAIR

Well hello again. Or should I say finally. I told my hairdresser that I wanted a "beach-cut" Well I got one!!!! I will have a couple of weeks to grow it out a little. I have been so busy taking care of myself lately. I went to my knee surgeon last week because I was not walking very well. My range of motion was not good. He recomended physcial therapy for four weeks --two time a week. O boy I remember the first time after surgery. Well I went to another place to take it. It is so much better than the first place. I have never known they could have so many kinds of machines. For an hour and half I am really put through it. I have SILVER SNEEKERS the same day and it is almost too much-plus I do exercises two times a day at home in between. If this does not help a lot I am going to be disappointed big timme. I got my Gulf Shores list from Jan and am ready to "bag it up" Make the chile and take the cat to the Vet to board her. Wait --I gave all our suitcases to the Good Will. Paper sacks? Maybe. Any way I will make it.

Betty Boop
MaMaw

HOT HOT HOT!!!!!!!!!

Long time--no post, sorry. Everyone else writes such interesting things. Mine sounds so dull. I did have a little escitement on Friday last week. I attended my 66th High School Reunion at the Colonial Country Club. Sixty five out of over 300 was not too bad. Of course some were spouses or guest. Still we looked pretty good in spite of the walkers and wheel chairs lined up by the wall. And Fathers Day with Linda visiting. Good food at Jan and Tommy's house. Everyone is talking about Gulf Shores for us. We really hate to give it up and I think we will try to wait and see. Hope we can go-would not be as right somewhere else. But we could bend a little just to all be together. By the way Truman got a new American Flag for Father's Day from Amy. Does anyone know how to burn the old one? Not much else to tell--so see you later.

Sweetly Be
MaMaw

ROSES AND OTHER THINGS

Well it is about time. I decided to write again. The roses are beautiful in my garden. It is so hot and everything else is having a hard time. Maybe we will get some okra soon but we could not make it with just parsley (which is doing GREAT), Not good news about the beach trip. How about the mountains. Maybe we will work that out. We must get something going. Thanks to Jan and Amy (those girls like to go) we will have a plan soon. Maybe a change will be good. I always say change is good and we need to know how to bend a little. The main thing is to be together. I don't know of many families who enjoy each other as much as ours. Do you?Off to get the cat checked for blood sugar. Yes I am still dealing with that stuff. Hope she is making progress. She is as tired of it as I am. See you soon.

Sweetley be,
Betty Boop

LAUGH AND BE WELL

Long time-no see? Not much funny to write. Since January one or both of us have had health issues. No fun. First Truman'a face peel to ride of possible cancer . Staph infection layed him low. In the meantime more eye surgery for me and then I broke a cap off of a tooth. Three weeks of problems for that. I am still in treatment for the eye and hope that I have at least retained the vision I still have. We will see soon. In the meantime the azaleas have never been so beautiful. Our backyard is something to behold. We are looking forward to Mother's Day weekend when we will go to a cabin {or two} at Grenada lake. Linda and Joe will join us. Should be wonderful. And not to far off is the Beach Week. Hope many can come. Well we are off to lunch with our old camping buddies. We have all stopped camping but get together from time to time for lunch. O yes Silver Sneekers is still going on and I still love it.

Sweetly Be
Betty Boop

SNOW

Hello, Me at last. I have been a little slack in my writing. Sorry because I love reading all of yours. We have had two snows you could measure this February. A record. Of course the last one was only an inch but the weather people got really excited with the record. Hey February is not over yet. Almost over, it seems weeks are passing so fast. I am looking to Spring. Maybe Truman and I will get all these little (little?) ailements straight soon. My vision is still blured in the right eye. Hope with time it will clear. In the meantime things don't seem right. I can not read very long without getting tired. Still have to be careful about lifting any thing over 10 pounds. Truman has had a hard time with his face but he keeps going. He is amazing to me. Enough of our troubles--I am sure you are tired of them. We are too. The bulbs are blooming in the back yard. What a sight up through the snow. There is always hope.

Sweetly Be
Betty Boop

SNOW???????

Dear Readers, I have not blogged for a while. Been busy taking care after eye surgery. Doing o.k. and go back for a check up today. Truman has also been busy getting his face peeled. A trying experience. But that too is going as expected. He will have a smooth face-free of pre cancer. Too much sun all these years. It seems to be just patch patch patch now. Glad we can do something for our problems. Almost all of you readers have lota of snow. We may get some today and over the weekend could be a lot. Hurry to the grocery store and stock up on provisions That is what we do. My thing to do is make soup. So that is what I will do today.

Sweetly Be
Betty Boop

RAIN AND COLD

Sorry it has been so long since I posted. I have a Birthday Sunday. #83. Can you believe it? Hope to have many more. This weather is co changeable. I don't know if it is winter or Spring. Maybe we will have a little sleet and light snow tonight. The Goldfinch in our back yard are eating like crazy. What is that the sign of? Snow maybe. I am haveing yet another eye surgery on Monday. The October one did not hold up and I am going to have it over. I dread it because I am so limited for a while but if I must have it to save sight--so be it. Think of me that morning and Truman too. He has to do a lot of lifting and bending over for me for a while.

Sweetly Be

Betty Boop

SHIVER ME TIMBERS11111

A saying our local weather man says. I think he borrowed it from way in the past. It is true and soooo cold. 17 degrees this morning and might snow and get even colder. I was just about to go through my coat closet and take some old, out of date coats to the Goodwill. Think I had better hold on a while? I kind of like it cold. Warm fireplace at night is nice. The birds are eating like crazy and that keeps me bust filling the feeders. Silver Sneekers was good yeaterday but tomorrow I wonder if we will have a class if we have ice like they say. I hope we do because I really enjoy it. Whitney--I think we need to move to Florida.

Well I must go and buy some water and soup. That is what we do when we panic about snow being expected. Not a bad idea.

Sweetly Be and stay warm.
Betty Boop

LONG TIME NO-SEE

I have not bloged in a long time. Busy with so many things. I have had a wonderful Christmas. So much family time. It was good to have Linda and Joe for a few days. We have had the most wonderful food this year. Everyone worked hard to have a great time. The Chinese food the night before Ashley and Bryan left to go back to Boston was great. Back to snow!!!! That will be the norm for them this winter. I hated to see them leave but I am so proud of them both for all they do. They looked great. Wished we could have seen the Florida and Tn. grands too. It is great to have a family that like to get together. Truman was so happy. We uaually are headed for South Texas or Florida for the month of January but we sold the motor home. We have such fond memories of those trips. It was time to sell-we could not do it alone and we miss Cecil so much. It is cold and the fire feel good. So much football on today. I guess that is to be expected. I like some of it but I get tired too. I need something new to read. My new cookbook just makes me hungry. Silver Sneekers was good yesterday. I needed the exercise. My tree is down but I still need to put all the decorations in the closet. I should have done like the person who dumped their tree at the recycle lot and left all decorations on it. I guess they will buy more next time. My thing is that I love all my decorations so much that I could not throw any away. Sooooo my closet is full and running over. I must start getting rid of some of this junk.

Sweetly Be
Betty Boop