FLOODING

Shades of grey this morning.  I remember 79 & 83.  The color was dirty grey as it crept up on our patio.  To the garage door and almost in the house. Had to move out for a while.  Linda & Joe & Whitney were flooded.  They lived with us for a while till they had to renovate their house.  My it was a tense and scary time.  Many are facing the same today.  All over the state there is water.  When will the rain stop.  Only God knows. 

Jan came yesterday (Saturday).   We enjoyed catching up.   Lunch here was a new adventure.  The Chef was proud of his new dish.  Salad with tenderloin chopped made it a caser salad.  I thought it was good and Jan took half home.  I always can eat more than her.  Talked at length about our "grands."  They are so beautiful and smart!!  She said they talked a lot about the Beach. Glad they are looking forward to it and playing with cousins on the beach.  It will be here before you know it. 

I  fixed my hall table with Mardi Gras decorations.  That will give us some life!!

Betty Boop

JAN IS COMING

Saturday and Jan is coming, the sun is shinning. everything seems o. k. today.  Jan has been visiting their "grands" and having a ball.  Hated to come down from the clouds and back to normal.  That can be a good thing too.  Amy came yesterday and brought me food and a valentine and (oh  boy) Campbell Bakery's famous valentine cookies.   One iced in red and one in white.  They are as good as ever.  I used to buy them for my girls, even into College and send them to them.  They are sort of a tradition.  Amy is keeping it going.  Of course we are the two who love to keep the past [in present.]  We took out old Valentines I saved from Truman and me.  Talked about many memories of mine and looked at things I saved.  Need to put some in a scrapbook some day.  I even kept the receipt from our honeymoon hotel from the JUNG HOTEL in N. O.  And many other little scraps of memories.  Oh well, here I am today with lots to remember.  You gather a lot in 93 years.   I am lucky to be able to remember.

Betty Boop

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Hope you receive lots of love today.  My mind takes me back to my true love.  We always  exchanged valentines.  I have one of the first ones I sent Truman.   A homemade one, because little money was there in the early days and I was a stay at home Mom.  But through the years we bought them.  I have a few we exchanged from over the years. I am glad I saved a few.  Some years they were funny, some sexy,  some just plain dripping with love.  I will get them out sometime today and think of stories in the past.  Memories that time can not take away.  I also remember getting them in school.  The verses were read over and over when they came come from a secret admirer.   My oh my they were important.  Some I did not know who they were from because they were not signed.  Even more exciting to guess.  We decorated boxes to sit on our desk to receive the love notes.  Ah, young love.  Nothing like it. But how it grows over the years and always with you. 

Betty Boop
P. S.  I am wearing my valentine socks Linda gave me. I will show off to everyone who will look.

SUNSHINE

John Denver's song SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDER comes to mind.  Made him happy--me too.  But I LOVE A RAINY DAY does too.  I am quirky that way.  Something else makes me happy--breakfast in the Cyber.  Did that this morning.  I normally like to eat alone.  Better in the morning.  Had rather not talk early.  You must eat in your apartment to get alone.  A new resident of 3 weeks introduced herself and asked if she could join me.  What do you say?  Being the person I am, I said of course.  She was nice and friendly.  And she did talk a lot.  Nervous I guess.  Anyway, I ate too much and I am paying for it now.  O well, nothing ventured-nothing gained.  Right.  Tell me that,  as my blood sugar rises from one pancake!!  I just can't handle them.  It did not help, when I picked up wrong syrup instead of sugar-free.  O, well, I will live, I guess.  I came back with my second cup-o-joe and read my devotional and Bible in my favorite place.  The Bubble. All is well.

Betty Boop

I am still here.

I just discovered a new (to me)  author. Tess Gerritsen.  I just finished a thriller.  I was pleased to find 3 more in our library.  Got another one.  I can really get lost in her mysteries.  You can't put them down.  From her picture she looks Asian.  She is also a physician.  That comes out in her stories.  So real and yet this one left me wondering what I believe about a  ghost who occupy this century old mansion.  You get the drift.  It is not a run of the mill story though.  Very good writing.  I am looking forward to the next one I  just checked out.  You know, reading is a pleasure to me and fills some of my time. 

I just got back from attending my old exercise class. had stopped it for various reasons.  None of them really good reasons.  I have been two times this week and I think I will keep it up.  I realized it gives me a purpose for the day.  Keeps me in touch with others, plus it will help me do the exercises I need. 

Hey, I see they have Taco salad in the dinning room for lunch.  Think I will go.  Maybe it will be like Chick Filet'. 
There's is so good.  I really think I get it for the sour cream, I will order extra!!  See you later.

Betty Boop

SUNDAY SUNDAY

Beautiful day today.  Saw the sky cloud maker in the  sky.  Went to Church with Amy.  We were the only two of our usual lunch group today.  When that happens, we chose a place no one likes but us.  PANERA BREAD CAFE is our first choice. The half-in-half --half of soup. half salad. or sandwich.  Just right.  The bread is good.  I had their veg soup,  It is like no other I have had. So good.  I had ham sandwich and Amy had turkey. Anything we have had there is good.  Got there before the  Baptist crowd I think, because it was not full yet.  Walked right in and sat right down(another song title)  Amy  came up after and took a picture of my beautiful bulb arrangement Ivy brought me,  All three are blooming.  Ivy will like to see it.

Rain is promised  for tomorrow.  A lot I hear from the weather people.  Hope they miss it.  Oh did you know the song THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE is in the Methodist Hymnal?  I did not know that, but it is and we sang it as the closing hymn.  Such fun to sing . Words: Afro-American spiritual.  Adpt. United Methodist Publishing House.  1989.  Based on . (Matthew 5:14-16)  Our Choir director  loves spirituals.  We sing them often and I like them too.  So I learned something new today. 

Betty Boop

SATURDAY

  Another Saturday without Jan.  She will be back soon form trip. And full of grandchildren stories. I will have to make-do I guess.  Amy in spite of her many things pulling her along, has spent much time with me and for me in Jan's absence. I don't know how she takes care of so many things and people. She has a gift of giving.  At lunch yesterday we had six at our table.  What fun.  We told Pat we were celebrating her graduation, with honors, from her therapy she has been enduring.  I know how that feels.  Another friend and I celebrated how many shrimp we had in our Gumbo.  We always do this to see who has the most.  I won !  I had 12!!  Of course about 4 of them were less than an inch long.   Just hatched we say.  Anyway, anything to laugh at.  My baked catfish was really good, although I looked jealous at the fried on some plates.  The worse is when they have pecan pie and I have to pass on it.  That happened too.  Oh well I got to collect 6 servings of cream for my coffee.  They all know I do this and hand it over like dues in the club.  See what our lunches are like?  A little gossip sprinkled like sugar on the cereal and plenty of laughs.   My we have a good life!!

Betty Boop