29 LOOKS BETTER FROM THE INSIDE

Yes for today anyway. Maybe tomorrow it will be Spring again.  Who knows? What a Rolla coaster. Oatmeal is good on a winter day. Any day in fact. Strawberries & a few stray grapes that said "eat me today or tomorrow may be too late.) Know what I mean?  There is a big Granny Smith apple that says "cook me today." I have resorted to talking with my fruit. Well at least I have that around all the time. I guess I am getting bored. Need a project, but what?

Not much of interest going on around here. Just wait for meal time, wait for the mail. wait for new Covid report each day (depressing). I could clean out some things, but don't want to. Fridge could really use a cleanout. I end up running to the laptop and to my books. Now that sounds a little lazy does it not? 

BETTY (must go and cook that Granny Smith) BOOP
 

CHILLY & SILLY 0N BALCONY

Sophisticated Lady cup, makes me feel that way. She sits just right and looks you coyly in the eye.  On my coffee cup of course. I think that came from early movies where the ladies were so glamorous in beautiful clothes and don't forget the dangling cigarette with the holder and handkerchiefs. My, were the early movies something. Not exactly a role model for little girls. But they made for dreams of what could be. But for me, this old tattered robe and coffee cup in hand, I am far from sophisticated.

The clouds are an artist dream this morning. Every kind you can think of. The dark ones on top are a warning of rain, but they stack down like blocks, from dark to light. The sun tries   to shine through at the bottom, giving the whole picture an eerie   feeling. Will the Sun win? Or will the rain. Maybe a little of both. 

BETTY (reflective & silly) BOOP

p. s. Amy said she sat in a lawn chair, like Brick on the TV show   THE MIDDLE. 

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YEH!!! 41 DEGREES

Sounds nice? But yet it felt a little too cool. Not a movement out there. Where are you? No ducks on the water, nor Walkers. So I gave it up and here I sit at my computer in my little brown chair with the blue pillow I bought a while ago at a SCV closet sale. The little brown chair is almost an Anique. It is the last surviving one of a set of 4. It is from the first set of breakfast of small table and 4 chairs we bought for our first kitchen in our first house we built. Unpainted, as was the way to go then. The whole set survived our family over the years and has been painted so many colors. The rest of the set served us well and has been retired long ago. Somehow we still have this little chair from the set. If it could talk, it would paint a happy new housewife, and Mother, serving her crew over many years. Many memories come back. It is still a sturdy little chair. Wonder what happened to the other 3?

BETTY (down the memory lane again) BOOP

P. S.: I wonder where Amy sat when she got out of high chair?

 

FROSTY& 27 HERE

The Meadow is white with frost. Geese are out of green in their diet. Not good. What do they do in the winter for food. ?The Lord Will Provide. Just as he does for us. So much is about caution here, since we are fighting the virus again. Many of usual things are canceled. Seems like we are going backwards. I understand it, but it is hard to wear that tired old mask again. I really got tired of it the last time. Maybe it will all turn around soon. 

Hey, we can always talk about breakfast. Or are you tired of that subject too? Seem it is the highlight of my day. I fixed my version of French toast. Banana was just ripe, so on it went. Good combo. They are rerunning so many old sitcoms from the past. My we have come a long way there. I kind of like some of them and then some were just plain old poor acting. I felt sorry for some of them, but in the early days of TV we laughed and thought they were good. I guess it is the sign of the times and we march on.

BETTY (trying to march with it) BOOP

29 degrees Oh No !!

Well it finally changed. The weather I mean. Folks say that is Mississippi for you. It was exciting to see snow flurries. Of course nothing much came of it, but there is something about the silence of snow that I like. Maybe we will have more later. It really does cause Southerner's havoc. Not used to it or not prepared either. I seem to remember more snow when I was a child. Al Gore was right about the climate change. Remember him? 

Coffee taste good even on the inside-looking out. Wonder if any walkers will brave it? My tablescape continues to draw attention. With light snow on the trees, it is appropriate. Shampoo today. Some do that every day. Not me.

BETTY (I ran completely out of something to say, as you can see) BOOP

 

UP & DOWN WE GO.

Up and down we go. I braved the Balcony. It turns out 55 and windy was almost too much. I was surprised to see a walker. MR. FLOWER POT HAT misjudged the weather too, I think. We both finished our business fast and hurried on to the warmth of inside. Not much of interest going on here. We are fighting the virus and hope we have it under control. We will see. We are asked to wear mask, stay in unless necessary, and all the other stuff we did earlier. One of my favorite persons, Betty White has passed. I always thought of us as a little alike. We hang on. Also in the same company is Queen Elizabeth. Our birthdays are close together. O. K. "Lizzy" who of us goes first? Now after I have elevated my ego, I believe I will close for now.

BETTY (please don't stop reading"BOOP)

 

TRADITION OR TRUE?

Growing up in the South, it was a well known fact: EAT YOUR BLACKEYED PEAS SO YOU WILL BE PROSPERS IN THE NEW YEAR.  Well I have loved those peas all my life, but how prospers did it make  me? Also we were told to eat cabbage or some green for plenty of money.  It only made me more healthy. So what is wrong with that? Just a fun thing now. Hope there is the duo for lunch today. In the beginning, I always bought dried peas and soaked them over night, Then until I had a pressure cooker (great invention) I would cook slowly for hours with a ham bone or something like it. Then I graduated to canned peas, during my busy child raising years, New Year's Day meal would always include, cabbage, cornbread. and I loved pickled beets. Potato salad satisfied my group. How about good old homemade banana pudding to top it off. And a slice of ham would be good too. I am making you hungry, but not me. I had a traditional breakfast of oatmeal with banana sprinkled with cinnamon. So I am good to go till lunch time.

BETTY ( good luck to you) BOOP

P. S.  and read if you find the time, Mr. Google about blackeyed pea tradition, kind of interesting.

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