To the tune of that ageless favorite from "Sound of Music" ... FAVORITE THINGS ... (I think it was Sound of Music).
Green beans and taters and
Turkey with gravy
Noodles and fruit salad and
Rolls smeared with butter.
Golden brown dressing
all baked up and warm.
These are a few of our Turkey day foods ...
Punkin pie and punkin bars
and macaroni and corn ...
Special K loaf and much, much more
I'm running out of creative juice
But these are a few of our favorite FOODS ...
See you Thanksgiving day at 2-ish!
Thursday, November 19
REWARD!!
There will be a substantial reward (of gratitude) for information leading to the rediscovery of ANY Ludke-side family relatives. We have not heard a peep from anyone in eons. Nope, nope, nope!
Not any from Minnesota (tho those were the last ones we heard from...with darling pictures of cute little girls!), not any from Maryland, none from Georgia, or Iowa, or even Pennsylvania. They are absolutely and positively MISSING. Poof!
I'm sure your lives are just as boring >>ahem, EXCITING!!!<< as ours -- *LOL* -- I know you are thinking NO ONE'S life is as pathetic as YOURS Von -- NO ONE's! -- so anyway that's even more reason to come out of the woodwork. Give my pathetic little life some meaning - some PURPOSE.
Same goes for any of the rest of you family and 'family of friends'. SERIOUSLY! We're WORRIED about all of you! I was overjoyed, I will say, with a long juicy note from Cousin Kathy in California. Your life seems like an interesting one. Can't wait to see the pictures of Casey's girls. And Kirk, while your news wasn't good - it was nice to get a personal note from you as well. Thanks.
MAKE IT GO AWAY -- It's too much! I'm talking, of course, about that pot of chili that I put together a few days ago. I've had chili twice a day ever since (except for one night). I can't do it much longer! There are consequences to having that much chili for one person. I'll just let you Google that one ... 'consequences of eating too much chili' ... I have no idea what you'll ACTUALLY get as a search result. But ... well, 'nuf said about that!
Sounds like we're going to have a little family get-together here to play games, talk, watch a movie or SOMETHING on Saturday night. Rhiannon is in charge. I'm just an attendee. I bought a new game called FARKLE (and no, it has nothing to do with chili soup). I know, I know -- we were moving on ...
Anyway I am hoping for a fun relaxed evening with folks I love!
I went to TOYLAND at Blaine's Farm & Fleet on Wednesday night. Rhiannon was looking for a fence to keep her baby in. So she was going there anyway. I remembered hearing some hype about all the toys that they have there. So I called and said ... TAKE ME TOO! I wanted very much to see what bright eyes would think about all the colorful toys.
I put reindeer ears on her. They were cute. And she rode a rocking horse. She seemed to like that. I had a good time anyway. Jaimee seemed to like it and Rhiannon ... she started to foam at the mouth from all of the educational anticpation for her baby! She had visions of learning stations dancing in her head. The teacher in her was coming out and all Jaimee and I wanted to do was honk the octopus legs!
Randy has been rebuilding Ryan and Rhiannon's computer. She wants to do her videos with high definition. Her computer, the way it was - didn't have enough steam. So dad is putting all sorts of new stuff in it to make it better than it was. He wanted Rhiannon to hang around a little longer last night because ... "I'm almost done!!" The 'puter was going home with her. He's had his little laboratory down in the basement. He didn't come up and didn't come up ... and when he finally did. He said he just wanted a little Jaimee time and the computer would be another day.
Today he's spent a lot of time working on it. Something about it needed a bunch of stuff put back on it again. Just now he went to the garage and came back in with a HAMMER. I'm thinking it isn't going so well down there in the laboratory.
Okay -- I need to run. Take care. Remember that reward!
Love to all!
Not any from Minnesota (tho those were the last ones we heard from...with darling pictures of cute little girls!), not any from Maryland, none from Georgia, or Iowa, or even Pennsylvania. They are absolutely and positively MISSING. Poof!
I'm sure your lives are just as boring >>ahem, EXCITING!!!<< as ours -- *LOL* -- I know you are thinking NO ONE'S life is as pathetic as YOURS Von -- NO ONE's! -- so anyway that's even more reason to come out of the woodwork. Give my pathetic little life some meaning - some PURPOSE.
Same goes for any of the rest of you family and 'family of friends'. SERIOUSLY! We're WORRIED about all of you! I was overjoyed, I will say, with a long juicy note from Cousin Kathy in California. Your life seems like an interesting one. Can't wait to see the pictures of Casey's girls. And Kirk, while your news wasn't good - it was nice to get a personal note from you as well. Thanks.
MAKE IT GO AWAY -- It's too much! I'm talking, of course, about that pot of chili that I put together a few days ago. I've had chili twice a day ever since (except for one night). I can't do it much longer! There are consequences to having that much chili for one person. I'll just let you Google that one ... 'consequences of eating too much chili' ... I have no idea what you'll ACTUALLY get as a search result. But ... well, 'nuf said about that!
Sounds like we're going to have a little family get-together here to play games, talk, watch a movie or SOMETHING on Saturday night. Rhiannon is in charge. I'm just an attendee. I bought a new game called FARKLE (and no, it has nothing to do with chili soup). I know, I know -- we were moving on ...
Anyway I am hoping for a fun relaxed evening with folks I love!
I went to TOYLAND at Blaine's Farm & Fleet on Wednesday night. Rhiannon was looking for a fence to keep her baby in. So she was going there anyway. I remembered hearing some hype about all the toys that they have there. So I called and said ... TAKE ME TOO! I wanted very much to see what bright eyes would think about all the colorful toys.
I put reindeer ears on her. They were cute. And she rode a rocking horse. She seemed to like that. I had a good time anyway. Jaimee seemed to like it and Rhiannon ... she started to foam at the mouth from all of the educational anticpation for her baby! She had visions of learning stations dancing in her head. The teacher in her was coming out and all Jaimee and I wanted to do was honk the octopus legs!
Randy has been rebuilding Ryan and Rhiannon's computer. She wants to do her videos with high definition. Her computer, the way it was - didn't have enough steam. So dad is putting all sorts of new stuff in it to make it better than it was. He wanted Rhiannon to hang around a little longer last night because ... "I'm almost done!!" The 'puter was going home with her. He's had his little laboratory down in the basement. He didn't come up and didn't come up ... and when he finally did. He said he just wanted a little Jaimee time and the computer would be another day.
Today he's spent a lot of time working on it. Something about it needed a bunch of stuff put back on it again. Just now he went to the garage and came back in with a HAMMER. I'm thinking it isn't going so well down there in the laboratory.
Okay -- I need to run. Take care. Remember that reward!
Love to all!
Monday, November 16
WHY IS IT?
Why is it that all day long I think about all the things I 'get' to do when I am off work? And then when I am home, I can only think of what am I going to eat and WHEN can I go to bed?
I'm tired tonight.
I did throw a pot of chili together when I got home tonight. Went to the store to get SOMETHING to eat. I was thinking soup. Looked at row after row of canned soup and nothing seemed to scream ... "ME!!!!" Until I saw a can of chili. That peeped ... "ME!" But what screamed "ME" was the idea of a bowl of hot homemade chili.
I just finished eating it (finally) and Nick is enjoying a bowl now that he is home from work. Good choice Vonda Rae!
Now my main thought is ... when can I go to bed? *LOL*
I baked a bunch of cookies for the center yesterday; still have some to bake in the fridge. I ran out of steam about 6-ish last night, so covered them with saran wrap. Will bake them probably tomorrow night. TOO tired tonight.
We ran to IC Saturday night to enjoy a little time with the dumpling. Jaimee is 'super-sonic speed baby' now! -- at least compared to the little squirt we saw the week before. She is interested in everything and is off to explore the world with or without her adults.
She got a little tired and started fussing after a bit. I held her on my lap for a little bit and fed her some Cheerios and ice chips. She and little Reese have a great appreciation for good ice! It revived her and she was sweet as pie.
Rory, Jaimee's dog (or is Jaimee Rory's human?) - laid by us. I touched Rory's ear and had Jaimee touch Rory's ear. I said "Rory's ear". Then I touched my ear and said "Gram(me)'s ear." and then I touched her ear and said "Jaimee's ear." Then started over with Rory. At that point she reached up and touched her own ear. She's getting so big, in such a little way! It's fun having a little person in the family again.
Gotta run. I am counting down the minutes until I can go to bed! ZZZZZZZZzzzzz!
Just a couple more weeks until part of my afternoon job ends. I am anxiously awaiting the miracle of provision that God has in mind then! I KNOW He will provide. Your prayers will be appreciated as I wait!
I'm tired tonight.
I did throw a pot of chili together when I got home tonight. Went to the store to get SOMETHING to eat. I was thinking soup. Looked at row after row of canned soup and nothing seemed to scream ... "ME!!!!" Until I saw a can of chili. That peeped ... "ME!" But what screamed "ME" was the idea of a bowl of hot homemade chili.
I just finished eating it (finally) and Nick is enjoying a bowl now that he is home from work. Good choice Vonda Rae!
Now my main thought is ... when can I go to bed? *LOL*
I baked a bunch of cookies for the center yesterday; still have some to bake in the fridge. I ran out of steam about 6-ish last night, so covered them with saran wrap. Will bake them probably tomorrow night. TOO tired tonight.
We ran to IC Saturday night to enjoy a little time with the dumpling. Jaimee is 'super-sonic speed baby' now! -- at least compared to the little squirt we saw the week before. She is interested in everything and is off to explore the world with or without her adults.
She got a little tired and started fussing after a bit. I held her on my lap for a little bit and fed her some Cheerios and ice chips. She and little Reese have a great appreciation for good ice! It revived her and she was sweet as pie.
Rory, Jaimee's dog (or is Jaimee Rory's human?) - laid by us. I touched Rory's ear and had Jaimee touch Rory's ear. I said "Rory's ear". Then I touched my ear and said "Gram(me)'s ear." and then I touched her ear and said "Jaimee's ear." Then started over with Rory. At that point she reached up and touched her own ear. She's getting so big, in such a little way! It's fun having a little person in the family again.
Gotta run. I am counting down the minutes until I can go to bed! ZZZZZZZZzzzzz!
Just a couple more weeks until part of my afternoon job ends. I am anxiously awaiting the miracle of provision that God has in mind then! I KNOW He will provide. Your prayers will be appreciated as I wait!
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