Tuesday 4 Meme - More About You Again...

Greetings, Dear Friends! 
I missed last week, but, here I am this week, joining Toni over at Tuesday 4 Meme! Here are this week's questions...

More About You Again...
1.   How late did you stay up last night and why?

I think it was a quarter til twelve when we went to bed last night and that's within the typical bedtime range for us...generally anywhere between 9:00 and midnight, but sometimes later...1:00...2:00...3:00 in the morning depending on what's going on and who's here (we tend to stay up later visiting if company is here). For the most part, though, my husband and I are both night owls anyway. 🦉

2.   What's your favorite way to spend your free time?

Reading, planning, spending time with family and friends, spending time out in nature, sketching, watching old movies (El Dorado, Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility) or television series reruns (The Rifleman, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, From Larkrise to Candleford, Christy), being quiet, thinking, and, on super rare occasions, doing absolutely nothing.

3.   Which of your friends lives closest to you?

Pat - She was our next door neighbor during my growing up years and, now, she lives right across the street from me. 

4.   Who was the last person you took a picture of?

Myself...just a few minutes ago! The copy of my friend's book that I've been waiting on just arrived and I took a picture of myself with the book to send to her. 😆

Me With Wendi's Brand New Book
A Prairie Devotional by Wendi Lou Lee

Until next time...
~ Rebecca

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Greetings, Dear Ladies! And Happy Monday! 💗 How was your week and weekend? 

Our week was full and our weekend even fuller. We celebrated a lot of birthdays and I found no time to devote to extra blogging. I don't know that this week or next will be any better, but I'm sure enjoying spending extra time with family and friends! 💗

Granddaughter Mercy

I took this little monkey out for her birthday lunch on Wednesday. For her party that evening she wanted a castle cake AND a farm animal birthday. Her mom did an amazingly beautiful job of combining the two, seemingly unrelated, things into one fantastic birthday wish-come-true! It was great! 🐄🐏🐓🏰🐎🐐🐖

A Castle and Farm Animal Birthday Wish-Come-True

Now it's time to look ahead to another week, so let's get started, shall we?

My Constant Companion
Sue Hooley's 2019 Daily Planner

Please join me as I link up with Sandra of Diary of a Stay At Home Mom and all the other lovely ladies that gather there on this week's Happy Homemaker Monday? 💗

Right now I am...

... Enjoying a glass of iced tea while taking a break and working on this post. I have the next to the last load of laundry in and most of my housework done.

On the breakfast plate...

... This morning I had two fried eggs on a bed of sauteed zucchini with cheese.

Eggs On A Bed of Sauteed Zucchini With Cheese

The weather...

... Hot and muggy. Right now it's 88 degrees with a heat index of 94 and it looks like more of the same with storm chances all week.

On my reading pile...

Haven't had much time to read this week, so am still pretty much where I was last week. Am reading Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden, On The Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and The 'I Can Do This' Diet by Dr. Don Colbert.

On the menu this week...

Monday - Turkey burgers and oven fries

Tuesday - Stuffed shells, Italian sausage, green beans, and homemade French bread

Wednesday - Roasted chicken breasts, baked potatoes and corn on the cob

Thursday - Breakfast for supper (French toast or bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits)
Friday - Broiled salmon, baked sweet potatoes, and salad 🐟

Saturday - Dh's night to cook

Sunday - Leftovers

On my 'to do' list...

- Monday - HHM post, plan the week ahead, home blessing, laundry
- Tuesday - Clean out the fridge, do a food inventory, refill the bird feeders, enjoy a long-overdue visit with my friend, Hannah
- Wednesday - Clear another tote or two out of the carport, celebrate our oldest son's birthday

- Thursday - Take granddaughter, Ruth, out for a belated birthday lunch (her birthday was Sunday)
- Friday - Work
- Saturday - Work
- Sunday - Church; work in the afternoon

In the craft basket...

... just continuing to keep up with the temperature afghan.

Temperature Afghan Thru August 3rd

Looking forward to this week...

... visiting my friend, Hannah, who I don't think I've seen in...like...two years...(is that even possible???)...and celebrating more birthdays! (August is a BIG birthday month in our family!!!) 💗🎉🎂🎈🎉🍨

Something I enjoyed watching this week...

This isn't the best photo because it's taken through two window glasses and a screen, but I greatly enjoyed watching this fledgling cardinal being fed seed from the feeder just outside my office window by it's mother ...

Fledgling Cardinal Being Fed Seed By Its Mother

From the camera...

Butterfly On Mint

Bee On Sunflower

Sunflowers Outside Our Backdoor

Blue Sage

Scripture passage...

Well, Ladies, that's it for this week! I pray that each and every one of you have a blessed and beautiful week ahead! And I'll see you again next week! 💗

Until Next Time...
~Rebecca

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It's Monday evening and I'm just now getting around to writing this post. We'll call it 'the late edition'.

Sunflower Growing In Our Backyard

How's everyone here? I hope you all had a nice week and weekend. Ours was good here. Have just been super busy with a lot going on. 

I've had a full day and am trying to finish things up before bedtime, so I'm going to get right on into this post. Please join me as I link up with Sandra of Diary of a Stay At Home Mom and all the other lovely ladies that gather there on this week's Happy Homemaker Monday? 💗

Right now I am...

... working on this post and finishing up laundry.

On the breakfast plate...

... this morning I had a ham, egg, and cheese croissant from Casey's.

The weather...

... Hot. It's 8:00 p.m. and is 82 degrees with a heat index of 88. 

On my reading pile...

Am reading Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden, On The Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and The 'I Can Do This' Diet by Dr. Don Colbert.

On the menu this week...

Monday - Bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches

Tuesday - Breakfast for supper (French toast or bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits)

Wednesday - Baked chicken breast, baked potato with cottage cheese, peas and carrots

Thursday - Turkey burgers and oven fries
Friday - Broiled salmon, baked sweet potatoes, and salad 🐟

Saturday - Dh's night to cook

Sunday - Leftovers

On my 'to do' list...

- Monday - HHM post, plan the week ahead, home blessing, laundry
- Tuesday - Take a friend and family member grocery shopping
- Wednesday - Celebrate granddaughter, Mercy's, birthday 🎂

- Thursday - Take a friend to her hair appointment; work on projects around the house
- Friday - Work (Ozark Empire Fair) 🎡
- Saturday - Work; celebrate youngest son's birthday and daughter and son-in-law's anniversary
- Sunday - Church

In the craft basket...

... just keeping up with the temperature afghan.

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Looking forward to this week...

... family celebrations and working the fair in Springfield.

Something I enjoyed watching this week...

... bison on parade at work...

From the camera...

Bumble Bee on Blazing Star

Scripture passage...

Well, Ladies, that's it for this week! I pray that each and every one of you have a blessed and beautiful week ahead! And I'll see you again next week! 💗

Until Next Time...
~Rebecca

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This past weekend my friend, Dorothy, came for our annual 'meet-in-the-middle-to-celebrate-our-birthdays' visit (her birthday is in June and mine is in August, so we try to get together annually to celebrate in the July). 

Dorothy and I

Dorothy and I have been friends since we were girls and that, coupled with the fact that I've shared so many postcards from my grandmother's girlhood friend, Fannie Sullivan, I've decided to feature a few of Grandma's postcards that focus on friendship. 

Surprisingly, not a single one of these postcards are from Fannie. Perhaps that is because Grandma and Fannie's friendship was so easy and stable that there was no need to define it by having to label it as such.  

This postcard is from a Dorotha Pierson. There's really no message...just a 'To Maude McCann From Dorotha Pierson'. There is no postmark, no stamp, and no date.

The words that are printed on the back of the card, however, are not printed in English. Can anyone, by chance, decipher the words for me or tell me what language they are in?

This postcard is addressed to Miss Maude McCann (my grandmother) @ McPherson, Kansas. It is from a girl named Georgia, and is postmarked from Higginsville, Missouri, on November 21, 1910.

Georgia has a very fine hand and all of her capital letters are quite fancy. She says...

"Dear Maude - Taking the pleasure to answer your most welcome card. I hope you all are well and enjoying yourselves. Are you going to school? I graduated two years ago and took one term of high school, but I am not going this winter. Kiss the babies for me and think of me at Thanksgiving. - Georgia"

These last two cards are from someone who signs their name G. A. Cairns. Both are addressed to Miss Maudie McCann, Elyria, Kansas and both are postmarked from Odessa, Missouri. This one on April 15, 1908...

...and this one on October 13, 1908.

The messages on both are simple and written in a large hand. They appear, perhaps, to be from some younger person who is still in the process of developing their handwriting. 

No matter who these cards are from, I enjoy looking at them, reading (and re-reading) them, and trying to imagine who these people might have been and what they might have meant to my grandmother...what they looked like and what their character was based solely on their handwriting and the words that they wrote to her. 

I'm sure that I'm way off on all of the above, but it's still fun trying to imagine and it keeps, not only my grandmother's memory alive, but theirs, as well, because of the words that they left behind in writing to her.

Until next time...

~Rebecca

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Hosted by Toni

Greetings, Dear Friends! 
I'm joining Toni over at Tuesday 4 Meme! Here are this week's questions...

In Two Words...
1.   Two words that describes you best?
      Creative, complex
2.   Two words that describes your personality?
        Colorful, imaginative

3.   Two words that describes your taste in clothes?
        Casual, comfortable

4.   Two words that describes your home?
       Small, simple

Until next time...
~ Rebecca

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Greetings, Dear Ladies! Happy Monday! 💗

I trust that you and yours had a nice weekend where you're at. We had a lovely one here! 

My friend, Dorothy, came up for the weekend and we've had a ball visiting and catching up. We only get to see each other once a year or so...or at least we try to anyway. 😊

Dorothy and I Last Year At Bass Pro in Springfield, MO

A couple of the children and their families joined us yesterday afternoon and a good time was had by all. Dorothy got to catch up with a couple of the children that she hadn't seen in a few years and met two of our grandchildren and a daughter-in-law that she hadn't met before, which was nice. 

In fact, Dorothy is still here and it's our last morning together, so I'm going to keep this post brief. I hope you don't mind.

Please join me as I link up with Sandra of Diary of a Stay At Home Mom and all the other lovely ladies that gather there on this week's Happy Homemaker Monday? 💗

Right now I am...

... enjoying a cup of tea and working on this post while I wait for Dorothy to get up and around. After the children and their families left last night, John did his own thing while Dorothy and I hung out, visited, and watched a movie. We ended up not getting to bed until the wee hours of the morning this morning. 😴

On the breakfast plate...

... Not sure yet. We'll either make something here or we'll run up town to Mary's. I'll leave that up to Dorothy. 😊

The weather...

... After a week of temps in the upper 90's with heat indexes in the triple digits we are finally enjoying a bit of a cool down. It rained overnight and we were under flash-flood warnings. Right now it's 72 degrees and cloudy. The ten-day forecast doesn't look bad at all! 🌞

On my reading pile...

I finished Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder but, am still reading Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden. I have added On The Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder and The 'I Can Do This' Diet by Dr. Don Colbert.

On the menu this week...

Monday - Leftovers (pasta, sauce, and meatballs) with peas 🍝

Tuesday - Turkey burgers and oven fries 🦃

Wednesday - Roasted chicken breasts, baked potatoes with cottage cheese, and green beans 🐓

Thursday - Black bean burritos and salad
Friday - Broiled salmon, baked sweet potatoes, and salad 🐟

Saturday - Breakfast for supper (French toast or bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits)

Sunday - Leftovers

On my 'to do' list...

- Monday - Spend the morning with Dorothy before she leaves this afternoon, HHM post, plan the week ahead, home blessing, laundry
- Tuesday - Lead a tree identification class for a group in Joplin
- Wednesday - Take the day off from everything and just rest (I hope!) 😉
- Thursday - Work
- Friday - Work
- Saturday - Work (Explorer Day Camp)
- Sunday - Church; work in the afternoon

In the craft basket...

... just trying to keep up with the temperature afghan.

Last Week's Photo

Looking forward to this week...

... having some down time in the middle of the week before going back to work on Thursday.

Something I enjoyed watching this week...

... Mom's Night Out  with Dorothy. It's one of my favorite movies and she had never seen it before. 

From the camera...

We made 'giant ant eyes' at this week's library program Ants on Parade. 
Isn't this the most adorable colony of ants that you've ever seen???

Scripture passage...

I thought this verse was appropriate considering this week's library program, but don't think for one second that I believe any one of you HHM ladies here is 'sluggard' because I don't! In fact...far from it! 🐜

Well, Ladies, that's it for this week! I pray that each and every one of you have a blessed and beautiful week ahead! And I'll see you again next week! 💗

Until Next Time...
~Rebecca

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