NOT SO MERRY MAY...

Most who follow this blog and have been aware of all the life happenings in the past will be interested in hearing this.  The family member I mentioned before, who was ill, was my younger sister and she will be following up with a KIDNEY specialist soon for KIDNEY problems. She recently put on excessive weight that water pills would not handle. Having parents who died of kidney failure scares me a lot. I sure hope it is not going to come to us next.  Seems everything here is in LIMBO right now, we are in urgent mode and planning and testing takes time. Hurry up and wait I guess is how it will be. 

  May has always been a birthday month for us..Mother and Father's birthday was only days apart. Here are mom and dad when they were young.. taken in Tennessee. It was right after they were married, before they moved to Michigan. They left their families to go north where there was factory work. More money, better lives.
It ended up that we lived in Michigan and had no relatives here at all. We traveled to Tennessee to the farm every summer to visit them though. It was a beautiful place but not so beautiful to me. I have horrible allergies and when I would go there the chickens and hay and cornfields made my asthma really bad. I did enjoy our trips to the Smoky Mountains and the big cities of Nashville, Chattanooga etc.That was always fun. Sister and brother loved the farm, and brother went coon hunting and helped milk cows and chased the chickens. Life on the farm was sure different from city living.   

Mother's Day coming soon, hope all of you have a wonderful day. 

BARN CHARM TUESDAY

This was a neat cow barn filled with hay taken in northern Michigan. You can see below how they keep their calves in tiny little houses all their own. So cute. 
I am wondering if they keep them inside there all winter long. Wish I could have stopped and asked many questions. It was a very nice working farm.
More Barn Charm Tuesday photos here..

REMINISCING....

 I came across a

box I had stored all my many journals in recently. I have mentioned here before

that I have kept them since 1976. I found that one book was missing and was

heart broken, it led me into a panic trying to find it. A whole day later 

I remembered that that particular one had vanished in a move from Ca.

to Michigan. Number Two chapter started in 1979!!

In opening the second chapter,

I notice that my handwriting was pretty good. Better than it is now. I type so

much now that my actual handwriting has really suffered a lot.I was taking tests at college and going on interviews and at a loss for what direction to take. Wondering if I should make a move back to Michigan. "Looking for work is harder than working" I wrote, so true even more today.

There really are 28 chapters..28 is not yet finished) probably never will be as

I have taken to putting everything on computer now. The way of the handwritten journal is fading for me at least. I blog and keep track of things that way, and only write in the journals really significant things that happen in my life. 

In one chapter I wrote...

"Little did I know that because I WASN’T working, I would be able to make

a trip to Santa Barbara where SUE lived. Friends from  my hometown came by on

their vacation and offered me a ride there with them. I literally had

minutes to throw a suitcase together and be on my way. I had no idea

what would happen, but I knew it would be an adventure! I always

am up for one of those because you haven’t planned and don’t know

how they will go."

 I spent 12 days in Santa Barbara according to this chapter.

“It was never my intention to stay more than a week. So much had happened

and so much was packed into those days that they really just flew by.”

The memories of those warm summer days and

the sneezing from the kitten that SUE had then, will always be with

me. Cool foggy mornings near the Pacific were so strange compared

to the valley where I had been staying. The larger city and the

whole culture shock of a seaside town was so different than

anything I had ever experienced.

Ours is not to question why things happen the way they do. I was there for a

reason that I just did not know about. If you believe in fate at all,

it sure came to pass in those 12 days. On my way home on the bus I had

plenty of time to think about how my life was going to go on from there.

Job opportunities were there in Santa Barbara, but back then hard to find

something in such a short timespan. Less than a month later I was

winging my way back to Michigan for a visit, and developed Bronchitis

two days after getting there.. a few days later it went to full blown

pneumonia. Why the heck did I leave Ca. so fast kept

running through my mind?  
More later....

DON'T LAUGH

While moving and such last week I found myself in need of a snack so off to the store I went. I came across this stuff in a weird package. Low and behold it was on sale and I thought ..why not?? So I tried it. Just so happened that when I was trying it out, the manager of the storage park came by and saw me sucking it out of the package.
Embarrassed me to no end, but hey,.. I told him it was tasty! There was nothing in the package but applesauce and cinnamon. The cinnamon cut my craving for lunch, and I got right back to work. I wouldn't recommend this to small children, because of the screw on lid, but NOW I can see why the kids like those yogurts in a tube. Tasty and no spoons etc.

 My next venture into the store led me to the aisle where I could purchase those frozen delights in a bag..YEP.. took those outside to keep cool in the heatwave days we have been having too. I think I have been sent back to my childhood this summer by just the heat and the need to stay chilled. NO, no one saw me eating those pops, but if they had I probably would have offered them one too!!

HOPE YOU ALL ARE HAVING A COOL WEEK!!