Saturday, July 24, 2010
In Edmonds Washington
UP early and drove to North bend and met Dick and Ruby. They drove off 100 miles of their reg. route to ovely oldermeet us and have a visit for just a short time. what special friends. staying with son John and heather. Lovely older home that hAS BEEN TAKEN good care of. Wonderful visit we are having.
Friday, July 16, 2010
It has reached Friday so Soon. Weather here in Rexburg has warmed up some but Bob still is not able to take off his sweatshirt. Jenny and I went to Porters this morning. Looking for some special tatting thread but did not find much. We plan to leave here on Monday Morning and head for Seattle. Will visit our son and revisit with some old friends. I can't believe that we left there almost 30 years ago.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
July 14,2010
left home on Sunday Morning. Spent the night in Las Vegas. in the morning I put 5.00 in one poker and wond 65.50. closed out and kept the money. Had a short visit with Slyvia and came here to our Grandson Peter's home. Nice little reumnion with our Son. He left today for Seattle after the 4 generation pic's were taken. We will leave here next tuesday morning and continue our visit with son in
seattle.
left home on Sunday Morning. Spent the night in Las Vegas. in the morning I put 5.00 in one poker and wond 65.50. closed out and kept the money. Had a short visit with Slyvia and came here to our Grandson Peter's home. Nice little reumnion with our Son. He left today for Seattle after the 4 generation pic's were taken. We will leave here next tuesday morning and continue our visit with son in
seattle.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
A second postscript
It occurred to me after going over all 38 pages of Life is a Rainbow two things I have done that I left out of the saga---The summer just before I was 16 the Sailor that I spoke about in the early years was going to be in Norfolk, Virginia after a long cruise looking for German subs along our eastern coast and the coast of So. America. One of his sisters just a little older then I had been writing to a sailor on that ship. In a letter to her he suggested that she come to Washington DC when he had his leave time and spend a few days there. Now her father was not to cool about that. Her brother Jim, whom I had carried on a correspondence with was friends with this sailor, he suggested that he come to chaperon. Betty and I got our heads together and we went to her father and told him that I could go on the trip if she could. Then we had to go and convince my Mother that If I went Betty could. Her brother Jim called my Mother and told her that he had arranged for Betty and I to stay in a boarding house that the fellows could not come in to except when she was there. Again I had a guardian Angel. My Mother said yes and then Betty's father had no choice. Now when I look back on it--My Mother must have said a million prayers for us. We got on the train in Elyria, Ohio In July 1944 and what a wonderful trip we had. Those Sailors showed us every important thing that there was in Washington DC in 1944. I remember that 9 out of ten young men were in uniform of one service branch or another. As a small child I looked up at the trains when they stopped in Amherst. I always told myself , someday I'll get on one of those trains and even sit in the dinning car with the white table clothes and really go someplace. God heard my thoughts and made my wishes come true.
Bob and I began to square dance in 1976. So much fun we had and so many lovely people we met. We danced all over the west and Even in Omaha, Nebraska once. I made all of my dancing clothes and most of Bob's Shirts. We danced for about 5 years and then Bob's knees just gave out. Eventually he did have to have them replaced. I missed dancing a lot but found other interests to take up my time.
Bob and I began to square dance in 1976. So much fun we had and so many lovely people we met. We danced all over the west and Even in Omaha, Nebraska once. I made all of my dancing clothes and most of Bob's Shirts. We danced for about 5 years and then Bob's knees just gave out. Eventually he did have to have them replaced. I missed dancing a lot but found other interests to take up my time.
July 3,2010
Just returned from the printers with all the copies for "my Life" story. Really have a hard time realizing that I could put 82 years on 38 pages. Yet my life has never been dull. Looking forward to the rest of it. As stated before my goal is 100 at least. The blood line that my genes are from are good solid every day genes. It is my hope that my grandsons and my great grandhildren can be as happy as I have been in my life time.
Got lots of tatting and sewing ahead of me. Good afternoon
Just returned from the printers with all the copies for "my Life" story. Really have a hard time realizing that I could put 82 years on 38 pages. Yet my life has never been dull. Looking forward to the rest of it. As stated before my goal is 100 at least. The blood line that my genes are from are good solid every day genes. It is my hope that my grandsons and my great grandhildren can be as happy as I have been in my life time.
Got lots of tatting and sewing ahead of me. Good afternoon
Monday, May 24, 2010
A postscript
I have reviewed all the posts on my blog that have been my life. I do have some regrets but even with those I still would do the same thing. If it was possible to choose events that could have been stopped. Number 1 would be the death of my father. I remember him as a happy guy with a great smile and warm arms that gave wonderful hugs. Number 2 would be that our daughter could have lived to a full life. She had so much to give to others. Number 3 the death of our grandson Nichols. So young with a whole life ahead of him. My brother and I were brought up to believe in God. He is our Saviour. So he knows why he called all of these, his children home to Heaven. "Ours, not to ask why but, just do and then go home also."
We have a wonderful Son. Golly, Not many people believed that we would even make a year of marriage. WE FOOLED YOU!! Whatever I have accomplished in life I owe to my Mother. She set the standard for me to follow. I have strayed from the straight path`many times, but the sound of her voice in my ears and the strong hand of God have pulled me back from the brink of many bad mistakes. She helped both my brother and I KNOW that we must learn to lean on God, HIS love and FORGIVENESS to move forward in our lives.
LIFE TRULY HAS BEEN A RAINBOW!
July 2, 2010
We are looking forward to a summer trip to visit friends and family. Our grandson Peter with his sweet wife Jenny has given us 3 beautiful great grandchildren. The Oldest "Will", Robert William Stilling named for both of his great grandfathers begins the next generation of the Stilling family. How proud his Great great grandfather Nels Peter Stilling would have been. Sidney. FINALLY we have a grand daughter. She is just what every grandmother hopes for in a granddaughter. Then Samuel the youngest. Really hoping to get to know him much better this visit.
A visit with our Son John and the 2 other grandsons. Vaughn who is a number1"fixer" of most anything. In fact all of the boys are very knowledgeable with tools. Just runs in the family. Then there is Kyle our former Marine. He did two tours in Iraq and again God was kind and kept him safe to come home. He is studying to become a surgical Nurse. Blessings each and everyone of them. They are all the colors in my RAINBOW.
We have a wonderful Son. Golly, Not many people believed that we would even make a year of marriage. WE FOOLED YOU!! Whatever I have accomplished in life I owe to my Mother. She set the standard for me to follow. I have strayed from the straight path`many times, but the sound of her voice in my ears and the strong hand of God have pulled me back from the brink of many bad mistakes. She helped both my brother and I KNOW that we must learn to lean on God, HIS love and FORGIVENESS to move forward in our lives.
LIFE TRULY HAS BEEN A RAINBOW!
July 2, 2010
We are looking forward to a summer trip to visit friends and family. Our grandson Peter with his sweet wife Jenny has given us 3 beautiful great grandchildren. The Oldest "Will", Robert William Stilling named for both of his great grandfathers begins the next generation of the Stilling family. How proud his Great great grandfather Nels Peter Stilling would have been. Sidney. FINALLY we have a grand daughter. She is just what every grandmother hopes for in a granddaughter. Then Samuel the youngest. Really hoping to get to know him much better this visit.
A visit with our Son John and the 2 other grandsons. Vaughn who is a number1"fixer" of most anything. In fact all of the boys are very knowledgeable with tools. Just runs in the family. Then there is Kyle our former Marine. He did two tours in Iraq and again God was kind and kept him safe to come home. He is studying to become a surgical Nurse. Blessings each and everyone of them. They are all the colors in my RAINBOW.
Friday, April 2, 2010
The Golden Years
RETIREMENT--For me meant that I would have time for all the things I had put aside to do "when I have time". `Now that I am almost 82 yrs old it has come to me that I'd better get busy. Not sure just what God permits in Heaven. Being busy is bred in my soul. All the way from my Pennsylvania dutch great grandmother to my grandfather and my dear mother. At times I am sure that I drive people crazy--but I have the feeling that one must not just sit and do nothing. Tatting, crocheting hand stitching seems to take care of that obsession. Having learned that some dust and a few dirty clothes in the basket are not a crime, it is easier to sit and do the things I find enjoyment from. My dear husband tells me that I am on a merry-go-round. Lordy it is fun. Also takes care of the feeling to be needed.
The Yuma Potpourri Artists is a wonderful organization. Through the membership of this club New and special friends have come along into my life. They have enriched every day living so very much. A special Friend Joyce especially. She grew up in Oregon. Has one daughter. Been on her own for over 20 years and has done such a great job making her life happy while rearing a daughter that any mother would be Oh so proud of. Joyce lost her older sister who would be my age. So I have become her older sister. We have so much in common and enjoy so many of the same things. I accuse her of being fussy. She is but in a sweet sort of a way. She leaves Yuma for the summers and heads to cooler northern Arizona and Oregon. She visits family in Oregon each summer. In April 2010 Joyce and I joined a team from my church Gila Mountain Methodist to walk the 24 hour "Walk for Life" for the cancer fund. She for her sister and I for Bob's and my daughter Susie daughter. We lost her in 2004 at the age of 54.
Each year in the spring the county fair is held here in Yuma. Fairs are so much fun and bring back so many wonderful memories of the Lorain County Fairs that my grandpa Wilson would take Brother Bill and I to each summer when we had our wonderful vacation time time with him. Both of our grandpa's were great guys but Grandpa Wilson was the most mischievous. I am sure that I inherited some of that from him. He was so much fun. He grew the most wonderful gardens and made the best home made beer. We called it grandpa's pop. I am off subject--At the Yuma county Fair the artist group I belong to accepts, catalogs, judges and displays all the art from the general public. For all this work we have the use of the building for 2 3 day craft shows a year at no charge. It is work but fun at the same time. Like any other group there are a group of members that always can be counted to be there. Each member and any helper that they bring is given credit toward the table fee during the two shows.
This organization also supports the Yuma County Library. In the years past craft shows were held on the lawn of the old library now known as the Heritage Library. We now have 4 wonderful new modern libraries in the county system. My husband came up with the idea to hold craft shows at the new libraries. We tried and it worked. We move around to a different location during the winter season. Bob and I are in charge of getting the dates and setting up the show. His help is so important and it something that we can do together.
In our almost 63 years together we have traveled many a mile together. Many miles back to Ohio and then Nebraska when we moved to Washington State. All the miles with our Airstream Trailer as well as 3 trips to South Africa and a trip to Switzerland. In 2009 we took a month long trip, during which we bought ourselves a cute little Toyota Rav 4. We plan to do the same this summer. Bob says this may be our last long trip but if I can keep in stretch class and walking he will stay in good shape. He will get "anncy" and we will go again.
It is my plan to live to be 100. Why just because no one in my family has ever done it. I had a great grandmother we lived just short of her 96th birthday. I shall try to pass her her record. From beginning to end my Life has been an adventure in Living. Happpiness, Sadness, excitment, disappointment and all the other things that can happen in 80 plus years. God has granted me many blessings along the way. If I had a chance I would do it all over again. What I have lived has made me the person that I am and it is my hope that along the way my path has crossed others paths and it was as much of a pleasure and blessing for them as it has been for Me. Thank you God for traveling sthe whole route with me.
The Yuma Potpourri Artists is a wonderful organization. Through the membership of this club New and special friends have come along into my life. They have enriched every day living so very much. A special Friend Joyce especially. She grew up in Oregon. Has one daughter. Been on her own for over 20 years and has done such a great job making her life happy while rearing a daughter that any mother would be Oh so proud of. Joyce lost her older sister who would be my age. So I have become her older sister. We have so much in common and enjoy so many of the same things. I accuse her of being fussy. She is but in a sweet sort of a way. She leaves Yuma for the summers and heads to cooler northern Arizona and Oregon. She visits family in Oregon each summer. In April 2010 Joyce and I joined a team from my church Gila Mountain Methodist to walk the 24 hour "Walk for Life" for the cancer fund. She for her sister and I for Bob's and my daughter Susie daughter. We lost her in 2004 at the age of 54.
Each year in the spring the county fair is held here in Yuma. Fairs are so much fun and bring back so many wonderful memories of the Lorain County Fairs that my grandpa Wilson would take Brother Bill and I to each summer when we had our wonderful vacation time time with him. Both of our grandpa's were great guys but Grandpa Wilson was the most mischievous. I am sure that I inherited some of that from him. He was so much fun. He grew the most wonderful gardens and made the best home made beer. We called it grandpa's pop. I am off subject--At the Yuma county Fair the artist group I belong to accepts, catalogs, judges and displays all the art from the general public. For all this work we have the use of the building for 2 3 day craft shows a year at no charge. It is work but fun at the same time. Like any other group there are a group of members that always can be counted to be there. Each member and any helper that they bring is given credit toward the table fee during the two shows.
This organization also supports the Yuma County Library. In the years past craft shows were held on the lawn of the old library now known as the Heritage Library. We now have 4 wonderful new modern libraries in the county system. My husband came up with the idea to hold craft shows at the new libraries. We tried and it worked. We move around to a different location during the winter season. Bob and I are in charge of getting the dates and setting up the show. His help is so important and it something that we can do together.
In our almost 63 years together we have traveled many a mile together. Many miles back to Ohio and then Nebraska when we moved to Washington State. All the miles with our Airstream Trailer as well as 3 trips to South Africa and a trip to Switzerland. In 2009 we took a month long trip, during which we bought ourselves a cute little Toyota Rav 4. We plan to do the same this summer. Bob says this may be our last long trip but if I can keep in stretch class and walking he will stay in good shape. He will get "anncy" and we will go again.
It is my plan to live to be 100. Why just because no one in my family has ever done it. I had a great grandmother we lived just short of her 96th birthday. I shall try to pass her her record. From beginning to end my Life has been an adventure in Living. Happpiness, Sadness, excitment, disappointment and all the other things that can happen in 80 plus years. God has granted me many blessings along the way. If I had a chance I would do it all over again. What I have lived has made me the person that I am and it is my hope that along the way my path has crossed others paths and it was as much of a pleasure and blessing for them as it has been for Me. Thank you God for traveling sthe whole route with me.
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