Friday the Thirteenth.. Birthdays.. Reflections on Life...

"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."
~ Sitting Bull

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm." ~ Sam Levenson

"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen." ~ Robert Lynd


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Happy Birthday Anthony and Annie..

~ Ladies first son!!..

Annie Oakley~ (born Phoebe Ann Mosey) was a world-famous sharpshooter, rifle expert and performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
History: Born in Ohio in 1860 - the fifth child of Susan Wise and Jacob Mosey - Oakley began shooting animals at an early age in order to supply food for her mother and siblings (her father died of Pneumonia in 1866.. when she was six years old). At the age of 16, she entered a shooting contest in Cincinnati against fellow marksman Frank E. Butler. After winning the contest, Annie formed a relationship with Butler and went on to marry him in 1882. In 1885, Annie and her husband joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West touring show. The exposure that Oakley received as the "Top-Billed" shooter in the show helped propel her to celebrity status (both in the U.S. and abroad). After enjoying a long and successful career in the public eye, Annie Oakley retired to her hometown of Greenville, Ohio where she died on November 3, 1926. Her husband dies only 18 days later...

Fast Facts:

1.Born: August 13, 1860
2.Died: November 3, 1926
3.Name: Phoebe Ann Mosey
4.Nicknamed "Little Sure Shot" by Sitting Bull
5.A musical loosely based on her life, Annie Get Your Gun, became a hit in 1946
6.Died of Pernicious Anemia- more commonly know as lead poisoning.
7.Wrote a letter to president William McKinley in which she offered her services as a sharpshooter during the Spanish-American War.. she also offered the services of women she had trained and insisted that they would provide their own weapons and ammunition.. The President rejected her offer!

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~ Born Turkey Head Anthony Something else JR....
Today is the birthday of my very oldest child.. my son... my helper.. My friend.. He lives far

away.. I won't see him today in person.. but I will think of him!..
I know these may seem like silly pictures to some but these are two of my favorites.. In the first. I had told him to look old timey.. he immediately wiped the smile off of his face and grabbed the lapels of his fake jacket.. he was seven there.. he did a pretty good job of looking old timey.. I love this second photo and I'm betting that many of you have seen it before.. he is a clown.. but he is also a hard working husband... father of two.. full time student.. and military retiree.. He is the oldest of three and much like a second Father to the other two.. I had in him the best helper and friend anyone could ask for.. Some one asked me yesterday if I had a child born on Friday 13th.. I said "well he was born on a Sunday".. I had to laugh as they asked me if he was evil.. "you know".. she added.. "being born on the wicked day and all" I told her again that he was born on a Sunday.. she shivered and said.. "yea.. then he musta is evil.. Born on a Sunday and has his birthday on Friday 13th.." He would have loved it and he would tell her that he is evil. he would most likely make some crazy face at her too just to prove his words.. I am sure that his wife has some wonderful celebrations planned for today..she is great planner and will be sure that he has a great day! I simply hope for him a Happy Happy Birthday.. Now come here.. you OLD turkey head.. and let me pinch you!

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Friday Fill -Ins...


Friday, August 13, 2010
#189

And...here we go!

1. Music _sooths the savage beast.. but sometimes some of it gets on my very last nerve__.

2. _Strong Hot Black coffee__ is what I like first thing in the morning.

3. The first thing I said this morning was: _I'm hot_.

4. _What ever is hiding in the refrigerator.._; it's what's for dinner tonight.

5. It's all been _good.. mostly good.. some of it good.. at least.. OK OK it sucked!__

6. _Walking the dogs_ is what I feel like doing right now.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _some rain.. but it isn't happening yet.._, tomorrow my plans include _as little as I can get away with in this heat wave_ and Sunday, I want to _lay in the kiddy pool till I am finally cool.._!



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Weekend Reflections~ #47...



~ it's hard to tell which way is up in this photo filled with reflections... I love to sit on the edge of this old pond and think about things... My Grandma would fish here for hours and hours..

This week has seen two of my children get another year older.. I guess that makes me older too. I have reflected on a lot of things in my life this week.. Not all of it has been good.. some of it has been downright awful.. but without each step.. I would not be who I am today.. so I will end with a comment that My sister-in-law.. ( Patricia) told me the day Emily got married.. don't blink..even if you want too.. you don't want to miss even a second of it! So I thank you for stopping by my blog today.. if you must reflect on your own past.. do so with kindness. I think each of make choices based on what our needs and sometimes our wants are at that moment.. I guess we each do the best we can with what we have..I am Happy with where my life has gone.. the trip wasn't always fun.. but this destination is a blast!.. Have a wonderful day..
Patsy

Friday Night.. We Welcomed a Wild Storm!

"And tears are heard within the harp I touch." ~ Petrarch

"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy." ~ Ralph Ransom

"Delicious tears! The heart's own dew." ~ Letitia Landon

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"Under the Grape Arbor"

A fat snake lay stretched out..wiggling mouse tail his last bite of supper...
8/5/2010


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Friday Fill~ Ins #188

1. Life is __a crazy ride.. hang on till the buzzer sounds.._.

2. _You can't stop .. you have got to__ keep going.

3. My last text message (or IM) ended in these three words: __Don't make me!_.

4. _French fries __ is what I'm thinking about for dinner sometime soon.

5. On the 1st day of August __we had a hell of a storm___

6. ___I used to be__ lively and energetic.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to __Talking to Virginia.. my second best friend..___, tomorrow my plans include __sleeping till the rooster crows___ and Sunday, I want to __do something fun.. But honestly we won't.. same shasha different day..I think that means we are in a rut..___!


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Fix-It Friday #65 • Photo Editing Fun!

~Copyright Restrictions : permission to edit for blog given by the original photographer (Andrea Riley)..... Oh what a sweet little face.. he reminds me a great deal of my nephew..Is he surprised?... Is he angry?.. Is he sad?.. He looks like he might be pouting just a tiny

little bit in this picture.. I traipsed around from blog

to blog looking at what everyone else did to his photo.. I love them all.... but I found that they were all very similar.. I guess that there is only so much you can do with a basic Photography program.. black and white or sepia and a few focus changes.. I gave him a frame.. some sparkling wishes.. and one tear.. I must confess that I'm new to altering photo's.. I really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to that.. Maybe I'll learn something here.. I like to add stuff.. I wanted to add a top hat to him.. or maybe a few hats.. then I remembered that I lost that program when my last computer got sick and died.. and it won't work with this one.. arrrrrrrrrrrgh!..

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Have a great night!

Patsy




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Buttons~

Thankfully.. Thankfully.. Thankfully.. FRIDAY!!!

"Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness." ~ Kahlil Gibran

"All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland." ~ Jimi Hendrix

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
~ Robert Frost

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Friday My Town Shoot Out!! Celebration!!

... For some of us.. Anything at all can start a celebration!.. From a small town festival with children dancing in the streets to family birthday parties..


... Oh sweet sixteen... and would you look at that zebra striped cake?.. Looks good doesn't it?.. Let me tell you there is something to be said for just a plain old time cake.. with some sweet.. one color Icing.. Pink for little girls and mostly white for birthdays.. candy flowers stuck around if you're lucky.. or maybe when you get old as dirt like me.. you can have a black all over and under cake.. They said it was black Velvet.. next time I want a bottle of tequila instead.. 50 years old.. that's reason to celebrate? I guess it is..


don't even ask.. I'll just say YES!.. that is me... I am fifty!!
... From the most special of days ....


.. with perfect memories ...

and silly moments... To just plain old days.. ... filled with family
...or fun ... where anything could happen.. From the most important to the simplest of things....



We should never be afraid to Celebrate Life !! ....


I hope that this week-end you will find something to Celebrate.. maybe it's the frog that finally quits croaking outside of your window.. or the rain that finally falls.. Big or small .. Let's find a reason to Celebrate!!
Have a great week-end!
Patsy


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... a beautiful Afternoon sky..


Sky Watch Friday!! ~ July 9-2010

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Friday Fill Ins! ~ for July 9, 2010 .. And...here we go!

1. Layers of _bull malarkey.. piled one pile on top of.. one pile. on top of another few piles.._and I think that's me .. waving from the bottom_.

2. __foresight.. hindsight.. I need ~_ insight.

3. I'd be willing to bet _that if I could buy them for what they are really worth... and sell them for what they think they are worth.. I could become wealthy.._.

4. _Thunder__ scares the dog.

5. I'm fond of _grilled.. fried .. boiled.. buttered.. fricasseed .. any kind of Shrimp!_

6. _I Have had way_ too much!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _dog walking with something cold to drink _, tomorrow my plans include _Kirstin's Birthday Party.._ and Sunday, I want to _do nothing__!

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It's Friday Night? Where has This Week Gone?

"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." ~Author Unknown

“There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting”~ George Carlin

"And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday." ~ Alfred Doblin

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

This week's challenge:
'Vehicle'.

I just loved this truck we saw recently at a car show.. If I could have any vehicle I wanted.. this truck would surely be one I would consider owning.. I have heard that they won't run very fast but that would be ok with me.. In case you were wondering.. that note on the door says.. Look but don't you dare touch!

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1. We need _a million dollars and then I'll be set to go shopping for the holidays!

2. I saw and old friend today_ and it made me smile.

3. If you want _to be a whiner go ahead.. just be warned.. I like whiners about as much as I like smart asses__.

4. ___Why? _ because _I said so.. that's why.. Why? gets you up there with those folks listed in number 3__.

5. Massachusetts has a proposed 5% sales tax on elective cosmetic surgery; I think _they should charge more than that.. people quit changing yourself around so much.. a new nose will NOT make you happy_.

6. _Love and family_ makes for a happy holiday. Unless of course you have a million dollars.. then you can rent both of those..

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _being ill and cranky_, tomorrow my plans include _nothing yet.. I'm ill and cranky.. I can't plan .._ and Sunday, I want to _make some pictures .. play the sims.. write some poems... who knows.. Y'all know I can't plan while I'm ill and cranky_!

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Yes it is Friday.. It seems like this year has flown by.. It is almost time again for the Holidays.. I looked around in the store yesterday and prices on everything were high.. The plastic faced Santa was smiling and dancing over the imported ornaments that are most likely made from lead and priced like gold... I didn't buy any new ornaments for my old tree.. I will be making my own if I get new ones this year... I walked down the toy aisle.. A pair of pants for a barbie costs almost as much as a pair for the little girl that plays with her would..and Barbie no longer holds the most space on the doll aisle.. I was flabbergasted that they have so many more expensive fashion dolls now.. from Hannah Montana to the new teenage vampires.. Barbie is getting crowded out by movie and television show dolls.. and all the baby dolls do something.. poop or spell or play eye spy..I wonder where they hid the big.. soft and cuddly. do nothing.. use you imagination to play with me.. baby dolls? Boy toys were no better.. when did water guns start costing twenty five dollars??.. and Model cars at least fifteen.. lego's cost a fortune.. Even a cheap coloring book was nearly five dollars..and most of them more than that... And why can't you buy just a plain old coloring book with pictures of dogs and cats and children and normal everyday stuff??.. Every single coloring book they had was associated with a television show or a kids movie.. I wanted to color a simple picture.. not cars from the movie with the same name nor transformers.. I didn't want to color animals from the ice age nor a walking talking sponge.. I just wanted to color a little girl or boy or a horse.. something simple and normal.. or I can't imagine how I ever survived the holidays when my kids were small.. or how they did.. I wonder if they felt deprived when they opened little trucks and cars or warm and fuzzy bears?.. I am almost ashamed that Em's Barbies had to wear dresses and tiny sweaters that I crocheted for them instead of the expensive ones that her Friends dressed their dolls in.. I am glad that my children survived their life of deprivation with me.. I would never spend eighteen dollars for a dolls outfit nor sixty five dollars for a robot dog that dances to the I-pod music that can be played through him.. I guess that I am a scrooge.. I haven't bought any Christmas presents yet this year.. I know I have to make a start somewhere.. I did buy a box of envelopes and a package of card stock.. I have spent most of today thinking that maybe this year I'll just make some cute and funny cards with my computer and stuff those along with a few dollars into those brand new plain white envelopes.. I won't need a list.. I won't have to worry about rather things fit or rather the color is right.. I won't have to try and remember who likes chocolate and who likes life savers.. and if I hang the envelopes on the old tree till I get ready to mail them I won't even need any new ornaments.. a big package of candy canes and a book of stamps to mail the envelopes to the children who live far away and I will be all set.. The more I think about it the more I like it.. I am feeling better about the holidays already.. I have my video's almost ready to burn for my siblings and I have only to print some goofy folding papers to hide a piece of money in for the kids.. Wow I guess I have all of my holiday shopping done.. I won't have to go to the mall.. I hate the mall and was dreading that shopping trip.. Maybe I'll stop being Ill and cranky by tomorrow... do you think??? No... Probably not!.. I guess I can't just stop being me.... :~} ! Have a wonderful night!
Patsy

What a Week!

“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.”~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. "
~ Denis Waitley

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten." ~ Neil Gaima

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Weekend Wordsmith offers the word ashes as the word of this week.. That word was offered by someone else to me as a prompt for a short poem not too long after we fulfilled a promise to my beloved nephew Shane.. The following is my poem from that
Prompt....


Ashes to Ashes

cremations mourners sing
red tailed hawk follows
daisies downstream

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
10-10-2008

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Friday Frustrations offers us a chance to vent.. I could blow my top and might still have some left over frustrations....I am so grateful that today is Friday and thus ends a long and frustrating week.. I haven't had a week so long and frustrating in a long time.. But even the worst of times move on..and this week really needs to move on!! My Grandma Morris once said "If wishes were horses; everyone who ride!" to which my Daddy replied.. "And if a frog had a glass ass he would only hop one time..." This week I have felt like the frog with the glass ass... I have been lost without my own computer and I feel so bad hat I have lost pictures and stuff again.. I'm a moron.. I downloaded from the camera and kept planning to make a disk.. I had unfinished writing projects on there.. I had unprinted scrapbook pages on there too.. I have kicked myself a million times already.. Someone left me a comment that they would cry if their computer died.. believe me I have cried and cried some more.. I am thankful to My baby girl Em that she recognizes the state of desperation I would be in without a computer at all.. I hate using anything that belongs to someone else.. But still I am thankful she has loaned me her laptop for a few days.. yesterday I made a comment on facebook that if everyone on there gave me a dollar I could get me a brand new jam up and jelly tight Computer. I was shocked when not a living soul offered me a buck.. Oh well.. something will turn up.. I actually had a spare computer but it hasn't been updated in a long long time.. it has no Ethernet port.. it is obsolete.. again I am a moron.. I should have updated the spare as I updated the one I used.. I was a betting person I'd run out right now and spend a dollar for a lottery ticket.. on the other hand with the way my luck has been this week.... when I scratched it off it would say I owed them money! Dave is right now trying to get something.. anything to work.. he has four or five computers with their guts hanging out in the floor of the room we are supposed to be painting... he is trying his very best to build me a Franken-puter!! WHAAAAA!!!! I want mine back with my chicken pictures and all my children dancing around on the screen saver... Tana' and Jenny hopping with a beach ball between their knees!! Dave chased my chickens and posed for three hours and now my stuff is gone! gone! gone!!!! Mama said I was being mean and should be ashamed.. I am... well I'm trying to be.. OK I'm not!! I'm FRUSTRATED!!! I hope you have had a better week than me! I'm trying not to be mean.. but I am not really succeeding very well... Hopefully you will Have a great Night!!
Patsy

Oh yea and this week's advice for the kids.. Have a back-up.. a back-up plan and a back up computer!! And don't be a moron... put your important stuff on a disk!! Other than that I am too mean tonight to offer any good advice.. except well I love all Y'all bad kids..

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And...here we go!

1. One week ago _I had my computer and though it was slow it was working__.

2. _I started practicing to be mean __ when I was young.

3. Mama told me _to quit being so mean and to be ashamed_.

4. __Lets cry together_ you and me.

5. Take your time _ building the franken-puter...I'm thinking that won't work_.

6. __This too_ will pass!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _eating supper and going to bed and pouting some more_, tomorrow my plans include _Painting a room.. the new pantry_ and Sunday, I want to be over the pouting and quit being mean..(I'd really like to be on a new computer by then but we know that ain't happening!).. I'll try.. but well.. I'll try_!

Finally on Friday!

Friday fill in #141

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1. That's a _super exciting place _ to be.

2. Hey baby!_; I'm over here! In the meat department!

3. The possibilities include: _chicken; steak; pork-chops; all with salad and bread..._.

4. Home-made vegetable soup_ is one of my favorite cool day recipes.

5. How will you know __when you have stood all you can stand?_.

6. A warm fire ~ a good book~_ and a stormy sky.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _writing a blog_, tomorrow my plans include working on Dave's shed_ and maybe go to the flea market_ and Sunday, I want to _rest and get prepared for next week.._!