12_24_2015 -- Merry Christmas!

Not a creature was stirring...  Christmas Eve in the Ozarks.

 

Dec. 11, 2015 -- Happy Birthday, LAD

Double digits! 10. That's TEN. Happy Birthday, LAD!

Happy Birthday, LAD.

The new math? 10. or 55. or 25. or 0. or 1.

It's what we do. Buy a flashlight, break it, then fix it. Good thing we bought two.

 

UncaGrant fixes LAD's new flashlight.

Grant Allen, Allen Lee, Lloyd Allen & Cameron Grant

Will Grant Allen ever quit picking on Fonda Shay? Naaa. Will he pay for it later? Yaaa.

2015 Oct. 20 -- Albert Leon Stark

Rest in peace, Al. The good "Starkles" daddy!

1982

2015 Oct. 15 -- Happy Anniversary, Fonda & Randy, & LAD

2015 Oct. 15.  Randy, LAD & Fonda. Happy Anniversary!

 

October 15, 2015 -- Night blooming cereus, mixed up

Silly thing, bloomed during the day.

Another bud waiting for tomorrow.

Sept. 12, 2015 -- On a peaceful evening

September 12... I knew this would be a good one. Drove to the 60 overpass, waited... waited...

First, I saw these flying things

More flying things! Sundown Sonny made his rounds!

Then it did this! That shaft of bright light wouldn't quit! The day after 9-11, it satisfied my mind.

September 4, 2015 -- Happy Birthday, Seester C

Happy Birthday to my (the operative word here is "older") sis Carolyn, out west thar in Coluradu. Love ya!

Mike's tryin' to say, "Gramma, you're outta here".    Yeah, RIGHT, sonny boy.

July 20, 2015 -- Happy Birthday, Grant!

Happy Birthday, Grant! Nice peaceful morning, early, you disrupted us at 2 in the morning, and by 6 a.m. you were here! Only 16 days late, due on the 4th. We had so many family members with names ending in Y, didn't want any more like that. I liked the President on the $50 bill, and of course the actor Cary Grant, and you did become a ham! My... "my"... Name... "name".... Is.... "isssss"..... GraNt..... "GrrraCKKK"! Happy Birthday, Grack. Mom and Dad love you!

Pitiful, in trouble for something, but you recovered on Dad's rocking-horse legs!

Billy was with you through thick and thin, never knew which of you caused the mayhem! Never did understand why you ended up behind the frig.

July 15, 2015 -- Happy Birthday, Fonzie!

We remember it well! We talked about it today, and the blackberry pickin' chigger bites I suffered!
Your dad and I were at Cindy & Larry's on Sunday, waiting for you to happen. G'ma and G'pa Newhouse had gone back to Denver, to work on Monday. We meandered around the park at Lake Springfield, and I slipped and fell on the grass. Nothing happened. Then, Monday morning, July 15, 1968, while folding laundry... such mundane household chores... Fonda Shay did happen! Most beautifullest little girl in the world! Dad picked out your name, you know. Had to have a name to get released from the hospital, or I guess they would be inclined to keep you. We wanted you more than they wanted you!
Happy Birthday, Fonzie. Mom and Dad love you!

Fonda doing her most favorite thing!

She was standing in her daddy's cowboy boots, lovin' it!