A life long friend of my lost her Dad this week. I thought about her and her family and remembered spending time at their house. When I was small my Mom took me with her on her weekly visit to the beauty shop. I LOVED to go because I loved the smell of the shop and because I would more times than not play with Kathy while Mom got her hair done. Well, this was a special place for many reasons...Kathy's grandmother, Momma Hall, lived next door and she owned the beauty shop. Her house was beyond clean, she was a sweet lady. I can remember her sweeping her porch and even the road in front of her house. Anyway, I was always excited to see Kathy outside when we came to get Mom's hair done, and I would run to play with her. Her Dad, Hubert Hall and her Grandpa owned and ran a produce market. It did not matter what the season the Hall's always had what you needed. Summertime fruit straight from Florida, watermelons, locally grown, Christmas oranges, and seems like maybe even Christmas trees. We would run and play in the huge coolers, in the back of the trucks through her house in Momma Hall's, even though that was frowned upon, everywhere! Hubert would always laugh at us and always had something funny to say. Barbara, Kathy's Mom was always busy, busy. Cooking, crafting, and being Mom. She can make anything, much like Kathy, Sherry and Karon. I enjoyed being around Kathy's house when it was time to eat, Barbara always had some good food! Kathy and I have remained friends through high school, college and even now seeing our kids grow up. I want to thank the Hall family for some great childhood memories.....Death doesn't take our memories it somehow enhances them!!!! Hubert Hall a kind, fun man..thanks for the memories!
As usual we thought we were prepared for the pool installation. I only wanted to Keep one tree, it is a river Burch, sometimes called a toilet paper tree. We had planted it not long after we moved here. Well, the pool had to be moved over from where we wanted it, and guess what, yes the river Burch had to go. I was sad, but it did turn out better, we can now connect our pool deck to our house deck. Everything happens for a reason!!! I have mellowed the older I get, I would have previously wanted the water in ASAP, the landscaping even quicker and the deck built that night! But now, I am just happy to have a pool and the rest will come in time. We are off to the beach so, the pool will be here when we get back. I am excited about going to the beach, our buddies D & D are going and we ALL need to get away. We have friends there now and say it is beautiful, no oil, no smell, so we will see. If there happens to be oil there when we arrive, I will be on CNN, the hysterical southern woman, saying, "It sounded like a freight train when it came in"!, why does everyone say that when they are interviewed?? love and peace to all.
So we are putting in a pool! Poo is excited which makes me excited, and the kids are happy! Progress pics to follow-Have a great weekend. love and peace to all
Happy Birthday wishes are going to Uncle Mike, Reed Tucker (RT) and Aunt Dawn. We love each of you and hope you have a great day.
I was laying in Kallie's lap with the window down, almost in tears thinking to myself I know we do not get to pick when and where we die but I do not want to die on the freeway in the outskirts of Chicago needlessly. Well, the cab driver looks back at me, not because I was singing out the TOP of my lungs but because I was laying in Kallies lap. and he said "sorry I will slow down I don't mean to scare you." Well he did for maybe 15 seconds and I was still looking out the back window for the police because I could still hear sirens. We finally make it to the airport..the "sirens" I kept hearing was the rearend of the cab falling out of it, only a mechanics wife would finally realize this! I have never been so proud to walk on a sidewalk in my LIFE.
Navy Pier and Lake Michigan.
We had a BLAST in Chicago. We got a GREAT deal on airfare, and hotel. We left early Saturday morning and came back Sunday night. I had a ball. I had never been to Chi-town, and I was just blown away with it. This pic is @ the Chessecake Factory, yum-o.
