Thursday, November 13, 2008

An Extrodinairy Woman Living an Ordinary Life

Sitting in the kitchen playing cards - on Saturdays and early mornings - Solitaire, alone, with my mom, with my Aunt Mickey, the sound of a deck of bridged cards pounding the table, licking her thumb as she prepared the cards for play. The popping of my aunt mickey's gum
Niel Diamond, Glen Campbell, Edmund Fitzgerald (married our cousin)
Nana
Grammy sneaking off to the Navy at 17
Yard saleing With grammy, (with Aunt Millie, with Mickey & Nana, just Nana) McDonalds.
Yard sales at Nanas
Dancing in the Living roomRemodeling the Living roomBuilding the Kitchen, Back of the House, the UpstairsMaking Cookies, Baking, Bean Soup, Split Pea Soup, Plum Pudding, Rice Pudding,
Sewing (Jamie's Dresses), Knitting, (Sweaters, leg warmers) Crochetting (Afghans)Putting Puzzles together, Playing Parcheesi,
Cutting Christmas Trees on Spruce Mountain
Putting Grandpa Andy in a vaccuum
Her cat that peed in her shoe..muffy echibod
Her horse that walked into the sinking sand.
Picking up workers at the job service
Saving Consuela and Claudia from IMSHunting
Easter Eggs, Sundays at the park, Ice cream at Dairy Queen (Peanut Buster Parfaits, parfaits, hamburgers and fries or a bucket of chicken) and A&W (Papa burgers, baby burgers and a chilie dog).
Christmas at Grammy's visiting Grandma Stenovich, Aunt Millie & Aunt Mickey with presents while Santa came.

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