From Facebook July 6th. Feeling better today!

 

 

July 8, 2025

 

Feeling Better today!

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 July 6, 2025

 

I'm tired of being an adult! The dog has diarrhea. I am sweating even though I am in air conditioning. I am tired. My kitchen floor has sticky spots that I probably wouldn't notice if I was not barefoot. And I am unable to get up from the floor without help.

The air conditioning at my church is broken (but I am glad I went anyway).

I tried some new eye makeup today that made my eyes tear up all day and really burned!

And we have a maniac in the White House who is an embarrassment. All over the world people are wondering who broke America.

Any questions?

 

 

My two grandmothers

 I found this picture of my two grandmothers, taken around 1947.   It might be the only time they ever met.

 My Grandma Rivers- my mother's mother is on the left wearing a flowered dress.  My Grandma Thompsen- my father's mother is on the right wearing what looks like  a solid color dress with contrasting trim.

 

 

Galileo turned one on June 17, 2025!

 Nick and Buddy (the dog), and I, drove to North Carolina to see and celebrate Galileo's first birthday.  Oh yeah, we were happy to see Darcy and Jody too!

Nick and Buddy drove back the next day and I stayed a couple of extra days.  The weather was really hot- close to 100 degrees!  Thank goodness for air conditioning!  

It should come as no surprise that I am in love!   What a wonderful  baby/ grandson/ human being Galileo is!

Here are a few pictures

 

Jody is so talented and creative!  She crocheted this jacket! 

 

 

Pulling Grandpa's hair!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No Kings Day June 14, 2025

Looking back I see that I already posted about this.  But, here it is again! 

 

 There were demonstrations all over America demonstrating against Donald Trump trying to act like he is a king. Called "No Kings Day".

  America was founded on the idea that we would not have a king, but a duly elected president.

Nick and I went to the demonstration in Leesburg, VA on the courthouse grounds.  One of the things we though was great was how many of the signs were clearly home made.  People really care!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My visit to Maine April 30- May 6, 2025

 

I am always so confused when I try to add photos to my blog that this time I thought I would make a collage and see how it worked.  I'd say I am pretty happy with how it worked out!

The pictures are not exactly in the correct order, but I am okay with that.   The picture in the middle left. of me with a moose, was taken when I first arrived at the Airport in Portland, Maine.   The picture of Austin and me smiling was taken when we were on the plane on the way to Virginia,

 The other pictures are of the beautiful lupine flowers, the fiddle head ferns that grow behind Austin's house.   The back side of the barn.  Austin watering the rose he planted in my honor.  The blanket I knitted for Austin many years ago.  And lastly, the beautiful forsythia that grows in Austin's yard and can be seen from the sun porch.

I don't know when I will be able to get back there, but I love Maine and especially Austin's house!

 

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So much to do so little time

  Happy 4th of July

 

Sounds good doesn't it?  But I really don't have all that much to do.  I just don't do it, whatever it is.

I read and watch TV and play online- mostly solitaire.

 We were in North Caroline a couple of weeks ago to visit Darcy and Jody and Galileo and to celebrate Galileo's first birthday.   He's very special and very loved.

Darcy & Galileo with Birthday Cake.

 

 

 

 

 

Jody's cat, Smalz died shortly before we got there, so Jody was in mourning.   It is so hard when an animal we love so much just dies- suddenly like he did.

Nick and Buddy and I drive down together.  Nick and Buddy drove back home to Virginia the next day and I stayed a couple of extra days and flew home.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July!

I have so much to write about.  Tons and tons of Galileo and also of Sarah and Jessica (my grandnieces) who both graduated.   Sarah graduated from college and Jessica from high school.

More later when I am not so tired. 

 

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I'll get around to it

I am always telling myself that I will get "around to it".  Whatever it is I am thinking about at any given moment in time.

 My mother in law had a circle cut out of red construction paper that simply said "round tuit".  I don't know where it went, but I can see it clearly on the kitchen cupboard- the side facing the kitchen table and the family room.

I decided to Google the term "round tuit" not expecting to find anything.  Boy was I wrong!   There are hundreds of images of circles with just those words.  I even found a red one.  Not exactly the same as the one I referred to, but close enough:

 

 

Pretty neat isn't it.

What got me thinking about this is the fact that I am almost always procrastinating.   I have so many things/ projects I want to work on.  To finish or at least to start.  And yet, here I am writing in my blog!

I actually bought a pattern and fabric to make a dress for my daughter.  I had it all cut out and ready to sew.   I took it to Maine with me last year knowing that my son has a sewing machine I can use.   I didn't even touch it.

I am annoyed at myself.  I am frustrated.  And I am baffled.  Why do I do this?  I know that we all do things like this.  But why?

I have also got a whole set up for scrap-booking.   I want to make a scrapbook for each of the kids.  And I suppose I should start one for my grandchild, Galileo.  

Maybe I am too hard on myself.  Maybe not.   I don't know.   When I complete a project, whatever it is, I feel so pleased with myself.  I need to remember that when  think of all that I have not done.  Yet.

These are some of the albums/ scrapbooks that I have completed.  Actually I have done a lot.   I just think I should do more.

In life I guess you are never finished until you just are.  And then, what does it matter?  But somehow it does.

Making things- sewing, scrapbooking, sorting through closets and storage rooms and boxes in the garage.  They are all things that will get done one way or another.   I just don't want my children to inherit the burden of sorting and tossing and wondering what in the world it is that their parents- Nick & I ever had these things for.

Well, I guess one day I will get "round tuit"  Or not!

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Dale Alan Thompsen April 9, 1950- June 15, 2001

 

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June 15, 2025

We went to a "No King" demonstration at the courthouse in Leesburg, Virginia.

The reasons are many, but the gist of it is that Trump is acting like he thinks he is king.  He and his people are lying about things that we know are not true.  For example, a Senator, Senator Padilla of California was taken to the ground and handcuffed after trying to ask a question at a press conference.   This is so UN-American.   Immigrants are chased down and taken away,  It's just become a scary place and so against what American is all about.

Anyway, this was a demonstration that was held all over the US.   

This evening there is going to be a huge and expensive military parade in Washington, DC.    This is the 250th anniversary of the US Army.  The Army was planning a celebration on the Mall in DC .

Trump latched onto the idea, and since it is also his 79th birthday he escalated it to ridiculous dimensions.  From NBC:  

The cost to repair Washington, D.C., streets after the upcoming military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials.

That’s part of an estimated $45 million total cost for the June 14 military parade, which coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. The cost estimates have fluctuated as planning continues.

 

 

 

 

 

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