The Day I Heard Mary Died

long after I got Jim’s call at the Krispy Kreme
long after Kalyani was there to catch my fall

I wrote a letter to Aunt Sue on my best stationery.

No sense having all those real-pressed-flower
fine cotton papers just hanging around in boxes
with no one getting any enjoyment out of them.

Aunt Sue has recently gone deaf
and I miss our phone calls.

She is Dad’s “baby” sister
for whom yours truly is named.

Dad also has one brother living,
Uncle Ken, on the adjacent farm
in the Canadian Maritimes

Aunt Sue lives near Toronto.

Uncle Wes, Uncle Wayne, Aunt Jean, Aunt Bess and Aunt Day have all passed on.

Used the last of my old humming bird stamps on her letter.

And that return address label.

 
I got the Smiley Face stickers as a surprise in a
Wonderful Package from this fine fine lady.
I’ll explain them in a post here one day.

So, one off my list, whooooohoooo. I’m on letters-writing fire now, people!!

This is Jo’s card I’m still writing on…

Pretty, eh?  On linen-laid cotton.

Raoul Dufy’s “The Baie des Anges at Nice” — 1926.

Remember Jo — my “panpal” since 1994?

Remember us at that pub in England in 1999?

And here we are with her daughter Pascell, the first time they came to Texas…

What year was that, Jo? 1997? ’98?

And Jo recently…

And after I was home from writing Aunt Sue’s letter that day I snapped this with my iPhone…

Mieshka had been with us 2 days.

There you have it for today.

With love, from Jannie Sue Muffin.

P.S. I see I actually had the date wrong on Aunt Sue’s letter. That Friday was really the 15th, not the 16th.

🙂

interdoosing meeshka funster — by me, blue bunny

hay, guess what we haz in our house?!!

a bran new kitty!

she name iz meeshka.

she 11 weeks olde and bin with us for 7 days.

she so kurious.

she getting all in my jannies bizniss.

she reely on the moves a lot, hard for my jannies kamera to fokus sumtimes.

at ferst meeshka was thinking my jannies chair was reelly meeshkas chair.

evree time my jannie was turning around, there was meeshka on my jannies chair.

so… my jannie maeked meeshka she own speshill green throne. wit a pilow!

see how nise is she throne!!

but meeshka not falling for the throne trick.

she not stoopid.

she keep sneeking back to my jannies chair, the one wit the best view.

meeshka iz rooling the roosts i thinks.

(pleeze dont look too mutch at my jannies klutter, she stil orginizing she life.)

so…

now my jannie sits on the green throne, wich my jannie do akshually lieks.

meeshka has good karmas i think.

meeshka is also taeking lessins from a spy for lerning to hide in laundrees and jump out at peepil.

i loves meeshka!

she is mutch welkim to our famlee.

~~ end of my poste ~~

wit loves from me — Blue Bunny, butt yoo can calls me BB.

oxoxoxo

p.s. my kelly wants yoo to know the reel speling of she name is Mieshka.

thanks yoo wit mor loves agin.

To All Mothers & Mothering Types Everywhere

Funny how sometimes when you’re looking for one photo
another will appear. (The same is true for music cds and socks.)
There is always something wonderful waiting to discover.

I was looking for the photo of Jim’s mom, Ann, sitting outside
our front door on a white plastic chair about twenty years ago,
but found her instead in this one at Kelly’s Christening in N.S.

(That’s Nova Scotia  in the life of this humble blogging gal.)
My plan is to repost the photo below, highlighting some moms.
To all mothers and mothering types everywhere — THANK YOU! 

Happy Mother’s Day!!

Jim’s mom, Ann was 95 in this photo, and lived to be 97.

Happy to report my mom and all her 4 sisters — Aunt Loy, Aunt Inez, Aunt Freda and Aunt Tilly are well and happy.

My sister’s “little” girl is now 11, and her son Austin, is 5.

And, yes, my sister is a fox! And currently single, way up there in Canada-land.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Merry Christmas, 2002 and 2010

Darling Peeps!

Merry Christmas!!!

And a Most Happy New Year.

Kelly was 15 months old in 2002.  Now she’s NINE!! 

She is my greatest joy.

And I’m off to play pick-up sticks with her in a minute.

Over the next 10 days while she is off school I’ll be focusing my attention on her and her handsome wonderful dad, aka, a bit of a blog posting break for me.

I do intend to post a few new sidebar buttons.

(And won’t be able to resist popping in on your blogs between now and January 3rd!)

Gorgeous Individuals, have a joyful, wonderful, happy, love-filled, safe, sweet, holiday.

And if you’re feeling a bit lonely, call up a buddy. Visit someone. The fellowship will make you both feel all warm and fuzzy.

Love is waiting everywhere! You need only open the door.

Posted with Love, Gratitude & Merriment,

Jannie-Banannie & Funstering Co.

xoxoxoxo
xoxoxxox
xoxoxoxo

Happy Five-Oh, Harry Big Bro

Bro, it’s your birthday — 50 years today!

(Holy crap.)

🙂

Did my best to get the scratches out of the old pic. Not perfect, but not bad. Sorry your hand looks mutilated. 

And I’m not even into the beer today! 

(Yet.) 

Hope you are well,  Harry-The-Scary-Cherry, 2700 miles away in Fun Land, but more alive and alove in my heart than ever.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

With much love, from your sisterly contraption, Jannie “Lockjaw” “Snaggletooth” “Junebug” Muffin.

xoxoxoxo

P.S. I know I wailed like it was the end of the world the day you threw all those bantam hen eggs at my head, but I’m glad you did!  So many memories, so much fun on the farm.