Fun I Had The Summer I Was Eleven

I found inspiring places to work on my flexibility, like the Texas State Capitol

and the Corpus Christi aquarium.

Aquariums are also great places to work on splits,

as are hotel pools,

and the beach.

Speaking of the beach, I made like a seagull there.

Dad LOVES the beach.

And I love Dad!!

I drove the harbor ferry in Corpus!

Well not really, but I toured the wheelhouse, enjoyed a cruise,

then lunched aboard a restaurant yacht.

Met a happy parrot that day too.

Back at home I met ducks

and iPhone video-chatted with my gym-mate.

LOVED the gymnastics pool party!!

I like how as the gracious hostess was taking that, Mom was catching us from behind…

The hosts’ daughter is a talented gymnast too.

Olympics, here we all come!!!

I could do it — I’ll be 18 summer of 2020.

Or I could go the college gymnastics route, where I’ll study art, design, photography, writing, and film-making.

We’ll see. My goal is to see just how far I can go with gymnastics.

What else this summer?

Hung out with E.

Got my groove on with S.

Yes, that’s a big bass and I’m very small for my age — 3rd percentile on both height and weight.

And absolutely PERFECT for me!!

Tomorrow I’ll be back in school — 7th grade.

[edit, and my mom is awesome!!!!!]

love,

Kelly Funster.

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P.S. Mom is heading into her busiest 4 to 6 weeks of the year, and will be blogging even less than her already-light schedule of late.

And… she thinks YOU are awesome!!

(Yes, those are Mom’s toes in the last photo. She’s really weird, as you know.)

Kelly’s Newest Balance Beam Skills

I’m not sure if these are basic skills for Level 6 or 7, ’cause I’m kind of a gymnastics newbie, learning as I go.

Whatever level, she’s doing AWESOMELY — as you can see!! Only 18 months ago she was a Level 4.

Notice she lands her back handspring with both feet at once? She tells me that’s a “double down” landing. Cool!

At the gym she is known to stick all these on the high beam!

I can’t wait to see her new amazingness on vault, floor and bars too, and when I do… you’ll get more video, whooohoooo.

Hope you enjoyed watching and….. Vive Les Gymnastiques! [CORRECTION, thanks to Happiness Best Savored Hot … Vive LA Gymnastique! Merci beaucoup!! And Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler.]

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My Kelly And The Eastir Egg Hunt 2013, by me — Blue Bunny

hi kids!  sinse my Jannie stil werking so mutch wit ebae, i maked you a speshill poste…

(don’t werry — the todlers had there own egg area, so my kelly and she big frends did not trample them up.)

so that’s it from me.

Now i have to help my jannie wit she pakking boxes and shiping labels. we having so mutch fun selling things that maeks peepil happy.

posted wit mutch loves from me — BB.

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P.S. i am delited to answir all yor kommints, thanks yoo.

Super Kelly Beam Girl

Considering Kelly’s been in Level 6 gymnastics for only 5 weeks, I’d say her 9.45 score for that routine in Dallas yesterday, earning her 2nd place for beam in her age group, is a darn fine achievement!

She also placed 2nd for her floor routine, with a 9.3.

She loves everything about gymnastics!

I do too! Of course, I’m just the chauffeur and check-writer, but the sport is wonderful and she has the best training you can imagine with really wonderful people!!

And due to their great scores yesterday, Kelly and her mates will advance to Level 7 in June!!

Now, beautiful and handsome friends….. I may not be posting here again for a month as another lady and I are sharing a business venture that needs a lot of time and attention. Might take only 2-3 weeks, tho. We’ll see how it goes.

I’ll be out to see you all at some point.

Have fun and laugh muchly every day, okay?! Life is beautiful.

Love, Jannie

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They Still Don’t Know

where their red hair comes from

but that’s okay, it comes from love’s

ocean we’re all mermaiding in.

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it comes from the doctor’s daughter who

in 1916 at age 10 posed in a Nova Scotia

summergarden with a chestnut violin.

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it comes from the pines and the lilacs

of the dance hall she bought on auction

with 700 borrowed dollars in 1942,

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the dance hall now in arrears,

but with my loving intention will shine

up the seashells again in seven years.

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(because all love is up to me.)

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one day, the invisible red thread that ties us all together

will reveal how after her too-young Episcopalian minister

husband died suddenly and unexpectedly of heart attack,

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she took up buying and selling

antiques for the next 35 years,

finally closing shop at age 85

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and her eyes at age 97.

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how she never remarried, but

for a while had a beau who landed

on the beach in front of her house

to take her flying by seaplane.

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how she loved silver

blue cotton sundresses

a glass of white a night

her 3 sons, their wives

her grandchildren,

______

and went on to outlive

all her sisters and friends,

but not the lilacs, and

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not the love writing

this bottled message

here in Texas today.

will 2 red-haired angels

one day get to be friends

with a little half-sister,

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maybe show her around

all the secret caves and coves

of the island they call home?

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I hope so!

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but who knows?

who knows how it

all will go, really?

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i sure don’t, but

my money’s on the love

and on the red string

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that knows all

the best waves are

still yet to come.

~~ end of poem written with hope and trust in all things good.

And hey — it’s Tuesday!

Sorry I’ve not been out to most of your blogs lately, I’m still in major bread-winning mode these days.

Love you all, tho. And plan on blog-hopping later this week, whoooohoooooo.

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