Erin
April 19, 2009
- As I drove into the Shawnee National Forest on Tuesday, the pinkish purple blooms on the redbud trees brightened the still bare tall black-limbed trees all around them. The drive there had been stunning with the redbud at the height of its glory. Inside the forest, there were also a few scattered dogwood showing white blossoms and foretelling that time was running out for the redbud. Sure enough ...
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April 8, 2009
- Well, all are back to their individual homes, and I am back on my blogging schedule while things are calm again. Because Gerry and Erin both had at-home games today, they got to stay there. I was in meetings at their game times, so I didn’t get to watch on the computer but Gerald did. He even had to fix his own supper. I think Erin and Gerry will be playing at home Friday and ...
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April 2, 2009
- We thought we had the next two weekends all planned out. In fact, I wrote an email to our immediate family last night telling where we would be when. However, our daughter-in-law Vickie’s grandmother here in our community died last night. Her visitation is tomorrow and her funeral is on Saturday. Consequently, people away from here are making plans in order to get here quickly. ...
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March 25, 2009
- Last Friday night, the first day of Spring, Gerald and I experienced the awakening as we drove down to Union County amid the white blossoming pear trees, tulip trees already shedding their pink blossoms, yellow forsythia, and golden daffodils in yards and roadsides. We went early to have time before we met his brothers and wives, so he could take me up to Hamburg Hill again in Shawnee National ...
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February 22, 2009
- A weekend highlight happened Friday afternoon when our granddaughter Leslie dropped by Woodsong. She was on her way up from Belmont in Nashville, Tennessee, to see two girl friends at the University of Illinois. The next day the three were heading over to Belleville to meet up with the Freeport High School speech team at the state tournament. Today Leslie made the long drive back to ...
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February 8, 2009
- A few years back, one of our son Gerry’s cousins pronounced him “ate up with softball.” No one argued. What with his own coaching and his three daughters playing on various teams, their family spent much time at the ballpark. Consequently, so did Gerald and I. And also his siblings and their families when time and location allowed them to attend and cheer the three daughters on. ...
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December 28, 2008
- Erin left before I got up this morning. After eating a bowl of cereal, she headed back to Texas stopping by for a final good-bye visit with her other grandmother down the road from us. After last night’s wind storm, the weather was stunningly beautiful today, and we were so grateful she and Acie had safe highways to drive on this time. She called her grandfather tonight to tell him she ...
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December 18, 2008
- Monday Gerald and I went to Carbondale as he had a hearing aide check up, and we thought we could visit some stores to shop. That much we accomplished. We planned next to go on down to Cobden after lunch and go by an orchard for apples and by Bill and Mickey Tweedy’s house for a quick drop-in visit. When it started snowing rather heavily, we decided we better get back to Marion. We did stopping ...
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October 26, 2008
- Gerald is back from Georgia and just finished showing me a slide show of the Oconee High School softball team, who are now the state Class AAA champions. He is busy now making some prints of Geri Ann during the game. Gerald came through Nashville a little too early this morning to call Leslie and just kept driving. I was surprised to see the car in the garage when I came home from ...
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September 15, 2008
- At the end of the day, the red clay of Georgia hung heavy on Geri Ann’s white softball uniform Saturday. After four games that day, every player in the tournament should have been hot, dirty, and exhausted. Even those of us who just watched in the blazing sun were eager to get home for a shower and were too tired to go out to eat. Vickie solved our problem by ordering the first ...
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