The Week at Woodsong

SueGlasco — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:32:12 -0800

Where did the week go? I started with laundry from the weekend on Monday. The first week in the month also holds both our regular board meeting of the Illinois Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association and also the local women’s club. The board meeting was supposed to be a very important planning session when we were joined by the national president and the national executive secretary, ...

Visiting Waggoner and Mascoutah

SueGlasco — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:17:51 -0800

Several weeks back, I alerted our youngest daughter, Mary Ellen, and husband, Brian, that we might be up for the weekend since I was to speak at the Mascoutah Heritage Museum this afternoon, and Mascoutah would be on our way back home to Woodsong. As both our lives and theirs became busier, Mary Ellen and I were both assuring each other it was okay if we did not carry out those plans. ...

Blessed by a Gathering and then a Son's Visit

SueGlasco — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:06:51 -0700

Monday evening I drove over to the little town of Pittsburg, one of several small towns or villages on our side of Williamson County—many of which came about or grew because of the coal mining industry, which used to reign in this region. No longer are most houses occupied by men with carbide lanterns on their hats and who carry their lunch in buckets down in the bowels of the earth. ...

Autumn's Joys

SueGlasco — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:57:27 -0700

Looking out our living room windows beneath the overhanging white clouds in the pale blue sky and past the green lawn, past the lake, past the fields, and on to the encircling line of trees, we are surrounded by soft yellows, muted oranges, and gentle browns of autumnal leaves. This has been one of those perfect days here in Southern Illinois. Warm sunshine mixed with a gentle breeze made me ...

Ugh! Don't Read This.

SueGlasco — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:58:18 -0700

Usually I blog about the beauty of the farm and rural roadsides, the fun outings, and the happy visits from friends and relatives. It is not that unpleasant things do not happen in my life, but rather I don’t usually see any point in extending the unpleasantness by writing about it. I do not mean to be deceptive, but I blog mostly to please myself—although I hope to please you too—and ...

Lovely Weather for a Lovely Weekend

SueGlasco — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:43:34 -0700

Lovely Weather for a Lovely Weekend Fifty or so of us gathered at the south Arena parking lot at Southern Illinois University Carbondale yesterday morning for the once-in-a-lifetime tour from there through western Union County on Trail of Tears routes and over the Mississippi River to Moccasin Springs where some of the Cherokee arrived on the two ferries near Willard’s Landing. First, Sandy ...

Why I Did Not Blog....

SueGlasco — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:43:20 -0700

Wednesday I wrote that I hoped to start blogging the next day or Friday. But I didn't. Next day we had wonderful help trying to get speedier service in our rural area, so I was not online while this was going on. Friday morning I was pleased with the increased speed and was almost finished with a promised project to send to a couple of folks. Stopped to fix Gerald a bite of lunch when he came ...

Long Story. Maybe I'm Back on Line

SueGlasco — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:56:54 -0700

We have been offline for week and a half. Router trouble. Changed server. New ordered router did not work. Electrical engineer nabor who helps us got stumped. GRRR. Long story. I think we are back online now. Maybe.Gotta appointment for arm splint this afternoon. Long story. Gotta go to Carbondale tonight for Trail of Tears board meeting. Granddaughter Leslie and her boyfriend should ...

Love Is the Theme

SueGlasco — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:06:44 -0700

A diverse gathering of folks from 23 states brought musicians, teachers, university administrator and professors, prison teacher, doctors, housewives, preachers, nurses, sales people, office workers, farmers, banker, dentist, computer specialists, journalists, social workers, and no telling what else together again. Most are now retired or semi-retired. Hugs, the loud chatter of nearly 100 ...

Summer's Ending

SueGlasco — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:20:01 -0700

Our neighbor’s tall green wall of corn lining our lane became variegated some weeks ago. The green separated the brown top tassels from the three feet of brown on the bottom of the stalks. When we got back from Georgia, the wall was all brown. Before we even returned to Woodsong that evening, Gerald had to drive up to Brian’s fields to see if the soybeans were brown, and they were almost ...

Softball Players Wear Pink for a Cause

SueGlasco — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:38:03 -0700

We left Georgia in the rain this morning, and Gerald had rough driving off and on throughout the day as rain stopped and started. Sometimes it only sprinkled, and sometimes the downpour and fog in the mountains made visibility quite a strain. We are glad to be back at Woodsong, reviewing the mail, emails, and answering machine messages and happy the roofer completed the repair necessitated by the ...

My First Experience with a Laptop

SueGlasco — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:33:37 -0700

My previous blog was written on my daughter-in-law's laptop--something I had never used before. It took me forever to adjust to the different smaller keyboard and the built-in mouse at the bottom. Hence all the errors, which of course I saw as soon as it was published. Since I can't edit, there they are there for eternity. But that is okay. I know you could read it despite the errors ...

Visiting ijh Georgia

SueGlasco — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:35:00 -0700

Kudzu-covered trees line the roadways with leafy green cathedrals. Eye lids close against our will against our will in the heavy September heat and we shake ourselves back awake. We are in Georgia to watch grandaughter Geri Ann and the Oconee High School softball team.Two opening games Friday at the annual Veteran Memorial Park Invittional were comfortably cool, but the three Saturday games were ...

Holiday's Over

SueGlasco — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:57:18 -0700

Our weekend was indeed special with the Archibalds, Taylors, and Leslie and her boyfriend Michael visiting. It was not as good as it would have been if Katherine had been well enough to come out to the farm or if Vickie and Geri Ann had been able to come visit Gma Shirley as planned, but that trip from Georgia was not to be. A last-minute softball practice for yesterday was called, and that ...

Busy Week

SueGlasco — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:51:33 -0700

The first Wednesday of the month is always busy for me since it is senior citizens day at Krogers and I try to do as much of my shopping for the month as possible in order to get the discount they give us old codgers. I usually bump into someone I have not seen in a long time and that is both a pleasant bonus but also a time user. Then I have to put all those groceries away or at least carry ...