Wordless Wednesday - NOT TODAY

these Iris[es] are at least 100 years old.   Now how is that possible you ask....well, these bulbs have been in my mommy's family since around the year 1900.   That's right, they belonged to my mommy's  GREAT grandmother  and have been split, dug up, moved and hauled around to wherever my mommy has lived -  Her great grandmother gave them to her grandmother to plant in her 1st house back in 1914 -  then her grandmother gave them to her mother in 1942 to plant in her yard,  then her mother gave them to her in 1973 to plant in her yard....and my mommy has carried them with her from Memphis to Chicago to Raleigh NC, to Dallas TX, to Atlanta Ga,  to McComb MS and now to Oak Ridge TN   -   isn't that neat????

CHECK THIS OUT....a package from Mason Dixie - WOW!  I never had a package before!

Mason sent this because I had been feeling poorly -  but I feel fine now -  ESPECIALLY with the new things Mason Dixie sent

that's a pretty fancy envelope that Mason Dixie Found

this one is my favorite

hmmmmmm.....these look interesting

this one makes crunchy noises

I don't know which one to choose

Now I just can't decide which one to play with!!!!!!!

THANKS Mason Dixie  - you are one terrific friend!

Minnie Moo's Challenge, Another Award, and A Rant

my buddy Golden Luke - has passed  along the  PAWSOME DOG BLOG AWARD

"This award is presented to those dog bloggers out there
who know the meaning of GREATNESS.
Their blogs are consistently interesting, funny or informative.
Their KINDNESS is extended to others without expectation of it's return,
and their FRIENDSHIP inspires others to do EXTRAORDINARY things.
These are the blogs you can't wait to read everyday.
In short, they are AWE-INSPIRING, full of wonder and simply PAWsome!
Pass this award on to 4 others who you feel exemplify a "Paw"some Blog,
and leave a note saying why you think they deserve the Pawsome Award!"

I had just gotten this  a week or so ago from another friend and I am just so honored that another friend has passed this along to me again......this time I think I just want to offer it to any friend who might read this blog today but has never received the award before........THANKS LUKE

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we had a pretty boring day here on Monday it was all rainy and stuff again so I couldn't go out to play anywhere -  daddy was upset because the grass is so high from all the rain and he can't get out to mow -  not that it matters because the mower is broken and he has to go to the Home Depot to buy a new one.....at least that is his excuse.   Mom has migraines from the storm fronts so she's been kinda cranky for a few days -  couple that with the "change"  and she can be a total terror.....and then there is the X-daughter in law thing -  Livy was supposed to  make First Holy Communion but the X daughter in law refused to let her go....mom was all upset because she and Livy have been preparing for this for years....Livy was supposed to wear mom's dress which came all the way from Spain way back in the 1950"s  -  from when she made First Communion and they had spent a lot of last week-end making the flower wreath for her hair and mom had gotten her a special purse and rosary and prayer book that came all the way from members of mom's biological family that they bought in Ireland last year just for this special occassion..... but no, the witch, with a capital B - didn't let it happen!!!!!   Oh dear - I've gone off on one of my rants about the X -  we don't like her so much!!!

ANYWAY -   We are going to Nashville this week-end.  Daddy has a meeting so mom and I are tagging along.   Mom's ticked because she can't find a Hilton that is dog friendly and we are going to be stuck in a Sheraton.   She doesn't like Sheraton....I don't give a flip as long as they alow dogs....Mom's been telling me about a BBQ place with a pigs that fly

apparently this Jack guy is an old friend of hers [I think they dated about 40 years ago -before she met daddy]  Anyway this Jack guy is really famous with his BBQ - I wonder if he will let me in......All I know about him is that he makes good BBQ and he rides Hunt ... whatever that is!  Mom has other friends in Nashville too -  so I think she's going to visit with some of them -   she said we'll go to the Blue Bird Cafe one night - and there is some other restaurant that they will go eat at -  it's been there forever too -  it's where they first met -  the get real nostaligic about stuff like that.....so I guess we'll have a good time.   

Now on to other things!!!!!!

W

Minnie-Moo has this challenge posted on her blog:

Let's see your face in a hole!! Visit the site and do a FACEinHOLE photo for your blog and then post a link to it on here so I can see. If you call your post "Minnie-Moo;s Challenge" you have a chance of winning a small prize. You have until 18 May to post one.