grannylee's Blog

Hey Ya"ll.
Jun 6, 2010 | 10:56 AM PST
Just thought to pay a visit today.been busy with the farmwork and getting over feeling a little poorly.Everythings just busting out in lovely growth. even the dang weeds are flourishing! Corn is near four feet high and showing off it's beautiful greenness.Already up to my neck in harvests of squash and collards and peas and all manner of The Lords bounty.Just goes to show ya what good compost and plentiful rain will do when mixed with a little honest sweat!

Well, I'll talk at ya'll later.Be good to each other and grow some love while you are busy growing them youngins!
                                                                                                                                                                      Love to all.
                                                                                                                                                                                          Grannylee


p. S. See I wasn't dead after all,LOLOLOLOL

Looks like....
Oct 27, 2009 | 12:56 PM PST
I ain't gonna die from the cancer.Gotta clean bill of health from those youngin doctors down in Richmond. No chemo neither!

Now, praise the good Lord,maybe I can git back to my canning and be left in peace by those girls a mine.Calls all hours of the day and night from my old Ma, and sisters and brothers,too!AND...I told that old man of mine to git out of the house and split some wood, go hunting or do anything but stare at me with those watchful eyes of his.I know that sound harsh and mean,too.But DANGITALL...I've had enough of this petting.I got work to do.

P.S., I love all of my family,and my friends too.Thanks for all the well wishes and the prayers too.

                                                                                                              Love...your old fiesty,
                                                                                                                                                    Grannylee

Youngins playing Doctor.
Oct 14, 2009 | 5:59 PM PST

When i first saw the two of them,in their little hats and gowns,I thought ...Why, their just youngins.Cant be older than nineteen or so.I was layed up in a bed with an IV and all kinds of tubes and things and getting ready to be wheeled into the operating room.The nurses had given me some kind of shot in that IV and truth to tell, I wouldnt have cared much if they had cut my neck off!

Off we went and I dont remember a thing.Wake up at my house four days later with an ambulance driver asking me if I know my own name.Seems I didnt do too well,my husband standing there looking real worried,the girls weeping ,like to scared me to death.

Long story short, they released me before I was over the medicine they put me to sleep with.But... they tell me I am going to be alright now.I hadnt eaten in those days after the operation and the diebetes didnt help any.Law, aint I the complainer?

Anyway,those young doctors did a good job they tell me and I'll find out in a few days if I need chemo.Wish me luck and I reckon I put all my trust in the Lord,after all he guides their hands.

 

Hey Ya'll
Sep 15, 2009 | 9:14 AM PST
I know it's been a while,but you know how busy getting a garden in can be.All is well with old Grannylee,cept a little battle with the cancer.I gotta go tomorrow to Richmond and have some more cut out.but that ain't nothing.Trust the Lord with all my heart,I do.And if he wants to call me home, I will go a shouting.Meanwhile,I been canning maters,corn,beans,etc.Put up some killer applebutter and made all manner of jams and preserves.Got strings of onions in the shed drying and hot peppers,too.Me and the Mister have been cutting wood and have a goodly ammount stacked in the woodshed.All in preparation for the cold that's coming.meantime,am enjoying the beautiful Sept, sunshine. What a gift is Sept. I gotta go and rest up for the coming trip to the city.I do enjoy going there for the change og scene.Wish me luck,my dears ,and as always I send my love and best wishes,
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
               Grannylee

Rant
Apr 8, 2009 | 6:01 AM PST

And a big old shout out of Hello from the frozen plains of Centeral Virginia. Looky here Mother Nature, wake the heck up already. It's April, stop being so lazy and kick a little winter butt already.Yeah, old grannylee is getting a mite ticked about this lingering cold.I'm tired of trippin over the seedlings that are getting leggy, tired of these sweaters,tired of wearing shoes and I can't do a danged thing about it...LOL. I sit by my window with my nose pressed against the pane, like a child. Sun, I need Sun!!!!!

Rant over,
                            Love,
                              
            grannylee

bug
Mar 22, 2009 | 2:53 AM PST
So, while I was stretching and trying to wake up,dreading getting out from under my warm quilt,my eye caught the waving cobweb in the far corner of my bedroom. I quickly shut my eyes ,but could still see it,waving...waving...A deep sigh escaped my clenched teeth and I threw back the covers and made my way to the bathroom.Dusty baseboards,scuffed floors,carpets that needed cleaning,all the clutter from winter,grabbed at my housekeepers heart! A sense of deep shame on me envaded the quiet of early Saturday morn.As I brushed my teeth,looking into that dirty mirror,I saw my mama shaking her head and remember the brown bottle of lysol collecting dust on my cleaning shelf.

Something snapped,and I started gathering mops and brooms and buckets and got to work! Some hours later,I came to myself and found my dear husband up to his neck in suds scrubbing the back porch. My daughter Bambi,and my grandaugher Madeline were sweeping and wiping down everthing in sight!  Being too tired to cook,we decided to go to get take out.Nothing beats the smell of a freshly cleaned house,except the look on my husbands face as he laughed at me getting into his truck to go to town...I was still in my P.J's!!!!

What you might ask, has this to do with gardening? Well,it is just a warning that bugs of all kinds are waking up.Beware this one,the spring cleaning bug is a doozy!

Icecicles
Mar 4, 2009 | 5:26 AM PST
Sunshine this morning is causing the long drip drip of icecicles,.Just had a daydream of  them hanging in the air on a hot summer morning.Talk about a nice way to water those thristy plants in July! In my perfect world everything is inter-changeable. Lovely May flowers in January,frosty pumpkins in June...The only snow are on the cones at fourth of July parades.But....it's NOT a perfect world.Just an interesting one...SIGH...

Reminder
Mar 3, 2009 | 7:50 AM PST
Wham! Six inches of snow and ice.As I sit gazing out my window,watching the birds walk on top of the frozen white,I am reminded that we are indeed NOT in charge. Just last week, I was happily planning a trip to the co-op for seeds and dragging out the tiller. The Lord has a sense of humor tho,a perky fat robin is sitting on the tiller no doubt waiting patiently for the melting to bring some fat worms out.

Nope,we are NOT in charge,at all.

Pots
Feb 9, 2009 | 6:17 AM PST

So, while cleaning up the yard and sheds,I found that apparently my collection of containers have grown to ridiculous proportions.What to do...

Gonna take some planks and cinder blocks and make some steps.Set all the pots,cans,buckets,etc. on the steps and plant herbs and small flowers.My husband is shaking his head,"What crazy idea you hatchin now? And why do you want me to make you a dirt pile ?"

The dirt pile is to fill the containers of course,a mixture of garden dirt, compost,and manure. Sounds like a plan to me,LOL.

Onions
Jan 30, 2009 | 4:14 AM PST
A lovely crop {three} of spring onions are growing in my kitchen.I found them sprouting from last years crop and sruck them in with a houseplant.Hey, don't laugh they look so perky,they accually cheered me up.I'm athinking to plant a whole big pot of them.Maybe that old tatar I found in the bin,and the carrot that's sprounting in the fridge.If I could plant me a rump roast,...Love from the big rock candy mountain.

Where is May
Jan 29, 2009 | 6:35 AM PST
The trees look like skeletons,the ground is coated with ice and snow.A cold breeze is swirling  across the floor of this old farmhouse.the woodstove is doing it's best,but I'm still chilled.I'm trying my best to imagine May, the heat of the sun, the fragrant breezes,new grass,buds bursting.It's like missing a child that has been gone too long.An aching longing to walk barefoot,my fingers itch to pick wild violets.An animal trapped and caged,my spirit is tired of hunkering down,it wants to break loose and soar like a hawk in the warm up drafts.This what I imagine heaven to be...May.

Ice and woe
Jan 28, 2009 | 7:59 AM PST
Ice and crunchy snow
Oh, no, oh,woe
icickles hanging low
Oh,no,oh woe.

Whatcha think..haiku? LOL

the whole danged world is in the grip of the ice queen.Good luck Kentucky friends,stay warm.

String beans
Jan 26, 2009 | 6:22 AM PST
O.K., heres the problem.I canned a boat load of green beans and now they are the stringest things ever.I always carefully snap and string,but these beans didn't string well.What do you think happened?
I got my seeds from southern states and have always had good luck until this year.Unless I string the canned beans before serving, they will choke you . I hate to run into this problem next year,the pigs are loving this treat!!!

Happy Boo Year
Dec 31, 2008 | 6:11 AM PST
As years go this has been one of the saddest ones to date! No new babies,an impending divorce,{not me}.sickness,job loss and the country is going to heck in a handbag.And to beat it all,grannylee has lost her optimisim about the whole thing!Maybe when spring comes back,there will be a renewel of spirit as well.

A twenty or thirty mile an hour wind is blowing at ground level, thousands of leaves are racing across the pasture and smack into my yard.Maybe they will cover up this old farmhouse and I will sleep inside for a hundred years, to awaken to a new world.Or a least a new attitude.

Getting old is not the reason, I tell myself.The level of light in the winter either,cabin fever,maybe.What I need is to go visiting.My daughter lives in Ohio.Maybe a change of scenery would help.When I get like this,nothing much seems to help.Let me stop  before I depress myself even further.

Sooooo.....
                           Good riddance to 2008 a really Boo year!!!

Merry christmas
Dec 25, 2008 | 3:32 AM PST
It's early,the sun has not yet risen.I'm sitting here typing on a computer instead of making breakfast for my children.They are not upstairs and will not come pounding down and will not be giggling and yelling "Merry Christmas,Mama."Most of the stockings are limp and empty.No point filling stockings that will not be poured out! Only one little granddaughter is asleep and she is too small to get down the stairs by herself. later everybody will arrive for dinner and presents.I guess as a parent I should be grateful that they all are grown and have families of their own,but at times like these, I miss my little girls and wish to turn back time.God Bless the memories,that bring tears to my eyes,they are all I have in this early morning silence.