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Project Discussions:  Fireworks, fireflies & fun-July 2019  |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
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Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
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 Posted - Jul 10 2019 : 10:31:40 AM
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We hear and see the Navy Brass flying back and forth a lot. Those military planes are huge!! The navy base in Millington is about 5 miles from where we live. One thing I love about shopping in Millington is the presence of the military. That town is so clean, You never see trash on the roadways at all. They keep the American flags Out all year long down Navy Road. They moved the recruits to another city and moved the Navy Brass here. I love seeing them about town.
My Granny was a Rosie and she worked on the Memphis Belle that flew in WWII so I have always loved the military planes.
We went to an air show on the navy Base about 20 years ago and they had a Stealth Bomber on display and it was guarded with machine guns. We got up to 6 feet away! It was something I will never forget!!
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Edited by - Killarney on Jul 10 2019 10:32:56 AM |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
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Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 10 2019 : 10:42:55 AM
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We have planes going over the house daily. I guess I've gotten use to them. They come out of Dover, AFB.
My son in law works at a base though he is not military. He designs planes for them.
We have visited the museum's where he lives. Very interesting to see the way planes have transformed over the years.
Staying in today. Doing indoor chores and puttering. |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
Edited by - levisgrammy on Jul 10 2019 10:52:15 AM |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Jul 10 2019 : 11:25:33 AM
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Great stories ladies! I love it!
I will never forget when I was about 7 and heard the big tanks at Ft. Hood playing army/war in summer time. Grandma lived about 15 miles away...but the tanks sounded like cannons firing 1/2 mile away. I think they were training the Natl. Guard. Being a child, I thought it was real and they were coming for us. Ha ha! |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 10 2019 : 12:54:30 PM
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| In my late teens & earlier 20s we lived close to Love Field Air Port. I remember when the jets first broke the sound barrier and we could hear the sonic booms and our windows would rattle. Oh my, how our memories do date us. lol |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3522 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
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Posted - Jul 10 2019 : 2:48:32 PM
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| I love to watch the Blue Angels when they perform!! |
Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
9524 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 11 2019 : 04:51:51 AM
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| Heading out to do some errands before it gets to warm here. Can already hear the cicadas and their buzzing kind of song. |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
Edited by - levisgrammy on Jul 11 2019 04:52:18 AM |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Jul 11 2019 : 07:14:49 AM
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| The cicadas are really loud here, too. Their sounds even drown out the ringing in my ears, which almost sounds the same. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Jul 11 2019 : 07:32:13 AM
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| We got more new chickens this morning. Our neighbors asked if I would take them, because they have had a hungry mama coyote climbing their eight foot high fence, with three strands of barbed wire on top and stealing their older hens. So they asked me to give their Easter eggers a home. They are about the size of the black chicks, a couple of months old...now we have 20 new birds. They even brought the feed and some meal worms. Their daughter always starts their baby chicks for them, so I think she spoils them pretty good but that means they are sweet birds. I'm excited. |
Texasgran |
Edited by - TexasGran on Jul 11 2019 07:35:47 AM |
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3522 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3522 Posts |
Posted - Jul 11 2019 : 2:00:30 PM
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| My hubby had left hand surgery for some painful bone spurs on Tuesday. They gave him a long lasting nerve block that is supposed to last 3-4 days. So far it has really kept pain at a minimum and he can control discomfort with Tylenol and Aleve. His arm still has numbness so he has to keep it in a sling for protection. I have been busy helping him because it is amazing what cannot be done with one hand!! LOL!! Tomorrow we go to hand therapy for a check-up and then the surgeon next week. Thankfully, he has been doing really well and I hope when the block wears off, he won't have a lot of pain. The problem has been happening over a series of years from arthritis in both of his hands and it finally was making him have a painful hand all the time. It needed to be fixed. He has the same issue in the right hand so he will have to have the same procedure done maybe sometime later this Fall. Gettin’old and arthritis is really hard!! |
Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 11 2019 : 2:44:50 PM
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| Winnie, prayer for pain free healing for your DH. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
9524 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 05:57:10 AM
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Winnie,
So glad they have something that could help him. Prayers for a quick full recovery. |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
Edited by - levisgrammy on Jul 12 2019 05:57:48 AM |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 08:39:05 AM
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Marilyn, 3 of my neighbors lost all their chickens an owl got some of them.
Winnie, prayers for your hubby!
Linda, those cicadas wear on my already frayed nerves!! Not here yet! For this year! Connie |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 08:45:37 AM
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| Linda and Connie when the drone of the cicadas is heavy it makes me dizzy. I try not to go outside from dusk on because of the cicadas and the mosquitos are really bad this year because of all the rain. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 08:48:28 AM
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Oh Sara! Me too. I get in as fast as I can!!! I have to get my hubby to fill the bird feeders, it has been a few years since they were here!
Connie |
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 09:52:15 AM
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Prayers for your hubby, Winnie.
I remember growing up the 7-year locusts. They were so prolific they were all over the trees and the ground.
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Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2459 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 10:30:13 AM
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In 1963 I was in downtown Dallas on a double date to see the Pink Panther. We had to walk through several inches of crickets to get to the theater. The crickets were piled a foot high against buildings. Crickets were everywhere that year and you couldn't get away from them. I remember the crunching sound they made when I had to walk on them and the terrible smell.
In the late 1990s grasshoppers covered everything. I remember driving through a swarm of them. Had to use windshield wipers so I could see. Driving on all those bodies was like driving on slick mud. It was hard to keep my car on the road. That year the grasshoppers destroyed crops, ate screens off windows, and laid waste to all things green. |
FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3522 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3522 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 12:14:38 PM
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| thank-you everyone for your prayers for Hubby. We went to hand therapy today and they took him out of the sling, removed the post surgical dressing and gave him a lighter dressing and a splint to wear. Next Wednesday the stitches come out and he begins hand therapy twice a week. Everything look like it is healing nicely and we are happy to know that he is doing well. He is getting bored and now, at least he has been the OK to drive again. |
Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 4:27:15 PM
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I was looking for Tilda doll pictures for Jessie (Denise's Jessie) I found these 4th of July pictures, 2014.MJF Ribbon doll swap and my America tree. all farmgirl art! 
Connie |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
9524 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 4:56:46 PM
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Connie
Your doll is adorable and your patriotic tree is awesome! |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl
5777 Posts
Marilyn
Stephenville
Texas
USA
5777 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 5:58:09 PM
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Glad your hubby is healing and off the meds that keep him from driving, Winnie!
Connie I love your beautiful patriotic tree.
Sara, while I was teaching my last 13 years in Glen Rose, we out grew the huge building that was probably built two years before I arrived. So a middle school was built. After three or four years we had a really bad cricket year. We had always had some but that year was bad...so bad they had to stop having classes in the new building until winter temps set in, due to the smell of death. I never knew for sure but they said something about the construction of the building allowed crickets to hide and die in gaps that were part of the design. It was so bad. They finally fixed the problem in the summer.
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
6074 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
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Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 6:34:47 PM
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Winnie, glad the surgery is working for his left hand, I will keep you both in my prayers.
Connie that is a beautiful tree, I love your decorations.
That must of been bad with all those crickets dying in there. Wow!
Take care everyone, Stay well!
Love you all
darlene |
Farmgirl # 4943
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6
Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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quiltee
True Blue Farmgirl
4742 Posts
Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
4742 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 7:25:42 PM
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| So glad your hubbie is doing better, Winnie. |
Linda B
quiltee
Farmgirl #1919
FGOTM for August, 2015 and April, 2017
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
2114 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
2114 Posts |
Posted - Jul 12 2019 : 8:13:44 PM
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Thanks ya'll!
Winnie. Glad hubby is getting better and moving Foward! |
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
3522 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
3522 Posts |
Posted - Jul 13 2019 : 07:52:30 AM
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| Oh Connie, O remember this wonderful July 4 tree in your home!!! It is just adorable and so cheerful for these long hot summer days! |
Winnie Nielsen #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Girl of the Year 2014-2015 |
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl
2704 Posts
Debbie
Madras
OR
USA
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Posted - Jul 16 2019 : 10:34:44 AM
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Connie, I LOVE your patriotic decorations!!!
Winnie, glad to hear that your husband is doing so well!
Marilyn and Sara, I do not think I would like the cricket/grasshopper situation! Kind of gives me the goosebumps thinking about it... |
Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
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Project Discussions: Fireworks, fireflies & fun-July 2019 |
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Fireworks, fireflies & fun-July 2019
