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Regrets: A memoir of the events leading to the forming of the Fellowshi of the Ring

Regrets If I had known the trouble that the escape of those dwarves from the woodland cells would cause I would of killed them as they hung there in the spider webs. My father, the current leader of the Woodland Elves felt a disturbance in the forest and sent out a reconnaissance party to see what was upsetting the spiders. Much to our surprise it was twelve dwarves. The spiders had captured them in their sleep and trussed them up for future meals. It appeared that the spiders plans were disturbed by another being releasing some of the dwarves and then taunting the Spiders with an old human rhyme that they considered and insult. (quote Bilbo here) We arrived on the scene to see most of the spiders rushing off to find the culprit that had released their meals. We made quick work of the guard spiders and freed the dwarves. Marching them into our fortress. As, the door closed, my friend said he thought he had seen a shadow pass through the closing door b...
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Scary Dolls

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When I was a little girl Dresser Dolls were the big thing and I had at least 6 or 7 by the time I was 7 years old.  The Auto parts/garage that my dad worked for gave us one every year at the company Christmas Party and my God mother in Connecticut would send them to me.  They were kept on the top of a tall highboy in the corner of my room and I knew they were just for pretty and not for play but my heart yearned to play princesses with them.  They all had long silky dresses and beautifully coffed hair.  Unlike later fashion Dolls the clothes did not come off the dresser Doll.  She also did not wear high heels.  One of my favorites was the Cinderella, that was my name for her, she had a silky baby blue skirt and a white satin like blouse.  She had blonde hair that fell in waves to her shoulders.   Another of my dolls wore at same outfit but in a beautiful emerald green  and she had flaming red hair.  I also had a Mexican doll , ...
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memories of fall colors.

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Well, Hi again,  I'm writing for Namowrimo and decided to use my blog to sort of try out ideas for my memory writers group. I decided to use these pictures of Fall colors in Redmond and surrounding areas as a back drop for my memories of fall colors. My first and best memory is of Fall in Farmington, CT.  My family moved from Austin, TX in the summer of 1957.  We moved into a garage apartment behind the large family home of the John Henry Frey, my mother's childhood home.  The house in front was still rented til next summer to a family with 3 teens and their mom.  The house is on a short dead end that has lots of big trees, maple and oaks. This was the first time in my short life that I actually saw fall colors.  The seasons change in Texas but as far as I remember the trees just turned brown and fell off.  In early September, the leaves of some trees were starting to change.  In the fields behind our house th...
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Being silly with Katy Jones

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This is my sister's oldest grandchild,  Katy.  While we were clearing the house after dad's death Frances brought her along because mom was working.  We found these googly eye glasses and started taking pipictures with them on.  This is what we sent to her mom. I don't know why I have it here but it was a fun silly evening. 
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Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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Clean houses vs cluttered houses

Well, I am back.  I was looking at a thing on twitter and when I opened it. there was my old Blog on Blogger.  This one was a draft and as I re read it I decided that I think I will update it and send it out into cyberspace for NO one to read. A little update:  I now live in the Seattle area with the TR and David. they have 5 children, 4 of them crazy boys.  I still feel that the below is true to some extent so I am not going to change it I am so angry. This stupid system had me locked out for 6 days and then it kicked me out of the February challenge.  GRRRR! Well, now on to my real topic for the day. So this past weekend I spent in Austin visiting my daughter and her family.  They have 4 children and they are all under 8.  The youngest will be 1 on the 16th of February.  It was interesting, I often wonder if it is just a symptom of large families to have a messy house and yard or are my kids just dysfunctional?    I remember that t...
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Yesterday was my anniversary

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It was yesterday and this year it sort of went by unnoticed. Tony and I were married on the 8th of march 1971 at the small Catholic church of St Anthony of Padua in San Antonio, TX. We had known each other for about 2 and 1/2 years having met at a Neumann club function. We did not start dating until the spring after Tony joined the Navy and I was heading to UT in Austin. We were mostly pen pals for most of the 2 years before we married seeing each other when he would come home on leave. When Tony graduated from "A" school he was sent on to specialize in sonar and so he spent the first 2 years of his Navy career in San Diego going to classes while a lot of his friends whom failed to avoid the draft were being shipped off to Vietnam. After his graduation he was assigned to the USS Richard E. Byrd(DDG23). Shortly after he arrived on the ship they left for a 6month Med cruise that turned into 10 months. The Egyptian and the Israeli army had decided to go to war. When he ...
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Some thoughts as an occasional care giver

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I wrote these thoughts about 2 weeks ago on my 750 blog and I thought that I might share these thoiughts with the rest of the world if they are interested. I am usually not so negitve but I was really tired that evening. Please comment!! Well here goes. Today is my last day in San Antonio caring for my 95 year old dad. My 3 sisters and I trade off so that no one has to use too much time and run out of FMLA time. Dad lives at home and is blind and hard of hearing so needs someone to stay with him. We have been doing this for 3 years and it is really hard to to keep doing this. At least it is for me. When my sisters and I started caring for dad, our mother had just passed away. He was losing his eyesight and was having a hard time dealing with the loss of mom. Like many men of a certain age group he had had a women caring for him his entire life. He married late in life, 32 years old to our mom and she like him was raised to know a womens place. Mom had supper on the table, and lips...
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