The Neighborhood and other musings

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Bob is getting prepared to visit DisneyWorld with his daughter and granddaughters in three weeks.  The youngest, Sydney, is getting super excited.  Susannah, Adam, Anderson and I visited DisneyWorld in July (Adam's vacation time).  The timing was bad--we knew it but God was merciful.  We had some good weather in the 80s and 90s and some cooling rains.  Anderson is still watching "It's a Small World "videos and listening to the CD.  It was a wonderful adventure for us.  I know the girls will love it and will cherish the memories with their Pop.

Sydney came over to swim Tuesday along with the nieghborhood children. The pool was ice cold (due to the trees) but they didn't seem to care.  It was a riotous time for all, including the parent who came over to watch. Several kids learned to come in through our doggie door so we had to laughingly declare it off-limits (Where were they when I locked my keys in the house last February and could have used their entry?).  Such joy in the laughter and antics of children.  It brought back great memories.

In my youth, I remember playing outside until the dark (actually, it was probably our parents) chased us in.  We played hide and seek, red rover-red rover, kick the can, hopscotch and other games together.  We didn't seem to mind the heat or the mosquitoes --all we wanted to do was play.  I think I'll try to find the rules to those games and introduce the neighborhood kids to them.  Does anyone remember their games?

Wonderful Wednesday

Since I retired, Bob and I have been celebrating a midweek event called Wonderful Wednesdays.  We started it to get ourselves out of the same old same routine.  Occasionally we've had a misfire but generally the time has been wellspent and fun-filled.  Many times, it has evoked old memories.

Today, we headed up to Abbeville and ate lunch at Huggin' Molly's, a drug store that has been turned into a restaurant.  The local legend goes that Molly is a 7 foot tall and hay bale wide woman dressed in black that appears after dark, chases children and then gives them ghostly hugs while shrieking.  The restaurant is owned by Jimmy Rane of the Yellawood fame and it shows his love for the 50s and old western movie posters. Here's the link: http://www.hugginmollys.com/.

After lunching and looking through a couple of cool gift shops on the square, we returned by going the old 231 route through Headland.  There we visited an antique shop (no finds) and went by Bob's Dee-daden and Nannah' house which is close to the square.  We then checked out the new subdivision that is being built on the Roberts' old acreage.  Papa Roberts was Bob's maternal great-grandfather. 

Unfortunately, I forgot the camera that can download.  However, we did have a picture for our grandson, Anderson who loves to hear his grandfather, Bop, whistle.  Toot, toot, Anderson!

Garden Tours 25 cents!

I'm experimenting with a camera (trying to learn new tricks at the age of 61).  I finally gave up on the Kodak and went to Sam's and bought a canon and actually read the directions.  Yea!  I'm hoping that this small success will really open up new adventures for me.  I will be able to actually start a gardening blog and sell some things on Ebay.  I'm ecstatic.    Now I need to learn how to actually manipulate the pictures.  Another day! 

Susannah....if you're reading this....I took a picture of Emma wanting to play frisbee for Anderson.