Sepia Saturday is Blue in Kentucky

Sepia Saturday

is 

Big Blue Saturday in Kentucky

There is an amazing situation going on in Ky or rather New Orleans this weekend.

 Alan's theme is work.
Well these are just basketball games but believe me there is a lot of work going on here.
From the players to the coaches.

Sorry this is all I can think about as we wait for this history making Final Four game tonight.
Just a little history

Rupp coached the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1930 to 1972. There, he gained the nicknames, "Baron of the Bluegrass, and "The Man in the Brown Suit". Rupp's Wildcat teams won four NCAA championships (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958), one National Invitation Tournament title in 1946, appeared in 20 NCAA tournaments, had six NCAA Final Four appearances, won five Sugar Bowl tournament championships, captured 27 Southeastern Conference regular season titles, and won 13 Southeastern Conference tournaments. Rupp's Kentucky teams also finished ranked #1 on six occasions in the final Associated Press college basketball poll and four times in the United Press International (Coaches) poll. In addition, Rupp's 1966 Kentucky squad (nicknamed "Rupp's Runts") finished runner-up in the NCAA tournament and Rupp's 1947 Wildcats finished runner-up in the National Invitation Tournament. Further, Rupp's 1933 and 1954 Kentucky squads were also awarded the Helms National Championship.
In his 41 seasons as UK coach, Rupp coached 32 All-Americans, chosen 50 times, 52 All-SEC players, chosen 91 times, 44 NBA Draft Picks, 2 National Players-of-the-Year, 7 Olympic Gold Medalists, and 4 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame members. He was a 4-time National Coach-of-the-Year award winner, and a 7-time Conference Coach-of-the-Year award winner. Rupp was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, College Basketball Hall of Fame, Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, Kansas Athletic Hall of Fame, University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, and Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame. Further, since 1972, the Adolph Rupp Trophy, considered one of the nation's premier basketball awards, has been given by the Commonwealth Athletic Club to the top men's college basketball player. In addition, the University of Kentucky retired a jersey in his honor in the rafters of Rupp Arena, a 23,500-seat arena named after him, dedicated in 1976.^[5]
Rupp was forced into retirement in March of 1972, at the age of 70. At the time, this was the mandatory retirement age for all University of Kentucky employees.

John Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach. Since April 2009, he has been the men's head coach at the University of Kentucky.
Calipari is the former head coach of the University of Memphis Tigers, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen, and the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets. He is the only coach to direct three different colleges to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, although two of those appearances (1996 at UMass and 2008 at Memphis) have been officially vacated by the NCAA. Calipari is also one of only two coaches to direct three different schools to a Final Four (1996- UMass, 2008- Memphis, 2011, 2012- Kentucky), with the UMass and Memphis appearances later being vacated by the NCAA. As a result, he is the only head coach to have a Final Four appearance vacated at more than one school, although Calipari himself was not personally implicated by the NCAA in either case.^[1] As a college coach, Calipari has 18 20-win seasons (17 official), 8 30-win seasons (7 official), and has been named National Coach of the Year 3 times.

Rick Pitino (born September 18, 1952)^[1] is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville. He has also served as head coach at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996. He has coached on the professional level for the NBA's New York Knicks and Boston Celtics with mixed results.
Pitino holds the distinction of being the only men's coach in NCAA history to lead three different schools (Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville) to a Final Four. (John Calipari did the same, but two of his Final Four appearances were later vacated by the NCAA.) Pitino is also only one of three coaches ever to take his school to the Final Four in four separate decades. In addition, Pitino has achieved a measure of success as an author and a motivational speaker.

All info courtesy of Wikipedia.


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Will be off the radar for the next two days.
Will be back to visit others later.
WooHoo
Go Cats Go
We are all blue crazy and we know it.
Whom ever wins tonight it is still
the state of Kentucky in the finals.
Can't beat that.

Friday Shoot My Town

Friday Shoot my Town

Yes you have seen this photo before.
It is finally coming down after setting here for 4 years.
Sad.


Addendum
 

This house burned 4 years ago.
Arson is suspected therefore not allowed to be torn down until now.

Bulky trash week this week in my neck of the woods.

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Wishing all a joyful 

Thursday

We some time now the third generation of my husband's family have been trying to organize a mother/daughter

week-end get away.

The cousins are all grown now and want to recreate the fun they used to have when we would get together as young mothers and they were young cousin playing a calling each other silly names.

Some which have stuck to this day.

This week-end it is finally going to happen.

What joy.

We will all five share a room at one of the most beautiful resorts in Ky.

We are all so full of excitement and joy at this wonderful opportunity.

I am as gitty as a young mom and I can be sure they will all be like little girls again.

All the aunts and the girl cousins will be there.

WooHoo.

Having............Glucerna for diabetics in my Doc Martin mug.

It is chocolate flavored and heated in the microwave just hits the spot.

Feeling........well gitty with excitement and anticipation for the upcoming week-end.

Thinking........this is a good thing. When we are ALL together it is a good thing but it does not allow for moms and daughters to get to talk about each other and how things are going in their own lives.

The discussions usually are about their children and their activities and I have to admit we older moms sometimes feel like we 

have lost something.
Now don't get me wrong.
I love being a grandmother and take much joy in all our grands.
 

Our little girls have matured into beautiful loving and strong women.

Exactly what we had worked so long to help bring to fruition.

"All the dreams I prayed you'd be, Are all the things you are. You were once my little girl, And now my shining star."

Author: UNKNOWN

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 Two Kentucky Teams in the

NCAA

Final Four

Go Cats.

 

Doing my thing day

Doing my own thing day

When I had to stop eating fried foods I began having soft boiled eggs for breakfast.

I saw an item on a blog one day that gave me an idea.

I began to wash my soft boiled egg shells after I had eaten my eggs to save for an Easter project.

I put paint in a spray bottle and sprayed

the clean egg shells.

I like the uneven edges of the

shells.

 

I like the look the shells had when the paint 

drained down rather than painted solid.

With grass and candy eggs.

I will make about 12 of these.

One for each of our grands and

arrange them for a center piece.

 

Big Movie Production for this spring

Mosaic Monday

Playing with Big Huge Labs.

Using Poster Maker.

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Hostess

Mary

Sunlit Sunday -Gaining the light of knowledge

Sunlit Sunday

Well Easter Sunday is two weeks from now and I am busy getting ready for our traditional celebration.

The last couple of years I had been feeling well.
Before I was diagnosed as diabetic and got it under control I did not feel so good.
Now that I do feel better I am more into doing all the extras for the traditional way my daughters love to do it.
Good china, etc.

The light of knowledge is shining on me now and my health is better.


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May all the Joys of Easter be with all of you.

Sepia Saturday Going Out

Alan's theme

Going Out.

My photo today for Going out is The 19th. Century.

A quick end of the century summary might be in order for Washington Co. Ky.

Population had ebbed and flowed since the war but ended on a high note. There were 12,464 Washington Countians in 1870, 14,419 in 1880, 13,622 in 1890, and 14,181 in 1900.

From the News Leader,c.1896

Local Springfield newspaper.

The Washington County belle has few equals and no peers upon the globe.

These women and girls were all from families engaged in growing tobacco, working for the railroad and cattle raising.

Why these beautiful young ladies were arranged on this background like this I have no idea.

I do know counting from the top on the left #4 was my maternal grandmother's aunt Mattie Mcllvoy.

It is not a school photo as there are married and single women and children on here.

I can't get over that hairdo with the topknot.

This fine photograph came to me by way of

The Washington County Kentucky Bicentennial History Book.

1792-1992

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Friday Shoot Out- What's on top, steeples, spires, weathervanes, flags

Friday

Shoot My Town
On top of things.

Steeples, spires, weather vanes, flags

A horse
of
course

Could be bats in this belfry.

St. Vincent de Paul
Church
front view

Back view


Some private home in the older part of town.

Storage shed outside this home.

Private homes in town.

 Our old Justice Center otherwise know as the 
Old Courthouse

The New Justice Center

Private mail box

Wisteria atop a concrete post.




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Thursday is a day to spread the joy and visit with tea friends.

Share the Joy Thursday

Working in my yard this week has been so nice.

Yes the allergies have been bad.

I just wore a mask over my mouth and nose.

 I have photographed all the things new for the spring so went back to look for some archive photos that made me smile and stirred that feeling of 
Joy.


Found this shot of Finch's on the front drive.
We have Finch's now but they have not gotten their yellow color yet.

 Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu 

Having.............hot chocolate in my Doc Martin mug.

Feeling...........very upset about some social situations going on in our country.

Thinking.........I know that you can't put a lot of confidence in what you read in the newspapers or on the TV but there is no doubt in my mind the amount of injustice is a reality.
Some folks are becoming paranoid and it is so easy for encounters to get out of hand.

I will pray longer and louder.


"God shapes the world by prayer.
The more praying there is in the world the better the
world will be, the mightier the forces against evil."
E.M. Bounds


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