Playing with Picmonkey

I just read that if one is able to learn something new than that one does not have alzheimers disease.

Thank you dear Lord.

I just learned how to do something else with Picmonkey today.

What a great thing to have the information to know how to keep one's mind alert and to be able to test that idea.

 

Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday

 The prompt this week shows Doris Day and Bert Bacharack playing tennis in 1971.

 My photo shows a family in the Jimtown area of Washington County, Kentucky

playing lawn croquet.

Circa 1920

Photo from Washington County Kentucky Bicentennial History

1792-1992

This was a well known and welcoming family in the area.

Birth dates in this family photo range from 1876 to 1899. 

Croquet courses were popular all over the state of Ky. until just recently.

They were about as popular as horseshoes.

Sports of all kinds were encouraged all over the county around this time to help soothe the wounds of the WW I and other social biggies going on.

Our family still plays croquet occasionally under the shade of our huge oak trees.

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One picture is worth a thousand words. FSMT

Story in a photo

Sh!!!!!!!!!

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Bugs and things

Art brings me much joy.

Art made from natural items are even more

joyous 

 

 

All of these items are for sale in the gift shot at

Bernheim Forest in Clermont Kentucky. 

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It's Tuesday and you're gonna love it.

Ya Tuesday

On father's day we had lunch outside and it was a little windy blowing the tablecloths around and around.

We had clips on some of them but not all.

So I decided I would make something that would serve as a cover for the deck table.

I picked up some scrap pieces of plarn (plastic yarn) and begin to crochet a round placemat.

 This is what I came up with.

I wanted a big piece of cardboard to Mod Podge it to but didn't have it so used a brown paper bag.

 If this doesn't work I will try plastic or get some cardboard.

 Mod Podge on

 Next a layer of fabric from my stash.

 Sorry about the blur.

Cut the fabric about 1/2 inch bigger so it can be turned and hot glued directly under the plarn.

Covered with Mod Podge it can be wiped off if food is spilled on it.

My next mat. Now these don't have to match. It is more fun to just mix up the colors.

Don't know about plarn
A how to video below. 

I save all colored shopping bags and my family and friends save them for me.

Check on my Art and crochet page for other items I have made out of plarn.



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Green and just plain beauty

The Green and Blue Mosaic

Summer is here and flowers are at their peak.

Hot and need a lot of water which means, since no rain, much watering going on.  Well worth it however.

The Red Lily

When we moved into this house 13 years ago we started our landscaping with flowers that had a lot of meaning for us.

We planted 4 beautiful firey red Asian lilies in honor of our 4 daughters.

2 Jacob's ladders for our 2 sons.

Lilacs and iris bushes in honor of our mothers.

Different flowers for friends and other family members.

What is still thriving today: 

The lilac bush in honor of HH's mother.

Purple Iris from my mother's yard.

4 beautiful red lilies in honor of our daughters.

The Jacob's ladders did not weather the years so we put out several burning bushes in honor of our sons and wow they are hard to keep in control.

LOL

White Clematis

Pink Geranium

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Sunday blessings

Sunday blessings.

The joy of my heart is my home and my family.

• Psalm 27:4

  One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
  
  

Having fun at the state fair

Sepia Saturday

Alan's prompt shows folks having fun at a 1940's fair in England.

 Kentucky State Fair brings thrills, concerts, animals and more

The very first Kentucky State Fair, in 1902, grew from a basic economic need posed by the newly formed Kentucky Livestock Breeder’s Association: to strengthen the national standing of Kentucky’s herds. This first State Fair was held at Churchill Downs, and 75,000 people attended. For a 50-cent admission, those first fair-goers witnessed races of the new steam automobile and the top attraction: a head-on collision between two locomotives.

The State Fairs of the first decade also supported the Commonwealth’s great horse traditions, provided a showcase for the year’s harvest, advanced the state’s industries, and encouraged excellence and competition in the domestic arts.

The history of the fair encompasses Kentucky’s growth and change in communications, transportation, technology, and even fashion. The Kentucky State Fair has become the training ground, the testing site, and the public showcase for the state’s progress. To borrow a promotional phrase from the early decades of fair history, the State Fair is “Kentucky’s Parade of Progress.”


State Fairs have many things but my favorite has always been the 

World's Championship Horse Show.

 (photo courtesy of Washington County Ky. Bicentennial History 1792-1992)


One of the most prosperous businesses in Kentucky is the breeding, training and showing and racing horses.
I grew up in a town where Kalarama Farms was one of the most prominent and famous farms in Kentucky for Saddle Horses.

Friends of ours owned the farm and in the early 1980s entered the World Championship Horse Shows  with Harlem Globetrotter out of sire New Yorker.
Pictured above is the trainer and rider Larry Hodge on Harlem Globetrotter when they won the 
1982 National Three Year Old Championship at Freedom Hall.

Kalarama Farm is still in operation in Springfield Kentucky and has an intriguing history found here

www.kalaramafarm.com

     

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Friday Shoot Out- Signs

Friday Shoot Out.

Theme

Unusual signage

Right to the point.

The Boone Bull

Boone's Butcher Shop was opened in 1952 and has always had a life sized bull on the top.

This bull has been stolen, shot at and defaced in numerous ways but the bull hangs on.

Mr. Luel Boone opened the store in 1952 and he and his family ran it for years.

His son Jerry is now the owner operator. 

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Sharing the joy and tea with ruth and friends.

Having........my Lemon Zinger tea in my white and pink china cup.

Feeling.........full of joy thinking of all the work we did to get ready for the father's day celebration at our house. Yes it was planning and cooking and cleaning the yard and wondering if it would rain but being with all the loved ones made it all worth while.

Thinking...........how blessed we all are to have each other.

Watching these grands in the swing enjoying each other made the cleaning and scrubbing, to rid the patio of all the evidence of the many birds, worthwhile.

"Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again."

William Saroyan

Photographs are such a wonderful thing to remind and enable us to relive the most joyful times in our lives.
For me
The greatest JOY is time with family.

Linking up with
Meri here at Share the Joy



and Ruth at Tea Talk 


Get out there and catch the JOY GERM.

Set for some scenes in the movie Stripes with Bill Murray

The day that I visited the Bernheim Forest I also visited the Jim Beam Distillery.

There has been much renovation done but I knew of a place I wanted to find that I had known about long ago.

This building always reminds me of some computer logo.

The original Beam residence.

This green building was used in the movie

"Stripes"  with Bill Murray.

It was used as the prison.

Years ago before updating this was a very spooky place.

A lot of the scenes for this movie were shot at

Fort Knox Ky. about 30 miles from here.

The road past this place has been rerouted but when I was working as a visiting nurse I saw many patients down the original road right through the middle of the distillery property to a small community named

Clermont.

It is still called Clermont and has it's own post office.

 and church

 Most folks in this community work at Jim Beam Distillery.

"Owe my soul to the company store."

from Tennessee Ernie Ford song.

This church is down near the river and I have seen many a baptism going on.

 Some lovely old homes along this road.

Steady work at the distillery and good wages.

Anyone else out there like to go looking for old buildings and places stuffed back in the memory file of your mind?