WOW em Wednesday with Happy Halloween and past fun times

Happy Halloween

and prayers for all those hit by the Witch Sandy.

These are some of the last Halloween costumes QMM shared with her grands as they got too old to go 

Trick or treating

The evil Fortune Teller and her mad helpers.


 With the help of PicMonkey

Linking up with Grandma's Briefs 

Mosaic Monday and Your're Gonna Love it- Gloomy weather

Today I offer a pray for all the states and people involved in the Sandy phenomenon.

Here in Central Kentucky we have cold, gloomy, windy weather.

Staying indoors weather and cooking.

Vegetable soup, green tomato relish and bread and butter pickles.

  Having these kinds of things on hand insures I have vegetables at all times.

Several green tomatoes cubed

green pepper cubed

onion
Sugar to taste or I use my sweetener 

I use pickling spices as they come in one container.

Cider vinegar allowed to boil several minutes with the spices.

Then add cubed vegetables and continue to boil about 15 to 20 minutes until liquid boils down just covering the veggies.

Notice I have no measurements, it just depends on how many green tomatoes you have.

Boil your jars for 10 minutes and the lids for 5.

Fill jars as you take them from the boiling water.

Gently place rubber rings on and then place caps on lightly. You will hear a pop as the jars seal. Then you may tighten the caps.

Linking up with Mary's Mosaic Monday   

Also linking up with Kathe with an E

    

Sepia Saturday-Healthy waters

Men, Men, Men, Men, Men-dee-Men-Men!

So, you're tired of men, are you? Well feast your eyes on THIS beauty!  ( I jest, so I do.)

Here's another Flickr Commons photo from the National Library of Ireland, and what have we here?  Not one, but TWO women! Hurrah!  (I was greatly relieved to find the second lady in the background with the lovely hat, but I'll be honest, even I am going to struggle to come up with a photo that follows this theme!)

This picture is of "Twin Wells" on the banks of the River Aille at Lisdoonvarna in County Clare, taken around the turn of the century (1900).

Apparently the waters were acclaimed as restorative and this place was designated a spa.  By the looks of things, the old lady in the photo has not benefited, or isn't drinking them. Ha!

Go on my dears, and make what you can of this, be it spas, water, old ladies, young ladies, tourists, umbrellas, homeless people.  Go on!

 This gazebo housed the spring at Tatham Springs in Washington Co, Kentucky, located on the mainland across the river from the hotel and accessible by a footbridge. Spring flowed naturally. Pictured is a visitor Dr. Block from Bloomfield, Ky. 
Photo c. 1900 taken from my copy of 
Washington County, Kentucky Bicentennial
History
1792-1992  

In a previous post I had featured the beautiful
Tatham Springs Hotel which was built in 1893 on Carey Island in Chaplin River in Washington Co., Ky.
The occasion for the building of the hotel was the discovery of the supposedly curative properties of the mineral water found on the site. Spas and mineral water springs were the rage in 
Victorian times, hundreds being built all over the country. Some are still famous such as Hot Springs and Eureka Springs in Arkansas or White Sulphur Springs in Virginia, USA. Most are gone now. The resorts were not limited to medicinal value. Before Florida and air conditioning, they were the urban dweller's principle vacation spot.

At Tatham Springs the water was to be drunk as tonic; there was no bath or pool. Water flowed from a natural cistern near the building. The water was sold in bottle form around the county as well as at the hotel.

The hotel was used a the 4-H camp which I attended in the 1940's. I remember it well.
Recently I visited the site and felt an eerie chill  as it had been allowed to crumble to the ground with no plans for renovation.

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Happy anniversary and a happy birthday

Happy Anniversary beautiful couple

Oct. 26 1991

Beautiful bride and handsome groom

Beautiful bride and proud mom

Beautiful bride and handsome dad

Beautiful daughter today.

One of four.

Happy Birthday Ben.

My favorite football player.

FSO- Water in motion

Friday Shoot Out

theme
Water in Motion.

 Our Koi pond

My little homemade fountain.

Our neighbor's fountain on Sandstone Dr.

Tiny waterfall at
My Old Kentucky Home State Park in
Bardstown, Kentucky 


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WOW Wednesday and Share the JOY Thursday

WOW us

WEDNESDAY

 Just around my neighborhood with my camera.
Share the JOY with Meri on Thursday.

My heart sings with JOY

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Thursday. 

You're gonna love it.

Although I hate the leaf raking that goes with the falling leaves I do love the beautiful colors and the acorns that decorate our deck, patio and back yard.

 Yes fall is the time of dying back but there is so much beauty when you look closely that I see it as a time of renewal.

A time for the land and vegetation to rest and gather strength for a new growing season to come.

I love this season and find JOY in it.

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Mosaic Monday and Granny fun

Linking up with 

Mosaic Monday 

and

Grandma's Briefs

Halloween fun with Grands.

   I always dress up at Halloween and give out candy just inside my garage door.

I love this holiday.

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Sepia Saturday Oct. 20, 2012

Here is another Flickr Commons photograph from the National Library of Ireland and I know what you're all thinking ... more UNIFORMS???  Well, yes, sort of, but it's what is going on in this image that really struck me, and there are a few directions one could go with this - say, bikes? Or perhaps, guns (since there appears to be an exchange of one going on here). How about "nosy parkers" in the backgrounds of photographs? What's that term where someone or something usurps a shot? Oh yes! The PHOTOBOMB.  (Google it; you'll have a right laugh!)

Kat M.

Had to spend some time looking in various places to find a photo on some theme related to today's prompt photo.

Have no idea who these folks are but found it on a collection of vintage bikes on the web.

 It was taken in 1940 of  a family out for the day.

The two boys are on bikes but what caught  my eye was the girl in the jeans.

That is exactly how we wore our jeans in the 40's and 50's.
I guess that is how Capri's or pedal pushers came into being.

This photo could have been taken right around my own neck of the woods.

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FSO-theme smoke, fire, steam

Smoke, a verb.
 

Fire and smoke, nouns

 A Cracker Barrel Christmas

 Smoke, fire and a delicious aroma

 Night before Christmas in the library

Waiting for you know who

 

 
More than one way to scramble an egg, in a blackout.


I spent two days in my town looking for fire, smoke or steam and found nothing.
Had to go to good old archives.

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Share the JOY Thursday

Sharing the JOY of Poppy and Gibby

granddoggies.

Poppy has a lesion on his ear, hoping it is not serious.

Love the two.

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