Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Singing in the Dress... Slides, Food and Church


 
Good morning, Friends...
I've been a little busy lately, cleaning things out.  I think it's that video I watcched about Swedish Death Cleaning on YouTube.  It really gets you to thinking!  I have a lot of uninteresting...stuff.  At least to the people in my life that matter.  If me or Larry pop off to another existence, I don't want to leave her a mess to deal with!  Losing your parents is hard enough without having to come in behind them and have to do a mass cleaning!!   
Other than cleaning things out, I haven't really been doing a whole lot.  Went to visit Samantha and our new little Lottie...Sloane was there as well...she's always fun.  I had bought her a new play-dress...she performs for you, below in the video...lol






We were in Walmart the other day...Okay!  I couldn't help myself! lol,  Sloane needs TWO play dresses!  Well, she Does! lol... I'm the typical Greatgran...she loved it, by the way.




The cleaning of Larry's deceased Dad is something else...I found their slide stash...goodness.  It's taken me days to get them loaded onto the computer!  I had to buy a special slide converter from Amazon to transfer them.  I did a lot of weeding out, as well!!  A tree?  A bird?  The ocean??  The backs of people we don't know?  Their trips to China?  Australia? Russia?  Finland?  The islands?  They traveled a lot...On and on...well, most of them are now in the trash.  A vase?  A chicken?  Oh well...they meant something to them...All I saved were family shots...Larry in Vietnam etc....1970-the late 80's. Oddly, there weren't very many physical photos.  Oh well...I have a special scanner with software coming for photos.  Should be here tomorrow.  They might not have had lots of physical photos, but I do!  Going to be uploading photos in between cutting fabric for a new quilt.   




Here's me holding onto our daughter, Crystal, 11.  She is so sweet and special...she never changed.



Big Sister Sloane with our little Lottie Lynn...
My heart!
















A Mexican restaurant...good food but forgot the name! lol



I made Tomato and Eggs...always good.




We live in Texas!  Gotta' go to the Dairy Queen!





Air Fryer chicken...




Ate Chinese at The Summer Palace...always good.



Thin crust pizza...pretty good.








And yes...we went to church Sunday!  It always feels good...you can close your mind off to everything but God...and be grateful...and the coffee and donuts are always good...Just Saying! lolol
Well...I'll stop bending your ears...eyes...for now.  
Hoping you all are well and safe and not worrying about Iran.  God has this!  All WE need is faith...in Him.
Until next time guys...

5 comments:

Far Side of Fifty said...

I need to do some of that Swedish death cleaning, but I will wait to watch the you tube video until I need motivation! Sloane needs lots of dress up clothing,especially accessories…purses..shoes..jewelry, and hats!!

photowannabe said...

Love Sloane and here dress up performance...She's a star. I always loved to dress up and dance.
Going through slides is exactly what we did last week when our kids were here. There are many, many to go through from my folks. We need to sift through them again to get the family memories ones transferred. What was the gizmo you got to put the slides on your computer? I need to do that..
Good to see you back posting again.
Sue

Mari said...

Sloane put on a fine performance! I love the pic of her and Lottie too.
When my Dad passed away, us kids got together and spent hours watching slides. There were lots of people and places we didn't know. We sent off the ones we did want to some place that transferred them onto a flash drive. Now I'm supposed to be putting them into an online photo book... I need more time!

Linda said...

Swedish Death Cleaning??? What in the world...I guess I will be heading over to YouTube smiles. Sloane is always a pleasure my friend, thank you for the many smiles.

MadSnapper n Beau said...

smiled all the way through. Sloan got a standing ovation and Love Sloan and Lottie together. wow on the incubator story and never heard of the death cleaning but I sure should do it. since I only have 2 sons, and neither are interested in anything I have, they can just hire someone to toss it all. I have 6 external hardrives with 10s of thousands of photos taken since 2002 when I got my first digital camera. none of them are personal, just photos of frogs, lizards, bugs, parks, boats etc. no one is interested so they can toss those. I have not looked at some of them in many years. I should just dump it. nice post, good to see you pop up. the dancing girl is amazing, I watched it twice and yes she does deserve 2 dresses