SUSAN BRANCH....JULY

Hello, Everyone, 

JULY........can you believe it's already HERE ...? 

MEEE, either !! 

One of my favorite things is my
SUSAN BRANCH
Calendar.....




The art work is sooo adorable
and I wanted to share with you
her JULY work.

I am such a SB fan....:)
(i've always been a
"get the autograph" kind of girl...:)

 

We have a grandson, DREW, that has a 23rd birthday in the delightful month of JULY.

With the HORRIBLE heat this summer....we will stay inside most of the summer time....

even tho I would MUCH rather be lounging on some red and white chairs like Susan has drawn here. :))

"Fireflies twinkle in the dark..."

...more memories for me...

Dallas had TONS of fireflies...

but, we called them "lightning bugs" and we LOVED playing with them.

At the risk of sounding really mean, we would catch some of the fireflies,

pull their little lighted butts off and stick the light on our fingers, playing like we were wearing

DIAMOND RINGS...

(it never dawned on me that whatever it was that made the little butts STICK to our fingers

MIGHT be .....GAG....their little "innards"........)

(NOW I think about that little TINKER BELL and am sorry we pulled the bugs little butts off)

*remember....we were just 5/6/and 7 yrs old    :>(

"BLUE SKIES" was a 1926 song, written by Irving Berlin...

WILLIE NELSON recorded it in 1978 and, until I did a little research,
I've thought all this time that WILLIE wrote it....:)
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I've already told you how we hung ALL our laundry on clothes lines that my daddy
built for my mama....

I can still smell the freshness of the sheets as I climbed into bed at night...
I MISS that smell.

 

I have ALWAYS wanted to use flowers on my food....

never have had Pansies or Nasturtiums....

and I am scared to use Violets and Rose Petals...

I am SUCH a sissy girl....**sigh

                    HAPPY 4TH OF JULY........

My cousin, SKEET, and I have spread a blanket on the grass at night a million times and my daddy would be out there with us, looking at kizillion billion trillion STARS.

My silly daddy, for some reason, would start "barking" and every single dog for a hundred miles would start barking...

my dad would laugh      and laugh...such a silly man...

so much fun...

and I loved him dearly...

 It's been YEARS
since we've been to the beach.

Before Mr. Sweet's
sister passed away,
she and her family
lived a block from the beach on Port Aransas....

Our family spent many summer vacations, visiting them and playing on the beach and in the water.

I miss the fun at the beach.....

...don't you adore this "saying" Susan put on her JULY calendar.?

 I always remove anything that will be below water of my flowers.

My mama taught me this when I was very young.

Mom always had beautiful flowers and we had many vases of flowers throughout our house....
she taught me how to arrange flowers to look their prettiest.

Gosh, it's amazing, when you give it some thought, how many things we all learned from our moms.

I sure hope I have taught MY children something they will always remember......



When I was a tiny girl, under 8, living in Dallas, Texas
offered us so many fun things...

and window shopping, downtown Dallas, was a real treat.

Now, we didn't go downtown at NIGHT...

always in the afternoon and it was always HOT.

My daddy took us for ice cream cones every time we were close to an ice cream shop.....

memories.....*heavy sigh

We didn't have a BEACH to go to around Dallas but we went to a LOT of lakes around there.

WHITE ROCK LAKE wasn't too far away from where we lived so we went there often....

my aunts, uncles and cousins would often times go with us for the FUNEST times....:))

We would go to POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE sometimes...

the most I remember about going there is that my cousin, SKEET, and I would lay on some of the hammocks the lake people had put up between the many trees....

O...

and we would find lots of change in the sand under the hammocks....

hahhaa....such fun.

Our daughter, STACY, and her family go to Possum every few weeks during the summer time...
they have a big, nice camper there and Mr. Sweet and I went with them last summer....

I looked and looked for those hammocks I remember as a child but they were not there...

 "ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET"
is a song written in 1930.

My mama used to sing this song to me all the time when I was little.

"...leave your worries on the doorstep....
direct your feet.....
to the sunny side of the street....."

I guess ALL of us love BEATRIX POTTER...

I know I do....

 “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

I hope you have enjoyed seeing the month of JULY as SUSAN BRANCH sees it.
I so love her adorable art.

I hope you have a FUN DAY because,
FUN is GOOD.  

XOXO, bj

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