Hi everyone,
I know it’s always fun to find out the winner first thing, so I won’t prolong it. I wrote down all the names of those who entered the contest and asked my hubby to draw out a name for me. He was still awake at midnight, so he stirred up all the slips with names on them and drew out one!
Linda in St. Louis is the winner!!!! :o) Congratulations Linda! Sara will look so lovely in the purple swimsuit that you said you’d like if you won. This was her choice…
I’ll get it in the mail today if possible so Sara can find some beach time somewhere!
I loved all your swimsuit stories… from Joy’s bikini bought in Honolulu, (with a zipper in the back of the bottoms!), Rosemary admitting to wearing a really skimpy red two piece suit in France, Charlotte adding bra cups in her swimsuit, Linda wearing her leopard 2 piece swimsuit, (Oooo La La!), Barbara, I had a navy gingham swimsuit top, but MY ruffles were right across the bust, which, I didn’t mind, as it “gave” me a little extra something, Laura… I saw a black and white child’s swimsuit the other day that had big hot pink hibiscus flowers all over the suit. It was a pretty color combination!
But my favorite story was from Marilyn… talking about the ugly aqua knit swimsuits that were “provided” by the local pool if you didn’t have one, along with clean towels. I laughed to myself as it kind of reminded me of bowling shoes that were “provided” but you had to rent…
Anyway, thanks everyone for your fun stories! I do have a story to tell about a swimsuit I had one time. We had a pond in our front yard when I was growing up. It had a dock and a floating raft hooked to barrels and we used to swim in it a lot! Kids from school would come over and we’d have a blast… however, we did have fish in this pond too. I found this picture of the pond… our house was to the right and kind of up on a hill. I’ll try to find another picture some time.
My mom and dad would sit out in lawn chairs sometimes and watch us kids having fun! Well… one time I was swimming and a fish got caught in the bottoms of my 2 piece swimsuit. I got out of water and up on the dock and was screaming my head off and jumping around because he was wiggling against my skin and his fins were sharp! As I was jigging around, my dad was yelling at me to pull the leg of my bottoms open so the fish would fall out. The fish finally fell out. I think my mom told me daddy fell out of the lawn chair laughing! It sure wasn’t funny to me!
I do have a picture somewhere of me in that suit jumping off the dock, but I could only find this picture of my dad fishing from the pond. Brings back memories of that moment with the fish in my swimsuit! ICK! Still gives me the willies!
Well, that’s going to have to be it for me today…
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh Jeanne, I won? Well hooray for me! And now Sara is going to have a new, pretty little swimsuit AND matching skirt so she can be like the ‘big” girls! Thank you so much!
Your story about the fish reminded me of the times when I was a young teen, and we would go swimming at a nearby lake. It also had fish, and I had a two piece swimsuit, and a mole on my lower back that showed. I would get these little fish trying to bite my mole, of course, it didn’t hurt, but it sure felt funny! I guess they thought I was fish bait!
How in the world did a fish get into your swimming suit bottoms? I guess your parents were having a good laugh while you were trying desperately to get it out! What a memory!
Dear Linda, congratulations to you and Sara. I guess you are going to have to have a splash party when the bathing suit arrives (smile).
Congratulations on winning the give-away. Great choice in suits. It’s lovely and I really like the skirt.
Congratulations, Linda! Your Sara is going to be delighted to have such a pretty suit (it was my favorite, too), and be “stylish” like the big girls!
Jeanne, when I was growing up we didn’t have any pools around, so we went swimming either in the Cedar River swimming hole in our town or in Lake Michigan where my aunt and uncle’s cabin was.
Thank you all for your wonderful comments, and prayers for Sarah. I am happy to report that, although she’s in a fair bit of pain from the surgery itself, all the “lines” (breathing tube, oxygen, IV, catheter, etc.) are out, and she’s to be moved out of ICU and into a regular room! That was either to be done tonight (Tuesday) or tomorrow (Wed.) at some point! We are all so happy!! God is so good.
And early this morning she left me a voice message on my FB, 38 seconds long. I must have been the first one she called this morning, as the time stamp was 5:43 a.m. Her voice was still quite hoarse from the breathing tube, and some of it I have trouble making out, but “I love you so much” figured in about 3 or 4 times! She is the daughter of my heart, you know, and when I was FB chatting with her sister Molly tonight, Molly said, too, that Sarah loves us (Ron and me) so much. Do you know, more than 20 years after she and our son divorced, she has still kept our last name?! 💖
Sissy, I’m so sorry about the recent loss; I’m glad you and Peyton were able to be there for his children, and your brother’s party could be rearranged. (Your meringue with peaches and whipped cream sounds fabulous!!)
Rosemary, when I had to replace my 56-year-old dryer last year (Ron had kept it running that long!), I went into the appliance store and told them what I was replacing, and that I wanted “the simplest, most basic gas dryer you have”! Even that is a bit “fancier” than my old one, but a much lower learning curve than if I’d gone for fancy!
Barbara, your gingham swimsuit and cover-up sound just darling! I can see why it was your favorite.
Charlotte, I love your messages today, wonderful news about Sarah and her long message to you. You say she is the daughter of your heart but I think you much be the mom of her heart!
If you ever want the recipe for the meringue, Let me know. It has been a favorite since I was a little child. My great aunt made it for us frequently.
I’d love the recipe for the meringue with peaches. I can’t imagine how that is done.
Barbara, send me an email and I will send it to you.
my email is:
marshrat@darientel.net
Thank you, Sissy. I hadn’t thought about that, Sarah thinking of me as the mom of her heart. She did lose her own mother a few years ago, and Molly (her sister) said she was really glad that Sarah has me in that way.
Yes, I would love the peaches and meringue recipe! Jeanne has my email address if you don’t already. Thank you!
So glad to hear the good news about Sarah. Hopefully she will not have pain for long.
I had to buy a new dryer a couple years ago. I loved my old dryer but being in the garage for so long caused it to rust. I now have an indoor utility room so thankfully that will not happen to my new one but it’s not the dryer my old one was. There is no light inside it and the cycles are on timers rather than sensors so I often have to run the clothes twice to get them completely dry. And my dishwasher runs forever. All these new ideas for saving energy and water are useless. I have to flush my low-flow toilet twice to half get the job done not to mention having to scrub it more often, I took the valve out of my kitchen faucet because it took so long to fill a pot with water. If I’m going to fill a pot whether it takes 5 seconds or 5 minutes I’m going to fill the pot. Same amount of water. But I took the valve out because it kept clogging up and I got no water at all.
I loved all the swimsuit and swimming stories. I am sorry that I was too busy traveling to join in. Thank y’all for your kind words about our family activities this weekend. I hope there won’t be any more deaths for a long time!
I have finished boxing up a huge pile of boxes of doll stuff for the convention. Loads of doll furniture, doll shoes, a few dolls, doll clothes, on and on. I sent the photos to the lady in charge of the raffle and she is worried that there won’t be enough room for them all! I will still have stuff to sell, but won’t try that until September. August is crazy with MDCC and then company and then a wedding.’
Congratulations, Linda! You will have one happy doll! I would have picked the suit that you won!
Don’t work too hard. Must save energy for that wonderful convention! Have a great time. 🙂
Thank you, Joy, I have finished the boxes but now have to straighten the room back to use for my DIL and granddaughter coming later in the month.
Stay cool, we had humongous thunder and rain yesterday and supposed to have more today.
Dear Sissy, have a wonderful time at MDCC! That reminds me that I need to get my photos from UFDC to Jeanne.
I hope you meet all of your friends there. That is what makes conventions so much fun for me. Getting to hang out with my friends.
Dorothy, looking forward to your photos! I will take some too.
It would be such fun if will could go to both and see each other!
Dear Sissy, that would be fun! Where is MDCC next year? UFDC is in New Orleans.
Dorothy, they don’t tell us when the next one is until we get there for this one. I will let you know.
Jeanne, How great to have a swimming hole right in your yard. I had an ocean next to our house so I know how fun it is. It was nice to hear from some of the quiet sofa sisters when the news of a give away happened! I hope they will come more often.
I LOVED the fish in your suit story, I am afraid I would have laughed too! My brother used to put things down my suit, like mud and even jelly fish, not the stinging kind, but no fish thank goodness! Jelly fish were a problem certain times of the year, the stinging ones would come out and we would rush out of the water and rub sand on the sting. That really didn’t help. When we were water skiing some times one would get on the ski and get on a leg. Still, those times in the water are the best memories ever.
Congratulations Linda!! What a great happy surprise!
Sara can spend the last few weeks of summer at the pool in a new suit!
I love the purple one too.
Well…. to add. Me and my two piece suit in France (Côte d’Azur) was all fine and wonderful … but I had just recovered from Scarlet Fever!!! and I was rail thin and not attractive at all. We did eat a lot of baguette and that helped haha
My husband grew up in Michigan and they also swam in a lake in summer.
Yes, fish are sharp! Those fins are thick! ouch Jeanne, and not 😁 for you. What an awful memory, yikes.
Jeanne, your dad looks great!
Charlotte, such great news on Sarah, wow, excellent progress too. Surprising the protocol these days is to get you out of the hospital and home!! I wish her the best days in her new unit. There is a lot of strength and courage ahead and I will continue to pray for Sarah
Well, a big congrats to Linda and Sara and her new purple swimsuit. Can’t wait to see her wearing it with her friends. 🙂 And a big thank you to Jeanne for the drawing. I loved hearing all of the swimsuit stories.
When Jeanne was talking about “the pond” today, I pictured a little backyard pond about the size of a bathtub. Low and behold, it was lake sized. What a huge pond and with fish too. I’m sure that they kept down the algae and mosquitoes. Can’t believe that you actually swam in it though. You were brave. Any water where I can’t see the bottom is off limits to me. You never know what’s lurking down there. Such a chicken here. 🙂 That fish in the swimsuit would have kept me out of the water for sure. Great pic of your dad and the fish, and I would love to see the picture of you jumping off of that dock. Sounds like you had so much fun as a kid. 🙂
Temperature is already rising. Think we may hit 90. So, the heat puts a damper on our deck replacement work. Still trying to remove old screws at this point. And I found one of those elusive zucchini yesterday. I did not see it to pick it earlier so it is huge. It will go next door to our neighbor for her chickens. They love zucchini. 🙂
I did have to laugh at your comment about what might be in the water. I’m so like that and when I’m doing my rowing machine and have the videos on I’m always wondering what is underneath their boats because they row everywhere. I have swum in lakes as a kid and guess I didn’t think much about what was in the water with me and water skied a lot and waited in the water to be picked up after dropping the tow rope when we were finished, but today I will not go in water where I can’t see the bottom. And you sure can’t see the bottom in Galveston.
I can see us skipping along and looking at a lake and saying, “Nope, can’t see the bottom!” 🙂 That’s why Tahoe and Donner Lakes are so great. Crystal clear. But the drawback is the icy cold water. 🙂
Dear Jeanne, thanks for sharing your childhood photos. I always think that there is something “comforting” about looking at old black and white photos. They seem to be less flashy and more real. Maybe they just take me back to my childhood and prompt me to remember the people who are no longer here.
I think black and white photos are cool, especially when taken in winter in the snow, except when you are trying to tell someone what color your Confirmation dress was. It was white but had embroidered flowers in green and shades of orange on the skirt. Those and our Easter pictures I wished had been in color.
There are groups on FB that do colorizing for free. You post a photo and tell them what the colors were and volunteers do the work and post an amazing color photo. They can also clean up a photo and sharpen the images as well and even remove people you don’t want in the photo. Ha ha
Congratulations on your new swimsuit, Linda! Sara will be very happy to have \a few weeks of fun in it. You must share a photo.
Wonderful news on Sarah, Charlotte. So very happy the surgery went well and she is recovering.
Sissy, have a great time at MDCC. It sounds like a lots of fun. Looking forward to seeing your photos, Dorothy. Those of us who can’t attend can at least see the fun!
I went back and read all the comments about swimsuits and it reminded me of a swimsuit that someone gave me when I was a pre-teen. It was the prettiest suit made from kind of a puckered nylon. The thing is the front and back were lined but not the sides. I had it on one day swimming in our wading pool in the back yard and a neighbor’s uncle was talking to my mom. He remarked on how pretty the suit was but was that my skin showing through on the sides? After my mom told me I never wore the suit again.
A pond in your backyard. How great. Here in Texas ranch kids swim in the cattle tanks which sometimes are like small ponds and other times large metal containers. I’ve been reading lately where parents are buying the metal tanks for pools for their children because most of the swimming pools you can buy are of poor quality and damage easily. Sean had three of them in one summer and just stopped buying them altogether. As for the fish in the swimsuit, well I’m still rolling on the floor with that one. Too hilarious. I bet you had a lot of fresh fish on your table. Your Dad looks great.