tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51451868325588921572024-03-18T13:19:23.474-05:00PURA VIDAPura Vidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423379787232688763noreply@blogger.comBlogger824125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145186832558892157.post-14404108355904535152019-12-17T12:39:00.000-06:002019-12-17T12:44:13.683-06:00CIGAR INDIAN QUANTUM MIRACLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome to the <a href="https://www.visitamarillo.com/listing/kwahadi-museum-of-the-american-indian/498/">KWAHADI MUSEUM</a> in Amarillo, Texas</div>
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Recently we were invited to an event called The Cowboy Christmas featuring</div>
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Michael Martin Murphy</div>
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MMM is a great friend of the old west Cowboy and Native American Indian </div>
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and he was a good friend of my mother</div>
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Each year he has this event and donates his time and the proceeds to the Kwahadi Center</div>
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~we were delighted to be invited~</div>
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but as I walked into the museum that evening, I realized the last time I had been to the center was for my mother's funeral ceremony in February. The day before (December 10) was her birthday and I had not expected the emotion I would feel walking in again</div>
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<i>for many years Mr. Pura Vida and I had been on the look out for a nice "something" for his library/office, maybe a barber pole or chair, a cigar Indian??? we knew when we found the right thing we'd get it)</i></div>
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as we entered the gift shop at the center before the music---I saw this</div>
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I have visited the gift shop several times but this is the first time I had ever noticed this very cool and perfect cigar Indian...so I asked the clerk if it was for sale and she said you need to speak to the gentleman behind you</div>
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Mr. Charles Richey..director of the center</div>
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ME: Is this carved Indian for sale?</div>
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HE: well, I have had this carving for many many years and no one has ever offered to purchase it</div>
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Me: well, I have been looking for one for many years and I'm very interested in it</div>
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HE: it belonged to a very dear friend of mine, who without her this museum wouldn't even be...</div>
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her name is Charlene....</div>
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ME: as I interrupted him...she is my mother</div>
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yes that's my man taking the cigar Indian to my car a few days later</div>
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that's our cigar Indian on our hearth waiting to decide where it will be </div>
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when we picked up the carving I looked down at the counter and saw the amulets my mother had made and donated to the gift shop </div>
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This is her buckskin dress...I wore it to her ceremony and here it has been since I took it off and laid it here February 14, 2019. It will soon live on at the Kwahadi Museum</div>
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I understand that many people would believe the whole situation of me seeing the cigar Indian for the first time ever and finding out it belonged to my mother and never knowing she even owned a cigar Indian, would think this could be explained as a random occurrence and somehow scientific...quantum physics</div>
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that person is not me</div>
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miracle of the cigar Indian as we tell it over and over</div>
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December 10, 1934-February 14, 2019</div>
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Pura Vidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423379787232688763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145186832558892157.post-25065120039560531942018-05-11T16:56:00.001-05:002018-05-11T17:06:20.881-05:00MY NEIGHBOR EDY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Miss Entrekin" was everyone's 4th grade teacher...I barely remember her, but her daughter Edith lived in her mom's house on Dressen Street for as long as I can remember.</div>
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I have known her all my life, but she was my neighbor for the past 10 years.</div>
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She recently had a stroke and moved in with her daughter Crystal...she sold all of her belongings and her house too.</div>
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Until I went to her living estate sale, I didn't realize just what a very cool person Edith was. I mean, I knew she was neat...but she is REALLY NEAT!!</div>
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She was so talented and creative...she made pottery, she sewed, she painted, she gardened, she cooked and she read....she was smart and feisty.</div>
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Her house is awesome and so we bought it. I'm not exactly sure what we're going to do with it, but today...I want to hang on to it tight.</div>
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When she went to live with her daughter, I put her in my phone as "Edith"</div>
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yesterday "Edith" called and then she left me a text...only it wasn't her...it was her daughter calling to tell me that she had passed away.</div>
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I happened to be wearing her favorite denim shirt that I took from her closet</div>
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S.A.D. am I</div>
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I am really sad</div>
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I took some of her pottery that she made by hand...I just love this little dish in my window</div>
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her kids called her mummy....I love that so much...it is so sweet to hear her called that</div>
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I'm not sure what I thought when I was going through all her things and moving them across the alley from her cool house to my cool house....</div>
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Look how beautiful she is...and her sassy earthy soul is woven in my life...I will cling to the things this beautiful woman made with her hands and gathered in her home...</div>
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When we first began this project, hopefully our last big one for awhile,</div>
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The marble has been chosen and quite possibly on it's way!</div>
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well...yes, yes I do have art hanging...mirrors too! I know I have to drive Mr. PV so crazy! But getting the cart ahead of the horse kind of helps me not be so forlorn in long projects. These antique mirrors have been in my guest bathroom for a very long time! </div>
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a very rustic hewn beam with a very chandelerias chandelier!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;"><i><b>I was so excited to be able to sit in a nice hot tub and just relax and while I was there, all alone and soaking in my tub, Honey read (the following) to me. I just put her on speaker phone and she read to me and I think I will always remember it!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">I think reading out loud, words, emotions, old stories...well...they <b>are</b> unforgettable. It's one of the sweetest things I've ever heard about...this sweet moment between grandmother and granddaughter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">The following is a poem that my Aunt Irene wrote about her Papa, and Theodore August Pshigoda's great great great grandfather and name sake...this is why the story is so sweet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; margin: 0px;">Grace: My Aunt Irene, Theodore Benton's oldest child
and one of 4 girls was a wonderful poet. All of her poetry was about her
family and her son who had a printing company in Dallas, published a little
book of her poetry and sent each of her children a copy and Gene (my brother)
made me a copy and sent it to me. I get really inspired from reading her
poetry and I think you would greatly enjoy so, when I can get around to it, I
am going to make you a copy (about 50 poems) and send to you. She dearly
loved her Father (Theodore Henry) and wrote about him and her Mother
often....also her children and grandchildren. I am enclosing one poem
that she wrote about her Father, and my Grandfather - Theodore. It is
obvious from her poems that he was a good man and great father. Everyone
loved Grandpa Benton and he was affectionately called "Toad or Toadie".
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inundated with orders on my eBay store.
I do want to tell you that I am working on my present to that sweet little
Baby Boy. I didn't want to make him a little quilt just like his brother,
Henry. So I started a different one, and have been swamped and not able
to work on it very much....but I will give you a clue: It is Hiawatha ABC
and has blocks representing Native American items to match the alphabet.
Also, I will send him a little turtle amulet which is for boys. I
received a picture of Theodore and Little Theodore, I think which came from
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memory of my Grandpa Benton (Theodore Henry). I loved him so much and he
would teach me Choctaw words which I remember some. One sentence I
remember (spelling is what sounds like to me): <b><span style="font-size: large;">Katcha, me au, chum ki
pully - which means: "Where are you going Sweetheart."</span></b> Grandpa
Benton was also so happy and jovial and loved for his kids to come spend the
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was always a farmer and/or cattle trader. He worked hard all of his life
plowing and planting crops. I think he raised a lot of cotton crops.
He and Grandma always had a garden and she canned and cooked a lot.
She always went barefoot and wore an apron with a pocket and kept her
money tied up in a hankie and pinned inside the pocket. They would sell
eggs and milk. They would raise and kill their own meat also. We
would go nearly every weekend and spend with them at their farm near Plainview
- as well as all of their other kids and their children. People would be
sleeping all over the house. Mother and Daddy would sleep in a bed and
me, Gene and Eddie would sleep at the foot of the bed with our feet going
upward. Wonderful, fond memories. Grandpa and his boys would play
dominoes and the grandkids would play monopoly, etc. It was later that Grandpa
Benton started calling me "Many Feathers". He always said I was
smart and talented and like a bird with many different feathers. He and
Grandma always sent me little presents. A couple of my favorites was a
little porcelain doll and another was a little gold ring with a yellow bead
center. I always looked forward to gifts from them which was not always a
holiday or birthday gift.....just a gift.</span></div>
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as a young man, went to an Indian School - called "Old Goodland" as
well as my father. My daddy was in charge of looking after a bunch of
little boys who were going to school there. Grandpa Benton, as a young
man and even older in school played ball. He was a very good player and a
"star of the team". Gina's Uncle Gene could probably add a lot
information about Grandpa Toady Benton. I never thought of Grandpa Benton
having a drinking problem, but I remember lots of times that he and his sons
would get a little "tanked up and have a good time". As a
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With one phone call, in one fail swoop, in years and months and weeks and days</div>
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I am almost as in love with the state of Oklahoma as I am New Mexico and count myself so fortunate to be but a drive away from each one!</div>
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There is so much history to the wonderful state of Oklahoma...a wide open, big blue sky and fertile soil country all its own!</div>
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The name Oklahoma is based on the Choctaw Indian words <em>okla humma</em> which translates as "red people." </div>
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Recorded history for the name "Oklahoma" began with Spanish explorer Coronado in 1541 on his quest for the "Lost City of Gold." Oklahoma became the 46th state on November 16, 1907.<br />
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The <strong>Trail</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tears</strong> was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern U.S. to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory.</div>
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Origin of the lyrics. The phrase "<strong>Boomer</strong> <strong>Sooner</strong>" refers to the Land Run of 1889, in which the land around the modern university was settled. <strong>Boomers</strong> were people who campaigned for the lands to be opened (or tried to enter the lands) before passage of the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889. It is said that the <b>Sooners </b>found their land and staked it before the land rush started with the single cannon shot into the air.<br />
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The <strong>Oklahoma</strong> <strong>Land</strong> <strong>Rush</strong> of 1889 was the first land rush into the <b>Unassigned Lands</b>. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the present-day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the US state of Oklahoma.<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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This past summer, our entire vacation was a drive through the state of Oklahoma and we loved every single minute of it!</div>
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The history is wonderful...so much to see and do...but perhaps you might know of Oklahoma for a very sad moment in time </div>
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If you are lucky enough to take a drive through Oklahoma..give yourself at least a week to see it all....the most beautiful country you can imagine! If not, it is worth the flight in! If you don't have time to do that...then take advantage of technology and take a virtual vacation!</div>
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The bathroom was a five piece bathroom in a very small space and truthfully over the years I came to really like the cozy feel of it...but it was so dated it was coming back into style!</div>
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New Mexico pottery...well...even if you don't want to own it, you must admit it is very beautiful...<br />
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Of Tewa heritage of the San Ildefonso Pueblo in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, Maria Martinez became world-renowned for her black-on-black pottery</div>
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Barbara's granddaughter and Maria's great granddaughter</div>
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we walked in to grab some lunch and I spied a pot that was sitting dangerously close to the edge of the shelf. I asked our waiter if it could come live at our house...(was it for sale?) He went to a lot of trouble to contact the owner of the Café and make arrangements for us to purchase it, pack it up and take care of our lunch all at the same time! <br />
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we took a few days to learn more about this Iconic American Artist</div>
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she was born in Wisconsin </div>
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her home in Abiquiu is now a historic landmark and one of the most amazing places I have been in my life. Since our return...I cannot read enough about her or look at photos of her and her home</div>
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She died in 1986 at the age of 98 and her home is exactly as it was the day she left to go to the hospital in Santa Fe, where she later died.</div>
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Her estate was worth 70 million dollars, yet the favorite things in her home were rocks and bones</div>
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many believe she was a lesbian, but he assured us there was absolutely no evidence of this </div>
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she lived alone in New Mexico for many many years loving him only</div>
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how tragic and bold and soulful and refreshing </div>
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a simple way to make shade in the hot New Mexico sun</div>
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a drive to our neighboring Land of Enchantment</div>
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My favorite place of all that I am now <strike>slightly</strike> obsessed with</div>
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if you are into seeking peace and beauty...these areas are for you</div>
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He's not quite 2...his 2nd birthday is late February<br />
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Just the other day, out of the clear blue sky, as plain as day, he called me</div>
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many many years ago, before Grace ever even considered children, I had a dream that she had a little boy who called me <br />
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but <b>before</b> that....</div>
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there were two precious little girls who call me POPPY...one is 9 and one is 3<br />
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and another young lady that came into my life when her daddy married my Grace--she calls me POPPY too</div>
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now another one who will call me POPPY in a couple of years<br />
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December 10 she will turn 82</div>
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December 4 we baptized our 4th grandchild in Lubbock Texas</div>
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he was the fourth one to wear this heirloom gown</div>
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even though it is very feminine, our children decided long ago that their children would all wear it</div>
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good job for the dads of sons who went along with that tradition</div>
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Betty Beatrice was the 1st 9 years ago December 7</div>
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today she is so tall and skinny, it might still fit her</div>
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next came sweet Perrilyn Hazel on December 13, 2013</div>
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Henry August December 15, 2014</div>
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Somebody I love is having another birthday and I am in the process of making him a new crown!</div>
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This weekend we have chosen a little hide-a-way that is tucked into the trees in Taos</div>
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I love the suggestion when it says in Psalms 139</div>
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the miracle of life that really happened 9 months ago</div>
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When I was a little girl and would travel to Amarillo to visit my grandparents</div>
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Amarillo is just about halfway..in fact Adrian, Texas is the very exact halfway mark between Chicago and LA on this famous and historic route</div>
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Little did I know how much those little hotels impressed upon my design taste, especially the swimming pools. The pools were all small, with fancy umbrellas and crisp blue water</div>
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Mr. PV and Cute Carpenter Man are working around this 100 year old elm tree</div>
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moving this brick patio was a very big and very hot project...we moved it under the covered kitchen area and replaced it here with gravel</div>
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because my man likes to cook outside! He likes to catch fire to meat!</div>
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so I began looking on Pinterest for ideas to paint/stamp/stencil and found lots of very cool ideas</div>
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perfect for Pandora, paint, and some rum drink that starts with a P...oh yes...</div>
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Pineapple Rum...with an umbrella!</div>
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after I completed the "tile" and after I ordered stencils from 3 different ebay stores and after I took the question to Instagram...I think I might like the "tile" just the plain way that it is</div>
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celebrating at The Daily Grill at the Tulsa Hyatt</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">BUT.....when he added TULSA to is list for June 24</span></b></div>
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yes....there we be...me and my James Taylor loving gal...35 now...</div>
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and we still love us some James Taylor! Tomorrow and Forever!</div>
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Did you know that cardinals (and other birds) feed each other?</div>
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The last few days I have seen a pair of cardinals at my feeder and witnessed the male hopping over to the female and gently placing a seed in her beak. I could not stand how precious this was!! </div>
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I began to read a little bit about it and you can too at the link above.</div>
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a tidy home that smells like supper when he walks in...laundry tumbling...baby sleeping..fire burning, flowers on the window sill....</div>
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you make life worth the living</div>
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romance in the most simple form</div>
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<br />Pura Vidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04423379787232688763noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5145186832558892157.post-44539021623660987272016-05-19T13:31:00.001-05:002016-05-19T13:31:25.418-05:00SWEET BEE STUFF<br />
I am learning so much stuff in the middle of the night, when I can't sleep and get on my iPad and read about bees.<br />
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This week, I've been learning about the problems of beekeeping and I found this so fascinating that I want to share with you.<br />
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It seems that bees can get mites and from what I understand, they are much like a tick or a flea...a pest that they can control on their own, but can get out of hand in some cases...but here's the coolest part that still blows my mind...to treat them...you dust them with powdered sugar!<br />
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<a href="http://www.yellowbirdboutiquetexas.com/"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: x-large;">YELLOW BIRD BOUTIQUE</span></a></div>
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may I introduce you please?</div>
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both have jobs</div>
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have a teen, 8 year old, 1 year old and June Carter Cash lab</div>
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teach Sunday School and volunteer for other local events and charities</div>
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own and operate Yellow Bird</div>
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are under full scale home remodel and have been eating out of a crock pot for months</div>
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build custom cool stuff for customers like the light below</div>
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go to auctions on the weekends to find cool stuff for customers</div>
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are about to launch a vintage lumber yard</div>
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and never <b>and I mean never</b> ask anything of anyone</div>
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this family is one cool family</div>
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and I am so proud of them!</div>
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I hope you like the link to their online store!</div>
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