June Kellum

(from FaceBook)

~For the family- the old folks, yesterday! HAHA!~

(our 52nd anniversary)

We had a good day and had dinner at Red Lobster - then dessert at Tina's house_coconut creme pie! Yummy!

 

Our Anniversary dinner

 

June Kellum

(FaceBook)

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• Great dinner at Red Lobster!

   
  Toast and gifts at home

   (to another 51 years-lol!!!)

  
  And our Red Lobster meal-Yummy!!

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

  We had a very nice day and ended with an excellent meal.

   

    My sister and her husband joined us for dinner.

  Our waitress offered to take some pictures of us...lol-but this is the best of the 3 that she took....sooo... (just saying...)

  

  Oh, well, at least the day is recorded!!   :) 

   After dinner we went back to our house for coffee and cake and some good chit-chat!

  A very good ending to our day.

  
  

  Junie

  
  

Our Anniversary-#51

June Kellum

 

(posted on FB)

Today is our anniversary. All we have planned is dinner out tonight because we need to be around close to home with the baby due any time .
We'll probably have an early dinner at Red Lobster, and then back home

 (in case the baby decides to come early...before next week, as planned .)

Hey-this is 51 years of marriage for us-and we expect many more! :)

 

(June and Charles-early times) 

Happy Anniversary-Chris and Joy

June Kellum

 

 

(from my Face book page)

This is my son, Chris, and his wife, Joy! Yesterday was their 2nd anniversary and they celebrated tonight with a nice dinner out~'Red Lobster!'
Congrats!! It's so good to see you both so happy and looking forward to the new addition to our family! :) We're all excited and thrilled about a baby-after all these years! :)

"9-11" ~ 10th Anniversary

June Kellum

Sept 10, 2011 

(posted on FB for...)

*10th Anniversary*

Sarah's beautiful song is perfectly suited as the music for these images of 9-11 - a day in our history that none of us will ever forget.

As hurtful as pictures of this day are, I will always feel compelled to remember and review and reflect., especially on the anniversary. I feel we owe that to the people who lost their lives so needlessly on that fateful day 10 years ago.

  

 

Junie

Our Anniversary Pictures-2011

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We were disappointed that none of the pictures taken with my camera turned out.

(they look good reviewing them on the camera but will not upload to my computer) I hope there's a way to retrieve the pictures but so far I don't know what to do to get them uploaded or printed!

  :(

Here are a few taken by some of the family with their cameras, so, at least we have something from our day!

Really disappointed that we messed up on the pictures!! ;(  I wanted pics of all the family together!

Junie

Midweek Blues~ (for 4-27-11)

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My husband and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner at Red Lobster! Our meal was superb, as always!

  This dessert was the crowning touch - and served on this blue plate, makes it a perfect selection for a Midweek Blues post.

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Some other non-blue pics from our day!

My son got this picture of Charles and me as we were about to leave for the restaurant.

 

This is what we both chose for our dinner. Yummy!

~Lobster tails,shrimp,scallops -stuffed mushrooms -cheese biscuits -salad - cole slaw~

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~Our main celebration for our anniversary was on Easter Sunday, with most of our family here. We had a wonderful time together~

(a few pics of that day, I will post later)

Junie

"Longer" ~ Dan Fogelberg

~ For Our Anniversary ~

Love,

Junie

Mellow Yellow Monday~ April 25, 2011-

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 It' Mellow Yellow Monday

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  I hope everyone had a happy Easter!

Along with our celebration of Easter

we also had our  50th Wedding Anniversary celebration   with our family, yesterday.

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This was a gift from Tina, our youngest daughter. She found this in an antique shop and knew we'd both love it!  It is from a carousel ride.  We have the perfect spot to display it too. We'll put it on the wide window seat/shelf in our living room. (seen behind the rooster) 

I think the colors are perfect for my Mellow Yellow post today! 

  :)

Junie

Update on Charles- (and getting ready for tomorrow-)

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Have to say things are looking better tonight than they did yesterday morning-although you may not think so when you see these pictures...

OK~Yes-they do look bad but we feel it's the beginning of the healing process for C.'s injured leg!

This is the situation we had to deal with... the hit to the leg had caused this to happen!

( hematoma |ˌhēməˈtōmə| ( Brit. haematoma)
noun ( pl. -tomas or -tomata |-ˈtōmətə|) Medicine
a solid swelling of clotted blood within the tissues.)

 The pictures show the damage done...and we know it will not heal quickly but we do believe it will heal! It has to heal from  deep inside- outward!

This dressing will have to be changed every day for awhile...we hope not a LONG while.  It will have to be packed with the gauze  as the pictures show my daughter, Tina doing it!  She says she will come do it daily. I hope she can because I don't think I can do it.

You can see how deep this wound looks but actually, it's much bigger than the picture shows...it goes deep and wide (in a circle) under what we see in the picture.

Tina changing the dressing...

You can see by the gauze she removed how big the wound underneath is! 

This removal has to be done very carefully and slowly...with a liquid wound wash solution poured on as you work.

The new gauze goes in, wet with the same wound solution, and has to be pushed in deep.

Here Tina is packing the wound with new gauze.

I can't do that!!!

Charles says he feels a lot better now. He's been in constant pain for more than 2 weeks, so this is good to hear!

YES!  Things are getting better!

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Even as I'm showing you these bad looking pictures...The girls and Dan are decorating our dining and living room for our celebration tomorrow!

  :) We'll enjoy our Easter-
AND our 50th wedding anniversary party!

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Love,

Junie

A new turn...for the better-I hope!

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Just after my post this morning Charles got a call back from the wound clinic...They told him they had a cancellation and asked if he could come in today!  Of course he said yes and luckily Tina was not working today and was able to go with him!  I was thankful for that because I've been really stressed lately. Tina is a nurse and knows  the procedures and medical jargon....so I felt good having her go with her dad.

The wound doctor did exactly what Tina has been saying he needed to have done right from the start. The wound was opened and  cleaned out. Under the scab that had formed was a cavity that was filled with congealed blood.  Charles said it was  hard to believe the amount of old blood that was  removed from the hole.  He said  the doctor used  an instrument with a little spoon-like thing on the end of it, and kept dipping the stuff out!  It was very painful, even though the area had been deadened with shots. After it was cleaned out the wound was packed with a LOT of gauze...and this  will have to be changed daily. Tina , hopefully, can help with that...and show me how to do it,also. It has to be packed into the wound- not just put over it!  :(   (Well, maybe you didn't need to know all that- but I don't leave out many details,  :)  )

The trip, of course, is off-for at least 6 weeks .  

Tina was able to call and cancel our hotel reservations -and to get our $$$ refunded- even though  the rules were that it was not refundable if canceled.  Because it's a medical emergency they are bending the rules for us!

We will plan another trip when C. is recovered from this!  We'll have our celebration with the family this Sunday!  :)

Things are looking up!  :)

PS-You may remember last year on our anniversary Charles ended up in the hospital from another accident...and he developed pneamonia. We had a trip planned then also.We ended up losing  our $$ on that one.  The hospital gave us a surprise anniversary dinner, which was very nice!  :) At that time Charles joked...."Well,next year I might just break a leg!" True story!! LOL  

Do you think he planned all this???

Nahhh- has to be just bad luck... right?

Junie

Update: 4-22-11

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Sorry I've been absent all these days,but Everything is beyond my control around here.

Charles' leg wound is still very bad!

Not easy to see your doctor when you need to (even though he's been your personal doctor for more than 20 years) ...and they say "Go to the emergency room!" OK-That would be fine....except nothing is done there either.

  C.finally saw his reg doctor again today (a pre-set  follow-up appointment...he had called the office early this week, hoping to get in sooner, but his call was not even  returned) 

 ....So-NOW they see the wound needs opening up and recommend he go to a wound center for treatment...  the wound is backed up with stale blood ...and has been this way all along...Every person who has seen his leg, had to see this condition from the start-because it hasn't changed at all!! He called and is hoping to hear back and get something done today!  That's doubtful!

Our anniversary plans seem 'out the window,' though  C. still thinks we can make the trip!  I don't see how that will happen with things as they are. The $$$ spent for the hotels for 4 nights is 'down the drain,' as far as I can see!  C. says we can't lose that much $$$ so we'll make the trip!

OH BOY!  Just got a call back from the wound center and they can't see him until Monday morn-and we were supposed to leave early Tuesday for the drive to Savannah-about a 5-to-6 hour drive!  So I'm insisting, the trip is out of the question!

This has been a most stressful time for us all- and painful for Charles, and our plans were doomed from the start! I'm so angry and bewildered at the ineptness of the doctors he has seen and TRIED to see and failed! -and I'm especially 'put out' with our family doctor who has not been interested enough to give Charles the attention he needed,relying on his associates in his practice to see him and evaluate his condition and decide on what to do for him.

The kids have planned an early anniversary celebration for us here on Sunday- so we will at least have that!

That's the way it is at the moment!

Junie

Shadow Shot Sunday~ 2~6~'11~ Charles in the shade at Cedar Key

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Shadow Shot Sunday

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This is my husband  Charles, in the shadow of a  tree at Cedar Key, Fl. This was in front of a charming little gift shop.

I believe this was 2 years ago on our 48th. anniversary. We had a little get away trip there to celebrate our day!

Cedar Key is a small island  off the coast- no more than a 2 hour drive from our house. We enjoy going there and I hope we can go again before too long, if only for a day trip.

The Island and town were named for the many Cedar trees that grow there. It was determined that the trees are actually 'Juniper' trees and not 'Cedars.' 

( ..  appropriate, since one of my nick names is Juniper! The ironies of life tickle me! )

   :)

In April we will celebrate our 50th anniversary!

(YES!! That's a long time!)

We jokingly add,about this time of year,"If we make it to April 27th."-insinuating- we might get a divorce before then! ;)

(only in jest-don't worry!)

We have made no plans yet as to where we might go or what we might do this time!

Whatever...it will be something simple! lol- That's what we are-and simple pleasures suit us fine!

Junie

Sad 8th anniversary

 Remembering Mom on this sad 8th anniversary

~1909~2003~

( my Mom blog )

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The Log House 

(posted Jan 2006)

...in my young years we lived in several different houses - in Alabama and later in Florida.(I remember living in 7 different houses, in Alabama, alone, in my early years)
This is one I remember well, as it was kind of scary place with woods all around. I remember being with Mom at the spring where she washed our clothes. We were always aware of the possibility of snakes around that place. Snakes were one of Mom's greatest fears.
She told of an encounter with a rattle snake, when my brother was a young boy!(he's 13 years older than me) Between the two of them they managed to kill it! Thankfully, I never had any close calls with snakes!

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The Log House…


Nights in the log house were scary,
with lights that were extinguished with a puff of Mama’s breath
-not a switch on the wall.

After our prayers were said,
in which we went through the list of all our loved ones to be blessed
and kept safe through the night,
Mama would then look under each bed,
making sure no SNAKES had found a way into our house!

…Just an extra measure, of Mama’s-to keep us safe! :)


Remembering Mama…
on
Jan.2004


Love,
Junie

Remembering Dan~

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Remembering Dan ~

1951~2007

 

(view this on Youtube for more info)

Junie

Lazy December day...

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Today has been a lazy day around here. I should have been doing something toward my decorating or cleaning or baking but not a thing has been accomplished toward any of that.

 ...Here it is, nearing dinner time, too, and what will I do about that?? Probably not a whole lot...there's always soup to open-or a sandwich to put together-or a frozen pizza!

LOL- We'll survive!

We had visitors for a couple hours today. My sister, Joy, and her husband Mike  came and brought a lemon meringue pie. We had coffee and pie and did a bit of chit-chat. We enjoyed their visit very much.

Joy and I have made tentative plans to take flowers out for Mom on Monday. Hope we can manage it because December is getting on!  With all the doctor appointments we've all had lately it's been hard to arrange  

other things.  Time seems to fly by so fast!

Haven't done much the past several days-except did a little shopping for myself this week. LOL- Well I needed some new jeans and tops so bought myself 6 tops and 3 jeans! That's the only shopping I've done so far...

and I feel very selfish in buying for myself when I should be buying presents for the family!  Oh! But it will get done-I promise! (the other gifts, I mean)

Also my son and daughter-in-law will celebrate their 1st. anniversary in one week- so more shopping for me! Wow!  This year seems to have flown by in a flash!!

 

We were out a couple nights ago

to dinner with Chris and Joy.

  We stopped by our down town square to see the lights! I hadn't seen the square decorated this year!  It was quite festive and pretty.

For the season we have a Ferris Wheel in operation!  Chris and Joy took a spin on it. Charles and I  didn't.  I got dizzy just looking up at it!
  :)

(My pics are not very good but I'm putting some on anyway!)

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OK-Soon I will have to tackle my zillion boxes of Christmas decorations and get a tree up!....but not tonight...

Maybe -just maybe- I might make some 

'Magic Cookie Bars' tonight!

We'll see!

Love,

Junie Rose

Sepia Scenes_Sept 16, 2010 (Going way back with Alli)

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*Mary the Teach* 

 

is celebrating  her # 100 post in this photo meme!

Won't you come join in the fun?

Congrats Mary-

and much thanks for this fun meme!

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I searched for hours to find this group of pictures from my granddaughters kindergarten class. (or maybe it was 1st grade)

 I remember this little project had to do with '100 items.' The children were to make a little parade on wheels with 100 items of their choice - glued to something that had wheels!  :) It may have been to mark 100 days in school..( this was in Feb,1997)...I just can't remember the details. (and Alli is away at college and I can't ask her  :)  )

Look closely and you can see that Alli used 'Happy Meal' toys to make up her float for the parade! Luckily for her she had 2 brothers before her who had consumed a lot of kid's meals before she came along!  She might have been shy a few without their help!  :)

(But maybe NOT!)

 

 Oh! I miss those fun days!!

Love,

Junie

AKA-Ginga