Category Archives: Pete and Amy
MOM’S SANCTIFIED VERSION OF YOU TUBE
Mom, if there is a way you can know what I’m doing today, I want to say thank you for all the valentine boxes you helped me make (you made) for school, and I want to say “You are my … Continue reading
AMY’S PAINTINGS
My mother had shown an interest in drawing portraits as a young married woman. I have a few hand drawing from those years, but she put them aside for family’s sake until after we were are all gone, and my … Continue reading
MY DADDY
The big boy with the hat was my daddy about twenty years before I arrived on the scene. 😀 My daddy, his sister and brother (Oda, Tony). I loved my daddy; yes, I did. He was a big ole soft … Continue reading
REMEMBERING DADDY
November 28, 1913 – The day my daddy (Pete) was born. Had he lived he would be 103; as it was he lived to 63. He died from a heart attack, unexpected by those around him. After he was gone, … Continue reading
POOR? NOT ME!
“I only worked one day last week and Mrs. A. called me yesterday and said she didn’t need me this week either. So I guess you are going to have to order me some shoes and some underclothes. I am … Continue reading
AMY
Cleda Amy Riddle Rodgers Venter I saw online that there were “no famous birthdays” on June 20, 1913. Well, come again? There was at least one famous one! One extremely important to me. Cleda Amy Riddle – this lovely little baby girl … Continue reading
GRANDDAD MAKES THE MOONSHINE!
Nope, it was nothing like Joshua making the sun shine still! (If you don’t know that story it is in Joshua, Chapter Ten, Holy Bible.) Granddad bootlegging whiskey!? In November I wrote about my grandfather in Meeting the Lord in the … Continue reading
A MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED STORY
Vibrant asked us to write about why we were given our user names. We were to write less than 50 words I did that on his blog, but decided to get a bit nostalgic and wrote “what might have been” … Continue reading
PETE AND AMY STORY – #4 Quote Challenge
I’m starting my Three Quote Challenge with a well known quote from the Bible, I Cor. 13:4. “Charity suffereth long, and is kind . . .” by relating an incident from Pete and Amy. Amy had a skillet . . … Continue reading
PETE AND AMY
Amy, my mother, was right-brained, a creative/artsy kind of person; she liked decorating, painting, sewing, and writing. She was proud of Pete, my daddy, for his left-brained thinking/his handwriting, his mathematical abilities, and his straight rows of broomcorn. I … Continue reading
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