I’m running a day late to post, per usual as of late! Sorry! Much like Grandma Rose, I’ve shifted into busy mode too, trying to finishing my last class up before December hits us and I have to write a
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 34
Grandma Rose never fails to entertain and educate me – usually on plants but today she taught me a new phrase I’d never heard before. “Stoved up.” Have you heard it before? It essentially means that you’re “bruised up, crippled
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 33
Week 33 of Grandma Rose’s journal found both heartbreak and pain – on Friday, August 13th, her older half-brother Vernon “Penny” Klingensmith passed away. Penny was the son of Mary Elizabeth Eccard and Daniel Minard Klingensmith, who died just a
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 27
I was really surprised this week that there was no mention of the 4th of July celebration in Ashville – gathering at Grandpa Archie’s for the parade, spending the day together eating, the kids going to the Ashville park for
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 22
What an utter and joyful surprise this week from Kim! I opened my mail to find one of Leonard’s roosters! I was going to save sharing this happy little surprise for later when Grandma mentions that he’s making them again