Painting The Town Red For Friday

"Friday Shoot-Out's" subject is "PAINT THE TOWN RED" so I'm starting with a little love.The best feeling in the world is L~O~V~E............



Cool Daddy-O Gordon over at fridayshootoutsfromfloriday.blogspot.com got to pick our assignment this week. This one is going to be a blast.

Anything RED. Heck, you might even find a redneck to shoot........the possibilities with the one are infinate almost. Great choice Gordon my friend!!!



Thank you so very much for all of your prayer's for my daughter. I can't tell you how priceless it is to have such kind friends who are so supportive. She did lose her baby and is of course inconsolable. I love her so very much......with everything in me and it is tearing me apart to see her like this.

When baby hurts..............Mom hurts. She is my heart.


"You're gonna miss this..you're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are the good times, so take a good look around. You may not know this now...........but you're gonna miss this".
~~~~~Trace Atkins


Steady On
Reggie Girl

A Letter My Kiddos And My Mom

My darlings,

I can't believe that another year has passed and it is already Mother's Day again. It seems just like last week that you were running around like banshees and I was taxi-ing you to baseball, Kung-Fu, ballet, birthday parties, band practice and summer camps.

You took a nap and woke up grown and I can't believe it at all. Now Miss Nan is going to make us grandparent's soon and we are excited beyond belief........new life in our family that will be cherished and adored.

I long for you every single day even though you are a phone call away.......


Mr. J. You loved to wear my sunglasses and broke at least a hundred pairs. I just bought more.........


This is one of my very favorite pictures in the world taken about 20 years ago. We were all so young and happy...........


Dearest Mom, this year will mark 33 years since you've been with our family here on earth. I remember when we would get together like this at your Mom's, our Gran's, when we were little kiddos. We were loud, boisterious, wild and somewhat destructive as a group and you laughed it off..........most of the time. I often wonder what you would think of me today as a grown woman.........

I always like to imagine that you and Dad are dancing to Glen Miller or Tommy Dorsey on a cloud still watching over us and probably still having a laugh. I hope you know that your grand kiddo's would adore you and I know how excited you would be that we are going to have a little one running around soon. Please watch over out little one from up above as only a great-grandmother can do. And please.........help me with all of this because I have no idea what is in store for me other than great joy and much laughter................



Happy Mother's Day to all my blog Mom's. May your day be filled with love, joy and laughter. Prince and I are going to worship together this morning and then have Auntie Mom and Cousin Sis and the family over for a barbeque today. Maybe play horseshoes and love being together as family.........

****"Hey diddle, diddle the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such a sport and the dish ran away with the spoon".****


Steady On
Reggie Girl

Saturdays in Newnan....Cars Shows & Love

Another beautiful day here in Newnan and we just couldn't stay indoors. Our church had a car show today so we went to help a little. Don't you just love spring? Speaking of love, there's love in the air at our love nest......always....


1974 Corvette Stingray.............


1927 Ford T-Bucket..............


1958 Chevrolet Apache truck.........


1955 Chevy Bel-Air.........my Dad used to have one of these. His was sea foam green and white. I learned to drive a column shift in that old car. What a precious memory............


Speaking of precious, this is a quick snap of my Prince and me. That verse from 1 Corinthians chapter 14, verse 4 always comes to mind when I think of Prince.....
"Love is patient, love is kind".......He's the best dude in the universe and I love him more than any woman has ever loved any man........ever.........


Hope your weekend is filled with LOVE, joy and laughter and.......

Steady On
Reggie Girl

Staying Young - Maybe It Will Work?

Worth the read and soooo self explanatory.......

I've kept this for a really long time under the title "Staying Young".

I hope that you will enjoy this as much as I do.



1. Try everything twice. On Madams tombstone (of Whelan's and Madam) she said she wanted this epitaph: Tried everything twice...loved it both times!


2. Keep only cheerful friends.
The grouches pull you down. (keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches;)

3. Keep learning:
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain get idle.
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop."
And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

4. Enjoy the simple things.


5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.


6. The tears happen:
Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. LIVE while you are alive.


7. Surround yourself with what you love:
Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
Your home is your refuge.



8. Cherish your health:
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.



9. Don't take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second time.



****"Ob la di, ob la da life goes on....on
La la la la live goes on"****
~~~~Dave D Dozy Beaky Mick and Titch~~~~


Steady On
Reggie Girl

Friday Shoot-Out....Cemeterie's and Graves....

Welcome to our Friday Shoot Out. I'm not even sure what I want to say this morning. I'm not even sure that I know what to say but what I really NEED to say is at the bottom of this post. I've been very sick and yesterday we found out that our dear friend Barry from An Explorer's View Of Life is sick as well. Barry picked our subject this week for the shoot-out and he picked cemetaries. I'm not sure what our subject will be next week. I don't even know if I'm going to do this project next week..............

We have several very old historic cemetaries in Newnan. Many, many husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, dear children, young and aged, soldiers of every war that this country has even been involved in, immigrants and natives have had their earthly body laid to rest in these beautiful cemetaries. As I walked through taking these snapshots, I wondered about each one of these folks. What kind of people they were, what kind of life they had and wondered if they were happy. I saw the beautiful flowers and little trees that were planted or placed as tributes to loved ones.

One that was so faded by time and weather that I could barely make out said: "Ever this day be at my side to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen".

I hope that you will enjoy these pictures and much as I enjoyed taking them....


























The only other thing that I feel compelled to say today is this:
If you feel that there is something out of the ordinary going on with your body, please seek the guidance of a physician immediately. I have been the world's worst about this in the past and now I'm paying for it. And please, stop worshipping the sun!! Please stop abusing your body because that's what I did. I thought that I didn't need sunscreen because nothing would happen to me. That is also what some of my younger family members think. Now? I have Melanoma that went down into one of my glands. Thank God it has been removed but I now have to take 6 weeks of Chemotherapy and wouldn't wish that on anyone and they still won't listen. Trust me......that pretty tan isn't worth looking "cute" for and it's certainly not worth dying for.......



******"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late".******
~~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Steady On
Reggie Girl

Found...One Glass Slipper That Fits!!

Very, very rarely do I do a really personal post. I love to promote the town that I live in and love and talk about a cause so dear to my heart the Humane Society. I love to tell stories about my awesome family and friends all of whom provide me with much laughter and entertainment. Today, at the urging of my dear friends Debby @ The Pink Bird House, Loida @2L3Bs and Ducking Little I will tell the story of how I met and fell in love with my Prince. It is a sweet story. A story of true love and passion and how I found the love of my life. I don't really share this story with too many people. A few people assume to know how Prince and I came to be, but of course they never really asked us. So okay, Debby, Loida and Ducking Little, here goes.........

I met my Prince while playing Trivia at one of our little pubs in our town. He had just moved here to America from London with his job at an international airline and I had just moved here to be with my family after leaving a very abusive relationship with what I could fit into my best girlfriends car in the middle of the night.

I was with a few friends that I knew and Prince was sitting on the other end of the bar having a Guiness and a few wings. He kept blurting out the answer's to the trivia questions and I was absolutely appalled and insensed!! I finally wonered doen to where he was sitting and said "Look buddy, if you'd like to play trivia how bout you join a team? If you'd like, you can join ours but this is pretty serious competition here. We're playing for 50 chicken wings and my team would appreciate it if you'd stop shouting out the answer's because we're winning okay?". I was really nice about the whole thing and he apologized profusely but didn't join us. I had no clue that he had just moved here a month ago and didn't know anyone in town other than the people he worked with in nearby Atlanta.

It took him about 3 weeks and he finally approached our table and asked to join our team. Of course we said yes and a great friendship was born over St Pauly Girl, wings and a little random trivia. We played every Thursday night for months. Never once did I know that my Prince had designs on me. He never said anything out of the say or even put his hand on my knee. We enjoyed each other's company and would tell each other our weekly joys and woes and then part ways. Poor guy I used to tell him about my dating catastrophes and occasionally we'd meet for a little dinner or a move, strictly as friends because we were comfortable with each other and didn't have to put on airs.

One day, out of the blue Prince showed up at my back door. I opened the door and Prince looked frantic and said "I have to talk to you Reggie....right now". I invited him in thinking something was terribly wrong. He was so nervous that he was sweating and I thought he looked a little green around the gills. He said, and I quote........"Reggie, I'm in love with you. I've been in love with you since the first time you came to tell me off during that trivia game. I doubt that you feel the same way but it's been grating on my chest and I had to tell you today". I was flabbergasted and didn't respond immediately other than to say "I had no idea...I need to think about his for a bit. I've never thought of us that way".

I suppose as you can tell, I did begin to think of us "that way" and we've been together ever since. I call him my Prince for many reason's.......


He takes me to my beloved Gulf of Mexico where I was born and raised in December....




He gives me the most thoughtful and loving gifts. This is this year's Valentine's Day gift. Look at that sweet card with the little boy kissing the little girl....Prince always gives me cards with picture's of little kiddo's on the front and a sweet love message inside........



He doesn't laugh at my thoughts and dreams. Every day he treats me like a Princess. Every single day he not only tells me that he loves me each and every time I talk to him or see him. He doesn't care if I cook or we go out to eat and he doesn't make fun of me when I wear my Hello Kitty slipper's into the conveniece store to get a cold drink or something we forgot. He treats all of our children the same....with great gentleness and uncondtional love. He doesn't say anything when I drag home another stray pup, kitten or bird. He loves my family and treats them with respect. Cinderella has nothing on me............Every day I'm so thankful that this man was sent into my life. He's not the one that I can live with....he's the one that I can't live without........



(I want to acknowledge a birthday to someone who is dear to my heart....BARBIE!! She turns 50 today. She still looks 25 doesn't she?)


************"At last....my love has come along. My lonely days are over over.... and, life is like a song"*************
~~~~~~"At Last" by Etta James~~~~~~



Steady On
Reggie Girl