More than you ever wanted to know about Alabama native Joe Watts
I’m getting ready for a trip to Montgomery to discuss the Alabama Byways program and to work on budgets and logos–not my two favorite things in the world. Still, I love the people and the concept. Not a lot of time for a post today, so thought I’d dig up a great old photo of Mama and her siblings. This photo would have to be from the late 1920’s or possibly the very early 1930’s. From left to right: Uncle Bud, Aunt Phebe (in front), Aunt Sadie Lou, and Mama.
Well, I’ve had an idea on what to do with this blog–or a companion blog, actually. When in World War II, my dad wrote lots of letters home to my grandmother and others. They are collected in a box in the closet. They are filled with wonderful memories and funny comments (my favorite to date is his clever hints to send boxes of goodies–particularly boxes filled with CANDY–emphasis his).
I’m planning to start adding a letter a week until they are all cataloged in (maybe more than once a week, maybe less). I think this should be a pretty interesting job to tackle and will be interesting to more than just the immediate family. I love old letters from anyone. These are priceless.
It will be a little while before I can get started–the letters are still at home. But keep checking!
Wow. We took down the Christmas Tree today. Hauling the decorations up from the basement makes it seem like we have a million ornaments. Once they get on our tree, it seems like we have 10 or so. Putting them all up and taking them back to the basement, again–seems like we have a million. We have boxes and boxes, but the tree seems bare. Oh well. We’ll get more before they go off sale this winter.
It is always fun to take the tree down, though. I think I have at least 1 picture of each of our trees. I’ll have to check. Happy New Year to everyone!!!
Well, most of them anyway. I planted all sorts of bulbs all around the house today. It took about 2 hours of constant work, but it will be beautiful, I hope, in a couple of years. It was lots more work to plant them than it was to dig them up, though. Ann’s mom gave me a game for the Playstation 3 (Call of Duty 4), so I’m off to play that shortly. First, I have to run to the store to pick up some cheese for our pizza tonight. Made homemade sourdough bread for Christmas yesterday and pulled enough dough out to make a pizza tonight.
Well, Christmas has come and just about gone. Ann and I had a great time in Octagon. Going down the day before was wonderful–I got a touch of the OCD and dug about 150 bulbs–not even sure where I’ll find a place for them all, but will do that this coming weekend, assuming good weather. Most excited about the few bulbs I dug that came from Mama’s mother’s mother’s house. That’s pretty cool.
Ann combined two of my loves for a most excellent Christmas gift–a beautiful, handmade Damascus steel kitchen knife. Really, really beautiful and amazingly useful. Love it. Anyway, here are some photos from our trip to Octagon. Merry Christmas to everyone!
Christmas 2007
Ann and I are getting ready to head to Octagon for the annual Watts Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve. It will be different this year, but it will still be good to see all the family and enjoy some good quality togetherness. It always seems better to me when we are all together. I’m really excited over some of the stuff Ann and I have picked out as gifts. I hope everyone else likes them, too.
Here are some memories of Christmas Past:
Christmas 2002
Christmas 2003
Christmas 2004
Christmas 2005
Christmas 2006
Christmas 2007
Merry Christmas to Everyone!