Birthday Girl

A Class Act

Last night my sweet Grandmother, Julie Memmott, passed away. She was one of the loveliest people I have had in my life.  As we often do when a loved one passes on I started reminiscing about all the memories and wonderful times I shared with her.  My earliest memory of her is  her driving me past the hospital that I was born in.  It was just down the road from her home and she told me about that day and how she was there and saw me born.  That is really amazing considering it was 1963.  She pointed out the window of the room where I was born in the hospital and told me my birth was one of the most beautiful things she had ever seen.  She told me this story every time I would come to visit her and I never grew tired of it.

Some other fond memories:

She had the longest telephone chord I have ever seen.  She could cover her entire upstairs with that phone.

She loved pretty things.

Fresh peaches in the summer at her house that were amazing.

She would say "Pardon my green gloves."

She had the really expensive, fancy jelly fruit slice candies and she would get the box down from a hidden spot and share.

She would sing "I'm just a little petunia in an onion patch".  She would sing this as if she was the petunia crying her eyes out.  It was hysterical.

She had a great laugh.

She loved Keds and had them in every color.

She gave great arm tickles.

I loved to go shopping in SLC with her.  It was a day of shopping then out to lunch.  I will never forget the time when I was in college and I went to visit her.  She drove to the ZCMI Center and parked in the parking structure.  When she pulled into the space and hit the cement pillar she threw the car in park and yelled we're here now lets go shop.

As a young woman she took me to meet Ardeth Kapp and had her sign a book for me.

She always encouraged me to practice the piano.  She would say, "Some day you will live in a place where no one else can play the piano at church and they will need you."  I didn't think that was possible but it did happen and I played.

She put butter on vegetables in very large amounts.

She had beautiful hands.

She made me feel like I surely must be the grandchild she loved the most.

She had a sign in her house that read' "Choose you this day whom ye will serve:..but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."  And she lived it!

I love her and am blessed beyond measure to have her for my Grandmother.

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Love this great little cheat sheet.

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Good Book

Hey, out there have you read any good books lately?  Please share.  I am on the hunt for a good read.  I would love some suggestions so I don't have to plow through all the choices out there.

Don't be shy.  Please share.

Sunday Snapshot

Macro

Trying out the new Macro Lens. 

Not the typical Macro Lens.

It a Lens Baby Composer.

With Macro Kit

Here is a more Vintage look.

I have so many things I want to try with this lens.

Stay Tuned.

In the meantime check out their site. 

Next on my list.....Fisheye Optic

To Kindle Or Not To Kindle?

I love reading.  I love books.  I LOVE having a Kindle.  I remember years ago when the hubby came home from work and told me all about a demonstration he had seen on digital cameras and the possibilities.  I told him everything that was wrong with that idea.  Well we know how right I was on that one, don't we? Much like the digital cameras, when I first saw the kindle and other eReaders I thought there is no way that these are going to catch on.  Let's face it there is nothing like the feel and smell of a good book or the fun of browsing through the books store looking for the perfect book.

Then I was given a Kindle as a gift from my techie hubby.  I have to say it has been one of my favorite gifts of all time.  I will now address the questions I most often get when people find out I have one.

"Is it hard to read?" --  No, it is like reading a book but instead of turning a page you push a button. Oh and should the text be too small for your liking you can make it larger. Also best part about Kindle is that there isn't glare on the screen like on an iPad.

"Don't you miss the feel of a real book in your hands?" No, it is actually lighter and easier to handle than a book, especially if you are reading outside where pages would be flapping in the breeze. 

I take it with me everywhere.  I always have something to read.  A book, a magazine or if I'm being lazy I can play a word game.

I have classics ( many are free),   the scriptures, children's novels, Readers Digest and  a lot of other books.  

I browse books on Amazon and if I think I might be intersted in them I can save them to my wish list to purchase at another time.  I have found that the books are fairly priced.  I have only had two books that I wanted to buy that were not available on the Kindle.  They were both books for my book club that are very old and somewhat obscure.

Because of a very unfortunate event I no longer had my Kindle and have been without one for about Three weeks.  Today my new one arrives.  Can't wait.  I have been missing it.  Where are you Mr. UPS?  Oh and all my books that I had on my previous kindle are still in my Amazon account and will be reloaded onto my new Kindle.  I wonder if it will remember what page I was on in "Someone Knows My Name".  Well, if not I guess you can't have it all.

So do any of you have a Kindle or some other eReader.  What's the verdict?