Edna-isms, Part Thirty-nine

Mom in the hat.  She was in a church/community? play.

1.  "Cheek to jowl."  The common phrasing is "cheek by jowl" and refers to part of the face.  My mother used it like this: "We were working cheek to jowl."  So close together that our faces were touching--exaggeration, of course.

2.  "Going through ________ like gangbusters."  We might be "going through eggs like gangbusters" or "going through money like gangbusters" or "going through clothes like gangbusters."  In other words, we were using up some consumable resource really fast.

3.  "Gimme an hour!"  This was used in place of: "Gimme a minute."

A glance back

This blog post is a glance back at the past few months (minus L's graduation and my masquerade at Walmart!).

B and I on my first time ever at Four Corners.

J going in to get his braces off. That day, we saw pictures of J when his braces were first put on--he was half as tall and still a little boy.  Now he is (as my mother would say) "a tall drink of water."

These Easter eggs were loaded in 2012 but the Easter Bunny finally hopped by in 2013!  *Whew!*
Couldn't find the Easter baskets in a hurry--so trick-or-treat buckets were put to work!
The Easter bunny will need to work on that for 2014, I guess.

L with her swim coaches at the last [*sigh*] swim banquet.  Great coaches!

J and L at their last ever piano recital.  *Sigh* and *whew* at the same time.  Well, *whew* and *sigh* respectively.

Someone having a birthday without getting any older! I know "old" and that is not what I am!

My sister's family after we went through with T to get his endowments.

G family reunion in June.  This is the family's old sorghum press being demonstrated.  I have heard a lot about it but never seen it.

Another shot of the sorghum press with me snapping photos.

T took Spring Term classes at a nearby university and he took a difficult and consolidated summer college class.

Of course this is from the spring--no one would wear long sleeves when it is 110 degrees.
B and Rosie are pictured here.
B is busy between his regular job and his fire work this summer.

So, we're up to our usual tricks.  How about you?

Edna-isms, Part Thirty-eight

1.  "Eat/eaten everything that isn't nailed down.  This meant someone was pretty hungry.

2.  "Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back!"  This was something my mother AND father said anytime someone was the least bit self-congratulatory.

3.  "[Something] throws us into the middle of next week!" This meant that something completely threw us for a loop or threw us off schedule.