As Time Goes By…..

As I am all nice a comfy on my bed with my screen door open to feel the nice cool breeze and hear the rain (I know I may be the ONLY person in Alabama with a window open on this cold wet Sunday afternoon) watching the birds come and go to the feeders. I am so sad that I did not get to take our fall ride over Sand Mountain with Mrs. Billie Crumly. The Lord called her home June 22, 2014. Seems like only yesterday to me.

The trip last year with Mr. John and Mrs. Crumly was very nice and beautiful but the leaves this year were really much better than last year because of the rain we have had. She would have loved to be in the car riding around just looking at God’s beauty. But, she is getting to see all of God’s beauty, with God. How about that for great looking fall colors. Eternity of fall leaves and beauty.

I just wanted to share with all the blog readers, and there are many, some of the photography I have been blessed to do the last few weeks. Mrs. Crumly has really been on my mind so strong this fall with each and every photo I have posted here. I still want to pick up the phone and ask her, just one more time like she has not told me 5 times already, what plants do I need to bring in and what is ok to leave out for the winter. I think just maybe I have that figured out now. We will see what is still alive next spring.

Oh and that wonderful bread or Friendship Cake she could make. I can just smell it now. That would be so nice for us here in North Alabama on this cold rainy day with a hot cup of coffee.

I remember our talks about how I just did not see butterflies or moths around my home anymore. Well she took care of that after she passed away. My yard had several different butterflies and moths for the first time ever. 

When Mrs. Crumly started the blog she was afraid no one would read it. “What if I cannot think of enough things to write about every day,” she would say. With all due respect, I knew she would always have something to write about each day. Then as time went on she was so thrilled to be getting 400 hundred hits a day. FOUR HUNDRED hits a day, what a thrill. Four hundred quickly became 1,000, yes ONE THOUSAND hits a day. WOW! She would just cry when she would call me and tally up the numbers every night at 9:30pm. And you would have thought an earthquake was coming when she had 2,000 hits in one day she would be so excited. 

On behalf of myself, Donna Crumly Harvey, Beth Crumly Littlejohn and Mr. John (the man who makes everybody walk the line, and I do mean er’body as Aunt Bill would say) this little web blog that Mrs. Billie Crumly started on June 1, 2013 with the very first post being, “Reminiscing With A Friend” and 490 post later has had no fewer than 4,218 hits A DAY since October 28, 2014. OVER FOUR THOUSAND HITS A DAY!  WOW!

 

I am not much of a math genius but my calculator is and it told me that in the first 8 days of November, ‘Country Living’ web blog received 43,125 hits.

I will say it again.

43,125 HITS ON MRS. CRUMLY’S WEB BLOG, ‘COUNTRY LIVING’ IN THE FIRST 8 DAYS OF NOVEMBER.

Do you think Mrs. Crumly is bragging to F. Scott Fitzgerald or Mark Twain?  (ha ha, a little Sunday afternoon humor, or not?)

I want to thank each and every one of you, the readers, for your patience when a new blog is not posted every day. That is just not possible with our daily lives to be lived. Country Living has readers all over the world so I have found that in leaving a blog post up for more than one day, seems to still be getting thousands of hits a day. Donna and Beth are two very busy, always on the go kind of ladies. And as you know, Donna is also nursing her husband back to a healthy life after lung surgery. Beth is not only teaching school but she is also in school. Me, well I never know just what each day will bring. I am blessed in so many different ways. Blessed with such good friends and family. Blessed with the ability to make each and every day just what I want it to be, most of the time. Living with MS and other health issues, as some of you know, can and will change a day in an instant.

As a famous radio disc jockey, Casey Kasem, would say at the end of his program, “keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.”

I like that. Stay humble in life but keep reaching for higher goals, just like Mrs. Crumly did with the web blog. Enjoy your surroundings and love all the life you possibly can in every hour you are given.

God Bless you all and have a GREAT week.

P.S…..again I am not a writer or even think that I am. I apologize to all my Auburn University professors that tried to teach me the art of writing, spelling and using the correct form of the word. I could blame it all on my MS, but my MS knows it is my fault not his. Ha Ha!

I will borrow three of quotes, quotes that I heard a thousand times or more in 3 years at Auburn University, which one of my favorite people/friend/professor at Auburn University uses after his e mails and on his Facebook page, Mr. Ed Williams.

“Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise.”
— Strunk and White

“To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.”

Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

And now all those sick, horrible feelings of being graded are coming back up. So please don’t hold me to any of those journalism rules.

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