Mr. Mcgreenie And His Meats....

  For your reading pleasure....

I made this for my sister Katie to read to the amazing Ace !  I used to have 3 book clubs, one for each of my siblings . When they were really into it I did 3 a day....it slowed down though, it is pretty hard to make 3 different books a day. The longest lasting one was Dog Club ...I did it for 10 years. Katie saved lots of them...Ace will probably get to see those also.  I am glad there is a little kid in the family again!

If you are wondering how things are going....not the best, I have an infected knee...today it is looking much better!  Antibiotics seem to be working, I was worried... it was and still is very painful.  I had a little scratch on my knee that healed about a week ago and apparently some germs decided it was like a hot tub in there or something and had a party. Really Creepy if you ask me....I could make a horror picture book about it but I don't think I will, I did make a book for my brother called Germs inside you one time when he was sick I guess that was sort of scary but it had a happy ending and the germ died and had a funeral but no one came.  That was that.

 Please keep praying for my knee.

Thanks to everyone for all the kindness lately. :)

What I did Saturday...

...I listened to public radio,
I had some tea.
I read some Charlie Brown books....

 These books were given to me by some nice boys at the community yard sale this spring...I asked them how much they wanted for them and they said I could have them for free!   Anyway....those boys  bought some wooden canes and put on quite a performance in the grass.. they were running really fast and hooking each other by the ankle and right when you thought the ankle was going to be busted they did somersaults....I thought they seemed like monkeys...fabulous extraordinary acrobatic monkeys.  

Their show ended when they were spotted by their Dad....after one got the cane a round the other ones neck, he did not cry ...he grinned!

I think he must of been part monkey, or rubber.

The books brought back their show in my mind.

I found myself laughing at some of the pictures in the books but when I was done the pictures in my mind were far funnier.

Today....I looked at the books again and well...visions of monkey boys filled my head.

It is good to laugh.

I have had some sort of nasty bug for days but you know, laughing is good for your bones..I can hope it slaughters germs.

Beautiful Joe

I recently read the book... Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders , and now it is a favorite!

This book is the autobiography of a dog called Joe, he was rescued by a young boy ( an evil man cut his ears off right to the scalp, and cut his tail off  in a fit of rage )and is brought to live with a family where he very much becomes Miss Laura's dog.

While he has many adventures including saving a family from a bad robber who is planning to burn down the house, the main purpose of the book is how one ought to be kind to animals .

The book is rather old...I am not sure when it was originally published and the people often talk of poor dumb animals but I do not think it was meant to mean foolish or stupid it simply means that when cruelty befalls an animal they are unable to speak of it.

Part of this books goes into whether animals go to heaven or not and it goes into things that are not at all Biblical and it clearly states them as legends...Such as when Adam was thrown out of Eden the only animal that would be his friend was a dog.  If a young kid reads it you might want to make sure they know what is not biblical.

" Boys and Girls , be kind to dumb animals, not only because you will loose nothing by it, but because you ought to; for they were placed on the earth by the same kind Hand that made all living creatures." - Beautiful Joe

If you are fond of.... The Five Little Pepper books , Martha Finley, Black Beauty or Hesba Stretton you will much enjoy Beautiful Joe.

A wonderful book !

Martha Finley

 Some of you know who she is and some of you do not.

 For those of you that do not, she was the author of the Elsie Dinsmore and Mildred Keith books.

I have been a fan for quite some time , though I don't like everything she wrote I appreciate it. 

About eight years ago I was reading Elsie's Girlhood at my great- grandmother, Nangie's house.  She asked to see what I was reading so I showed her to which she responded with a loud " OH MY GOODNESS!"  She had read the very same book when she was sixteen.

She said she never would of thought her great-granddaughter would be reading the very same book that she had read so many years ago.

  I showed Nangie my drawings which were at the time mostly of Nancy Drew, she suggested I draw Martha Finley but I didn't until today ,mostly because I did not know what she looked like....

but today I found two photos of her on the internet and used both of them as a sort of guide.

A Book I Really Relate Too...The Truth About Stacey

 Yes, a Baby-Sitters Club book.  Why do I relate to this one so much? Well you see Stacy is on a special diet like me, and a medical problem which at first she tried to hide...also like me.

She also had some people that when they did find out think she was contagious....I have been there too.

She also is tired of seeing doctor after doctor.....
Though we don't have the same problem, we seem to have a good deal in common.

I recommend this book...for anyone that is a younger sort of person going through medical stuff ( especially if it means a diet change).