I'm watching Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Love this movie. Love Paul Newman. Love Elizabeth Taylor. Love that there are folks in it named Gooper, Sister Woman, and Big Daddy. Most of all, I love Burl Ives. He was my cousin. To be more precise, he was my Great-Grandfather's second cousin. He was also the voice of the snow man in those old stop animation Christmas specials from when we were kids...Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, maybe? I'm just glad there is no family resemblance.
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I'm gonna pick me a choice woman and I'm gonna smother her in minks and choke her with diamonds. Boy, I'm gonna be happy.
My peonies are going to bloom...not soon, but it will happen this spring. I planted them 4 years ago... Four Years! Thought they were dead on more than one occasion. Now they are putting on buds. I am thrilled!! I love peonies. Cabbage Roses. Call them what you will. I adore them.
I got the sweetest hair bows in the mail today from Second Time Mommy! One for BabyGirl and one for Bitsy. Bitsy's is clipped onto a pretty pink head band in case she's as bald as a cue ball...although I've decided she's going to have hair. Lots of hair. And she's going to sleep through the night very early on. And she's going to be a social little thing. Easy going. Sweet tempered. Calm. Happy. Yes, I've settled it. She's going to be just like her mama!
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I was so worried about my peonies. I thought they would be lost in the frost. (Unintentional but enjoyable rhyme). So far they seem fine. Who knew they were so hardy!
Actually..... Burl was Your Great-Great Grandma Catt's cousin.
Grandpa Catt said he was just "a little to worldly".
He must have favored the non related side of his the family.
I don't remember seeing that face in any of G&G Catt's desendants.
I say AMEN to all you want for Bisty.
hehe.. on the family resemblence comment. I don't think he's related in any way but my grandfather before he passed told me anytime he saw pictures - that my father-in-law looks just like Burl Ives. Grandaddy was a big Burl Ives fan I think he meant it as a compliment. J's dad thought it was funny thankfully.
I'm sure Bitsy will turn out just as you plan. And if she does you will someday have to share the secret on how to sculpt your children prebirth. Because that sounds like a handy skill to know.
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