The Young and the Restless - MESSAGE BOARDS

Good morning. I was up til 4 a.m. finishing my book on Lettice Knollys. She was Queen Elizabeth I's cousin. Doubly so. Anne Boleyn's sister Mary was Henry VIII's mistress and had a couple of kids by him. She also ended up with Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, E's long-time love.
When Mary I was queen, Lettice's family had to go live in Germany for their own safety & there she saw Anabaptist women being executed. They bound their arms & legs, then cut off their feet & threw them in the river to drown. The Catholics preferred to burn them but the Lutherans & Calvinists liked drowning (after torture). My stomach heaved & I thought it could not possibly be true but reading up on it, it probably was. How can any religious sect think they are making points with God by torturing & murdering innocent people just for differing on one or two points of religion (in this case, mostly baptism)? They cynically called the drownings "rebaptism". They were infuriated that the Anabaptists felt adults should be baptized when they made the conscious decision to worship God, even if they were baptized as infants. The Baptists still do and use total immersion. I was baptized in the river when I was 10 or 12. Mama says they will baptize as young as six if the child seems to know what he/she is doing. One time we were driving to Grandma's & there were a lot of people & cars gathered around a dark little creek, at the bridge. We were afraid there had been a wreck or drowning but it was just a "bapsousing". I would have been afraid of snakes in that water but it was wonderful being baptized in the salt water river with the sun shining down. The preacher pinches your nose together with one hand and lowers you beneath the water with the other. I had a special white dotted swiss pinafore dress my mother had made for the occasion and white sneakers.
Anyway, I am late for my urology check up so have to run. Have a good day.
Odd how we are still seeing death & mayhem over religious differences via the jihadists.

A belated Happy Memorial Day to one and all! I hope you hugged a vet! I sure did.

I guess you can now call me Grandma! Our foster daughter delivered a beautiful 7.5 pound baby girl on the 28th after 25 hours of labor. All in a day's work for a Marine Col. Her name is June Bernadette ... she was actually due on June 1 but chose to make an early entrance. We are so proud of them.

We missed the actual delivery because we were down at the Bay but got word early this morning with pictures. What a lovely beginning to the summer.

We're giving them their space to get settled in at home and will visit after that. I am so looking forward to holding that little girl.

Cheers to all who dealing with their own battles. One day at time.

Guess who came for a visit? Eric Braeden! (To NC, not to me personally. ) He was here for a movie he made called The Man Who Came Back. He says eastern NC bbq is the greatest (it is!). He says our state is beautiful & hospitable (it is!) & he says the Outer Banks remind him of Northern Germany (?). He was in the lovely, ancient town of Bath.He told a story about a church woman who had her parish praying for him when his character was having problems on Y&R-they thought it was a church member! He says there are 150,000 actors in Hollywood and only 1% make a living at it. (Yikes). Sounds like an interesting guy. (Thanks to N&O & their writer Adrienne Johnson Martin).

Good morning. Ham biscuits and strawberries and blueberries. Aldis had them for 0.99 & 1.49 a pkg, respectively. What a bargain. I bought blueberries to freeze from a friend year before last & they were $3 a pint & he said that was his price for family. And they were pretty but so sour.
Peruvian Ignacio coffee. Russian Caravan tea. Enjoy. Yesterday was heat stroke weather, almost, but today is raining. A good day for me to get some more garden work done. I like playing in the rain as long as there is no lightening. Nothing better to cool you off than a gentle spring rain. Lots of daylilies in bloom but the pollen will get wet so I probably will not be able to do any pollinating today. Oh well, more & larger flowers if I don't have them setting seed pods so early. I see some more 7 inch blooms out there.
The Asian tiger prawn has moved north into our waters (global warming means warmer water too). They are up to a foot long and weigh up to 11 ounces. Wow! Unfortunately, they will probably cannibalize the native species, which are smaller & sweeter but I guess if we get lemons, we make lemonade. I e-mailed a friend & asked him to let me know when they start having them to sell at Lonnie's Fish House. He says they are selling it. I am crushed. It has been there ever since I can remember & they would let me go in their cooler to choose what I wanted. Sometimes they have unusual fish, like pompano, but I usually buy shrimp, flounder, trout, mullet, etc. They always give you plenty of ice & their ware is very fresh & bright eyed. When my Daddy was still alive, he provided us with all the sea food we knew what to do with. He had a shrimp boat, mullet nets, flounder gigs, oyster tongs, skiffs, clam rakes, everything needed. When he got too old to handle shrimp trawls (very heavy with big boards attached to keep them on the bottom where the shrimp are)he would set crab pots. They kept me supplied with crab meat, already picked out, for years. What a luxury. You don't really appreciate things like that until they are gone. Now crab meat is about $16 for a little can, & usually full of shell & cartilage that has to be picked out. And crabs, once so plentiful that people just stabbed them & threw them overboard when they caught them in their nets (they tear up the nets), are now a scarce commodity in many areas.

Good morning to all...I am missing my mom and dad on this Memorial Day as they died three weeks apart... married for 54 years...so hard, but know they are in Heaven together...
Love to hear about the flowers.
My grandmother "Bubbie" lived on top of a mountain in West Virginia. Down the long hill to the road she had rows and rows of flowers. She would be out in the sun in her bonnet working on those flowers... they were beautiful...I miss her very much...That's where I grew up till the age of 9...when then my mom and dad moved to Detroit to work in the Ford Factory for the next 45 years...they retired from Fords...
Such memories on Memorial Day...