grace grits and gardening - ramblings from an arkansas farm girl

Connect the Crazy Dots

December 20, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Take a look at the following list of random things.

Can you guess what they have in common?

squirrels
driving a car
brilliant sunset
gallon of white paint
a lagoon
Hillary Clinton
camera
eggs
skyscraper
shelves and shelves of Little Golden Books
installing a kitchen countertop
rocks
an easel
pine trees
Craig Barnett
moving boxes
Lady Gaga
Arkadelphia

Give up?

Scroll

down

see

the

answer…

Answer: These things/people were all in my dreams last night!

Do you have crazy vivid dreams?

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little bit crazy. – Ray Charles

Musical Pairing:

Dreams, The Cranberries

Those Barbie Dream House Years

December 19, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Vintage Barbie Dream House - Christmas Memories

Those Barbie Dream House years were melt-in-your-mouth easy. Santa didn’t have to spend one moment pondering what to get my sister and me for Christmas. As long as he dropped Barbie and a few of her latest accouterments down our chimney—a shimmery ball gown, a groovy convertible or a hip Malibu Ken to ride along on her adventures—we were set for the year, and Santa was free to fly to someone else’s rooftop.

A few days after Christmas when Momma began to count the seconds until school started back, we loaded up our new Barbie things and headed over to Little River to visit our cousin Lesa and her new Christmas Barbies.

Yes, our Barbies were cousins too…

For hours we played in the living room around Lesa’s Christmas tree while Momma and Aunt Lavern camped out in the kitchen guzzling Folgers and inhaling banana pudding or whatever pie still sat on the countertop after all the Johnsons had feasted. (Aunt Lavern made the BEST banana pudding, the best everything for that matter…)Do you girls want some pie? Aunt Lavern called out.

No, we’re too busy, Barbie’s getting married!

December was always the month for Barbie weddings (mainly because Lesa hadn’t yet chopped off all her new Barbie’s hair…)

As Barbie walked down the aisle with a Ken she barely knew, Momma and Aunt Lavern lamented the details of their next diet which would start January 2, right after black-eyed pea and cornbread day.January was always the month for dieting.

6 more sleeps…

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.