Painting, Porch and A Star

I sure hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and Gobbled till you Wobbled!

I know you all have to know what I did AGAIN on Monday!

Yep, painted.

Last time I made a trip to my brothers he had a guy at the house cutting down trees for where he is going to have his man cave garage built. While there, the guy also prepared the tree into lubber, I think it’s called “ plating”??? No clue. But when the guy left Ray had boards of lumber. In processing the tree to lumber there were a couple of nice thin pieces with the bark still on the other side. Soon as Lori, SIL saw them she knew I needed them. Monday, I put my stamp, or should I say brush to them.

Craft booth paintings for sure.

Over a week ago I painted these reindeer but on Monday I finally got around to putting the finishing touch on.

Then I threw together a couple more angels. 

Wow… when this show is done I am going to crash. 

I have not taken five days like last yr to put out my Christmas. I got this done and so far, this is it. 

Oh but I did make a couple of Dollar Tree plastic bowl ornaments and hung them on the porch.

Now, let’s put the paints down and out of our mind and let’s go to some “learning” time.

I really don’t expect you to know the answer to this question but without looking it up, do you know who Ellen Muriel Deason was?

Haha, didn’t think so. 

She was born in 1919 and died of a stroke in 2012, at the age of 92. 

She was born, raised and lived her life in and around Nashville, Tn. Made her life singing. 

This sweet woman was Kitty Wells. That name might not mean anything to some of you, but she was very well known in Nashville. 

You see I was sitting here on Monday evening, watching The Rock in a movie and remember that he was not born in Tn. But he did live here and attended two of the high schools here, graduating from Glencliff. That got my brain going down a rabbit hole which seems to happen often with me. I started to wonder just how many celebrities were born/and or lived in Tn. at anytime. You know, all you gotta do is ask the internet.

And there is the rabbit hole!

Wow, I had no clue. 

But in that search I saw Kitty’s name and remember my first and only meeting with her. One of my long time friends, Barb and hubs Phil, hung with two other Phil’s. Lol… and they all rode custom made bikes. Anyway, one day one of the Phil’s had to run to a friends house to pick something up and that friend happened to be Kitty and her hubs. I was not a country music fan at the time, and Kitty would have been more in the line of the right age for my dad to be listen too, but I knew the name. What did we sit in her living room and talk about? That has been way to long ago, late 70’s. But I remember she was very nice and pleasant. 

Anyway, she was married at 18 and her and hubs stayed married till he died in 2011. 

Her biggest hit was “wasn’t God who made honky tonk angel.”

She was the first country solo female artist, first female to be number one on the charts, first to sell one million copies, first to headline a major tour and to headline a syndicated tv variety show. 

And yet, totally down to earth.

So now you know, 

Pam