The Bow Belle

Yeah, yeah, I know "Sweet Georgia Brown" is the Harlem Globetrotters' anthem (I love the Globetrotters), but I tend to associate it with March Madness too.  Go figure.  Anyway, March 19th is a special day in my family.  Uncle From St. Louis has a birthday that day (as does his twin, Uncle Man-Child), and for some reason Mama always has to bring up the swallows in that stupid song.  In recent years the swallows HAVEN'T returned en masse to Capistrano, but I digress.  This year March 19th is special for another reason, as it's the first day of March Madness.  And when you're me, that means a hair bow.  This is Bow #17, one of JoJo Siwa's bow club bows.  It came with some other odds and ends that I'll admit to wearing. I'm only now learning that these club bows have numbers on their little silver medallions.  All JoJo Bows come with these silver thingies sewn on, but the club bows are numbered. A cursory glance at Bow #8 revealed that it too is...

Yep, I used to cheer that during March Madness.   Mama and I had a soft spot for University of Kentucky already, so imagine our delight when Sister announced she was going there for her masters studies.  Lexington, Kentucky is a good little jaunt from Malden, and we couldn't be there with Sister when their beloved pug suddenly died, or when she or Brother-in-Law were sick or lonely, but it was worth it.  Sister and BiL both loved it there, to the point that they hoped to return after Sister's doctoral studies were complete, but it didn't work out that way.  As I touched on in this post , Sister got a two-year gig with University of Arkansas, and while it's not Kentucky she and BiL do seem happy there.  Sister has spent the past two weeks helping birth calves in Batesville, by the way, and there's no end in sight as four cows are still pregnant.  Last night it was six, but two dropped overnight.  BiL says that one calf had complications and Sister ...