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JO JANOSKI resides in Pittsburgh, PA, USA with her husband, Ron.
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Thanksgiving 2011
Thanksgiving was planned to be at my Mom's this year so Glinda and I left home early and decided to go by and visit her sister Mary before going on over to Mom's.
If you look close you can still see the remains of Glinda's "Black Eye".
Glinda and I had just arrived and my brother Dino had to go outside and move cars for better parking. We were watching the Macy's Parade and I knew he wouldn't want to miss Snoopy so I snapped this one right quick. This one's for you Dino.
The photo above and the next four are us sitting down to a feast. Turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, homemade rolls, home grown sweet potatoes, cranberries, fresh home made cole slaw, cranberry ice and topped off with fresh homemade pumpkin pie and chocolate pie
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Posted: 06:36 PM, November 24, 2011 by IJK |
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Pulling Trees
Yesterday the wife and I traveled to our oldest son's place north of Rogersville, Mo to help him try to remove some live tree stumps from a dry pond. The video speaks of our success. IJK |
Posted: 02:12 PM, September 3, 2011 by IJK |
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Mom's 80th Birthday Celebration
We celebrated my Mom's 80th Birthday 4 days early on Saturday, August 13th and was able to achieve a surprise. We all met at El Imperial Restaurant in Cabool, Mo just before noon and had a great meal together. We have been eating at El Imperial since the 70s and it was a natural choice for us to gather to celebrate her birthday.
Present was my Mom and her husband of almost 47 years; my brother, Dean and his wife Kim; our oldest son, Francis and his wife Jennie and children, Emma and Little Ike; our daughter Mitzi and her husband Beaudreaux and children, Skeezix, Flo, Flossie and Lil; our younger son, Jacob and his wife Amanda and children, CrackerJack and Bucky.
We were also lucky enough to have our niece, Taylor, to be our waitress for the occasion and of course she did an excellent job. |
Posted: 12:53 PM, August 16, 2011 by IJK |
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Pumpkin Competition - entry #4
Taken 8-6-11. The pumpkin just keeps growing. Yesterdays rain and cool down is helping.
IJK |
Posted: 08:08 AM, August 6, 2011 by IJK |
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Pumpkin Competition - entry #3
The Pumpkin just keeps growing and growing and growing. We can see growth every day. This was taken on July 27, 2011. |
Posted: 06:40 PM, July 27, 2011 by IJK |
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The Roofer's Tails
The roofing job began when Mtn Grove Building Supply delivered the shingles and other supplies around 10:00 am on Friday, July 8. The crew (family) was scheduled to begin on Saturday morning, July 9th. The truck driver that delivered the 126 bundles of shingles placed them on an elevator and I staged them across the roof. We were finished with that chore around 11:15.
Saturday the 9th, I and Boudreaux were on the roof by 6:30 am after I was done milking and we began tearing off the old roof. I had to leave at 7:30 to clean up and attend my Mtn Grove VFW meeting and I was scheduled to cook for the members again. Following the meeting I received a phone call to go by Mtn Grove Rental and rent two airgun nailers for roofing. The folks there were very nice and fixed me right up. I rented two airguns, hoses, and compressor and purchased two boxes of coil roofing nails as we had 40 square to get on.
I arrived back at the roof around noon and the roof was just about clean and we started with the roof edge and tar paper and then we were ready to install the new shingles. We had quite a crew working. Brother-in-law came and cut holes in the roof so we could add roof vents as there had been none before. Around 4 I had to quit to milk but the others kept on keeping on. After milking it was back on the roof for me. We finally had to call a halt at dark.
Sunday, the 10th found Boudreax and I on the roof again at 6:30 am. The rest of the crew arrived later and we attacked the chore again. Oldest son did not arrive until later because he had to get us some plywood at Home Depot. We had found some sheeting that had to be replaced. Again on Sunday we worked until dark.
Monday morning found us getting on the roof again at 6:30 in the morning and it was once again hot, too hot to be there. We could only stand to be on the roof for 10 or 15 minutes and then we had to get off and in the shade drinking water and iced tea again. People were getting tired from working and the extreme heat wasn't helping any when oldest son used the circular saw and cut through the cord. Things were tense for a few moments but no tempers were completely lost. Things did get quiet and we rested a few minutes again. Once more we worked until we could no longer see.
Tuesday was coming and we were getting anxious to get done and get the rented equipment back home as it costs money on a daily basis. Boudreaux and I were on the roof by 5:30 on Tuesday and we allowed Skeezix and Flossie to help us and were done by noon.
The slide show and video were taken during various stages of the project.
Boudreaux and Skeezix are proud to be nailing on the roof cap.
The title of the story was taken from the fact that my sons, son-in-law and I all received burns on our tails during the roofing project.
Cheerily
IJK
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Posted: 07:09 PM, July 22, 2011 by IJK |
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Pumpkin Competition - entry #2
The competition is moving right along. I have a pumpkin growing. It is not quite as large as a bowling ball yet. If it is to reach 500 pounds it will have to gain a lot of weight on a daily basis. I will try to post a progress photo once a week.
Cheerily
IJK |
Posted: 07:07 AM, July 20, 2011 by IJK |
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Trip to Veracruz, Missouri
The wife and I had not been to the swimming hole known as the Mill Pond near the site of Veracruz, Missouri for several years when I made up my mind that we were going to go one Saturday after a particular long hot week. Our youngest son and his family accompanied us as our other two children were already committed to other things. Jacob and family came and picked us up just before 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 16 and off we went. We did not plan on spending the day and were back home by noon. I have posted a slide show and a video of our expedition. I hope you enjoy.
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Posted: 01:29 PM, July 19, 2011 by IJK |
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Pumpkin Competition
My nephew Lance and I were talking about growing pumpkins last summer and it was too late last year but we decided to have a contest this year to ascertain whom could grow the biggest pumpkins I ordered a packet of ten seeds from Jungs this year of their largest pumpkin offering. We each received five seeds to plant and tend. Lance lives out north of Mtn Grove near Dawson Lake and I live just south of Norwood. He called last night and said all five of his seeds had sprouted. Sad to say but only one of my seeds has sprouted. The contest is about who can grow the largest pumpkin not the most so I am still in the contest. Below is a photo of my single plant. Will try to keep all informed about our progress. Maybe he will take photos of his plants to share as we go along on this journey.
Cheerily
IJK |
Posted: 01:31 PM, June 23, 2011 by IJK |
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April 2, 2011 Family Adventure
Saturday, April 2, Glinda and I were scheduled to go to Francis and Jenni's to help burn off their old garden spot to that Francis could keep it mowed. The spot was already there when they bought the place and moved but it had not been cleaned out enough to take care of. "Flossie" and "Lil" went with us because Mitzi was busy in Norwood with Norwood Summer Ball sign-up and Boudreax along with "Flo" and "Skeezix" were in Kansas City for a baseball tournament that "Skeezix" was participating in.
We left Norwood just after 8:30 a.m.. An uneventful trip to Rogersville found us at our destination about 9:30 a.m. Jenni made a fresh pot of coffee and we had a cup before we headed out to 'play'. The spot was truly a mess as Francis had been cleaning up the hill behind his house and piling the limbs, vines and brush in the garden spot. It was also full of the old tall grass from last summer's growth. We walked around the outside setting lots of small fires so it could burn towards the center with no danger of getting away. The mowed grass around the spot was good and green and still damp from the morning's dew. Francis decided to also trim some trees that were in the fence row and around on the property while we were there so we did and piled that refuse on the fires also. As the fire burned down we found a need to rake the missed pieces together and get some bonfires going. It wasn't bad but we soon came out of our coats as the temperature rose rapidly. There was one end of the spot that the tall old growth just wasn't thick enough to burn on its own so Francis fired up his Ferris Zeroturn mower and took the grass down on that end and Glinda and Jenni raked it up and we carried to the bonfire to get it burned. It was getting on so we headed to the house to eat lunch. Jennie was getting things ready so Glinda, Francis and I climbed up to take a look at the hillside he had spent the winter cleaning up and look at his spring. Jenni had made some chili on Friday and while Francis cooked some hotdogs on the grill Jenni also made some frenchfries. After we ate we headed back to the garden spot to load some dirt and big rocks. We were going to repair a hole in the pond dam.
Francis backed the trailer as close as safe to the pond dam and we wheeled the dirt and rocks to the site. He had purchased some bentonite to mix with the soil to help seal the breach. He place rocks into the hole followed by the bentonite/dirt mix and then more rocks more mix and so on.until we had used all the rocks and mixture and had the dam holding water once again.
We then moved to the front of the house with the remainder of the dirt and big rocks and started building a wall along one side of the entrance to act as a retaining wall for a flower garden. We placed the remainder of the soil in the area and it filled in nicely. It will need another layer of wall and dirt but we thought it best to let it settle for a few rains before continuing.
Chore time was calling so Glinda and I loaded "Lil" and"Flossie" and headed home to milk.
The video below shows some of the days activities. Enjoy.
Cheerily
IJK |
Posted: 01:49 PM, April 3, 2011 by IJK |
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Three books by Frederick Forsyth
I just finished up reading three novels by author Frederick Forsyth. The books were all published by St. Martins Press. The first I read was a collection of short stories and each story was very different from the others. The title was "The Veteran" and I really enjoyed the stories. The second title was "The Avenger" and the third was "The Deceiver". They were equally enjoyable and while they are each one long novel they were each broken down into short stories that could have stood alone. The author takes lots of twists and turns and one never knows where the story is leading. If you are looking for something good to read then try these books by Frederick Forsyth.
Cheerily
IJK
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Posted: 01:00 PM, March 28, 2011 by IJK |
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Long Day for Grandparents
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Retired Navy Mans Hobby
Find more photos like this on My VFW WebCOM
Ship Model: Admiral Graf Spee, scratch built by: William Terra (ME - USA );
Scale: 1:20 Additional Information The model is scratch built like a canoe using 1"/4" bass wood strips &then covered w/fiberglass. Estimated weight: 700 lbs The beam is 52" The length is about 30'
It can carry t wo people The model is powered by a 15 hp outboard engine under rear gun turret. It can sail 15 mph Furthermore the model has a built in music system. While William Terra cruises the lakes of Maine he enjoys listening to Wagner. The Commander-in- Chief in the photographs is William Terra
Construction time: Four years (so far). Estimated to take at least 2 years to complete entirely
The Model - Status 2002 |
Posted: 03:28 PM, February 22, 2011 by IJK |
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Squadrons of the Sea
"Squadrons of the Sea" was written by Arch Whitehouse. Published in 1962 by Modern Literary Editions Publishing Company of New York, N.Y.
It was quite an interesting read. It is a complete history of the development of the Aircraft Carrier beginning with the first attempts during WWI and continues with a thorough review of all the carrier battles of WWII. I can easily recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about carriers.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number is 62-7696 |
Posted: 08:25 AM, January 16, 2011 by IJK |
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New Years Eve at Kelleys Dairy
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Christmas for the Kelleys Dairy family
Christmas came early to our home. Our oldest son and family were going to travel to Texas to visit her family for the holiday so we had the Kelley Christmas on December 18. Our three children and their families were all present and we had a very pleasant day. The first set of photos below is from that event.
Traditionally we go to my Moms for Christmas Eve and we did again this year. My brother Dean and his wife Kim were there although Francis and his family were in Texas. The three photos below are from Christmas Eve at my Mom's
My brother, Patrick, and his wife, Nancy, and their son , Sean, always stop by on Christmas morning on their way to her parents. We do not see them but a couple of times a year so the Christmas stop is important. Sean sure has jumped up in height in the last year. The photos below are from Christmas morning.
After they left we went to Glinda's niece, Brandi, house as some of Glinda's sisters and brothers were gathering to spend the day together. Had an excellent meal of prime rib and/or ribs. Two card games were going at once, "pitch" in the front room and "nerds" in the dining room. We had to leave long enough to go milk but then we returned and stayed until about 10:30 Christmas night. Had a great time. Lots of photos were being taken and if anyone shares with me I will gladly add them here.
Cheerily
IJK |
Posted: 06:36 PM, December 27, 2010 by IJK |
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Christmas Carols by the Kelley Grandchildren
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Stuck in the Smoke Hole of our Tipi.
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