The night before Christmas Eve, my sweet

children came to spend a little before Christmas time

with their mother.

We spent quality time together as you can see.
Be sure to click and enlarge picture, you

may miss what they are doing.

Each one enjoying a computer,

not Mother

DEEP IN OUR WORLD OF DOING.

Linda, Max and I enjoyed breakfast with James, poor
man, he works in Juvenile now.

Seeing the beautiful faces of the " old" ones, made me

very happy. What a pleasure it was to work so

many years, and never dread the job.

But, gosh, look at the new ones. When I began in criminal

court in 1968, we had Dene, Icey, Eloise and Me.

Now look what it takes to keep up with criminals in
Rutherford County, she had somewhere in mid 30's

employed now and everyone is still stressed out.

I am still thinking on my suggestion years ago. Let the bad

people have it and make us nice condo's behind

an electric fence and let us live unafraid.

I learned an awfully lot during those years.

Thanks to Eloise for the nice breakfast. Did I
eat or talk?

There she is, the retiring Miss Juvenile Court

There's some old faces down there. At lease one that came

with us when we came to the new building

many years ago. There is one on the

end that we, Linda, Eloise, and I raised from a baby.

After moving to Judge Holloway's back office

our hardest job was looking for

the proper boyfriend for her. We found him the second time

we tried.

I am standing here with the retired world

travelers. Go get um girls.

From Pearl Habor to San Diego in five days.

Click for a good look at this 5 acre ship deck. Awesome

A great reunion after a six month tour on USS RR

Mom is glad to see her boys together again.

Almost in San Diego Harbor

Mother and Son

Here is one who would have been a great Marine

No lounges on this ship, Find me a bed!

Waiting for Lena who is mixed up in traffic.

Coming from San Francisco to pick them up.

Lena's here !



A couple of Stars in Hollywood

The pictures are just wonderful, you all must see them.

It is ready, it is almost time!

Can you believe it is only one week before

we celebrate the birth of our Lord,

Jesus Christ.

One week of feelings of excitement

for the little ones. There are

so few little ones in our family now.

It takes us all.

A very merry Christmas to one and all.

Remembering Happy Days.

You talk about traditions, I have to look back further than

most of us can remember. I am posting a few pictures of

Leonard's family, not that their traditions were more

or less than the Floyd's, but because I had sent

pictures to Sally Womble and prehaps to

Mary Jane Knox I already have the oldies on

my computer.

In top picture Leonard's lovely mother is on the

far right of back row. Now you know why

she had such a handsome son.

Mary Jane Knox Murry's grandmother is far

left on front row. Her grandmother

married one of Leonard's grandfather's

brothers.

Middle picture is LOP's parents with their

first son, Robert William Patton.

Bottom pix is whole family, made on Richland

Street, Watertown.

Just gathering was tradition for that family.

His parents 3rd and 5th from right back row.

Had no other place to go.

Happy Days

Christmas' at PATTON PLACE

The sweetest Christmas Present that Dad and I

ever got was watching these four happy

children on Christmas Mornings.

Look at those cowboy and cowgirl outfits,

and also a sack of oranges, a sack of apples, bananas

and looks like a box of Milky Ways.

Daddy built the doghouse and where

is the dog? Honey?

a golden Cockier Spaniel.

It got no better than Christmas morning at our house.

Now put this on your blog, Merry.

THE SEA TO THE SHORE

With a red-gold wedding ring, mined from the caves of sunset,

Fast shall I bind thy faith to my faith evermore,

And the stars will wait on our pleasure, the great north wind will trumpet

A thunderous marriage march for the nuptials of sea and shore.

by: Lucy Maud Montgomery

You saw life in it's fullest and gave it to me.

Someday we will stand together again. I'm thinking of you today.

With love,

Your Honey

to

Leonard O. Patton

5/4/24 - 12/8/05

THANKFUL FROM HEAVEN FOR MY FAMILY

I still hear the songs, I still see the lights

I still feel your love on cold wintery nights

I still share your hopes and all of your cares

I'll even remind you to please say your prayers

I just want to tell you, you still make me proud

You stand head and sholders above all the crowd

Keep trying each moment, to stay in His grace

I came here before you to help set your place

He forgives you the slip, if you continue to climb

To my family and friends, please be thankful today

I'm still close beside you, in a new special way

I love you all dearly, now don't shed a tear

cause I'm spending my Thanksgiving with

Jesus and Betty this year

jwm,Jr

Goodnight Little Drummer

The HOME COMING

Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group Concludes Operations in 7th Fleet AOR ABOARD USS RONALD REAGAN (NNS) -- The six ships of the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group concluded military operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR) Nov. 14.



May 19, 2008...

(USS Ronald Reagan Deploys 21 May 2008Friends and family members waved farewell to their loved ones as the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the six ships in its strike group sailed out of San Diego.) The parents of Kirill were in San Diego to say bon voyage in May.

Homecoming!

A joyous occasion was had by all when Hugh, Natali and Yegor traveled to Pearl Harbor to greet their son Kirill and the USS Ronald Reagan.... Kirill in green. Yegor in black.

The devoted family reunites..

It was sad that Kirill's wife, Lena did not get to go, however the

Navy rules are very strick, no Wives or Girlfriends are

allowed to go the Tiger Cruise from Pearl Harbor

to San Diego. She will be in San Diego waiting

to take the family back to Los Angles to her apartment for visit.

Got to be something here about happily riding off in the sunset.

Sailors host their families back to the mainland....

Oops, she did it again...

If you are going to totally embarrass Merry (and the man she talks into doing such things)...don't forget the Cowboys and Indians!

From day one she played dress up!

Certainly a Southern Bell

The second generation Queen

Gotta go to the new movie {the Pirates}

I most likely can find more, these just

came to mind.

Gotta love a gal from the South

There us a deep love in families....

I suppose none greater than sisters as your life passes.

They seem such a part of growing up.

What a wonderful home that we had to grow up in.

In the early years Daddy made decisions and

expected Mother to follow.

That's just the way it was, the man was head of the

household and no greater love could be found

than that of our Dad. As the years passed

there came a time when we women

quit submitting and started "outwitting".

I am sure we have all done our share of both.

I am so happy that my parents

gave me this sister that I am about to

camp out with for the next few days.

Thank God he gave us a younger one who can

keep us straight and give us lots of love.

Thanks for the love of Mike and Susan.

OFF WE GO TO THE GREAT SMOKEY MOUNTAINS.

MY BELOVED

My BelovedDeep in the world of doing

Tender

Friend to all
Perfect result of his Parents upbringing

Perfectionist

Beautiful

Dependable

A Joy

Gods gift for me

Always sure

My only love

Handsome

Mr. Clean

Level

My precious love

Depends on me

My beloved

God's perfect Angel in Heaven

In Memory of Betty

5/2/1946 - 10/30/2002

Different is Lovely

We all want to "belong" and go to great lengths to fit in,

Sometimes we forget that we are like snowflakes,

no two, thank God, alike. Each snowflake

and child of mine, is the same in essence but different

in form.

God blessed me with this unique, one-of-a-kind daughter.

She was not created more special than another but

God does make each snowflake different from the other.

She marched to the tune of her own drum.

The memories only get sweeter. Happy Birthday to all of us who loved her.

And especially her sweet daughter-in-law, Anna, one she loved,

we say Happy Birthday today!

~Good night Little Drummer~