MY GUARD DOG.

Tonight it is just Murph and I, which is ok until it thunders.
That is when this 90 pound dog man handles me. Under my
feet or else. He is a sissy.

PATTON-BLANKENBECKLER WEDDING, 8-20-07

Sneak preview of Josh and Melissa's wedding:
a. Fathers of the groom and bride
b. Hugh and his bride
c. Melissa's nieces
d. The ceremony
e. Cutting of the cake
f. Ron and Chris, parents of the bride
g. Joyce, mother of groom, with Josh and sister Becca
h. Grandmother, me, with the wind beneath my wings.
i. Proud step-mother, the groom and me again :)

I look forward to seeing many more pictures and memories
of this special day.

THE NIGHT BEFORE--FAMILY AND FRIENDS

This was the scene at 4054 Kennedy Creek Road, on the
night before Joshua and Melissa recited their vows.
Hugh and Natali graciously brought together the couple's
family with a show of good old fashion hospitality.
For those who do not know Josh's mother, she joins him and
Melissa at Yegor's photo bench, in the top frame of the grid.

Delicious food and a happy celebration will long be remembered.
It was a good start for the next 50 years!

Polly with her favorite star

Paulette, I saw Garth on Oprah yesterday.
He said he may restart his career when the
girls were all in college, youngest is 11. He
said he was 44, so when he is 54 he may
hit the road again. Nothing was more important
than his children. You should have taken that
job to homeschool his kids on the road. What
a different way things would have turned out.
He may have still been married to Sandy and
you may have been rich. Did you see the show?

THE THREE LITTLE SISTERS

Three Sisters, some of us are 80-

one of us is our baby sister.

Three Brothers- First two are

in Heaven, the third handsome

one will celebrate his 91 birthday

next month. His lovely wife will

be celebrating her 91st tomorrow.

Happy Birthday, Jean.

She marched to the tune of a different Drummer

I have had lots of thoughts

today of my precious

daughter. I talked to

Aubrey and he told me

of going to Church Sunday

with Ken, Anna and Casey.

I was so excited, he really

enjoyed it. Goodnight Little Drummer

MORE OF THIS AND THAT

Don't forget Aunt

Jean's 91st B-D

on the 10th

My Sis . and her

gardner Mike in

Savannah last

year. Here we

are eating at Paula

Deens. I have been

invited on a trip to Charlotte first week

in Sept. Interferes

with my symphony

date, I will worry

about that tomorrow.

AND just a pretty

face, your precious

Dad.

THIS AND THAT

Nancy, Don,
Sarah, Walter,
Leonard and I
in New Orleans, late 70's we went to dinner
in this rig. My dear buddy, Percy Jenkins, who
is now with Leonard in Heaven. Jogging with Chad,
holding Chad in pear tree. Pop and I in Hawaii,
Don, Nancy and Leonard at our house. For the Archives Kate.

Leonard, Merry, Kim and Mike
with grandady Patton on his 80th birthday. My Dad 3 weeks before he died.

Friends and Family

Last Friday the 13th, my wonderful friend from

High School, who lives in Knoxville came to visit with me for a few hours. Not nearly long enough. Her grandaughter, Amy was at MTSU Govenor's School. She sings and was on the program that afternoon. Maynelle Butts, my friend, had to leave by the two o'clock program, Amy is on the left and her other granddaughter, Megan in the middle. She has her daughter, Melinda, two granddaughters and son in law, Mike. I can't tell you how many I had to talk about. What fun...we dated, sang in duets, always in Church and I was so thrilled for our three hours. I have seen her only once that I remember since 1945.


The other little picture I wanted to say thank you for, to Mollie and
Shannon, it is a wonderful picture. I do not know why my scanner
made it so little. I will think about that tomorrow.....Scarlett

IT'S A NEW DAY!

Modern Millie (better known as Queenie) is at it again. Time to repaint and clean house...in other words, I thought I would give my blog a face lift. Less painful than going and getting one myself!
What do you think? Brown or Pink? Let me know if you have a preference.

This one is for you Lou...it's what I did on your birthday! Hope you had a good one. I love you!!

YEGOR TAKING AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY

The U. S. Marines sent Yegor, on the right, home for an 18 months
recovery period, so that his injured shoulder will heal completely.

Saturday, after buying Josh's old car for $1.00, getting insurance, filling the tank
up, he took off for the East Coast. A fellow Marine with an injured knee who
was also leaving the Marines, told him about having a shrimp boat,
Yegor is up and down the coast searching for a shrimp boat. It is advertised
you can make $1000 a week. He left on Sat. and by Sun. he had gotten
to the shore and swam in Atlantic Ocean and been to 3 or 4 ports.

I pray the shoulder heals!!!!! They camped at Ragland Bottom last week end, and he swam from one end of theSligo bridge to the other side. Oh to be young! He did not ski but rode on a tube.

How sweet of Josh to help out. Yegor wanted to buy his old car, Josh said no, but he would give it to him and later when Yegor got through with it, he could give it back.

Oh, and there is that sweet little Gaege Anderton again! I went to Judy's last
night and we celebrated Gaege's 8th birthday. He flew into Nashville from
Washington along with his brother Kyle on Sunday, for a few weeks with Juju
and Lulu. Gaege had already had a big birthday party before coming so we
had to celebrate again!

62 Years and I still dream of him...

The colors maybe faded,
but the memories are bright.
My dreams will be of you, darling,
on this, our anniversary night.

With love of the times gone by,
Gwen

MORE OF HIS FAVORITE THINGS

A FEW OF HIS FAVORITE THINGS.

Keeping up with Popa' angels.

Popa with Abby and Sonnyboy.

Popa with Becca at Easter time.

Popa with Kate at Captiva Island

Along with Christmas Sonnyboy,

Easter, and Captive were a few

of his favorite things.

Christmas in July and Edsel Honored....

A family tradition; song, food and fellowship!

By now you have all gotten an email from Paulette telling about her and Nicholle's annual Christmas in July celebration for the Floyd family, on July 21st.

The following day, Sunday, the 22nd at 2:00, the state Legislature will unveil the "Edsel Cordell Floyd Bridge", on the Watertown bypass, honoring the Watertown Icon.

I know that some of you can't be there for both events, but perhaps you can be there for one or the other of these special events.

In the above picture you see Ed with Representative Stratton Bone, and the Speaker during the session where Ed was told about the bridge being named after him. This Speaker asked Edsel if he was surprised at being given this honor (mind you these lawmakers had been warned of Edsel's perfectly available sense of humor!). Edsel replied, "Well, yes and no, I was honored but not surprised." When asked why, he said, "Rep. Bone told me last fall that if I made a generous donation to his campaign he would see that there was a bridge named after me...I was thinking like the bridge spanning the Cumberland River and I made the donation. Then he was asked how much did he donate and Ed replied, "half dollar."

Gotta love this man!

In the other picture you see some of Edsel's siblings and his son trying not to show embarrassment by what might come out next and at the same time popping buttons that his sweet man was being given such a high honor.

Love you, "Tiny Turned up nose." Mother and Dad will be watching!

This picture is reminisce of the 20 to 30
little black headed baby's that have graced
the Patton family throught the years. This includes
the 9 little monkeys that are in the last post.
It also included Thomas, although he may
have had a little blonde wig, Jacob,
Mickenna, Casey, Gaege and Jalyn,
along with my four little black headed
ones, and their 10 little ones.
This picture was made in the nursery at
the SanDiego Zoo. Was so precious I
could hardly keep my hands off.

Thirty years and counting!

July 9, 1977, Leonard and Gwen stood with their daughter Merry as she and her children married Terrence and his. Together they exploded and....

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Look what happened in 30 years.

Doesn't get any better than this.