jwashee wrote: walkerclanmother wrote: Just stopped by to say Hi!  Hope you're enjoying your spring weather!  Keep dry!  My best to you and your family. Walker Clan Mother Hellooooo!  it just started drying up here and went to our first powwow of the season.  It was disapointing though.  The powwow here in Wichita, ks.  has not been the same for a few years.  They had Rudy Youngblood grass dancing there, but the intertribals and contests were poor and they just did not have the dancers like they used to get.  But we like to go just to people watch and to start our summer tans!! ayeeeee  I think were going to the potowattomie powwow next and then a few in Ok..  Hope you had a great winter and now its time to sweat out all that stored up frybread grease from the winter and get out there and contest!!!! lmfao!  have a great day!!!!

Well, I've just returned from my...let's see... 3rd powwow?... oh, and there were 2 round dances.  That's something new for me. I went to my alma mater's Mother's Day powwow at La Grande, OR and won 2nd place in the "Golden Age" catagory!  I went to OSU, (that's  Oregon State), and it was a non competative powwow but there's was a dance special and I won 1st!  It's a great start to the powwow season.  I am thankful for prizes and it was good to take my cousin who sings because he keeps me from getting terribly lost.  lol! He finds it amusing, too.  I've lived over on the other side of the state for over 35 years and I bet I could lose him over there easily!  But to his defense, he is a lot of fun for a 3rd cousin...(I'm finding this relative stuff really interesting, also).... Anyway, we make a great team, I call him my faithful singing Indian guide! Never leave home without him! Unfortunately, he's going to be firefighting this summer like my youngest daughter and so he's unable to traipse around powwwow circuit with me.  I just hope I don't get hopelessly lost......We can text each other if I get lost too badly.  Anyway, this is 1 big comment but I had a wonderful weekend and the sun is shining every day, (until Wednesday) so I'm just grinning like a pet raccoon!  Have a good week and blessings to you and yours from God's country! 

Walker Clan mother, Klamath Co. OR 

Just stopped by to say Hi!  Hope you're enjoying your spring weather!  Keep dry!  My best to you and your family. Walker Clan Mother

Greetings from the clan lodge!  Haven't heard a peep out of you for awhile so I thought I stop by and see how your winter went.  You're into tornado season now, aren't you?  My son, Cherokee, went to Haskell and every time I heard there was a tornado that way, I'd call him.  He laughed at my overprotectiveness but understood it was just the "mom" in me. Did you get a book to read? I know how much you're looking forward to the quizzes!  I hope you and your family have a wonderful spring.  Don't fly off to Tennessee or anything! Lol! Enjoy the rest of your week and stop by the clan lodge some time.  Walker Clan mother

Ok, Jwashee; you asked for it!  25 ways to tell you're grown up

!. your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them. 2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question. 3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge. 4. 6 am is when you get up, NOT when you go to bed.  5. You hear your favorite songs in an elevator.  6. You watch the weather channel.  7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."  8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.  9.  Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."  10. You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won't turn down the stereo.  11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.  12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.  13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.  14. You feed your dog science diet instead of McDonald's leftovers.  15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.  16. You take naps.  17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.  18.  Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 a. m. would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.  19.  You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.  20. a $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good shit."  21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.  22. "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces  "I'm never going to drink that much again."  23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work. 24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.  25. When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate them instead of saying, "Oh Shit, what the hell happened?"  Bonus: 26: You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old butt.  Then you forward it to a bunch of old friends 'cuz you know they'll enjoy it too. and now you know why I sent this to you.  Have a good day!  WalkerClan Mother 

Oh, Jwashee.... Are we having a mid life crisis?  "Old" jokes..Tsk, tsk!!  As an elder, I take exception to that; but then I am known as a "dork" by my youngest daughter..... Just as soon as I can remember where I put them,  I'll show you OLD....Jokes.  Where are they?  I'll check around the clan lodge and get back to you, okay?  WalkerClan Mother

You are welcome at the clan lodge any time!  Bring along a book and we can discuss it as we read it together.  Wintertime is the best for sitting by the fire and reading... Have a good week and grab yourself a good book.  WalkerClan Mother

Hey JWashee; haven't seen you around the old site lately.  I hope that means you've been reading all those books I told you about last year and are ready for the test I promised you! Ha Ha Ha!  Okay I'll give you study questions so you can cram late into the night... Drop by the clan lodge and tell me what's been goin' on in your world.  Have a good weekend!  Walker Clan Mother