What's New on 360GrandLake.com:
Jewels From The Word
October 29, 2018
As I was walking up to the post office the other day, a shadow on the sidewalk over my head caused me to duck my head. Fear rose in my heart as I thought a bird was attacking me. Imagine my surprise and delight when a beautiful Monarch butterfly passed within i...
Jewels From The Word
October 22, 2018
WRITING ON THE WALL When Mom was 94 years old, I set up a computer in my mother’s home so she could see and talk to my sister 45 miles away. The first time she and my sister talked, my sister reached out her arms to hug Mom through the computer monitor an...
Jewels From The Word
October 8, 2018
For some crazy reason lately, any time I have a fever, in a few days the skin starts peeling on my hands. Then it takes two weeks for it to all peel off, and look good again. Sometimes I catch myself mindlessly peeling the skin off my hands, while I’m doi...
Jewels From The Word
October 1, 2018
I used to think I grew up in the Old West. Vinita is one of the two oldest incorporated towns in Oklahoma, so it really was an Old West town, with cowboys, horses, and cattle. You know Vinita is on the edge of the Old West, in eastern Oklahoma in what was Chero...
Jewels From The Word
September 24, 2018
My husband and I have been watching videos about World War II. The series we are watching now is called the Diary of World War II, day by day, from the first day. We are up to 1941, but not the Bombing of Pearl Harbor yet. There’s a lot of information abo...
Jewels From The Word
September 17, 2018
I saw and article in a magazine recently, with photos of eight famous people 65 years old or older. There are three women and five men. None are beautiful or handsome according to the world's standards. The nicest looking man has badly bushed and wiry eyebrows ...
Jewels From The Word
September 10, 2018
A great storm came up on the Mediterranean Sea when Paul was being taken as a prisoner to Rome. He had tried to tell the captain of the ship that there was a storm coming, but they decided to chance it and sailed anyway. According to some recent studies, this w...
Jewels From The Word
September 3, 2018
Even though it was hot, I loved going back to school. Summer vacation was fun, but became boring really fast, especially after Vacation Bible school and Camp Fire Girls day camp was over. I loved new school supplies. Mother always saw to it that we had wh...
Jewels From The Word
August 27, 2018
When I was a kid in school, I loved recess, almost as much as I love reading. I loved the merry-go-round. I ran as fast as I could go, pushing it around and round, and then jumped on to ride. I loved to ride bikes, racing down the street with th...
Jewels From The Word
August 20, 2018
It’s time for school to start in Vinita, Oklahoma, and many other towns, but Vinita is probably one of the few towns that lets school out for the rodeo parade. This year will be the 82nd annual Will Rogers Memorial Rodeo. Will Rogers came to Vinita ...
Jewels From The Word
August 13, 2018
The home where I grew up was across the alley from Bull Creek. Bull Creek was very shallow and lazy creek, but no boats ever floated our section of the creek. Never one time in my life did I see a boat on Bull Creek. Even if someone had tried to float a boat on...
Jewels From The Word
August 6, 2018
"I can hardly wait till the weekend." "I wish my vacation would hurry up and get here." "When these kids are grown..." "When I retire..." The old-timers used to say you were wishing your life away. "In the morning you shall say, Would that it were evening...
