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What's Cookin'? Horse club ladie00 ?he has 'Jolley' good fun fiddling change January00 1 ti g d ] With warm, twinkling eyes and Nee n ate an energetic gait, Martha (Stock) Due to New Year s Day thlling be payable at the Janu Jolley looks so young, even her on the first Tuesday in January, ing. Ladies age 18 and ap] doctor forgets she's not still 65. the Equestrienne of Mason County be interested:, in joining fm Thelast month.truth is, she just turned 90 have changed their meeting date. trienne are invited to at e Martha was born in Victor on This month, they will meet at 7 p.m. meeting room will be ope =. November 19, 1917. She grew up on Tuesday, January 8, at Taylor tbr dinner and visiting. I tq) in Mason County and graduated Station Restaurant at 62 SE Lynch topic this month is how t S people and animals affect t! from Vaughn School. In fact, she recently reunited with a classmate of hers. After almost a century in the area, Martha hasn't moved far from where she grew up. She's currently in Allyn. "I love it here! It's great!" she says. "It's home, you know? I've al- ways lived around here." She also appreciates living in a community near many people her own age. While she may not have moved far geographically, Martha hasn't let age hold her back from reaching her goals. For example, in her 80s, she became reinspired to pick up the fiddle, an instrument her big brother had first taught her to play when she was 14. MARTHA WAS the seventh of 10 surviving children, growing up during the Great Depression. Her fond memories of those days include playing baseball with the other children and growing large gardens to help feed everyone when food was scarce. Out of ne- cessity, she learned to sew at a young age and would make clothes out of flour sacks. "We had nothing. We went bare- footed in the summertime," she re- members. Dealing with the financial hard- ships of the time instilled a strong, lasting work ethic and cultivated creativity in her. Gardening and sewing have been two of her fa- vorite hobbies and, ironically, au- thentic flour sack cloth is now a prized commodity among quilters, she says. During most of her childhood, her parents had farmed and butchered. Her father also helped perform veterinary services in the community. By the time she started high school, her parents had opened Stock Winery at Rocky Bay, which specialized in fruit wines. ON JULY 4, 1939, Martha Stock married Frank JolIey. Then her husband became a salesman for her parents' winery. "It was neat," she remembers. Her older brother Bill, the one who intro- duced her to the violin, helped work with the laboratory side of the wine industry. "He was re- ally somethingV she recalls of her brother. At different times, Frank also worked for a dairy and Martha worked as a cook at a restaurant in Shelton. The two also owned a gro- cery store. She still enjoys cooking, especially baking "bumbleberry pie" which is a special combination of strawberries, blueberries, rasp- berries, rhubarb and apples. Martha and her husband went on to have three children, Sharon Floyd, Charlotte Berry and Mi- chael. These days, Martha also has three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Her daughter Sharon inspired her to start quilting in the mid- 1990s, after she brought her quilt projects home with her, "and the next thing I knew," Sharon re- calls, "she was"... "beating er," chimes in Martha with a mischie- vous smile. MARTHA TOOK off with quilt- ing, making more than 20 quilts and even selling one. "All the kids have a quilt now," she says. When her children were grow- ing up, Martha would sew manyl of their clothes. Later she incorpo- rated pieces of these clothes into a piecing quilt. She appreciates the feeling of accomplishment quilting gives her. Now sewing and crocheting are still among her favorite pastimes. , No Gontmctsi ,i FIDDLE IN HER ARMS, Martha Jolley stands with some of her original paintings hanging on the wall behind her. She once crocheted 105 blouses out of a special, shiny yarn design she bought in Mexico, done in a spe- cial, picot-eyelet lace. Toward the end of this project, she was able to crank out the blouses in a hurry. Martha managed to sell 104 of these garments, keeping one for her own use. For fun, she also makes porcelain dolls, along with their clothes and accessories. Now long since retired, she has enjoyed taking "snowbirding" trips down to Arizona in the winter. At first,-she would travel with her husband but after she became a widow Martha began dating Gor- don Brown. He is a widower who was her husband's best friend, harking back to the days when they worked together for the coun- ty road department. SINCE RETIREMENT, her zest for life has blossomed all over again. Not only did she pick up the fiddle again, she's also taught her- self a little mandolin and become a commissioned painter. "Going south, I just thought I would like to start painting and I took lessons there," she says. Painting offers her a creative out- let and the walls of her home now display some of her original work. She also has fun making layered, floral cutout pictures. One of her friends in Allyn has a daughter who works for Tavola- ta Pasta Company, who hired her to paint an Italian scene for its product label. Now, her rendition of white, red-roofed Italian houses nestled by a sunny bay are embla- zoned on pasta jars of this brand, which sell at Sam's Club stores. Her inspiration ibr the design was adapted from an original photo- graph of an Italian setting. For about five winters in a row, Martha took private fiddle lessons and then took part in music jams with fellow retirees in Arizona. "Oh! There's so many good musi- cians down there," she says. "I love the fiddling." EVERY APRIL she looks for- ward to attending the local Old- Time Fiddlers' Fest, as well as a similar festival in Sequim. Martha and Gordon love music and used to have a great time dancing togeth- er. Though she is still active as a Page 14 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 27, 2007 member of the neighborhood birth- day club, a regular pinochle player and a frequent guest of the casi- no, Martha's travels have slowed down recently. On the up side, she is glad to be spending Christmas with her family for a change. "It's kind of a quiet life, any- more," she considers. In honor of' her 90th birthday, her friends and family from both sides of the family joined tbrces to host a birthday bash at the Lake- Land Village Clubhouse, overlook- ing the water. "It was just neat!" she remembers fondly. Her daughter Sharon is already thinking about plans for Martha's 100th birthday party. "l say I can't die, because I've got too much to do," Martha says. She shared two recipes. The first is for a dish she recommends for potlucks, because it makes "plenty to go around." Chinese Hash Ingredients: 2 1/2 lb. ground beef 1 can mushroom soup 1 can chicken soup 1 C. uncooked rice Bean sprouts, water chestnuts and mushrooms to taste 1 C. celery 1 C. onion 1/4 C. soy sauce 2 C. water Chinese noodles Preparation: Combine all the above ingredi- ents except the Chinese noodles. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees Fahrenheit tbr 45 minutes. Then add the Chinese noodles on top and bake for an additional 15 min- utes. She also shared how to make her favorite frosting: Flour Icing Ingredients: 5 Tbsp. flour 1 C. milk 1 C. sugar 1 C. butter 1 tsp. vanilla Preparation: Cook flour and milk together until thick. Let cool. Cream to- gether sugar, butter and vanilla. Add them to the first mixture. Beat together well until it reaches the right consistency to spread over a cake. Ver 25 years ot exhaust Road in Shelton. All future 2008 meetings will return to the normal schedule on the first Tuesday of each month. Membership dues for 2008 will recent flooding. Intereste are invited to bring their inibrmation regarding tb with them to the meeting. N()minate someone for annual chamber awardt00 Tis the season for chamber mere- ber Volunteer of the Year.I bers to nominate people for annual Nominations must be  t awards. Shelton-Mason County to the chamber by J e Chamber of Commerce newsletters Local service club presi o contain ballots for nominations, administer the judging Till P ,"  " It Categories include: Business of the will be honored at the Year,lCitizen of the Year and cham- annual awards dinner in  at Sandy Branner Owner * 25 Years Experience J (9 in Shelton & Mason County) 1 d - E-filing ] :. SANDY'S ] BOOKKEEPING & TAX SER¥ ] 1065 St. Rte. 3 (by Tupper Floors} 427-3 II v Fax: (360)427-31 NORTHWEST FLOWER arden Show SHOW TICKETS $16 Durangos Western work boots Mustang sole Women's and men's Durango western boots Hathorn Western boots custom made :.#yi, Rocky by Georgia IRONCLAD Waterproof safety toe Georgias Women's safety toe boots Western women's & men's Georgia Giants Waterproof Gore-Tex Naot Ladies' ls All sale items limited to stock on hand, Sale ends "Your Workwear Headquarters" SHELTON • 930 Johns Prairie Road. 417-426$ HOURS Mon thru Fri  * Sat 10-5 * Sun 11-4 What's Cookin'? Horse club ladie00 ?he has 'Jolley' good fun fiddling change January00 1 ti g d ] With warm, twinkling eyes and Nee n ate an energetic gait, Martha (Stock) Due to New Year s Day thlling be payable at the Janu Jolley looks so young, even her on the first Tuesday in January, ing. Ladies age 18 and ap] doctor forgets she's not still 65. the Equestrienne of Mason County be interested:, in joining fm Thelast month.truth is, she just turned 90 have changed their meeting date. trienne are invited to at e Martha was born in Victor on This month, they will meet at 7 p.m. meeting room will be ope =. November 19, 1917. She grew up on Tuesday, January 8, at Taylor tbr dinner and visiting. I tq) in Mason County and graduated Station Restaurant at 62 SE Lynch topic this month is how t S people and animals affect t! from Vaughn School. In fact, she recently reunited with a classmate of hers. After almost a century in the area, Martha hasn't moved far from where she grew up. She's currently in Allyn. "I love it here! It's great!" she says. "It's home, you know? I've al- ways lived around here." She also appreciates living in a community near many people her own age. While she may not have moved far geographically, Martha hasn't let age hold her back from reaching her goals. For example, in her 80s, she became reinspired to pick up the fiddle, an instrument her big brother had first taught her to play when she was 14. MARTHA WAS the seventh of 10 surviving children, growing up during the Great Depression. Her fond memories of those days include playing baseball with the other children and growing large gardens to help feed everyone when food was scarce. Out of ne- cessity, she learned to sew at a young age and would make clothes out of flour sacks. "We had nothing. We went bare- footed in the summertime," she re- members. Dealing with the financial hard- ships of the time instilled a strong, lasting work ethic and cultivated creativity in her. Gardening and sewing have been two of her fa- vorite hobbies and, ironically, au- thentic flour sack cloth is now a prized commodity among quilters, she says. During most of her childhood, her parents had farmed and butchered. Her father also helped perform veterinary services in the community. By the time she started high school, her parents had opened Stock Winery at Rocky Bay, which specialized in fruit wines. ON JULY 4, 1939, Martha Stock married Frank JolIey. Then her husband became a salesman for her parents' winery. "It was neat," she remembers. Her older brother Bill, the one who intro- duced her to the violin, helped work with the laboratory side of the wine industry. "He was re- ally somethingV she recalls of her brother. At different times, Frank also worked for a dairy and Martha worked as a cook at a restaurant in Shelton. The two also owned a gro- cery store. She still enjoys cooking, especially baking "bumbleberry pie" which is a special combination of strawberries, blueberries, rasp- berries, rhubarb and apples. Martha and her husband went on to have three children, Sharon Floyd, Charlotte Berry and Mi- chael. These days, Martha also has three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Her daughter Sharon inspired her to start quilting in the mid- 1990s, after she brought her quilt projects home with her, "and the next thing I knew," Sharon re- calls, "she was"... "beating er," chimes in Martha with a mischie- vous smile. MARTHA TOOK off with quilt- ing, making more than 20 quilts and even selling one. "All the kids have a quilt now," she says. When her children were grow- ing up, Martha would sew manyl of their clothes. Later she incorpo- rated pieces of these clothes into a piecing quilt. She appreciates the feeling of accomplishment quilting gives her. Now sewing and crocheting are still among her favorite pastimes. , No Gontmctsi ,i FIDDLE IN HER ARMS, Martha Jolley stands with some of her original paintings hanging on the wall behind her. She once crocheted 105 blouses out of a special, shiny yarn design she bought in Mexico, done in a spe- cial, picot-eyelet lace. Toward the end of this project, she was able to crank out the blouses in a hurry. Martha managed to sell 104 of these garments, keeping one for her own use. For fun, she also makes porcelain dolls, along with their clothes and accessories. Now long since retired, she has enjoyed taking "snowbirding" trips down to Arizona in the winter. At first,-she would travel with her husband but after she became a widow Martha began dating Gor- don Brown. He is a widower who was her husband's best friend, harking back to the days when they worked together for the coun- ty road department. SINCE RETIREMENT, her zest for life has blossomed all over again. Not only did she pick up the fiddle again, she's also taught her- self a little mandolin and become a commissioned painter. "Going south, I just thought I would like to start painting and I took lessons there," she says. Painting offers her a creative out- let and the walls of her home now display some of her original work. She also has fun making layered, floral cutout pictures. One of her friends in Allyn has a daughter who works for Tavola- ta Pasta Company, who hired her to paint an Italian scene for its product label. Now, her rendition of white, red-roofed Italian houses nestled by a sunny bay are embla- zoned on pasta jars of this brand, which sell at Sam's Club stores. Her inspiration ibr the design was adapted from an original photo- graph of an Italian setting. For about five winters in a row, Martha took private fiddle lessons and then took part in music jams with fellow retirees in Arizona. "Oh! There's so many good musi- cians down there," she says. "I love the fiddling." EVERY APRIL she looks for- ward to attending the local Old- Time Fiddlers' Fest, as well as a similar festival in Sequim. Martha and Gordon love music and used to have a great time dancing togeth- er. Though she is still active as a Page 14 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, December 27, 2007 member of the neighborhood birth- day club, a regular pinochle player and a frequent guest of the casi- no, Martha's travels have slowed down recently. On the up side, she is glad to be spending Christmas with her family for a change. "It's kind of a quiet life, any- more," she considers. In honor of' her 90th birthday, her friends and family from both sides of the family joined tbrces to host a birthday bash at the Lake- Land Village Clubhouse, overlook- ing the water. "It was just neat!" she remembers fondly. Her daughter Sharon is already thinking about plans for Martha's 100th birthday party. "l say I can't die, because I've got too much to do," Martha says. She shared two recipes. The first is for a dish she recommends for potlucks, because it makes "plenty to go around." Chinese Hash Ingredients: 2 1/2 lb. ground beef 1 can mushroom soup 1 can chicken soup 1 C. uncooked rice Bean sprouts, water chestnuts and mushrooms to taste 1 C. celery 1 C. onion 1/4 C. soy sauce 2 C. water Chinese noodles Preparation: Combine all the above ingredi- ents except the Chinese noodles. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees Fahrenheit tbr 45 minutes. Then add the Chinese noodles on top and bake for an additional 15 min- utes. She also shared how to make her favorite frosting: Flour Icing Ingredients: 5 Tbsp. flour 1 C. milk 1 C. sugar 1 C. butter 1 tsp. vanilla Preparation: Cook flour and milk together until thick. Let cool. Cream to- gether sugar, butter and vanilla. Add them to the first mixture. Beat together well until it reaches the right consistency to spread over a cake. Ver 25 years ot exhaust Road in Shelton. All future 2008 meetings will return to the normal schedule on the first Tuesday of each month. Membership dues for 2008 will recent flooding. Intereste are invited to bring their inibrmation regarding tb with them to the meeting. N()minate someone for annual chamber awardt00 Tis the season for chamber mere- ber Volunteer of the Year.I bers to nominate people for annual Nominations must be  t awards. Shelton-Mason County to the chamber by J e Chamber of Commerce newsletters Local service club presi o contain ballots for nominations, administer the judging Till P ,"  " It Categories include: Business of the will be honored at the Year,lCitizen of the Year and cham- annual awards dinner in  at Sandy Branner Owner * 25 Years Experience J (9 in Shelton & Mason County) 1 d - E-filing ] :. SANDY'S ] BOOKKEEPING & TAX SER¥ ] 1065 St. Rte. 3 (by Tupper Floors} 427-3 II v Fax: (360)427-31 NORTHWEST FLOWER arden Show SHOW TICKETS $16 Durangos Western work boots Mustang sole Women's and men's Durango western boots Hathorn Western boots custom made :.#yi, Rocky by Georgia IRONCLAD Waterproof safety toe Georgias Women's safety toe boots Western women's & men's Georgia Giants Waterproof Gore-Tex Naot Ladies' ls All sale items limited to stock on hand, Sale ends "Your Workwear Headquarters" SHELTON • 930 Johns Prairie Road. 417-426$ HOURS Mon thru Fri  * Sat 10-5 * Sun 11-4