I got up, put out the garbage and recycleing and sat down to the sewing machine. I had quite a bit done on the petticoats for the flower girl dresses when I realized I was just a little short of fabric. Oh well. I had an appointment at the recycling center, can you believe I needed …
April 2008 archive
Apr 07
Yellow Flowers All Over
Last spring was D2’s families first in Kalamazoo, they had moved in the fall just before school began. GD1 was just 4 years old when they moved, and didn’t have a firm concept of places and their names. She knew the name of her old town and school, and learned the names of her new …
Apr 06
What’s your answer
If your work area looked like this, what would you do? What I did was go outside and work on the yard. We finally had a nice weather day. The ditches by the road got raked, the weed and feed got spread. And I was rewarded with this:
Apr 04
Yard Work
It was almost pleasant out last night, so I stacked the dishes in the sink and joined Papa and D3 in the yard. D3 and I trimmed the bushes to make mowing easier. I raked one of the two ditches, getting rid of the worst of the leaves out front. We put the leaves on …
Apr 03
Helen is Found!
A couple of days ago, I noticed that a check I’d written to the Social Security Administration for the original application of one Helen Potwine, born August 28, 1891 and died in September, 1966. This was the only Helen on the SSDI at Rootsweb.com that matched the birthday of my grandmother, Helen L. Palmer, and …
Apr 02
Catty
I remember Aunt Jane used to say, “meow”, if she or I, or anyone in earshot said something a little catty about someone who wasn’t present. Nice, Huh? I’m not sure why I thought about that, but it may have been the cats. I don’t own a cat, but two seem to own me. These …
Apr 01
Wow!
Papa takes a lot of pictures. I don’t always look at them, the sometimes I do. Today I did look at every picture he took at the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival last weekend. The lighting and background gods were smiling. The camera settings were right. The whole bunch is great. Check em out here. …
