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Happy New Year

December 31, 2017by sarasinart 11 Comments

It’ll be a new year soon.  The old one was good cos lots of good things happened, among some not so good and also bizarre ones.  The status of our […]

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Nostalgia, Ramblings..........and reality checking
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Childhood revisited

June 28, 2017by sarasinart 2 Comments

Childhood revisited.  We went to Ocean City several times each summer when I was a kid.  Many memories stand out in my mind, all of them good.  One was a […]

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Nostalgia
vacation

Back to a place of childhood memories

December 8, 2016by sarasinart 5 Comments

In the fall I went on a magical trip, back to a place where I spent a lot of time when I was growing up and as a young adult: […]

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Nostalgia, Ramblings..........and reality checking
corn meal sticks

It all started with blue corn

September 2, 2016by sarasinart 4 Comments

Blue Hopi corn, to be exact.  The seeds were given to me last year by a dear lady who has since passed away.  Her family had been growing this corn […]

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Cooking/Food, Garden/Yard, Nature, Nostalgia
childhood memories

Open up a can of…… very old memories

October 5, 2015by sarasinart 9 Comments

I went around the corner to a neighbor’s garage sale and paid $1 for an old coffee can. It was just an interesting old can to them, but to me […]

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Nostalgia, Ramblings..........and reality checking
getting older

OK, I’m old(er)

September 30, 2015by sarasinart 4 Comments

So I have a birthday coming soon.  67 is not a round number or any great milestone except having lived thru another great year. When I was 30 I would […]

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Health, Ramblings..........and reality checking
plank bottom chair

Old family furniture

September 14, 2015by sarasinart 2 Comments

I’m so happy that  some things from my family have been preserved.  Some families don’t or can’t keep older things for whatever reason.  This plank bottom chair and cherry drop […]

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Nostalgia, Ramblings..........and reality checking
gathering eggs

Grandma Trayer’s egg basket

August 19, 2015by sarasinart 16 Comments

It’s just an old basket, right?  Actually it’s about 150 years old, and my uncle’s grandmother used it to gather the eggs from the chickens on the family farm. It’s not […]

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Nostalgia, Ramblings..........and reality checking
history of Shippensburg

A Trolley in Shippensburg

January 4, 2014by sarasinart 8 Comments

I always like to learn more about the history of my property and the area of town I live in.  I discovered an interesting story about the comer near where […]

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History, Nostalgia, Shippensburg

Making do……have we forgotten how? And does it matter?

November 2, 2013by sarasinart 7 Comments

I grew up with parents who had lived thru the Great Depression and an awful war.  I heard stories from them and my grandmother about austerity, rationing of things during […]

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