Happy New Year
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]