(I’m posting this a day early since I have a feeling tomorrow may be a nuthouse) OK, first the good. Have I mentioned that Idaho is a unique place to live? Living out in the country affords many opportunities not available in the confines of a city. For instance, it snowed here in Idaho. A …
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Charlotte and I figured that this is the oldest picture in the stack, dating back to about 1895. Just to give you a little perspective, here are a few things that happened in 1895: Volleyball was invented by W. G. Morgan in Massachusetts George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile …
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I’ve never been so thankful for HEAT than I have this week. I knew Idaho was cold, but Holy Toledo! I didn’t realize just how frigid it is here! I drove to Costco yesterday afternoon for my monthly trip to pick up a case of toilet paper and a bag of uncooked tortillas. Two hours …
Ralf’s parents were here this weekend for a pre Christmas celebration. Charlotte and I went through the bag of old photos collected from Ralf’s grandmother in Vienna. Holy Toldeo, there are a lot of fascinating stories to be told! I affectionately refer to these people as “the boat people” because they look to me like …
Either I’m getting desensitized to life in the sticks, or nothing “what-in-the-hecky” has happened here lately. I’d like to think it’s the latter. So, instead I borrowed an idea from Christie. I spent most of the morning digging through boxes of exceptionally disorganized scrapbook paraphernalia looking for Christmas cards of the past. When I resurfaced …
I chose this picture for today’s Memory Monday post because I think it shows what kind of “salt of the earth” people my husband comes from. There are so many facinating stories of post war life in Austria that I’ve heard from his family. One day I’d love to get them all down on paper …
Once there was a stay-at-home mom who used to accomplish all her household tasks with a pen, some paper, a telephone, and her trusty automobile. Then one day her husband finally convinced her they needed a computer. That her tasks could be accomplished more efficiently if they hooked up to this thing called “the World …
Question: WHAT IN THE HECK! would convince me to allow this guy to take my 7 year-old son out of school in the middle of the day, to another town, in a pimped up Lincoln with tinted windows for an hour WITHOUT ME??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? …
Welcome! if you popped on over from SITs. I’ve been working on my own “send in the actual mailbox” Christmas cards today so this is all I had time for. But thanks for stopping by!!! Go on over to SITs and win some great prizes.
Over the River and Through the sagebrush, To Grandmother’s house we drive; The Dad knows the plan, to carry the fam, So we can make it to Utah alive. Over the river and through the sagebrush, The cousins, aunts, uncles say “Hi”; We all play Rock Band, Quelf, Playstation and Candyland, (not really but it …
If your house is anything like ours, these would be perfect! We’re crazily running amok getting ready to leave in the morning. Happy Treasure Tuesday!
