from Minnesota granddaughter Maura (17) wrote
“Gull Lake, Minnesota, right outside the town Nisswa. I was on a walk after dinner with Greta. Her family of 100+ people stay at a local resort and spend the week at the lake!”
I love her photo so much. What a great writing prompt! And that she saw it and thought of me!
My friend Jen suggested I take my family to #OpenStreetsPGH Sunday morning. So glad she clued us in on this event. Perfect summer weather. Thanks Jen.
“4th-generation florist & founder
Click here to listen to Beat Box Rap about 412 Flowers
And you could write a word on the white board and get a custom beatbox rap impromptu Kidmental did a great job with Grandma getting down with it and also 412 Flowers
From his website (Pic below not a live link).
Prema and I stopped in at Geology Rocks Pittsburgh
I bought three colorful balloons for the 3 grandkids at the balloon store vonwalterandfunk . They made it home without mishap.
This one is resting on the ceiling tonight
Post from
July 26, 2020. I usually keep my blog posts current in real time. I’m still getting my phone in order. And then WordPress is showing what I’ve posted on this date over the years.
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Some grim tales. A card game from my Childhood.
Each family is made up of 4 cards.
Have you ever played Happy Families?
Happy Families is a traditional British card game usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families, and the game is similar to Go Fish- Wikipedia
From the archives 2019. Looks like bowling to me. Floating balls on still water.
This week my phone took a spin in the washing machine. Ooops. Been managing with laptop and digging around in folders past. Back in business tomorrow with a new phone/camera.
A former colleague, Ellen R, came for lunch on my front porch a couple of weeks ago. No shortage of topics to talk about and catch up with our family updates. I was reminded of her wonderful refrigerator contents in 2010.
For our porch lunch she brought a lovely lemon cake with raspberries and a lemon glaze.
Here is the post from July 2010
What’s in your fridge? This is Ellen R.’s fridge. She bakes delicious cheesecakes. When the cream cheese goes on sale, she stocks up. Her husband was preparing for guests to watch a big game if I remember it right. I thought I would photograph fridge interiors and exteriors, a kind of portrait. It was a short term project. I photographed my own fridge inside and out and decided it wasn’t too interesting to look at like Ellen’s. ( This is her secondary fridge, not the main one in the kitchen! ) I thought the contents an interesting mix.
There used to be a column in a magazine, what three things can you always find in your refrigerator? My answer would be butter, cheese, jam
A reblog from July 27, 2010 and May 14, 2023 A tribute to a friend
click to see Dorothy Holley Post
I Dug Up the Iris
in Dorothy’s garden
to plant in the soaked
soil of mine, memorial
to her each spring
when they’ll open
complicated ruffles
and flourishes, purple
or blue with speckled
throats. They’ll rise
out of rhizomes
sprawling at soil’s
surface like the joints
of my old hands
anchoring the tall
stalks and frilly petals.
This morning
in the brief breath
of cool I dug shallow
trenches for this legacy,
this pantry of pollens
the bees prospect,
insects with lives
beyond what the mere
gardener knows.
Liane Ellison Norman, a Madwoman in the Attic, has published two books of poetry, The Duration of Grief and Keep (www.smokeandmirrorspress.com). She has published poems in 5AM, Kestrel, North American Review, Grasslimb, Rune, Voices from the Attic anthologies and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Her poem “What There’d Been” won the Wisteria Prize in 2006 from Paper Journey Press.
From the archives. Granddaughter Maura
From I Dream of Dinner so You Don’t Have To by Ali Slagle
The second time I made it I used green lentils instead of red. Seemed to hold shape better. Serve on toasted buns just as you would their cousin Sloppy Joe.