Happy Birthday to my Brother David

Wishing you a happy birthday, David .

Love, Ruthie

Playing a song for you today

On our dad’s lap Montclair NJ in 1955

An old pic from Twisp WA in Hank’s Market

June 12, 2014

– from the archives Pittsburgh PA June 12, 2014

252-inch tall sculpture A Turn of the Century by J. Seward Johnson, which is a three-dimensional interpretation of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1883 painting Dance at Bougival.

Click here to tour Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton NJ where the sculpture is now

I’ve blogged this sculpture twice already 2014. 2020

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Birthday Bouquets for Partygoers

And Flowers Pittsburgh is a local small business. Thursday evening I met Karen Toole, who along with a team of seven, arranged more than 75 bouquets of colorful flowers for the occasion!

Everyone got to take home a pretty bouquet that adorned my friend’s birthday celebration.

I learned you can host a flower arranging party for 5-10 friends or attend a floral design class in their studio.

Karen Toole of And Flowers Pittsburgh
A party favor of flowers
Gorgeous flowers
Guests leaving with bouquets in white bags.
How about this gift of jacket for my friend? Happy Birthday Nancy
What a lovely birthday cake

Meet The Faucet Doctor

Specializing in obsolete parts!

Clifford IS The Faucet Doctor.

He refurbished our decrepit spigot/faucet and now we have water without a leak! After two days of having the water turned off in the house, we are eternally grateful for his expertise.

Amazing. Miraculous, if you ask me.

When your home is 100 years old, it’s hard to find replacement parts. Steve found the Faucet Doctor and replacement parts weren’t a problem.

He just kept the part overnight, and by noon the next day? Voila! it’s like brand new. Steve put it in place and he turned the water back on. I was able to run the dishwasher, start the washing machine and take a shower. Hooray! Thank you Faucet Doctor.

A really cool invention of his.
He even demonstrated how it works.
I should have taken notes.
Hope he files for that patent.
Nobody doesit better!!
Tucked away in Braddock Hills, just a 17 minute drive from my old house
to The Faucet Doctor.
Happy the leak has been resolved!

dc spots more ducks in a JEEP

Outside a restaurant in Florida. ow about this collection? seeing the ducks reminded dc
of this blog post and links with an explanation
of the trend

Thanks for the fun guest blog dc

Once you see ducks in a JEEP you’ll notice more of them as you walk through a parking lot or a JEEP is stopped next to you at a red light.

Silent Sunday

I was a passenger in the car so could capture the message on the pedestrian bridge .
UPMC Shadyside Hospital Pittsburgh

June 6, 2019

Schoenberg Neighborhood. Berlin Germany

Did you ever read Watership Down?

My granddaughter Shanti (6) photographed the bunny in the yard next door.

I think of the book when I see rabbits in the wild.

Watership Down is a classic 1972 adventure novel by Richard Adams about a group of wild rabbits fleeing their doomed warren to find a new home, facing predators, challenges, and building a new society on Watership Down in England

She captured a little video of the bunny on the move