October 2019 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Last Day of October

Pittsburgh PA.

The last day of October.

68 degrees, rain and windy. Flooding in some places.

October 31, 2019 by Ruth Categories: WeatherTags: change of seasons, falling leaves, front step, Ft.Pitt Bridge, Liberty Avenue, October 31, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, rain, season, weather 3 Comments

1966 Throwback Thursday 35mm Slide Converted to Digital File

My friend V gave me a really cool device that converts old slides and film negatives to a digital file. I used it when I was teaching photography and helped a colleague preserve some wonderful pictures of her family.

Tonight I started thinking about my own slides I found while cleaning out a drawer and brought the file converter out. After re-reading the steps to use the converter, I was successful. I won’t do a whole slide show today but wanted to put this 1966 picture up of me with my family. I’m the one on right front (eighth grade) and I am sure my mother and I sewed our fashion choices on the old Singer sewing machine.

Certainly next time I can center the cardboard frame more accurately. I left that exposed pipe in, too. In an upstairs closet, are forgotten metal carousel trays of slides to convert but just did the 24 images tonight.

Once you get a rhythm it doesn’t take too long.

What I’ve noticed is a LOT of the slides I’ve kept for decades are not worth converting into a digital file for posterity.

But did I put them in the trash? Not yet.

Will save some of those treasures for a future post.

Thanks for the great gift, Vincie.

October 31, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1966, celebration, family, film to digital file, Kodak, Kodak Carousel, Morris Plains New Jersey, photography, slide converter, Slides, Throwback Thursday, vintage 6 Comments

Sunset at OSU By Jack

My grandson Jack (12) sent me this sunset photo he took, probably after Swim Team practice. I thought it had a nice mood to it.

October 29, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Guest BlogTags: Columbus Ohio, grandson, guest blog, Ohio State University, OSU, photography, postaday, sunset 7 Comments

Homemade Devil Dogs and Store Bought Snowballs

A couple of weeks ago I was given a homemade Devil Dog from Priscilla, my friend Jen’s mother. She hails from Connecticut. I haven’t seen her mom’s original recipe but I found another one for Devil Dogs in my old Junk Food Cookbook by Lydia Sager.

Her individually wrapped Chocolate home baked Devil Dog snack cake tasted really good.

I’m serious.

I couldn’t find commercial Devil Dogs in the grocery store. Here are some coconut marshmallow skin covered chocolate Snowballs snack cakes filled with probably hydrogenated fat.

I purchased these at Weiland’s Market and Kroger in Columbus a few weeks ago.

Thanks Steve got helping taste these. I think you can keep these indefinitely and they don’t get moldy.

So would you eat one?

October 29, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, ChocolateTags: baking, chocolate, coconut, cookbook, Devil Dog, grocery store, guilty pleasure, healthy eating, junk food, Kroger, photography, postaday, snack cake, snowball, Weiland's Market 5 Comments

A Patient St. Bernard

I’d parked and was walking to McWalker Yarns Sunday afternoon to knit. Took a quick snap. Then I turned back to try to get the face of this sweet and patient St Bernard waiting for his or her master.

October 27, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Animals in the City, dogsTags: dog, iPhone photography, McWalker Yarns, Millvale PA, photography, postaday, sidewalk, St. Bernard, Sunday afternoon 3 Comments

Silent Sunday

October 26, 2019 by Ruth Categories: Photography, silent SundayTags: driveway, fall, leaves, maple leaf, photography, postaday, rain, weather 4 Comments

Peeps.Not Just at Easter Anymore

The little yellow marshmallow chicks wrapped in cellophane showed up in 1953. They used to appear on store shelves at Easter time. Now you can get them year round in other holiday shapes. Information on the history and detailed categories such as “alleged indestructibility“ and Peeps “Recipes” at Wikipedia. There are contests and ingredients listed at that link, too. Yes, people microwave Peeps. That’s a lot of food color, isn’t it? Perhaps you ate them as a child but wouldn’t think of biting off a head of one now.

Here’s the question. Would you eat one? And if you did, would you want the Peep stale or fresh?

There are “Peeps haters” in the world-Julie Bosman wrote in a 2012 article in the New York Times. She states that Peeps are “polarizing”

Something about Peeps must intrigue me as here are two previous blog posts about them

October 26, 2019 by Ruth Categories: foodTags: candy, Frankenstein, Halloween, holiday, Julie Bosman, marshmallow peeps, New York Times, PEEPS, photography, postaday, pumpkins, sugar 6 Comments

D’Anjou Pear Galette

Dessert at the Cafe at the Frick. See those slices of fresh pear? The flaky crust galette was warmed and topped with a scoop of ricotta gelato. That’s a golden drizzle of bourbon caramel and a shake of cinnamon you see finishing the presentation. Oh and a pansy with a few blueberries for garnish. Mmmmmm.It was a perfect fall dessert.

Before lunch, my friend V and I had seen the exhibit of Katherine Hepburn Dressed for Stage and Screen showing her Costume and Fashion Collection. On view until January 12th. This winter we’ll watch a few of the old movies featured to see her wearing the costumes on screen. Here’s an article link https://www.post-gazette.com/life/fashion/2019/10/17/The-Frick-Pittsburgh-Katharine-Hepburn-Dressed-for-Stage-Screen/stories/201910170010in the Post-Gazette by Sarah Bauknecht about the exhibition

from The Philadelphia Story