January 2025 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Allegheny River Two Different Days in January

January 31, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Allegheny River, fog, Highland Park Bridge, ice, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, weather, winter 6 Comments

The Spicy Bison Chili Won the Chili Cook-Off

Friday morning was the Chili Cook-Off at the Stephen Foster Community Center. Lawrenceville. Four out of the five entries were Vegetarian and the Spicy Bison prepared by Kathie H took first place. It was very flavorful.

That’s apple cider cake under the waxed paper and some cheese biscuits. Kathy W. baked it and she was telling me how she boiled down the apple cider.

It was a tasty event and I enjoyed participating. I cooked a Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili with Sweet Potatoes a recipe from my daughter Laura which my friend Vincie was able to pull up on her computer.

I used silver sugar tongs to put some corn chips in little snack bags.

January 30, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: chili, cook-off, cooking, eating, food, photography, postaday 23 Comments

End of January Purchase

January 29, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: cyclamen, flowers. winter, grocery store, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, tulips 8 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

January 28, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Animals in the City, PhotographyTags: animals in the city, city scene, deer, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday, sunset, winter 21 Comments

Playful Tuxedo Cat with Yarn Ball -Guest Blog

Sunday morning Laura and family went to swim. She sent me this photo.

“**This was at the Worthington Community Center desk” Laura wrote to me.**

The LEGO website states reasons why this Tuxedo Cat is the best pet

“5. Your wool is safe with us

Cats love nothing more than unravelling carefully wound balls of wool. Hard to know why really, but it does look kind of fun while they’re at it. We can say with certainty that, with the LEGO Ideas Tuxedo Cat, your grandmother’s knitting bag is safe.”

January 27, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Cat, family, guest blog, humor, knitting, LEGO®, photography, postaday, Tuxedo Cat, Worthington OH, yarn 7 Comments

It’s Pothole Season in Pittsburgh

In the city of Pittsburgh you can call 311 and report a pothole. That doesn’t mean the pothole repair /road maintenance crew will be able to get to your neighborhood immediately. It’s a year round effort in these parts. You really have to watch out for potholes when you’re driving.

Due to the freeze/thaw in our region, this is the time of year when the potholes appear and grow, endangering your tires, axles and suspension system of your car, not to mention alignment.

A guy rolled down his window and said “you should turn around and take a picture of an even bigger one back there”, he pointed.

January 26, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: asphalt, driving, flat tire, freeze thaw, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, pothole, road maintenance, weather, winter 17 Comments

Silent Sunday

Photographed from **MoMA** window by my sister Mary

January 25, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: family, guest blog, Life is beautiful, MOMA, moving truck, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, photography, postaday, signage, silent Sunday, sister 8 Comments

The Year 1950 Exhibit

On January 24, 2020 Laura and Charlie and I went to the Ohio History Center

There was an exhibit about the year 1950. Building the American Dream.

I don’t believe I posted these photos cause several of them were upside down. I righted them and am sharing today.

January 24, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1950, baby names, Columbus OH, Ohio History Center, President, songs exhibit, Vintage auto 14 Comments

Baccala

The other morning I was in the Strip District and saw this salted and dried cod. Then I remembered my friend Donna said I could use her photo of her holding a piece which she used to make the Baccala fish for Christmas.

Here’s one recipe roasted with potatoes

Here’s a site with Baccala recipes one with battered fried pieces to one with tomatoes and capers and onions.

Mark Kurlansky wrote a book about Cod

My friend Donna holding the salted and dried cod which she’d soak to prepare the Baccala for Christmas Eve

Cod: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

“Kurlansky shapes his story around the Basque fisherfolk who, beginning in the Middle Ages, developed the technique of drying and salting cod, and began pushing further and further into the North Atlantic in their search for ever-more abundant fisheries” Kitchen Arts and Letters

January 23, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Baccala, Christmas Fish, COD, Mark Kurlansky, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, recipes, Strip District 14 Comments

Today is a Good Day the Box says

“Always take pics of furniture but ever furniture boxes?” Granddaughter Maura wrote in a text with this photo

I responded “why not?”

Guest blogger today is Maura. Oh she managed to send an abandoned chair too

And the white and blue box says “today is a good day.”

January 22, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: box, chair, Columbus OH, family, Furniture, garbage, guest blog, photography, postaday 6 Comments

Month: January 2025

Allegheny River Two Different Days in January

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The Spicy Bison Chili Won the Chili Cook-Off

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End of January Purchase

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Wordless Wednesday

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Playful Tuxedo Cat with Yarn Ball -Guest Blog

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It’s Pothole Season in Pittsburgh

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Silent Sunday

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