Look what Laura sent me.
She was walking and saw the abandoned chair. ❤️
A guest blog today.
Thanks for thinking of me Laura.
No Parking in Alley
Month: February 2025
It’s Jupiter
Jupiter = sky father
Most nights the city skies aren’t clear enough to see the planets but we came back from dinner and it was so bright.
Far away but noticeable.
I’m capturing with just a phone but checked the Sky Guide app to identify it.
How far away from Earth is Jupiter?
Answer : varies due to elliptical orbit according to this article but average is approx 461 million miles. (Reports vary)
My Grandmother Taught Me Huck Embroidery
Embroidering on the vertical threads of the fabric surface.
This towel was embroidered by me in 1966. It’s called Swedish Embroidery or Swedish Weaving too. My father’s mother, who taught me to knit, taught me this design to embellish a linen towel. I remembering pulling threads with a needle to fringe the bottom edge
I discovered you can still get the Huck Toweling Fabric or Kits to embroider the towels.
Here’s a Beginners Video if you want to try it.
An article from PieceWork Magazine says…
“The French know this embroidery technique as broderie suedoise (Swedish embroidery); Italian needleworkers refer to it as punto filza (running stitch). In Spain, the same type of needlework is bordado Yugoslavo (Yugoslavian embroidery) or punto de llama (flame stitch). Ponto oitinho (eight stitch) is the Portuguese name for a strictly pictorial version of the technique in which designs are composed of rows of figure-eight (twisted-loop) stitches. A similar type of Portuguese embroidery, ponto vagonite (vagonite refers to the ground fabric), employs all the traditional huck-embroidery stitches”
“Huck embroidery, sometimes called huck weaving or Swedish weaving, is a form of embroidery that blends a bit of surface embroidery with weaving. Its name comes from huck cloth, which is the most common material used for this style, and as its alternate name suggests, huck embroidery originated in Sweden”
Update 12:34 Thursday 2/27
Look what just found at the library
Illegible at the Red Light
Are these words the remnants of a Pittsburgh ghost sign or a botched graffiti clean up? do you see Lawrence? The word FRESH?
See more Pittsburgh ghost signs here
Feb 24, 2021 From the Archives
Howard Johnson’s Vintage Ad
“Howard Johnson’s restaurants originally started as a single location opened by Howard Deering Johnson in 1925 and grew into a substantial restaurant chain in the decades that followed.” Click his name to see what he looked like
“…, his favorite food was ice cream, which he maintained was “not fattening.” He ate at least one cone a day, and he kept 10 distinct flavors in the freezers of his seven-room Manhattan penthouse and at his home in Milton Massachusetts”
The 28 flavors as this sticker shows. Available here Teepublic
I would choose coffee.
No more Howard Johnson’s ice cream!
Silent Sunday
Jellybeans Laura Found
Thanks for spotting these Jellybeans, Laura. Fun photo. Not sure about the flavor!
Thanks Laura for thinking of me when you saw these beans.
Stop Animation video in Jelly Beans! 14 million views it’s pretty cool.
Jellybean Art in the JellyBelly Art Gallery. Elvis’ portrait in Jellybeans?
Guess How many jelly beans in a quart jar blog post from 2013
Brothmonger Soup Cafe in Bloomfield
Last week Steve brought home a quart of Potato Leek soup. Oh was it so good on a seriously cold winter night! He bought it at Brothmonger– Pittsburgh Based Soup Cafe
It’s almost right across the street diagonally (in the next block) from West Penn Hospital in the Bloomfield Neighborhood.
Ingredients are listed for all the soups as well as symbols if the soups are Vegetarian, Gluten Free, or Vegan options. In the Grab n Go Fridge there was a White Chicken Chili available, a Curry, Clam Chowder, Stuffed Pepper and the Broccoli Cheddar.
There’s a video below so you can meet the Brothmonger who started her soup business on social media.
You can read a review here
I dropped off a quart of Broccoli Cheddar Soup with potatoes, along with a loaf of crusty Mancini bread to my friends’ home. This morning I received this wonderful photo
I so happy you & Jack enjoyed Brothmonger’s soup.
P.S. your hand embroidered napkin is so pretty
Hours
Thursday10 AM–4 PM
Friday10 AM–4 PM
Saturday10 AM–4 PM
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10 AM–4 PM
Wednesday10 AM–4 PM
Here’s a YouTube video so you can meet the Brothmonger Sarah McAleer
Night of the Living Dead Museum
I thought the 1968 George Romero Film Night of the Living Dead was really scary.
It was just before 2024 Christmas and my sister was visiting. We were near the Monroeville Mall to pick up a pair of shoes so why not check out this museum?
Some of the movie was filmed here at the mall. I treated.
If you’re a horror flick aficionado you need to visit.
“ Although the monsters that appear in the film are referred to as “ghouls“, they are credited with popularizing the modern portrayal of zombies in popular culture.”
