February 2025 – Page 2 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Wordless Wednesday

February 18, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Wordless WednesdayTags: ball, bowling alley, photography, postaday, reflection, swimming pool, water 2 Comments

Where Are You From?

I am from patience and grief, Jell-o and corn.

I am from a yellow Pyrex bowl and silver polish.

I am from sheets on the line, handstitched quilts on the bed, wool braided rugs on wood floors.

I am from davenports and stock the larder, dinner bells, and napkin rings

I am from grace before dinner and blessings at bed

I’m from from Dad reading Pilgrim’s Progress in the hall to my brother and me.

I am from Mom reading Anne of Green Gables, Little Women

I am from Brooklyn and Jersey.

I am from Judd and Charlotte, Mary Alta and Floyd.

I am from Marian and Roy.

I am from sour cream cookies and homemade jam, warm whole wheat bread with butter and honey. Raspberries.

I am from knitting and soup, angel food cake, coffee ice cream

and love.

February 17, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: childhood, family, food, parents, photography, postaday 23 Comments

Winter Baking

Easy Cinnamon Rolls from scratch recipe

Need to keep practicing my baking skills.

February 16, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, cinnamon rolls, dough, food, kitchen, photography, postaday, recipe, yeast 21 Comments

February 16, 2018

The Allegheny River flooding the roads downtown in 2018.

February 15, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Allegheny River, archives, bridges, city scene, flooding, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, weather 6 Comments

My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Hendricks’ recipe box. No fewer than five recipes for rolls. Lots of baking cakes. There are Crisp Pickle Chips, a few prize winners clipped from a newspaper one from 1950. I’ve posted some before but I like to touch and read them, find her friends’ names in pencil- Lucille Roberts, Ruth Kiest, Vesta.

Four years ago I posted about my friend Kristin’s husband Rick baking bread and showed her recipe box with a poem in the lid.

Today I’m sharing more of the contents as my friend Vincie suggested recipe cards after a post a couple of months asking if you still use cookbooks

*The faster they boil the nicer they are*

I plan to bake the Orange Cake.

February 15, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, cooking, family, grandmother, handwritten recipes, kitchen, photography, postaday, Recipe box, recipe cards, recipes, yeast rolls 20 Comments

Bayernhof Music Museum

Thursday night my friends and I had the most wonderful musical adventure with a guided tour of the Bayernhof Music Museum in Aspinwall PA. Thank you Judy for arranging this delightful and informative experience. So many different mechanical musical instruments and a wide range of sounds. You’d think you were in Bavaria as Mr.Brown collected not only musical instruments but art and wood carvings, Hummel figurines, antlers, chandeliers and beer steins. You name it, it was on a wall, a mantel or sideboard.

Joel and Georgeann were wonderful hosts. We were introduced to quite a range of instruments including two Reproducing Pianos which is never heard of before. .

Here are a few of the instruments we listened to. The tour is quite extensive and if you come to the Pittsburgh area you should plan a tour. This enormous home was built by Charles B Brown III in 1976 and upon his death became a mechanical musical instruments museum.