I’ve never knew a balloon to stay inflated for such a long time.
Barely Deflated 6 Months Later
Month: February 2025
Bumpy Skin Mandarin
A Golden Nugget Mandarin has bumpy skin but is sweet and tastes delicious upon opening and eating!
Remembering
From past blogs and archives if you’ve been following me you’ve seen the photos before but I want to honor and remember an important person in my life who influenced what I do most days. Knit!
Honoring my paternal Grandmother born on February 7, 1892
Heritage
Ben H at WordPress says “This week, share a photo of something that says “heritage” to you. It can be from your own family or culture — a library, a work of public art, a place of worship, an object passed down to you from previous generations.”
Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks my paternal grandmother. Farmersville, Illinois. She taught me to knit when I was four years old.
She knit the Afghan and made the quilt. She’d tat snd crochet, too. I held the quilt to the window so the light could show how beautifully it is pieced and hand stitched.
My father Roy J. Hendricks is the boy standing on the left. Uncle Alan Hendricks is the baby on my grandmother’s lap. My grandfather is standing, Floyd Merle Hendricks.
From 3 years ago post
Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks, my paternal grandmother, was born in 1892 She went by the name Alta. When my father was born they lived in Farmersville, Illinois. One summer my brother and I stayed with our grandparents and she taught me to knit. It was yellow yarn is straight aluminum needles. They were red. I was four years old.
This is just from the time she resided in a Nursing Care Center in Taylorville, Illinois. My grandmother kept a list of the afghans and shawls she knit for others during this period of her life.
Written inside the cover of her copy of The Book of Common Prayer.
One more vintage postcard
My father would send these fun postcards to us. This one is postmarked March 1994.
Four years ago I posted some of these mischievous cat postcards. You can click link to see the other four. The artist was Eugen Hartung from Switzerland
While looking for a book in the shelf, I found one more.
The artist signed his initials in the corner in a heart which I never noticed before but I read that on Mousebreath
The Hartung postcards were first published in Switzerland by Max Kunzli of Zurich and then(from the 1940’s onwards) by the Alfred Mainzer Company of Long Island New York. Each card is signed with the artist’s monogram, a little heart in the lower right corner. (Because of cropping, sometimes the heart gets chopped off.)
One of the cards from the old post
Another Ghost Sign
A Bowl of Pears
IKEA’s Pressa Hanging Dryer Surprise…
Along with chocolate-filled heart-shaped cookies, a box of delicious tea and other sundries.
My friend Joanne shipped a surprise box to me a few days ago and look what was inside.
An Octopus with 8 folding arms and 16 clips – a hanging dryer called Pressa from IKEA.
Look how perfectly it holds my handknit socks. It even matches my bathroom tile.
Thank you for the lovely gifts, Joanne. A fun surprise.
Reblogging Groundhog’s Day
Through the years on the blog.Happy Groundhog’s Day.
Groundhog’s Day first celebration in Punxsutawney was in 1886.
Snippets from previous Groundhog’s Day Posts. If you want more pics or details, click on underlined links.
Let’s see if there is a clear day with a shadow or an early Spring for 2017.
History of Groundhog’s Day– from Stormfax
“IF CANDLEMAS DAY IS BRIGHT AND CLEAR,
THERE’LL BE TWO WINTERS IN THE YEAR.”
Groundhog Day Filmed in Woodstock Illinois
Punxsutawney Phil Declares 6 More Weeks of Winter
Shout out to Kyle Kline on the bass
And yes we were there Me. Laura and my sister Mary
Groundhog Sports Black and Gold Beads
Groundhog BrewSkumps Groundhog
Groundhog Day Movie Capture Pittsburgh SkylineThe Pittsburgh Skyline before all the neon signs on the buildings
