I let Charlie set the pace.
We went to the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum today.
Charlie was a was a terrific museum goer.
Heart Pavilion sculpture by Dan Graham
At the Museum
Heart Pavilion sculpture by Dan Graham
Month: August 2025
Heart Pavilion sculpture by Dan Graham
A Surprising Spot for a Jukebox
Seen on the tour of the USS Requin submarine at the Carnegie Science Center.
I couldn’t imagine being in a submarine underwater for 3 months.
Silent Sunday
Canada Geese Crossing
Photographed by Charlie (10) as we left the pool to head home.
Dynamic Duo on the Job
Two guys, each in their own cherry picker bucket.
Happy Birthday Laura
I still didn’t throw them out
I used to have a blog called Keep or Pitch. I’d put up a photo of an item in my house and take a vote. Keep or Pitch? The idea was to move items out the door, to the curb, downsize, discard. A few blog readers received a ceramic squirrel, a book. I only regret mailing off some quilt pieces.
But here are the farmyard animals in a cloth, smoked ham bag from yesteryear.
I’ve blogged these rubbery farm animals twice before in 2010 and 2018 with the title What I couldn’t throw out.
Well here we are in 2025.
And they resurfaced.
Again.
TAG: FARM ANIMALS
WHAT I COULDN’T THROW OUT
First posted almost 8 years ago. Mark is now 42.
The kids all grown up and gone now, I’m still going through stuff in my house. Trying to clean it all out.
These animals with their faces, ugh.
Do you find it easy to throw things out?
From 2010.
Purchased in 1977 in New York City at Creative Playthings. Rubbery farm animals. Nice to clutch and carry around when you’re almost two. I bought them for baby Mark who’s 34 now. Maybe the paint is unsafe for the grandchildren, plus they have a hole in their stomach so whatever dirt and mold in the basement the past 20 years is living inside them. I put them in the contractor bag to drag to the curb and I swear the cow’s eyes looked at me.
I took them out.
Photographed them.
Editors note: 2025. Mark is 49’now
How Many Market Bags Do You Have? a guest blog
Joanne took the photo and asked ….
“How many market bags do you have? Colleen has well over 30! But to be fair, she does live in Canada where you have to provide your own bags when shopping…”
Are there any insulated bags in her collection?
I have at least ten. There are so many different styles. I do have knitting in some of the market bags used as project bags so I’d better up the number to fifteen. The ones in the trunk of my car number seven.
I’ve gone into the store and left the bags in the car. oops!
Whisper Dishes Work
There’s 60 feet between the Whisper Dishes in the Big Science Park outside at CoSI.
That’s Charlie in the teal shirt. He whispers and I can hear him, clear as a bell, all those sixty feet away. Amazing.
“Whisper dishes, also known as acoustic mirrors, are parabolic-shaped devices that collect and reflect sound waves, allowing for communication over distances, even at a whisper. They work by focusing sound waves onto a focal point, where they can be easily heard, and then reflecting those waves to another dish, where they are focused and amplified again”
