My Uncle Robert on a Tricycle in Durand Illinous
About A Hundred Years Ago
Tag: childhood
Putting Away Childish Things -Guest Blog
Photographed in NYC, by my sister
Have You Ever Played Happy Families?
Some grim tales. A card game from my Childhood.
Each family is made up of 4 cards.
Have you ever played Happy Families?
Happy Families is a traditional British card game usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families, and the game is similar to Go Fish- Wikipedia
Happy Blogaversary -the start of the Twelfth Year
From the smocking period of my life.
Granddaughter Anna in 2007.
Of course, I still have the dress.
1958 Throwback
Poughkeepsie NY 1958
A Birthday Card from 1963
You know I’m always trying to cull the memorabilia around my home. Glad I saved this one as I found it again just in time for today.
This is a birthday card from my mother and father wishing me a happy Fourth of July birthday. The year I turned eleven. 1963. I looked on the back and it’s a Norcross card for 25 cents. I was visiting my godmother in Maybelle, Colorado that birthday. My mother wrote “What a life.to have a ride on a super jet.” The red words are raised and flocked.
A cool find while cleaning out papers in the desk.. my dad’s lengthy messages inside includes an itinerary for my brother’s trip to Philmont Ranch in New Mexico with the Boy Scouts.
There is also a lovely card from my sister from this year, too. Happy Birthday to me😀
Only a Five Year Throwback Thursday
Someone is five years old today.
Stay tuned for a possible photo of the birthday boy. No party due to Pandemic 2020.
June 25th, 2015.
Remembering my father
Father’s Day again and though my father passed almost 18 years ago, you remember.
Every day.
And you miss him.
Honoring all fathers everywhere. Happy Fathers Day.
Beloved Duo Since 1969
My sister Mary embroidered this Bert and Ernie pillow when Mark was little. So at least forty some years ago. I found it while going through a big basket of pillows on the third floor. Their faces make me think of Rubber Ducky and Doing the Pigeon.
I’m partial to Ernie. Do you have a favorite? I’ve a knitting pattern for an Ernie sweater but who would wear it?
“Their names are believed to have been drawn from those of two minor characters in the Frank Capra film It’s A Wonderful Life.
According to A&E’s Biography, Bert and Ernie were… the only Muppets to appear in the Sesame Street pilot episode,screen tested to a number of families in July 1969.” -Wikipedia
First episode Sesame Street date: November 10, 1969
Thoughtful Thursday
