Lucky Day. NO LEAD! One Inch Copper Pipes

This is happening all over the city. It was a very exciting day!

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Department checking for lead pipes. Several houses on our street have to have their pipes replaced. We do not.

My grandson called the shovel and dump truck Mighty Machines (which is an educational Canadian Show about all types of vehicles (premiered in 1994) you can find episodes on YouTube.)

They dug a big hole. Then filled it back up.
Ananda went to get his hard hat and little dump truck.
We watched from the car for quite some time –
A “digger” and a dump truck.

A Last Rose

Main Street Lawrenceville.

He knew what to do

Hopscotch drawn on the concrete at the
Super Playground

(He’ll be three on the third of November)

You take a favorite toy and …

You photograph your child/grandchild’s toy around the house, “doing” different activities. You can create a photo book and add some text. They will love it!

Meet Lyle.

I bought Lyle at the Carnegie Museum when grandson Charlie visited about 8 years ago. Charlie gave him his name Lyle.

Charlie is 11 now.

At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History outside the gift shop

I did it for granddaughter Prema’s (now 11) stuffed ballerina dragon, too but that’s another story

Pittsburgh has Mounted Police

Who knew?

As the mounted police walked past our car they waved to my grandson in the back seat. It was such an unexpected scene and so kind of them to wave.

My granddaughter Prema photographed them and this is why one needs to keep the car windows clean !

Born as Early as 1820

From my mother’s hometown of Durand, Illinois.

I think number 3 and 6 are ancestors of mine due to their last names. I see no family resemblance though and I’d best do some more serious research on theh possibility.

But I love this photograph found in my mother’s things.

Rainy Day Sunday

Happy 23rd Birthday Anna

October 10th 2003 Anna Catherine was born. Wishing the loveliest granddaughter a happy 23rd birthday today. ❤️love, Froo

On her first birthday 28 August Anna in Pittsburgh

My Sister Found This in NYC

Under a scaffolding so it wasn’t getting wet in the rain.

The sign said FREE COUCH

Mary texted me this afternoon as she was on her way to our cousin John’s 90th birthday celebration. .

You know I love it when family or friends send me abandoned furniture. I like to think about all the stories the furniture could tell.

Our First First Cousin is XC

Happy Birthday to John B. Van Sickle.

Our mother Marian and his father John R. were siblings.

Of course I knit him a hat!

Emeritus Faculty in Classics and Author of Virgil’s Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse

Why the years are in Roman Numerals!