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Category Archives: The g-kids
~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~
Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here. But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out to be some … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Doing Things, Family, Fun Stuff, Making Things, Memories and Ruminations, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The g-kids
Tagged Andy, Cammon, dresses, fall, Gigi, Guy, Halloween, Lorri, Scooter, sewing
30 Comments
~:: Christmas Day ::~
So, Chaz came to stay overnight on Christmas Eve, as she always does. But she did not get up before dawn. Neither did we. The kids were all going to show up at about nine, so the following pictures are … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Family, Fun Stuff, Gin, HappyHappyHappy, holidays, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids
Tagged Andy, Cam Lorri, Chaz, Christmas Day, dogs, dress, fish, Guy, joy, Laura, Mother Jean's goblets, Murphy, Scooter
13 Comments
~:: Odd Gifts by Hand ::~
For those who choose to live in far-away places (even not so very far-away is far), gifts have to be chosen or made and wrapped and in some way conveyed across space long before the Great Holiday happens. I really … Continue reading
Posted in Felt stuff, holidays, Making Things, Stuffed things, The g-kids, The kids
Tagged Christmas, fish, Gin, Perry, presents
6 Comments
~:: 365 Dollars Short ::~
The last time I really felt like telling a story here – I mean, that feeling that drives you to put things into words – was last year. A year ago. And I didn’t do it. It was on a … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Events, Family, Fun Stuff, holidays, Rachel, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids, The outside world
Tagged family, june, last year, Lorri, Rachel, racing
23 Comments
~:: Being Connected ::~
I came from a tiny family – three of us kids. But my parents came from tinier ones: two kids in each family. I had one uncle (and his wife) and one aunt (and her husband). Four cousins in one … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Events, Family, friends, The g-kids, The kids, The outside world
Tagged being part of something, death, family, freedom, friends, love
22 Comments
~:: and back to our regular programming ::~
First, for your pleasure: a March sunset. Looks like the river is just a little bit on fire – Second: what I should have announced two weeks ago. Two weeks ago? REALLY? (blinks a few times and takes a bracing … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Family, Fun Stuff, HappyHappyHappy, The g-kids
Tagged baby, cameras, Gigi, hospital, siblings
28 Comments
~:: Yes . . . er . . . ::~
Here’s something I saved till Christmas. And then forgot to do. Give you. Give me, thinking I’m giving it to you. Yes. Our Christmas picture. I browbeat the children into all getting together with Cam’s Big Lights and everything. Then. … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Events, Family, Fun Stuff, HappyHappyHappy, holidays, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids, Visits
Tagged April Fools, cameras, Christmas card, Easter hunt, Genealogy, spring
14 Comments
~:: Inversion ::~
A day late, and in this economy – lucky to be a dollar short. But here is my traditional Valentine’s greeting, to all who have been kind and patient with me – my dear friends, my lovely valentines! Finally: the … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, dumb stuff, holidays, Light, Making Things, Seasons, snow, The g-kids, The kids, whining
Tagged Christmas lights, dogs, fog, ice, sledding, smog, snow, Valentine
29 Comments
~:: Gratitude ::~
Where I’ve been. Assuming anybody is still there, remembering me and wondering. Snow on the ground. Fire in the sky. I haven’t been on-line at all for weeks (read: months) except for occasional bouts of Facebook—the conversational equivalent of Twinkies—when … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Family, holidays, Seasons, The g-kids, The kids, whining
Tagged family, fraud, Thanksgiving, ticket
21 Comments