Ivy, Grandpa and the Great Salt Lake Now that there are seventeen of you I am struggling to keep up. It was only recently that I looked back through all of the photographs on my computer and found these. These are scanned photographs since my non-digital photos are not on …
Fifteen Years Ago My first really nice camera was a Canon 35 mm. It was a beautiful camera and required actual film. If you don’t know what film is you may ask your parents because they will remember. * I was very careful about the number of photographs I took …
Not everything I find in a thrift store is a treasure. Most things are just interesting things that someone else has grown tired of looking at and I have found to be just the thing for me to look at until I am tired of looking at the thing and …
In the early summer, my yard flowers are pink, purple and white. Now and then there is a yellow and an occasional red. As the summer progresses, the white daisies fade the Baby’s Breath goes dry and the hardy, fall-colored flowers come into their own. It is wonderful to walk …
Family Gathering 2019 We love hammocks. We have three, as an afterthought I remembered how many times I had seen the children in them. Many, Many, times. Sometimes a child was reading and sometimes a child was sleeping. Now and then a child was hiding. We have had hammocks for …
Family Gathering 2019 Little kids like to crash. This hill, on the side of our home, is steep and long. Even big kids like to ride the small vehicles down the hill and purposely crash at the bottom. Of course, the bottom of the hill is covered with soft, summer …
Family Gathering 2019 This little afterthought has to do with the playroom. I think that the playroom is more for my satisfaction than for the satisfaction of my grandchildren. Could that be true? Everything has a place and most of the toys and books and art have been thrifted. That …
Family Gathering 2019 (Maya, Quincy and Tucker.) Grandpa built our sandbox sixteen years ago. He has refreshed it with new sand now and then but the same shade cloth is overhead and a nice big bamboo blind slides down easily to block the afternoon sun. There are plenty of buckets …
Family Gathering 2019 Afterthoughts are little things that we did during our annual gathering which did not involve everyone but were worth mentioning. Often I had only taken one photograph of a moment and so, that is what I will use to remember things. Grandpa and I bought six sets …
Family Gathering 2019 By Special Request We have seventeen grandchildren. That doesn’t mean that all seventeen play with Moon Sand. A few are college-age and one is brand new. The best time to make Moon Sand is when only a few are on hand. Our grandchildren usually remind us of …
