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 …
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 There is nothing unusual about feeding horses when you come to Grandma’s house. There are some favorites of course and for very good reasons. There are horses in the field and in the stalls and sometimes in the corral. Tucker likes Pip. Pip is a tiny horse …
A Quick and Simple Post With a Lesson This is Tucker. Tucker is showing you his flip-flop. Can you guess where Tucker has been? Yes. That’s Right. He has been feeding the horses at Grandma’s house. What are those little things in his shoe? They are Goat Head Stickers. But, …
You can stop now. That is what I always say to the little people in my life who are called grandchildren. Stay four. Don’t turn five, yet. Every parent knows the feeling when a sweet and special child gets too big to do things that are cute. Naturally cute. How …
(Top plates are Pioneer Woman from Wal-Mart.Under plates are Rachel Ray from DI for $1 each.) Make It Merry and Bright The easiest thing to do is to buy perishable paper products at the store, including brightly colored paper cups, gold plastic utensils and call it good. I am …
THE PLAYROOM I have decided to add some posts to my blog that are of the philosophical kind. To date, I have not been particularly inclined to do so but lately my heart has persuaded me that there are some thoughts and observations I simply want to remember. One, is …
Potato Time Grandpa picked up the phone and called around. He wondered if anyone was interested in helping him dig up his potatoes ? He knew that everyone was busy. If they couldn’t come, he would just take his time or try for another day. . . sometime before …
SIGNS OF FALL Autumn is finally coming. The light is changing and the air is cooler. There are magnificent contrasts of orange and yellow and brown. Most of the fruit is off of the trees, including the pears. Some fruit is on the ground which makes the bees happy. Some …
We have given away bushels of peaches. Even though the trees were trimmed in the spring, thinned when the peaches were little and green, the harvest was unexpectedly generous. The first thing I made with the peaches was a pie for Grandpa. Peach Pies are his favorite pies. I made …
