Early March – Maple Sugar time
A Vermont Maple Sugar Camp
Reverse side – note the Postmark. The card was postmarked South Walden Vermont, 1912. The writer had been having a lovely time in the “old Green Mountains”.
Saddled up
This another image like the Schooner which I posted a while ago – I just like the shades of black and white.
Schooner
The 2 images are quite different but pleasing in their respective tones.
Samoan Girls Preparing Kawa
At the end of our 2 years in Fiji, we brought home a bowl like this. Another item to find a new home if we ever sell our house.
Where are your voices now??
“You are the music while the music lasts.” -T.S. Eliot
It feels like we’ve lost a week here. Since Sunday the boys have been sick. Caitlin succumbed on Thursday and had to be brought home from school in the early afternoon. Ashley is currently very drippy and I fear James and I are not far behind them all 😦
All of this has meant a delay in posting about our recital which took place the weekend before last. First of all, we had a great time. Grandma and Granddad joined us and both Ashley and Caitlin had friends show up to support their first recital. Given that Krista lives and teaches in our community their were quite a few families out in the audience that we knew. This also meant a lot of faces I recognized when I stood up to perform my solo. Yikes!
Below are the videos of…
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Sunrise
Grandad and baby
Is this Slinki-Malinki?
Definitely Slinki-Malinki
Who is this cat? She was definitely ours but I can’t place her in the long list of “McKee” cats. The picture was taken in the courtyard of our Dublin house.
Slinki-Malinki was a cat character in a children’s book that we had in Dublin. I liked the name so I chose it for a black cat that we had there. The cat below was our Slinki.
Slinki-Malinki
Time marches on. June 1958 marked my college graduation. I am working on an essay for the yearbook that will be compiled for the occasion. Below is a photo from the big day in 1958.
My Aunt Libby, Cousin Betsy, Janet the graduate, my mother, my sister-in-law Lil, June 1958
Moving on from June 1958, there were graduate studies at Northwestern University, the University of California Berkeley, and University College Dublin,, much travel, marriage for 54 years, 3 sons, 9 grandchildren. Does moving to a Retirement Home with Assisted Living in Seattle the last stop? I do not think so. I have much to look forward to – engaging with new friends as well as old, and I have 2 long term projects which are keeping me busy and engaged. My current passions are genealogy and postcard collecting. And I have an ongoing blog, Janet’s Thread, for which I try to write an entry each day. Plus I am still active in the fibre arts scene as a weaver, knitter, and crocheter.
An old postcard of Le Chateau
At my weaving loom in Bhutan – We lived there for 2 years – a rich experience in the Himalayas. It’s a bit misleading to include this photo since I no longer have the big loom and I don’t weave at that scale – but I couldn’t resist!
So much information. Wonderful fossil finds.
The Hagerman Formation, a layer of sand and silt compressed to fragile sedimentary rock, is part of the larger Idaho Group. It’s world famous as the source of the Hagerman fossils. A large piece of the Formation is preserved as the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, which has produced thousands of fossils across more than 220 species. The most famous fossil is probably the Hagerman Horse, a Pliocene era, zebra-sized ancestor of the modern horse. But the fossil beds also contain everything from mastodon fossils to sabertooths (saberteeth?) to shrews.
The Hagerman Formation is a small element of the deep layers mud, sand and gravel deposited by the series of ancient lakes that are collectively known as Lake Idaho. At some of Lake Idaho’s various peak levels, it extended from 60 miles west of Boise east to the Twin Falls area. Boise itself was Lake Idaho lakebed, hundreds of feet…
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