Chili Dinner
#1 daughter and her family, #2 daughter, #1 son and his family all came over for chili tonight. What a pleasure! We’ve had one kid or another staying with us for a week, and will have #2 daughter’s dog with […]
DNA: Great-grandparents Armand and Berthe
Here they are, Armand and Berthe of Pau, in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques. They were the parents of Lole. When I met him, Armand was known to everyone as Bonpapa. He used an ear trumpet, having become deaf during WWI. His father […]
DNA: Grandparents JoLole
Here are my paternal grandparents. He was born in Bad Liebenzell, in the Black Forest, in 1911, and she was born in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in 1912. She trained as a nurse, but married my grandfather in Canada and […]
A Schedule?
"Today I brew, tomorrow I bake, the next day the queen's child I'll take, For little deems my royal dame that Rumpelstiltskin is my name!" A schedule is a basic tool and has been since at least the time of […]
DNA: My Parents
I'm using Throwback Thursday to start my genealogical journey. I have data back to the Middle Ages, but all DNA journeys have to begin with parents. Mine were born in 1936. He was born in Washington, D.C. and she was […]
Socktober, Baby Feet Edition
This is some amazing self-striping sock yarn my sister sent to me. This is the baby who needs some socks, as you can see from her wiggly pink toes. And here’s the first sock of Socktober.
Gull Stitch
Gull stitch, shown above against the garter stitch, is a simple pattern stitch. It’s seven inches wide and four inches tall, so it can be memorized very quickly and used in many settings. Wrong side rows are always purled and […]
Planner Tweaks
I realized that there was no way to mark the current pages of the Happy Planner, so I used one of the decorative inserts to make a tab. Not sturdy, I’m sure, but careful handling seems to be a requirement […]