Sunday, March 17, 2024

Weekly Roll - St Patty's Edition

doodles in my art journal

 Linky Love

easy way to draw shamrocks - Tim Sevtiz  - Another way to draw easy shamrocks - art projects for kids.

You can't go wrong with a Pistachio Bundt Cake

This book shop in Ft Collins is paying people to sit down and read quietly -sign me up. I have shared this before. I would totally do this.

Capital to Tahoe Trail - New Trail that connects to the Pacific Crest Trail. Carson City to Lake Tahoe. It is 9.8 miles



Inappropriate Thoughts

One of my favorite things to do with my kids and those I watched was to have a Leprechaun Gold Hunt.  I kinda of miss it.  Everyone knows I love a good adventure/hunt. One year I even had a kid make a Leprechaun beard.

trash talk!

Almost every Sunday, we pick up trash at the skate park while our son scooter's the skate bowl.  I thought it would be funny to write a summary of what I thought happened there that week based on the trash we picked up.

Overy hydrated teenagers missing socks practiced first aid all over the park with an extra-large package of Band-Aids using condiments as fake blood except no one used the sacred Allsup's branded taco sauce. 

52 weeks to better health


I have been walking and walking with my new coach my husband. We walked to get burritos. We walked to get coffee. We walked to fill a jug of water. It feels good. The other day we walked one way to get tea and another direction to get breakfast burritos in the rain.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Seed Starting Madness

 


I have started some of my seeds. My last frost date is around April 15-18th.  I started Black Eye Susan's.  They take the longest to germinate. I am using jiffy pellets and dollar tree green houses. 


I also started some dahlia seeds from the Floret Bee's Choice Dahlias I grew last year. I am calling them Heather's Extra Special Dahlia Seeds.  I am curious if they will even germinate.  I did some with the baggie and paper towel and some in my dollar tree greenhouse.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

What I Read March

 I am linking up to Modern Mrs Darcy's Quick Lit.  Check out what everyone else is reading.

I feel like my reading has been taken up almost completely with my book club book.


Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

This isn't a book I would typically pick up. I like Isabel Wilkerson's descriptive writing that forces me to slow down for my reading style. I started this during Black History month.  I am learning a lot about something I know too little about. I usually take notes on book club notes on my kindle scribe, but this has forced me to take pen to paper. This book follows 3 people and their various migration routes. This book is a long one at 543 pages.


The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

This is part of the backlist challenge I am taking part in. This book was published in 2014. It tells the story of the Grimke sisters inspired by Sarah Grimke based loosely on their life stories and the slaves that they grew up with in Charleston, SC. The Grimke sisters were the first female abolition agents and earliest of the feminists. I thought it was an interesting book.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Poinsettia Update


 Yes, the Poinsettia update no one wants.  I have an unnatural ability to be unable to kill the plant. Am I the only one that still has a Poinsettia that is hanging on? This $2 discount one is still hanging on.   

Details on how to keep it as a houseplant - Poinsettia Tips from Krystal

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Weekly Roll Daylight Savings Edition

 


Linky Love

Easy Pineapple Bundt Cake - Easy recipe and delicious

Secret Ingredients to Use in Pasta Sauce - I always put sugar but I thought this was helpful if you need to make sauce from scratch.

Inappropriate Thoughts


Feeling Itchy, Please Advise.   Jen Hatmaker posted that on Instagram. You know the itch to do something different. (the comments are gold) I kind a feel like that too.  So, I made some toilet paper tulips. It just seems on brand for this blog. It scratched that creative itch.


The idea is from Tim Sevitz

Saturday, March 9, 2024

52 Ancestors - Earning a Living

One of the February prompts for 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks was "Earning A Living."  

William McDill Crutcher is my 3rd Great Grandfather on my paternal side. William Crutcher spent the later part of his life being a stone cutter this included gravestones.  William McDill Crutcher was born to William and Rebecca Crutcher in January 1856.  He married Eva Shimp in January 1877, and they had 3 children including my second Great Grandfather Charles William Crutcher, oldest son of Eva and William. William would go on to marry Henerietta Friend after the death of Eva.  They would have 9 children together. William would die suddenly in 1916. 


Photo about 1870
Found on Ancestry.Com

Below is an excerpt from some reembraces of his father, William Crutcher by James Crutcher, youngest child of William and Henrietta Crutcher. 

photo from familysearch.org

My father was one of those old-fashioned marble cutters who would go about the countryside in his surrey carving dates on tombstones in country church yards He was an excellent artisan, and regularly cut from granite and marble exquisitely detailed and beautiful images of angels and wreaths and open books and harps.

He was widely known about Lancaster, Ohio and its rural environs. He was called upon many times to carve the cornerstones of churches and buildings. With his mallet and chisels he would cut the date of construction and the name of the building into hard stone, sometimes in raised lettering, for which he would charge a higher fee. His regular job was with a small firm called the Danison Monumental Works, that dealt in monuments and gravestones. He worked there for 18 years.



After he died, when my mother and I would visit Forest Rose Cemetery and stand over his grave, I sometimes would ask her why he didn't have a large monument placed there. Mother would usually ignore the question and speak of something else. I didn't realize, of course, that it was a question of money which prevented it.

One day, however, she answered my question, and I was never perturbed about it again. She said, " no one could carve one as good as he could, besides he has a great many monuments. All the monuments you see around you are his. The whole cemetery is his monument."

Mother didn't permit me to forget my father. She always told me to remember that he was a good man.

picture at find a grave