Watercolor Easter Bunny - Mine is a little rough - pic above
Watercolor Daffodil - I want to try this painting
Bridgerton Season 3 - What there is to know about season 3. I am a fan. Is anyone else a fan? May 16, 2024 seems like a wait.
30 Easter Desserts -Yum from Good Cheap Eats
Inappropriate Thoughts
We are having misdelivered Turkey again for Easter. The previous owners of Nonna's house once again got a smoked Turkey for Christmas. Thanks again for the turkey.
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Dolly Patron has her own line of Lodge Cast Iron
3 Hip Stretches - My hips have been tight. I can't do all of them but helpful.
Inappropriate Thoughts
Has anyone watched Irish Wish? It is on Netflix and stars Lindsay Lohan. It isn't good. My husband wanted me to describe the plot. Describing it actually made it worse. He said it shouldn't be called Irish Wish because she really didn't get her wish. LOL
52 Weeks of Wellness
Trash Talk
Well last weekend was the weekend before Spring Break.
Who amongst you has lost a sock and their Mom's Mini Van floormat to the middle row? Your Mom is pissed. Apparently, there was a pre–Spring Break ranch dressing fueled rager in the parking lot with every local fast-food restaurant was represented. A boat load of ranch was consumed by the number of packets covering the parking lot. Only 3 empty alcoholic drinks were found of the hard Monster variety highly unusual for this park. This must have been the pre-teen crowd. All of this to say you only left us 50 cents in dirty money. Dirty Money would make an awesome band name.
We also saw this graffiti that was pretty interesting by the Pecos River.
Just a little Easter shelfie. My Mom sent home with me some of my embroidery. These rabbits are like over 40 years old. I am old. I thought they added a little something to the shelfie. I thrifted the floral plate behind the rabbit from a local thrift shop. The ceramic eggs I thrifted long ago. Not entirely satisfied with this shelfie but it was fun. The top shelf needs more work.
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
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 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.
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.
Details on how to keep it as a houseplant - Poinsettia Tips from Krystal
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.
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.
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