So, um, I rode the bicycle to and from work today ( Read more... )

So I got back on my newly refurbished bicyle yesterday after not riding it for.... ummmm... it may be as much as fifteen years. I am sure it's at least ten ( Read more... )

I had a couple of hours Friday, all afternoon Saturday and about three hours Sunday with my Dad. He continues about the same -- more awake and verbal some days than others, spends most of his time sitting quietly in a chair watching TV (though I'm not sure how much of it he can actually see or hear ( Read more... )

My philosophy for many years has been to treat today as celebrating Love of all kinds. Today I'm especially celebrating my Dad, who turned 92 today! I love him so much, and he's slowly fading away, as elderly Dads do ( Read more... )

We were let out of work early today, and I was very thankful because it meant I didn't have to choose between doing my last remaining shopping tonight in the dark or tomorrow morning in all the madness ( Read more... )

So.... part of the recent family visit to sort through the remaining stuff from my Dad's old house involved a baby grand piano. The house is a 3-story Victorian with plenty of space, so the piano has sat in one of the front rooms (the "Music Room") since we moved in there in 1962. It was bought with the house, partly because moving a baby grand ( Read more... )

Does anyone else remember seeing children walking in a "crocodile" -- a long line of two by two? I hadn't thought of that term in years, until this summer ( Read more... )

I was both amused and appreciative last night to hear some rather odd Christmas carolers touring the neighborhood. They were 100% heart and very little talent -- they didn't have much success in staying on key or anything like it, and were clearly working from whatever words and tunes they could remember (with some "la la la" here and there). " ( Read more... )

Awesome article about the whys, wherefores and the way we go about making reproductions, by Jay Gaynor, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of Historic Trades. 18th century but relevant to all historical re-creations, I think.

This article will probably soon be making the rounds of every historically oriented mailing list near you....

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Random ramblings ( Read more... )