Where the Walls are Soft…

Mr. Hobbit and the Deer – 1942 None of them wanted to find that deer lying bloody on the railroad tracks some morning.Isn’t that a “deer” little picture? That’s actually what Ruby said to me when she passed it over her coffee cup, laughing, but I’m stealing it for myself… I got to see a [...]

“I Heart U”Taken July 13, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 “Now, don’t go gettin’ ahead of me; you’ll ruin the story!”No, not me, silly! Myself, I am quite content with singlehood, as of yet; it’s Ruby that told me this story, and isn’t it high time for another one from our favourite Little Old [...]

Hiding…Taken March 14, 2009 with Canon PowerShot A550 I’m a-skeered to call the betch, for fear she’ll just tell me to shove it.Okay, so maybe it hasn’t been hiding, so much, that I’ve been doing. Maybe, it’s been more like hibernating. I’ve been working and sleeping and getting up long enough to go [...]

Peekin’ Over…Taken March 2, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 YAY!!! It’s another installment of Radio Les! Pusha da Play… When the baby starts barfing up BBQ, it’s time to wake up my mother. Holy shit – 21 days into 2009, and this is my first blog post of the New Year. I should be [...]

Bear ClawTaken March 1, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 “…it’s like holding a bagful of bear cub! It fights back, don’t it?”I found this bear claw in a box full of little trinkets and treasures in my father’s closet nearly a year ago. It was in the same box with his pocket watch, [...]

The 1998 Version of My Aunt Blanche… No, really, let’s compare, shall we? If only to piss off my daughter – who tells me she’ll kill me if I post this, but then laughs out loud when she looks at this photo of herself, so I think I’m all good… Tell me that’s not eerie… Blanche, [...]

Aunt Blanche – 192? The last words Gramma would say to my mom and Helen were always, “And don’t let Blanche do all the work!”Aunt Blanche was my mother’s older sister. She was the first born – and she wasn’t very old before my grandmother realized she was a little, well, different. I [...]

Edible – But You’ll Die, After…Taken August 9, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 She gave me my hat and she showed me the door…Somebody found Where the Walls are Soft by Googling “knickety knackety lyrics”, which piqued my curiosity, as I’d thought Ruby had made up that song… so I Googled it myself, and [...]

Will My Dad Find Out?Taken August 9, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 Even though the evidence was found under my bed… with the date of the crime etched on the label… “Wasn’t me.”Of course, my Dad found out. He always found out everything I was up to, and he always gave me a [...]

Almost EdibleTaken July 1, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 “I’ll bet most people that read your blog have never seen snowshoes!”Ruby wanted me to post a picture of snowshoes for this post. I would have, too, but I couldn’t find any snowshoes to take a picture of, and the ones stealable online were all [...]

Matthew Mansel Falls1920-2008 …I kissed him goodbye, and said “I love you,”…From the time I moved out on my own, right up until my parents moved into the first retirement home, I received a unique gift from them at the end of every summer: enough vacuum-sealed fillets of whitefish to last until the next [...]

Parade Girl – 1956 “They figured Lake Huron would just wash the beach away in a couple of years, and wouldn’t that be just a waste of sand and money?”It didn’t show up in the photo, so Ruby’s sister, who took the original picture back in 1956, wrote what the sign said with a ball-point [...]

4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards EmblemTaken March 1, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 clipped from www.rcaca.org Historical Sketch On 26 January 1941, the Regiment mobilized the 4th (Active) Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. This unit was converted to armour and redesignated 4th Reconnaissance Battalion (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards) on 11 February 1941. The battalion was formed [...]

Joycie, Rex, and Ruby – 1928 The kids would all be lined up, and with the midwife assisting, the doctor would stick them all, assembly-line fashion, no questions asked, no names taken.Hey, a picture is a picture, right? Ruby dug this out especially for me to post here. That’s her on the right, [...]

Ain’t I Angelic… “looking”? You may not be aware, unless you’ve dropped a hamburger patty into the sand, that sand does not scrape off a hamburger patty. Completely. Ah, yes, appearances can be deceiving, though, can’t they? The dog knows differently, you can tell by the look on her face. This picture was taken [...]

…in the Nursing Home, that is. Well, there’s a big difference between dying of Diphtheria and getting stabbed to death by a big Mulatto fella, now, isn’t there?!Yeah, so my dad bought an iPod. My Brother the Trespasser picked it up for him, set it up and showed him how to use it. Dad spent [...]

“Drained”Taken November 17, 2007 with Canon PowerShot A550 “…there’s more old maids married during Leap years than any other.”Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. That’s about the only word I can use to describe how I feel right now. It’s not a bad “blah”, so much as a really, really tired one. It’s also not really a bad “tired” [...]

Team in Winter – Source Unknown AND…. no. It’s not pronounced the way you’re laughing at, either…I found this info while looking for links for this waaaaaay back story of my dad’s that he told me on Saturday. I’m still shaking my head. Ruby says you can’t trust that Internet – and I guess [...]

Ruby’s Mom & Dad – March 23, 1909 ”She didn’t like the idea of letting a strange man in, but she didn’t have the heart to run him off, either…” Meet Ruby’s Mom and Dad. This photo was taken on their wedding day. It took a lot of begging, but Ruby finally let [...]

Now in Assorted Colours! I think those people had it in for poor little Joycie. It’s a wonder she survived childhood.Cardiogirl said that in her comments yesterday, and I’ve adopted it as my new “creed” of sorts. It just works for pretty much everything, wouldn’t you say? Crap piling up? “Be One [...]