Where the Walls are Soft…

The Burglar FrogTaken July 29, 2009 with Canon PowerShot A550 I think she’s starting to enjoy the notoriety of being my Blog Star, such as it is. Ruby has this motion sensor frog ornament in her breezeway. I don’t like the thing, because I forget that it’s there, and every time I go to [...]

A Letter from Overseas-1944Taken June 18, 2009 with Canon PowerShot A550 “How are you and the cows getting along in the mornings? “In three days’ time, my father will have been dead for a year. I have a hard time believing that. Sometimes, it feels as if he’s been gone forever. Other times, I [...]

Can’t you just smell the testosterone?Taken July 8, 2009 with Kodak DX7440 It wasn’t until we were all at the supper table that I discovered I’d been had.My father had a quirky sense of humour. More than anything, at least it seemed to me as a child, he liked to get one over on [...]

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… Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. When the baby starts barfing [...]

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” [...]