Where the Walls are Soft…

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 [...]

She always brought her brother with her, just in case there wasn’t anybody there good enough to see her homeElle, from Maxwell the Tattooed Boy and Other Astounding Joys, wrote about her grandmother in a post yesterday. Her Grandma was a Flapper in the Roaring Twenties, a time that fascinates me (I’m in [...]

“Where the Walls are Soft” as a Groovy-Cool Graph Yes, folks, the poor kid’s hands were growin’ out her elbows.How cool is that?! I was checking out another cool blog called Design Sojourn and found this little gizmo. You type in any url, and it graphs it as you watch. The end [...]

“Little Red Shoes”Taken October 20, 2007 with Canon PowerShot A550 My mom was the teacher you didn’t want to get, because you couldn’t get away with any monkey business, and you might even (OMIGOD!) learn something!The Little Red Shoes sit in my mother’s Etagiere, if I spelled that correctly. Elle? Wanna let me [...]

“Tell that Mushy-Fella that this one’s for him.” I can just see that little house all decked out for Christmas, the table lit after dark with a coal-oil lamp, and a dim but pretty popcorn-laden evergreen in one corner.Ruby, try as she might to insist that she “don’t trust that Internet”, gets a real kick [...]

“…when she didn’t come out for her supper, I got some nervous. When I went to check on her, I was sure she was dead.”You noticed “Ruby” in the header, didn’t you? That’s why you’re here. My stats go waaaaay up when I post about Ruby. You should have seen [...]

“Emma’s Knight”Taken October 20, 2007 with Canon PowerShot A550 By the time you met your fellow inmates, most would be dangerous, psychotic, unrecogniz-able versions of themselves. I must apologize to the memory of my Great Aunt Emma, for this horrible photo of her painting. It’s a water-colour, framed behind glass, hanging in an [...]

Philco Radio, 1941 Bill seemed farther away than ever, and World War II might never end…Jimmy Prentice was somewhat of a local oddball, to hear my parents talk. I don’t know if he actually had a home, or not. My mother talks about how sometimes, just before dinner was set to be “lifted”, [...]

My Dad calls this “Fish Eyes” And at the end of the week, the government didn’t hand those men a paycheck, either.After my Saturday Walk-About to my parents’, I trotted back chock full of stories: “Aunt Blanche” stories… “Jimmy Prentice” stories… stories, stories, stories. I think my parents may be jealous of [...]

“Dewy”Taken October 2, 2007 with Canon PowerShot A550 Ruby has been upset this year because the weather has been bad for her flowers. She spent our second-last visit alternately complaining that her flowers all looked “drug out”, and sighing over the fact that she has too many tomatoes left to “put down” (sometimes she says [...]

He would have looked a lot like this, then… They were about to swarm – he knew they were. This picture was taken, obviously, just before my Dad went overseas during World War II. He was the youngest of the six boys, and the only kid younger than he was, was my Aunt [...]

Ruby’s nephew, Satch, is a lot like she is when it comes to being funny. Just like Ruby, he sometimes comes out with incredibly hilarious one-liners, and then wonders why everybody is laughing. The last time I saw him, we got talking about Sudoku, and how it both fascinates me and frustrates me [...]

Look what Ruby found… “And when I went out there, this thing was sittin’ on top of the paper…”I know, I know, Suzi – I told you she was letting me take her picture. Which she did. Sort of. It was the most I could talk her into; sorry. But isn’t that a [...]

David McMahon wants to know: “What would you like to say to the girlfriend or boyfriend who first dumped you?” After much soul-searching and heart-delving back into the summer of 1976, I believe I would say: “You owe me half a strawberry soda.” Random Song for the Day: “Java” – Al Hirt

“And didn’t some ijit come around that corner and run right into my dad?”Blueberries, that is. Yep. My fridge is now home to a 3-quart basket of blueberries that I bought for 20 bucks. That is not a complaint in any form, either, even after Ruby’s latest foray into yesteryear, shortly [...]

“All the people with blue ribbons would be puffed right up to twice their size.”In 1925, Ruby’s mother took her to the Bruce Mines Fair for the first time. As far as I know, there still is a Bruce Mines Fair, but I don’t imagine it’s near as interesting now as Ruby describes [...]

…strikes me funny that is. Another little collection from “The Landlady”. “She still hasn’t forgiven me for that time I hit her over the head with a shovel.” “I was black and blue from all the pokin’ around.” (About a nurse drawing blood…) “I had the stupidest dream. It was Christmas, and all these dead [...]

Ruby has gotten used to me writing down everything she says, now. She even seems to be looking forward to reading all the stuff I’m making up about her, if I ever get it printed and bring it over. I hope she still feels that way once she reads it. Contrary to what I [...]