Where the Walls are Soft…

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

…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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]