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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

“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” [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]