In Which I Let My Freak Flag Fly

16 July 2010

I need to tell you something.  I can trust you with this, right?  I mean, it’s a little odd…but I know you won’t make fun of me, because people on the internet are never mean like that. So there’s this conference.  It’s called Laurapalooza.  I’m not making this up:  It’s a conference for Laura Ingalls [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Thirty Degrees Below Zero

7 July 2010

The back reads: Minnehaha Falls[,] Minneapolis Taken by Bert E. Buzzell, in 1897 Now at 2157 Echo Park Ave LA [Los Angeles] Photographer 30 Below Zero I froze my nose this day. I’m not certain who the people in the photo are, although I believe the woman is probably Ida Johnston Rolfe Smith, my grandmother’s [...]

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The Gift

6 July 2010

On this day in 1847, my grandparents gave me a gift. That’s the day the Johann Jacob Scheiber and his wife Christine Engel Meier/Mayer arrived in New York on the brig Johannes Christoph from Germany.  They left their home in Trechtingshausen with their five-year-old son Frank, four-year-old Frederick, and a baby girl who had been [...]

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I Like These Books. You Should Read Them.

28 June 2010

It’s summer, and apparently other people have summer reading lists.  I wouldn’t know, because this year I have a summer painting list instead.  I’m sanding, priming and painting all of the trim in my house (and please don’t tell me that trim should never be painted, because you haven’t seen THIS trim, which is beyond [...]

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