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Category Archives: Nostalgia

Time flies like an arrow…

August 2nd? AUGUST 2nd is the last time I posted anything here? How can that be? It seems like yesterday, not three weeks ago. I know I neglect my two blogs fairly often. I’ve often been sucked into that microclimate of Facebook and it’s easy to forget that not everyone is there. Anyway… not much [...]

Vintage tablecloth

Oh, hellloooo. Where have I been for a month? I don’t exactly… know… Working, I guess. We’ve been doing some organizing at home and I finally pulled out these tablecloths that Mama Wolf brought us on one of her visits. I’d never looked too closely at them. This one fits our table perfectly: I’m thinking [...]

Don’t go, Fall. I’ll even rake leaves for you.

When do I have to concede that it’s officially winter? I don’t want to. *sulks* Clouds over a graveyard in Philomath (re-run photo from the blog’s prior life)

Rockin’ the 70′s Crochet Pinafore

A few years ago, my parents cleaned out their garage and sent me pretty much everything that had anything to do with me. I got rid of a bunch of stuff and kept one bin that now contains a few items of clothing, a couple of dolls (remember the vinyl Kewpie dolls?) and teddy bears, [...]

As old as me

My very first teddy bear. I think my mom got this by saving points from paper towel purchases or something like that. She did the yarn stitch jobs. I can’t remember if those are his original eyes. I don’t think I ever named him. He was the best teddy bear for sleeping with, because he [...]

Glasses

These are the glasses I wore when I was 5-6 years old and in 1st grade. (I put the quarter in the photo for scale, because… tiny!)