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Thanks for sharing. What a nice tribute. It's also interesting to see the similarities between your mom and Bekah in their faces.
Remembering Mom
The family is gathering this week to catch up with each other, and to remember my mother, Allene Robson, who died May 31. Here's a representative sample of the group, including Mom (in the light blue sweatshirt), at a previous August gathering: We drove and flew and got here any way we could,...
Thanks for sharing. I just made my contribution. One of my first sweaters was a Penny Straker - a cabled crew neck - for a boyfriend. I didn't find it on their website, so I suspect it is OOP. I was dumped by the guy before I finished the sweater. So, Dad ended up the proud owner.
Penny Straker's knitting patterns
There's a Kickstarter project going right now to fund converting Penny Straker's knitting patterns into digital format. Since every little bit helps, I've kicked in my contribution. There are lots of reasons why, even on a slim budget any spare bits of which tend to go toward the acquisition of ...
I found it oddly reassuring that when my son entered kindergarten they requested regular #2 pencils as one of their supplies. And we discovered that while Crayons are great, they can melt under seats when on winter road trips...where as colored pencils do not. That was a great discovery as you can imagine. Gotta love long road trips.
On the sharpening of pencils
Over the holidays, members of my extended family were discussing real (as opposed to mechanical) pencils. This was in relation to a gift my sister received: a real pencil, and an eraser. It pleased her a great deal. I think there was even a hand-held sharpener included in the package, which was ...
I've had a pretty bad case of wonderlust lately. I do hope you can make this trip - at least I could live vicariously;-) For funding, would you be opposed to setting up a PayPal donation system? Seems that $5 or $10 here or there from folks who would like to help could really add up.
British Isles 2013?
___ I apologize in advance if I'm not very responsive right now. The hard drive (six months old) on my computer (4+ years old) died completely on Friday, which explains the computer's increasingly balky behavior. The drive is under warranty, but at the moment the computer is best suited for use a...
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