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Sunday Share: A Witty Lens

First of all: IF I ASKED YOU ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO IF YOU WOULD BE WILLING TO LET ME SHARE YOUR BLOG, AND THEN NEVER SHARED IT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I have this sinking feeling that I forgot about some’s share. I have been able to get posting really ahead of time, which makes…

August, 1940: Part Two

Here is Part One: August, 1940: The Trip Here is something not to be missed while Babu is on vacation with Jakey in Amsterdam, NY and staying with Ann and Paul: Sunday, August 11th, 1940 We slept late and attended 12 o’clock mass at the Shrine of Auriesville. After dinner we went swimming again but…

Searching for Stanley: Part One

Yesterday I went to the cemetery. As I told you in yesterday’s post, The Rescued Photo did some research on a kid who died when Babu and he were in high school based on a post I wrote from her diary. Some of the information she gave me was that Stanley was buried in St….

Throw Back Thursday: Stanley Midura

I recently had a wonderful favor done for me. It wasn’t something I asked for but it came out of the blue and was a lovely surprise. The lovely blogger The Rescued Photo has been reading through the blog, from the beginning, which first of all warms my heart. Let me be very clear: as a…

Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow: Part Two

Wednesday came around again and I decided I just wasn’t done writing about this. Before you begin this post, refresh your memory about last week’s post, if you wish. Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow Also, please check out last Thursday’s post as well where I explain the picture of Babu and Ernie by…

The Past and Present

I took a dare I made with myself yesterday and I shared a passage with Babu. The dare was to give it one more try, see if it is as bad as I think it is every time. I started with asking her if she remembered writing in a diary every day and she absolutely…

August, 1940: The Trip

This epic vacation Babu and Jakey take deserves first billing when it comes to telling you the stories from August, 1940. It was a romantic vacation for two, and it was not initially meant to be that, exactly. Tuesday, July 30th, 1940 The heat wave is still holing us in it’s grip. Cookie and I…

Sunday Share: My Own Private Lilliput

I have been following Subatomic Tourism’s blog for quite a while. I make a little pit stop, enjoy my time, and go about my day with a smile. It’s a curious little blog. It’s certainly different and it will be possibly difficult to explain why I like it, but I absolutely love it. Some of…

We Had Some Narrow Escapes

Were cars in 1940 harder to drive or is Babu just really bad? Sunday, April 7th, 1940 Maybe I spent all of a half hour at home today. After church Jakey took me riding and gave me my first driving lesson. He got provoked a few times but on the whole we did well. Admittedly,…

July, 1940

I love when I get to write about the month I am currently in. When I read something like: Cookie and I lolled around with cooling drinks on our front porch in the bright moonlight. I can say to myself, wow, that sounds nice. What’s even crazier, is that I can go out on the…

Throw Back Thursday

Since I am so obsessed these days with airplanes and flight, I thought I’d go back to a post that explains the image I used in yesterday’s post: Blessed Life! This is a post about passages from 1937. I thought the picture from way back then would be a great one to put in my…

Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow

A rumble, kind of a cracking rumble. A kind of cracking, tearing, rumble. And then it is out from behind the clouds, overhead, and then gone. Fighter planes and stunt men, and much, much more, put on quite a quite a show at Westover Airforce Base this weekend. What could be better than standing on…