Month: April 2024

Cindy called a couple weeks ago to tell me our friend Rhonda was playing in a concert on the twenty-fourth.  The concert would begin at one o’clock, and Cindy said she’d pick me up at noon.       “I want to bring cookies,” she added.  “Do you think a hundred will be enough?”      I put… Continue reading Concert Cookies

Women from around the world modeled and talked about traditional clothing in their countries of origin during a fashion show at yesterday’s meeting of International Neighbors.  Most like one other in what they chose to wear were the four ladies from Japan, all of whom wore what they described as summer kimonos, made of cotton… Continue reading Fashion in Clothes and Words

We got to see a solar eclipse on Monday.  Weather forecasts leading up to the big day did not look good, but the day dawned bright and clear.  And, while some wispy clouds moved in as the hours went by, they didn’t obscure the sun.      Southeastern Michigan wasn’t in the path of totality, but… Continue reading Eclipse

Daughter Number One is a geocacher.  In fact, she is a geocaching nut.  She loves to geocache.  What, pray tell, is geocaching?  Someone hides a log in a container of some kind and posts the coordinates and hints for others to find it and write their name on the log.  The container may be itty… Continue reading Geocaching Daughter

Did you know camellias grow on trees?  Daughter Number Three identified a glossy-leafed tree with big pink blossoms as a camellia when Daughter Number Three and I asked her about it.  She’d planted it herself.  Once we knew what to look for, we saw camellias everywhere we went in North Carolina.  The same was true… Continue reading Camellias