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Home again, home again....
Aug. 15th, 2010 08:58 pmWe are safely returned from a weekend with the folks. I'm sleepy-tired, but everybody had a good time. Both girls got sufficiently soused with grandparental affection. Fresh raspberries and peaches were consumed in quantity.
The Great Lakes Feis was today, so we dragged Anneliese - who normally enjoys this, but was so upset about being parted from Grandma that she mostly cried and whined. New reel shoes were acquired - and new poodle socks. She MIGHT like these shoes better, as they have a bit stiffer sole and more pad in the interior. We've gone from Antonio Pacelli to Rutherford, for the sole reason that they fit. ;-) I twiddled a bit about saving the old one for Rori, but I think I'll sell them in the Academy newlsetter instead, and get Rori new ones if/when she takes it up herself. I suspect she will - the exposure at this age is going to give her a taste for the glitz.
Much talk was managed again on the trip, and more will follow on that later. But I'd like to look into making John a wheel lock pistol. ;-) *helpies, plz?* Nothing functional - just a decorative one to go with his German stuff.
I also raided Mom's cookbook collection for vintage elements. Hee! I was right, she DID have the Betty Crocker Cake and Frosting Mix Cookbook - it's a companion volume to the Cookie Book that was recently reprinted. She was more than happy to let me have them. The other scores were the 1972 printing of Farm Journal's Bread baking book, and a Dutch cooking booklet she got from Mrs. Wielenga - an old family friend we used to visit when we were kids.
Yeah for Vintage, useful, and sentimental value all rolled into one happy score!
The Great Lakes Feis was today, so we dragged Anneliese - who normally enjoys this, but was so upset about being parted from Grandma that she mostly cried and whined. New reel shoes were acquired - and new poodle socks. She MIGHT like these shoes better, as they have a bit stiffer sole and more pad in the interior. We've gone from Antonio Pacelli to Rutherford, for the sole reason that they fit. ;-) I twiddled a bit about saving the old one for Rori, but I think I'll sell them in the Academy newlsetter instead, and get Rori new ones if/when she takes it up herself. I suspect she will - the exposure at this age is going to give her a taste for the glitz.
Much talk was managed again on the trip, and more will follow on that later. But I'd like to look into making John a wheel lock pistol. ;-) *helpies, plz?* Nothing functional - just a decorative one to go with his German stuff.
I also raided Mom's cookbook collection for vintage elements. Hee! I was right, she DID have the Betty Crocker Cake and Frosting Mix Cookbook - it's a companion volume to the Cookie Book that was recently reprinted. She was more than happy to let me have them. The other scores were the 1972 printing of Farm Journal's Bread baking book, and a Dutch cooking booklet she got from Mrs. Wielenga - an old family friend we used to visit when we were kids.
Yeah for Vintage, useful, and sentimental value all rolled into one happy score!
