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and it is always possible.Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032001920106167026noreply@blogger.comBlogger1503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10714961.post-48481072249511502702016-09-10T18:00:00.001-05:002016-09-10T21:34:10.739-05:00Rosemary, For Remembrance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wow. It has been a LONG time. No, I have not forgotten you. Any of you. </div>
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The thing is, I kind of want to rearrange things here but I can't seem to remember how to work on my blog in HTML. Yea, I know I haven't tootled around Blogger since, hmmmm, December? Now I can't seem to update any of my "widgets" even through HTML. Half of this blog, I've changed through HTML, the other through Blogger widgets. Guess they are a thing of the past? There are ALL kinds of different changes here. UGH. Even the spacing is wonky. As much as I'm terrified to go in to operate, I truly need to. If for only my own sanity. (OCD much?) If Living as Rosa disappears, all I can say is, "ooooopsy." Momma tried. But yea, that would suck.</div>
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The big news of the year is that the kid graduates from university this December! Where has the time gone? It just flies. So happy and proud of him.</div>
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Things are good in the household. Bella and Baby Dave are still delivering "babies" to us every night. Frankie is turning more grey; but hey, aren't most of us! All of us are healthy and happy. Can't ask for anything more.</div>
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Ok, after this post, I'm going <i>in</i>. Fingers' crossed. Let's hope I see you on the other side.</div>
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So amazing that I've been blogging, on and off, for over ten years. My first post in February of 2005 was written after returning home from Ukrainian Christmas in New York. My sister-in-law told me about this thing called "blogging." I also learned about YouTube on that trip. Oh dear. I think I must have been living under a rock. Naw, I was just mothering. Happily.</div>
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I had no idea where this little journal would take me. I certainly didn't expect to find so many wonderful friends through this medium. Many I have met, many I have exchanged happies with and many I correspond with to this day.</div>
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This blog gave me "my time," which I am eternally grateful. Rearing two teenage boys and watching as my mom regressed with dementia was a challenging time in my life. I am so happy that I made the time to write each one of these one thousand, five hundred and three entries.</div>
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I was going to print each page and bind them for the boys to have. I gave up on that pretty darn fast. ha. Perhaps there are two or three volumes printed and bound, somewhere. That's it. The only intention I had of this "Living as Rosa" blog was to have a journal, of some sort, for the boys. It turned out to so much more.</div>
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With all of that said, I must add a beautiful photo since photography was a whole other aspect of LAR. (And, yup, I'm kinda digging this app.)</div>
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Thank you to all who have followed and enjoyed this journey with me. Cheers to many more delightful years ahead.</div>
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I can't believe that Polaroids are coming back! I think I took the last of the cameras to Goodwill just last year! Yikes. Not a problem, though. There's an app for that. Pretty darn cool, eh? </div>
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While this one? It's an original. This is one of my all-time favorite original Polaroids. The oldest one I was looking for was of me at my Aunt Ollie's, wrapped in a fur rug when I was about four years old. I can see it; I just can't find it. The following aren't quite as old, but they are pretty darn old, kids!</div>
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This is at the Grant Memorial at the Capitol where our photographs were taken. After I finally got my diver's license, I'd have a little freedom to drive up to the Capitol, pick up the film and then take it back to the shop to develop and print. I must be killing time here waiting on a shot. This looks like a "dad" pose to me! Too funny. Note the Dr. Shoals!!! brahahahahah I had just got my first pair of glasses--hippyish, of course, no frames. My dad said they looked like granny glasses. :( 1978</div>
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Here I am at the shop. Looks like I was cutting a small mat for a print. Where's the print?? Perhaps it's a practice piece for my photography class. 1979<br />
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El Yunque National Rainforest, Puerto Rico. 1978<br />
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Posing perty in the L.A. hills. HA! 1982</div>
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Twenty-fourth birthday with my mom's new English Bulldog, Brittany--better known as "The Brit." I miss her handwriting.</div>
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This could be the first time my father met the hub-to-be in my first apartment! New furniture had just arrived--finally something to sit on!! Oh, and by the way, I literally JUST got rid of the set this year. It held up pretty well until the last couple of years! Here we are with my dad. </div>
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Freshly back from our honeymoon at one of my oldest friends' wedding, Larry. 1987</div>
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I didn't like the size of this Polaroid film. I got it right before the Kid was born. He wasn't even a month old here! Little Boo. And the Teenager! Ahmazing! This was a test shot for a Christmas card with the kids. 1993.</div>
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Today, The Dead Weather released their new album. So, you know where I was -- at Third Man Records, of course. Along with other new goodies, they were selling this gorgeous 6-fingered hand necklace (from the album cover in which Little Jack has six fingers). The artist is <a href="http://www.verameat.com/"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Vera Meat</span></b>;</a> and I'm "needing" a lot of her stuff! ha</div>
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I've been concentrating on scanning my father's negatives this year after receiving a new scanner for Christmas; and yes, I've been busy. Only thing is, ya see the box to the bottom left? Each one of those envelopes contains the negatives of up to 36 exposures. Ooooof. This is a job! You can't tell, but I AM making progress. And, I'm finding some long-lost family shots to boot! This week, I switched over to scanning his photos.</div>
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As many of you know, my father, by trade, was a photographer. His passion was country music. During the week, he would concentrate on his business, but when the weekends came, he and my mom were somewhere listening to someone. After befriending a local disc jockey in the late 1960s, Tom 'Cat' Reeder, the two were inseparable. Given carte blanche at the shows, Bill would not hesitate to get up close and personal. Tom once said to a friend, "That damn Bill Ivey. He's always up in my face with that DAMN camera blinding me with that DAMN flash. But, thank GOD he is!" Yes, indeed. Thank goodness he shot all of those photos. Wonderful memories--now that I'm old enough to appreciate it all. A pre-teen? Oh how I hated having to go to all of those shows then. I was too young to be left at home with my brothers; so I went--kicking and screaming. Normally, I would sit in the car, listening to the radio . . . all night. (I, to this day, wonder how I didn't run the battery down? Hmmmm.)</div>
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This one, I just had to throw in. I love this photo in so many ways. This was the usual scene behind the stage at the outside shows. Someone always had a complete bar in their trunk--that person would also be Bill Ivey. Look at the face on the beehive lady. If looks could kill. And the tall man next to her cracking up. Then, if you look to the left, the gent with a pipe has a tie wrapped around his head. And, of course, my mom, posing with a soft smile.</div>
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Frankie is enjoying the last days of summer. I'm anxiously awaiting fall.</div>
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Ok, can we move on into the fall now so I don't have to pull my hair up? Please?</div>
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So, tonight, we are going to a Goodbye to Summer Seersucker Party! Wha??? Ahhhh, don't ya love the South?! I pulled out a beautiful white dress I've had hanging in the closet since forever then found this wonderful clutch for the garden party. I have to admit, I'm very excited about going. What? Being the extreme introvert and painstakingly shy, I'm surprised with myself. Social settings KILL me. But, perhaps since I won't know a soul there; I'm good. Right now, anyway. Ask me about a half an hour before we leave, and that will be a whole other story! UGH.</div>
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The kid is beginning his senior year at university. Wait. Wha? Yup. Really. So, we made a terrarium for him to take back to school. A cheery little spot to enjoy while doing work, right? </div>
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So happy to see the Counting Crows back. Adam looks great. Heart the hair. I just want to scrunch it!</div>
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Toad the Wet Sprocket opened for the Counting Crows. They were great!</div>
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This was my first, and hopefully not my last, time seeing them live. What a beautiful soul, that Adam is.</div>
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I found this old sheet of words I made to use in some piece of artwork way back when.</div>
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These are a few of my favorite words.</div>
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They're just one of those things I can't seem to part with {hoarder}. Bite your tongue. I've had these two old chairs from a yard sale way back in my Virginny days--a long time ago. They've looked <i>SO</i> plain, lately! tehe</div>
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I do believe that summer has arrived. My gnomey says so.</div>
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And a perfect day for a new Jack White album, Lazaretto, to arrive in the mail.<br />
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Some of the songs from the new album were introduced on Record Day.</div>
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And blue, too. "Whoa, girl {<i>bitch</i>}. Back it on up." He was tipping his hat to me. Yes. He. Was. Jk.</div>
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And now the album is released. And I'm liken' it.</div>
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Ah, summatime. It's good for what ails ya.</div>
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Pussycat, pussycat, I love you. Yes I do.</div>
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Since the kids have left the roost, Bella has become my muse. Poor thing.</div>
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Yes, we finally made it to the "Happiest Place on Earth." Hmmmm. Depends on who you're asking. Since kids, we have avoided such places with a passion. The thought of running around <i>with</i> kids in a place with a <i>million</i> kids doesn't sound like a whole lotta fun to me (or the hub). So yes, our boys lived quite the deprived childhood--at least, they will tell you so. (No matter that they've been overseas many times in their young lives, right?)</div>
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The hub's brother and his family live in San Diego, and we try and visit every couple of years to watch our beautiful niece grow (and to see the parents of this lovely child, of course). This time, we decided to head out to that "happy place" even though I had come down with some nasty crud the kid had given me. Full-blown fever, flu-like symptoms. Ugh. How could I say no? I should have. Next time, I stay behind!! Ooooofy. I was so sick, I couldn't enjoy it.<br />
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But everyone else did; and that was just fine with me. Yup, there's the kid with his Cali aunt.</div>
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The only thing on my bucket list from any Disney establishment has always been getting some "ears" with Rosie embroidered on them. Didn't find any that suited me, but, of course, I did find a pair for Bella.</div>
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The lazy days of summer are soon behind us. I can already feel the difference in the air here. The humidity is subsiding, thank goodness; and there's that shift in the sun that seems to always be directly in your eyes when you're driving. Oh, and the school buses are out with a vengeance. Ahhhhh, fall is here, kinda. This will be our first, and perhaps last, autumn at Riverside. I'm good with it. I'm actually getting excited about moving back to the NE, kinda. lol</div>
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What have you all been up to? I've been happily river sorry with a little bit of this and that on the side. The hub, Dar and I went to a first Friday art crawl in Fairhope in August. We started the night at the <a href="http://www.esartcenter.com/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Eastern Shore Art Center</span></a><i style="color: #134f5c; font-weight: bold;"> </i>where I fell in love with this artist, <a href="http://www.angiebolling.com/artist"><b><i><span style="color: #351c75;">Angie Bolling</span></i></b></a>. This exquisite piece was made for her Grandmother's 100th birthday. Are you dying? I am. What a priceless creation.</div>
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There have been double rainbows over the river.</div>
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Lovebugs are in season here. Ugh. At least they're little and they don't bite or anything like that. Just a pain because there are just so many of them. Now I know what those little dead black bugs are when we normally get back down to Riverside after Christmas. Finally, I know. Yes, that's another ginger.</div>
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The teenager and his girlfriend came down from DC and brought me this lovely Adirondack basket. I have never seen one before. Now I want MORE! lol They are gorgeous. </div>
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And, this is for you Kell--Frankie on his way back to the river with poppa driving. He sits up so proud in the front seat. Funny little dog. </div>
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I planted this vine in February (in a pot) and it's still thriving even though we've been gone for several months. Lotsa rain down here!</div>
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Beautiful hydrangea in full bloom.</div>
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Bella always loves returning to her first home. (She'd never admit it though.)</div>
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Beautiful Riverside is going on the market this summer. We're starting our move back to the Northeast. Exciting times!</div>
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It was a perfect day for tea. Rain's been falling mostly all day and it was just right for a cup of tea.</div>
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I found a new tea that is absolutely delish. I loved Earl Grey teas way-back-when; but then I found them getting stronger and stronger--just a quick dip for my bag. Whatever my reasons, I haven't had it in years. </div>
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I had received this free sample of <a href="http://www.mightyleaf.com/">Mighty Leaf's</a> Earl Grey just last week. Mmmmm. Just as a proper Earl Grey should be, to me, anyway. A very enjoyable Earl Grey {hot}, if I do say so myself.</div>
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Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032001920106167026noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10714961.post-70925478498967277782013-05-04T16:10:00.000-05:002013-05-04T16:19:55.983-05:00Genes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is one of the oldest pictures we have of our mom. Isn't she precious? </div>
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I've been absent from here, I know--same ol' song and dance. I have been, however, absolutely enthralled in our family genealogies since the New Year. We took a trip in the early spring to Atlanta; and we ended up going to my mom's home town, not too far west of Atlanta. I was on a mission to find some family members in the old town cemetery. (We found only a few. ugh.) And now, I'm totally hooked. I've found a lot of new information since I first began this journey. It was 1985. No computers. Only libraries. Can you imagine? Of course, I wasn't able to find a whole lot way back then. I did, amazingly, have enough sense to ask my Aunt Mary to write down all she knew of the Bailey family. And she did. Her papers have given us endless clues.</div>
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This is the kid, probably about the same age my mom was in her photo. He was so much like her. Look at that face. Same sweet grin. Sniffle. Now he's grown. But he's doing great away at college!</div>
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And then we move to the hub's family. His mom is Italian and second-generation American. His father is Ukrainian and first-generation American. I can't tell you how much information I have found online for both sides. Finding a lot of the ship manifests when they migrated to New York has been absolutely amazing. Then, I began going through old family photos on the hub's side. I had brought this picture back from NY last fall after helping the SIL go through the parents' things. No one knew who it was. I think it looks more of the Italian side. But there are a few who could also pass as Ukies. </div>
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And, speaking of Ukies, the hub and teenager are in New York to celebrate Ukrainian Easter this weekend. I gave the hub a copy of this photo so he can ask his mom if she knows who it is. I know she will. She is sharp as a tack!<br />
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Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032001920106167026noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10714961.post-31152304083942380592013-03-19T11:12:00.001-05:002013-03-19T11:27:44.515-05:00Just in Time for Spring!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I LOVE this idea, since I've been doing it for years from White Flower Farm.</div>
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You can choose your plants online; and they will be shipped out to your home at the right time for planting in your zone. Easy peasy!</div>
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I just ordered a bunch of these in the primary colors, above. Gorgeous!</div>
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And I ordered some of these gorgeous yellow dahlias! I've always wanted some. Perfect!<br />
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We had a cold, blustery day earlier in the week; and I was completely stir crazy by about 3 p.m. sitting in the house. The hub was in Tejas; and I was soooo bored. Funny, you probably would not have heard that from me a year or so ago when he began working out of the house. Ha!</div>
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There's a coffee shop on the East side of town named <a href="http://www.baristaparlor.com/"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><i>Barista Parlor</i></b></span></a> that I've had on my mind recently. I had never been, so, I jumped in the car and drove on over. I have now finally had my first cup of coffee with a pretty swirled heart. Well, yes of course I've tried this at home--none as pretty as this. A neat place inside what looks like an old car garage. I wonder if they open the doors during the warm months? I can't wait to take the hub here.</div>
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Speaking of which, we just had our 26th wedding anniversary yesterday! Yay! We're going out to celebrate as soon as he gets home tonight. </div>
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I took this pic when we were at Riverside in January! </div>
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Here I sit in Nashville, rain pouring down and temperatures dropping, and I'm ready to head South!</div>
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Unfortunately, there's work to be done here now. We lost part of our roof in February (while we were in Alabama) and are still "working" with our insurance company to get that repaired. Then, last night, I find our water heater leaking. Ugh. Of course, it's in mom's bedroom; and that room is carpeted. Joy. I had to pull the ol' dehumidifier out and plug her in down there.</div>
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