My family has done genealogy forever. To the point I rarely work on my own family (both maternal and paternal sides) as they are fully fleshed out trees with many branches. I poke around on my spouse’s tree as that one is not as robust and I have a bad habit of poking on myContinue reading “Huh, Didn’t Know That”
Category Archives: Grandma Scharf
Yellow
I have always liked the color yellow. It feels like sunshine and joy to me when I see it. Two of my favorite “flowers” are yellow. The first is the forsythia bush. I like that it blooms in early spring. It tells you that winter almost over and you have survived. My house now hasContinue reading “Yellow”
Boxes in the Attic
Sometimes when I am up in my attic, I feel guilt. I have at least three boxes of stuff that my mom wanted to keep. When she moved out of her small two-bedroom house into a shared room in a nursing home, there were twelve boxes of things I hauled to my house and keptContinue reading “Boxes in the Attic”
Many Feels
My kid just finished his first year of his architecture program last week. He has applied for one of the three paths and will know in July if he was accepted… this is after a whole year of learning the trade. He had to create and submit a portfolio after declaring his path. There isContinue reading “Many Feels”
Silver
My grandfather worked for the telephone company. He met my grandmother as she was a telephone operator, who worked those giant phone boards and put the cords in and out for different connections for calls. He helped set up new lines and fix broken ones. One time when visiting a house, he had to goContinue reading “Silver”
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