First spring flowers

These few buds opened up this morning in our backyard. They are really bending over. They look as tired as I feel! No nap today and I'm trying to get away from that habit so I can sleep better at night.

Walking Home From Work

I love this picture. This is our younger son with his two girls. They met him at the bus stop and their mother took this photo.
He is the one who started in with computers in about 1978. Then he (and perhaps the rest of the family) bought my first computer in 1989. The refrigerator magnet I have above my monitor says it all: "Everything I know about computers I learned from my kid."
And I enjoy using my computer every day and thank him for teaching me how to use it!

Continental Airlines - RIP

Yes, our small town of 45,000 used to be serviced by the good old DC-3's of Continental Airlines.

With progress, we now have to drive 45 miles to the nearest airport. We still have flights come in with student pilots on cross-country; people over from the Air Capitol test flying their new purchases; army helicopters; private planes coming for business meetings and various other flights. But now not even a "feeder" flight to get us to a major hub.

When our oldest son was about 18 months old, we bought a a ticket for me to Wichita (45 miles) and I held him on my lap. His dad drove over in the Buick and picked us up. This was so M. could have his first flight.
That trip may or may not have influenced him, but he's still flying today and not as a passenger.

The Hertzler Hospital, Halstead, KS

 

This is how I remember the hospital in Halstead, KS, my mom's hometown. I walked by here many times on my way to town with my grandmother.

Dr. Hertzler was very famous in this part of Kansas. He wrote at least two books, The Horse and Buggy Doctor and The Doctor and His Patients.  I have copies of both, signed by him to my mom who was a nurse there. She graduated in the class of 1923 at the age of nineteen.

In the 1970's in the lobby of the new hospital, there were large panels with the pictures of all the graduates through the years. I believe the hospital is now used for a different

purpose.

My Favorite Castle in Germany

This is St. Johannisburg  Castle in Aschaffenburg Germany.
I haven't been there since 1989 - my one and only visit. Many good memories
of that trip!

Pringle Family Portrait

I've obviously been looking at old photos.
This one is of my paternal grandmother's family, taken in 1888, the year of the father's fortieth birthday.
My grandmother is the tall girl in the back with the long curls.

I hope those were really her hair and not extensions.
She was born in 1871 on her dad's twenty-first birthday, the first of
seven children.
In this photo she is seventeen.
The baby on his mother's lap was later a victim of polio which affected his speech.

Tacky Day - 1948

Our high school let us go crazy once a year and wear whatever we wanted. These two girls, one of whom seems to be on the way to starvation, were friends: mlb and mlb

(jodphers on one and a 1920 dress and cloche on the other one)