Author Archives: snowbirdredux

I MARRIED ADVENTURE

Posted on April 25, 2011 by snowbirdredux

I MARRIED ADVENTURE You can see from my falling-apart copy of Osa Johnson’s book that it was a special favorite in my youth.  What a life she led with Martin Johnson,  traversing the world at a time when Africa was … Continue reading →

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HAPPY EASTER

Posted on April 24, 2011 by snowbirdredux

This is the first year I can remember in my adult life that I didn’t go to See’s Candy and buy Bordeaux and Scotch Mallows and Pecan Buds  and chocolate marshmallow eggs and bunnies  and nestle them in baskets we … Continue reading →

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MEMENTO

Posted on April 23, 2011 by snowbirdredux

DIANA SCROGGIN “…and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

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MR. LONGEVITY’S ADVISE

Posted on April 22, 2011 by snowbirdredux

While talking to my cousin Curt who lives in Minnesota and is our go-to guy for the practical nuts-and-bolts info that we California rubes need to know  (things like what car will handle the ice on the driveway, and how … Continue reading →

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GIVE US A FEW MORE DAYS!

Posted on April 22, 2011 by snowbirdredux

When my cousin Maryanne called to “thank me” for tattle-taling on her, she  reminded me that it was a TILT-A-WHIRL and not a lowly ferris wheel that signaled her own “tilt” moment.  And she had had to beg and beg … Continue reading →

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GID OS IDAG

Posted on April 21, 2011 by snowbirdredux

Grandma Ingebretson was actually the grandma to my cousins Maryanne, Marlene and Margaret Jean.  But I also called her Grandma.  I guess  because we shared Grandma Marie, I thought we must share her too.  We were the California part of … Continue reading →

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BAD MANNERS

Posted on April 20, 2011 by snowbirdredux

I am such a sucker for living among our wild life and respecting that it was their home before it was ours, that I once had to call the animal control people over a skunk who was doing a stand-off … Continue reading →

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CHUTNEY

Posted on April 19, 2011 by snowbirdredux

The oldest friend I have is Peggy Peebles.  And I’m not talking about her age, which is the same as mine, but the fact that we met in the third grade, bonded and have been friends ever since.  I can’t … Continue reading →

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NEVERMORE

Posted on April 17, 2011 by snowbirdredux

It seems so strange not to be going to work each Friday morning. The three days away from home has been my pattern ever since we bought Castenada Lane.  I would start up the coast and stay over with my … Continue reading →

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ROSE COCKTAIL

Posted on April 16, 2011 by snowbirdredux

ROSE COCKTAIL It was when we lived in Ferndale in northern California that I REALLY fell in love with old fashioned roses.  They seemed just the ticket in that National Monument of a Victorian village. And it was there, in … Continue reading →

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