A diary entry from my Mom as relayed to us:
May 23, 1959 - Fifty years ago, this was moving day. There were four of us taking this momentous step in our young lives: Daddy was 28 years old, I was 24, Robbie was 2 and Sue was 1. We had a 30-year mortgage of $14,050 (reduced by $150 because the salesman was a friend of Daddy's) to be paid off over 30 years at the rate of $74 per month, plus an additional $6 for insurance. We had been renting a shotgun house off of Carrollton Avenue for $65 per month and we worried about that additional $15 each month. Where was it going to come from, we wondered? I loved this house then and I love it today and even though we were terribly crowded at times, I'm glad we never gave it up. It's perfect for me today.
Mom still lives there with her girls, Liezel and Gretel.
Meant to mention this the other day. Ever heard of snow rollers? Me, neither. Very cool. No pun intended. :)
Lana has some great vacation pictures up from Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi. Love the sunsets.
From the here nor there department: I don't think there is a single ink pen at CrabAppleLane that works any more although we seem to have kept thousands that don't.
From Raina Kelley of Newsweek:
Want to improve your credit score? Well, FICO will sell you a package to fix the score that it creates. Doesn't that sound like something Tony Soprano would do?
Yes, it sounds almost like something Tony Soprano would do but there's one thing Tony never learned. The best scams are legal.
Via Instapundit: A Blu-Ray sale: Via CrabAppleLane: They are STILL TOO EXPENSIVE.
I will always be amazed at how much dust accumulates on our ceiling fans. They are on at least 12 hours per day at the highest speed. I cleaned both yesterday and I'm still a little grossed out.
I offer two from the CrabAppleLane backyard this overcast and rainy Sunday:
CrabAppleLane mirlitons - May 24, 2009
CrabAppleLane hydrangeas - May 24, 2009
109 days until football season ...
Quote of the Day
Your only problem is that you want to go to bed with a female android. I felt like that a couple of times. The answer is to love them before, not after, you kill them.
Phil Resch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Blog of the day via Sheila is here.
Quote from said blog: "But if he was alive today, I'd be sure to put up my dukes and defend poor King Death. Though I might find myself drinking alone, alas."
It was fun to read that diary entry. Today, we can throw away $15 on lunch pretty easily.
Love the pictures and the links to other pictures. Those snow rollers are crazy.
You're entirely too right about $15 lunches, kinez. I was spending $15 per day or more on my daily commute. $15 doesn't go as far as it used to.
I love that your mom still has the family home from your childhood. My grandma(mom's mom)moved into her house in Edina in 1932 and lived there until 2001. During that period Edina became one of the richer suburbs of Minneapolis, but my grandma still had her tiny house on a lot and a half. When she passed away we knew what would happen if we sold it; torn down for a bigger house. We just couldn't keep it though. We all had our own homes already and it just didn't make sense financially to rent it out. I miss that place, we all spent some wonderful time there.
I'm glad your mom is still in her house. That's the best kind of security.
Your hydrangeas are just beautiful. I have a white one, but it's struggling.
It's changed plenty over the years, Dave. The carport (Who still has carports?) has been closed in, central air has been installed, and the front yard has been landscaped. Even though it is actually bigger and considerably less crowded now, it seems so much smaller than it did when I was a kid.
She's happy there, Marie. Patsy gets all of the credit for the hydrangeas. I planted them but she takes care of them. They like her attention.
Gorgeous hydrangeas! You always have the prettiest flowers :)
Thanks, Andrea. :)