RIP Aunt Marion...

Marion w-her brother Bob

August & Kate at their home (3501 W Summitview, Yakima) with 3 of their children.  L-Elizabeth, Cntr - Bob and in her daddy's arm - Marion.

Marion on her 100th day Mar 6, 2011

 

On Feb 5th my Great Aunt Marion passed away peacefully.  Being 1 month short of 101 she was an amazing woman.  Always positive. Always smiling. Always gracious. Always loving.  She was my maternal G'ma's younger sister.  She had 2 brothers that lived to adulthood and 2 that died in their youth.  She was raised in Yakima, WA but lived most of her adult life in Seattle and Marysville, WA.
Aside from suffering with macular degeneration in her later years and a stroke after turning 100, she was healthy to the end.  I should live so well and long.  RIP Aunt Marion!

January doings

I always have the best intentions of following thru on a project I want to do.  But as you can see, I haven't done so well with my Project 366 (it's one more than normal due to 2012 being a leap year).   I keep trying to stay focused on the project - honestly.  I do take pics. I do get projects started. I do see things outside but I just don't get them posted... 

Here are a few of the things I have done in January 2012.

Hung clothes out on the line in the middle of winter - more than once...

Still working on the reading table..

  Got a bit done on the hat (maybe done for the winter of 2013...

Went on a work related road trip to Central WY...

 Love seeing these magestic arms waving to us as we drive by..

The sunsets are not as amazing as AZ's are but they are spectacular anyway...

 

Took my Mr. out for a little afternoon treat at Gardner Village...

Tatting is an needlework art that is very intricate... (the owner of the shop makes these)

Rode the lightrail into downtown to visit the Family History Library to research a new branch of my Family Tree - the CYR's.  Go figure, my nephews current squeeze is a CYR and our lines connect back at my 3rd Great Grandmother - his 4th.

 My January cookie = White Chocolate Raspberry chips from Prepared Pantry. Thank you Connie!

Started a project of love for Feb...

Project 365 2012

I wonder if I can keep up with a photo a day project.  I think I'm going for it.  It will start soon. 

This is the first of this years canning session.  I haven't put up any tomatoes for years.  So many other things have been put first in the forefront... traveling, reading, watching the clouds go by, cutting the grass, surfing the web (aw so many excuses) or doing nothing.

This year I decided to get on the band wagon and give it a go again.  With our shortened summer no one to weed the crops - none were planted.  I bought these at a small roadside vendor.  He was happy - so was I.  No bending over to pic, not having to worry abt having enough  - just what I needed right then, right now.  Love that part and that I could help in the economy by purchasing from some small grower who needed to make a living.   Besides, there is just something abt pulling off the road on "fruit stand road" and buying freshly picked veggies.  It's easier on me and mine rather than go to the farmers market.  The farmers market is something you have to get to EARLY in the day so as not to get overwhelmed by so many vendors (which one should I buy from). Well, some days being somewhere EARLY in the day just isn't something I am up for.  Besides, at the roadside they load it in the car for you.