I’m almost done Ruth the pink journal on top. They last me about two months, and it should be full by the end of April. So I need to decide which notebook I’m going to use next: the light pink one with white paper or the black one with black paper?
I haven’t used black paper in ages. It might be a good excuse to get some new sparkly gel pens and markers.
I don’t love getting to work at dark o’clock. Ugh.
Polly is feeling great and getting chubby. You can no longer feel her vertebrae or hip bones.
The redbud tree by the library loading dock is redbudding.
Snacks for tomorrow. I also prepped breakfast for the rest of the week. I have no idea what came over me, but when motivation strikes, I don’t question it.
Happy Monday! The sky this morning was beautiful.
Look at that itty bitty, teeny tiny section! How adorable is it?
I don’t think I’ve shared this one. I was going through some of my Flickr albums, because I realized I’d restricted the privacy on them when I didn’t mean to. I love this photo of my grandpa Mert. Those cheekbones! I think this had to have been taken sometime between 1948 and 1950.
I love this photo. The man in the middle is my great grandfather, Logan Louis Thompson. He and his friends are day drinking in Miami in 1925, so it was the height of Prohibition.
He’s on the left, here.
Left to right: Sterrett Pooser and Margaret Basquill, Nell Basquill and Logan Louis Thompson.
Margaret was my great grandma Nell’s sister, and Sterrett was Margaret’s husband. I feel like they all knew how to have fun.
Margaret Basquill in Florida
I absolutely adore that photo of Margaret.
All of these came from scrapbooks Margaret and Nell kept. The last time I visited my grandma Jeanne, before she died, I scanned all Nell and Margaret’s old photo albums, and then I sat down at the kitchen table with grandma and went through them with her. I wish I’d asked more questions and taken better notes, but I’m grateful I was able to record what I did.
I killed another pen. This one lasted four weeks and 52 pages. I have no idea why they’re so inconsistent. I only use them for actual writing, and my handwriting is pretty even.
These are all Zebra Sarasa Clip pens. I bought a package of five brown pens, so they all were purchased at the same time. They should be identical. The last two were used in the same notebook, so it isn’t a matter of more vs. less absorbent paper. It’s a mystery!
red paper boat 