Tag Archives: summertime
Outfit of the Day: Beautiful Day
This outfit kind of fits the weather today; it’s 93. Not as hot as it has been the last few days of 101.
Outfit of the Day: Summer Breeze
Outside
I don’t have a lot of pictures of me and my siblings in the 1950s. Film was expensive then, for a poor family, and flash bulbs or flash attachments even more so. I suspect these photos were taken by my grandmother with her old Brownie camera. Of course, in those days kids didn’t have thingsContinue reading “Outside”
Recipe of the Day: Root Beer Floats
Summertime at my house when I was growing up meant root beer floats. I remember the excitement when dad brought home bottles of root beer and mom got out the vanilla ice cream. One year, dad decided to make homemade root beer from scratch. It was a lot of work so that was the oneContinue reading “Recipe of the Day: Root Beer Floats”
Outfit of the Day: Aqua Mint
Outfit of the Day: Blue Petals
Recipe of the Day: Orange Julius Smoothie
When I was a teenager, I sold Seafair Skipper Pins at the Seattle Center, home of the 1962 World’s Fair called Century 21. I usually ate lunch at the Food Circus and it was almost always KFC (a friend of mine worked there), a Yonny Yohnson’s green salad and an Orange Julius. I’d love toContinue reading “Recipe of the Day: Orange Julius Smoothie”
Outfit of the Day: “Wearin’ next to nothing ’cause it’s hot as an oven”
Quora Question: Children’s Routines
A Quora Question and How I Answered It: What tips do you have for the kids’ routine chart? I personally would not do a routine chart, kid’s lives are too structured as it is and most kids don’t get to enjoy the freedom like I had when I was a kid. Even my own childrenContinue reading “Quora Question: Children’s Routines”