The Ice Castle

Just as soon as Evelyn announced the prompt for this month’s postcard, I thought of this one I inherited from my mom’s things.  It’s   a picture of an ice castle  built in Bemidji, Minnesota in January of 1932 for the Bemidji Winter Sports Carnival.  Just the perfect card, thought I…. then looked at the [...]

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Girls and Their Horses

What is it about girls and horses?  My sister and I were both horse-mad when we were growing up, praying for sunny weather on a Saturday so we could rent some horses and go riding.  Then when my daughter came along she also loved horses and spent countless hours grooming her horse and practicing for [...]

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The 1948 Flood

1948 was the year of the flood.  The Columbia River flooded that year completely wiping out the town of Vanport, Oregon.  It was never rebuilt. My Aunt Elsie Everest and her husband Ralph lived in Cathlamet Washington, right on the river but on the Washington side…. still they were affected as were friends and other [...]

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Sand Between Our Toes

Our family loved going to the the beach. I’ll say that again: Our family loved going to the beach.” Of course! What’s more fun than “treasure hunting” for baby crabs under the rocks, wading in the tide pools and jumping over waves as the surf comes in? Here in Washington the [...]

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Resolutions, Resolutions, Resolutions

It’s that time again. What to resolve this year? There are so many possibilities that I hardly know where to start, but you have to start somewhere, so here goes, one step (er, resolution) at a time:
1. First resolution is to organize and digitize all those hundreds of photos tucked here and [...]

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Three Wishes – My Letter to Genea-Santa asking for Love Letters and more!

Dear Genea-Santa,
How can I wish for just three things? There are so many items my ancestors could give me…. sigh…. OK, I’ll stick to three.
Number one:
I’d love to have a photograph album from my Great-grandmother Bridget (Hogan) Shane. Does one exist? Probably not any more but I bet at one time [...]

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Getting to Know Me, Getting to Know Echo Hill Ancestors…

Well Terry, I must admit to resisting this carnival and I guess it’s kind of silly, but having to identify my “best’ or my “breeziest” etc., makes me start to squirm. Still, it’s time to introduce myself as I’m pretty new to blogging with just over one year & 123 posts [...]

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Pit and Siz

My brother Bob was one of the most fun loving people you’d ever want to meet and it was mainly through him that the Shane family “language” took flight. Bob died in 1973 at the young age of 45 years and I still miss his wonderful sense of humor. To give you [...]

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BEANS

I’ve always loved animals and our family had many different kinds of pets while I was growing up: cats and sometimes litters of kittens, rabbits, chickens, and DOGS!
The one pet that stands out above all was our dog “Beans”. Beans was a certified “mutt” but the pictures I see of him now make me [...]

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