Self-portrait of My Grandson

Jay Davey, the Greatest Grandson!
Last night I received an email from my grandson: “i read your web page. how come i’m not in it? dont you care about me? i love you.”
Well, here he is - now on my website. He is my smartest, most handsome and nicest grandson of all grandsons.
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Picasa

Ever since Google’s Picasa2 software and then their Picasa Web Albums became available I have been their biggest fan and supporter. I have been uploading almost all of my digital images to my Picasa Web Albums, and seldom use my Flickr account anymore. That is now changing, as I find myself going back to Flickr. [...]

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My Gingerbread House

I purchased the basic gingerbread house as a kit at a local bakery recommended by my next door neighbor, Kathleen. The only thing - it didn’t come with a picture of the finished product. So I sent Grandpa back to the bakery with my camera in tow and he took three photographs of the display [...]

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Turkey Pies

This year I created a Turkey Pie recipe to serve during the Thanksgiving weekend. I based it upon the French-Canadian tourtière recipe that I sometimes made years ago, using ground turkey breast in place of most of the ground pork.
The Recipe
The image, Turkey Pie, was originally uploaded by barneykin. It is posted here from Barneykin’s [...]

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GPS To Driver - Get a Map!

Lexus 2007 GPS to Me - USE MAPQUEST!
This is one of those vanishing memories that I wish would vanish for good. Last December I was so excited to finally purchase a new car equiped with a navigation system like my son has on his Mercedes. I felt that I really needed a guidance system to help me wend my [...]

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Sauerkraut and Turkey

Those are my vanishing memories of childhood Thanksgivings when I was surrounded by Baltimoreans. Sauerkraut with roasted Turkey was traditional. I never knew that everyone didn’t indent their mashed potatoes to make room for the sauerkraut on their Thanksgiving dinner plate. In fact, it was quite a revelation when I left Baltimore to find that everyone [...]

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iPod Touch Software Update

I finally got my iPod Touch to update to the new software, but at what cost? It took more than 24 hours of troubleshooting. See “Wish I Knew.” I restored it at least three times. The fourth time that I set it to “Restore” it actually downloaded and installed the software update. It asked me if I wanted [...]

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Wish I Knew

I have been having many difficulties synching my new iPod Touch with iTunes. There seems to be little trouble synching my photographs, favorites and contacts which are located on my computer. But to get my files which are on Apple’s iTunes 7.0 synched to my iPod Touch usually takes about ten tries. I understood by reading [...]

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The Blog of a Nobody

I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us — don’t tell!
They ‘d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
~~Emily Dickenson
We can only imagine what American poetess Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) could have accomplished with a blog. [...]

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Working in a War Plant

That is how my mother always described her stint during World War Two when she was serving her country as one of the now famous “Rosie the Riveters.” Although she never described it as service, she was obviously proud of the opportunity the war brought for her to work in a Baltimore defense plant or factory performing jobs that would have [...]

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