Beck
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See, I told you it’s a golden eagle …
Life with the Becks … if you knew my mom you knew that she would tell you every bird bigger than a magpie was a golden eagle … it got to be a running joke … sandhill crane = golden eagle … crow = golden eagle … so imagine my surprise when I saw this… Continue reading
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It is a small, small world …
It is a small, small world … I have alerts set up for several of my family members names set up on Google and eBay … imagine my surprise when last week one of them popped up with this item … it is from an estate in Port Angeles, Washington … and it was painted… Continue reading
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Stuck in an Elevator With the Sweet Potato Queens
Life with boys … kinda …earlier this month I joined several amazing women for a weekend of laughter, silliness and “crazy southern love” as my sister put it … we were all there to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sweet Potato Queens participation in the Jackson, Mississippi St. Patrick’s day parade …. I came… Continue reading
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Life with the Beck family …
Life with the Beck family … life on Lucky John Drive was always in motion … people in and out … projects in process … critters underfoot …. which was the case one June afternoon when 20 girl scouts and their parents were due to descend for the end-of-the-year court of awards … While preparing… Continue reading
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From my Dad, a Vietnam vet …
From my Dad a Vietnam vet … “I took this shot on LZ West, spring of early 69, above Que Son Valley, inland between Chu Lai and DaNang, (Army), Everybody wanted me to hook up with Life Magazine and send it to them. My mom printed around 50 snapshots, everybody wanted a copy in My… Continue reading
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A Cute Petri Dish
Life with boys … Me: “Do you normally come in and wash the spatula mid-bbq?”… Boy: “Usually, especially if it has been touching raw meat” Me: “ You know I grew up in a house where food was left out overnight” … Boy: “Which is why you are a walking Petri dish” … Me: “Petri… Continue reading
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This world really is a small place …
This world really is a small place … I started this She Remembers Pearl Harbor project in 2001 … a few months after my Grandma AraBelle Fuller Zeimet died … I have not made as much progress as I want to, but all is not lost … I work on bits each day and someday… Continue reading
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Amazing find …
Amazing find … when my Grandma AraBelle Zeimet died unexpectedly in 2001 I was pregnant with Tyler … it was a chaotic mess to get her house cleaned out in a very short window with no air conditioning, it was rough … so we shipped what we could and sent packages to everyone we could… Continue reading
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Today would have been my Grandma AraBelle’s 100th Birthday …
Today would have been my Grandma, AraBelle Fuller Zeimet’s, 100th Birthday. As many of you may know she was a nurse at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. She later became a member of the Army Nurse Corp at a time when women in the military was a novelty and an unknown quantity. Since her… Continue reading
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Life with the Beck’s …
A Thanksgiving story … apparently, when I was about 3 I was really excited for the Great Turkey … at about 6 a.m. I told my Mom I was ready to get the turkey in the oven (she was in bed). She told me it needed dressing before that could happen. About half an hour… Continue reading
About Me
I started this site so my mom could get news about her grandkids without me having to walk her through the process of trying to open and email attachment several times a week. Since then she has passed away and I’ve fallen off the blog wagon, but I’m inspired to pick it up again now.
