Sunday, August 21, 2011
Random Picture - Ascarate Drive In Theater
Every time I drive by this I am amazed that it is still standing! I remember when I was a kid, they used to show Spanish-language Movies here. I was always fascinated by that! It was still there yesterday - when I took this picture.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Random Picture - Niagara Falls
This is one of my favorite pictures from our trip to Niagara Falls in April 2009. I wish I could take total creative credit, but there were similar pictures in our hotel room - so I copied the idea! This was a really nice weekend trip - I had to go to Detroit for a week for work. Lee flew up about Wednesday and joined me. Then, Lee's brother, Mark, and his wife Amy, flew up from Austin on Thursday night. Friday, we all drove across Canada to Niagara Falls for the weekend. Then we drove back to Detroit and flew home on Sunday! Oh - and Sunday morning, it was so foggy you couldn't even see the falls - just hear them. We were very lucky to have beautiful, clear weather Friday and all day Saturday. We had so much fun!
Friday, August 19, 2011
Random Pictures
I have decided that since I have not been doing much digital scrapbooking and therefore have not done much posting on here lately, I am going to try posting random pictures as often as possible (I will not try to commit to a daily posting because I just know that will not happen.)
Here is the 1st such picture:
Here is the 1st such picture:
I took this picture sometime back in the 1980's and it is still one of my favorites. This is in New Mexico on a road you can take out of La Luz up that will eventually take you to Cloudcroft. My dad and I used to drive up here occasionally because it was so pretty. Unfortunately, I have not been on this road in many years. I remember there used to be a Blue Spruce tree farm up there. I wonder if it still exists?
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Old Scrapbook
I was so thrilled to find an old scrapbook of mine in my garage this weekend! It is one of those old-style ones with the brownish paper tied into it with strings. (that paper is pretty brittle so I am kind of afraid the pages will tear out) I didn’t even remember that I had it!
It looks like it covers about a 2 or 3 year period starting about a year before Lee and I got married going to about a year or two afterwards. I have ticket stubs from concerts in there as well as concert programs. There is a lot of memorabilia – including some from our honeymoon trip to San Diego and Disneyland. I have some old Viva El Paso programs in there. The big thing I noticed is that I didn’t write anything on any of the pages – just taped the stuff in there – with scotch tape! I also didn’t put any pictures in it – but I do have pictures I took at many of those events – so maybe I could add some to the pages – or scan the memorabilia and create new pages. I just don’t know. If I was to add the pictures I would make sure to note that I added them later – but then the original would have been changed so I probably won’t do that. I could just add a new page in between with pictures. That way I would not change the original. I am brainstorming as I write this.....
I also have another older scrapbook (same type with the pages tied in with string) from when I was in elementary school. (This one I never forgot because I have kept it in the house all this time in a drawer in my room) In it, I have a birthday card from my great-grandfather. There are also class pictures from elementary school – Pasodale did not have a yearbook until about the time I left in the 7th grade so we all got a year-book style page with pictures of our own classmates and teacher and principal, Mr. Harlin – but not any other classes. I think I have a piece of net and some rice from a wedding I was in for Mary Ann Walker when I was really small. I am so glad to have saved it all these years.
I will scan a few pages from both scrapbooks and add them into here later. Now – the big dilemma – do I leave them as is and worry that the pages will fall apart or maybe try to put them in 12 x 12 Page protectors. Hmmmm – I am not too sure what to do about that.
I also have an old scrapbook at my house that belonged to my Grandmother - Me Ma. I borrowed it from my parents so I could scan the pages. It contains pictures from a vacation trip my Grandparents took when my father and Aunt Paula were very small. After looking through it several times, some of the pages have torn out. It is the same type as mine – the brittle pages are tied in with string. I really would like to somehow preserve it but I also don’t want to mess it up. Maybe the pages could be laminated (not sure I would really want to do that) – or again, put into 12 x 12 page protectors. I am not sure of the page size – I will have to check them! For all I know, there is a product out there made specifically for preserving these kind of scrapbook pages. That would be awesome. I need to check into that.
It looks like it covers about a 2 or 3 year period starting about a year before Lee and I got married going to about a year or two afterwards. I have ticket stubs from concerts in there as well as concert programs. There is a lot of memorabilia – including some from our honeymoon trip to San Diego and Disneyland. I have some old Viva El Paso programs in there. The big thing I noticed is that I didn’t write anything on any of the pages – just taped the stuff in there – with scotch tape! I also didn’t put any pictures in it – but I do have pictures I took at many of those events – so maybe I could add some to the pages – or scan the memorabilia and create new pages. I just don’t know. If I was to add the pictures I would make sure to note that I added them later – but then the original would have been changed so I probably won’t do that. I could just add a new page in between with pictures. That way I would not change the original. I am brainstorming as I write this.....
I also have another older scrapbook (same type with the pages tied in with string) from when I was in elementary school. (This one I never forgot because I have kept it in the house all this time in a drawer in my room) In it, I have a birthday card from my great-grandfather. There are also class pictures from elementary school – Pasodale did not have a yearbook until about the time I left in the 7th grade so we all got a year-book style page with pictures of our own classmates and teacher and principal, Mr. Harlin – but not any other classes. I think I have a piece of net and some rice from a wedding I was in for Mary Ann Walker when I was really small. I am so glad to have saved it all these years.
I will scan a few pages from both scrapbooks and add them into here later. Now – the big dilemma – do I leave them as is and worry that the pages will fall apart or maybe try to put them in 12 x 12 Page protectors. Hmmmm – I am not too sure what to do about that.
I also have an old scrapbook at my house that belonged to my Grandmother - Me Ma. I borrowed it from my parents so I could scan the pages. It contains pictures from a vacation trip my Grandparents took when my father and Aunt Paula were very small. After looking through it several times, some of the pages have torn out. It is the same type as mine – the brittle pages are tied in with string. I really would like to somehow preserve it but I also don’t want to mess it up. Maybe the pages could be laminated (not sure I would really want to do that) – or again, put into 12 x 12 page protectors. I am not sure of the page size – I will have to check them! For all I know, there is a product out there made specifically for preserving these kind of scrapbook pages. That would be awesome. I need to check into that.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Cold Spell
Oh my goodness did we get some cold weather! I don't remember it ever being this cold here before. It has been quite an adventure with Rolling blackouts (the electricity going on and off) and the gas not working so we have not heat a lot of the time. At least, so far, we have no broken pipes that I know of. Here is our pool this morning:
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