"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." Proverbs 24:10 Above: Michigan death certificates for stillborn babies usually had a vertical line drawn down the middle. Below: This three-year-old Ludington girl died of typhoid fever in 1910. The family lived less than a mile from the Johnson home on East Melendy …
Who does this? If you were a kid in the 1960s, you surely knew about Creepy Crawlers. Either you had a "Thingmaker" set or you knew someone who did. Here is what the box looked like. That's my cousin picking out some Creepy Crawlers from my family's collection, for the nostalgia of it all. For …
So Mom's been saying she thinks I'm "overgrooming"... It seems she noticed I was losing fur on my front legs, and some on my back leg. She saw it back in April, but decided to keep an eye on it for awhile. It seemed she was always taking pictures of my front legs and texting …
So when your mom is a librarian. . . You might remember from "Foster and Panda in Print" that our stories had made it to the Christian school library a couple of years ago. We were so excited to know that the students wanted to check them out. Mom had printed our stories from the …
The chocolate was gone! We looked at each other in amazement. We had just awakened from a nap in the lobby of our hotel in Bariloche, after investigating the mysterious disappearance of chocolate from the shops in town. The shop owners had given us some free chocolate and we had left it on the table …
Continue reading The Case of the Disappearing Chocolate: Solved!
"Hey, Foster! Look at this!" Panda was watching Mom take out some ice to make iced coffee. "Look at this cool piece of ice! It has like an upside-down icicle on it!" I turned around to get a better look. "Panda," I said patiently. "First, ice is supposed to be cool. And second, there's no …
"Hey, Foster, guess what day it is?" I pondered the question for a moment. "Umm. . . I don't know," I replied. "Tuesday?" "Well," Panda replied, "that's a good answer, but think again." I thought some more. "I give up," I said at length. "What day is it? "Dude!" Panda responded, "It's your six-year cattiversary!" …
So, being a cat, I often find myself the subject of "blog material". The problem is, Mom is constantly taking pictures of me, citing "blog material" as the reason, but then she never seems to use most of them in our actual blog. So the other day she said I could pick out some pictures …
Okay, I have to admit this is a little embarrassing. Mom decided I needed a new outfit...again! She says it's because Foster and I play so rough that I'm always getting holes in me and she's afraid my stuffing will come out. She's repaired me so many times, but now she says even my patches …
We all know that grouting is the best part, right? I guess it is, if you're outside and you're not too stressed about getting the color wrong. The other day it was time to put the grout on the mosaic table. I was almost out of that color, but fortunately I had enough to finish …
Nana's Whimsical World 