It's hard to believe I'm already 8 years old! I should have known that it was almost time for my checkup and shots when Mom started telling people I was eight years old. I have to go every year, and since she sounded like I had just turned eight, that should have been my first …
"Can we help you guys?" Panda asked. We were visiting with our penguin friends in their RV at the Grand Canyon when Panda asked the question. Our friends had just told us about their undercover mission to find out if the men in orange jackets were behind the mysterious orange van that had been sighted …
It's in the genes. . . Awhile back, I decided to look for family resemblances on this really cool website, to which I was introduced by my Swedish blogging friend Thérèse. In my post "Swedish Roots", I showed a picture of a relative (or family friend?) named JP Svensson along with an unknown person from …
So, the "Maine Coon Stare" is a thing! You may already know this, but Maine Coon cats love to stare at people. Mom didn't know it was a Maine Coon "thing"; she just thought I liked to stare, unblinking, at her for minutes on end. Mom always takes pictures of me staring at her and …
"Hey Foster, remember when we went to the Grand Canyon?" "Oh, yeah," I replied to Panda's inquiry. "That was our first time going on a flying carpet. Didn't we find that one online?" "Yes, I think so," Panda answered. "It was kind of scary, since we had, like, no experience with flying back then." I …
Or is it Tartan? In looking through the fabulous vintage photos on the Swedish Roots website, one thing that caught my eye was the abundance of different plaids, mainly in women and children's clothes. Of course, one of the first things I had to do was look up "plaids in Victorian/Edwardian times", and I found …
This is one of my favorite family pictures. It's Ole and Marie Anderson with their children, (L-R) Lydia, Jennie, Andrew and George. I'm not sure of the date, but George (my maternal grandfather), was born in 1897 and he looks maybe fourteen here? You might remember George from two previous posts, "Oceans of Love" and …
Finding your Swedish roots and more. Over the past few days, I have been enjoying an extremely interesting website (read: falling down a major ancestry rabbit hole). It's in Swedish, at https://www.rotter.se/swedish-roots, but if you don't read Swedish, you can have it translate to English. I had been on the site before but hadn't really …
So the City of Fresno finally caught up with me. Apparently my "landscaping" had gotten a bit out of control lately. Unbeknownst to me, after living here for over thirty years, my front porch had become "so overgrown or uncontrolled as to create a fire/health/safety hazard". Regular maintenance would be required to prevent recurrence. The …
Or, shall I say, "Swedes"? In Acts 17: 25, the apostle Paul, while in Athens, spoke to the Athenian people about their altar to the "Unknown God". (Photo of Athens ruins by Spencer Davis on Unsplash.) Surely everyone has heard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (Photo by Philippa Rose-Tite on Unsplash.) If you're …
Nana's Whimsical World 