My Desultory Blog

RichC | November 26, 2020

Since I’m pre-writing this by a few days for Throwback Thursday #TBT, I realized just before post it that  it will also be Thanksgiving on Thursday. Our family won’t be getting together as usual (same for a lot of families for a COVID19 resurgence), but ours was planned that way since we rotate holidays; Katelyn, […]

Category: Archive, Holiday, Memories, Personal, Photos, Social Networking, TBT | No Comments »
Tags: apron, aprons, bluhm, bobby, diane, facebook, family, grandfather, grandmother, granny, howard, richard bluhm, richc, ronc, ruth bluhm, TBT, thanksgiving, throwback, thursday

RichC | July 3, 2018

While working with my "travel tool bag" today, I pick up a open end wrench with SHAW on the handle. It brought back memories of my Grandpa Bluhm and where he once worked back in the 1950s or 60s. I sent a photo to my cousin Diane, but because it was a tool, don’t really […]

Category: History, Tools | No Comments »
Tags: antique, bluhm, diane, family, grandfather, joseph, popular science, shaw, tools

RichC | August 5, 2017

It is hard to believe, but this will be the first time our granddaughter Annalyn comes to visit in Cincinnati. Shocking … 5 months and a first visit??? It will have to change. Since I’ll likely be preoccupied, here’s a Thursday night post for a Sunday filler after using the extra material from my Wicker […]

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Tags: annalyn, brother, chair, cousin, diane, family, lagoon, lake erie, momc, project, recover, wicker

RichC | February 21, 2017

I was fortunate to have one of the greatest childhoods. My immediate family was very close with my mom’s parents (my grandparents) and her sister and family. We spent many times together and every holiday. My cousin Diane and husband Bert remain “relatively” close to this day and occasionally text message back and forth. Hm, […]

Category: Archive, Health, History, Memories, Misc | No Comments »
Tags: box, brands, cigarettes, dadc, diane, family, memories, smoking

RichC | June 11, 2016

My cousin (a loyal blog reader … a little embarrassing) exchanged a couple of text messages the other day after she commented on "our" grandfather’s photo and grandmother’s painting. It is nice to know that I’m not the only one who is sentimental about our grandparents, considering the very few years they were in our […]

Category: Archive, Art, Memories, Personal, Photos | No Comments »
Tags: artwork, baithouse, bluhm, diane, family, grandparents, mears, nailbox, paintings

RichC | January 29, 2012

Mom and Diane on Saturday afternoon January 28, 2012 It was great to see my mom happy to have visitors and feeling pretty good after getting a better combination of pain medication. Although her vertebrae is deteriorating and their has been little hope for a surgical repair, she has been in much better spirits now […]

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Tags: diane, family, momc