My Desultory Blog

RichC | June 18, 2017

It is good day when projects get accomplished. Saturday was a sunny and dry for the painting of my GREAT grandparents’ two wicker chairs (unsure, but think they were from my Grandmother Ruth “Walker” Bluhm side). My Grandmother and Grandfather Bluhm used them for years on their Wright Avenue front porch in Toledo Ohio, then […]

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Tags: brenda, family, fathers day, grandparents, painting, richc, taylor, wicker

RichC | March 5, 2017

All is well with mother and daughter as Katelyn gave birth a few days early to our first grandchild … Annalyn… at 6:49AM CST on Saturday March 4, 2017 in Minneapolis. Katelyn and Drew arrived at the hospital and called us at 2:45AM to let us know “today is the day” … well Saturday. Of […]

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Tags: annalyn, baby, birth, drew, family, grandparents, katelyn, oostra

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 […]

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Tags: artwork, baithouse, bluhm, diane, family, grandparents, mears, nailbox, paintings

RichC | August 5, 2014

Learning from wise parents and grandparents is a generational gift that isn’t given enough credit, especially since we ask: “What’s happening to America?”  A: Families are changing. I grew up watching teenagers a decade (or less) older than me heading to Vietnam or getting lost in angry 60’s. They (we) followed those dark years of […]

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Tags: brenda, family, grandparents, legacy, momh, parents