Born in 1898…
…she was a soft-spoken and sweet tempered woman who was plagued by poor health.
(On the Right)
She knew how to knit, and made a rose colored cardigan for grandma. :)
(Behind the shock)
In the summer and fall, Clayton would be away quite a bit hauling grain to Malta, Montana; and it was up to Lillian to man the fort.
They lived without conveniences like running water and electricity. A pump in the kitchen would have been a luxury. :)
Now let me tell you about my cake.
I used a recipe from our Better Homes and Gardens cookbook for the cake layers and recipes from another book for the frosting etcetera.
This was my first time making caramel and candied walnuts!
We had it with Vanilla Bean ice cream. There are plenty of leftovers yet.:)
Yesterday, as an early “Happy Birthday!” to me, some of us went to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha and out to eat at Charleston’s(Thanks Dad!).
The museum was built in the Art Deco style(very nice).
A few of my favorites:
Giorgio Cornaro with a Falcon by Titian Tiziano Vecellio, 1537 (I could’ve used a pronunciation key for some of the names there.)
In the Teton Range, 1899
By Thomas Moran
And this may very well be my favorite painting of the day.
Portrait of Sir Samuel Shepherd, 1796 (By Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.)
I love it when their eyes are painted this way—with detail, softness, and luminescence.
This is just fantastic…I have a whole list of reasons why I think so…Love it! Love it!
A parting shot of lights in the city.
Hhmm, I may blog my cake next, but that’s not finished.
For Thanksgiving
I ended up improvising a lot on this pie.
It’s elderberry-peach. :)
Ok, at one point the top didn’t seem done enough—Fine, just put some foil around the edge and bake it some more. I completely forgot about it. And it wasn’t for any five minutes either. When I remembered and took it out of the oven, it was golden, but not burnt.
Thank you Lord!
And I have a Pumpkin White Chocolate Souffle Cake.
You can find the recipe for it in the October issue of Victoria Bliss magazine.
It’s so wonderful to have so much good food at my fingertips; and to be able to cook and bake. Thank you Lord for that!
Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
My great-great grandpa
These are a couple of pages from my Grandma Marion’s family history. I tweaked them a bit.
My grandma and her grandpa…
Grandma wrote a little page for me about grandpa Charles.
I didn’t want to tear it out of the book; so your version gets to be a little blurry. :( Pardon me for that.
The uncle mentioned is Tracy.
Front(This picture was tiny.)
Back
Mae was Grandma’s little(and only)sister.
Grandpa Charles would come over to there house for Sunday dinners. Great-grandma Lillian would always make mashed potatoes(and he loved her mashed potatoes.) :)
I may do a post about Clayton and/or Lillian next!
I found another photo of her! And did a fair amount of editing to tidy it up…
It’s nice that she’s smiling in this one. :)
