Day 7 Project 365 Clam Chowder For Lunch

I love Fridays.. we go to a buffet and they make a great clam chowder...

Day 6 Project 365 Frosty Rocks Frosty Morning

Day 6 for project 365 is taken on this frosty morning down by canel park over looking lake superior. Even the rocks were cold as was my nose.

shared this photo at Nature Footstep

Day 5 Project 365 Book Hunting At Wisconsin Thrift Store

Hubby found a new ( to us ) thrift store in Superior Wisconsin. Up scale looking, clean and tidy. Up a long flight of stairs is a small section of books reasonably priced.

I found fairly rare cookbook " Tough Guys Don't Dice A Cookbook For Men " by James Thorson.

I found 8 copies for sale on amazon starting at $ 28.28 ( ex library copy ) up to unbelievable price of $103.30.

And off in another section I found a group of sewing patterns. Among them I found a vintage pattern for a blouse to sell on eBay. It is from 1945 and is great example of ladies clothing styles.

okay today you get 3 pictures for the price of 1. I just so I can show you the two items I found to resell on the Internet this month.
thanks for stopping by to view my project 365 photos

Day 4 Project 365 Duluth City View on a Frosty Morning

The Duluth city view is beautiful at time of the year. Even on a cold morning.

Day 3 Project 365 Bridges Are Beautiful

I find bridges beautiful to look at no matter the angle.

Day 2 Project 365 Frosty Morning By Lake Superior

Today is a cold frosty day in Duluth, Minnesota. Pretty but frigid.

Day 1 Project 365 Kung Pao Chicken

Today lunch at a local Chinese restaurant here in Duluth. I ordered one of my favorites.
Kung Pao Chicken and sweet and sour chicken combination plate. Picture is not very good and either was the Kung Pao Chicken. Will go back to our favorite place or maybe give some of the other Chinese restaurants a try.

Grace's Project 365

I heard about Project 365 a while ago and thought it was a fun interesting idea. I had heard about something like this about 2003 or 2004 and took pictures every day for awhile but that faded with the cost of having photos printed. Now with my digtal camera I plan to give it a try again. The idea is a simple one, take and post one picture every day for 365 days.
It will become a visual diary of one year of your life.

I'm told it makes you a better photographer as you strive to find something interesting to photograph every day. Sounds good to me but will force me to get out of the house to find an intersting photo. Some days that may be a challenge but a good one.

The key to this project is to keep doing it every day. I know there will be days when I'm busy or tired or when I just don't want to be bothered to leave that house.

I'm going to try to snap a picture anyway. Whether or not I post every day will be or several in a row will be seen. So if you want to see where life takes me this year just stay tuned!
And while you are at it check out one of my favorite genealogy bloggers as she now has a new blog up for her 365 project.
Care to join in please leave me a comment with your page so I can watch your pictures .

thanks for stopping by.. Grace

Wishing You A Merry Christmas With A Few Thoughts From Me

Meet my great nephews and neice .. are they not adorable.. Boy do I miss seeing those faces weekly.

As this wonderful Christmas holiday approaches us I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and pray that we all welcome in a wonderful New Year. I pray that our next year is better and more prosperous than the last for all of us.

As we share the holidays with our family and friends lets please think and pray for those that are less fortunate then us. Pray for the hungry, the homeless and those suffering from addictions , diseases and mental illness. My one thought always is " but for the grace of God there go I ".

Lets take a moment and pray for our service men and service women. And for those that are in harms way in a foreign country give them an extra thought and prayer. Pray for their families that are left here to deal with every day happenings without them. The majority of them do so much for so little.

Lets pray for our government officials that they have the wisdom to do what is best for all of us and the knowledge to do it with out fighting.

If you are still blessed to have your parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts be thankful. Take a moment to hug and kiss them. Take a few minutes and ask them to share their stories with you. Some day sadly they will be gone and you will then wish that you knew more of their history.

I am reminded of a conversation at my hubby's birthday party. I made a comment about getting married the first time and my step son and his family had never heard that story. I have been married to husband #2 for almost 22 years. We celebrate our wedding anniversary on the 30Th of December. They know very little about my history. That is probably my fault and maybe some of theirs.

This is hubby and me 10 years ago at a dinner theater on New Years eve. Guess it is time to get a new nice picture of us. He still has the tie and I probably still have that outfit. Question is can I still get into it.

So much contact today is emails and text messages. I personally detest text messages saying" happy anything " Take a moment and call your family. Here a voice and say I love you to some one. When I get one I just delete it as if it did not happen. Except for one text message from my grand daughter Kirsten. She sent me one and it is of a loud " Kiss " and "I Love You"I play it often. It was not sent for a birthday, Christmas message or any reason other than she thought of me and sent it. Grandpa got one too. Thanks Kirsten I smile when I replay it.

I am busy always searching and writing about my ancestors but I guess it is time to do some sharing of my life in writing. How I wish I had more of my parents, grandparents and past relatives stories. There are so many stories untold. As I share some of my life on my family blog site I have been printing some of them so I can give to family in the future.Now with all of that I will leave you for now.

It is time to make another pot of coffee, put on one of my favorite Christmas movies " Love Actually " with Hugh Grant and make my Watergate Salad for our Christmas eve party tonight.

I appreciate all of you that take a moment to visit my sites and to those of you who leave a message an extra thank you . Merry Christmas to you and your families .. Grace

Winter Wonderland Duluth Minnesota 51 Inches Of Snow so Far

Good Morning everyone.. Do you have snow?

Yesterdays newspaper article tells us that we are on record for snow fall. 51 inches of snow so far. We are living on Park Point on the shores of Lake Superior and until 3 days ago had very little snow. Then we got about 6 to 8 inches. After pushing the door open I was able to take this pretty picture.

Hope that it never gets so bad I can not push open the door. Then a phone call goes out to the children .. HELP !!!

Hope all have a very Merry Christmas... Grace