September 22, 2007
Old Photo Site
Comanche County: 1916 | Shorpy Vintage Photos
Some are off picking cotton. I too would like to know, why the poles?
Patty at 08:30 AM
March 12, 2007
Geoff and Aimee's wedding picture. They were married on February 19, 2007. Congratulations to you both!
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January 15, 2007
Emily's birthday
No more arguments over who gets to drive!
Now I need to accompany both children on my bicycle and act like a police outrider to keep the other traffic on the road safe from these two speed merchants.
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October 08, 2006
The Twins 70th Birthday cake
The surprise birthday party went off pretty well Saturday night and pictures can be found on TartanTed
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June 29, 2006
Emily gets her library card
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May 08, 2006
Up a Tree
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March 12, 2006
Life's contrasts
The previous post showns a picture of where we will eventually live. Here is where we (I) currently live.
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February 28, 2006
Taking pictures of children is easy - see!
Now where are the pictures of my children?
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WHERE ARE THE PROMISED PICTURES OF MY CHILDREN?
I was promised family photos if I posted garden piccies. How difficult is it to point a digital camera and shoot? It's not as if I'm asking the USCIS to provide me with pictures; just as well as that would take hundreds of days!
Point, click, download, email - et voila! Get to it PJ
More garden piccies to show good faith :-)
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February 26, 2006
Patty's backyard
I have been promised pictures of my children if I upload pictures of Patty's garden in Scotland. Let's hope that the abysmal state it is in does not prejudice this arrangement!
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January 29, 2006
Q: What is wrong with this picture?
A: There are no children in the yard!
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January 26, 2006
The Turtle
Sunday I carved up a watermelon and threw the shell in our west lot for the wild animals. Today the children found them and Emily immediately spotted a turtle among them. She explained it is a robot turtle that was exploded by a superhero. To build an object from a found object is a very Patty-ish thing to do. She was always able to turn a found object to good use.
Submitted by Grandmommy, under Patty's name because that's what came up when I clicked on the Movable Type site.
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January 15, 2006
We had Tacos for Dinner
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Emily and Andrew have friends who miss them.
ASA at 12:23 AM
Don't you just love having friends who invite you for dinner
Angie and Ivan invited me over for dinner this evening so I had the luxury of a proper meal prepared for me and it was delicious.
See Tartanted's blog for pictures of the food
ASA at 12:19 AM
December 14, 2005
Be careful what you joke about.
Coming home from visiting Charlotte the other day I caught sight, out of the corner of my eye, of a red car lying in a field and commented to Patty that I hoped it wasn't my Company's car.
The next day the police phoned to ask if we still owned a red Ford escort! ... and yes, it was ours. Stolen on Saturday night and driven half a mile before taking to the air and ending up in the field. It's an insurance write off and nobody knows how or when it got stolen!
ASA at 12:49 AM
December 07, 2005
Christmas is a comin'
Emily and Andrew have been discussing their imminent flights to visit Grandmommy and Grandfather. They have also had excited conversations regarding Christmas and their expected booty from this event; we'll deal with the real meaning of Christmas gently and gradually!
Anyhoo, I thought it appropriate to venture into the loft and bring down a limited amount of Christmas parafanalia even although we are not going to be at home for much longer. The kids have certainly been appreciative and here is a picture of their Christmas stockings hanging on the fireplace.
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November 24, 2005
Sheep on a frosty morning in South Lanarkshire
ASA at 10:56 AM
November 06, 2005
Bonfire Night
More photos can be seen on TartanTed.com
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August 20, 2005
Road out to Quothquan
11.0 miles round trip. It was a beautiful day here in the Scottish Low Lands, the Central Belt, the Southern Uplands. We packed a picnic lunch and road the bikes out to Quothquan. I confess I walked up the 11% grade of Cormiston Hill, but I did make it up Knocklea. We had a lovely picnic lunch with the Twaddles in their front garden. Jean, go take pictures of your Japaness Anemones. The worst bit was Lyndseylands Road on the way home; one little upward slope after another, all to short and low to warrent getting off and walking, but oh how the calves hurt.
More pictures can be seen on TartanTed.com
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August 14, 2005
Emily's Revolution Glider
Saturday was not only a day for Patty and Andrew to go cycling. Emily and Alan went too.
Story and photos can be had on TartanTed's blog and website.
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August 13, 2005
Bike Riding
Dear Edith,
I finally did it. I actually road the bike with a child, Andrew, in the front loading child seat you attached two years ago. Alan has used often. We road as a family with Emily on her new half-a-bike attachment on Daddy's bike. We road all the way to Loaningdale and back.
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August 03, 2005
Charlotte and Chic Murray circa 1957
ASA at 06:16 PM
July 31, 2005
Emily and her dog
I was working on my collection of digital photographs the other day and came across this one taken in June 2003. Not exactly current blogging but I thought it was cute enough to share.
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July 30, 2005
Patty's birthday
We spent the day in Edinburgh getting new spectacles for Patty, doing some birthday shopping, and going to a new restaurant in Dalry Road, Edinburgh called The Sizzling Scot. If you're ever in Edinburgh we can recommend that you try this place because, unlike many (most?) establishments in the UK they seem to have got the right idea regarding customer service and also, shock horror, they know how to cook and present food!
More pictures of birthday girl, birthday cake, and excited children desperate to eat cake can be found at Mommy's Birthday
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July 25, 2005
Emily's Potatos
Emily helped dig these potatos out of Jean's garden. Boy do garden fresh potatos taste good.
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July 20, 2005
Pokey's Pond
Aunt Judy has sent us this picture of the pond behind Grandmother's house. She doens't seam to know that it is called Pokey's Pond. Does anyone remember the origin of that name?
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July 19, 2005
Cindy has posted photos from their trip in March, take a look, there is a very good one of Uncle Elmer.
MyFamily.com?-?Owens -Torres Family Web Site?-?View?Very serious dinner
Teresa at 08:58 PM
July 18, 2005
Camping in Scotland
It is 10.50pm, it's blowing a gale and it's pouring with rain. My children are asleep beside me and I'm typing on a notebook computer in a tent in my back yard.
Proof definitive that I'm losing the place!
Anyway, the kids have enjoyed their adventure thus far and I just hope they will sleep through the night undisturbed .... but aren't pidgeons noisy birds and where is that cow that keeps mooing?
I've uploaded some pictures to TartanTed.com to prove how mad the Scottish Albins really are; although I should point out that the Texan amongst us has chosen to sleep in the house tonight.
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July 15, 2005
Summertime and the living is easy......
Anna July 4th
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Not fromYamboy's garden but pretty anyway
A thistle thingy photographed in West Linton
ASA at 01:24 AM
Investigating the newly refurbished Biggar pond
Emily, Andrew, and the swan family
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Christopher and his Fish
July 12th 2005
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June 28, 2005
The Onion Ornamental
This is an Onion as grown at Alnwick Gardens.
Mom/Anna, next time you are over this direction we should go back to see how these the gardens have matured. They have also added a treehouse garden and lots more.
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June 22, 2005
Vindolanda
With Windy back on the road we returned Dick's hire car yesterday and all set off this morning for Hadrian's wall. Luck was with us and the weather was perfect; warm and breezy. We picniced at Vindolanda and then all walked to the Housesteads hill fort, yes, even Andy managed to walk all the way up to the top!
ASA at 11:36 PM
Dick considers changing his hire car
We went to Glasgow to collect Windy from the shop and Dick thought he might change his hire car to a "more appropriate" model.
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June 17, 2005
Family Picture
I am testing a change I made to the file upload feature.
Just a week into using the blog, I was finding uploaded files all over the place. Part of this is my fault, because I had asked that we put them into a directory called pics2005 so that things would be need and tidy on the file side. Wrong! There were at least three pics2005, Pics2005, pic2005 etc.... So now it is automated. You just add your file and don't worry about typing in a directory.
Patty at 12:03 AM
June 15, 2005
Herring/Sneed Reunion 2005
The three Rockport brothers with cousins, Malcom W. Carroll, Dallas, Cassandra Sneed Moore, Beeville, LaVerne Sneed, widow of Charles, Alice. Also, Roseanne Carrol, Nell Herring and Anna Herring.
Anna at 11:13 PM
Anna's Still Life from Alzora's seminar
I finally got my piece finished and I am quite pleased with it!
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June 12, 2005
It's Sunday so it must be St Andrews
We all went to St Andrews today and while Justin did his own thing we took the kids and the dog to the beach. We met up again at 6pm for dinner and here is a photograph of Justin and Jenna in front of the clubhouse clock at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club
ASA at 10:27 PM
June 10, 2005
Fore!
Andy practices his golf swing.
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The Hoeses get a lift to the car hire company
Ruth and Dick leaving Loaningdale on the first leg of their journey to Inverness.
ASA at 10:55 PM
Justin visits the Albins in Scotland
Another member of the Scherrer clan has come to visit. Guess it's time to visit Tantallon Castle again!
ASA at 10:51 PM
June 06, 2005
Alzora's Fruit
This is my friend/teacher's painting
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June 05, 2005
Californian Willdflowers
Here are the Californian wildflowers you e-mailed earlier. I'll write a short turtorial for uploading files in a little while. Meanwhile you can check out the Help option at the top of the Main Menu page of the MovableType Publishing Platform.
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June 02, 2005
Wonderful
Rick Lee took this fab picture.
All his pictures are great, go see.
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