Photo of a woman, and child feeding seagulls circa summer 1957.

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This past week in another blog I write for I participated in a meme where the theme was hope. I thought the choice for the theme was perfect for starting off the brand new year, and will share a bit of that same entry with you here today. I know that many of you who are regulars here may not have seen the original.

I got this tropical flowering plant several years ago from my grandmother's funeral. It was part of a large basket of planets, and my uncle gave it to me. When the initial flowers fell off a couple of weeks after the funeral they never grew back. No matter what I tried including moving its location, special plant food, etc, nothing seemed to work in getting it to flower.

Then in a weird bit of coincidence guess what I saw on the morning of Christmas eve! I say these tiny flowers are a good representative of hope.....and hope is a wonderful blessing to start out the new year with.

Happy New Year 2009, and thank you for stopping by!

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I came across this vintage new year greeting from the Wells Fargo company while surfing the web earlier in the week. I thought it was so sweet that I just had to share it here.

Vintage greetings such as these remind me that no matter how tough things can get we do go forward, and things do get better. Wishing you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!

Happy New Year 2009!

Image courtesy: Wells Fargo archives

Over the next few days I will be redesigning the website for the Norfolk Militia (Heritage Regiment) Re-Enactment Group (that's them in the photo above) here in Southern, Ontario, Canada. I will pop in on this blog as often as possible, and will be back with more frequent blog posts next week.

When the new website is ready I'll post the link. I look forward to any constructive criticism, and feedback you might have to offer.

The holidays have been really nice this year. Although Christmas Day itself was rather quiet we were able to spend time with all three kids over the holidays. We were also able to spend time with our two nieces, and my Sister.

Our dinner turned out to be perfect, an achievement in, and of itself as I cooked the turkey this year.

We managed to make certain everyone in our extended family received a gift without going into debt. And we received many lovely gifts including a surprise homemade pumpkin bread, and chocolate fudge from our neighbours, which was very yummy Christmas morning.

And the greatest blessing of all is that two people who are both very ill, and were not expected to be with us are still here for this holiday, and hopefully much, much longer thanks to great advances in the treatment of cancer.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday, no matter which one you celebrate and all the best to you dear reader in 2009.

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I love vintage pics like this one taken in 1900. I wonder what became of these people?

I wonder what was so interesting down there?

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Happy Holidays!

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This year is the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine in which up to 10 million Ukrainians died in 1932-33. It behooves The New York Times, whose reporter, Walter Duranty, received a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and thereafter lied deliberately about the Holodomor, to return his prize.

With every day that Durantyʼs Pulitzer remains with The New York Times, the stain of Durantyʼs lies spread ever wider.

To some this might seem like a long time ago, but to people like my Mother whose family suffered so much these horrific things seem like yesterday. Please sign the petition here in order to right a terrible historical wrong. The crimes against humanity were bad enough, imagine how you would feel if your family suffered these things while prominent American reporters lied about it, and were then rewarded for their lies.

Thank you!