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WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

May 20, 2013 by tchistorygal

Have you ever wanted to escape from your past? From the faults and character qualities of your family that you didn’t like or admire? We always sort of disowned my dad’s mom. I never even think of her very often, but when I saw this picture from Sethsnap, I escaped back to my childhood, and remembered my Grandma Tressie Lee. Seth invited us to write something about the picture, so I escaped into the picture for about a half an hour […]

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Categories: About, Experience, Family, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Billy Graham, Escape, life in the 1950s, Marsha Lee, Oral Roberts, paint by number, WP Photo Challenge

Happy Mother’s Day

May 12, 2013 by tchistorygal

Today would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. Every so often her birthday fell on Mother’s Day, and this is one of them. She lived to be the ripe old age of 80, and we had 55 wonderful years together. Well most of them were wonderful. I’m sure she had a few that were troublesome, but not many. We were best friends. One of the things I loved about my mother was her smile. Even after she lost all her […]

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Categories: About, Experience • Tags: Mother's Day

Dr. Moy at 6:45 a.m one year ago after my exam.

Well Maintained

May 9, 2013 by tchistorygal

On one of my first dates with my husband Vince, he thought he was complimenting me when he told me that I was “sure well-maintained for my age,” (barely 43 at the time). Today at age 61, I am still well-maintained, but Vince has since learned that he gets better results by telling me I look beautiful. He’s a smart man. I saw one of my favorite maintainers on Monday in Brentwood, CA. Dr. Peter K. Moy is an Oral […]

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My friend Elane. Yes, I spelled it right.

My First Yoga Class

May 8, 2013 by tchistorygal

This weekend after my meeting in Los Angeles, and my dentist’s appointment in Brentwood, I spent a couple of days with my friend, Elane Geller. Elane is amazing. At age 70+ she can run circles around most of us. She was a special speaker at a high school on Tuesday, so she did two lectures, then we went out to a restaurant to meet two more students so she ended up doing an impromptu third session. Then on Wednesday we […]

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Categories: About, Experience, food, Travel • Tags: Umami Burgers, Yoga class

standing from the Master Gardener booth looking over the field

Good Morning World

April 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

I do love blogging, and I try to post consistently so that my blogging friends will know I’m alive and keep coming to see me. I recently read a recommended book, Getting Started with Twitter for Dummies, and updated my Twitter account. There I learned blogging tips from Daniel Sharkov, a 19-year-old. So today, because of his recommendation, I just added a new page, New Here, to help explain why I’m here on this blogging planet. Check it out and tell […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Photography, plants • Tags: Marsha Lee, Master Gardeners, photography, Porterville Iris Festival, Sally Pace

Bellavista

April 26, 2013 by tchistorygal

As a native Hoosier, my tendency is to be hospitable. My mother always loved to have company, and it didn’t matter when you came, if she was home, she would get you a glass of iced tea or Pepsi, and you all would sit down and visit. At Grandma’s that visit also included a walk through the yard to see what had bloomed since the day before when you were last there. I guess I haven’t outgrown that upbringing. Even […]

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Categories: About, Family, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: family, hospitality, landscaping, Marsha Lee, yard art

Near the mouth of the Kaweah River, a #5 Rafting River, and very noisy - Kaw Kaw!

A Drive to Sequoia National Park

March 29, 2013 by tchistorygal

I thoroughly prepared myself for a day of work. I was going to work on my quilt. but Mary called, and off we went to the Sequoia National Park. We started at Bravo Lake in Woodlake, admiring the Botanical Gardens. You have to climb to get to the lake as you walk through the gardens to the walking path around the lake. Bravo Lake, fed by the Kaweah River, Indian word, eah, meaning river, filled with the raucous caw, cawing […]

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Categories: About, Experience, museum, restaurants, Travel, Tulare County • Tags: Bravo Lake, Kaweah Lake, Kaweah River, Marsha Lee, Sequoia National Park, Three Rivers, Woodlake Botanical Gardens

Terry Ommen, Tulare County Historical Society, conducts a tour of Tulare County. This stop, near the original site of the Election Tree.

A Little Foothill High School History

February 23, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sally Pace asked me to do a column of Foothill History for the Kiwanis magazine which is published quarterly. Our larger community consists of several small foothill towns ranging from populations of about 3,000-8,000. From north to south the communities are: Woodlake, Lemon Cove, Three Rivers, the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and Exeter. Then a little farther south, still in the foothills, but not considered in our neighborhood are: Lindsay, Porterville (about 45,000 pop.), and Springville (very […]

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Categories: About, Education, history-social science, TCHS, Tulare County • Tags: CA, foothill community, Frank Ainley, history, Marsha Lee, Running P Ranch, Sally Pace, Woodlake, Woodlake High School

Writing Challenge: New Year’s Resolutions (Doompocalypse Redux)

January 1, 2013 by tchistorygal

In essence there is a 97.3% probability that any one of us could have three months or three minutes more to live with or without a gigantic asteroid, meteor, renegade planet, or star residue knocking at our door. If I think I only have that much time left to live, do I bother to plan at all? Probably not. I’m looking around me thinking, what should I do? I can plan for right now at least. So here’s my daily […]

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Categories: About, Books • Tags: end of world, Marsha Lee, New Year, Resolutions, Writing Challenge

2012 in review

December 31, 2012 by tchistorygal

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Dear Friends, This blog was started as an experiment. Without you my experiment would have fizzled. But as you can see, it lights up the night sky exploding with my joy to you for making it so much fun. I had a goofy contest for the commenters with the most comments on my blog, which came about as a result of an ongoing comment chat in my […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Experience • Tags: 2012, blogging, friendship, Marsha Lee, WordPress Review

Sunday Post: Christmas

December 23, 2012 by tchistorygal

Jake has done it again – a post to challenge my photographic abilities. I haven’t been too successful with night pictures or inside pictures. So here is my trial. Thanks to Leanne Cole and Russel Ray Photos for the tutorials on Photoshop to spruce these up! Most of our Christmas ornaments stay packed in the boxes each year because one of us doesn’t like them, and because V likes simplicity. I have to agree with him on that when I […]

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Categories: About, Family, Photography, Sunday Post • Tags: Christmas, decorating, Marsha Lee, ornaments, photography, Sunday Post:Christmas

Līgo Circle of Appreciation

October 7, 2012 by tchistorygal

For duration of 22 days, starting on 1st October 2012, we will be inviting 2 bloggers per day to join the Līgo Circle of Appreciation. PLEASE NOTE: This is an Appreciation, NOT an Award. To fully participate in the Līgo Circle of Appreciation: ~ * Complete this sentence about blogging: ”A great blog is…” * Refer back to the blogger who invited you * Invite 2 bloggers to join the Līgo Circle of Appreciation on a post “A great blog is one that is […]

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Categories: About, Blogging • Tags: 1st October 2012, Appreciation, Blog, Directories, Latvia, Līgo Circle of Appreciation, Poetry

Marsha Lee

October 7, 2012 by tchistorygal

I smiled to myself as I read my comments this morning. One of my younger new blogging friends called me “Ms. Lee”. A colleague asked me if I was using my maiden name for my blog. When I was a child, and I was in major, major trouble my parents would address me using my middle name, Lee. It had very bad, traumatic even, connotations to me. “Marsha LEE, you get in here RIGHT NOW!” To make it worse my […]

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Liebster Paid Forward

September 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

The amazing Renee has nominated me for the Liebster Award. I say amazing because of her age and all the many accomplishments she has done in such a short time. So thanks Renee. Be sure to take a look at her site. In my last article about it I followed it backwards for a while several generations, found a fork, and then the fork came back together. I found out there are many icons for this award, so I’m going […]

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Categories: About, Awards • Tags: Blog, Liebster Award, Renee, Shirley Temple, United States, WordPress

My Quilts

September 18, 2012 by tchistorygal

I say my rather loosely here because most of these quilts are mine either as gifts or purchases. However they are all meaningful to me, and have a story. I’ll start with the most recent one first then skip around as my story dictates.This quilt was given to me as a retirement gift by my friend, and colleague, and master quilter – in my opinion, though she is more modest that I allow her to be, Carmen Friesen. She […]

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Categories: About, Blogging, Experience, Photography • Tags: Arts, Crafts, Quilt

Raising a Family of Pigs

September 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

This was my favorite guinea pig, Piggles. A friend of mine that I taught with gave her to me as a classroom pet back when we could have classroom pets. Of course, she lived at my house, not at school.She was so cute that I decided that I wanted to raise guinea pigs, and my friend had other guinea pigs, but I didn’t want to have brothers and sisters having guinea babies, so I went to the pet store and […]

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Categories: About, animals, Photography • Tags: Cavia porcellus, cowlicks, Guinea pig

Finding My Journal

September 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

Thank you all for visiting my site yesterday – I had 100 views! I don’t know about the rest of you bloggers, but that fact makes me forget that I have any other worthwhile work to do, and makes me want to think of what to write to y’all today. I do love that contraction. (I’m not a Southern Belle, but I just love using it in honor of PT, who reads my blog every day. Thanks PT.) Don’t you […]

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Categories: About, Education, Experience, history-social science, Resources, SJVCSS, Travel • Tags: Clementina Rind, Colonial Williamsburg, history, journal, Online Writing, writing

Dawn of Retirement

September 1, 2012 by tchistorygal

Usually new jobs start on Monday, but in my case, my new job – Retirement – dawned on the last day of the month of August, 2012.My husband was up before it cracked – dawn that is, and called me to see the sunrise. He took pictures, then I did.I was invited to go back to work for the monthly honoring of birthdays and other important events, like retirement. Would you expect that getting up that early, I would be […]

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Categories: About, Experience, Retirement • Tags: Retirement

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My First Yoga Class

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Good Morning World

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Bellavista

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A Drive to Sequoia National Park

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Writing Challenge: New Year’s Resolutions (Doompocalypse Redux)

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2012 in review

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Sunday Post: Christmas

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Līgo Circle of Appreciation

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Marsha Lee

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Liebster Paid Forward

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My Quilts

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Raising a Family of Pigs

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