Posted in Palace, The Queen's Caffeine on Jul 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Thank you for being my grandmother, and for being so good to me—and to Larry. We will miss you very, very much.
Lattie Rochelle Pike Pettigrew June 15, 1910-July 2, 2008
Posted in Flickr, Kingdom, Ma.gnolia, Twitter on May 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Flickr: Self-Portrait: Woman with Mom-made Blanket http://tinyurl.com/6lgpv5 # ma.gnolia: Facebook Developers | Facebook Exporter for iPhoto http://tinyurl.com/6h52xa # Dear mysterious booming noise outside, Stop it. Please. It’s most unnerving, and I’m expecting to hear a fe-fi-fo-fum any moment. #
Posted in Palace, The Queen's Caffeine on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
via IM:
Mom suggested that Dad should move up on the mountain and join us:
me: I think he’s thinking about it…maybe a couple of years from now. We’ll have our own Kennedy compound. Momma: lol me: We’ll set him up by the creek, and you and Grandma by the house. All set. Redneck Kennedys.
Posted in Flickr, Kingdom, Ma.gnolia, Twitter on Apr 26th, 2008 No Comments »
ma.gnolia: Find a Grave: Virginia: Pettigrew: my maiden name–I’m related to General J.. http://tinyurl.com/69hlrx # ma.gnolia: James Johnston Pettigrew (1828 - 1863) - Find A Grave Memorial http://tinyurl.com/64lo3m # Flickr: Church and Commerce http://tinyurl.com/5b9ovw # ma.gnolia: Richard Phillips Feynman (1918 - 1988) [...]
Posted in Flickr, Kingdom, Ma.gnolia, Twitter on Apr 20th, 2008 No Comments »
ma.gnolia: FANGORIA TV http://tinyurl.com/4ssqbv # Flickr: Blue Ridge Mountains: Boone, NC area # Flickr: Me, Mom, and Eric: 1974 #
Posted in Flickr, Kingdom, Twitter on Apr 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Flickr: Me, Mom, and Eric: 1974 http://tinyurl.com/3hv9em #
Posted in Flickr, Kingdom, Twitter on Apr 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Flickr: Mom at Bahama Breeze http://tinyurl.com/5qr53u #
Posted in Ex Libris, Palace on Apr 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Larry and I hit the main library branch today; the list of checked-out books give a nice illustration of our mindspace, methinks:
The Museum of Hoaxes * Alex Roese The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics * R. P. T. Davenport-Hines Electric Motors * [...]
Posted in Palace, The Queen's Caffeine on Mar 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
Packing for the move is a really overwhelming process for me. I actually joked with Larry (joke, honestly, we’d never do this) that I wanted to take the pets, scrapbooks, and my great-grandmother’s quilts, and leave or torch the rest.
But my wonderful husband reminded me that we would never have to do this again. Ever. [...]
Posted in Ex Libris, Flickr, Kingdom, Palace, The Queen's Caffeine on Mar 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
These two counties will soon be our home/stomping ground. Larry’s mom, Margaret, lives on Little Piney Mountain. It’s an isolated location (her nearest neighbor is a usually-empty vacation cabin), which is its grace, and its problem, since she is aging. We love it there, we love her. Therefore, we’re moving. We should be the mountain’s [...]
