Her Father's Homestead

Month: June 2012

  • A Much-Anticipated Event

    I have a group of friends that I believe may be fairly unique. We have a name and we gather annually, heading to the North Woods of Wisconsin from as far away as Florida. We’re old friends, some among us go back literally 57 years, the rest anywhere from roughly 30 to 50 years. We…

  • A Noteworthy Day Addendum

    I do not believe I’ve ever done this before, but then my mom is a fairly new blog subscriber, and that should explain what’s to come. Having located the “Noteworthy” post yesterday, she called with a few corrections, or should I say clarifications, which I asked her to email rather than just tell me over…

  • Another Noteworthy Day

    Regular readers know I celebrate special days.  Last week we celebrated my mom’s birthday, featured here for the first time.  Today, we celebrate both my parents in honor of their 58th wedding anniversary.  Yep, one week after Mom’s 23rd birthday, she and my dad, a not-yet-ordained minister,  married in Rhode Island, a long way from…

  • Happy Birthday, Mom!!

    Regular readers know I favor Special Days.  Often they are birthdays of people important to me.  And that is the subject of the day – the birthday of a woman about whom I have rarely posted, other than teasing about the habits I believe I inherited from her.  Today, my mom, Carola Esther Buelow, is…