This artichoke was in my garden and thriving when I left for Hawaii in November. By the time I came home at the end of the month, the temperature had dropped below freezing and it was covered in snow. I dragged it out of the snow looking limp and dead…and tossed it into the oven to slow bake it and dry it out. It’s beautiful in an interesting-decaying-disintegrating kind of way!
I’m away from home again…no, not in the warm and sunny south but in the interior of British Columbia...the cold and snowy north! I’m enjoying the little bit of snow we have here, knowing I’ll be leaving it behind in a few days. We’re celebrating my father’s 95th birthday this Sunday. Amazing…he's 95, still healthy and very “with it”! I truly hope he passed on his healthy genes!
Dad still lives in his own home and just bought a new car. He has not one but two computers and still travels frequently. If you’ve been reading here for awhile, you may remember that he travelled to Mexico to visit us two years ago.
He was born in 1917…and here’s what was going on in the world the year he was born…
the First World War was still being waged
Tsar Nicholas of Russia abdicated the throne to his son
Short wave radio had just been invented…which ended up being his life long passion and shaped his career in aviation electronics
in 1917 a Model T Ford cost $300 (and was his first car in 1939)
The War Industries Board asked women to stop buying corsets to make more metal available for war production.
women still wore long dresses, although they’d been shortened from floor length to ankle length
There have been amazing changes in the world since he was born but he's kept up with it all. He started a blog in 2007 but just wrote a few posts…he was too busy to keep it up! I feel so very blessed to have had my dad with me for so many years.
I hope the first week of January has been a good one for you! I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that it’s 2011!
