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DELIVERY TRUCKS OF YORE

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  Ye auld milk delivery van This isn’t the actual milk delivery truck and milkman that came to our house in the 1940s & ‘50s, but it closely resembles what I remember the truck looking like.  And I remember the bottles of milk the milkman set on the porch or handed to my Mom with the cream floating on the top.   I also remember our milkman/men as smiling, jolly fellows.    There’s a funny story about that.    When I was a toddler, toddling around I always held onto or at least touched something as I walked around.    My folks knew I could walk without holding onto things and had been trying to get me to let go and just walk to them freely, but I wouldn’t do it.    Then one day I was standing in the dining room holding onto the table when the milkman came.    Mom opened the door and took the milk from him.    He saw me standing there and with a big smile and a “Hello sweetheart”, crouched down, opened his ar...
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WAGON WHEELS

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  Using old wooden wagon wheels for decoration.  These wheels came with the house we bought in Oakhurst, CA, and really added to our backyard décor. There was a pizza place in Oakhurst called Wagon Wheel Pizza with a big ol' wagon wheel out front.  They made the most wonderful pizza with lots of cheese on top.  We ate there with the family several times.  This isn’t it.  I went online hoping to find a picture of the place in Oakhurst, but no luck.  I did find a ton of pictures online of places called the Wagon Wheel Café or Wagon Wheel Restaurant.  This is one of those but I have no idea where it is.  It looks like it’d be a fun place to go to, though. This was another Wagon Wheel café or restaurant I found online, but again I have no idea where it is. There was another place up the highway in Oakhurst called The Snowline Restaurant serving delicious food.  We went there a few times too.  Unfortunately, while the building is still t...
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SOLEMN WOMEN

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  My 3xs paternal Great Grandmother, Mary Gould Chase My paternal great great Grandmother, Lucy Chase Taylor, Daughter of Mary Gould Chase and wife of my great great Grandfather, Frederick William Taylor, M.D.  Sadly, she died when their daughter, my great Grandmother, Ella, was only 2 years old, so Ella was raised by her Aunt Susan and Uncle Goodlow Taylor, brother to Frederick. My paternal great great Aunt, Susan Taylor by virtue of marriage to my great great Uncle Goodlow Taylor, brother of Frederick William Taylor, M.D. My paternal great Grandmother Ella Chase Taylor Smedley, daughter of Lucy Chase and Frederick Taylor, and wife of my great Grandfather, John Kinsey Smedley. My paternal Grand Aunt Elizabeth Bradley Hayworth, sister to my Grandfather, Frank Herbert Bradley My Grand Aunt Helen Bradley, sister to my Grandfather Frank Bradley My Grand Aunt Mary Ann Bradley, sister to my Grandfather Frank Bradley My paternal Grandmother, Harriet (Hattie) Bell Smedley Bradley....
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