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Adolph’s Saw

PPP – Adolph’s Saw I love tools and working with my hands.  Did this kind of work professionally for the first decade and a half of my post-high school life and my late-in-life return to school for a college degree. On the walls and in the cabinets of my garage are an assortment of tools […]

PPP – Father’s Day – Reissue

Hello all, This is a reissue of my Father’s Day PPP from 2020. Here are a few photos of dads with kids and grandkids.  Hope you enjoy it! 1937 – Frank Kerbrat with his boys; Yves, Adrian, Art, and Bern.   A couple of photos of my Dad, Gerald Robert McNamara, with his dad, Gerald […]

PPP – Happy Mother’s Day – Reissue

Note: this is a reissue/rewrite of my Mother’s Day PPP from 2020. Happy Mother’s Day Friday Everyone, Last year an Allen’s Hummingbird built a nest in our backyard pittosporum.  Her two eggs hatched and the young successfully fledged and left the nest.  That very same nest is again occupied this year.  She (perhaps the same […]

Reissue – PPP Easter

This is a reissue of the Easter PPP sent out on April 10, 2020. From the house number in the background, this is probably Mac and Hilda’s place at 274 S Roxford Drive in Beverly Hills, which would make the year either 1938 or 1939. Left to right: Adolph Matthiensen, with Bertha Matthiensen partially hidden […]

Love Defined Them and Us

NOTE: This PPP was first sent out through my email chain on April 17, 2020.  For my Journal inaugural, I am reissuing this PPP, with a few edits, additions, and current dates.  I selected this PPP because we are coming up on another Easter, which is a time of rebirth and renewal.  It is a […]