Valentine’s Day

Wing Nut, will you be my Valentine?

Season’s Greetings from the Wenches & the critters

Mugsy

Charlie

Sierra

Dakota & her groupies

Happy Easter from the Wenches

Narcissus 'White Lion'

HAPPY EASTER FROM CURMUDGEON, WING NUT, DIVA DOG, WHITE SOCKS, AND SNUGGLE BUG.

Narcissus 'Cheerfulness'

Season's Greetings from the Wenches

From Wing Nut

Feliz Lattedad!

This IS Seattle after all...

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From Curmudgeon

Bah           Hum           Bug!

This IS Curmudgeon after all..

 

--Curmudgeon & Wing Nut

A Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas

The Wenches can't make it back east for the holidays this year, but we received a very special card reminding us of home.

--Curmudgeon & Wing Nut

 

 

Strange visitor

We've had visitors in our yard before...

But we've never seen anything like this...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 

--Curmudgeon & Wing Nut

MOO!

Oops, we meant

BOO!

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Have you called your grandmother today?

Thanks to the website Joyeuse Fêtes I realized that today is "La Fête des Grand-mères" in France. This is primarily a commercial holiday created in the late 80's and celebrated on the first Sunday in March. Apparently in 1987 there was a shortage of the Grand'Mère brand of coffee and voila! A fète was created. Hey it sure beats a strike!

We still have six months to go to National Grandparents' Day in September. Here in the US the holiday got its start in West Virginia thanks to Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade. It took most of the 70s but finally in '78 Congress passed legislation and President Jimmy Carter signed the proclamation. The first Sunday after Labor Day was chosen to signify the "autumn years" of life. Today we'll be thinking of our grandmothers--Adela, Hortensia, Sarita, Granny (Mary L) and Nana (Mary M).