My grandmother, Helene Kupferman Greene, died in 1999, and my grandfather, Ernest Charles Greene, died in 2004. I inherited these photos of theirs six years ago, and it took me this long to scan them. Now that I’ve scanned them, I can’t wait to share them! This photos–especially when viewed larger in these high-resolution scans–show amazing detail, history, personality, and style. I would be thrilled if the descendants–children, grandchildren, or even great-grandchildren, see their mothers, grandmothers, or great-grandmothers in these photos. If I love them, I’m sure these ladies’ progeny will love them even more. If by some chance you recognize one of the young women in these photos, please let me know!
How could I be with this guy for seven years and not have had “his” red white & blue parfait? Last time he said “I think I’ll make ‘my’ such-and-such” was about something else he made in this 13×9 Pyrex dish– “My breakfast casserole” —after we had been together for six years! You got any other tricks up your sleeve, honey? 
This is the kind of techie thing I usually post to my own blog, but I’m adding it here because Andy & I made this video together and you can year us bantering about the dock throughout the video. Thanks, Andy, for being the videographer. 
via Just Singin’ & Signin’ in the Sun
Well, I did it! And it was really pretty easy. Yesterday, I imported the WordPress.org blog smithersgreene.net into WordPress.com. Today, I added the domain smithersgreene.net to this blog so that I can manage the content in WordPress.com instead of in WordPress.org. I find this blogging platform more carefree and easier to manage. So, yay! It worked. And it costs less than $10 a year to host this blog here are WordPress.com.
Take a look around! You might like what you see.
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I used one of my smaller blogs as a test run for importing a WordPress.org blog into WordPress.com. It was easy! Now to see how easy or difficult it is to add a domain to a WordPress.com blog. I’m hoping it’s just as easy and we can point our domain, smithersgreene.net, over here so I can manage it with WordPress.com. Seems much easier and better suited to my (our) needs than WordPress.org blog, which requires me to maintain two different installations of WordPress software that I have to update separately. (And even if, as of this month, I can maintain two blogs in one installation with WordPress 3.x, it’s still more complicated than with WordPress.com.)
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Saw this doggie at the Phoenix Pet Expo. This little guy had the same dappled black-and-white underside that our little Buxley has. The look as he turns his head around is even similar. His forearms look longer than Buxley’s, though, and Buxley’s tail is more fox-like.
Here’s my husband being himself in public… again.
Andy & I went to the newly-opened Sea Life Aquarium at Arizona Mills for the first time. One of my favorite rooms was this round room surrounded by a continuous circular tank in which schools of fish swim ’round & ’round.
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