Our family has a few special recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation. One of those is Grammy’s Chopped Apple Cake, Grammy being Mabel Austin Gibson (We have more than one Grammy in our family, so I need to be specific!). Traditional Chopped Apple Cake Mix: 4 cups chopped apples 2 eggs … Read more
Last Friday’s Just a Moment was the beginnings of a sewing project. I haven’t used my sewing machine in years and it has been even longer since I did anything more than simple mending with it. We’re talking decades here! And I have never taken an existing item and copied it, making my own pattern. … Read more
Last month I spent some time going through a box of old pictures and other memorabilia left to me by my grandmother, Mabel Esther Austin Gibson. I scanned a lot of papers, cool things like her 1926-1928 college transcript. I also found a lot of pictures, many of which were labeled, and I have been … Read more
