chapter 493

3/17/2018

Hazel Bryson

all about the baby

My grand daughter is 3 months old now. A doll. Starting to become a real person, I like to say, but that may offend some. This is one of the reasons I generally avoid family talk in my blogs - so easy to offend. But a documentable moment.

Chris & Ricky proud and adjusting nicely parents up for a visit. I don't really shooting family shots very much thus the blur.

Lot of cell phones capturing Kodak moments. Why can't Kodak make cell phones, just a thought. Lucas' clothes pin was on top of the bee hive of activity chart. Good boy.

Mothers have such a mothering instinct, I've noticed. I'm not really much of a "baby person", is that so bad?

It was my daughter-in-law's birthday and Lucas seems to always enjoy a flaming cake. Hazel seems to notice as well. Sis Kathy lurking in the background.

Hazel Mae Haskins Olmsted's gray head is shown from the back side here from about 1954 at a family gathering at Grandma Wilna's (far left) Virgil home. She married my Grandpa's (distance hatless) brother Charles Glenn (straw hat) whom we always called Uncle Glenn (car salesman in nearby Cincinatus). Perhaps it was an August birthday party for cuz Gail in party dress (high expectations & disappointment). Aunt Carol (blue dress) looking on bemused. Sis Kathy would have been just two months old being held my Mom. I was pretty intense eating the delicious watermelon. You gotta focus to not swallow too many seeds (before the seedless invention).This from Uncle Nelson's slides chapter 391 . disclaimer: Hazel could instead be Great Uncle Bud's wife Ifie?

It is a time capsule. Notice the fold out camera in George Warren's (Nelson's Dad) hands. Wife Clara to his right. Grandma's metal outdoor rocking chairs are all the rage now. Saw them for sale at Lowes last summer. The red converse sneaks never go out of style. Just a baby pull toy- nothing digital then. A camp folding chair still useful today. The diagonal pole to the right puts tension on the clothes line to keep clothes off the ground but removed to lower accessibility for removing clothes pins. Remnants of wood slabs down below as GPA ran a saw mill on the property then burned slab wood in his house furnace and kitchen wood stove. The wood bin was the house structure on left. Full of sawdust too. They used to use sawdust to insulate pond harvested ice blocks in the tarpaper ice house. Not sure why there was so much sawdust in there but we used to enjoy jumping into it from the back porch. GPA made the long wooden bench for us to sit on (along with an outdoor wooden table for outside summer meals).

Hurricane Hazel that fall of 1954 was a big deal for us. The biggest one to hit NYS at the time. We all walked down the street to GMA's house because their dug cellar was stronger and they had the kerosene lanterns. I have this "Eagle burner" Hurricane kerosene 1920's "Giant" lamp from the olden days. I broke one of the heirlooms and this may be from the Kanches side of the family, not sure. Photographed in my powder room. Kathy's choice wallpaper choice to reflect on the Virgil roots. Great Grandma Sarah's Depression green glass serving bowl with coconut we picked up on Pompano Beach recently.

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