brother waters potatoes

Today my brother took me along to his garden plot in the county park.  He took along several gallons of water and fed it to his sweet potatoes and regular potatoes.  There are about 300 plots available.  The office said not all were rented this year.

local locale

Milton had read that Linglestown had some local color so we had lunch there, about ten miles north of Hershey, on Monday. At its founding in 1765 it was named St. Thomas. The tuna salad sandwiches here were good, but the small village was disrupted by road crews ripping up the main street. The town was laid out with a wide central area.

river not high

Although weather reports warned of flooding, I did not see a high Susquehanna River when I drove there today. I did see a rainbow over a side street and railroad crossing in Columbia, Pa. Milton ran inteference on the run to and across the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge built for old Route 30 (Lincoln Highway) in 1930.

day trip to culture

A day trip to a cultural spot brightened up today. Milton went along as friend and co-pilot. We pulled off I-83 at Timonium, Maryland, to warm up on a misspelled "donut." We drove to DC and parked in view of the dome on East Capital and 5th Street, close to Miller's Court. The goal was the Folger Shakespeare Library. Had never heard of it. Read a review of their current exhibit. The question is: in which picture would Shakespeare feel most at home? The library in the next post.

elephant appears as gift

At the Lehman Christmas my brother, Milton, got Horton the elephant as a gift. Squeeze a paw and he says, "I meant what I said and I said what I meant--an elephant's faithful one hundred percent."

Milton gives the Dr. Seuss book by memory and it's a trademark of family gatherings sometimes.

good-bye Gary

Gary Shaar's funeral was held at the Hope United Methodist Church in Ephrata, Pa., today, at 10 a.m. We got the bouquet of flowers given by the whole family at Central Market. Arrived at the church in plenty of time for the 9 a.m. viewing. The interment followed at Sinking Spring. There my sister Anna Lois (l), brother Milton, and Evie, my sister the new widow, contemplate the cemetery tent.

not my Lehmans

You gotta love a brother who sends you this email when the markets are scary and the mighty Lehman Bros. is looking for a buyer:

"There's Lehman Bros (as in Wall St.), and there is Lehman Brothers (as in the powerful Foundation)--and we know which group counts more in the Eternal scheme of things!--Milt"

The "powerful foundation" is our little philanthropic hobby, dealing in nickels and dimes. Thanks, brother.

record company

Saturday Joel sent off this art which he created to San Francisco. I sent the music by Fedex air on a hard copy CD.

Part of what I do is produce CDs. It used to be only sounds I arranged and made. Once you figure out how to do it you add albums of other provenance realted to your niche.

This music was available only on reel to reel until now. While the EMU archives did a transfer to CD it was from a cassette made from a reel to reel and had skips and jerks.

Milton owns the reel to reel. Never played it. I might be in the photo. More and a link when it is released.

arm's length from history

At least arm's length from Hillary. That's her in the center, umbrella in her left hand.

Photographer is Joel, who walked by the Lancaster Brewery and grabbed this shot on his cell. She was on her way to Millersville U where she addressed a gym full of 3,000 and maybe half that many more who couldn't get in.

Her stop at the downtown Lancaster eatery was not announced to the public. Joel found out about it through his newspaper contacts. Thirty persons knew about it (not counting the body guards) and greeted her when she left the place.

On her route to Millersville, my brother, Milton, saw the motorcade pass his house on Charlotte street. He did not see her since the vehicle windows were darkly tinted

valentine gift

Dorcas gave me a garden sculpture. It's a poppy. The ribbon and tag will come off. Since the ground is frozen I couldn't sink it into the poppy bed. It's in the poppy bed, slid against one of the bricks (which came from the Milton/Lois estate in Kirkwood).

I love this abstract shape. Thanks, Dear! She got it at the garden shop close to Central Market.

Poppies were propogated on our Monterey property by my mother. We left them grow and they spread.

gray day get-away

One thing to do on an overcast, gloomy-weather day in February is to meet your brother when he gets off work at the Cokesbury bookstore at the Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster. Then set your camera (with my new 50 mm lens) on top your car and get a pic.

Milton has given me many good years of brothership, sunny days and gray.