Pats Posts

1942 My grandmother, Rose with Mom  Apparently I wrote this years ago but did not post it to t he blog?  So as I am digging through my computer files to provide information on my Ostrowski...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-polish-relatives.html

I have been battling a horrid spring cold all week.  Last Thursday I thought allergies were getting to me, by Saturday evening at mass I was sneezing less and coughing more.  Long saga, allerg...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/04/mystery-of-bronze-sculpture.html

 This is Clancy who comes out once a year to keep watch and celebrate his Irish.  He joined us in about 2006 after we moved here in retirement from CA,  Yesterday I mentioned Shenson's corne...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/03/another-year-for-clancy-shenson.html

 For as long as I can remember I have  cooked a corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes meal on St. Patrick's Day.  It was one of Jerry's favorite meals and very easy, just put in the pot and ...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/03/corned-beef-on-st-pats-day.html

 I saw this on a widows site I partiipate in on FB.  It is so true,  and that's why I am trying to write here again...To preserve.   I continue to learn and do new things as a widow, things ...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/02/tell-your-story.html

 As a widow I have had to learn innumerable things, techniques to do tasks I never did before.  Tasks I never thought about.  All those things Jerry did seamlessly, easily.  I was content to ...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/02/another-hurdle-jumped-over.html

Yesterday I went to our local hardware store intown to get batteries replaced in my remote control for the back sunporch blinds.  I could not get the back off the contraption.  Since the direct...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/02/comic-actions-unintended.html

  2018 3 16  Jerry starts a new jigsaw puzzle.   I have never been a fan of jigsaw puzzles like   so many are around here especially in winter.   Jerry liked them too.  I found the...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/02/puzzes-perceptions-reality.html

  This picture was on October 20, 2017, our 50th anniversary at Sullivans in Trempeleau for dinner.  That was  a couple months over 7 years ago and my eyes had that sparkle.  I was always ...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/01/life-goes-on-and-so-do-i.html

  First day of a new year and it is grey, we seem to be in a tristate cloud cover.  MN, WI, IA all clouds. Yet, at least no snow, other than a few crunchy spots residue from yesterday mornin...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-year-2024-first-day-of-year.html

  Another Christmas, alone.  Grey and wet outside, but at least to me it is preferable to snow.  I think after 40+ years in northern CA I got used to no snow, yet here we/ umm I mean ...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2023/12/christmas-2023.html

I posted this on my FB today and since I am  just marking time this afternoon and having the inconvenience of using the downstairs PC I thought it a good time to post here to keep this blog al...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2023/12/we-can-decide.html

 And so just incase I'd get a google inactivity flag, here I go with a nothing post.   It is supposed to be fall here, but we have a resurgence of heat, another hot couple days.  Today I was ...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2023/10/update-to-keep-active.html

 Received an email from Google today that mentioned deletion of any account which remains inactive for 2 years.  Although I seldom blog here anymore, thought I should sign on and enter someth...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2023/08/dont-want-to-be-deleted-by-google-so.html

  My cousin sent me this and the more I see it the more I know this is me. I have gotten through, I did not know there was a choice.  One cannot just lay down nor wallow, nor give up.  Huma...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/08/she-is-me.html

  This very vintage steel, 4 drawer file cabinet in the garage belonged to Jerry's mom, who died in 2013 after a slow declining aging, ending last couple years in a facility, She saved everyt...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/07/an-unwelcome-discovery.html

2017 FL  Jerry found the castle he wanted  What another week but through my prayers , angels and my Tribe Beyond  I made it.   What I can say is this business of widowhood sucks,  just...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/07/getting-along-but-it-sucks.html

 I really hate grief and there is not much in life I hate.  I am not comfortable with hate.  It is a bitter emotion and useless I have always thought.  But living with the grief of being a...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/06/endurance-in-grief.html

Last nights dinner,oven roasted salmon, fries and tomatoes, Polish cucumber salad Unlike others who are alone, I continue to cook meals for myself. Local restaurants in town are few and menu...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/06/getting-along-aloneness.html

  I have not posted here for awhile, but we had Jerry's committal service May 7, as I had planned, on his 84th birthday. If such an event can be perfect it was.  Yet the full circumstances...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/06/grief-musings.html

My trusty Kenmore Jerry bought for me in 1968, my birthday present,  Posted on FB (see excerpt below) about my sewing machines and got to thinking about all the stories of my life that are ...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/04/everything-has-back-story.html

 First the good news, I have found a good, decent, reliable handyman to hire do things that I cannot.   That is a relief and although I am learning all the time there is still much that is...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/04/its-easy.html

A chill winter wind is hanging around today and with the grey overcast temperatures are not conducive to a walk.  Nope it is the kind of weather that makes me retreat inside.  It also makes m...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/04/memoir-writing.html

  Late yesterday between rain showers I picked daffodils that began to bloom last week when he had warmer balmy spring days.  I remind myself that April showers bring May flowers. I  shared...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/04/daffodils.html

 I do not know where I heard that or if I made it up, but yesterday it came to me  clearly.  I am doing just that.  When moments come, I push through and let them pass.  Now that the weath...

https://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/2021/04/fake-it-until-you-make-it.html