I’ve been channeling my inner “Grandma Rose” this past month and preparing for spring gardening by turning my sun room into a greenhouse/growing station. Jon had a brief Army mission down to Virginia this past fall, and he visited Mount
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 11 & 12
From my understanding, Grandma Rose was one to thumb her nose at society’s traditional standards early on. She got pregnant & married as a teen, wore pants before it was really “acceptable” for women, smoked, lived with a man she
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 9 & 10
Quite a calm & quiet two weeks for Grandma Rose, comparatively so, to her recent weeks. Is it a false calm? We’ll have to keep reading on to see, but here’s hoping! She works so hard… the “urge” to clean?
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 7 & 8
I have gone down a rabbit hole this week, admittedly. Upon mention of the death of “Uncle Clarence Jewett,” I had no immediate idea who that was, but the Jewett name stuck with me for some reason, and then I
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 5 & 6
All of Ohio and Grandma Rose start to get back to normal in Weeks 5 & 6 in 1978 as warmer weather breaks through… but is it “faux spring?” We’ll have to see but for now, the warming allows her