The Christening Dress

Lucy brought me a box she found. In it I found these pictures, and The Dress.

It's the Christening Dress that my grandmother, Artha Linda Simmons Brown

was christened in. She was born 11 May 1904.

Almost 100 years later, my younger sister Natalie used the dress for her daughter Elizabeth Linda Gunter, born 30 July 2003, to be blessed in.

What an heirloom!

I believe my mother was christened in this dress, as well as her siblings and some of my siblings.

Think it will last another generation??

Hosting Turkey Day

Here's the Rikers of Rochester (with a visiting Marty from northern CA) at the Davis house for Thanksgiving. It was very nice....and yummy.

So here's the story...

We wanted to roast the turkey on the rotisserie and had a nice recipe for it.

what did we learn?

1. A 19 lb turkey does NOT completely thaw in 3 days.

2. A 19 lb turkey does NOT fit on a grill rotisserie.

3. The grill lid WILL leave nasty black char on a nicely rubbed 19 lb turkey.

4. Convection ovens can and do save the day.