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Blonde, Blue, Mysterious

I look like my maternal grandmother. There was a picture of her, as a little girl, that I asked my mother for. I'm guessing she wasn't much older than six in this picture. It was in a gold oval ornate antique metal frame ... the original I am sure. I look like the girl in that picture.

When I moved from a larger house to this smaller one, I stored boxes of things in my ex-husband's basement. The picture was carefully wrapped in bubble wrap, then in a quilt, placed in a zipper plastic storage bag, then into a box. I forgot about it.

He cleaned his basement last summer and brought over all my things and put them in my garage. Last fall I was going through the boxes and found it.

His dishwasher line had burst the year before and it flooded through the floor to the basement. He never checked my boxes. When I opened this box, I saw rust and knew what happened. I took the frame off, well it fell apart, but thankfully I was able to save the convexed glass and picture. It has started to slightly mold on the edges.

It isn't a photograph, or a painting. It is a chalk type medium, when I touch it, it rubs off. Now here is the unexplainable part. My grandmother's name was Bernice Gizara, she went by the name Bridget, and she was born in New York, 1910. I turned the picture over and it says N Gizara, Amsterdam, 1755. I am Nancy, born 1955. I have to think about this more.

Quinnie The Pooh

Quinn will be ten this May. He was 2 lbs and fit in the palm of my hand when I brought him home.

I originally got him for my kids, but Bryan wanting a bull dog at the time, took one look at this fluffy Bichon Frise and proclaimed he was a sorry excuse for a dog. Caitlin looked at him as a dress up toy. It wasn't long before both kids loved him and he became part of our family.

Since I was the one to feed, groom, and clean up poop after this little guy, he became quite attached to me. In the ten years we've had him, he hasn't been away from me for very long. With age, separation from me becomes harder for him. I think more so because Bryan has moved out and Caitlin is out of the house more than home. My being in Florida the past five days was hard on him. Caitlin said he was so depressed, not the yapping, demanding, feisty, pest he usually is. When I walk in the door, he is always barking and demanding my attention with arrogance ... how dare I leave him. As I came through the door today, he had that sad puppy eyed look, no barking ... an almost drug induced state of sadness. I picked him up and he just looked at me like an abandoned child. He has followed me around all night, still not barking, just making sure I wasn't going to leave again. Finally, he curled up and fell asleep in this chair next to me. I am afraid to get up to go the bathroom!

Bern's Steak House

Bern's Steak House in Tampa Florida ~ Won*Der*Ful

Bern's Lobby From the moment you enter the lobby of this legendary restaurant, Bern's Steak House displays its unique decor and its classic personality.

Kitchen Tour Stop One Bern's custom-built, 30-foot hardwood burning charcoal grill holds up to 200 steaks at once and our grill masters each have more than twenty years experience. In the kitchen, Bern's aged-to-perfection beef is custom cut to order for each guest. Steaks are cut, trimmed and weighed to order using three to four pounds of raw beef for every finished one pound steak that is served.*Chateaubriand, excellent!

Stop Two Three, 1,200-gallon fish tanks hold up to 650 pounds of live fish and our lobsters are flown in fresh, three times a week from New England. Every day, vintage coffee machines roast premium, hand-sorted beans from around the world to create our signature coffees.

Wine Cellar Bern's Wine Cellar houses the most extensive selection of wines of any restaurant in the world. The restaurant's cellar features 90,000 bottles which represents only about 15 percent of Bern's complete wine collection. * Just lock me in with a wine key and a glass.

Dessert Room After dining, visit the Harry Waugh Dessert Room where you can choose from nearly 50 desserts, wines, ports, sherries and madeiras in one of 48 private rooms.
*Cherries Jubilee, delicious!