Dressed Up

Suburban Chicago, December 1972. My paternal Grandmother, usually wore a housecoat around the house. She's likely dressed up here, in her royal blue suit, because it's the holiday season. Two clues indicate it's Christmas time: (1) cookies are cooling, and Tatjana's ready to put them in the familiar, gold tin; and (2) Tatjana wears a wreath brooch.

It's that season.

Door County, Wisconsin, July 1980. The windows can't be clean enough. (That's my Skylark.)

Winterization

Door County, Wisconsin, October 1981. Clean windows are important to my Mom. We spent a lot of time at the "vacation" home washing windows.

Cleaning up.

Suburban Chicago, Spring 1972. This photo of Tatjana at the kitchen sink depicts an unusual scene because Tatjana rarely washed the dishes. My Mom was responsible for kitchen cleanup. One of the reasons Mom didn't like to entertain—recall we usually hosted parties on Sunday afternoons—was because after the guests left in the evening, Mom would be washing dishes and storing china late into the night. She'd then have to get up early to make her hospital rounds the next morning.

There's one more peculiar thing about this photo: that dishwasher stopped working in the mid-1960s, so I don't know why Tatjana planned to load it.

Window Washing

Levadia, Greece, April 16, 1976. It's more difficult to do some things in different places.