My Mum and Dad many years ago.
They were sitting on a little red bench on the cement front porch of our house. I love this picture because they were enjoying the moment so much and were paying no attention to the camera.
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What a wonderful pic! I have NEVER seen that one! It is now my #1 favourite of them!
It is a snapshot that I scanned in. I will try to tell you more about when it was taken, because I have more shots with them in the same clothes. I'll have to look and see if I can figure out. It is definitely a wonderful picture...so typical of both of them because it is so unposed.
What a wonderful picture Jeanette. My parents divorced after 26 years of marriage and I don't have many pictures of them together before that happened. I know you cherish your folks ... such a blessing that they were happy together.
Louise, I just can't imagine the heartbreak of divorce. It happens in so many families (although sometimes very necessary, I know). We celebrated our parents 50th anniversary before my dad passed away. He was nearly 40 when he married my mom, so the Lord blessed him with a long life. My mom and dad always regarded each other very highly. Someday I hope to post about him. In many ways, his life was amazing and full of unshakable faith in God.
"Unshakable faith in God"
yep -- that was Pops!
He also knew how to enjoy a good sneeze, play with the English language and laugh at his own jokes till his "partial plate" near jumped outta his mouth!
He thought nothing of putting on his old time, ancient, missionary pith helmet to go shopping on the streets of Toronto during furlough! It was not EASY to be his wife, I'm sure!
Ha ha ha! Carol-Ann, you have said it exactly! I can see him now with my mind's eye when he was laughing so hard his eyes were watering and he could hardly breathe! And up would go his right hand to gently push those teeth back into place! What great memories!
He soldered a tiny dentist's mirror to the leg of his glasses so he could have a rear-view mirror when he went out for a walk. He was tottery on his feet in his 80's and didn't like kids rollerblading by him suddenly!
We're acting like we are IMing! Ha ha!
No, but I can also see with my mind's eye when we would roll our eyes or fuss with embarrassment, Mum would smile in understanding but say, "Now, dear..."
Yet again, ha ha ha!!! He was ONE OF A KIND! No replacement on the earth to be found anywhere!
He got tired of cupping his hand over his ear to hear someone. Those hearing aids were no good, you know! They picked up everything else except what you wanted to hear! Cupping the ear was the only and best way but oh, so tiresome! So he molded little cups with the precision of a mastercraftsman and sat them ... one upon each ear. He named them, of course, his "earwigs"!
It was hilarious to sit behind him in church...who WAS that man, anyway, with such big, BIG ears -- not anyone I knew!
I'm laughing so hard that if I had a partial, it would be popping out and falling into my lap!!! Ha ha ha ha!!! Carol-Ann, this is too much!!
I still have his set of "drawers" he made for his pens and pencils and art gum erasers and rubber cement...a slick little stand! The drawers were wheatabix boxes and the handles were toothpaste tube caps.
Carol-Ann, could you send me a picture of it? Maybe you don't keep it somewhere handy enough to take one, but if you do, I would love to post it. "Ingenuity" was his middle name.
OK!
That's enough of this banter and play for one night!
Go to bed, JJ! You are supposed to be recovering from systemic candida!
Well, it is only a very early 9:30 here, girl! I'm tip-tapping away at my work while Barry is out. I was laughing so hard earlier that Coral, who is sitting beside me, began to worry, as she could not tell if it was laughing or crying or what! She reached her hand out and needed reassurance! Thanks for the great memories and laughs, C-A! Best medicine ever!
A picture, huh?
I will have to see!
After I posted that comment I suddenly thought with a pang that in an urge for clean up last year (instead of hiring someone with a chain saw just to take the garage away) I put out a lot of things that I had been hanging onto forever! I hope that wasn't one of them! I will take a look!
Well, let me know after you have a look around. I can understand if it is no more, but seeing is believing with something like that. It sounds rincky-dink until you see it!
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