A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall 30 years ago - give or take!

OK - who wants to start the new thread with more pictures?

Merme - I was wondering why your hair was so dark, when you wrote that you've never had dark hair - thanks for the explanation!

That was the queer part about wig shopping, Lynne! I went to several very reputable salons looking for a wig to match my color. The wigs made of pale shades either made me look elderly OR they looked obviously like a wig! I guess it just must be tough to come up with a believeable wig in blonde? So I bought that one although it was far darker than anything I'd ever had naturally but it did match my eyebrows. And NOBODY ever guessed it wasn't real unless I said something or took it off. The baby pulled it off me once in public, so I always had to be lowkey about it. I told him it was Mama's "hair hat" and he should leave it on my head!


Merme

This is probably September of 1996. Maxi and I met up with his dad and best friend at Willard Beach, and Maxi wasn't quite a year old yet. I remember it as one of those very beautiful days in Maine; perfect for never wanting to leave the beach.

Merme

great pictures.

I like that Picture Merme! You look happy and content!

Here's a picture of me and the girls around 1986 or 87?? they were still in grade school I had just finished braiding cornrows in their hair with beads it took 7 hours for both,, my back was killing me I can't believe I did it again several times after that as well as some of their friends hair,, but back then it was the thing at that time,, braids and beads,,

Great pics

I haven't figured out yet how to do the rolls. my daughter does let me braid hers all up from time to time though. takes hours, but is georgeous! thats a beautiful group you have there, angleblossom.
here's some of me....I could say it was just 10 years ago, but by the hair and cloths I don't think you guys would believe me! ha ha. (20ish yrs ago)

btw....it's pictures of pictures, so the quality is quite poor.

school pic


softball pic in my grandmothers front yard.


a couple of more to follow.

ok, these next ones are horribly grainy. I hope they're not too bad. I just thought some of you might like to see what's being built in the background!

me and my grandpa


me and possibly my dad


and some neighbor kid or cousin on top, heck it could even be an uncle?

Oh my, I just got finished loading up the other 30 years ago topic. I LOVE the pics....everyone is so thin and pretty.

I'm still waiting on pics of me....I have an aunt who said she might have a few but needs to search in the attic for them. Keep'em coming gals.

Oh my gosh Diane!!! You look as young as your girls!!!!

I put that one in my files!!

i did kates... a couple of times, i'll have to hunt up a picture. i did her's in the late 90's though, and i still see girls around here with them.

ok, here's a 30ish years ago pic, 4 generations of the women in my family

no pic jiff???

no guesses on what is being built in my pic's???

and almost exactly 28 years ago, at my oldest's baptism

cricket, i missed the pick, the paste didn't work, i went back and edited.

as for what is being built, honestly, my first thought was a sonic drive in i'm hungry

Jiffy ~ go eat something!

I love that picture of you at the Baptism, Jiffymouse. It is wonderful.

Cricket ~ I couldn't see the backgrounds of your prints, so I can't say for sure what is there. But if Jiffy thought it was a Sonic, I'm guessing maybe it was a UFO.

Jiffy ~ go eat something!

Hey, did any of you see the pictures I posted of me 'n Maxi at the end of the last thread?


Merme

i did merme. he was such a cutie. i love the one at the beach.

I missed the beach pic!

alright, I'll just tell ya what's being built in my photos. not a good enough pic to play a guessing game here. ha ha. it's greenhouses being built.

It is really fun seeing everyone from so long ago!

green houses yay!!! you've been a gardener from the beginning then

warning, next picture of me, over 30 years old, has a snake in it. if you don't like snakes....


but if you do, her name was bertha, and she was well over 6 ft. i don't remember what kind of boa she was, but she was really a nice snake. (as snakes go). she belonged to my great aunt who had an exotic animal & rehab license, and owned a literal menagerie.

ok, i hope i've written enough so that the squeamish can skip the pic.

here it is.

Jiffy, cool picture.

thanks sheri. bertha was the smallest of the constrictors they had. they had 3 pythons that made her look like a baby. they also had donkeys, turkeys, a sea turtle for rehab, a monkey, a pea [BLEEP], and Lord knows what else, i don't. but i love visiting can you tell? oh, and she also ran a ceramics shop

I love this---> pea [BLEEP]

i didn't see that! anyway, the bird that has a beautiful tail and is censored

I'm stumped as to what got sensored?
oooohhhhhh..........just got it! never mind.
cool snake! I've never owned one, but had several friends that did. what a great place to visit, the great aunt with the rehab farm. and that one is big enough. can't imagine what the bigger ones looked like.

let's just say that their cages were about 10x4x4. each. took up one whole wall, with windows.

well, kinda....back in the day it was all fertilizers, chemicals...it was a way to make a living. hey, it put me through college!
anyways......I don't grow to feed the fam or make a living. it's a hobby. I grow organically now, which is a whole new ball game. So I'm still new at it.

Cricket I would never have guessed a greenhouse, but I was going to ask.

Jiffy I love snakes. I want to raise some kind of snake from a baby but I don't because I'm always going away somewhere and there wouldn't be anyone to take care of it!!

I can see that Carol needs to go 'picture diving' again tomorrow, huh>>>??

Picture diving instead of dumpster diving ya know???/

Well, my aunt said she found a pic of me and my father from 30 years ago. I can't wait to see it...I have no pictures of him. She said she'd drop it off on Tuesday...I'll definately post it.

My daughter has an obsession with snakes. I have a pic of her here with a friends. It is an albino python I think. It was so funny, she took a pic with it and it was so big it knocked her to the ground by wrapping her legs. Maybe I'll post that one in the critter thread.

hello---I will look forward to those pictures, tamara--

I myself will find a pic of me with my girls as babies. that should be fun as well.--

Love the pics and I believe that looks like a columbian red tail you're holding. Very sweet snakes with mild temperments. My mom is supposed to be giving me some pics of me. When I get them I'll upload them. What a fun topic this is!

i don't know about the mild temperament Cheryl. Bertha was quite a handful, and if you showed any fear, she was like the dog who caught the person afraid. she got positively mean (well, not mean, so much as hungry) it seemed that the smell of fear made her hungry?

Yup, that's the reason I get bitten all the time. I've had my share of dog bites over the years ....an animal , no matter what the type just reacts to the smell of fear. Mind you. I don't know what is worse? a dog bite or a snake bite?

I am loving all of these pictures. Really! I am a huge photo person. I'm the one that always has the camera, snapping pictures. It's great to see all of these of everyone.

I found a few more of me when I was in school and on the flag squad.

Senior picture.

Wonderful pics Loz!! I love looking at all of these!!!

Had to have a perm back then! Haven't permed my hair since HS. Now I just color the heck out of it. I was very young in that SR picture because I was moved up a grade, and because they take them the summer before your senior year. So I was barely 16 when that was taken.

Here is me about 40 years ago, after I was through having all my babies. This was in Lake Havasu AZ

I hope I got this one resized properly!!!

It was way too big again!! They have changed how you size in PB and I don't know what they want me to do!!!



Yah!!! It worked that time!!!!

Look at you there, all young, fit, and tan! Geesh it sure does look dry there! I guess it would though in AZ. Did you miss seeing all the green grass?