Larry & Shirley (and the Messy Monkeys): A Glimpse Into the Past

Monday, April 28, 2008

A Glimpse Into the Past

Recently, I noticed that the Photo Friends Challenge was to restore an old photo. I had been working on something similar a while back...just photographing old photos with my digital camera and then playing around with them in photo editing. These two photos were taken probably 36 years ago this summer with my very first camera. We were on a long road trip in our camper, and we visited my mom's cousins in Nebraska on their farm for a couple days. My sister and I were thrilled to discover our second cousins and enjoyed a fun time playing on the farm with them. (My new blogger friend in Nebraska (M.J.), may be able to figure out who and where....)

Cousins that I've only seen one time in my life.

Nebraska farmhouse, circa 1972

3 comments:

Jenny said...: Hi Shirley! I blog-hop a lot too. Thanks for leaving a comment on ours. We have relatives in WA...Dissmore's and Stockwell's. I don't suppose you'd know any of them?
Our boys are not twins, but they are very close to the same size and we're asked that often. Joel is 5 and Clayton is 3 1/2.
Be sure to stop by again!; April 29, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Gwen said...: In blog hopping I noticed a coment that you lived in Everett WA..you would know my Aunt Nancy and son Big Bri???
We are MN natives.; April 30, 2008 at 7:08 AM
The J's said...: AAHH! Yes, must be our friends Patty and Rod, eh?!
Never been to their family's house, but a long time ago Patty, (when going to college here) took one of our daughters home with her for the weekend to play with her niece. I have some great pictures of that time. Our daughter Jana is in that field this year.; April 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM

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Welcome to Our Place - Updated for Spring 2012

We live between Marysville and Granite Falls. Larry still works at Crane-Eldec in Lynnwood, but due to a change in his work schedule in February 2011, he is no longer in a van pool. Instead he bought himself a Ford Focus to use as his work car. Shirley is Mom, "chauffeur," and chief bunny caretaker. We have two daughters: Rosanna, age 20, and Caroline, age 17.We used to have two pet bunny brothers, Lucky and Thumper, who turned 9 years old on October 5. But Lucky got really sick, and had him put to sleep a few days before Christmas last year. So sad.... Thumper doesn't even miss him; he is happy as long as he is fed!

Larry and Shirley are really into running this year, qualifying for Half Fanatics in January. The Seattle Rock-n-Roll half marathon will be our fourth in 2012, and we would like to do four more, if possible, and move up in Half Fanatics!
Caroline is a junior in high school, and Rosanna continues to work at the Ralph Lauren Polo store at Seattle Premium Outlets in Tulalip.

We all continue to enjoy taking photos, and Rosanna also took a photography class at Everett Community College last spring. (We bought her a Nikon DSLR for the class). She has made some money doing photography for a local business in nearby Granite Falls last fall. And I am still using my super tiny Olympus camera for photos "on the run!"