tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78951946620602536942024-03-12T20:11:09.450-05:00Girl From TexasStuff Texans Like...and a Few Things They Don'tGirl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.comBlogger343125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-81956697038854834022021-08-22T00:28:00.002-05:002021-08-22T00:29:58.367-05:00Second Covid Summer 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxnrOqB6Gp10v77Fc_FoctqvjnpaZmCYxYDzz0JYg6iAbWj3fuzukB9Ct5LTizgztSfhI4XutH4G8SJBIqyTxzNrSX9ixp4B7yoU_aBBZmLbCmga2pwpeLFjNwcHlNEJtglPxB2DjIm0/s640/FA46907D-F2D7-48EC-B68A-862D3CC0DDA5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxnrOqB6Gp10v77Fc_FoctqvjnpaZmCYxYDzz0JYg6iAbWj3fuzukB9Ct5LTizgztSfhI4XutH4G8SJBIqyTxzNrSX9ixp4B7yoU_aBBZmLbCmga2pwpeLFjNwcHlNEJtglPxB2DjIm0/s320/FA46907D-F2D7-48EC-B68A-862D3CC0DDA5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>In the second year of the Covid pandemic, Americans started to get restless to resume a “normal” life, one similar to that from pre- Covid times. People were tired of staring at their own four walls, of wearing medical face masks, feeling isolated from family and friends, from nature. As summer started, vaccination rates were not at the percentages the CDC recommended for a complete opening of the economy, but appeared to be on the upswing. Americans headed out of quarantine in droves. International travel was rumored to be a confusing maze of requirements and paperwork, and the air travel industry had not resumed pre Covid levels (not enough planes, pilots, routes = overpacked planes), so most US vacationers chose to stay in-country. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsNiE-2wNK2wIPkbvytACDtFi6bIRNsXqe3_5JqcZ_304HIQWRIDeHg-TdXSOgoa39czsqernFxYzJa_V0-nZP5sgjdZbummRApL4INlSiMUFnIQt345MZm5AOLXrn0Ftx5s0P6JESbgE/s960/0A31ADCA-D261-4182-84A2-D24679A28561.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsNiE-2wNK2wIPkbvytACDtFi6bIRNsXqe3_5JqcZ_304HIQWRIDeHg-TdXSOgoa39czsqernFxYzJa_V0-nZP5sgjdZbummRApL4INlSiMUFnIQt345MZm5AOLXrn0Ftx5s0P6JESbgE/s320/0A31ADCA-D261-4182-84A2-D24679A28561.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Santa Fe Opera in 2021……Everyone was required to wear a mask, seats were every other</span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwTig77GphFh9IkmKn-_YnS1k4BA9Z-guHAC-54VCuCfxXmiKOKf8EI1dz-i-ImZrO4X5RvA5YYEWXQRaUVRH4rlaF7s_bKhzBVyvf_PXg5C0heFcrDg1YH9jKkWYSEnWtSwTprLBZTI/s960/4DC72B71-BF00-4BB0-87FF-A66EBD7BA794.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwTig77GphFh9IkmKn-_YnS1k4BA9Z-guHAC-54VCuCfxXmiKOKf8EI1dz-i-ImZrO4X5RvA5YYEWXQRaUVRH4rlaF7s_bKhzBVyvf_PXg5C0heFcrDg1YH9jKkWYSEnWtSwTprLBZTI/s320/4DC72B71-BF00-4BB0-87FF-A66EBD7BA794.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> “Le Nozzi de Figaro” at SFO<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEqFnPWa1H_RlW1K2WJT8XZ0ODc8P4B3d31UTaXK4wVP_BcL5I2Woof-NfpHwxG_r4UxEa1kdD7yGdXoq5Kf1A8UE_t5O33AnoJZsxKvgt3r5dnxAYSur5Wh9P_3yHoqSQObHnN1nM4M/s960/B3BAFFE6-AB8D-45BC-A06C-D3D7923A471C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEqFnPWa1H_RlW1K2WJT8XZ0ODc8P4B3d31UTaXK4wVP_BcL5I2Woof-NfpHwxG_r4UxEa1kdD7yGdXoq5Kf1A8UE_t5O33AnoJZsxKvgt3r5dnxAYSur5Wh9P_3yHoqSQObHnN1nM4M/s320/B3BAFFE6-AB8D-45BC-A06C-D3D7923A471C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygpjlkKUqtFpwCoqQnz9NgsniEwtGN6n5CMARXpXz_LG-sQcqjs7wxQNwiMLypBHFAIDdIaBy5gTuBQfvU4DNvyOsb017YtYlkMLtXU0D5wMcxzPX2mAcn8n2DJ6JF_2lJVuoMq7L_GI/s960/38E550D9-CA56-4DE9-AB2A-955EE0074E3A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygpjlkKUqtFpwCoqQnz9NgsniEwtGN6n5CMARXpXz_LG-sQcqjs7wxQNwiMLypBHFAIDdIaBy5gTuBQfvU4DNvyOsb017YtYlkMLtXU0D5wMcxzPX2mAcn8n2DJ6JF_2lJVuoMq7L_GI/s320/38E550D9-CA56-4DE9-AB2A-955EE0074E3A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I chose to visit New Mexico and Colorado, the “Four Corners” region I have loved since childhood. (My adult son had done a cross country tour of all the National Parks the previous summer…..remains a bucket list goal for me. His stories of crowds and waiting lines just to spend time “alone” in nature - packed with loud rude dirty tourists, did not entice.) A return to the Santa Fe Opera Fest for the first time in 3 years, provided a needed dose of culture. Unfortunately, most museums in Santa Fe were closed or had mysterious waitlists for entrance tickets which my own OCD daily checking 6 months prior failed to discover. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTx5Kd8lq-pGC2DKkGigHDIQc4UeZA5PMvnY_4Zdyx9cGqpVLgHan8XkpU1UCsO_T2C-4TWZrfJwxgyOKCO1UeX0gzY-rkNSzmZnqoG6Qw8XM6m7Iix-QArdK3s1r8pc26b04QdDg5RVQ/s960/4F793A88-3387-4053-9049-78729F0A728E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTx5Kd8lq-pGC2DKkGigHDIQc4UeZA5PMvnY_4Zdyx9cGqpVLgHan8XkpU1UCsO_T2C-4TWZrfJwxgyOKCO1UeX0gzY-rkNSzmZnqoG6Qw8XM6m7Iix-QArdK3s1r8pc26b04QdDg5RVQ/s320/4F793A88-3387-4053-9049-78729F0A728E.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div> Santa Fe School of Cooking class “Chile Amore”<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6WvJZ-SFHAelLLbdl_eKe0F0x8B3yeBCUcvMt7hy2C4bVXRpceubBfx7Mvf88vV-8KFkSQMClLeOXAm-pg7x77-g29xSBdzBsvmkIcHUOcmGSbm6I-T6OBtnFZL9du3BWOK1c9lsGiqs/s960/AEC2FA5B-F203-454F-8C76-596225739AF7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6WvJZ-SFHAelLLbdl_eKe0F0x8B3yeBCUcvMt7hy2C4bVXRpceubBfx7Mvf88vV-8KFkSQMClLeOXAm-pg7x77-g29xSBdzBsvmkIcHUOcmGSbm6I-T6OBtnFZL9du3BWOK1c9lsGiqs/s320/AEC2FA5B-F203-454F-8C76-596225739AF7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9043y7o4aSEKVIsgYx6Dslgphu3rGvGpuJl2xYdUGWpnNrdN0ftgS5VhYxdPsC1VGsWjykYxsstTzQ3MC6Xgi3QDrv416WDMMaVHgesGUmWs1C0ikh2m7LWVEbjuWMcBgwlbJwX2fbpo/s960/261F29B9-2877-459A-9AD6-F36A60C34CBC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9043y7o4aSEKVIsgYx6Dslgphu3rGvGpuJl2xYdUGWpnNrdN0ftgS5VhYxdPsC1VGsWjykYxsstTzQ3MC6Xgi3QDrv416WDMMaVHgesGUmWs1C0ikh2m7LWVEbjuWMcBgwlbJwX2fbpo/s320/261F29B9-2877-459A-9AD6-F36A60C34CBC.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">We did manage to sign up for a “Santa Fe School of Cooking” class - three different ways to prepare red and green chile sauce. Our timing was perfect to catch Hatch Chile season and restaurants were full of “hatch chile fest” recipes. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaW1eELL-KoRPCxIwMlWuq3DUB6fIXMIB7VCt0mM4GRw1ISTQJcJtIPZ4DnNfz1lOijQS3PnfiVjS33t0rrTAx2oXQwN5THdfEAxhoQ5Y-0TAW-EpiK6u0C4HspNkZn_GXjfK79Cchyphenhyphen3w/s960/18C3F30C-668E-43A3-91F5-C812E1F19B6F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaW1eELL-KoRPCxIwMlWuq3DUB6fIXMIB7VCt0mM4GRw1ISTQJcJtIPZ4DnNfz1lOijQS3PnfiVjS33t0rrTAx2oXQwN5THdfEAxhoQ5Y-0TAW-EpiK6u0C4HspNkZn_GXjfK79Cchyphenhyphen3w/s320/18C3F30C-668E-43A3-91F5-C812E1F19B6F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Breath-taking scenery and mild slightly cooler weather at elevation gave us the respite we craved. There was, thankfully, no one else there.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgauOq8rP9AIQLcw4AjAAfyK8XSQoB2euM-0j2aSZtgHuGcxqgEGhx_XArLpbO8do0WkeY_ceGMVIuRcoJrleJow7gGux4h8NxFsh5SyVVoX1TEbQtvEqVArJ8B0B1h4hkhSXu7KBLu01g/s960/3B54B273-6767-4EFB-9A6F-75E3D203B87F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgauOq8rP9AIQLcw4AjAAfyK8XSQoB2euM-0j2aSZtgHuGcxqgEGhx_XArLpbO8do0WkeY_ceGMVIuRcoJrleJow7gGux4h8NxFsh5SyVVoX1TEbQtvEqVArJ8B0B1h4hkhSXu7KBLu01g/s320/3B54B273-6767-4EFB-9A6F-75E3D203B87F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> Purple Adobe Lavender Farm in Abiquiu, NM </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7cgFboEncGWre4WaEnXuC9nZWThh77zkHX3l8HXyjrtsqaIPOQK7lGgTI7_aJGGI-L-V4lCDd_L32CYJYH4bTDCGq9HB08Uv5p_A6tO5MAYDCJtYqeJ9xuBLanguHN8tlQo88fuagXN8/s960/9EDACC2A-A902-4912-A790-0788FEA0F532.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7cgFboEncGWre4WaEnXuC9nZWThh77zkHX3l8HXyjrtsqaIPOQK7lGgTI7_aJGGI-L-V4lCDd_L32CYJYH4bTDCGq9HB08Uv5p_A6tO5MAYDCJtYqeJ9xuBLanguHN8tlQo88fuagXN8/s320/9EDACC2A-A902-4912-A790-0788FEA0F532.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14wqZfAB4_qQOeZSjylAs4AWqE4o3IA2H3cygmCzYQ8DeOVB-aZMXGGz1UNu4KYgHwusoz8WD-faWYidEFdosoBNPwb-aGlTrerKJWJoSeikjqe6FlbRYQlPFEEIIPvdun6xIiVdGtxw/s960/8543977D-7275-4F03-87B3-2227254E8589.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14wqZfAB4_qQOeZSjylAs4AWqE4o3IA2H3cygmCzYQ8DeOVB-aZMXGGz1UNu4KYgHwusoz8WD-faWYidEFdosoBNPwb-aGlTrerKJWJoSeikjqe6FlbRYQlPFEEIIPvdun6xIiVdGtxw/s320/8543977D-7275-4F03-87B3-2227254E8589.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Along the way, we visited Purple Adobe Lavender Farm, the Abiquiu Inn, for lunch, visited assorted art gelleries…..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDVIwbj4dQbEVHn0V7JZa1AriEb9LY7R-bQW7ad__PBsn_F7VGxTwgqqPkgI-Rhr_Xh4x6w2sK1lRfMER8gDgJ7UCiUdqGRVivirA5JeKqoU9angehHIPieWgv7AS3SDMPkR6pNmwwD0/s960/194A83F7-72F4-403C-A532-BC8FA0B15D16.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiDVIwbj4dQbEVHn0V7JZa1AriEb9LY7R-bQW7ad__PBsn_F7VGxTwgqqPkgI-Rhr_Xh4x6w2sK1lRfMER8gDgJ7UCiUdqGRVivirA5JeKqoU9angehHIPieWgv7AS3SDMPkR6pNmwwD0/s320/194A83F7-72F4-403C-A532-BC8FA0B15D16.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb02Uv2-WabS5A1_R4OlKY2Z7BiGqbDJrgRFHaz-CMbGDXjNDNkLnX8CPEXLreyRwQQobUnuSAQKj0XKiK-8-46LivmlURlbM3eQ9gfeSywkYL7ksev7uJVRZQsQneCB9zleU6on01DA/s960/EBD6F7F7-54F4-4CD0-967C-340C4D2DCFB7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBb02Uv2-WabS5A1_R4OlKY2Z7BiGqbDJrgRFHaz-CMbGDXjNDNkLnX8CPEXLreyRwQQobUnuSAQKj0XKiK-8-46LivmlURlbM3eQ9gfeSywkYL7ksev7uJVRZQsQneCB9zleU6on01DA/s320/EBD6F7F7-54F4-4CD0-967C-340C4D2DCFB7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>…..and various antique stores full of “southwestern style” (a heady mix of traditional Mexican kitsch, tribal primitive art from around the world, middle eastern and North African rugs, as well as Native American decor) over-priced junktiques. Some old white man sales clerk kept following me around telling me that this or that was really old, till I asked him for its provenance, then he shut up. </p><p><br /></p><p>We had some fabulous meals, high brow and low, consuming vast quantities of NM “hatch” chile, assorted other peppers and spices, on pretty much every sort of dish you can imagine. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVaYkg6ZTyDE1B8a1WzNRKmZIM_-PD3cN1dC8HLhvvU84QDxLkYcG4cpGpw_2ZPsf1vv7OoJK0ay64Zv3kKkj7OHWD69zXQfaogBSVjlxDPC-_MBYlIGkzke8NM07qY3_l4s4SO2Jwd4/s960/0BE5C508-CB02-4646-BB2F-29A304EEC201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVaYkg6ZTyDE1B8a1WzNRKmZIM_-PD3cN1dC8HLhvvU84QDxLkYcG4cpGpw_2ZPsf1vv7OoJK0ay64Zv3kKkj7OHWD69zXQfaogBSVjlxDPC-_MBYlIGkzke8NM07qY3_l4s4SO2Jwd4/s320/0BE5C508-CB02-4646-BB2F-29A304EEC201.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div> Green chile omelette</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Hubs decided he wanted to swing through Four Corners, en route to Durango, Colo……and as we drove along, the sky got more and more filled with haze from California wildfires, 1000s of miles away. The smoke blocked our view, made us cough, and ended any thoughts about extending the trip…….</p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrpygz4_48ABVNOAAWhHPQYhqUcbNgOxI4WTLbfRd9F_zQdHjnMeeGlTAoyXNOE3aoRq5C0VAwW_Lyh8ebQk1hdNV1hO6oOsFTzdCbXjj6KqG_gGaCgCHwTyJ92vSYobfRmDHqM9JEdH4/s2048/6DC839EF-3D98-4199-8F1A-7AE90409CAFC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrpygz4_48ABVNOAAWhHPQYhqUcbNgOxI4WTLbfRd9F_zQdHjnMeeGlTAoyXNOE3aoRq5C0VAwW_Lyh8ebQk1hdNV1hO6oOsFTzdCbXjj6KqG_gGaCgCHwTyJ92vSYobfRmDHqM9JEdH4/s320/6DC839EF-3D98-4199-8F1A-7AE90409CAFC.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Hubs at Four Corners Monument, “standing” in 4 different states</span></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPofQ_M-S8dNRVkyDqb-dpf7831MwM7E5Xvr0yzQNVCeCBnuxMvPBUsRfHrcphBiO2hH3pBUtY63QWcfhS4RgyPp_8nEI7emCM1TD-1gzXtZ39mDIQnGuc1z2JrmxL3n5s_A3myLIEj0s/s320/758D229C-0F7A-4411-8E3A-13BCF30B5156.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Camel Rock, NM</span></div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN93bzm89GfLs41FNh8PgoQR4mu-_vxV3CpQCtgCz4n-q50niNGtLTJWktiITEDmGNP3qev59se80_pQLPxPLAkCgEFb9y-7l8O3BI4cD5WNaFQSHAOxpm8r3dsKiG-mHdjO1qX4BFDHs/s960/E0F53CE3-C785-4FF5-BF8A-93ADBCB32D8F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="721" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN93bzm89GfLs41FNh8PgoQR4mu-_vxV3CpQCtgCz4n-q50niNGtLTJWktiITEDmGNP3qev59se80_pQLPxPLAkCgEFb9y-7l8O3BI4cD5WNaFQSHAOxpm8r3dsKiG-mHdjO1qX4BFDHs/s320/E0F53CE3-C785-4FF5-BF8A-93ADBCB32D8F.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9hR4qL4_b3nL0rk3ywH0kFddhwJZhSVdDJpTVoCyOXaIxge4EGmD31v3iNczm6UxLWlQq5cN2tNsdTDLTpBLHbHFtUoVJCCjDYGcFyU8HQVCXNZ1HpD9YG5egGStZ77MqOHknrCJmOj4/s960/BDF741C0-6C8F-4B90-9203-86606B9AFD9A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9hR4qL4_b3nL0rk3ywH0kFddhwJZhSVdDJpTVoCyOXaIxge4EGmD31v3iNczm6UxLWlQq5cN2tNsdTDLTpBLHbHFtUoVJCCjDYGcFyU8HQVCXNZ1HpD9YG5egGStZ77MqOHknrCJmOj4/s320/BDF741C0-6C8F-4B90-9203-86606B9AFD9A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Which normally looks like this : </p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0lWm6E5dUgmPJiZJQ9PkTtAsNTPjegxRUDrY8HQdO3ON9xU5vsVvY1a7ZkZFY3erXguMOIrEldp5zF9eKELRksE6WzBAKcEV7CA_aKKSEwQx3QD4DhqRZ7Hghq4kBUzT1SVQyd8cByoo/s960/848D5BDF-707D-476A-97F6-09E74E7536C8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65TTkP1G0vFwyAiXZJ3AcCWrJrh3tqPFf01rXvaBCDjy-87XhABvUaK1Akfu27g7vkmIIM7D2Xu-cRSraqCBwfJqJJw3Kw59XwNgJNmn_-lfPBBi5GWFtF0rsW8cVzLo8SSHCS4b7VeI/s960/F0B8AEF6-6E03-4CC4-9915-E57C871B2CCA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="444" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi65TTkP1G0vFwyAiXZJ3AcCWrJrh3tqPFf01rXvaBCDjy-87XhABvUaK1Akfu27g7vkmIIM7D2Xu-cRSraqCBwfJqJJw3Kw59XwNgJNmn_-lfPBBi5GWFtF0rsW8cVzLo8SSHCS4b7VeI/s320/F0B8AEF6-6E03-4CC4-9915-E57C871B2CCA.jpeg" width="148" /></a></div><p>We relaxed, shopped, drank in brewpubs, and headed home. All in all, it was a lovely respite from the real world. </p><p><br /></p></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-28087784776408901772021-07-19T17:42:00.013-05:002021-07-20T14:21:00.134-05:00Where I Went, What I Did, and What I Wore Part Two Late 1970s to early 1980’s <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9AUeYRDBJey6mcuabQeaGC1y8zJCtnRLn_un7Y3rkl_4uSL4XI9fRG1PDBBm0lrDZa7qfapELbEQImpthiuJTVMB3lpyl4fu227VlHzjLT76-tfVMnA6j9BG5Gt2gGkE4vJTyTK8XFtk/s624/18100A91-3472-43FD-9BCF-4BC257887D40.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9AUeYRDBJey6mcuabQeaGC1y8zJCtnRLn_un7Y3rkl_4uSL4XI9fRG1PDBBm0lrDZa7qfapELbEQImpthiuJTVMB3lpyl4fu227VlHzjLT76-tfVMnA6j9BG5Gt2gGkE4vJTyTK8XFtk/s320/18100A91-3472-43FD-9BCF-4BC257887D40.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My senior year of high school. Rust colored w tan polka dots silk shirt; I chose this shirt bc it was the only clean one I had that day. August, 100F, the fabric stuck to my skin like wet saran wrap. This hairstyle was known as “The Farrah”, after this pop culture phenomenon: tv series “Charlie’s Angels” </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB5ikmoRfPdieHxLwbd8QAZvmPT9BmjPzz9iuZ4I3LDeW4VKYTg31ORkjHZvT8xgXiDl0Ec3gm4xQNO48gHlRyrt_ue_M3UQnDAIaICzV0OUG2fzKA3eaoXh730HHMuiSo5YiBTsy8ts/s304/AC85BA2E-4084-4CBE-9FF2-4E260C58DB01.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB5ikmoRfPdieHxLwbd8QAZvmPT9BmjPzz9iuZ4I3LDeW4VKYTg31ORkjHZvT8xgXiDl0Ec3gm4xQNO48gHlRyrt_ue_M3UQnDAIaICzV0OUG2fzKA3eaoXh730HHMuiSo5YiBTsy8ts/s0/AC85BA2E-4084-4CBE-9FF2-4E260C58DB01.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Every young girl in America had this hairstyle…..and every young man in America had this poster :</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL8QGzL8vgHA6BsDXyjst8ym1ges2KRgGUkNwH9wBcEUFYsk6AvJPCyjP2nGgLPsUgl4uiZGsl1QFVryR5HsKNfonIKHk9VkrpxiEexgD1pur6dFB85HJFJE2cL9V1-yM11-n0Obdnvy0/s237/160FF076-84E7-4FBB-BCFB-7CD77147D00E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL8QGzL8vgHA6BsDXyjst8ym1ges2KRgGUkNwH9wBcEUFYsk6AvJPCyjP2nGgLPsUgl4uiZGsl1QFVryR5HsKNfonIKHk9VkrpxiEexgD1pur6dFB85HJFJE2cL9V1-yM11-n0Obdnvy0/s0/160FF076-84E7-4FBB-BCFB-7CD77147D00E.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett_red_swimsuit_poster">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett_red_swimsuit_poster</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>My students used to ask me, “Were you at Woodstock? Were you a hippy?” To which I answered, “I was only 9 years old during Woodstock.” My generation is not full on original Baby Boomer, but “Generation Jones”, and we are more like “Gen X”ers than Baby Boomers. The late 1970’s for me and my friends were influenced by trailing / fading hippie looks (long straight hair, more groomed beards, bell bottom pants) as well as the new disco trend, “Charlie’s Angels”, Cosmopolitan magazine, “Annie Hall”, Studio 54, Madonna, “Staying Alive”, then later “Urban Cowboy” (everyone I knew bought boots and learned how to two-step, which lasted about 15 minutes), then New Wave and Punk. We were still very conservative in Dallas, and that means preppy; The Official Preppy Handbook was our Bible. But that look was mostly for day time…..at night, heading out to the disco ruled our lives. The drinking age was 18 and there was no disease you could get that couldn’t be cured by antibiotics. You can see all of these elements mingling together in actual clothing my friends and I wore to actual school events. Dresses still ruled the day. Tight “Disco Jeans” on weekends.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhohrCReOivOgIj9byGX2nSe3bN8OTNNvgmnF-HU9wDuPS5qn-caNCLfbyg5FXLai3Nm_ynAWz_2mWpP0siuXxI0vYFI5760ZlULAcC-8_wfhi_28w6cPb3ynzkJY77HsVCHVS_bpRGf04/s350/77FD5C92-6252-4589-AD67-7D2A0FF443A1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="234" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhohrCReOivOgIj9byGX2nSe3bN8OTNNvgmnF-HU9wDuPS5qn-caNCLfbyg5FXLai3Nm_ynAWz_2mWpP0siuXxI0vYFI5760ZlULAcC-8_wfhi_28w6cPb3ynzkJY77HsVCHVS_bpRGf04/s320/77FD5C92-6252-4589-AD67-7D2A0FF443A1.jpeg" /></a></div><div><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Official_Preppy_Handbook">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Official_Preppy_Handbook</a></p><p> </p><p> High school styles Dallas Tx 1976-1979 </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPWLSSerx9GJ5BHvheGbKdd8sQSBLJKRyhyphenhyphenZu7XYue62WHRdT4H0NBTYgSFPKcUFyeVVl41SwtVAqWj9KxJXhXP24zRy-7wJzUz0LmqWa_TVbnAu7XYP-qep_dA115dT0N5DmP2IRCvLE/s720/1D217D0C-425A-43C1-B00C-E42DE3A4F5D5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPWLSSerx9GJ5BHvheGbKdd8sQSBLJKRyhyphenhyphenZu7XYue62WHRdT4H0NBTYgSFPKcUFyeVVl41SwtVAqWj9KxJXhXP24zRy-7wJzUz0LmqWa_TVbnAu7XYP-qep_dA115dT0N5DmP2IRCvLE/s320/1D217D0C-425A-43C1-B00C-E42DE3A4F5D5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pink satin palazzo pants</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5japInTN36OdOyt9tRnILciNfVEz2c0Eh1lTprJxz7p9o_Qd7rzAFh2amtzbyfG3KfsShAwpH8jkQcMg6lntsQk0wndF3Qg5Dr8NZYYKsEJca9MTi_f6ecDz5mvsRws5YEtr2j_ZQwyg/s720/2F44679D-FF81-4DE0-8638-E375EC3F8081.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="702" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5japInTN36OdOyt9tRnILciNfVEz2c0Eh1lTprJxz7p9o_Qd7rzAFh2amtzbyfG3KfsShAwpH8jkQcMg6lntsQk0wndF3Qg5Dr8NZYYKsEJca9MTi_f6ecDz5mvsRws5YEtr2j_ZQwyg/s320/2F44679D-FF81-4DE0-8638-E375EC3F8081.jpeg" /></a></div> “Bell bottoms”, so called because they flared out below the knee</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBhB63pbnblG4Z6Zdb-lU5eHyH9wUr5GuNO96rkvcag4lxoPsPNgy-eXUvycbMA_KAx_tSV4eNwu8rXySS9gKpe0aATwhWFuy5IDZaEi9jjd71_3NmTh4Akq2pWYbmDSvc3liE6KXL-M/s720/6894EB0F-A7F9-4A7D-8A1E-F0BC0B4D0B5F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="704" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBhB63pbnblG4Z6Zdb-lU5eHyH9wUr5GuNO96rkvcag4lxoPsPNgy-eXUvycbMA_KAx_tSV4eNwu8rXySS9gKpe0aATwhWFuy5IDZaEi9jjd71_3NmTh4Akq2pWYbmDSvc3liE6KXL-M/s320/6894EB0F-A7F9-4A7D-8A1E-F0BC0B4D0B5F.jpeg" /></a></div><div> Grunge </div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN0wYq_a4mS-b2OqleyWSnWD7I6vSUhtxtlHXNHelaXusmvJ0Hjshvr8uA3BV2Mj6K1YzVZ6Oyiap3y4hoiAC1UYIDRNs6Lh9xFUPHytwDCVIoiKOAaVC85a-R7BlP_17xzxhwNHqhlEs/s720/C19B1591-D860-4227-AD95-4B26ABB89273.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN0wYq_a4mS-b2OqleyWSnWD7I6vSUhtxtlHXNHelaXusmvJ0Hjshvr8uA3BV2Mj6K1YzVZ6Oyiap3y4hoiAC1UYIDRNs6Lh9xFUPHytwDCVIoiKOAaVC85a-R7BlP_17xzxhwNHqhlEs/s320/C19B1591-D860-4227-AD95-4B26ABB89273.jpeg" width="320" /></a> <div> Offset bc an anomaly : This was one of those Old Timey photography studios, which were popular during the era. You dressed up in costumes and posed……here, my girlfriends and I, as Old West “madams”. Other popular choices were cowboys, steampunk, pirates, Victorians, 1920’s gangsters, etc.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHSOs_tYgfxG5-jDc3cEyR4CIg7-yhvjultW1RoyWJ767-gmjtisNs-dHpn3H5NFbDmVk4gV3rBtkO1mrjtpbzaGmX6-88pjOxe2maMqlB6XxqQR-KrYrxZP1ZK1jTbG09DUYbIh5qPE/s720/AA618D73-472C-4B54-9518-33D052BD7CF5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHSOs_tYgfxG5-jDc3cEyR4CIg7-yhvjultW1RoyWJ767-gmjtisNs-dHpn3H5NFbDmVk4gV3rBtkO1mrjtpbzaGmX6-88pjOxe2maMqlB6XxqQR-KrYrxZP1ZK1jTbG09DUYbIh5qPE/s320/AA618D73-472C-4B54-9518-33D052BD7CF5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> More bell bottom jeans </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgba2_4Wktff8ZeGw0g8dDd-6hmJXyTN80h-xGh7mbUD1iaCWYktd3UCHo6q8AH2wkRH-03QNSUjdleGS_Zz50PurbjNbUXzreMOC44wl9lFXUjzU9yICjlbHWdKFwzFeOl6VEe5z1wgRs/s720/BDB0AB0A-96A1-47FC-9170-30A5A444791E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Real people, real fashion. /\ Preppyish clothes with 1970’s hippie facial hair</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p>Assorted high school proms and formal dances, \/ with assorted boyfriends: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jd6wDUu6xWXQmyEvbjTh2gfvFkvTYd6T4MwV9-oj4kfj0YDnyHcJR-vgnWMhetUGdyHuxTdBIrv5hxdBQOoV9QaspfXATOn3QHTNfmMjKpGWL7Ad6Vh4H0S1ZSVG6DePe323TwBclkM/s720/874BB01A-1963-4BFD-88C9-7C4961F3691A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="521" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jd6wDUu6xWXQmyEvbjTh2gfvFkvTYd6T4MwV9-oj4kfj0YDnyHcJR-vgnWMhetUGdyHuxTdBIrv5hxdBQOoV9QaspfXATOn3QHTNfmMjKpGWL7Ad6Vh4H0S1ZSVG6DePe323TwBclkM/s320/874BB01A-1963-4BFD-88C9-7C4961F3691A.jpeg" /></a></div><p>This blue dress is the last dress my mother ever made for me, and yes we fought about it. You can see it looks like something from the 1940’s, with that sweetheart neckline. Blue shantung silk. Mom was clearly reliving her youth here….</p><p>1940’s dresses with sweetheart necklines……</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVn-eCCEumxjk5PFDlWKr02NMUU2h4VeW0yO-sw3JDLQaNB5VTM7TQFSv_CJ2OXie3QEqXeVdlPninPoI8OSXp1XBS-ANnZliUwmPAsnFU-djeubJ-1blmx4uBGFAif7cMceRIArtyOrc/s482/058C6AF7-6DE0-46CB-9979-F65561260D95.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="482" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVn-eCCEumxjk5PFDlWKr02NMUU2h4VeW0yO-sw3JDLQaNB5VTM7TQFSv_CJ2OXie3QEqXeVdlPninPoI8OSXp1XBS-ANnZliUwmPAsnFU-djeubJ-1blmx4uBGFAif7cMceRIArtyOrc/s320/058C6AF7-6DE0-46CB-9979-F65561260D95.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkx1_ris7qvDXZpPdUQEVUOULJRPCGEXUlWoRjJVzMLVgxtzzuo4bwLdGySFEs15Wj-5JREkdbQLffQZNaM7t4njwFhiCehxri5rNwAZUdjXsYIrOoX1faLQqbVGUaZw5UPPKt5aA_wI/s1500/6627A4CF-AF45-4167-97FF-DFF90AE8BA83.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="998" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkx1_ris7qvDXZpPdUQEVUOULJRPCGEXUlWoRjJVzMLVgxtzzuo4bwLdGySFEs15Wj-5JREkdbQLffQZNaM7t4njwFhiCehxri5rNwAZUdjXsYIrOoX1faLQqbVGUaZw5UPPKt5aA_wI/s320/6627A4CF-AF45-4167-97FF-DFF90AE8BA83.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lxzA2T6N2kPjnA0hnY3Vdd9BmqsgrSUf7C7TrdzIJuYV-wdYPV6nxZbtRKFGx_bnqEO9YLWJCwxnBIlO9GU1vQW-rtfEzFWHF9BBaxR1YOcBXEzCMgHvI0BvZiL5zlOKFEOKbkarxnA/s760/DB830044-CA41-4678-9ECC-6116C09648AC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lxzA2T6N2kPjnA0hnY3Vdd9BmqsgrSUf7C7TrdzIJuYV-wdYPV6nxZbtRKFGx_bnqEO9YLWJCwxnBIlO9GU1vQW-rtfEzFWHF9BBaxR1YOcBXEzCMgHvI0BvZiL5zlOKFEOKbkarxnA/s320/DB830044-CA41-4678-9ECC-6116C09648AC.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>But wait - this is the late 1970’s! </p><p>……And here’s what everyone else was wearing in the era! Once I turned 16 and could get a job, earn my own money, save up, and buy my own clothes, I did. Freedom! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfUbXSSrapYC702-d9HTL2K2eYgMcBmZPfQhtnFpvS6iPUKrmi0LNI8tQ-fnZz9Hmqi5nHius90SQxSWzxl2BAyydPIUadJbHW4WkDzmVKup9BvQR2GMewNGVtqOoq-eTzCGoWJStbBk/s387/5DC9DC3F-434A-41AA-9AE5-76CD187203E3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfUbXSSrapYC702-d9HTL2K2eYgMcBmZPfQhtnFpvS6iPUKrmi0LNI8tQ-fnZz9Hmqi5nHius90SQxSWzxl2BAyydPIUadJbHW4WkDzmVKup9BvQR2GMewNGVtqOoq-eTzCGoWJStbBk/s320/5DC9DC3F-434A-41AA-9AE5-76CD187203E3.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3trBc7Woau6UYuA_9ajwYdkGHTaMe-ecazZNOLwuXkldvkGC6Ezbw8ueayEt4Ms0oJnE305lKNd7C2BERd7eLKYrJPGbqIGz4lnVvr-gtU0TqMjRncQGpjFo2fFi5NlogWz6ZViZIRE/s1000/207A2090-50C2-4C8C-993F-709B343085BA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3trBc7Woau6UYuA_9ajwYdkGHTaMe-ecazZNOLwuXkldvkGC6Ezbw8ueayEt4Ms0oJnE305lKNd7C2BERd7eLKYrJPGbqIGz4lnVvr-gtU0TqMjRncQGpjFo2fFi5NlogWz6ZViZIRE/s320/207A2090-50C2-4C8C-993F-709B343085BA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5_dS7B9H2pvDePThUBt4wb9kTB21RmcKEUMUTzuNhRvgNAa5LKjMDKUeTCFsXT1YGMcXiuFEzA1Bi1R89gZyf3Q0gEBQo-cBvWP5QMW99cwoCSvMp2jK6czgT1qvZXTwt4ru9WXkYas/s300/BA262B93-A9DD-46C6-A4F3-45D827F261F0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5_dS7B9H2pvDePThUBt4wb9kTB21RmcKEUMUTzuNhRvgNAa5LKjMDKUeTCFsXT1YGMcXiuFEzA1Bi1R89gZyf3Q0gEBQo-cBvWP5QMW99cwoCSvMp2jK6czgT1qvZXTwt4ru9WXkYas/s0/BA262B93-A9DD-46C6-A4F3-45D827F261F0.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirBOYp5PRNp5NtRnIyUODdaM8QK6gSTgVXQI2obChClqzQ7fEc6s5OUNM_kM8qnOpbKcJ-EXfAMo-GufMFybGhtwCAuCNmlIIqiZqcjCrMVTxHaDB0NDjy9tQEHnld8AVenrsylEQBLI/s303/C7360029-086E-47D8-8D0B-677BA1749E5E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirBOYp5PRNp5NtRnIyUODdaM8QK6gSTgVXQI2obChClqzQ7fEc6s5OUNM_kM8qnOpbKcJ-EXfAMo-GufMFybGhtwCAuCNmlIIqiZqcjCrMVTxHaDB0NDjy9tQEHnld8AVenrsylEQBLI/s0/C7360029-086E-47D8-8D0B-677BA1749E5E.jpeg" /></a></div><p>Below, I was chosen, as part of a “Mr and Miss Most Handsome” whatever, to model prom wear for a local newspaper : </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh38vvHgS63CGTVMwVTGiA8RCKNShzeH2uLq4DhBrGTzzP7IMA_rg0BOrrqIo-SAVxPmYjJglXFnnkBjU-6lPAWz0B0XdSWnF8UjYm5K-EnytBH8CQ1BwssrWMEYavCIlwOn_EMwI-yDg4/s720/32EF5B7E-0E18-4923-98DE-5BE469A2AE81.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="546" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh38vvHgS63CGTVMwVTGiA8RCKNShzeH2uLq4DhBrGTzzP7IMA_rg0BOrrqIo-SAVxPmYjJglXFnnkBjU-6lPAWz0B0XdSWnF8UjYm5K-EnytBH8CQ1BwssrWMEYavCIlwOn_EMwI-yDg4/s320/32EF5B7E-0E18-4923-98DE-5BE469A2AE81.jpeg" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And me in a real, actual 1979 “disco style” prom dress: <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9rcBDWKzqjPX9deWeipObz4uFzoJqKV7m5WhxufiXtp58c4JLitZnTpH3hB7XlsrKKeyWPNVSdIsldIkWHJD8zfT-m5xKwBI8YTdl0ls2UyzyguowcVAJJOVcp9WoeUuHunu0OtILxsk/s720/80690C89-97E0-466B-89EF-6B30CB7AC611.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="521" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9rcBDWKzqjPX9deWeipObz4uFzoJqKV7m5WhxufiXtp58c4JLitZnTpH3hB7XlsrKKeyWPNVSdIsldIkWHJD8zfT-m5xKwBI8YTdl0ls2UyzyguowcVAJJOVcp9WoeUuHunu0OtILxsk/s320/80690C89-97E0-466B-89EF-6B30CB7AC611.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quiana, the miracle fabric! Never showed wrinkles no matter how you messed it up! 😏 This was called a “disco dress”, 100% polyester hot as hell, could be worn fitted or loose, with the neck halter changeable into various configurations. I had one in red and one in black. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHu4xuLIt0DoFxzRLttxJqCiCar5mMDKl8A61P6TH9VVp1eqYPcb2GBjHM3uSepdOC0HnHAg4VYqIzBPc8NKXui_FFp4S0kr6AEvtx-c2H_UDwGttH2uQret6BLCNVdFnxllrCa28ewXo/s656/9A6398FC-0700-4F2B-8A82-372270B5EB90.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="464" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHu4xuLIt0DoFxzRLttxJqCiCar5mMDKl8A61P6TH9VVp1eqYPcb2GBjHM3uSepdOC0HnHAg4VYqIzBPc8NKXui_FFp4S0kr6AEvtx-c2H_UDwGttH2uQret6BLCNVdFnxllrCa28ewXo/s320/9A6398FC-0700-4F2B-8A82-372270B5EB90.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Senior prom May 1979 - notable for the vintage thrift store dresses my girlfriend and I decided to wear (in contrast to everyone else going sexy at the event). We were rather modest…..but only bc I was sporting some rather disgusting and prominent vaccination buboes on my arm, for a “Grande Tour” trip I was about to undertake. The dresses give this photo a rather dreamy, timeless look. </span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NueC-gQUMh1KE1KTOZjxYp3e8FvywQrFpnqZ_TltmJMjfF0UzmQYsQneJJKIC3dJjIoODYRCkqIN1wWhj-Xc_ZYH-6uZyEbz2Pd7JEwaI9Pd7CjOxCQBXVMESi7XKZt47pxRIGE7O7I/s720/59138CE2-65E0-4CCA-8B2B-A0F3B2713048.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="476" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7NueC-gQUMh1KE1KTOZjxYp3e8FvywQrFpnqZ_TltmJMjfF0UzmQYsQneJJKIC3dJjIoODYRCkqIN1wWhj-Xc_ZYH-6uZyEbz2Pd7JEwaI9Pd7CjOxCQBXVMESi7XKZt47pxRIGE7O7I/s320/59138CE2-65E0-4CCA-8B2B-A0F3B2713048.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Plus ca change……At a discotheque in Athens, Greece July 1979 . I am wearing an elasticized “tube shirt” as a mini skirt, holding my date on a leash…..a punk look</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Transition to college years 1979-1983</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">People I knew, places I went, things I did</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhlZwvJcuIuev4lsZt7xrFMzQeqDCIwFbz6-5ykRloRkHcL8337AHKz9MWwNLyR75fhGBYYRX5soB-Kg9QR846Ms-jkvVMFP4fDL1gQJA0lcXC7cvpdgYs8ntT679JpsbCUktCBAu8pw/s720/1A0F7F30-BC0E-4ED7-870A-EBBAA20A4BB0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="594" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhlZwvJcuIuev4lsZt7xrFMzQeqDCIwFbz6-5ykRloRkHcL8337AHKz9MWwNLyR75fhGBYYRX5soB-Kg9QR846Ms-jkvVMFP4fDL1gQJA0lcXC7cvpdgYs8ntT679JpsbCUktCBAu8pw/s320/1A0F7F30-BC0E-4ED7-870A-EBBAA20A4BB0.jpeg" /></a></div>“Great Gatsby” 1920’s themed ball. I made my dress by hand out of gold shot purple silk and hand beaded the neckline, hair fillet, and the shoes. Who says I can’t sew? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlSxoqxp1FKtDSs5CZsP9QUWpD_HrclnG5L-iWP4KEc89AnTO7GtxET1sxWTxiNtMyDDFulhZOKVVzAeVkEu2lXEbdh-Z9TaDeuJTPkT29spUdwqlFHIA5MUvyrJcUnzLW5oLUCPWd8YY/s824/5EBCAFE1-5D66-4DF3-8A0E-DCF1AF3574A2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="824" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlSxoqxp1FKtDSs5CZsP9QUWpD_HrclnG5L-iWP4KEc89AnTO7GtxET1sxWTxiNtMyDDFulhZOKVVzAeVkEu2lXEbdh-Z9TaDeuJTPkT29spUdwqlFHIA5MUvyrJcUnzLW5oLUCPWd8YY/s320/5EBCAFE1-5D66-4DF3-8A0E-DCF1AF3574A2.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The “Annie Hall “ look </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Natural hair (which in my case is curly), bed hair, frizzy hair, ponytails and buns were common. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhidDe75ITYkQ1y37Itct8u3onxLhILTd-PL7yoYgVaUCb_R6ytWFJ_Ws9T6q3-Wk4WDk5dubzVhbR3otLXbTCeRbKGBM_jxatnwJ6_Tu_hojeUZ9iLWiWfSWF3PtvBoD4jc74Y2tD-byQ/s720/9EDB2F1B-4430-46D5-B428-4781058FF3EA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhidDe75ITYkQ1y37Itct8u3onxLhILTd-PL7yoYgVaUCb_R6ytWFJ_Ws9T6q3-Wk4WDk5dubzVhbR3otLXbTCeRbKGBM_jxatnwJ6_Tu_hojeUZ9iLWiWfSWF3PtvBoD4jc74Y2tD-byQ/s320/9EDB2F1B-4430-46D5-B428-4781058FF3EA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7SOObMPt60IbAJHV3BiuCW0ADFflytAiZL4Lr5s8hKAlnCrCtLvEo3sRsSwpX3GZ3Tqhyr9w0OLJc9ag_7N7Z1TP-oPWGb4ucTgYBn0JNN4vqpCoEYjROCJNexKwqpMQV6Z-5tPV-XZU/s604/C98B62EF-F750-434A-B03E-4B9DFE2E68FC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7SOObMPt60IbAJHV3BiuCW0ADFflytAiZL4Lr5s8hKAlnCrCtLvEo3sRsSwpX3GZ3Tqhyr9w0OLJc9ag_7N7Z1TP-oPWGb4ucTgYBn0JNN4vqpCoEYjROCJNexKwqpMQV6Z-5tPV-XZU/s320/C98B62EF-F750-434A-B03E-4B9DFE2E68FC.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>My best swimsuit, ever…..purchased on the French Riviera </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbH5raX-1qi-mapqu38zyYiJ5Ye6NUZQ7tdDXMfFOf0n2vmUSRo483wr1DpWDEPf5mlQD-wAIgqRl9i6K5d0CVSSV44S02pmdb6VVYBhXA0yFPzdKmX74ykWneayz20BBbP9-xE2u4VRw/s720/D0611EFE-CAD3-40B6-B54F-2944897FDE69.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbH5raX-1qi-mapqu38zyYiJ5Ye6NUZQ7tdDXMfFOf0n2vmUSRo483wr1DpWDEPf5mlQD-wAIgqRl9i6K5d0CVSSV44S02pmdb6VVYBhXA0yFPzdKmX74ykWneayz20BBbP9-xE2u4VRw/s320/D0611EFE-CAD3-40B6-B54F-2944897FDE69.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2Lf38KBfBQ3b2bzMzE8nvyYp699vpDYnddzux9e7AQS5Vdd0ng5A38ud1nZ9qoy7nYVgZv2VKcGeAUsHPsshvAPsA5Kr-MSuoZLTYb-Xe7uxBHr6skw44gbZaKW-rJs3D6mikR4XOqg/s720/D1953ADB-0C76-46DD-821E-2178D7F322D9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2Lf38KBfBQ3b2bzMzE8nvyYp699vpDYnddzux9e7AQS5Vdd0ng5A38ud1nZ9qoy7nYVgZv2VKcGeAUsHPsshvAPsA5Kr-MSuoZLTYb-Xe7uxBHr6skw44gbZaKW-rJs3D6mikR4XOqg/s320/D1953ADB-0C76-46DD-821E-2178D7F322D9.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7tXzCxw-ZHceqVlmoHAEeJpVO-CaDOmNbHfJ0xBUguVKO1Mh8mtrRZFQcTCctVxayV_vYv5B4GAfGl7km3X7DPX5WplN8y-QKUMTvNDDZcc56zwMAUWuyItQaDf56h0uFkKWCYzV_kM/s720/F88BEC81-A467-4346-A6F3-F2B6C597E6ED.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="702" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7tXzCxw-ZHceqVlmoHAEeJpVO-CaDOmNbHfJ0xBUguVKO1Mh8mtrRZFQcTCctVxayV_vYv5B4GAfGl7km3X7DPX5WplN8y-QKUMTvNDDZcc56zwMAUWuyItQaDf56h0uFkKWCYzV_kM/s320/F88BEC81-A467-4346-A6F3-F2B6C597E6ED.jpeg" /></a></div>This is how real people really looked in the late 1970’s early 1980’s at Rice University in Houston, Tx. It was hot and humid year round, and mold grew on your leather shoes on rainy days that turned into weeks. First thing we were told as freshmen was to buy an umbrella and rain boots. My friends were nerdy smart left leaning hippie types; Rice was a geeky nerd school like MIT or Cal Tech…..Think “Big Bang Theory”…..other campuses in the former Southwest Conference each had their own styles: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">UT Austin - still had the last true remaining hippies on the planet but inventor of “preppy cowboy” look</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">SMU was wealthy and preppy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">TEXAS A&M was “country” aka cowboy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Conference">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Conference</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Silk padded kimono thrown over it. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqpS02UUUNztduldSml-1kzeRPHa0t0D5jlFMUdY74NnN6rcy3OWRMaQzw4sIOpRzUF5RMaBbAKS5XWNqSVr66CUhPWBqgCiB6EtUkd37s9B-4omn-bOs4DSGjZi6_JdRUQNxygIS4xg/s720/47B4310E-08A6-4609-AEA3-33CDAA2C6BF2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqpS02UUUNztduldSml-1kzeRPHa0t0D5jlFMUdY74NnN6rcy3OWRMaQzw4sIOpRzUF5RMaBbAKS5XWNqSVr66CUhPWBqgCiB6EtUkd37s9B-4omn-bOs4DSGjZi6_JdRUQNxygIS4xg/s320/47B4310E-08A6-4609-AEA3-33CDAA2C6BF2.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLODz7YPFEW_3Ve-ytMK5-4L6EFT3-UB4kpBq7xlb9ZQNBV_JI8T9gdpblb-6DEloIPk1c8Ou6RC3wpMcDHG0TtGdj5pTESEfQxIoWvroy031zyArEzUjee4HMZspo2ZBAGXNZjbiL65A/s720/4862C079-5BE2-4F3B-B8CB-57F32A485973.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="704" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLODz7YPFEW_3Ve-ytMK5-4L6EFT3-UB4kpBq7xlb9ZQNBV_JI8T9gdpblb-6DEloIPk1c8Ou6RC3wpMcDHG0TtGdj5pTESEfQxIoWvroy031zyArEzUjee4HMZspo2ZBAGXNZjbiL65A/s320/4862C079-5BE2-4F3B-B8CB-57F32A485973.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LValmh1vwK2UN1HuEnUYkHLqlralJCTfSafANiZmAF_ZaXo6jorzBXpEmNnvo7V2HQh4dYW5v-1lYW_4P4_RoSAcFkoL6vxu4F2PObW5E2Unku1ag4_8xMjOw9CJc0yodJFsl3MKnfQ/s720/6263E909-D022-477C-9AE8-6482C40AEB84.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="702" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7LValmh1vwK2UN1HuEnUYkHLqlralJCTfSafANiZmAF_ZaXo6jorzBXpEmNnvo7V2HQh4dYW5v-1lYW_4P4_RoSAcFkoL6vxu4F2PObW5E2Unku1ag4_8xMjOw9CJc0yodJFsl3MKnfQ/s320/6263E909-D022-477C-9AE8-6482C40AEB84.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bBW0P1yPmki3xQJkFQcocqk7DxgeHyVswWtfTZ9EJ3GCJaKWAhKcLiSlAyCNaALD8GYs6TThvf_0Jwp1hil17gAA8pY_IcWOHbir_JV5QtjL4dGTNkAUPAIIpO53I_dL5yy67qcqPv0/s672/AAC2115A-14FC-4953-96A4-7759C1FAB909.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="413" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bBW0P1yPmki3xQJkFQcocqk7DxgeHyVswWtfTZ9EJ3GCJaKWAhKcLiSlAyCNaALD8GYs6TThvf_0Jwp1hil17gAA8pY_IcWOHbir_JV5QtjL4dGTNkAUPAIIpO53I_dL5yy67qcqPv0/s320/AAC2115A-14FC-4953-96A4-7759C1FAB909.jpeg" /></a></div> Another vintage thrifted ball gown, this one pale pink organza silk, with a silk taffeta lining. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiPP9ZHHSTpqiVJ8XUhqQx02_TSMD5T7JYSsTjwNvExacdYeFYiFHfY9mZH_OIiBtR0udwskMs0yWDOqYz18aakyJR1Mo-4ltdbHkRX-3mKQmu1xVgyruRk8PkVdD-T8qqXFKz-peI0E/s720/08B71DAA-FEE6-431D-9DA5-27B7123610EE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="702" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmiPP9ZHHSTpqiVJ8XUhqQx02_TSMD5T7JYSsTjwNvExacdYeFYiFHfY9mZH_OIiBtR0udwskMs0yWDOqYz18aakyJR1Mo-4ltdbHkRX-3mKQmu1xVgyruRk8PkVdD-T8qqXFKz-peI0E/s320/08B71DAA-FEE6-431D-9DA5-27B7123610EE.jpeg" /></a></div> Hot pink or fushia shantung silk </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2435WGKo_YrUuhvsSDdRNU1tRrOij6zvsrQRmvP0OWt9gts53NPYERD1ViwRlzmq_DylPYG9L704FN_p8bZJRgeMwOhDjcq6QStZpNGHddrSgktrSvsLsqYZDJgD2sWR8yP3yfBcrA_4/s720/AAA5A707-C6F6-48F5-B44B-DC106A1AF06C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2435WGKo_YrUuhvsSDdRNU1tRrOij6zvsrQRmvP0OWt9gts53NPYERD1ViwRlzmq_DylPYG9L704FN_p8bZJRgeMwOhDjcq6QStZpNGHddrSgktrSvsLsqYZDJgD2sWR8yP3yfBcrA_4/s320/AAA5A707-C6F6-48F5-B44B-DC106A1AF06C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> Black velvet <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We didn’t know it at the time, but fashion was morphing in the early 1980’s. It was the era of Ronald Reagan, “Dress for Success”, Laura Ashley, Ralph Lauren. Wealthy, expensive, fantasy looks. As I approached adulthood, punk faded into preppy professional styles. 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No big shoulders, acid washed high rise pleated jeans though. </div><div><a href="https://vintagedancer.com/1980s/80s-fashion-what-women-wore-in-the-1980s/">https://vintagedancer.com/1980s/80s-fashion-what-women-wore-in-the-1980s/</a></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1EqEr827Jkt2wPURBAojM0RTk7xLSRlGRM2LFH2JhHs1ZqNRlbeg5uK3f6NlRz3w6FItu31XNAIGeqzZlKro8USNAA88_Cki2PwAcMV57bFS5cBUECDnSHgkucPnsay_dIpn7V5ge2g/s720/DFE94C0D-3CB9-40A9-AA40-D7B7CDCFD109.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1EqEr827Jkt2wPURBAojM0RTk7xLSRlGRM2LFH2JhHs1ZqNRlbeg5uK3f6NlRz3w6FItu31XNAIGeqzZlKro8USNAA88_Cki2PwAcMV57bFS5cBUECDnSHgkucPnsay_dIpn7V5ge2g/s320/DFE94C0D-3CB9-40A9-AA40-D7B7CDCFD109.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCiX0Q1cjY_fI_yTj88KXcIHqqMPUP58TtgwmAnwXgsIP45re075hKtFhhqwYpudqqDTTUxp18JLdeTpw5UpDYRg5LC3TE_kILwGoiB3oJCz20fezg6T0jdr7t0Vjd44qS_50f4hLng0/s720/ECEBEFF4-40A4-4C15-B312-53FDD07B94B7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCiX0Q1cjY_fI_yTj88KXcIHqqMPUP58TtgwmAnwXgsIP45re075hKtFhhqwYpudqqDTTUxp18JLdeTpw5UpDYRg5LC3TE_kILwGoiB3oJCz20fezg6T0jdr7t0Vjd44qS_50f4hLng0/s320/ECEBEFF4-40A4-4C15-B312-53FDD07B94B7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizpdbWKhQYDP-mmvdPCP73g_U45WoGPQL-7SWpjKvRs6vSlhdDPgrJorXkqDFbjUUWsMkJhKRbE5lH_KP7EVIVqXNaIfbMuIgIsBoS92aUdfEaSyWFEcslJJgFUJbUV2uKMsDMiIkIC7I/s720/F4885D39-F2B8-4740-856E-A85170186F94.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizpdbWKhQYDP-mmvdPCP73g_U45WoGPQL-7SWpjKvRs6vSlhdDPgrJorXkqDFbjUUWsMkJhKRbE5lH_KP7EVIVqXNaIfbMuIgIsBoS92aUdfEaSyWFEcslJJgFUJbUV2uKMsDMiIkIC7I/s320/F4885D39-F2B8-4740-856E-A85170186F94.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvol107bDTx2OBjK3LcbuJVqwv106nsz6gOvtkzTRIYv2UgEk0ak-M1ZUpjiFiOghd37UGzTrgFvaBvGtbnaR_HaJPC11NYchIIjQTK7rOQbHpxJqC3Qgu7O9h1pOm-WW5kd0fb3ou4ow/s624/83E41CA6-44EC-44E5-A0D2-B26A976ED879.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="624" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvol107bDTx2OBjK3LcbuJVqwv106nsz6gOvtkzTRIYv2UgEk0ak-M1ZUpjiFiOghd37UGzTrgFvaBvGtbnaR_HaJPC11NYchIIjQTK7rOQbHpxJqC3Qgu7O9h1pOm-WW5kd0fb3ou4ow/s320/83E41CA6-44EC-44E5-A0D2-B26A976ED879.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg38QM5b124CNiFlhfKli16Rg-EAPSEhAH4if08hNmkUFld2GB5E8IB26nmmweqq9TPq6s331k8CePHvTRGQTnAfMM-hNiDkfJZZ7kovWLEAMiSdCf_bCoZUeoBGsCK06cyi6RwpyrXShQ/s2048/4E90FFE2-31C2-44E9-881F-1DFC9C2C20F6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg38QM5b124CNiFlhfKli16Rg-EAPSEhAH4if08hNmkUFld2GB5E8IB26nmmweqq9TPq6s331k8CePHvTRGQTnAfMM-hNiDkfJZZ7kovWLEAMiSdCf_bCoZUeoBGsCK06cyi6RwpyrXShQ/s320/4E90FFE2-31C2-44E9-881F-1DFC9C2C20F6.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimlWkNc_aoUhWtlEHYEwxZlJo2YDhXJpFPHXz6HQqPVJ3p_uVLm9rqtZy70mOFvAY773ZVP4Wk1grQQziHeEZqHiZn7wZCzH_EfYb02JWxAcgz2yOplNpd0FLCDzLmaDi0mN98GrzaBY/s604/5E487C2C-5A7E-4D29-BBFE-EF5BB0AEB3F9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimlWkNc_aoUhWtlEHYEwxZlJo2YDhXJpFPHXz6HQqPVJ3p_uVLm9rqtZy70mOFvAY773ZVP4Wk1grQQziHeEZqHiZn7wZCzH_EfYb02JWxAcgz2yOplNpd0FLCDzLmaDi0mN98GrzaBY/s320/5E487C2C-5A7E-4D29-BBFE-EF5BB0AEB3F9.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />……and, more Easter Dresses! Still a thing in the late 1980’s ! </div><br /></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-13956174930538970962021-07-19T15:37:00.013-05:002021-07-20T14:37:25.858-05:00Where I Went, What I Did, and What I Wore Part One 1960’s - early 1970s<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZFI_q3oGl-V_7VFtjkZ__g36BdZFt-Exr4yhSl1w1mzOiOTBGYANBFKhCTVF0V0AzhSDFGPsb5tSu7TEy_UrRCkpvn3-kqOXeAiWh9D2yRXzX0egoBlRpleFPW7_4tdo0RQ9uJGVXYns/s1490/7D08514C-1DB3-4BD3-BFEE-9979D54115A0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="1489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZFI_q3oGl-V_7VFtjkZ__g36BdZFt-Exr4yhSl1w1mzOiOTBGYANBFKhCTVF0V0AzhSDFGPsb5tSu7TEy_UrRCkpvn3-kqOXeAiWh9D2yRXzX0egoBlRpleFPW7_4tdo0RQ9uJGVXYns/s320/7D08514C-1DB3-4BD3-BFEE-9979D54115A0.jpeg" /></a></div><p>It suddenly dawned on me the other day, while falling down a rabbit hole on historical costume research (one of my childhood passions; I do own an original 1863 Goodey’s Ladies Book), that if you live long enough, ahem! cough-cough, your own life becomes a witness to history sort of experience. I was born and raised in Dallas, Tx and was alive for the JFK assassination. I remember it from a 3 year old’s perspective : my mother watching it play out in real time on a tiny B&W tv, crying uncontrollably, while ironing. A stay at home mom, she was perpetually ironing in those days, mostly my dad’s shirts but also dresses, petticoats, sheets, curtains, table cloths - wash and wear hadn’t been invented yet. See what I mean about one’s life being a footnote to history, in the mundane details? Who even knows what most of these items are any more? Much less wears them? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUCXnjtIlE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUCXnjtIlE</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggI3NttIScXWNp47YOIhEHbB61FOAv0UJyuYs3_gNLWzhyphenhyphenXD9EiGOLy31tfGOElWumGch7jXbRL0v3Mqfvj-v-H9Y0GdobvJYNg6EnTd4NUKkwo_zu5O3W689lIdlB9tj0kNTfz6APoyM/s720/1C552A06-A7E1-4914-A2FA-7DBB28081C0E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggI3NttIScXWNp47YOIhEHbB61FOAv0UJyuYs3_gNLWzhyphenhyphenXD9EiGOLy31tfGOElWumGch7jXbRL0v3Mqfvj-v-H9Y0GdobvJYNg6EnTd4NUKkwo_zu5O3W689lIdlB9tj0kNTfz6APoyM/s320/1C552A06-A7E1-4914-A2FA-7DBB28081C0E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>My 3 year old birthday party, held at home (There were no Chuckie Cheeses, theme parks, bounce houses etc in Dallas in the 1960’s….Roller skating rinks, maybe.)….I am front and center in the red stripes, known as a “candy cane” or “peppermint” dress……no one is playing wild, making messes, getting dirty sweaty or having fun at this party. Very sedate, although there might have been a dizzying game of “pin the tail on the donkey”. No one really wants their picture taken, either.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMCw4SWKfH8GMq8rPKy6z9-dz6T_bww7yVTR5FGbvf8IHAMAcwClpcaDzDUEi6KI65pysP-Vy-u88aOVBJdaLWnR71HsiOzh7TFUfnart7LgyqVN9Sv-e4rC0qzTmklz4M5_Ny6K4KT8A/s720/1EAF6EB6-9774-483D-82F3-D11A5B1DDFF0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMCw4SWKfH8GMq8rPKy6z9-dz6T_bww7yVTR5FGbvf8IHAMAcwClpcaDzDUEi6KI65pysP-Vy-u88aOVBJdaLWnR71HsiOzh7TFUfnart7LgyqVN9Sv-e4rC0qzTmklz4M5_Ny6K4KT8A/s320/1EAF6EB6-9774-483D-82F3-D11A5B1DDFF0.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVs0ZY6My4r8vF7xX4Y1pMh2q57iHt5-UY3FKMfVsRtTZkWAe2OtVuAuYdao41yCTHUm3bSiwUPk2oRl8B7-zW4mOxJW75ZIEB2D9rB1m_9CUicrEC3ghtNJtSgjWfWA5i0qRRRrfsvk/s2048/EB12F3B5-1A7C-4D7A-B914-9F64E87CAC65.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVs0ZY6My4r8vF7xX4Y1pMh2q57iHt5-UY3FKMfVsRtTZkWAe2OtVuAuYdao41yCTHUm3bSiwUPk2oRl8B7-zW4mOxJW75ZIEB2D9rB1m_9CUicrEC3ghtNJtSgjWfWA5i0qRRRrfsvk/s320/EB12F3B5-1A7C-4D7A-B914-9F64E87CAC65.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg518k5zkr40c-0XWPDVDKV4pO5whdBiJxPwMBCSQDcgsH_Zmvxcw_uzSvCDxgtvkPVKtNpN_FbdPw4aARQbesdjFrtDN-eGJ8T3znzrYAjCRr3n-QoIUJBe6Rra7HCvjbXXUUEJcwdFCo/s720/7696B0EE-D67A-4E46-BA2F-EABDEF650BF1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="497" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg518k5zkr40c-0XWPDVDKV4pO5whdBiJxPwMBCSQDcgsH_Zmvxcw_uzSvCDxgtvkPVKtNpN_FbdPw4aARQbesdjFrtDN-eGJ8T3znzrYAjCRr3n-QoIUJBe6Rra7HCvjbXXUUEJcwdFCo/s320/7696B0EE-D67A-4E46-BA2F-EABDEF650BF1.jpeg" /></a></div><div> School dress - note plaid w white collar and cuffs 1964-5</div><div>These were all cotton, and heavily ironed and starched. If the skirt is flared, it means ruffled starched petticoats, a type of slip, underneath. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVYJq2HRPP12UG5_c_LnHCUTR_9t45WaKfn83KqkntIrpwHgLR9-SlIemYtZnlPCDd7GMUKbRYash6dFuMu4Oc4x6_WQRJVQZHE_qWdBg6Iw8j4Az6e3NJ89ePEx_0CdWzIqNzlJcXrM/s1000/688DABF4-5D53-42E8-930F-2A401A07B214.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVYJq2HRPP12UG5_c_LnHCUTR_9t45WaKfn83KqkntIrpwHgLR9-SlIemYtZnlPCDd7GMUKbRYash6dFuMu4Oc4x6_WQRJVQZHE_qWdBg6Iw8j4Az6e3NJ89ePEx_0CdWzIqNzlJcXrM/s320/688DABF4-5D53-42E8-930F-2A401A07B214.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petticoat" style="text-align: left;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petticoat</a></div><div><br /></div>Growing up in the 1960’s in America, in the South, little girls did not wear pants, shorts, leggings, or otherwise. We wore dresses. All kinds of dresses, for every occaision : school dresses (cotton or wool), often plaid or dark colors. Church dress were fancier, better fabric, more details often ruffles, lace, etc.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkzZTzAkG69OfkyQcWFkyP7A7x_xUDwAqG6wmWBou1o8U0dt5LbmxcRmsaL-lD-RjU2aWP4GB8PlIMivxaTSM7NYLAnLINRUBhtZoIspXtkQ44Qdm1u59Kmz_ktK1anR5Ufr7Tp3cKcg/s720/30659C9B-AAFD-4322-BEE5-CAD195B443C3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="492" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkzZTzAkG69OfkyQcWFkyP7A7x_xUDwAqG6wmWBou1o8U0dt5LbmxcRmsaL-lD-RjU2aWP4GB8PlIMivxaTSM7NYLAnLINRUBhtZoIspXtkQ44Qdm1u59Kmz_ktK1anR5Ufr7Tp3cKcg/s320/30659C9B-AAFD-4322-BEE5-CAD195B443C3.jpeg" /></a></div> </div><div>Church dresses - This is clearly a “Jackie O” outfit for a 4 year old. 1964-5. Easter dresses always required straw hats and patent leather shoes and handbags. We got a new set each year for Christmas, and one for Easter. Woe be it if you had a growth spurt and outgrew your dress before next time to buy one. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ANlOyGq2idSefIZWnS3PNHihOrqlJnhIcZVFWbTVIXO_JqSOpsb-AwA7OuzYuMyp1WaXHzSuGfhGSISgdPlqONUdDGRiOJmYs94o6v-O9JFvrdnSSdOWGH70vLGKORUxwwpDy-sQbFw/s640/308CFC32-2370-4161-A317-13709F585C1B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="260" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ANlOyGq2idSefIZWnS3PNHihOrqlJnhIcZVFWbTVIXO_JqSOpsb-AwA7OuzYuMyp1WaXHzSuGfhGSISgdPlqONUdDGRiOJmYs94o6v-O9JFvrdnSSdOWGH70vLGKORUxwwpDy-sQbFw/s320/308CFC32-2370-4161-A317-13709F585C1B.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K1Cekk3mPqcRIDkT6A4aHoNCHqPd_U8Zmwu-dPw44XGoelZNGP51gq0g21KooUwvztzYtgHrcitJN3ydMtbgYHQWIOHrSPwDFm6N2gnrv-L0jz0WgQRG1HSfHDLObUljlyU3W0xIKwI/s720/B1CECB4B-2DE4-45E2-ABFC-D37FB247BAF0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K1Cekk3mPqcRIDkT6A4aHoNCHqPd_U8Zmwu-dPw44XGoelZNGP51gq0g21KooUwvztzYtgHrcitJN3ydMtbgYHQWIOHrSPwDFm6N2gnrv-L0jz0WgQRG1HSfHDLObUljlyU3W0xIKwI/s320/B1CECB4B-2DE4-45E2-ABFC-D37FB247BAF0.png" /></a></div><br /><div>Ladies and little girls always wore a slip under their dresses, to prevent any “see through” or push through nipple effect. Growing up, I had all purpose every day slips, as well as special formal ones for certain dresses. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_w61TUfRu7wfJRAmKhAiVLZaqQBXCqfLDV-71-7uN2xitOyziK3rOKAhVu_rYF01pi1sP-ybR_rmZ6iSRjksi8CcF5PHDXA64hahWmTyvas38GWNAzpsYDD8Sf_uzTjgmkBjqq_o_5O0/s2048/A091845B-4635-4AF6-B74E-4DDF03A26488.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_w61TUfRu7wfJRAmKhAiVLZaqQBXCqfLDV-71-7uN2xitOyziK3rOKAhVu_rYF01pi1sP-ybR_rmZ6iSRjksi8CcF5PHDXA64hahWmTyvas38GWNAzpsYDD8Sf_uzTjgmkBjqq_o_5O0/s320/A091845B-4635-4AF6-B74E-4DDF03A26488.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkDcs6mJBq1YcotFyd4jw4hZ1hB-mktggCerz-ndMHZ0dLpyhWm3VCn8rXAgaROZK4VwAFa3ocJJIbk0w0hsojLIt7jG29KzKjcpXwCbxxPvkDjlPqj9X8p-JqrftFxcr6RGt7tt7WN0/s1490/D3566D52-CBF7-4ED9-BF80-B65D51E60EBC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="1489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkDcs6mJBq1YcotFyd4jw4hZ1hB-mktggCerz-ndMHZ0dLpyhWm3VCn8rXAgaROZK4VwAFa3ocJJIbk0w0hsojLIt7jG29KzKjcpXwCbxxPvkDjlPqj9X8p-JqrftFxcr6RGt7tt7WN0/s320/D3566D52-CBF7-4ED9-BF80-B65D51E60EBC.jpeg" /></a></div> Assorted plaid dresses, cute short hair. I call this one, the “Natalie Woods” look 1965 ish <br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidL90swGGTB8ei8XOCGfwtwqoIn9KoQzHISnVqQn4Jrm7LW9dn-uCZhIGAxHL-nFnkf3VH_btMjwMsly1RQJUDcwEwUTgW_nAI1bZ8g33bdzqxNPlLp0yiKz3fRGGAk2tLCPSKxyKbfPs/s720/AA6DF9C1-BD9A-48FC-A6D1-2D698971176A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidL90swGGTB8ei8XOCGfwtwqoIn9KoQzHISnVqQn4Jrm7LW9dn-uCZhIGAxHL-nFnkf3VH_btMjwMsly1RQJUDcwEwUTgW_nAI1bZ8g33bdzqxNPlLp0yiKz3fRGGAk2tLCPSKxyKbfPs/s320/AA6DF9C1-BD9A-48FC-A6D1-2D698971176A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Play dresses - Yes, this is a thing. 1966-7. I keep trying to explain to folk the reason it feels natural and comfortable for me to wear Indian block print cotton kaftans at home, while gardening, painting, cooking, and more - is because that’s how I grew up. We hadn’t yet outsourced all our clothing manufacturing to far eastern sweatshops; no stores sold cheap polyester kids clothing. There were boutique dress shops and upscale department stores for fancy “church” or “party” dresses, and everything else was sewn by mom.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlMjIr7qiHtCwDYAvC3WvYZdbfhPNCORm79TYy4jAGL6NuktrsH7Enk_Wi0AzxfaFlg-3g0yw-cGgZJwj-kHi2xZ6jHKN7shNgqILbZe_Ofg4XyC_yyU6Cds_VuQvYDKC0oz6xyrrK68/s852/11095855-3C7D-4C7D-8DCA-ECFF77823131.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvlMjIr7qiHtCwDYAvC3WvYZdbfhPNCORm79TYy4jAGL6NuktrsH7Enk_Wi0AzxfaFlg-3g0yw-cGgZJwj-kHi2xZ6jHKN7shNgqILbZe_Ofg4XyC_yyU6Cds_VuQvYDKC0oz6xyrrK68/s320/11095855-3C7D-4C7D-8DCA-ECFF77823131.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>There’s a reason little girls back then didn’t climb and run and jump and “play rough”…..our clothing (and our mothers nagging us to be demure and ladylike and not ruin our dresses) meant we were not allowed. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewNvAw6YfE8Vis1tZJSz79iSOLmmGGuJuLfCaMh9gjNK_AtsMXFE99uhNW9t4mCtgKk1cnRCcuNpRMUPVG9fMjACCf2G1GNUmgAdCGjcekh5RD_Ilnc8_4VV9U_vff6hKxugnw_0crKE/s720/D487AEAD-9E13-4537-8CA9-A1B69D717DC1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewNvAw6YfE8Vis1tZJSz79iSOLmmGGuJuLfCaMh9gjNK_AtsMXFE99uhNW9t4mCtgKk1cnRCcuNpRMUPVG9fMjACCf2G1GNUmgAdCGjcekh5RD_Ilnc8_4VV9U_vff6hKxugnw_0crKE/s320/D487AEAD-9E13-4537-8CA9-A1B69D717DC1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> Dance recital costumes, also home- made 1964-5<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv55I3ZFkTJzHYiD7yybOO5TIBA5cXISqdlM0ODEI8u_xATk2PCdW2PFS4okWXf_WNRI8PkmI-O3wDrCx1UA0lEMpoCtHcaHSZVHcaIYL9jnZqPQkan_4vXCQ5veORjBElbWgHMnVD5rI/s720/4C95DC72-017B-452F-B5F4-89C6D4DFA204.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv55I3ZFkTJzHYiD7yybOO5TIBA5cXISqdlM0ODEI8u_xATk2PCdW2PFS4okWXf_WNRI8PkmI-O3wDrCx1UA0lEMpoCtHcaHSZVHcaIYL9jnZqPQkan_4vXCQ5veORjBElbWgHMnVD5rI/s320/4C95DC72-017B-452F-B5F4-89C6D4DFA204.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> Even my little brownie troop had dresses for uniforms. 1968</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIKAjNbCln0Oub1ipmo0zzHzhxl9j-eBnskflUWYobNyPf70aA5YeWZtPJ_VCer7byTIDp742hDnEw5t2oj4-2-OD5Lf90uDodwECXypFwmDroMxpvuTU4ikX5q4ChrTEhHtbvrcsCus/s720/0DBBCB8F-D4C5-4A08-8270-7F2B7F2170F7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIKAjNbCln0Oub1ipmo0zzHzhxl9j-eBnskflUWYobNyPf70aA5YeWZtPJ_VCer7byTIDp742hDnEw5t2oj4-2-OD5Lf90uDodwECXypFwmDroMxpvuTU4ikX5q4ChrTEhHtbvrcsCus/s320/0DBBCB8F-D4C5-4A08-8270-7F2B7F2170F7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div> Girls Scout camp 1967-8 </div><div><br /></div>But as the 1960’s wore on, concessions started to be made. My group of childhood friends from brownies, later Girl Scouts, were all athletic tomboys. We loved hiking, camping, horseback riding, bike riding, exploring local creeks and woods, climbing trees. My mom realized quickly after I ripped apart an expensive store bought school dress while climbing a fence that it was a losing battle, and she caved and bought me one pair of denim jeans. Only the one. They were adorable - royal blue with white daisies scattered throughout. Wish I still had them. But the idea of skirts persisted for a long time, still do, in the form of “skorts.”</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/shopping/fashion/best-womens-skorts-n1268555">https://www.nbcnews.com/shopping/fashion/best-womens-skorts-n1268555</a></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir2DWqzBnSZkcasqyDcjqs9mSAcCeymq-cpHKu2aGY8ia8dbZFyXw_oz-U8Er8xx86oPRQncfvplyYIeCN5c2sSMTbLa77bXHNlZ_QY7X_-ffZrKjdUZbELDQFj5jr7SGFhsuHn0FE1zA/s720/6BD5C0E5-AC62-4942-9EAA-8B3ACBFD77D9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="489" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir2DWqzBnSZkcasqyDcjqs9mSAcCeymq-cpHKu2aGY8ia8dbZFyXw_oz-U8Er8xx86oPRQncfvplyYIeCN5c2sSMTbLa77bXHNlZ_QY7X_-ffZrKjdUZbELDQFj5jr7SGFhsuHn0FE1zA/s320/6BD5C0E5-AC62-4942-9EAA-8B3ACBFD77D9.jpeg" /></a></div><div> Family vacation around 1968-9</div><div><br /></div>My sister and I : Our clothes, toys, bedroom furnishings, school supplies and even candy were separated out by color, so there’d be less squabbling. I was blue, yellow and she was pink, red.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemw1G3U4jnFRJyaHq20aPEIEiWxlpd5Mv_RrsVgjZNQbi3mWlJpzx3OceG5gQFQTleVfDrSMs9OPMsWkCIHQOjGHNWiVehdre7hc47BeyvXJgvz-dqRNOIp_xpjtVkihvL_luh1HJ8Uk/s720/7851D5B5-BB8D-4109-86DB-237C624F5289.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiemw1G3U4jnFRJyaHq20aPEIEiWxlpd5Mv_RrsVgjZNQbi3mWlJpzx3OceG5gQFQTleVfDrSMs9OPMsWkCIHQOjGHNWiVehdre7hc47BeyvXJgvz-dqRNOIp_xpjtVkihvL_luh1HJ8Uk/s320/7851D5B5-BB8D-4109-86DB-237C624F5289.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div> School photos </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7QpjRLH05IcRWKiOInoIZQjtzlXcMPUoJtv4AomSCY4lmCsb4WdMnuDPdVi11MU7Q4WyFAvGyt9f0aXPC6uJLBwIRnMp1m1c-ub0vJg2D05ytGLlH-2F7r_dl4PyA6Jmxa5YJ828qBw/s2048/3B20D6D4-039C-46ED-879C-3D271DE952D0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7QpjRLH05IcRWKiOInoIZQjtzlXcMPUoJtv4AomSCY4lmCsb4WdMnuDPdVi11MU7Q4WyFAvGyt9f0aXPC6uJLBwIRnMp1m1c-ub0vJg2D05ytGLlH-2F7r_dl4PyA6Jmxa5YJ828qBw/s320/3B20D6D4-039C-46ED-879C-3D271DE952D0.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Assorted school photos, during elementary aka primary school years. First grade was remarkable because my BFF Monica, whose mother was from Germany and didn’t know any better, sent Monica to school on the first day wearing pants. Big kerfuffle : Monica was sent to the principal’s office until her mother showed up with a dress for her to put on in the restroom. Big argument ensued, with Monica’s mother yelling, “How does any of this impact her ability to learn?” in a thick German accent. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEV89FmrIwneVa80PHlWuN0NDFw_8LLF4MBNKWCinI9rNVfUvy7ud9pV7WU-2AQltQAHV-vsoce_h8HWrmtpnzF8wfO8IJxmC7r9bvUZIHnWmxhOl4JlHGK3YSGwIWawxwZ8Ocu8UGANs/s2048/763C1BE2-0141-44E5-A196-79772114E531.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEV89FmrIwneVa80PHlWuN0NDFw_8LLF4MBNKWCinI9rNVfUvy7ud9pV7WU-2AQltQAHV-vsoce_h8HWrmtpnzF8wfO8IJxmC7r9bvUZIHnWmxhOl4JlHGK3YSGwIWawxwZ8Ocu8UGANs/s320/763C1BE2-0141-44E5-A196-79772114E531.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlP6FVdPXgSJGOzyM7XG7L0qNtspyP9xWExWyxeOkCzlUsJ9QafG8BdAeRFFpTUR7jzZTkNE3wpLNlY__I7dMaZ-4UW3DQEU9lWIK1Q-PzYET0mgzTKjRDWMrl8dc4VzaI9MvlJHIMc_4/s2048/2194A43F-EF1B-472B-A293-A201B71CCA99.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlP6FVdPXgSJGOzyM7XG7L0qNtspyP9xWExWyxeOkCzlUsJ9QafG8BdAeRFFpTUR7jzZTkNE3wpLNlY__I7dMaZ-4UW3DQEU9lWIK1Q-PzYET0mgzTKjRDWMrl8dc4VzaI9MvlJHIMc_4/s320/2194A43F-EF1B-472B-A293-A201B71CCA99.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkY8dHhnzjpwz6YjRxKHMzIXJu8x5hNdPm3yXAwxCI_1oeqODW5_cLxebRAyCIU7Ptkyqzf7CzW2eBQqTn-vCFkfjEthEWhmvxAFQfiJ2gajH5IhU134Amcao-5VQGKGHky7y5oLDxZI/s2048/1DC69D41-2F63-41C5-9528-B068DC80EECA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkY8dHhnzjpwz6YjRxKHMzIXJu8x5hNdPm3yXAwxCI_1oeqODW5_cLxebRAyCIU7Ptkyqzf7CzW2eBQqTn-vCFkfjEthEWhmvxAFQfiJ2gajH5IhU134Amcao-5VQGKGHky7y5oLDxZI/s320/1DC69D41-2F63-41C5-9528-B068DC80EECA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGx_Zd17F4RIZqNlC29HSLqr68ThE5ASxA9YBAS0CjETlu-jvjfMj5u_OLWNvrjTTicvBIha859OPntoUkvYr-iQJqrBpvxgu5pX6M3sN5d0oFEBJY1FnMV1EjxbUGZh-bjixBkNEpRY/s2048/761F6D03-34EE-48E8-A85B-0C155710452C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGx_Zd17F4RIZqNlC29HSLqr68ThE5ASxA9YBAS0CjETlu-jvjfMj5u_OLWNvrjTTicvBIha859OPntoUkvYr-iQJqrBpvxgu5pX6M3sN5d0oFEBJY1FnMV1EjxbUGZh-bjixBkNEpRY/s320/761F6D03-34EE-48E8-A85B-0C155710452C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6CCJ7nGnWq21Fz-be9QCF7NQJod62Z0JJ0kdwxzE_6yO0B3mPNUqZ_imm4bCljKGSp_f6X-i65QVMa9_JjD4NlxDnJediGaKTfXsIS0r2satMA3jG8lBFXbqo8rIaCzrkyTVaEgZpiM/s2048/B0277A88-2AFF-4684-BC89-FC158B07DD19.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6CCJ7nGnWq21Fz-be9QCF7NQJod62Z0JJ0kdwxzE_6yO0B3mPNUqZ_imm4bCljKGSp_f6X-i65QVMa9_JjD4NlxDnJediGaKTfXsIS0r2satMA3jG8lBFXbqo8rIaCzrkyTVaEgZpiM/s320/B0277A88-2AFF-4684-BC89-FC158B07DD19.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCY0LLCOWm2OCw8s1bQQ9I9C5FltqtAG3g7EO8wBcRgXkQc01McgffgWEoudpH4fsL14ZUR3APA4TnavhSWG9mQqlSa48ATMri0RlaESIC702E4Hf7SZExHWl-WO3JuI2SdJvpbG3mYJQ/s2048/7926B329-35A3-49BA-AEB9-CC7B19FE095E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCY0LLCOWm2OCw8s1bQQ9I9C5FltqtAG3g7EO8wBcRgXkQc01McgffgWEoudpH4fsL14ZUR3APA4TnavhSWG9mQqlSa48ATMri0RlaESIC702E4Hf7SZExHWl-WO3JuI2SdJvpbG3mYJQ/s320/7926B329-35A3-49BA-AEB9-CC7B19FE095E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div>These are nice bc they are dated. Notice none of the girls wear pants. As puberty set in, my mother forced me into a series of uncool, unattractive short haircuts. We argued constantly over them. I also never realized until much later that my mother was making some kind of “statement” by forcing me to wear Izod sport knit dresses on school picture day. I do remember the fights we had about what I was going to wear…..brutal. She always won. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheCi0KSm8OzxR3mYojYYkaCvOKbkEBObWMOtRACB4zApl0B8aTUiNmOB3_H2ewsV-UaLDf_84cndLIUpabOhcj8hpmPqsgWFzxUWN_Q037wXysPRCvZBfthcTSYn6Os7LhCgSBavflh5I/s2048/39071A61-DF55-40CA-A3FC-34B238891D6F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1489" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheCi0KSm8OzxR3mYojYYkaCvOKbkEBObWMOtRACB4zApl0B8aTUiNmOB3_H2ewsV-UaLDf_84cndLIUpabOhcj8hpmPqsgWFzxUWN_Q037wXysPRCvZBfthcTSYn6Os7LhCgSBavflh5I/s320/39071A61-DF55-40CA-A3FC-34B238891D6F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div> Unattractive short haircuts 1970-73</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div> 1970s</div><div><br /></div>As the 1960’s turned into the 1970’s, and my docile childhood ways morphed into those of the ornery teenager, my clothes changed too - just like those of all my friends. Rebellion set in. It grated on our parents nerves, but there was little they could do about it. They could buy us stuff, but couldn’t make us wear it the way they intended.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWs8Yofv4U1e4fgP1A_UBU7u4kjOIjheEchpb6ChhEubUkvfSA5CFzy_I0bB24wbMU_39DWeCFcvgT74i3mO7edJ0SY3cIPc-UTUKssRyCvVL4EN3pgB-aogQEbI7f6h6eVXA56PNHUOs/s720/CDE69370-FF50-4DF3-BBAF-43475EE91B4D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWs8Yofv4U1e4fgP1A_UBU7u4kjOIjheEchpb6ChhEubUkvfSA5CFzy_I0bB24wbMU_39DWeCFcvgT74i3mO7edJ0SY3cIPc-UTUKssRyCvVL4EN3pgB-aogQEbI7f6h6eVXA56PNHUOs/s320/CDE69370-FF50-4DF3-BBAF-43475EE91B4D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIK1XhcGEqN0F7Su9hLRu1kx3umOg4LF_oMRG94hjBWGHWhOzvvWTepe49B1I3fbjLfHl9E49YofDTfzJvNq-2YcCOn4SipiOSePobcowsObjXZwOkJ_83FpDJVLePu9fWIiGzZpZQZo/s720/AE4D53D6-42D9-4107-9800-3B1A2B0515D7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguIK1XhcGEqN0F7Su9hLRu1kx3umOg4LF_oMRG94hjBWGHWhOzvvWTepe49B1I3fbjLfHl9E49YofDTfzJvNq-2YcCOn4SipiOSePobcowsObjXZwOkJ_83FpDJVLePu9fWIiGzZpZQZo/s320/AE4D53D6-42D9-4107-9800-3B1A2B0515D7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9rlt0mVDQYPkOdDxH4ohVOwAQJO8Tphk3_0akyb6G_X4o13XCNXrtGx5snk6WOkCup-jMm5DzSgvJUPBOXoY7FKdMlgMmL36qLJiSMmLLo1O7cbpClYzry2SKYOGV_pAcfZbx-llbtEY/s720/5286AD30-1DD9-445D-A704-186095732724.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9rlt0mVDQYPkOdDxH4ohVOwAQJO8Tphk3_0akyb6G_X4o13XCNXrtGx5snk6WOkCup-jMm5DzSgvJUPBOXoY7FKdMlgMmL36qLJiSMmLLo1O7cbpClYzry2SKYOGV_pAcfZbx-llbtEY/s320/5286AD30-1DD9-445D-A704-186095732724.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8pM280omr0xm3uiMbwD9ZgrERbg6QHvAW9-bA5rpN46BsdRJ44df0um0GMYje8Uu9k06ybZIbJaKyVCqua45xxIIxFCahgZxDmGl7jjSFxru3m1K8lQaw2SJKUVlm_LRrvo0nZSeZ2s/s720/A5745A1A-77EB-423B-A442-4F7CA9052E81.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi8pM280omr0xm3uiMbwD9ZgrERbg6QHvAW9-bA5rpN46BsdRJ44df0um0GMYje8Uu9k06ybZIbJaKyVCqua45xxIIxFCahgZxDmGl7jjSFxru3m1K8lQaw2SJKUVlm_LRrvo0nZSeZ2s/s320/A5745A1A-77EB-423B-A442-4F7CA9052E81.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA83kRtLvnH205K6xWTKw7EV2FZquTJXxsDZDkiDoq6ulbn9kYsRpMqfoZ65iiqFDIxQspRxM-DmRL-0ExuLH8XW10tza8uAWtmKoPhXDYrTnIaZkKFSzRlx3CjMxMMbPtGm7w5dKSuFU/s720/C4E63634-D050-4174-BDAA-73AEC7B73A54.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA83kRtLvnH205K6xWTKw7EV2FZquTJXxsDZDkiDoq6ulbn9kYsRpMqfoZ65iiqFDIxQspRxM-DmRL-0ExuLH8XW10tza8uAWtmKoPhXDYrTnIaZkKFSzRlx3CjMxMMbPtGm7w5dKSuFU/s320/C4E63634-D050-4174-BDAA-73AEC7B73A54.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me in a swimsuit from Neiman Marcus….My mother thought this bikini was too risque and would not let me wear it in public…..only at the lake house</div><p>Photos, above : Childhood pre-teen and teenage friends, all taken at a local golf club residential community, with lakes and boat docks and country roads, where one of my friends lived. Around 1973-4. The happiest childhood years.</p><p>Interesting sidebar - as I approached young womanhood, my mother responded with some strange retrograde increasingly old fashioned, out of style, childlike clothing choices for me. See me in the peculiar red and white check pinafore? Suitable for a Victorian 4 year old child? I am trying to hide it by standing behind my friends, wearing contemporary dress. I had no choice but to wear what she made for me, until I got a job at 16 and started earning my own money. Mom also forced me to cut all my hair off, and I spent my formative years wearing dorky chunky uncontrollable short “do’s”. You know, when everyone else in America was rocking hippie hair……..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGL4_zO9zSINImumctJdApxXa7thRM0EeoQ6cw7gi2Hzde65nqAwsAgpS4chvnifF3aqtyjP6YGSp1VLLqwMNHaHeRGkpcPyeU7Br0p3Q6gY6xH5MxUm0OBPQ1qJRO43542j-GMv7BP_k/s720/5A871BDF-C863-4F5A-A9EF-252E9B48DEA9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGL4_zO9zSINImumctJdApxXa7thRM0EeoQ6cw7gi2Hzde65nqAwsAgpS4chvnifF3aqtyjP6YGSp1VLLqwMNHaHeRGkpcPyeU7Br0p3Q6gY6xH5MxUm0OBPQ1qJRO43542j-GMv7BP_k/s320/5A871BDF-C863-4F5A-A9EF-252E9B48DEA9.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>Hip fashionable girlfriends, wearing the latest looks, on a school trip in 1975. The one in the hat’s father was a big honcho at a local high end department store, and she always was on trend.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1DIiW05bk1hRir5BoiCx3mP-GYMK5PeeHBkNn6woBAHa6IfHOltfuEo4XRkvlRSiwOzm7jExlinJT7aiRgTd80HBiy6NkPt5DD5F86oMgGuuHaUBG-C0h9npiIMWuDFW2-JH80fw_M4Y/s720/99F0FAAE-1164-410F-AF54-CBC1CBC66730.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1DIiW05bk1hRir5BoiCx3mP-GYMK5PeeHBkNn6woBAHa6IfHOltfuEo4XRkvlRSiwOzm7jExlinJT7aiRgTd80HBiy6NkPt5DD5F86oMgGuuHaUBG-C0h9npiIMWuDFW2-JH80fw_M4Y/s320/99F0FAAE-1164-410F-AF54-CBC1CBC66730.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>What mom doesn’t know you are doing, she can’t stop…….Whenever I show this one, circa 1975, to young folk today, they get all freaked out that I am not wearing shoes or a helmet. This was only the beginning. <br /><p><br /></p></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-83578051318520548302021-07-01T17:10:00.000-05:002021-07-01T17:11:29.728-05:00The Girl From Texas’ Guide to Staying Cool <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCR1W9gvwwnokohRR4nznnckZaCltxifSUM_GEgxt7WVrdPTFDNqs8JeGfmQyhLU9otPnbD8X3S8_NKE8wpqbmMFidtCfkDgNCgMhUdECITHoNmaDGLy2CvJW_UpK7gsJXzpu1oGsYz4/s275/E7EE60B8-7E44-4B0D-81C8-F5B6DD012F18.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCR1W9gvwwnokohRR4nznnckZaCltxifSUM_GEgxt7WVrdPTFDNqs8JeGfmQyhLU9otPnbD8X3S8_NKE8wpqbmMFidtCfkDgNCgMhUdECITHoNmaDGLy2CvJW_UpK7gsJXzpu1oGsYz4/s0/E7EE60B8-7E44-4B0D-81C8-F5B6DD012F18.jpeg" /></a></div><p>Ten years ago, when faced with global warming naysayers, my response at the time was, “The only thing we know for certain is that existing weather patterns will change.” Well hi-dee-yah! this summer has been the proof. The US has experienced scorching heat along both coasts, 110-117F (43-47C) in areas typically 70-90F (21-32C), while a dip in the jet stream is keeping my hellscape just a tad bit cooler. Those poor yankee northerner type people think they’ve died and gone to eternal damnation bc they have no air-conditioning. My m-i-l in Virginia is surprised that her “summer weight polyester knits” are uncomfortable to wear right now. Friends from Portland are camped out in their basement. Texans, of course, think these folk are just a bunch o’ grumbling ninnies. We are used to hot weather in our land - our summer climate is typically similar to that of summers in Spain, the south of France, southern Italy, the center of Australia in winter, the Indian sub-continent, or north Africa anytime - for 6 months of the year. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8siqwUWsZDqJLGlVEpOku712ZBiWBOX4v_HygSRUuJjQfi_zNSSxxTvlT_9tekDamZvMrN7ozSdeePWsawnjUhWTv9PpfbDggoxhzr6LkZcwiMMkyrECV2uH8_uEs1rqhT6jTk9_3OAA/s262/843768A8-E1EC-470F-A798-A6197CC877A7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8siqwUWsZDqJLGlVEpOku712ZBiWBOX4v_HygSRUuJjQfi_zNSSxxTvlT_9tekDamZvMrN7ozSdeePWsawnjUhWTv9PpfbDggoxhzr6LkZcwiMMkyrECV2uH8_uEs1rqhT6jTk9_3OAA/s0/843768A8-E1EC-470F-A798-A6197CC877A7.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>1) dwellings<div>The logical thing, of course, would be to adapt our dwellings and our lifestyle to that of New Mexico or the South - with thick walls, shady porches, vegetation, etc. and a slower pace of living to combat the heat….<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOFs6__8sUCe1j2cRhcVJWCpvD6zSuEpvwhYI4yhfDXNtEJBgyi_mOrPqf-hAC7zJViyGhdp4tJi8QCBYOoG_1PKlKu-wawq5jKwxBUP5m1TIugEPZwY1kCJ9XrfDL4zGRSVjxLyk7yA/s268/E855E1C8-D5DD-4619-8F67-DC0C40182929.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOFs6__8sUCe1j2cRhcVJWCpvD6zSuEpvwhYI4yhfDXNtEJBgyi_mOrPqf-hAC7zJViyGhdp4tJi8QCBYOoG_1PKlKu-wawq5jKwxBUP5m1TIugEPZwY1kCJ9XrfDL4zGRSVjxLyk7yA/s0/E855E1C8-D5DD-4619-8F67-DC0C40182929.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>……But nah, we’re just not that sensible. Homes in the Mediterranean may have 2ft thick walls and rainwater collection cisterns, but in Texas, we have/ used to have oil, so why be sensible? 200 years of ridiculousness can’t stop now…. we are going to mow down all the native old growth trees, by gum, then build the most energy inefficient glass walled cities and dwellings in their place. Pump ‘em full of stale air conditioning so cold you need a down jacket at the office, all the while simultaneously pumping the a/c system’s hot exhaust out into the environment for the peasants to endure. We’ll ignore the natural terrain and build over marshes and streams, then act surprised when they flood in monsoon season. We’ll just build bigger subterranean pumps to keep ‘em dry. Everything will be constructed of mdf “wood”, Chinese drywall, plastic, glass, low quality poorly mixed cement, and iron bars that rust…..while planting a tiny stick sized tree here and there, to get the EPA and tree huggers off our back. Gotta love Texas!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO0Wrr5rlB1T4PvETvQYbxy3I90GbjKQJO5Ieq0SG1q5FE33wzO59cCd2nBIt3G2Bvp-h2WDrT4x3i0W3SnBajD3OMOVtbUw4wEfpEbf-ikydrHYOph00g1HSmvQUYw8R0jTsB3H7-_Wc/s1024/34EE1F88-E540-4DA4-A47E-62B3FEF2E08F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO0Wrr5rlB1T4PvETvQYbxy3I90GbjKQJO5Ieq0SG1q5FE33wzO59cCd2nBIt3G2Bvp-h2WDrT4x3i0W3SnBajD3OMOVtbUw4wEfpEbf-ikydrHYOph00g1HSmvQUYw8R0jTsB3H7-_Wc/s320/34EE1F88-E540-4DA4-A47E-62B3FEF2E08F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqc5jExGPdpI6XupqFdlTzkfhfOfEiMZm0AnAk7qjc56qmksfA5Ym2JWOPKElzhSyDuRLeoPNoGhaZV02hZaG2Z7uO_pq8ReAzEtNEdp7A6t3FDxMMlf7ZxGiCkE3nU9YTeflIFjnkIY/s2048/E1C7A56F-19A2-46A9-B6BF-0B4F5AF3BDFD.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqc5jExGPdpI6XupqFdlTzkfhfOfEiMZm0AnAk7qjc56qmksfA5Ym2JWOPKElzhSyDuRLeoPNoGhaZV02hZaG2Z7uO_pq8ReAzEtNEdp7A6t3FDxMMlf7ZxGiCkE3nU9YTeflIFjnkIY/s320/E1C7A56F-19A2-46A9-B6BF-0B4F5AF3BDFD.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>And everyone will act surprised when this happens: </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57659311">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57659311</a></p><p>None of this however, helps our friends currently living through heatwaves in various parts of the globe. Having traveled extensively, I have adapted the best practices of cultures I have sampled, and over the course of my life, developed hot weather survival strategies: </p><p>Part of dwelling strategies, if you have no large trees, is to create shade any way you can</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHL0DYB0nyNxZIfCe15m4b4fbfV_GJbCOM3A-4Nl8ORlZEUTpFOoikIifhFHDsRMAWQoOyQMiOq3x6uzwh-sY6xRHQgF8_dr-ed3oL3dDOuvsdYx35Zy1xtbHQkR7CV5g26BMId4xYsM/s251/37F30F63-DA79-45D1-BD21-D9782FF327F5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHL0DYB0nyNxZIfCe15m4b4fbfV_GJbCOM3A-4Nl8ORlZEUTpFOoikIifhFHDsRMAWQoOyQMiOq3x6uzwh-sY6xRHQgF8_dr-ed3oL3dDOuvsdYx35Zy1xtbHQkR7CV5g26BMId4xYsM/s0/37F30F63-DA79-45D1-BD21-D9782FF327F5.jpeg" /></a></div>Super cheap, assembles in minutes (overstock, amazon, ebay, Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtk0zny4C0qXEiWEoZEboqIP5JTWAa8MVtlQ9N_NOwZsLzsgO2RY4-Tyuts2k1GftLIuJ9RCDQVNJUucvc7n42fG9qRkO_7UmNgZyPsaqz5j8lg-yUoqPMWdBr6_2OkQvgniYM1lOXd8/s225/603A5545-41B5-4756-AA19-D095FE6B3938.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwtk0zny4C0qXEiWEoZEboqIP5JTWAa8MVtlQ9N_NOwZsLzsgO2RY4-Tyuts2k1GftLIuJ9RCDQVNJUucvc7n42fG9qRkO_7UmNgZyPsaqz5j8lg-yUoqPMWdBr6_2OkQvgniYM1lOXd8/s0/603A5545-41B5-4756-AA19-D095FE6B3938.jpeg" /></a></div>This one costs more, needs a carpenter to assemble</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wW01pTnILmH6IY2eH407DXTWzU5q37PcbpCgDmBQ7Mc4b9GoVing1zYtY0nNJtkYtvWoSlB9qGyfZ_giiBiOKgg8fkagsEJQ0tq4doEecrxU03fuU_7KnvPAY2yO-eTdqb_GiMO8rwc/s275/4159751B-C046-4C97-B189-299ACF7201CA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wW01pTnILmH6IY2eH407DXTWzU5q37PcbpCgDmBQ7Mc4b9GoVing1zYtY0nNJtkYtvWoSlB9qGyfZ_giiBiOKgg8fkagsEJQ0tq4doEecrxU03fuU_7KnvPAY2yO-eTdqb_GiMO8rwc/s0/4159751B-C046-4C97-B189-299ACF7201CA.jpeg" /></a></div>These auto sunscreens really do lower the interior temp of your car…. I have one each for front and back windows. The trick is to crack your car windows a tiny bit, and as hot air rises, let it escape. Try it - 20 degrees cooler, I promise. (Still not cool enough for kids or pets to be left behind.) You will also notice if you travel the world that people in hot places don’t purchase black cars. Stay sexy, if needs must, but as global warming continues, I’d rethink that…..it does make a huge, significant, real difference. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg95cSXqwAlhUhgn5p5S8Lcbixj7CTO5_r-gd85dBgN9txpGoi9F65MlxRhfBN2v0DjCd5AEwhRE_thyphenhyphenNwpUC2W3HGLOPE3pN6t-QnxJWAeRY08yuEV8jBb86k1ggyuDMVKheAUZhjtgTA/s275/A0E740DD-70BE-4DE5-A08B-7D9B99F60EFA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg95cSXqwAlhUhgn5p5S8Lcbixj7CTO5_r-gd85dBgN9txpGoi9F65MlxRhfBN2v0DjCd5AEwhRE_thyphenhyphenNwpUC2W3HGLOPE3pN6t-QnxJWAeRY08yuEV8jBb86k1ggyuDMVKheAUZhjtgTA/s0/A0E740DD-70BE-4DE5-A08B-7D9B99F60EFA.jpeg" /></a></div>More instant shade ideas. Spend a little, spend a lot. Coolaroo shades are like weather proof blankets and can be strung anywhere. Or just use real blankets, towels, sheets. If you can cool your dwelling with shade on the outside, it will be cooler for you on the inside. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghW76OQSprKFEmvDwXxkeyTP7vHPpNiGY3j17_PKvFkBH44SYSDVhsyrMX3tVpC6cFRjwwAYosBnyGYlf1a6KVgvgYuF6DEuAS6ab60IHvYczn4Q8UyWp8crVF73FO23DZpqTfoEXApPA/s225/DFCF5BA9-B8F4-4F02-B9CC-17D6C80ACE8A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghW76OQSprKFEmvDwXxkeyTP7vHPpNiGY3j17_PKvFkBH44SYSDVhsyrMX3tVpC6cFRjwwAYosBnyGYlf1a6KVgvgYuF6DEuAS6ab60IHvYczn4Q8UyWp8crVF73FO23DZpqTfoEXApPA/s0/DFCF5BA9-B8F4-4F02-B9CC-17D6C80ACE8A.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr80pY-0PA5v3BGDj-bvyU7abVSgHULkOvs0YCCu8YwCVK8e0jJ6tP_SVsTGhXMmvkaeG-eWXj39KjbqVB9bqwdmVUI3NpPMNYLZh9nicQW1xBq_Af-nI7Z72zTY3LV0SIiaWEBNZYUX0/s480/2963FB88-096C-4D33-AAD4-9D6A5DA8CA98.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr80pY-0PA5v3BGDj-bvyU7abVSgHULkOvs0YCCu8YwCVK8e0jJ6tP_SVsTGhXMmvkaeG-eWXj39KjbqVB9bqwdmVUI3NpPMNYLZh9nicQW1xBq_Af-nI7Z72zTY3LV0SIiaWEBNZYUX0/s320/2963FB88-096C-4D33-AAD4-9D6A5DA8CA98.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAWhZD_9lepCU5DCD4FM4RK0y-TEhvD0dWtVYJWRYggiOxT-2VkpVKeakhuxCgDJMQzenJnxrxGh7pGfxpl751K_w2dXdqdaCu6G6kpIoVXZUkTJYxhFe0RmF5UqiUiXT_V1iDFjlTA8/s225/23651E0A-D370-483A-A9CC-9F86DEEC2773.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuAWhZD_9lepCU5DCD4FM4RK0y-TEhvD0dWtVYJWRYggiOxT-2VkpVKeakhuxCgDJMQzenJnxrxGh7pGfxpl751K_w2dXdqdaCu6G6kpIoVXZUkTJYxhFe0RmF5UqiUiXT_V1iDFjlTA8/s0/23651E0A-D370-483A-A9CC-9F86DEEC2773.jpeg" /></a></div><p>Solar sun screen window coverings - I finally invested in these a few years back, and they made a considerable change to my electric bill when running the ac. Not only is my power usage less now to cool the house, but my carpets don’t fade either. These are mesh; you can see through them. And, strangely - something I did not expect - my house looks better! The ugly 1950’s green speckled glass is covered up, it just looks like a darkened window from the outside. Best of all : relatively cheap! About $100 per window (compared to new windows, at about $1000 per window.) </p><p>2) clothing</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_657dPiOsdsbsXNTRAr70EppJYAUTB7hditsMXQWd2DPUwBCc5D9JqFqRnBwzTc_mFOOT_rztS7Gs4McmwjCmYuW2EJcjHu1t4qwL15f_IjhSoVhdxkIj4iSPEnbzSdJNiUb-RzL-aMM/s343/8A47F436-7FAF-4549-BCD8-D4E36767A301.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_657dPiOsdsbsXNTRAr70EppJYAUTB7hditsMXQWd2DPUwBCc5D9JqFqRnBwzTc_mFOOT_rztS7Gs4McmwjCmYuW2EJcjHu1t4qwL15f_IjhSoVhdxkIj4iSPEnbzSdJNiUb-RzL-aMM/s320/8A47F436-7FAF-4549-BCD8-D4E36767A301.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtIdUsHJn49629kU3UZVZFWJV5UDKpkBTAw6coX_ZWVI_xdZNLxrl7wRESJLdGMjxUH4c7E6L8pf2x4piysdHfKHxewgaWYY4Bqw6nNtle94uFEu3vjiW52ygOFoMcQf7mGlLW5swQqA/s343/457F010B-375D-4156-BCD0-3A583A78D54C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtIdUsHJn49629kU3UZVZFWJV5UDKpkBTAw6coX_ZWVI_xdZNLxrl7wRESJLdGMjxUH4c7E6L8pf2x4piysdHfKHxewgaWYY4Bqw6nNtle94uFEu3vjiW52ygOFoMcQf7mGlLW5swQqA/s320/457F010B-375D-4156-BCD0-3A583A78D54C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>a) Give up pantyhose</p><p>b) Sandals, no socks - you may prefer heels or flip-flops, but Birkenstocks remain one of the best selling, most comfortable, suddenly hip again shoe EVER</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9QsVANetC_IO17Od5SuCL5-KDPLko6Y8-srDKxLjvX3fq5pymMyZtw5ckZgDCeE39zMJonM3FCe5fpwY-jpLboHyEn-1xUTWLfQC9S2qL7BfCvs6VMsnF_LW52RqwA8P0g1TUmgxhGE/s2016/2CE6A74D-0CB0-43C7-B1DF-23D04C4F7000.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9QsVANetC_IO17Od5SuCL5-KDPLko6Y8-srDKxLjvX3fq5pymMyZtw5ckZgDCeE39zMJonM3FCe5fpwY-jpLboHyEn-1xUTWLfQC9S2qL7BfCvs6VMsnF_LW52RqwA8P0g1TUmgxhGE/s320/2CE6A74D-0CB0-43C7-B1DF-23D04C4F7000.webp" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Stop wearing knits, even knit tshirts, socks, nylon underwear, the whole shebang. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Of course, most people around the world don’t wear these things in the first place, they tend to wear natural fibers more often than we do….Americans just can’t seem to grasp the concept that loose fitting, light color, natural fiber clothing will keep you about 10-20 degrees cooler instantly. I started dressing this way when I lived in Houston, which has a climate like Rangoon. It rains every day and is 99% humid the rest of the time. I kept going with the natural fiber trend, linen and cotton, as my own personal allergies and skin care issues dictated. I pretty much wear loose linen and cotton clothing year round. Don’t tell me that it’s too wrinkly, hard to take care of, too expensive, yadayada. Wash it on cold, shake out the wrinkles, hang it on a hanger to dry, smooth it out a bit. Voila! Find high quality linen and cotton clothing for pennies on the dollar at thrift stores, ebay, thread up, etsy, Nordstrom Rack, Off Saks, NM Last Call. </p><p>I love linen, but I also love Indian cotton clothing and bedding. A recent trip to New Delhi showed me the wonders of Indian block print textiles…. They are all I wear around the house. Find them on etsy or ebay. Men’s clothing, too…..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaVwXZZ-NSL2X2UjmG-yTQYmyykHMC7lhIeqdY55I4soj42ewC5uKSywBwMX5DiJU3MokPtoN1S1Y20MB6BEojeSm7Y2AzLqsyLDs1KTGH5fwi46KZW374P39P22N011vj8Ac6QNvrYQ/s2048/A3484743-6174-43E6-9BBA-FF6044057418.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaVwXZZ-NSL2X2UjmG-yTQYmyykHMC7lhIeqdY55I4soj42ewC5uKSywBwMX5DiJU3MokPtoN1S1Y20MB6BEojeSm7Y2AzLqsyLDs1KTGH5fwi46KZW374P39P22N011vj8Ac6QNvrYQ/s320/A3484743-6174-43E6-9BBA-FF6044057418.png" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>3)diet</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjHQbVzUrA9TXVNntrH6oBrHs_mSpDTHmoLbXZuvLDEmg1Cc44yGRWZDzckNeX8f-_g39sd9ydUZoEwKXGUYO1rocvpInhYBgOYakQGr1lEI3HVNpd5POUnA6deO_C7f49WP-tND6oa1c/s300/1385E422-F3BE-4D52-A467-D989E6BA3044.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjHQbVzUrA9TXVNntrH6oBrHs_mSpDTHmoLbXZuvLDEmg1Cc44yGRWZDzckNeX8f-_g39sd9ydUZoEwKXGUYO1rocvpInhYBgOYakQGr1lEI3HVNpd5POUnA6deO_C7f49WP-tND6oa1c/s0/1385E422-F3BE-4D52-A467-D989E6BA3044.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-r-UjohXSMbtsuNOsl-ZLUmcLoFO9Flm4Yyeer2VXbrvrsw6K2qdqH7Z5tkIw4tt9_nm0wj070IcYYnY1fdw0Z99-g4pz4YqmtAO1t_M0tjNP7_Bdfh53Y_wVtx9Otrr9A4RaxFryqm8/s275/BE6ADA18-ED30-4727-BA80-9037A26E483A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-r-UjohXSMbtsuNOsl-ZLUmcLoFO9Flm4Yyeer2VXbrvrsw6K2qdqH7Z5tkIw4tt9_nm0wj070IcYYnY1fdw0Z99-g4pz4YqmtAO1t_M0tjNP7_Bdfh53Y_wVtx9Otrr9A4RaxFryqm8/s0/BE6ADA18-ED30-4727-BA80-9037A26E483A.jpeg" /></a></div><p>There is a perception that people in the South only eat fried chicken, fried pickles, french fries, junk food, etc…..you may be craving a big tender steak in some over air conditioned black hole of a bar right now…..but the best diet overall for hot weather is also the best one for beating the heat : Mediterranean. Eat the foods that go with the climate. Keep meals light, plant-based, fresh, and cool. Stay hydrated in a non alcoholic way. </p><p>I spent a summer in a kibbutz and our meals consisted of :</p><p>Breakfast: 1 lg raw tomato, 1 lg raw cucumber, 1 orange, 1 boiled egg, and bread. Hot tea, which I let cool.</p><p>Lunch : the same</p><p>Dinner: liver, beans, tomato + cucumber salad</p><p>This grew tiresome quickly, but I was doing manual labor and hungry, so I ate it. You know what? After a month of this, I was in the best damn shape of my life. Living in the middle of the Neghev desert, I became acclimated to the heat and it didn’t even bother me. </p><p>Back home in Texas, I eat a lot of raw fruit; grill everything; chomp cold pasta or green leaf, or fruit, or veggie salads; make smoothies; drink gallons of “unsweet” (so called locally bc “sweet tea” is the default setting.) iced-tea. (Best brand for this? Luzianne tea bags originally from Louisiana. Find it on amazon if not at your local store.) Don’t make it too strong……and stop drinking that expensive junk out of bottles, with fake lemon flavor and preservatives. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-JIHuZ-_uMoGrGOfhT8UQ4GBLQ2heJUNYGcSSIsVKacLfDKt1TXqFyVnp90VklFEDFQgf5GCERYMND1s2n9UwWdj6S0zEUE5ktTcjGqC9C-a17Yhjr3jV8VDDMa7ek0enR-Ujn_27aI/s679/02A0147A-337B-4F52-9FBF-804D64CA216E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="679" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-JIHuZ-_uMoGrGOfhT8UQ4GBLQ2heJUNYGcSSIsVKacLfDKt1TXqFyVnp90VklFEDFQgf5GCERYMND1s2n9UwWdj6S0zEUE5ktTcjGqC9C-a17Yhjr3jV8VDDMa7ek0enR-Ujn_27aI/s320/02A0147A-337B-4F52-9FBF-804D64CA216E.jpeg" /></a></div>4) water</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuUEW4cqkztp8_YW92tKMl2il11-fhQESxHIAOmsz9AmjMuPIdTgJQAxSulmrIr4H8CbJrxqfDu54QXPQKxwjhvrqUL_zyBxNBjk8F0Q66r4QXS4InmGJsejkdr1nbFNlph3Lka-MemY/s1140/1C278506-4572-4011-A020-30F391E0E606.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuUEW4cqkztp8_YW92tKMl2il11-fhQESxHIAOmsz9AmjMuPIdTgJQAxSulmrIr4H8CbJrxqfDu54QXPQKxwjhvrqUL_zyBxNBjk8F0Q66r4QXS4InmGJsejkdr1nbFNlph3Lka-MemY/s320/1C278506-4572-4011-A020-30F391E0E606.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipd36ijq1jk1QazodN76uPPEt94eYe5P2yMSWc75vAhxzJDImZVEMaM9w4uq4feIpJ2nuI6VEhrxqBqoFdmf4_UhO8qr92QYL-JjvyYKUTB28gk_690MaBx3fMhFjbj6psXp_uJD8Zuuw/s225/860E5D26-78C2-4432-A792-F1CE12A22E10.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipd36ijq1jk1QazodN76uPPEt94eYe5P2yMSWc75vAhxzJDImZVEMaM9w4uq4feIpJ2nuI6VEhrxqBqoFdmf4_UhO8qr92QYL-JjvyYKUTB28gk_690MaBx3fMhFjbj6psXp_uJD8Zuuw/s0/860E5D26-78C2-4432-A792-F1CE12A22E10.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnuYm3jmNVbLZl53qBtNpWxDxEsILxzJyLvSdYGKy3N0J-2h-v4WKgw3uyQ7ZE2GDr1S1EKyZLBtQm50HXw7ppWElz7HliF2n1OMoLJXbgtlGBexy3rspARa7sakqDvl4CzXuhRCfSMsM/s225/32351F67-2CFC-4493-8758-6C08EEE9E103.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnuYm3jmNVbLZl53qBtNpWxDxEsILxzJyLvSdYGKy3N0J-2h-v4WKgw3uyQ7ZE2GDr1S1EKyZLBtQm50HXw7ppWElz7HliF2n1OMoLJXbgtlGBexy3rspARa7sakqDvl4CzXuhRCfSMsM/s0/32351F67-2CFC-4493-8758-6C08EEE9E103.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-rSNWMbCRa-vCFzKvftlEtrTZ6EmP_LaOaDFX7M-D1r9ZPxZq_biNkfu0YSHToKmIWR-JmJz6divdy7F-fuQZHWi6Dw-2QVy2j0TlDYqlREyXIarKYZxICmsZMtUkE7IL9z9NzFgICc/s276/B492A2EF-7D0A-4D60-B57D-DE692A7CF338.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-rSNWMbCRa-vCFzKvftlEtrTZ6EmP_LaOaDFX7M-D1r9ZPxZq_biNkfu0YSHToKmIWR-JmJz6divdy7F-fuQZHWi6Dw-2QVy2j0TlDYqlREyXIarKYZxICmsZMtUkE7IL9z9NzFgICc/s0/B492A2EF-7D0A-4D60-B57D-DE692A7CF338.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbOdTf217YP2Ft8fqujlaQyblZDGbmL8bJ_iX7L3WQ8eqLN-OkUxatXz1_euFN33nFqdp96oKsUF9paywiXMB7eXEM5eQ4q9YCq0uhNCQMULaGfy1tdIGuXFHr-7PnBP4g6S2WuLDBo6s/s262/BEDD62C4-8460-4890-9102-E9D984B6F6B6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbOdTf217YP2Ft8fqujlaQyblZDGbmL8bJ_iX7L3WQ8eqLN-OkUxatXz1_euFN33nFqdp96oKsUF9paywiXMB7eXEM5eQ4q9YCq0uhNCQMULaGfy1tdIGuXFHr-7PnBP4g6S2WuLDBo6s/s0/BEDD62C4-8460-4890-9102-E9D984B6F6B6.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div>You don’t have a pool, you say? Can’t escape to the beach? Get creative (unless you live in a drought area….then you’re screwed. ) Well, my granny used to do this…. with cold water not hot. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrsvHib93SzvhMUFW3ko6sxEwP4KvNw5BQlWEotWpDJegD_AzllPdH0WselRxuqg6T0mp7TS5Grvj4gMmow1f6nyVqjDjiSWN4kdhnsIJ4_qX1il09LezwDaHzLl0K-cw-Esg1Sxzis0/s351/7B1DB0EB-32EB-44D4-A057-CEEA631C7A6F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrsvHib93SzvhMUFW3ko6sxEwP4KvNw5BQlWEotWpDJegD_AzllPdH0WselRxuqg6T0mp7TS5Grvj4gMmow1f6nyVqjDjiSWN4kdhnsIJ4_qX1il09LezwDaHzLl0K-cw-Esg1Sxzis0/s320/7B1DB0EB-32EB-44D4-A057-CEEA631C7A6F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p>Heat is miserable, but you can adapt, make it less hard on your body. </p></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-46670652695777890892021-04-16T14:32:00.004-05:002021-04-16T15:04:36.690-05:00The “road” part of roadtrips : Coopers BBQ in Llano, Tx<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Frequently the best ones avoid slick decorated exteriors, glitzy signage, or comfy interiors. You will know them by the line of cars and trucks outside, and the line of people willing to wait for food, inside. <div><br /></div><div>Our recent drive across Texas resulted in a whimsical stop in Llano (“yawnno”), Tx around noon bc my stomach was growling. Hubs is generally a PITA on roadtrips - won’t stop for refueling, potty breaks, photo opps or meals. If he had his way we’d all be drinking Mountain Dew and eating slim jims, then peeing in the bottles when done! He’s antsy just eating lunch outta the car- I always say to him: This is why you take road trips! And what you do on them! It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. But he doesn’t get it.....or even remember how many times these scenarios have repeated themselves, over the years. <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjEGJgdiCLVQiUs5_DwmWSLX5H84oxRoMq1Jy9zXOLrKEto4w6eCnuywK1Sh496PqTMTGThci-xuLGoZWkYRyVMIsv7hCCn5wlcqOHRFN_iY_3AxAfXTdSTM4zHhJ_ovcNaghFchGHcJ8/s2048/B8333D78-6E39-4142-A506-2152BA0A2B5E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjEGJgdiCLVQiUs5_DwmWSLX5H84oxRoMq1Jy9zXOLrKEto4w6eCnuywK1Sh496PqTMTGThci-xuLGoZWkYRyVMIsv7hCCn5wlcqOHRFN_iY_3AxAfXTdSTM4zHhJ_ovcNaghFchGHcJ8/s320/B8333D78-6E39-4142-A506-2152BA0A2B5E.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXYZuR2NXvZznRa2LTtPxqJP9aQCw5IIiNYDS1djcoT__q0tUHK4vXV06lkAukvvAboUzmVcC-J6t-NsYuYC7-BMZZilN7scRudnI1CHenARdQUVpK5Pjbk-Hm3geLMzWOeHF3kOt8UM/s960/07E3ECF4-6F2F-4DEF-916C-B4F85C1AA098.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXYZuR2NXvZznRa2LTtPxqJP9aQCw5IIiNYDS1djcoT__q0tUHK4vXV06lkAukvvAboUzmVcC-J6t-NsYuYC7-BMZZilN7scRudnI1CHenARdQUVpK5Pjbk-Hm3geLMzWOeHF3kOt8UM/s320/07E3ECF4-6F2F-4DEF-916C-B4F85C1AA098.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF8w_O4ScN5w_buwmYHkYfszW7Tp3KfNwTGJ37rM4HCMQdTQ-jexUT-mJLoG_TwUdBMxRVWdbGR5beT46RyVxx28NUgwXwZcNoLU71sF__QFTm12QPEhiJHUMBJ0X1mA93jwdSaEbmrs/s2048/D99AFE4E-D00B-4AC4-BB47-1773D3470C79.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF8w_O4ScN5w_buwmYHkYfszW7Tp3KfNwTGJ37rM4HCMQdTQ-jexUT-mJLoG_TwUdBMxRVWdbGR5beT46RyVxx28NUgwXwZcNoLU71sF__QFTm12QPEhiJHUMBJ0X1mA93jwdSaEbmrs/s320/D99AFE4E-D00B-4AC4-BB47-1773D3470C79.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCE7OjX3ihBXerP6BaR_DPFHvVyfRoqQHN0JDxM8a1s24qootZcrN5Syyfv_BQQUemZURQBshRsnHCohdvxiQ0GnlT-MPoUQ9dep5cYLAQjsiZ0O35u5pZTkjuapA3iqvy7xE3ZnY9lns/s960/64F4248E-AFC4-4936-B350-B387552104B6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCE7OjX3ihBXerP6BaR_DPFHvVyfRoqQHN0JDxM8a1s24qootZcrN5Syyfv_BQQUemZURQBshRsnHCohdvxiQ0GnlT-MPoUQ9dep5cYLAQjsiZ0O35u5pZTkjuapA3iqvy7xE3ZnY9lns/s320/64F4248E-AFC4-4936-B350-B387552104B6.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitzfAwTsU2UXiZWsuOB_9Sr3fiYXhzLKoObnvGDng0qP4vBLT5h7vJs9llW37UeONaXBX3HR_V9a-b4Ht7a7IWHB04gi6w3J6LqG_uKw9MWLIF46YXoA5oFytWXT3e3fLn9hho4EcvSqw/s960/977708E9-2D61-4578-9DA2-A43FAF2ACFDD.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitzfAwTsU2UXiZWsuOB_9Sr3fiYXhzLKoObnvGDng0qP4vBLT5h7vJs9llW37UeONaXBX3HR_V9a-b4Ht7a7IWHB04gi6w3J6LqG_uKw9MWLIF46YXoA5oFytWXT3e3fLn9hho4EcvSqw/s320/977708E9-2D61-4578-9DA2-A43FAF2ACFDD.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div>Hubs is scared to enter these place, bc he knows - and he knows locals can tell - he’s a Yankee. But the ends justifies the means! That beef was “fork tender”, meaning you didn’t even need a knife to cut it. Once I shared these pix on FB, suddenly dozens of friends chimed in with comments like : The best BBQ in Texas! Our family’s favorite, etc. </div><div><br /></div><div>Why am I only just now hearing about it? It’s a tragedy that I never knew to seek this place out.....other famous BBQ joints further south are just dried out old beef jerky compared to this. I can’t believe I spent the past 60 years without this melt in your mouth delight. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi37fkcHC9esU0uFkVXLnWD8HDcdcQZWMvl2JKX9-LENRiBQ2OsOYhc0sIWR1zXIfCyKQXmpCGJNsOhmDyjQHfpNKTSnzt884aMGWK8kZO0JsObaBmBY9DTqYxYHeqwxCf2Yb3ekNHKApQ/s960/9A6585A5-F11C-4C58-A6CC-0216DD711A63.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi37fkcHC9esU0uFkVXLnWD8HDcdcQZWMvl2JKX9-LENRiBQ2OsOYhc0sIWR1zXIfCyKQXmpCGJNsOhmDyjQHfpNKTSnzt884aMGWK8kZO0JsObaBmBY9DTqYxYHeqwxCf2Yb3ekNHKApQ/s320/9A6585A5-F11C-4C58-A6CC-0216DD711A63.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-80072417482090397402021-04-16T14:04:00.001-05:002021-04-16T14:07:38.536-05:00Bluebonnets April 2021<p><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpyw9h7NpkDup-C3QB9rXf_R6-nOwTevRDdOsqIO9aQPR6D7lGxMGCqbwHMDJsrGw4-2-gy_RfvZAcNzbT0CLCp6Y9gwiodO2vDPVQnC3UVvqWYiKQE3oU40NSBJsje5-M4Md8A91yHE/s960/54540174-8DD3-4617-938E-0EE34BBBCB96.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxpyw9h7NpkDup-C3QB9rXf_R6-nOwTevRDdOsqIO9aQPR6D7lGxMGCqbwHMDJsrGw4-2-gy_RfvZAcNzbT0CLCp6Y9gwiodO2vDPVQnC3UVvqWYiKQE3oU40NSBJsje5-M4Md8A91yHE/s320/54540174-8DD3-4617-938E-0EE34BBBCB96.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p>We were all worried, down Texas way, that the aberrant late Feb freeze might have killed off all the bluebonnets this year. I dragged hubs, kicking and screaming, down south to Fredericksburg, Tx, to check things out for myself. <p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLBeRm7ttDDbt5Nvr_9_okKwl5NNggr61Z2kaMzAPfCCHn-csUChhYK4ycBGFBM2i1GJ1fP1NEv7oxipBEdrGFLWAmabtq6wTPxLwl6-I442v3XgpdhsJryzk2zyudDoWDVL2cG4DOtg/s960/758B69F4-AEC8-4805-8564-3111B3018B16.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLBeRm7ttDDbt5Nvr_9_okKwl5NNggr61Z2kaMzAPfCCHn-csUChhYK4ycBGFBM2i1GJ1fP1NEv7oxipBEdrGFLWAmabtq6wTPxLwl6-I442v3XgpdhsJryzk2zyudDoWDVL2cG4DOtg/s320/758B69F4-AEC8-4805-8564-3111B3018B16.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHqdQKFG73rl2SEhsjuSn9JnuCRzzHeFWMrAPxrKIS0OnYCZkPwmRFX6H7O8mVyzH7yzJhS9h7krEUrb1rcTOXbdOtneFpG4VUgyYIzvK924jQIRxeAXLXiMOcq7pDoLnxjL7ldOno-g/s960/7BDE5D5D-A677-4A43-92EB-AF991D2B0DD7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHqdQKFG73rl2SEhsjuSn9JnuCRzzHeFWMrAPxrKIS0OnYCZkPwmRFX6H7O8mVyzH7yzJhS9h7krEUrb1rcTOXbdOtneFpG4VUgyYIzvK924jQIRxeAXLXiMOcq7pDoLnxjL7ldOno-g/s320/7BDE5D5D-A677-4A43-92EB-AF991D2B0DD7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZRCsax6BXuUJUEH0FAEvA8JVfcjvv9WN6p52_tJ6c3iSPiL0AZLTo-2fl5fO4yXfzWSVEAE4h17X16wYQq2NOB7Rz0NueclZ5AzXzpeqrJba1GnZHLEQO4vzBHiKFTw97ff7pPIU5hc/s960/2CA88F13-DA4E-4ED2-B18F-CA4E4C2F3A47.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZRCsax6BXuUJUEH0FAEvA8JVfcjvv9WN6p52_tJ6c3iSPiL0AZLTo-2fl5fO4yXfzWSVEAE4h17X16wYQq2NOB7Rz0NueclZ5AzXzpeqrJba1GnZHLEQO4vzBHiKFTw97ff7pPIU5hc/s320/2CA88F13-DA4E-4ED2-B18F-CA4E4C2F3A47.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpI1EEhQxGKeabTXNgMRoFdLxmEFsJIZWxbmPHf0iV-wyVS584beP9DCxsQK_JcRN4QtMVUY5Vbayms6wiIOknfGaL0SW-xePY3lvWWnNXKIkO6E84h6W2Qy1uNLelA9pe2VEKSHoKFRE/s960/E5E2F560-A45F-4E81-98D4-6182EA96F68D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpI1EEhQxGKeabTXNgMRoFdLxmEFsJIZWxbmPHf0iV-wyVS584beP9DCxsQK_JcRN4QtMVUY5Vbayms6wiIOknfGaL0SW-xePY3lvWWnNXKIkO6E84h6W2Qy1uNLelA9pe2VEKSHoKFRE/s320/E5E2F560-A45F-4E81-98D4-6182EA96F68D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSSOw73TAINgn2kswBilflVeF2ImhN3zFoQ45jMbwX570Jzhu0YQ8iJhGa8PGmll2a1i57_6t0yW5Rq9QJp5Pa5cyyxyO5eb7Ev4ZWTmpmzj4nTOtL1rJBWBEVmE5Tdshtrsc08j0HcE/s960/C10F7C27-8326-41EB-8D38-E4818166DA97.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSSOw73TAINgn2kswBilflVeF2ImhN3zFoQ45jMbwX570Jzhu0YQ8iJhGa8PGmll2a1i57_6t0yW5Rq9QJp5Pa5cyyxyO5eb7Ev4ZWTmpmzj4nTOtL1rJBWBEVmE5Tdshtrsc08j0HcE/s320/C10F7C27-8326-41EB-8D38-E4818166DA97.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmcBVcisVrv2eGvbMc673IE08wpdpX9o7TFO2aoDIZlBCQqyv9j_qN23QcDU0hO4itHayNfsAzofM_M5oKWmK8CwppfvIZ5KDDz2go-t5KsRYfUdTIv9LHfJ5EQWQYmjtM0hEiaiAknM/s960/A5617EA5-E653-45C7-9531-578B2616C0C5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmcBVcisVrv2eGvbMc673IE08wpdpX9o7TFO2aoDIZlBCQqyv9j_qN23QcDU0hO4itHayNfsAzofM_M5oKWmK8CwppfvIZ5KDDz2go-t5KsRYfUdTIv9LHfJ5EQWQYmjtM0hEiaiAknM/s320/A5617EA5-E653-45C7-9531-578B2616C0C5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Overall, I’d say there weren’t as many flowers as usual - but there were enough. You can check my previous posts, esp 2019, when I visited the exact same places during the exact same week, for comparison.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-1dkcSp8f1hSCts3DjHS4TtRYbw6Kah0ycSijDjdtejCs5EqkiFc87xS1G__Secfr1xkTPwxTrfD5coE-cLNMIBquBKqzie4yWcYUhHl8zq6QCx0k87xqeVrlRqpWMCQ4EWTbhdBIug/s960/A3AE2F58-8869-4D28-B5CE-E36F041E22DA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-1dkcSp8f1hSCts3DjHS4TtRYbw6Kah0ycSijDjdtejCs5EqkiFc87xS1G__Secfr1xkTPwxTrfD5coE-cLNMIBquBKqzie4yWcYUhHl8zq6QCx0k87xqeVrlRqpWMCQ4EWTbhdBIug/s320/A3AE2F58-8869-4D28-B5CE-E36F041E22DA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxUlF_EEY5dSdx8VcahsRQJxZMuEpCZgf1ugwIzt5GRiOmpFl10YJxr4-jMi33lR9dAtgmn1x5jGaW366aAvF21APCg_tapEWs7JhtaKhJ4mDXsITlwljqsINzW4vgmDYyKZwYcC4BnAk/s960/55745AB2-721D-44FD-9134-A181962F04B9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinA40xu0W-1lTICzTQZLcSO68URa_pQBx8DaAydiFsTfVqAKoNEitjT28ZXudD-CWS3txqwZnwAOnrgsCM9YkB_wbu1HXu9QlX4Uoa9XCanL9JpPTztypRwKEK6aDSNv-XyhqIGHfGCD0/s320/9CD76A62-5F0E-483F-9016-239F2FD58C74.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p>I painted my mailbox the other day......happy colors<p></p>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-11668183208299356062021-04-16T13:34:00.001-05:002021-04-16T15:00:01.696-05:00Thunderdome 2021: Thoughts on the Whole Gun Control, Cops Killing African Americans, and more<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXeHmHD44Si5qR_FqTgK8PGNpCCO7MEZvTA9MU64HXXmRECarotbHrvRizGfYThvS1SXHNbe6NUBr3Izuq5WzuD2DcjTL6quSRBetyjkx5obeSd7yn464BairfX4NEIVTarTR9-6nlTWw/s1134/C90648AD-126C-480C-B879-2230932CAF9E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1134" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXeHmHD44Si5qR_FqTgK8PGNpCCO7MEZvTA9MU64HXXmRECarotbHrvRizGfYThvS1SXHNbe6NUBr3Izuq5WzuD2DcjTL6quSRBetyjkx5obeSd7yn464BairfX4NEIVTarTR9-6nlTWw/s320/C90648AD-126C-480C-B879-2230932CAF9E.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/gun-owners-in-texas-cast-a-wary-eye-on-gun-control-debate">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/gun-owners-in-texas-cast-a-wary-eye-on-gun-control-debate</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns">https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2020/know-their-names/index.html">https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2020/know-their-names/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I’m not gonna rant about the rightness or wrongness of gun control, police killing unarmed black males, whatever “the hell is wrong with this country” du jour. Like many a sixth generation Texan, I am conflicted. My own home has guns, an arsenal inherited from a militaristic grandfather, locked in a safe, that I wish we didn’t have. Hubs, who can’t let them go, also can’t be bothered to maintain them, so they are all 50-100 years old and rusty. Don’t fire well, if you catch my meaning. Kind like the men who own them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I grew up hunting and shooting, rifles mostly, and would like to someday take a gun safety and training course, just for personal interest. One of those female empowerment things.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But that is not this. This is my rant on the situation we find ourselves in, after a year plus of quarantine lockdown due to Covid.</span></p><p><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/health/coronavirus-suicide-cdc.html?referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/health/coronavirus-suicide-cdc.html?referringSource=articleShare</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/suicide-data">https://www.who.int/teams/mental-health-and-substance-use/suicide-data</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">mean, hell yes, we have a gun control problem in this country. We have a mental health care (and lack of overall general healthcare) problem in this country, too. When unions were broken up, workers were left feeling like no one looked out for them, and that is true. But there’s an unspoken missing piece to all this....not just “toxic masculinity” (although you never hear it’s a woman on a shooting rampage), maybe “broken masculinity” is the better phrase...... men don’t know how to “be” anymore, and that includes finding a less destructive outlet for rage. Idk why kill all the random people standing by? I *almost* could understand if some guy killed the authority figure or the one person he was angry with (not sympathize, just understand) - but why kill innocent bystanders too?</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"> Sure, I’ve had revenge fantasies re several old bosses.....but just move on, “living well is the best revenge” as F.Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. The real issue is not only the easy availability of guns in this country, but our lack of mental health resources and social safety net. I get scared when I think about the GOPs re agenda for this nation, since JFK.... Makes those ole robber barons of the late 19th century seem tame. And by systemically destroying our educational system, we have masses who can’t think for themselves, struggle with the day to day, can’t see beyond their nose - just like the 21st century robber barons want them to be. Our social institutions have crumbled.... as intended. Education, healthcare, infrastructure - who cares? Policing is where the rubber meets the road.</span></span></p><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769891781/fort-worth-officer-kills-woman-in-her-bedroom-in-response-to-open-structure-call">https://www.npr.org/2019/10/13/769891781/fort-worth-officer-kills-woman-in-her-bedroom-in-response-to-open-structure-call</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/death-innocent-man-timeline-wrong-apartment-murder-trial/story?id=65938727">https://abcnews.go.com/US/death-innocent-man-timeline-wrong-apartment-murder-trial/story?id=65938727</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/14/breonna-taylor-louisville-police-shooting-kentucky">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/14/breonna-taylor-louisville-police-shooting-kentucky</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/chicago-release-video-police-shooting-13-year-old-boy-2021-04-15/">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/chicago-release-video-police-shooting-13-year-old-boy-2021-04-15/</a></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/15/skittles-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-acquittal">https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/15/skittles-trayvon-martin-zimmerman-acquittal</a><div><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/derek-chauvin-trial-explained?referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/derek-chauvin-trial-explained?referringSource=articleShare</a><div><br /><div><a href="https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/16/the-research-is-clear-white-people-are-not-more-likely-than-black-people-to-be-killed-by-police/">https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/16/the-research-is-clear-white-people-are-not-more-likely-than-black-people-to-be-killed-by-police/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">It’s like Thunderdome out there..... </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">And the cops, to me, are scarier than the perps</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">Cops, drs and nurses, and teachers - we are all on the front lines of dealing w humanity at its worst, every single day. Each of us responds to that challenge in different ways.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">Many teachers I know, if not liberal when they started out, end up becoming more “liberal” over time ..... bc we are mostly dealing w kids and it’s hard to stay angry at “the great unwashed” (as my ex refers to them) when you see kids hungry and yet trying their best, right there w you, day after day. Even the 17-18 yr olds I taught- if you ask em why they were sleeping in class, they’ll tell you they just pulled a night shift at the poultry plant or whatever, then came to school exhausted, bc they knew a hs diploma would mean a raise. It’s hard to stay mad at an individual when you know them and their personal situation. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">My take on drs and nurses - limited I know, from the convos w ones I know - is they become detached from the personalities, emotions, and circumstances of individuals, and just focus on the bodies. Categorize the bodies. Move the bodies here or there. Heal the bodies.....”We got a code blue in 207”, or “are you on the cardiac ward?” People get impersonalized into conditions. Too sick to get to know them, <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.38);" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">in 3 days</a> they’re gone anyways - dead or sent home.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">But cops, I think, they see the very worst in humanity, day after day. Even if they start out naive and hopeful, their daily grind changes them over time. I keep trying to figure out why they’re M.O. is “shoot first, ask Q later” and I think some of it is, they’re scared. Adrenalin takes over. They see a lot of death, violence, and only criminality from people. Maybe they are tired, overworked, burned out. I gotta think, too, though, that their training is poor. That their system, organization, ways of doing things is poorly set up. No one trains them to stay calm, work in small groups, slow down, assess the situation. Why did none of the other cops tell Derek Chauvin to ease up? Were they afraid of him? Maybe nowadays being a cop as a career draws in a certain kind of person, maybe racists, maybe just aggressive narrow-minded individuals, those who love to exert power over others. Sickos and psychos. All these incidents are white cops killing black people..... Can’t think of a black or brown cop shooting anyone like this, or even each other. (Maybe the news just doesn’t report it? Interesting research topic.) There’s a trope in movies that cops are corrupt and hard to distinguish from criminals. That bad cops manipulate and dominate good ones. Idk if true or not. But you know a cop could choose whether or not to shoot to kill or shoot to maim. That tazers could be designed even further not to be confused w guns. That *something* is going on, not being talked about, in the media, pop culture, about this problem. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">I’m forever shaped by my deep research for a paper in AP Euro history class in high-school, on the Nuremburg trails, esp the IQs and mental health and criminal cruelty of those Nazis who stood trial. Vast work was undertaken at the time, to study this (via inkblot tests, mental health quizzes, one-on-one psychological analyses and more) - across a broad range of humanity. Prison guards and foot soldiers, all the way up to “the final solution” and Third Reich masterminds. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">We say without thinking that stupider people are more vicious and that is true, esp one on one. (I also have experienced that people can be kind, often one on one.) Studies and my own life exp have born this out. I coined a phrase “the tyranny of the 95 IQ” and it has held true throughout my life, w bosses and coworkers, people you come across at the DMV, often the front desk people or gatekeepers at any place..... those just on the low side of avg. They’re the ones that make you jump through senseless hoops, and enjoy it. The ones that tell you: you need another, different form, filled out in triplicate, with this or that signature - and every time you come back at them w whatever they previously told you, now they tell you something else.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">Hubs and I experienced this the day I was admitted to the hospital back in Dec .... I was sent to some stand alone place to get an MRI, first, and the form the dr sent over said “URGENT”, not “STAT”. The MRI place refused to admit me bc it didn’t say “STAT” ..... Person at the MRI place front desk said insurance wouldn’t cover it or some fucking bs. (“Can’t you just write ‘STAT’?” I asked. “No, the dr has to write ‘STAT’.”, person said. “Can I write ‘STAT’?” “No, the dr has to write it.” “But the dr didn’t even fill out this form, he had his PA fill it out AND I AM TOO FUCKING SICK TO DRIVE BACK OVER THERE.” ) Sick as I was (I ended up in the ER an hour later - still unclear why I had to jump through this hoop, bc I nearly died that day and later had to be revived, twice), I got on the phone to talk to the dr, while hubs got on the phone to talk to the insurance people - both of us trying to find the solution. We planted ourselves at the front counter, stubbornly refusing to leave, each in a different phone convo, with some very agitated language, I admit. (That MRI place’s admissions gatekeeper’s eyeballs just rolled around and around in her head, like an old cartoon character.) Hubs was going round and round with the insurance people - he kept getting bumped to “let me send you to talk w my supervisor”- click..... but at least discovered that it really all did come down to the wrong word on the paperwork. It took 45-60 min to find anyone who would actually say this. Of course they had no ideas how to remedy it. I got put thru to dr’s PA. Grilled her and went round and round, too - but had to be gentle, non accusatory, to drill down to the real issue.....She didn’t want to admit it, but clearly the mistake was hers. She buckled and refused to admit that she didn’t know that “STAT” was like a medical insurance code word, while “URGENT” had the same idea but was not the code word that would move the patient along.....The PA kept wanting to bump my problem to someone else, but I managed to coax her into refaxing the form w the word “STAT” written just above the word “URGENT”. (“Didn’t we both hear the dr say, “ Write ‘STAT’?” .... yadayadayada “But I need to check with the dr....” Believe it or not, I used a technique I learned from Briana, my shero on “Grace and Frankie” : Meet every objection with the phrase, “Or” instead of “But”.....”I can’t just” yadayada....”Yes, that’s true......Or, what if we just sent the same form again, this time with the word “STAT” written on it? Next to the word “URGENT”.....You don’t even have to redo all the paperwork, just add that one tiny little word.” My P&G sales managers woulda creamed their pants over that one....Bring the customer’s denial into agreement, while avoiding opposition. Seek to turn “you” vs “I” into “we.”) She did it, and I thought : What happens to all the poor sick folk out there who weren’t captains of the debate team, merit scholars, Dale Carnegie “Best Speech” winners, pre-law majors, salesman of the year, and devoted fans of “Grace and Frankie”? What happens in these situations to average folk too sick to argue? Suddenly 5 min later, I was admitted. And I was waaaaay too sick at the time to have to go thru that kind of bullshit. It was too much bs.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 16px;"></span><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDXdynLdGzE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDXdynLdGzE</a></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">So my point is - that’s the kind of mindset of not very bright assholes. You have to let them save face. And I think that is some of what happens w cops.... the ego thing.....(“No fucking ‘n word’ is gonna make me look...... whatever”) and so they can’t back down.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">Newbie teachers often get into similar power struggles w students, esp teenage boys, where the teacher responds to whatever provocation w harsher and harsher strictness, rules, consequences.... backing themselves into a corner. Especially w toughs, hoods, gangbangers, vatos, blue and red bandana kids, etc. You gave to let them save face. De-escalate. I learned eventually to just stare at them, one eyebrow raised, with a wry facial expression that says, humorously, “you’re an idiot, just stop” and to ignore 99% of the little things. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 16px;">Someone needs to teach cops the same skill.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 16px;" /></div></div></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-47846325467723672702021-03-04T14:03:00.007-06:002021-04-16T14:09:00.243-05:00A question that requires thoughtful consideration<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKnX1Ac_HOt4UYRBZ8L0b0-Osrrrjqp5RyEG1gX8z05fLPmW2MkYFdGDCvwa_M6V0P6A64P4AiX1zgU_CPM-g79p2YKQ4-QIThFnyeuX7LcwgrW7w7ZEwxv_CbRah7e4k-Rg5Brkh-PM/s768/D74B2D9D-1085-46E4-8F42-2A62A8BEE9DF.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyKnX1Ac_HOt4UYRBZ8L0b0-Osrrrjqp5RyEG1gX8z05fLPmW2MkYFdGDCvwa_M6V0P6A64P4AiX1zgU_CPM-g79p2YKQ4-QIThFnyeuX7LcwgrW7w7ZEwxv_CbRah7e4k-Rg5Brkh-PM/s320/D74B2D9D-1085-46E4-8F42-2A62A8BEE9DF.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Question: GFT, I've enjoyed your thoughtful posts over the years, esp. on literary matters. Thought I'd tee something up to get your thoughts. You've read about the Dr. Seuss estate ceasing publication of some books b/c of outdated, bigoted depictions of some characters. For example, drawings and wording around an Asian character in one book. The estate presumably controls the right to the IP. If so, why not do a new edition cleaning up the bad parts and republishing the sanitized version? Is it an "artistic purity" thing?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPSI_1_aiaPaQMWSySPquCsJluapt4x4hx6dcGKpbFii4OBY3FFtfVWWS7Wxjhel0OfTlFgyOv44-zU5YnhR9owJwtTVoWi9STLaRG1cm0eQnOFcc1mwsO_J1is1DZNYCqIVEhyphenhyphenj2308/s600/3428E793-923C-4652-98FB-CCFAE896FA3A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPSI_1_aiaPaQMWSySPquCsJluapt4x4hx6dcGKpbFii4OBY3FFtfVWWS7Wxjhel0OfTlFgyOv44-zU5YnhR9owJwtTVoWi9STLaRG1cm0eQnOFcc1mwsO_J1is1DZNYCqIVEhyphenhyphenj2308/s320/3428E793-923C-4652-98FB-CCFAE896FA3A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/books/dr-seuss-books.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/books/dr-seuss-books.html</a></p><p>Hhhmmmm.....I have no idea what the members of the Seuss estate who made this choice were thinking, or why. Neither you nor I can influence the individuals involved w the Seuss estate, nor the current tide of PC-ism running through our culture. I hope it’s not due to Dr Seuss’ political cartoons drawn before he wrote children’s books.....Not that they are great, they’re pretty awful actually, they have not withstood the test of time, but must be analyzed in the context of their historical moment. It seems obvious to me that Seuss’ greatest works indicate he moved on to imaginary animals and thus, beyond drawing specific ethnically imagined humans, grew in his personal sensibilities......But the entire issue requires more than just a “sound bite” answer. It is of course ironic that early 20th century books and toys, full of stereotypical depictions of assorted ethnicities spanning the globe, were in themselves an awkward attempt at being pan cultural.....the thought of inclusivity was there - just flawed execution. </p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/before-dr-seuss-was-famous-he-drew-these-sad-racist-ads-2012-3">https://www.businessinsider.com/before-dr-seuss-was-famous-he-drew-these-sad-racist-ads-2012-3</a></p><p>Also, Idk what you mean by “artistic purity” thing. (Once you figure that out, let’s find another name for it, bc as you say it, it sounds kinda Nazi-ish.) Do you mean : Changing the author’s original text? Or illustrations? Maybe the editors etc realized that doing so just keeps the dialogue going - on the wrong topics.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXIe99eZ3cpMLJOvQD_UM6aISZS7Pm_d4n4yYjs5bNW3q3yyu9jLfLJVA-EswSKc-bhY1TSPJQ1kd0Hrv0-8RprliqVzig-OrnWo3bU_1-Q8WbpCaZi3_bKO6-JloC-c9zxo-biuCkzcU/s420/32725BFC-3DD2-4E24-BE5D-13B1126927DF.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXIe99eZ3cpMLJOvQD_UM6aISZS7Pm_d4n4yYjs5bNW3q3yyu9jLfLJVA-EswSKc-bhY1TSPJQ1kd0Hrv0-8RprliqVzig-OrnWo3bU_1-Q8WbpCaZi3_bKO6-JloC-c9zxo-biuCkzcU/s320/32725BFC-3DD2-4E24-BE5D-13B1126927DF.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p><a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/03/02/publication-ceases-6-dr-seuss-books-hurtful-wrong-portrayals-minorities/">https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/03/02/publication-ceases-6-dr-seuss-books-hurtful-wrong-portrayals-minorities/</a></p><p>But here’s what I do know: </p><p>I “get” that these are children’s books, and we want our children to grow up without the racist genderist views of the past. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks3NE7bfkdHnZoapOdMe6F17mUgTboDHi6MxKO0kLPwEi6ml5wcDHpiBBR9QI12C4TNCsNwMLs2GVpkTvG8eF9aVCbAKca1IzN-aBsFC-BG9CITFtvR3g98WBvamsTIVLOCHNa9cjN6U/s815/B12C953B-E601-430D-879A-1381134F89D1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiks3NE7bfkdHnZoapOdMe6F17mUgTboDHi6MxKO0kLPwEi6ml5wcDHpiBBR9QI12C4TNCsNwMLs2GVpkTvG8eF9aVCbAKca1IzN-aBsFC-BG9CITFtvR3g98WBvamsTIVLOCHNa9cjN6U/s320/B12C953B-E601-430D-879A-1381134F89D1.png" /></a></div><p>I “get” that white privilege makes you and I oblivious to slights others see and feel. (As a woman though, I can share many interesting anecdotes on bs I have had to put up within my own life.) These slights are legit, and should be examined, discussed, and brought into the cultural dialogue as “not okay” any more. We need to use this moment as an opportunity to discuss civilly and teach others about the harm exclusion, stereotyping or over simplification, and hate speech (ideas, illustrations) can bring.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl47n6KuiX_gcJ5_RaFHgNgT3DK87MUCsbOqSwxu9WI1_cb6xlLVWSKT0YmW4Rpv8eLFD2ODz_djU2JoAa-vlF_aM_dfe7pzutKFgCV9zKsarhj3lQB8jCGRag2UqREnDw-b0OLDfyWUY/s225/A9F11663-76BB-4F2B-97BE-EEC65CD2E043.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl47n6KuiX_gcJ5_RaFHgNgT3DK87MUCsbOqSwxu9WI1_cb6xlLVWSKT0YmW4Rpv8eLFD2ODz_djU2JoAa-vlF_aM_dfe7pzutKFgCV9zKsarhj3lQB8jCGRag2UqREnDw-b0OLDfyWUY/s0/A9F11663-76BB-4F2B-97BE-EEC65CD2E043.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>But rather than see a revisionist cancel culture take over, I’d rather see more open dialogue and learning take over. I’m generally against banning any books - even horrible evil wretched ones. Because once you start cancelling one author, artist, book - where does it stop? The vaguely Chinese dancing mushrooms in the 1939 cartoon “Fantasia”? Stereotypical costumed dancers, Russian, Chinese, African and more - in Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker”? The Madame Alexander collection of dolls from around the world? The “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland? </p><p>And of course : No one is asking unrealistic images of the female body that cause women to hate their own natural flawed human beauty be removed from pop culture. No one is asking misogynistic novels, movies, video games to be banned.</p><p>Three examples as food for thought : </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKOI7p0Hg2wNWXA83eQAU3fOLdkem-F69edSw6TKQuio4HrvaVcEIMP30nTRB3_BYEFqyky75_cKqQXPvOzCR76Yd7SXhK23BnacBLxnz_ZFf51CWb56_y-uOamWl_gDyzNjKcpbydw8/s2048/ED7368CA-F5E4-4FAD-A68D-3E7CDF4CDD04.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1971" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTKOI7p0Hg2wNWXA83eQAU3fOLdkem-F69edSw6TKQuio4HrvaVcEIMP30nTRB3_BYEFqyky75_cKqQXPvOzCR76Yd7SXhK23BnacBLxnz_ZFf51CWb56_y-uOamWl_gDyzNjKcpbydw8/s320/ED7368CA-F5E4-4FAD-A68D-3E7CDF4CDD04.jpeg" /></a></div><p>“Huckleberry Finn”, the 1880’s novel by Mark Twain, contains the “n word”. It is a novel that has always sparked controversy : on one side, for use of the “n word”, on the other side, bc Huck (who’s white daddy is a cruel belligerent abusive drunk) turns to his runaway slave friend Jim as a surrogate father figure, instead. Huck has a chance to turn Jim in as a runaway slave, and doesn’t - and feels bad about it, bc his 1840’s southern USA world has told him that Jim is someone else’s property. So Huck feels bad for doing the “right” wrong thing. It’s a nuanced point that 99% of people on either side of the issue can’t process. So the novel remains controversial bc of its use of the “n word”, bc that is inflammatory and riles people up. They never look beyond that to what Twain is trying to tell us - or even to accepting the historical setting and verisimilitude of the word choice. So a parable, trying to teach us about deeper human relationships, is unacceptable bc of one word. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07huck.html?referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07huck.html?referringSource=articleShare</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtuFEEdeKGw07O2LhUfzSGH2i2wL_sno5rerSwjGG0rnKr6ABrUll948thz4SXXnL3FpQK2c9QpCsMCbphJLjw_iLtCUE4M1V5zVdMM5cDJuO_-9k_8aQbRfg4T7S8K2Old09EU9NRPp0/s1600/2DA16E76-F84E-461A-A36A-812C404DEB89.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtuFEEdeKGw07O2LhUfzSGH2i2wL_sno5rerSwjGG0rnKr6ABrUll948thz4SXXnL3FpQK2c9QpCsMCbphJLjw_iLtCUE4M1V5zVdMM5cDJuO_-9k_8aQbRfg4T7S8K2Old09EU9NRPp0/s320/2DA16E76-F84E-461A-A36A-812C404DEB89.jpeg" /></a></div><p>“Gone With the Wind”, a novel by Margarette Mitchell written in the 1920’s (as the generation of individuals who had lived through the Civil War were dying off), and published in the 1930’s (bc the research took her 10 years to complete), was written by a young southern woman about her grandmother, who lived in Georgia in the 1860’s. MM grew up hearing all her grandmother’s stories, and along with a ton of research about that period in Ga history (Civil War battle specifics, economic forces, train schedules, farming practices, cost of goods, what people ate-wore-did), wrote it all up in a “fictional” memoir. The only thing MM ever intended was to tell her grandmother’s biography. Publication of the novel brought it to the attention, made it a cause celebre of pop cultural forces during the 1930’s Jim Crow era. MGM turned the novel from a tale of how a dozen different female characters survived the Civil War, into a movie about a sexy bitchy she-vixen. Over 2/3 of the novel’s characters / events were cut from the film. Now both book and movie are deemed politically unacceptable - even though Margaret Mitchell took the “n word” out, at her publisher’s request - bc no one ever reads the book any more, only watches the movie - and the movie has characters in it that are stereotypes (even if true to MMs account of her grandmother’s stories.) So personal experiences, white southern people’s memoirs, are unacceptable, bc not currently “woke.” (But Hillbilly Eulogy” is “woke” so it’s ok.) </p><p><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/movies/gone-with-the-wind-controversy.html?referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/movies/gone-with-the-wind-controversy.html?referringSource=articleShare</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What about Steinbeck’s simplistic depiction of lower class caucasian migrant farm workers in “Of Mice and Men”? Conrad’s depiction of natives in “Lord Jim”? Pearl S. Buck’s overly archetypal peasants in “The Good Earth” ? Hemingway’s depiction of nobly suffering Cuban fishermen? Any story where Nazis, Communists, etc are bad guys? Complex analysis and discussion is required for consideration of each of these.</p><p>And yet, no one is talking about this at all:</p><p><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/arts/blackface-american-pop-culture.html?referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/arts/blackface-american-pop-culture.html?referringSource=articleShare</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyi8SgGBHiSuE1qeScoKpwLkbuuhuDyBlAsgaWINfxrma-iFlXs6G6sNJndjD65JlsqgZ7JbelRabv_PSnal6WtFcT-Pw9LJqg41RQGyQONVfpLET5TIHfVm3DxBpWJQtn-gtv8joH_c/s745/0A7F831D-4509-40DA-8093-60A26D4D45C5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="745" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyi8SgGBHiSuE1qeScoKpwLkbuuhuDyBlAsgaWINfxrma-iFlXs6G6sNJndjD65JlsqgZ7JbelRabv_PSnal6WtFcT-Pw9LJqg41RQGyQONVfpLET5TIHfVm3DxBpWJQtn-gtv8joH_c/s320/0A7F831D-4509-40DA-8093-60A26D4D45C5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXnwUH2ioe5CeB0k2gxPz5EYYGQHrioYEi3qp48rLWkhFUl5yFSvBzHwuoY7NhtztKMIPmdwON-6yZ2TKdIUWAYgPUN74nB271i59xPbSbpmWzbutuvrMQw1P9ToI0CaNuaYUcAplR1k/s1200/88F32759-4141-4E0B-934D-A962E955A72B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXnwUH2ioe5CeB0k2gxPz5EYYGQHrioYEi3qp48rLWkhFUl5yFSvBzHwuoY7NhtztKMIPmdwON-6yZ2TKdIUWAYgPUN74nB271i59xPbSbpmWzbutuvrMQw1P9ToI0CaNuaYUcAplR1k/s320/88F32759-4141-4E0B-934D-A962E955A72B.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfetLcO7Jvn_69fT-4pvPcL5azZRKiUznmq_y1VEu_9Rq30R_jAe7AFbxxghEoItSLUYpWWpcJnU-X_r4ip8F-bg1aNNsZBipPtLV22B27DG8XHLawk8hyphenhyphenbmGdFAsZ0voseEOErsdoCp0/s500/E1920648-C675-4811-8280-9B8AEDB30708.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfetLcO7Jvn_69fT-4pvPcL5azZRKiUznmq_y1VEu_9Rq30R_jAe7AFbxxghEoItSLUYpWWpcJnU-X_r4ip8F-bg1aNNsZBipPtLV22B27DG8XHLawk8hyphenhyphenbmGdFAsZ0voseEOErsdoCp0/s320/E1920648-C675-4811-8280-9B8AEDB30708.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>But the third example is my personal beef du jour: My alma mater, Rice U, was founded by a man who made a fortune on cotton and sugarcane plantations in the 1800’s. Just like so many American universities, from UVA to Brown to UT and more.....the wealth that financially underwrote their creation was achieved via the exploitation of others. Slaves and migrant workers and native Americans whose land was taken, who were worked to death or just killed off in an intentional racial genocide - all suffered a loss as white European men did whatever they did to earn money. Britain and other European nations did it too - out of sight in the colonies. Yes, it’s horrible - akin to the Old Testament story of pharaoh subjugating Moses and the Hebrews, or Nazis exterminating Jews, Poles, gypsies, gays, etc in the Third Reich. But recent student protests at Rice prompted a meltdown on an alumni FB page, with younger alumni wanting a statue of the founder of Rice removed bc he had slaves. Apparently irony impaired, these same people felt it was ok though to continue to enjoy the “white privilege” of a super posh campus, lifestyle, and degree - all available from that money. My point in all this was that merely removing the statue (a special revered feature on campus, one that represents the esprit de corps of its denizens, much like the Statue of Liberty, or the Vietnam Wall) continues to “whitewash” history, literally, and does nothing to make amends or raise awareness for those who were exploited over 150 years ago. Demands to remove Willy’s statue offer a momentary “feel good we achieved something” moment, without bothering to explore the issue at all. What then? Go about yer business of getting an education on a campus, without the troublesome statue to remind you where it all originated? How does that solve anything? Better to turn the statue into a teachable moment, with some additional historical contextual information next to it. </p><p><a href="https://www.houstonpress.com/news/rice-asked-to-remove-statue-of-slave-owner-namesake-11479143">https://www.houstonpress.com/news/rice-asked-to-remove-statue-of-slave-owner-namesake-11479143</a></p><p>I am sure you did not expect such a long winded answer, but my point is this : None of these issues can be resolved with a sound bite or knee jerk response. To truly move forward, we must preserve the old, so it is never forgotten, and offer tours or paratextual material that explains historical context - Just like touring Auschwitz, or slave auction buildings in the south. So history won’t forget, but will learn from it and grow. </p><p><br /></p><p>What are your thoughts on the subject?</p>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-31643292465841300292021-02-13T11:54:00.003-06:002022-04-28T15:41:12.766-05:00If a clod falls off the continent, Europe is the lesser for it<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjw-uqrTKKrEMHOqTNnoLDsJAJltZrpkg-XqJepiRi8eX32sVgS6kmY6YbUMemMX62TEdTjDmHI53g0oOoR5y8su3qXAzxQmh94NvM0l5Dh6Pmx_IdGGpyT_NeHc2VxrkoJ_y6_JNTA8A/s1795/DFCF56FA-BC2D-44C9-93D1-4DE5DDF542CB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1795" data-original-width="904" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjw-uqrTKKrEMHOqTNnoLDsJAJltZrpkg-XqJepiRi8eX32sVgS6kmY6YbUMemMX62TEdTjDmHI53g0oOoR5y8su3qXAzxQmh94NvM0l5Dh6Pmx_IdGGpyT_NeHc2VxrkoJ_y6_JNTA8A/s320/DFCF56FA-BC2D-44C9-93D1-4DE5DDF542CB.jpeg" /></a></div><p><br /></p>One of my oldest, dearest friends has shuffled off this mortal coil.....Dirk was one of the smartest, most charming, funniest men I ever knew....a fellow lover of the arts, he and I shared many a happy moment listening to music, at an art gallery, or watching a play.....trying exotic new foods.....in our cups.....and he helped me out immeasurably at various dark points in my life. <p></p><p>Dirk and I met in high school through Latin Club and various AP courses. He was not my lover but did date a girlfriend of mine. I have many happy memories of toga parties and late night shenanigans....We reconnected after college, when Dirk moved to Houston to work at Vinson / Elkins. He befriended my first husband, Greg, and dated my good friend, Gretchen. It was a natural fit and the 4 of us socialized often. When I moved to Plano, early 1990’s, he had moved back to DFW area as well. He squired me around town even as I was visibly pregnant with another man’s baby, distracting me from “my husband is divorcing me while 4 months pregnant with his child “ woes. Dirk was always there with a kind word, thoughtful advice, and a jovial kindness. I don’t think I ever saw him have a bad day.</p><p>One of my happiest memories of Dirk comes from our late 20’s : We were walking through the quad at Rice University late one night, in the moonlight, when no one else was around. All was dark and quiet. Ever so faintly, we heard a sound - music, and as we approached, saw a lone student playing “Danny Boy” on a wooden pan pipe. It was one of those strangely delightful, magical moments that happened only with Dirk.....</p><p>We continued to do fun things together throughout our lives, whenever our paths crossed.....and promised ourselves that one day, he’d take me sailing on the Bosphorus. Still in my top 10 bucket list items.....</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: black;"><tbody><tr><td><h2 style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;">'No Man is an Island'</h2><pre style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt;">No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee</pre></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Too many people I have loved have passed away, and this is only the beginning, I know.....My grandmother once said to me that the worst thing about growing old was outliving all your friends. Amen to that.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dirk : I wait to join you in the Elysian Fields, where we will raise a glass together once again. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/dirk-m-wilson-84">https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/dirk-m-wilson-84</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-91579236728098156122021-02-11T12:50:00.007-06:002021-03-04T15:09:27.957-06:00GFT Winter lifestyle recommendations <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXi9TM3ynD-Ikw4PydTC2HQYewouWEZ81CzU9jRci3_PshZ7D7cvH-N94jN9HzA_vVpgFaZeGcpZ9JsvXGcMi1zhKaKOKpLaPWa3VznuHiL-P7f7ZwggCAprV_0lr4qr-NF23fBzz1EM/s679/F9908D0E-DC8B-43B6-81DA-1B4CA80FB8B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="679" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXi9TM3ynD-Ikw4PydTC2HQYewouWEZ81CzU9jRci3_PshZ7D7cvH-N94jN9HzA_vVpgFaZeGcpZ9JsvXGcMi1zhKaKOKpLaPWa3VznuHiL-P7f7ZwggCAprV_0lr4qr-NF23fBzz1EM/s320/F9908D0E-DC8B-43B6-81DA-1B4CA80FB8B2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Note: I receive no money for any of my recommendations or shameless plugs. Rather, think of this like an “Oprah’s Favorites” sort of list.....items I enjoy, mostly from small indie businesses, and I want to share my discoveries with you, while supporting small businesses through these hard times. <div><br /></div><div>Yes, it’s winter in Texas, and while most of our days are sunny and in the 50’s-60’s F, with cooler nights, we’re in the middle of an artic blast right now, straight from Canada, and the high’s are in the 20’s F, with lows and wind chill temps below 0. No one has the proper clothes for this.....fortunately, all we get in terms of precipitation is thin black ice on the highways, bc no one in Texas has snow shovels, boots, tire chains, snow blowers, or heavy coats. You see folk walking around in blankets, without even a hat.....<br /><p></p><p>1) Portable hot tub - Approx $400-600 on amazon. /\ I really needed a muscle relaxing soak, but was unable / unwilling to spend 10k on a hot tub. (Just like my above ground pool, I am unwilling to commit....as everyone I know with an in ground pool wishes they hadn’t.) I have to say, this “portable” one is pretty sturdy and gets the job done. It easily sets up in a small space and could work on a patio balcony or even indoors. I fully expect to get my $500 worth. It’ll last me a decade or so.....at which point I’ll go into a nursing home and use theirs! </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4Jwj8p-hxT__WBcHsTULmE0Z135TxHhEAcvl9HV_9vZtglZ6ZxtOPuvsDBvCvqyFZbkQrL1CutE8CHSWmSt8iKn-9loWuRy2ye54SrYW25qGqZnHAOz-pSmKBLyXD7GW6wm1j__E-Ww/s2046/C7196E85-F0D8-4C7D-A4A1-33952B1FDEBA.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4Jwj8p-hxT__WBcHsTULmE0Z135TxHhEAcvl9HV_9vZtglZ6ZxtOPuvsDBvCvqyFZbkQrL1CutE8CHSWmSt8iKn-9loWuRy2ye54SrYW25qGqZnHAOz-pSmKBLyXD7GW6wm1j__E-Ww/s320/C7196E85-F0D8-4C7D-A4A1-33952B1FDEBA.webp" /></a></div>2) Blue Fish Clothing - Prices vary, as they often have sales - get on their email list and they’ll send you discount codes. $100-$300 per item. My “go to” comfy loungewear, better than pajamas : artsy, warm, hip. I have been wearing Blue Fish since I first discovered their Taos store back in the 1980s. Organic lagenlook cotton is the softest thing next to your skin, all winter long. BFC makes long sleeves, short sleeves, tees, dresses, sweaters, jackets, and pants - clothes for every season. I have many different pieces I mix and match all winter long, over leggings. Layer up or down as needed. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.bluefishclothing.com/">https://www.bluefishclothing.com/</a></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGgVOdewrGq8rqk5OexVKxcqDXVGwXaiWhwZn9fBvIeBnq9B7DUq5rEREm612ts5fQ_TcxNTh2kCmUV5i5oolEEzxeAxIcXwaFt9eSusX9B6N7SV1uNqhB1S3UTPjWFEP7ReS1YnJeEs/s2046/60EF5A69-3C57-47AB-A0B0-55B8F9B73430.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGgVOdewrGq8rqk5OexVKxcqDXVGwXaiWhwZn9fBvIeBnq9B7DUq5rEREm612ts5fQ_TcxNTh2kCmUV5i5oolEEzxeAxIcXwaFt9eSusX9B6N7SV1uNqhB1S3UTPjWFEP7ReS1YnJeEs/s320/60EF5A69-3C57-47AB-A0B0-55B8F9B73430.webp" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0_HSUkMs0mnYObbleyBRzvynPU4bBL0aWH70fj9q9k9h2p_QaVgMaQoThGhAJaOymBAVgkt_WbVeQf9zGV4XUOL5y-v1kDWXyRrFMi4rwDdzMmfCDMb71PjhSIhFhLRkUiUGeqxoKZw/s2046/87D26539-2A42-4E5E-86E7-0D0CF9B20107.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="1364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh0_HSUkMs0mnYObbleyBRzvynPU4bBL0aWH70fj9q9k9h2p_QaVgMaQoThGhAJaOymBAVgkt_WbVeQf9zGV4XUOL5y-v1kDWXyRrFMi4rwDdzMmfCDMb71PjhSIhFhLRkUiUGeqxoKZw/s320/87D26539-2A42-4E5E-86E7-0D0CF9B20107.webp" /></a></div><br /><p>3) Espresso / cappuccino machine - This year’s big treat, since I’m stuck at home, was an upgraded cappuccino machine. (I had a cheap one back in the ‘80s that didn’t last long.) I did some research and decided the Breville Barista Touch, approx $1000, was the best option for me - but there are plenty of others out there, at a wide variety of price points. If you don’t need an automatic touch drink button, save $300-400 right off the bat and get a model without the computer chip.</p><p><a href="https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/the-best-home-espresso-machine-article">https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/the-best-home-espresso-machine-article</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFbzUbI_iO1rhCdpxE5y_d-tfYtilf6P0BbJTyASOiuO5QFIgVnQ6Q8q0fzseyTTAt3hzYtvzei4C62-6jssn53zgt6HvZBRcdT8O1GrwPAuDNiuXKNkVg2Emcrbrw0oNqiToMNP5aws/s710/B3582993-8A29-4D90-A267-3F442266E6EE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="710" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFbzUbI_iO1rhCdpxE5y_d-tfYtilf6P0BbJTyASOiuO5QFIgVnQ6Q8q0fzseyTTAt3hzYtvzei4C62-6jssn53zgt6HvZBRcdT8O1GrwPAuDNiuXKNkVg2Emcrbrw0oNqiToMNP5aws/s320/B3582993-8A29-4D90-A267-3F442266E6EE.jpeg" /></a></div>Then I did some research on best espresso beans, and settled on Lavazzo Super Crema, which to me has the advantage of not tasting like cigarette butts, so that’s a win. I have already covered the cost of this set up in the number of cappuccinos, flat whites, espressos, and americanos I routinely make and drank at home. When the weather gets really cold, I am especially fond of artisanal hot chocolate with an espresso shot. <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.roastycoffee.com/best-espresso-beans/">https://www.roastycoffee.com/best-espresso-beans/</a></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHvOqvf5ptpwWJBOdowVqt8rTdkml1VGJhA4Mkw5hYQhNeiXE1guaVELACRey1fQtrSaSPmwkj5K6BtSiitYN6NiDFcwcaiFGPHtbTuc7zPnmfQcepOaBE7Dxq4W_MUuDYYfID10tEIs/s160/6E37BA10-FFFB-4BED-BE16-C5F04CEEA81A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHvOqvf5ptpwWJBOdowVqt8rTdkml1VGJhA4Mkw5hYQhNeiXE1guaVELACRey1fQtrSaSPmwkj5K6BtSiitYN6NiDFcwcaiFGPHtbTuc7zPnmfQcepOaBE7Dxq4W_MUuDYYfID10tEIs/s0/6E37BA10-FFFB-4BED-BE16-C5F04CEEA81A.jpeg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div>4) Ugg slippers and boots - $100-$200 ish but you can find them on sale. Other brands make nice versions, too - especially LLBean. There is nothing in the world as pleasurable as coming home and slipping your feet into a pair of shearling lined shoes. I wear mine 24/7, till they fall apart, and then buy another. Aaaahhhh....total hygge.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEhstMlrSw1gNWIsHwFZKqCnwcE7PRTZ6f1rfRHzhp1lHIxEWeStH-M8DLtFHMgb2r4A0rO515vJgii9rHa5ve-4ncUpuQo_9pYaVE3vcuHpxd0XJbNOvKnJV20ALpEfe1-6D0v3GO28/s620/575D6090-ED65-44D0-B7B5-C31FDF642B0B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="556" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvEhstMlrSw1gNWIsHwFZKqCnwcE7PRTZ6f1rfRHzhp1lHIxEWeStH-M8DLtFHMgb2r4A0rO515vJgii9rHa5ve-4ncUpuQo_9pYaVE3vcuHpxd0XJbNOvKnJV20ALpEfe1-6D0v3GO28/s320/575D6090-ED65-44D0-B7B5-C31FDF642B0B.jpeg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Indoors.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVOHu68iBUl-kkQvp8ffLqjXXF4zjt3JcV-OnI6VM_ioNQGa4oY9m0wyGQ_Jgy2p_1emjjRMLRRYtKlJDOcquqoCnktmp5HrGDiHmfdDlSi7o_dRfYywXDSdNQrGgVS7wHi0N5pcHwzT0/s620/DF6B51AA-FC3F-46E0-A0A5-CD28A36C4258.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="556" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVOHu68iBUl-kkQvp8ffLqjXXF4zjt3JcV-OnI6VM_ioNQGa4oY9m0wyGQ_Jgy2p_1emjjRMLRRYtKlJDOcquqoCnktmp5HrGDiHmfdDlSi7o_dRfYywXDSdNQrGgVS7wHi0N5pcHwzT0/s320/DF6B51AA-FC3F-46E0-A0A5-CD28A36C4258.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div>Outdoors......</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>5) Down comforter - Prices vary from several $100s to $1000s. Europeans have known about the bliss of snuggling under a down comforter for hundreds of years. We are coming up on the end of “the season”, so look for them on sale and stock up for next year. I see lots of new w tags “Canadian goose down” comforters on ebay......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPIOUD1rclPoJzE7IIoeQDcEZpm1x4644AkhTUyVFog4iAM5kGXYYlJfyFnr5dsU_crAW-xhmfX9kH6eLDAxOyE-6N46ZHOIy2T9vmVSYeMhEd3xAERA-6asbpIVKVs2LtLv_aMqwSFA/s225/7A676E97-E486-4796-A3FB-E7E0725CBBA3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPIOUD1rclPoJzE7IIoeQDcEZpm1x4644AkhTUyVFog4iAM5kGXYYlJfyFnr5dsU_crAW-xhmfX9kH6eLDAxOyE-6N46ZHOIy2T9vmVSYeMhEd3xAERA-6asbpIVKVs2LtLv_aMqwSFA/s0/7A676E97-E486-4796-A3FB-E7E0725CBBA3.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>6) Smart wool socks - $15-35 ish. Smart wool socks don’t itch, let your feet breathe while keeping them warm. They are magical. I look for them on sale and stock up.....My current faves come from an etsy store called “Foot Fetish”. Most brands you can wash and dry like any other sock. Also a fan of Maggies cotton socks. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/footFETISHsocks">https://www.etsy.com/shop/footFETISHsocks</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jpN7W5ADINgrn5cSZnZZWiIOXTyHQZ362CyWm0hOWNhkclhPe0MOluE2EX3gFFOMHQhkUotXWX-YTHQ4dv12xlTGJdW-X5BPGB4_x4nY-hLKB7w7cvBWrdLJ86H7Aq42A6hl4ksM-PA/s300/2E9DD275-EFF5-4C9D-965F-B90E04F0792F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jpN7W5ADINgrn5cSZnZZWiIOXTyHQZ362CyWm0hOWNhkclhPe0MOluE2EX3gFFOMHQhkUotXWX-YTHQ4dv12xlTGJdW-X5BPGB4_x4nY-hLKB7w7cvBWrdLJ86H7Aq42A6hl4ksM-PA/s0/2E9DD275-EFF5-4C9D-965F-B90E04F0792F.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>7) Bath and beauty products - Prices vary. I was once attacked, in a friendly way, by a beauty consultant at a Sephora, and told I needed a moisturizing facial cleanser. That whatever I was using wasn’t working. I told her about my psoriasis skin sensitivities and even though she was a rep for brand X, she began pulling brand Y off the shelves and told me that’s what I needed. She was right. I hadn’t yet transitioned from the mindset of young woman with oily skin to that of older woman with dry skin. In many ways, that moment changed my life, bc I got a total make-over, not of foundation and eyeshadow, but of cleansers and lotions. Here are some of the products that have worked for me : </div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHqg4RUDAcYvEtefx_aOWkAvKC1ltX7R4W1PbgZDVbY2BSiKo15EKz8c_PaMcdKgKHttnhB-QXNtqkPpCUOYXIL1UXrNmKv9YAjZtkdOeJZTd01Wf-g7SxJCk8E5k2z8IIjNLo-woCO0/s500/1D1AAE74-ED71-4590-AD55-62EE44C9E8E9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHqg4RUDAcYvEtefx_aOWkAvKC1ltX7R4W1PbgZDVbY2BSiKo15EKz8c_PaMcdKgKHttnhB-QXNtqkPpCUOYXIL1UXrNmKv9YAjZtkdOeJZTd01Wf-g7SxJCk8E5k2z8IIjNLo-woCO0/s320/1D1AAE74-ED71-4590-AD55-62EE44C9E8E9.png" /></a></div>L’Occetane shea butter hand cream. The. Best. Ever. Their website says something like, “One is sold every second around the world” but the hype is true. Pricey but worth it. <div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjyeKlAA6LriFnBfKnTNTwXcV6SuCsMl1CD8kq8SL-MyOgvWC9SlA86LDS-5es5SqWy0jPZfQwxMomPyAwQcGAKtMNONJ05Onu0uR8rmR_ONKJ-8QC2Ryrje0Cwwc1PVqNr6dWZqsbNqY/s500/FF875F58-75CE-421C-BAD4-9C32BC371435.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjyeKlAA6LriFnBfKnTNTwXcV6SuCsMl1CD8kq8SL-MyOgvWC9SlA86LDS-5es5SqWy0jPZfQwxMomPyAwQcGAKtMNONJ05Onu0uR8rmR_ONKJ-8QC2Ryrje0Cwwc1PVqNr6dWZqsbNqY/s320/FF875F58-75CE-421C-BAD4-9C32BC371435.png" /></a></div><div>L’Occetane Almond Shower Gel. One of the few that doesn’t make me itch. Goes on like oil but lathers up and rinses like shower gel. Divine scent.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiITSHhP3V7MtRnYrto_uz3gOh2cAWyBhRC8CWOUR3iwqb-y-SDXlcYEaGwhKBYUe2k9aELSZIMmqTjXIlwOYEB3ksIKTl7vcDaa8XjpmDNNSJDgxJCTYM_3m0ATXB8HV6QPtcYnQEpcEQ/s2048/12FC3D28-0708-4E75-B9A0-3023F036F036.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiITSHhP3V7MtRnYrto_uz3gOh2cAWyBhRC8CWOUR3iwqb-y-SDXlcYEaGwhKBYUe2k9aELSZIMmqTjXIlwOYEB3ksIKTl7vcDaa8XjpmDNNSJDgxJCTYM_3m0ATXB8HV6QPtcYnQEpcEQ/s320/12FC3D28-0708-4E75-B9A0-3023F036F036.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Korres Greek Yogurt cleansing products. The brand that changed my life. </div><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1K33PRSISfX5SXpj0nwdgEd5BMAhmJYm48pfEVF7LuWcEDue3U-tgifHrN7zSrPvj2ZNg4P9QpZ6DVjkZq6kAbl5tGBKJ-4Epn1nH1dpwT6XyITz9wNfHqM3NX8_aCNA0Cx2Bwgxq18/s2048/FBF342AA-0457-40AE-9412-4B04FBBD3CA5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1K33PRSISfX5SXpj0nwdgEd5BMAhmJYm48pfEVF7LuWcEDue3U-tgifHrN7zSrPvj2ZNg4P9QpZ6DVjkZq6kAbl5tGBKJ-4Epn1nH1dpwT6XyITz9wNfHqM3NX8_aCNA0Cx2Bwgxq18/s320/FBF342AA-0457-40AE-9412-4B04FBBD3CA5.png" /></a></div><div>Korres Shower Gel. Sophisticated, natural, subtle fresh scents ..... in a lovely gentle formulation. I can’t stand the over-cloying American mass produced soap, shampoo, and gel smells. They make my eyes water like VOCs coming off Chinese drywall. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEg1R-OsBTabaGsVDmzTlAYx7LZwXHreOShocX8_m1ogJpETnoO10A6Eebm_AFbnuLvNuyL055-Eq6VZ4suk0et2CsRyTqIjYFh79G5h-aVYIWU5ueT8xaM4JecNtBoR4V4pNjHZ0F_w/s700/50296171-A772-4CE6-8A15-836A5DDE385F.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEg1R-OsBTabaGsVDmzTlAYx7LZwXHreOShocX8_m1ogJpETnoO10A6Eebm_AFbnuLvNuyL055-Eq6VZ4suk0et2CsRyTqIjYFh79G5h-aVYIWU5ueT8xaM4JecNtBoR4V4pNjHZ0F_w/s320/50296171-A772-4CE6-8A15-836A5DDE385F.png" width="320" /></a></div>Ahava Dead Sea Salts - For a good hot soak. I like their shower gels and lotions, too. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUuF5_9WrbjVBZXECU5OE6TdCUV_31aNN-oRjPwITtDLr85Q731t2dFU0UrLDUjCFlYe3txXUzPzeXyUlL2KDoO4EzctobPV3eI8dgfzWEKbOkPMw1AGuRx9JfJIU43AyRy_YmLPBzTw/s879/C9CB977F-9EE8-4EFD-A3A5-DB264744DAB1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="596" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUuF5_9WrbjVBZXECU5OE6TdCUV_31aNN-oRjPwITtDLr85Q731t2dFU0UrLDUjCFlYe3txXUzPzeXyUlL2KDoO4EzctobPV3eI8dgfzWEKbOkPMw1AGuRx9JfJIU43AyRy_YmLPBzTw/s320/C9CB977F-9EE8-4EFD-A3A5-DB264744DAB1.jpeg" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Tree to Tub - Another great brand for dry winter skin. Available on amazon. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnCtmAMbz_G47XtLzLBcOxgf_SrHXVB8VZ_EaXnYtlkUvg9bIfHLMbvFVVDu92XnKB3Ho6RfZTIF_vmzDZQv6CkEe5wKUCy8nhwgB0TAIOLomAahvD5d58EWuqNs-ekc9B12K1EfhX_Ys/s2048/CF517F0F-A8C1-497B-A268-ED4B5170A185.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnCtmAMbz_G47XtLzLBcOxgf_SrHXVB8VZ_EaXnYtlkUvg9bIfHLMbvFVVDu92XnKB3Ho6RfZTIF_vmzDZQv6CkEe5wKUCy8nhwgB0TAIOLomAahvD5d58EWuqNs-ekc9B12K1EfhX_Ys/s320/CF517F0F-A8C1-497B-A268-ED4B5170A185.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYa6ZdLzVSbkJ3fEargbHK3aGdDdqZZcYT9493Y3rXU__atHmhkMCN9V1VThRaOclqESVF9GD8NxVhYHwP2iA_mdBeBmj1bCVmoEdggPR3VoqxUncf2njkv2PNNdIyO6PIurjx1PQ2yPY/s2048/D51FC74C-AA59-4529-B12E-2419E74F0E30.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYa6ZdLzVSbkJ3fEargbHK3aGdDdqZZcYT9493Y3rXU__atHmhkMCN9V1VThRaOclqESVF9GD8NxVhYHwP2iA_mdBeBmj1bCVmoEdggPR3VoqxUncf2njkv2PNNdIyO6PIurjx1PQ2yPY/s320/D51FC74C-AA59-4529-B12E-2419E74F0E30.png" /></a></div>Lord Jones Bath Salts and Gummies - My fave go to brand for CBD. There are many other brands, but this is the Lexus amongst Chevys. Also a big fan of Beboe. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><br /></div></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-82448592478132270242021-02-04T15:13:00.007-06:002021-02-11T14:33:44.148-06:00What have you been pandemic cooking? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ99v_grJ7irkARRcqO1ArDsetvF7HydgEDWCnqkpVcc8WFISnQHPAewtAmCokW4fZBaCf8BsMWKLwQ5s-y3uibOlbhSWQoaYZF-SlfkT4auv7n84HmJWlURfrF0JUcUWFMU1MaE1-bx4/s2048/EB719B06-5E80-47C3-9F44-54654EA05B88.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ99v_grJ7irkARRcqO1ArDsetvF7HydgEDWCnqkpVcc8WFISnQHPAewtAmCokW4fZBaCf8BsMWKLwQ5s-y3uibOlbhSWQoaYZF-SlfkT4auv7n84HmJWlURfrF0JUcUWFMU1MaE1-bx4/s320/EB719B06-5E80-47C3-9F44-54654EA05B88.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">News stories are full of lifestyle pieces about how an extended pandemic quarantine, with food shortages in the early months of 2020 due to a disrupted supply chain, people sheltering in place at home with an inability to dine out have all combined to change the landscape of cooking. TG I remodeled my kitchen in 2018! While I always cooked for my family - and am getting pretty tired of it, as I’ve been doing it for 50 years now - my kids are grown and I can have pleasure taking it up a notch..... away from the “kid friendly” meals of yore. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzliLd-oad6Wjb_62cftYeCou5BO0UwfZTj6BHNRe1w8NsEOLHnLyBFWZGsoUyxNSRjDTs6XlrlWh_3PFDTw1OYeehEy1KTK-OUswonhbEdP3MzDBf01pjyjkOu1FkGzRwtY3Td3P9M9c/s2048/091C05AD-6DE7-4D34-BD70-E4ED4FA12FCD.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzliLd-oad6Wjb_62cftYeCou5BO0UwfZTj6BHNRe1w8NsEOLHnLyBFWZGsoUyxNSRjDTs6XlrlWh_3PFDTw1OYeehEy1KTK-OUswonhbEdP3MzDBf01pjyjkOu1FkGzRwtY3Td3P9M9c/s320/091C05AD-6DE7-4D34-BD70-E4ED4FA12FCD.jpeg" /></a></div> Southwest veggie quiche - to be eaten with salsa<p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8e_B0CXKmYd6QUqib1rRDRIpMKFXwzQAjOzRyP85bexgcEU7My6la7V9qqiW5jifnW-wPjmcbpgQCne096UOXlLaA3pBvsep3hztWUk5t3J6jvXNqaslTHLMDFGKUpUKnEM_nqStwpk/s2048/E06D907D-9674-4394-B2A7-B07E820E0E55.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8e_B0CXKmYd6QUqib1rRDRIpMKFXwzQAjOzRyP85bexgcEU7My6la7V9qqiW5jifnW-wPjmcbpgQCne096UOXlLaA3pBvsep3hztWUk5t3J6jvXNqaslTHLMDFGKUpUKnEM_nqStwpk/s320/E06D907D-9674-4394-B2A7-B07E820E0E55.jpeg" /></a></div><p> “Before” photo</p><div style="text-align: center;">Trapped at home staring at the same four walls this past year has spurred a new wave of home remodeling, and the addition of creature comforts needed to survive the lockdown (including a pool, a hot tub, an espresso machine, new equipment in the exercise room, and more). For my birthday this year, I decided to turn a junky closet just off the kitchen (home to a 1960’s style “wet bar” that had never had running water, not in all the 25 years we’ve lived in this house) into a wine cellar. The space had become a catch-all for all sorts of junk.....none of which was useful. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinisBB-_T3QxY-3dDHJnY1skqK5ICZ4bcxLHYaTnGP-EQeZVRnsZAi0S3RR_zHVJownCHFUcP4JMuVi-5uazxbseT1g-OmtCY4Apt5toZTjj5qxz5DevC4kiGnHwrDliM3NGS3DOuZCOA/s2048/4607A512-71D5-420C-8F67-D565049DB1A7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinisBB-_T3QxY-3dDHJnY1skqK5ICZ4bcxLHYaTnGP-EQeZVRnsZAi0S3RR_zHVJownCHFUcP4JMuVi-5uazxbseT1g-OmtCY4Apt5toZTjj5qxz5DevC4kiGnHwrDliM3NGS3DOuZCOA/s320/4607A512-71D5-420C-8F67-D565049DB1A7.jpeg" /></a></div> “After” photos<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhUlofzwYdYciOfG8I3J1xlM1lqW9Cz9bAP_38d0qJKD-nKxelunTbkf3VH_M9ufx5SIzMjCnRJXQ2M470XnmmmXDUxDPptsWtmgQnijXk4Dj87hIs_J3aoBcnyAned4RrSZ-bEdXMEs/s2048/484A1E57-6DD8-4240-BD8B-33D9D677F8F6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhUlofzwYdYciOfG8I3J1xlM1lqW9Cz9bAP_38d0qJKD-nKxelunTbkf3VH_M9ufx5SIzMjCnRJXQ2M470XnmmmXDUxDPptsWtmgQnijXk4Dj87hIs_J3aoBcnyAned4RrSZ-bEdXMEs/s320/484A1E57-6DD8-4240-BD8B-33D9D677F8F6.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The old closet was gutted- “a big thank you” to the previous house owners for laying down the original brick flooring under the custom built (but dated) cabinets, as we changed the footprint dimensions slightly. Old water pipes that never worked were capped off, ugly wallpaper was stripped, a wine refrigerator was procured, along with storage shelving. The butcher-block countertop was donated by a friend who refurbished her restaurant. An iron door with scroll design is being made.....slowly, very slowly.....by a local artisan. Voila! Now I plan to drive across the land, visiting wineries, attending tastings and learning more about it, stocking up by the case - just as soon as this damn pandemic is over. </div><br />Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-62301300523836127112021-01-10T12:08:00.006-06:002021-01-10T13:19:24.719-06:00What I miss most from pre-Covid times : The people, places, activities I enjoy the most Reflections on a life well lived <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgvN3C71xT1DX4tGnplVRAXnu4eHYnVoAaouluLTpCgPm1MQqQXwAcCyY5lpp6jEwXLl1436LoV0_I3jOViS7L6x0e_gX0D33aUMZ4iGJUoCVIvxwobwFb1AmCTo-MKhbLZYPkbO0FWM/s2048/C56453F9-F5A7-4868-888D-8012D69628AF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgvN3C71xT1DX4tGnplVRAXnu4eHYnVoAaouluLTpCgPm1MQqQXwAcCyY5lpp6jEwXLl1436LoV0_I3jOViS7L6x0e_gX0D33aUMZ4iGJUoCVIvxwobwFb1AmCTo-MKhbLZYPkbO0FWM/s320/C56453F9-F5A7-4868-888D-8012D69628AF.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Visiting art museums</div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxdEFuUiiHTWBppmlIJ0S4TPiCMoBQiQTaHnVFjs50xPKne_o49P3hDJQ6uSMR_QuSn1xjQN_XF4SDepB70YFPuu2BwWhMvnapsAYQ87eMygFqgTv_56mNbaZ5B_0BxjPxI1AasF8Qug/s960/F82BB675-8A66-4BF6-9BF8-B7C52B8CA640.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxdEFuUiiHTWBppmlIJ0S4TPiCMoBQiQTaHnVFjs50xPKne_o49P3hDJQ6uSMR_QuSn1xjQN_XF4SDepB70YFPuu2BwWhMvnapsAYQ87eMygFqgTv_56mNbaZ5B_0BxjPxI1AasF8Qug/s320/F82BB675-8A66-4BF6-9BF8-B7C52B8CA640.jpeg" /></a></div> Hanging out with neighbors down the pub (in this instance, a local biergarten)<div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFkMgWQpgzzn5J3ktWwAaUBZiJivwgKRhvWeAtG-baTVtDqhF_DXfGrzt-yNYajxeU4OZjAe-bn9JgYNedsmHsPhxNMBkb3EXA1wHr3hytSMf24Rr_9ICnVAJNBWFzD_BwwzDZgHe-xqw/s640/B52B55A7-B154-4389-991E-5E084B327B46.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Dinner out - Lonesome Dove in Ft Worth</div><br /><p></p></div></div></div></div>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-13503069536771061322020-12-14T12:03:00.045-06:002020-12-16T08:45:17.737-06:00How does a mediocre high school principal demonstrate what’s wrong with America? Why is “The Queen’s Gambit” a delightful yet thoughtful exploration of what is needed to truly MAGA? Read to find out<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJMZpNojvb_O9HiLlEO02zm7QSlwzR02eEbxkf_pZ3C6o1vD3rfaKceOO6j7nDVX7DpShVw3xadiJp4lpDJPfJQEiQdpC29A4dStZGKK4GrlIja7fWYT-Tt20y_1nws5ckY57RQj6p9MU/s2048/40134DAE-F8B0-4A26-BFE1-94DF0D3E516A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1041" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJMZpNojvb_O9HiLlEO02zm7QSlwzR02eEbxkf_pZ3C6o1vD3rfaKceOO6j7nDVX7DpShVw3xadiJp4lpDJPfJQEiQdpC29A4dStZGKK4GrlIja7fWYT-Tt20y_1nws5ckY57RQj6p9MU/s320/40134DAE-F8B0-4A26-BFE1-94DF0D3E516A.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>The way our leaders in the USA, Texas and local communities, et al have responded to the 2020 Covid pandemic reminds me why we (my Rice University friends and others from high end quality schools) are in fact different, and yes special. Not the faux “everyone is special” bs. Not like Lake Wobegone where every child is above average. We do live in a bubble and the diff is: We were not only intelligent- there were lots of smart lazy kids at my hs who wanted to get in to RU yet didn’t - we did the work. The grind. And the work ethic set us apart. </p><p>When I was teaching I always said : Give me a hard working student over a “smart” one, bc the hard working one will achieve things. The “smart” ones are generally entitled assholes and so are their parents. (“Billy needs to get an A so he can go to Harvard,” they’d tell me at Open House. And I’d think, “Then Billy needs to learn that you don’t get into any college with that attitude.”) </p><p>It’s not glamorous.... Day in day out the hard work - studying, reading, going the extra mile. Self discipline. Building up skills in the process. Asking Q, finding solutions. Willing to risk and to fail.</p><p>As a teen, I gave up Thanksgiving ski trips w my fam, starting in 8th grade, to write research papers (always due right before xmas). Off they’d go, parents plus sis left town for Colo, leaving me alone in the house with food money. Age 14, 15 w no adult around to nag me, I’d get up early and catch the bus out front to SMU library, do research all day long, come home in the evening, work more. (My dad was in law school at SMU at the time, so he showed me how to navigate there and back, and how to collect info, org research materials.) Written, 100% my own work: 8th grade paper age 14 “French Utopian Colonies in Texas”. 9th grade paper age 15 “IQ and Cruelty: Analysis of Nuremberg War Crime Trials”. Who tf as a young teenager does that? (It’s a habit I continued throughout college - a sustained week of work on one single project, at Thanksgiving. Got into a groove.) Helicopter parents micromanaging their kids every second, take note. You cannot do it for them. </p><p>Wanna know why/ how I got into Rice? Bc of all the other smart kids out there, a dime a dozen, each with Top Ten GPAs and 1300+ SATs, I won second place IN THE NATION in a Nat’l Latin Club academic competition . (Who won first place? Ronald J. Mann. Look him up. All my life that guy was in my way.) But I didn’t win bc I’m a genius, bc I’m not..... I won bc I read a book. One book. I did the work. </p><p>On a 3 day long bus ride to the nat’l Latin Club competition in Fla, I asked one of the older kids in the group what materials to study for the exam. (We were signed up for the same one.) The girl hands me a reference book and says, this. So while all the other kids on the bus spent those 3 driving days playing cards or making out, she and I moved to a back corner of the bus and alternately read sections of the book to each other, (only had the one copy), and grilled each other on the info. Didn’t even have stuff to make flashcards. Just organized outlines of material, wrote lists, made mnemonics up, memorized shit. You know, stuff you learned how to do in school but most people ignored. Passed the time on the long boring bus ride. We were like that girl in “The Queen’s Gambit”, learning, practicing chess. The “smart boys” ignored or laughed at us. Until they didn’t......</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRuehmDUJ5Lyfqzy8c6kYLUzwopcvc8r66NWETYkT8bUrseShvQMYtd79tL9Ttc9tsNydB9bufEGkoukotEbwm5Mg5LGimKXe8S5fdePK-rSi-_DGaSe3xpcx6i0SNnsipRqi5GkprEo4/s1800/FD6B39D3-40A5-44BB-9551-1D6340204FEB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRuehmDUJ5Lyfqzy8c6kYLUzwopcvc8r66NWETYkT8bUrseShvQMYtd79tL9Ttc9tsNydB9bufEGkoukotEbwm5Mg5LGimKXe8S5fdePK-rSi-_DGaSe3xpcx6i0SNnsipRqi5GkprEo4/s320/FD6B39D3-40A5-44BB-9551-1D6340204FEB.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I came in 2nd, my friend came in 3rd. In the nation. </p><p>But this isnt a rant about my awesomeness, bc I’m not. Not even in the same league as other folk I know (and I dated that same Ronald J. Mann my soph yr at RU - he taught me how to study. Really study. And that if you get organized early on, and keep it up, it’s actually less time and effort, than not. And that practicing is part of studying.) .....</p><p>......it’s about how most people on this planet are too fucking lazy to just do the fucking work. Any work. Not even hard work. Just do their f-ing jobs. WTF do these people do all day to pass the time? Gov Abbott, tRUMP, the chancellor at our local uni, other leaders. Just a LITTLE bit of organization, analysis, and effort at key points in this whole past year could have saved 100s of thousands of lives. </p><p>You know how my friend, a local middle school principal, spends her days? She walks the halls: greets kids as they come off the bus. Chats w teachers in the halls in-between class periods (where most of the real work of the school gets done - short convos during passing time) . Pops in unannounced on all classes and teachers. Personally mentors new ones screwing up and on probation. Knows the face and circumstances of every single (out of 1000) students in her school. Knows the face and circumstances of every single (out of 200) teachers in her school. Knows who is sick, hungry, is going through a divorce, needs help, car just broke down, or someone to pick up their sick child, or who just did something awesome. Who wants to earn a promotion and works w them on how to use the talent he/she has, so everyone’s happy. Knows where all the campus fuse boxes are, which goes to what, and how to fix them when they blow. Not afraid to crawl into the attic or basement and get dirty to fix it. A hands on approach. (PS She is my hero. See? It’s not all negative about education on this blog.) </p><p>You know how the principal at the hs where I worked spent his days? Hiding in a fucking closet. No lie. An actual, literal real closet. Along w his 2 bff coach buddies.,... once, I had to chase him down for a signature for something. His school secretary said, look here, look there. As I went here and there, others along the way said look over there. I went to his office, the field house, teacher lounge, golfcart shed - all over that huge fucking campus. These people were lying. They knew where he was. It was a wild goose chase to make me go away (I got my 10,000 steps that day.) Finally someone said, if you can find coach “X”, he’ll be with him. </p><p>So I go to coach “X”’s classroom (he didn’t actually teach a class, just ran the school store from there that sold junk food to teenagers), which was dark and empty, and in the back wall, hidden behind pallets of candy chips and soda, there’s a locked door that clearly has a light on inside, which is seeping out from around the edges. I can hear male laughter. I knock on the door several times, say “I’m not going away” and eventually it opens. A thick hazy fart cloud rolls out..... it stung my eyes, was as dense as cigarette smoke- and there in that closet (yes the irony) is my principal, Coach “X”, and another coach, lolling about on beanbag chairs, eating beef jerky, laughing, farting, having a good ‘ole time. In the middle of a school day morning.</p><p>Guess which school has stronger academic results? Lower teacher turnover, higher moral? </p><p>It’s the same with running a country or trying to resolve a pandemic crisis. People just need to do their fucking jobs. Why not pass the time that way, instead of goofing around, hiding from responsibilities? If your job requires you to know about something, you better research it. If your job requires you to be good at something, then practice. Do the work. </p>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-39766629022652820782020-09-09T23:03:00.001-05:002020-09-09T23:04:23.250-05:00Recent work<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh15YkCdVA-yBkvyxUj-FuMHEs57gUzwp7XfViaAaVOUFeAqr8Z_OBZ564SR9nn_7V84ydGbtpXm9jcR5CBoH4Rv3KvOTeeRVmnmWnxUVGM5d-EBAR5fSlmp7Ovanxx3SFauMF7QFmYzkQ/s1600/E84E9308-E068-44D5-B8D1-0714EF96A93B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh15YkCdVA-yBkvyxUj-FuMHEs57gUzwp7XfViaAaVOUFeAqr8Z_OBZ564SR9nn_7V84ydGbtpXm9jcR5CBoH4Rv3KvOTeeRVmnmWnxUVGM5d-EBAR5fSlmp7Ovanxx3SFauMF7QFmYzkQ/s320/E84E9308-E068-44D5-B8D1-0714EF96A93B.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Top right and bottom left are oil on canvas; the others are pastel on board. You can see more of my art on my Facebook page, Karen Strecker Galleries.<p></p>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-8236471727256948212020-09-06T19:35:00.003-05:002020-09-06T20:28:54.046-05:00Are you a bitchy mother-in-law? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcWwsFC2rFM_Ypauy40SVjfQqNKfISK4XzAQo6bsulVXqBJ_8t3H9Et2erm4fyxdaKGuLocS7hja3_hTr9xPus8mMEWV6_GNHF7a5YBSVMcr6LvcRyl_a7QZbLNe6CL94c6lRC14Pkc2k/s1194/54BA2FF2-3AE8-431B-9EE5-610D8631DBBF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="741" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcWwsFC2rFM_Ypauy40SVjfQqNKfISK4XzAQo6bsulVXqBJ_8t3H9Et2erm4fyxdaKGuLocS7hja3_hTr9xPus8mMEWV6_GNHF7a5YBSVMcr6LvcRyl_a7QZbLNe6CL94c6lRC14Pkc2k/s320/54BA2FF2-3AE8-431B-9EE5-610D8631DBBF.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>Do you worry if you might be a bitchy mother-in-law? Fear not, heres a checklist : </p><p>1) Do you have a key to your adult children’s home? Do you invite yourself over several times a week, just pop in, no announcement - especially when they are likely to be fornicating? When your kids have changed the locks, do you go to the neighbors with a sob story about how you were supposed to water their plants, con the kay outta them, and not only allow yourself egress? Have you done this more than once? </p><p>2) Did you hijack your son’s wedding, make impossible demands on every one (re venue, meal, date and time, pre and post wedding activities), start fights, force the bride to cancel her bridesmaids’ hen party, try to make the bride look Vietnamese, personally make her 1 hour late for her own wedding? </p><p>3) Did you call your daughter in law every single morning after the birth of your first grandchild, read her the weather report, then tell her how to dress the baby, and what she should do with it that day? When she was 35 years old and on her second child?</p><p>4) Did you con your new daughter in law into, without her knowing what was going on, forging a painting that you were supposed to have turned over to your ex 10 years ago (but have been fighting over, ever since) ? Did you rope her into triangulation over your divorce settlement from a decade ago? </p><p>5) Did you, upon being told not to, sneak around the corner to force feed your grandchild a flan that the dog had peed on? </p><p>6) Did you unload useless household crap on the happy couple (when you yourself lived in a 4000 sq ft , 3 story suburban home while they lived in an 800 sq ft townhouse w 2 kids, 2 dogs ) and then pitch a fit when you invited yourself over, used your key to let yourself in, and the crap you just off-loaded wasn’t there? Did you give them a huge Mary Poppins style pram, when they lived on the second floor with no elevator? </p><p>7) Did you offer to throw them a party - then built a new addition to your house, a whole new wing - then complain you had no $$$ for food, and force a struggling young couple to pay for this party (that they didn’t want in the first place) so you could show off your grandchild to your own friends? Bc you didn’t invite any of theirs?</p><div>8) Did you force everyone to eat a roast that you made, after you made a toast and broke a wine glass, which shattered into the cooked meat? </div><div><br /></div><div>9) Did you offer to pay your young adult son + his wife $200 to paint the 4th story dormer on your beach house (they were so poor they agreed to do it) and then when they were done, refuse to pay them?</div><p>10) Have you ever eaten all of the special ice cream your d-i-l hid, in the back of the freezer, so she could have just one thing for herself - then eaten it again, when your son replaced it? </p><p>Bonus) Do you buy xmas abd bday gifts for your s or d in law? In the 26 years we’ve been married - Hubs’ dad always gave me a gift card to some store I liked. A mensch. My m-i-l, if she gave me anything at all, gave me a “gift w purchase” that she got for buying makeup.</p><p><br /></p><p>The good news is : I have vowed not to do any of these things to my own children's partners</p>Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-54511487310664674352020-08-11T16:38:00.001-05:002020-08-22T12:25:28.860-05:00The Soul of the Garden <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Only a year ago, I started building my backyard garden. Prior to my recent efforts, this had been hell’s half acre, a wasteland of dead stick trees and dead grass. Giant muddy areas churned up by dogs. I began last summer by planting three areas of native plants, attractive to pollinators. Butterflies, bees, and dragonflies soon followed. Drawing insects by providing a food source then attracted birds of all kinds : hummingbirds, cardinals, jays, Carolina chickadees, Robins, doves, mockingbirds, kites, owls, hawks, and more. Raccoons, possums, skunks, armadillos and bunnies also stop by. It’s a little wild, but that’s by design.</div>
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Tree of 1000 chimes - all my wind-chimes go onto this one tree. As the breeze moves around, the tree sings. I can tell by which chime rings the way the wind is blowing.<br />
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Above: This is where I have coffee and read the paper every morning. Below: I owned a motley collection of Salterini mid century modern iron patio furniture, acquired from years of yard and estate sales, which I recently had refinished. <br />
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Above: Trees and sky..... the view from my pool as I float around, listening to the birds chirp, or music playing from the stereo speakers piped outside. I am so fortunate to dwell in this peaceful, beautiful bubble.<br />
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There is still plenty of grass for dogs to play frisbee. Fruit trees and vegetables are mixed in with my other plants.<br />
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Close-up of a bee on an echinacea, or Mexican coneflower.<br />
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My greatest joy is flowers, and I’m still working towards a goal of year-round blooms from different species. Here is a sampling of what bloomed for me in Year One :<br />
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The garden is a welcoming refuge for all : Above, Neighbors over for social distancing Happy Hours<br />
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My beautiful friend Adrienne at a garden party we threw pre Covid19<br />
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Hubs enjoys his Father’s Day gift, above<br />
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Credit goes to my hubs, who supplied all the labor for this project. If you want to see all this loveliness live, come visit some time. February has quince and some early bulbs blooming. March for the daffodils and iris. May and June are the best for roses. July for coneflowers, day lillies, and daisies.<br />
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We met at age 12, 13 - those oh so crucial middle school bonding years, when young people explore and begin to form their core identities. Our shared love of nerdy smart kid interests included Lily Tomlin comedy albums, The Borrowers books, Star Trek, Arthurian legends, dollhouses, Mad Magazine, sci-fi novels, and classic film of Hollywood’s golden era. We co-wrote a Marx Brothers parody skit and won the JR High talent show. How brilliant is that?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVR0HfGtepNimLnJU9LD-KDGLdWnUVbmXWCpk4V3t7vHUFX7laZR34_xK6FC7y2wvl147ztohBDPxZAb3Qw9PUz2u8MYgBp7j0AZKbP9rzlrhm6iaaVploUgwMpn8SsTg4EtP0_n1fXk/s300/41DEBBD2-BB07-4989-98ED-EA34DBEEB096.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVR0HfGtepNimLnJU9LD-KDGLdWnUVbmXWCpk4V3t7vHUFX7laZR34_xK6FC7y2wvl147ztohBDPxZAb3Qw9PUz2u8MYgBp7j0AZKbP9rzlrhm6iaaVploUgwMpn8SsTg4EtP0_n1fXk/s0/41DEBBD2-BB07-4989-98ED-EA34DBEEB096.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I also listened to you cry, every day, by the bike racks after the school day was over, about the horrible ways people had treated you that day. Hugged you, listened to you, commiserated, soothed you. Supported you. I nurtured you this way for the next 50 years. Believed you when you told me about your life - and knew I was only hearing the tip of the iceberg. Helped you find the words to talk to your mother. Traveled across the country - the world - to visit or support you when you beckoned. You gave me the best you could, in terms of friendship, until I no longer served your needs. All the fun and kindness dried up like a raisin inside you.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDr_x-7jUneb7ch14xm8v6Lcxnq3xAeE9InFbonzrDonvVNodKFnMjjgdxCYxg4U_tdTuXA4nL_0S0g9g4ztjsfyZ0zkqsjb1J2nFtDUKcuG9nL-Tel6ayFauid3JRLxvyYI_4bphR9g/s1038/4BE31B8C-350E-4630-84BA-5568293B6092.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihDr_x-7jUneb7ch14xm8v6Lcxnq3xAeE9InFbonzrDonvVNodKFnMjjgdxCYxg4U_tdTuXA4nL_0S0g9g4ztjsfyZ0zkqsjb1J2nFtDUKcuG9nL-Tel6ayFauid3JRLxvyYI_4bphR9g/s320/4BE31B8C-350E-4630-84BA-5568293B6092.jpeg" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><br />In the early years, I found you humorous and smart and fun to be around. You were often temperamental, as well, and I just tolerated it, diva fits and all, trying to understand your inner struggles. Your constant put-downs, competitive one-up-man-ship, name dropping, “corrections” of things you knew nothing about, your chiding admonitions, mansplaining, egocentric nonstop prattle about your accomplishments - I knew these were all symptoms of your own deep insecurities. So I just let it all roll off. I felt sorry for you; hoped that by being a supportive friend who could look beyond the surface of your narcissistic behaviors, you might feel better about yourself and the world. As I said, I consoled you every day after school, by the bike racks, as you held back tears from being bullied in school that day. Gladly I followed you to Star Trek conventions, joined you in assorted role-playing games, spent hours hanging at the mall with you. I also dragged you along and forced you to do other fun things, often, back then....Dancing, picnics, road trips, prom, parties, dates, cultural events beyond opera. You complained constantly but seemed to have fun. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qC79pDynM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qC79pDynM</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBfeO7m0RtBwq1N66WhyphenhyphenKinXmn9To1hFpajt6Mr_1o0ielw7UrtCoV01wJrdkDq681kcc-LKd0LIo0ApOl_u91wOGidPI4rCtSquS_vUXetW4_CD6R9enwwcB8pUt6m3qjVsPYY1yuL8/s1102/96378A4B-8A88-4C3C-AD73-9EC3E1C5730B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="735" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBfeO7m0RtBwq1N66WhyphenhyphenKinXmn9To1hFpajt6Mr_1o0ielw7UrtCoV01wJrdkDq681kcc-LKd0LIo0ApOl_u91wOGidPI4rCtSquS_vUXetW4_CD6R9enwwcB8pUt6m3qjVsPYY1yuL8/s320/96378A4B-8A88-4C3C-AD73-9EC3E1C5730B.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoW33MjovlzRqxftzNgfTLWBrDxu09QKEz43Ng8bB_w5WIcly5gk9EZTEf1xOjBBwBBAhfZgeW442DJqIZY2B4lfB1BTnk2zlO_Vp3AyUPsNMedVyyS0uwKp_KoFUfxI1QVFkDrrD97Q/s415/37E7C624-7972-480C-B5DC-DE15775F8F59.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="415" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOoW33MjovlzRqxftzNgfTLWBrDxu09QKEz43Ng8bB_w5WIcly5gk9EZTEf1xOjBBwBBAhfZgeW442DJqIZY2B4lfB1BTnk2zlO_Vp3AyUPsNMedVyyS0uwKp_KoFUfxI1QVFkDrrD97Q/s320/37E7C624-7972-480C-B5DC-DE15775F8F59.jpeg" /></a></div> Prom : At least 3 of us had fun......<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsdx9CGGIoQ9O1hrfF6OJWRBnEz9ElpOIhu7AoCOO9jw98m1ASbyzgCkSPWRs46jjEg4UhyMM3qwfYqxsshgkFoohEC7M21j6aAbmMke83ouixGR3SStszBSbfMqCQqH2QOOE_7cleNQ/s1102/D5C82FDB-03AC-4028-80A3-26F61E184F55.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="735" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsdx9CGGIoQ9O1hrfF6OJWRBnEz9ElpOIhu7AoCOO9jw98m1ASbyzgCkSPWRs46jjEg4UhyMM3qwfYqxsshgkFoohEC7M21j6aAbmMke83ouixGR3SStszBSbfMqCQqH2QOOE_7cleNQ/s320/D5C82FDB-03AC-4028-80A3-26F61E184F55.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">However, the fun between us died long ago....In recent decades you have grown increasingly dismissive and cruel, for reasons never made clear. You enjoy thinking / expressing to others that I’m a town hick, some uneducated, uncultured rube you could never get to leave Texas. (Until I moved to NY and DC.) Someone you needed to educate and show the world. The reality is that I got accepted into as good a college as you did, have actually lived in more major cities around the world than you have, as well as circumnavigated the globe in my own travels, and I’ve actually had real adult careers lo these past 40 years (not just sitting at home moping, living off my mom’s allowance). You actually do know all this, just conveniently choose to forget it. I’m not needy or clingy, but a double-standard has crept in : you are allowed to initiate contact (call or email), and analyze mutual friends, politics, or art - but I am not. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAFQgXvK7wTsyP89T0uk-C8othGfVxmPeEZV2dPN55pe6OVEqojknkgg679WYEKJL2iJ-UlIJCLWjN5uESpYK0VRQsw6VU0DiUbf5n-0ZJVicyzW4OOI2-wlGIdpU8amWQdug_5x3Nlsg/s640/A6184958-B552-4915-A0D2-83BAA3BAD6C3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAFQgXvK7wTsyP89T0uk-C8othGfVxmPeEZV2dPN55pe6OVEqojknkgg679WYEKJL2iJ-UlIJCLWjN5uESpYK0VRQsw6VU0DiUbf5n-0ZJVicyzW4OOI2-wlGIdpU8amWQdug_5x3Nlsg/s320/A6184958-B552-4915-A0D2-83BAA3BAD6C3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PZVqy3k7dRrf2T8FKkt5HqRBDNI8Q2HW7PABFuYtJP5MoXJfPFyfKUpSatu36yJf4neXEHH4yXG0ttXRVtqKUBRkLOoGvyGRJPaWvqy497DpF1v4OATJmV8gYBrP0NGcBE26s_1KOwA/s564/0DC1D359-80AB-4B3B-9F87-8289052DDE87.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5PZVqy3k7dRrf2T8FKkt5HqRBDNI8Q2HW7PABFuYtJP5MoXJfPFyfKUpSatu36yJf4neXEHH4yXG0ttXRVtqKUBRkLOoGvyGRJPaWvqy497DpF1v4OATJmV8gYBrP0NGcBE26s_1KOwA/s320/0DC1D359-80AB-4B3B-9F87-8289052DDE87.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJcJYh7vrGiSIUDDz_1LOzWtVxRqCE1YyKhP7lsYYyxv1-p1vNQ7ufFrCB-NR3wwjG8a1BW-Hm3NkPLrigKlP2cchkW5fD_A25Te5CqU7e6jJ4XmG5YaKOTOeK8tRKmPH5GlbANLmnU0/s736/F9330C88-D234-470D-8CD3-6F72A30CAE1E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="736" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJcJYh7vrGiSIUDDz_1LOzWtVxRqCE1YyKhP7lsYYyxv1-p1vNQ7ufFrCB-NR3wwjG8a1BW-Hm3NkPLrigKlP2cchkW5fD_A25Te5CqU7e6jJ4XmG5YaKOTOeK8tRKmPH5GlbANLmnU0/s320/F9330C88-D234-470D-8CD3-6F72A30CAE1E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://medium.com/storygarden/narcissists-are-made-not-born-ba9e8763cbb5">https://medium.com/storygarden/narcissists-are-made-not-born-ba9e8763cbb5</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(For the record : I’ve always known that you were gay. Other 13 year old boys I knew in 1973 didn’t play with dolls and dollhouses or love opera. While you were out late nights being a “dissolute young man”, I was having my own romantic rendezvous. From age 15 years on, I’ve always had a hetero boyfriend/ lover/ husband, plus my friendship with you. It became apparent to me, early on, that I was just one of your many beards. Your Texas beard. As long as we had fun, it felt like an acceptable trade-off. All that Scarlett + Rhett mythologizing was just that. I only say this because sometimes you enjoy telling yourself or others that I had a hetero crush on you and you tried to warn me off but like so many things you’ve said over the years.....this never happened. My first true love, first kiss, the hs boy who broke my heart at age 17 was Michael Cates.)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You stood by me, helped me, financially, emotionally, and otherwise, through some horrific personal crises, and I loved you for that. You nurtured and cared for my boys, as their Uncle Bill, and all of us love you for that. Those memories are of you at your best. But I too gave back : providing you with family, friends, and a social life of extended family when you had none. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRWbonFA5sU&t=497s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRWbonFA5sU&t=497s</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0cqatkNcQBZd5UW8SihmRkXRxBpXjb7bvSf4atYfgyylyj9cx3O1CtGvh2Xonsv8VY9Kwq2Z_85ZQm5v73Sc8wbAQzCoM2u05Gu36lQtO3y3OO9DukpFicTRaDLHOIMyT2b-zUAqLkCQ/s1166/70B800C0-2EE0-43B9-913F-805CB074468B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1071" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0cqatkNcQBZd5UW8SihmRkXRxBpXjb7bvSf4atYfgyylyj9cx3O1CtGvh2Xonsv8VY9Kwq2Z_85ZQm5v73Sc8wbAQzCoM2u05Gu36lQtO3y3OO9DukpFicTRaDLHOIMyT2b-zUAqLkCQ/s320/70B800C0-2EE0-43B9-913F-805CB074468B.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It’s been awhile, however, since our interactions were fun for either of us. Time to re-asses and adjust accordingly. I am unwilling to tolerate your condescension, being constantly lied to, getting stood up, your nasty temper fits, feeling used, changing my schedule to accommodate yours, being stuck with the bill, your constant put-downs, getting guilt-tripped into doing things I don’t want to do, or being treated as the backup plan of last resort. I am unwilling to put up with your bullshit any more. Truth be told, it’s a relief not to have to listen to your carping constant negativity. You quit your dream job, writing for Dan Rather, in a fit of pique. You have now turned on your oldest friend with some bizarre fable you invented out of whole cloth - cut all ties from the one who put up with all your bs and loved you unconditionally, like a sister. 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The NYT recently reported on a sudden shortage of above ground pools, as millions of Americans came to the realization that no one was going anywhere for summer vacation in 2020. Of course, these are the last minute thinkers; those who had foresight started their projects back earlier in the spring.<br />
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And so it went at our humble abode.....We’ve had ours for several years now, it’s been a steep learning curve how to manage the water in our hot Texas summers. Did I mention we converted to saltwater? Easier on the skin than traditional chlorine. When set up and working, it *almost* makes summer bearable.<br />
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Hubs promised he’d have the pool set up by early May, but didn’t “get around to it” till June. Texas is HOT! Like Provence, southern Italy, India, or the Australian outback. So of course, as the temperature rose, so did the nagging to “get ‘er done”. I even called on son #1 for help.<br />
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Local temperature on Sat June 6 at 4 pm. 104F = 40C.<br />
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Wait for it.....(setting the foundation).......<br />
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Ahhhhhh.......serenity now! 18’ x 4’ of beautiful clear cool water. Some dappled shade. Cocktails, anyone? It may not be “the real thing”, but it’ll do until my ship comes in.<br />
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Now all hubs needs to do is finish his shed / bar project........A few weeks back, some neighbor offered a free shed to anyone who would haul it off. Naturally, we took it (our neighborhood has a convivial history of swapping furniture and household goods). The shed is 12’ x 15’, and the pergola in front is 10’ x 10’. What it currently looks like :<br />
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The other day I was working in my studio and through the window, a blur of brown furry movement caught my attention. It was the wrong shape / size / color to be either of my dogs, so I went over closer to the window so I could see what was up. Low and behold, what can only be described as a squirrel scrum, involving at least 5 different tails (too much movement to discern further details, but it looked like an old kid’s Davy Cockett racoonskin hat was having a seizure) was bouncing around in a frenzy on my back yard patio. I thought it was maybe either a bunch of squirrels who were hallucinating from having ingested too many fermented half rotten peaches or else a rabid pile of tiny whirling dervishes. Making their little squeaking chattering noises the whole time.<br />
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I went outside to see more closely what was going down - equipped with a broom and a can of wasp spray (all I had on hand) to break up the fight. I was praying I wouldn’t have to actually use either of these items, but the squirrel scrum was too busy to even notice or care that I was there, beating them w the broom and hollering for them to leave. Those rats with tails took no notice of my 70 lb boxer dog, either, and only dispersed when I turned the hose on them.<br />
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Turns out the hubs and I, in one of our ever increasing moments of senility, had left the brand new giant 20 lb bag of bird food just sitting out on the patio overnight, after we had refilled the bird feeder late the day before. All the squirrels in a 6 house radius had feeding on the contents of that bag ever since - had gone completely through the entire bag, eating all the sunflower seeds only and leaving the millet and other tinier seeds behind with contempt, mixed with a few squirrel turds. My patio was strewn with 5 lbs of empty sunflower seed shells as the sated beasts waddled off to digest their feast. All the yard birds perched in a semi-circle on the surrounding trees, chirping at me to “hurry up and feed them and it wouldn’t kill you to clean out that birdbath, either while you’re at it.” They do this every day as it is, but the squirrels’ scrum had really trashed the birds’ dining area- plants were knocked over, the birdbath was full of sunflower shells, with seeds strewn everywhere.<br />
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I cursed at those @#$% squirrels as I cleaned up after them, “Just more men around here for me to pick up after......I bet they don’t put the toilet seat down at home, either.” For I knew they were all males, teenagers, by the look of them. Good thing I don’t have a doorbell, or they’d ding-dong-ditch my house, too. Later in the week, I saw the same furry ball of teenage hoodlum squirrels bouncing through my rose beds, and again attacked them with the hose. They just laughed and ran away......but I know they’ll be back. </div>
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26 years ago, I married my best friend - For over 40 years now, he’s made me laugh, driven me crazy, given me a family where I had none, taken me around the world, fixed things, (broken things), raised my first child as his own, and generally made my life much, much better than it was before.<br />
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Who knew what would happen, when I met him in 1978, all these years later? R is second from left in this photo - he never did like wearing a shirt.....<br />
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When you marry a person, you marry their family......fortunately, these are all intelligent, educated people. While we may squabble on the little things, we agree on the big ones.<br />
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I wonder if future movies / tv shows will incorporate the pandemic / quarantine into regular, previously established plot lines, or ignore it.<br />
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For example, NCIS in fall 2020: There is a dead marine, Gibbs gathers the team. Israeli music plays as Zeva leaves a cryptic message on Gibbs’ cell phone. Suddenly, everyone is forced into quarantine. Ducky makes a cameo appearance, rambling on about the pandemic of 1918, which apparently, he lived through. The newer, younger characters solve the crime using the internet and cell phones. Gibbs is in his basement, either taking apart or putting together his boat. All is good.<br />
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Meanwhile, on House : Patients start flooding the ER with symptoms of a mysterious new, flu-like illness. Cuddy and House bicker (alright, already! Why don’t you two just do it already!). Cuddy, who watches lots of Fox News (the reason House won’t “do” her), wants to inject patients with hydroxychloroquine. House says no. Various treatments are tried. People keep dying, now it’s spread to little kids, who develop weird coronary symptoms, too. Suddenly, summer comes, everyone stops wearing masks, and the death toll of the pandemic isn’t counted any more, and everyone ignores House when he says, “Just wait till fall”.<br />
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Golden Girls : Corona virus spread throughout the house, friends, and community of the Golden Girls. Everyone dies. No one cares.<br />
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Big Bang Theory : Raj, after visiting his family in India during winter break, brings Covid-19 back to the USA and the Cal Tech community. Everyone gets a mild case of it and is ok, but the university shuts down for 3 months. Since Leonard, Sheldon, Howard, and Raj are all on soft-money research grant funding, they all lose their jobs, and can’t pay rent. Stuart closes the comic book store forever. Everyone moves in to Howard’s mom’s house, and now Bernadette, Penny, and Amy are the only ones working and bringing home money bc they work for big pharma. The guys sit around on the sofa all day, playing video games, until Bernadette forces them to become door dash delivery guys, using Howard’s scooter.<br />
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Modern Family: Jan 2020: Lots of people in southern Cal are getting sick, no one knows what’s going on. The Pritchetts, Jay and Gloria, staunch Republicans, refuse to quarantine or wear masks. Jay dies. Gloria inherits a lot of money, and starts looking for husband #3. Manny gets sick, but survives, albeit w lasting heart disease. The Dunphys, stuck together in their home for 3 mo, all squabble, but are ok. The disease is mild for them. When the quarantine ends, Claire files for divorce bc she just can’t take it any more, cleaning up after everyone else all the time. Cam and Mitch both catch it (from not practicing social distancing) and Cam dies, bc he has pre-existing conditions and is obese. Mitch is devastated, bc Cam did everything, and Mitch is incompetent. Lily spends the rest of her life taking care of Mitch, but resents it.<br />
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Life in Pieces: Covid-19 strikes, everyone goes into quarantine. Grandpa John and Grandma Dr Joan hunker down, refusing to see anyone without a mask. They kick Matt and Colleen out of the garage. John and Joan are ok, but their co-dependent children complain all the time since they can no longer mooch off of them constantly. Tim and Heather are stuck at home with all their kids, losing their minds. Their son, who lives in a tiny house in the backyard w his girlfriend, breaks up, then makes up, with the gf a dozen times. Matt and Colleen, kicked out of the parents’ garage, buy a tiny house and park it in Tim and Heather’s backyard - now there are two tiny houses back there, and 8 people living at that residence, which only has 2 bathrooms. Heather claims the upstairs bathroom for herself, forcing all 7 to share the one downstairs. Corona virus ravages them all, due to the cramped living conditions, but everyone is ok. Both Clementine and Colleen get pregnant, have babies, making their population now 10. Sophia takes care of them all. Greg and Jen avoid everyone. Jen bitches a lot about everything, cleans constantly, and drinks heavily. Greg hides in various places around his home (attic, basement, garage, closets) bc he’s afraid of Jen.<br />
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Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-36993801625904844302020-05-25T15:48:00.002-05:002020-06-17T22:43:57.365-05:00Dear GirlFromTexas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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People ask me the most random things......Serves me right for being such a smarty-pants know-it-all. On a social media conversation about food and recipes the other day, an old childhood friend I’d not heard from in years interrupts with the following question :<br />
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Friend: My cell is XXX-XXX-XXXX. Please text me. I have an urgent art related question.<br />
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Lots of back and forth ensued, with me asking obscure humorous questions to determine if this really was my old friend, or a trolling Ukrainian bot. Once settled that this, in fact, was my old friend, the conversation proceeded like this:<br />
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GFT: Is there ever, truly, an urgent art question that cannot be answered via google search?<br />
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Friend: An aunt had a portrait hanging in her house which officially is mine. We went Saturday to retrieve it since she is down-sizing. It is from 1846 and is of my 3G grandfather or his brother. It has a 3" slit and two puncture holes. Additionally it needs to be cleaned and stabilized. Do you or your teacher know a restorer who won't cost an arm and a leg? It is about 42"x35" framed.<br />
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GFT: I am sorry, I do not personally know of any art / painting restoration experts. You could try asking around at local antiques dealers, art clubs/groups/societies, art stores (my dad used to hang out at someplace in Dallas called “Mr J’s” and met all types of other painters and art folk there), profs at universities w art departments, or museums - where you live (or a nearby big city). Maybe google search “painting restoration ______(where you live)?” Or “how to repair/clean antique painting”. All of the art teachers I have studied with live out of state.<br />
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Meanwhile, everyone else on the post kept talking about food and recipes like nothing happened.<br />
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It is unfortunate that this is all I was able to offer, but I’m not, sadly, the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz.<br />
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Then there are the questions I get from other amazon customers, based on purchases I’ve made on amazon.....This really is troublesome, because I don’t like my purchases made public. Early on, I rated my purchases, but then stopped, hoping to quell the queries. It didn’t help.<br />
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For example, I bought some cheap art hobby paint brushes. I then received an email with this question:<br />
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My answer: Read the product description, dude. I’m not your mother.<br />
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<b> Q: Does this shower gel work on oily hair? </b><br />
My answer : Well, it’s a shower gel, not a shampoo, so......Hey, what hair are you referring to? 😜<br />
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<b> Q: Does this (non food) product contain olive oil? </b><br />
My answer : Read the label, it’s visible on the product photo......Why is this suddenly my job? Why can’t you figure this out for yourself? Why am I in charge? Why do you leave it to strangers on the internet to tell you things? Do you know how many times I had to repeat “READ THE DIRECTIONS” to approximately 200 high school students per year x 31 years of teaching (Hint: more than once per student per day) </div>
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Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10545987489918132431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895194662060253694.post-69067337985750329192020-05-19T13:26:00.000-05:002020-05-19T13:26:01.900-05:00Covid-19 Humor <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As I said earlier, I’m posting about The Great Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 for posterity’s sake. Perhaps some day, long after the Fermi Paradox has been proven true, in the distant future, an alien species cruising the galaxy will decide it’s finally safe to check in on the 3rd planet from our sun. Who knows what communication will be like then ? Just as humans ponder the meaning of cave art that’s 5000+ years old, future visitors might ponder this.<br />
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