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At 5years old, the first time I saw a beach and the ocean in South Africa-Durban.

How Cute you all are !!!!

I agree, what a happy bunch of kids and you were certainly taking everything in, Bubble!

Caught up reading and viewing here in this wonderful folder, once again.

Thank you, BUBBLE, for the link to Gatherings and meeting friends.  So many wonderful friends that are no longer with us.  Loved looking at all the pictures. 

JACKIE, the grapes are beautiful and I know you will really enjoy them when they are ready to pick.  Feel so blessed to have met you and Richard....a very fond memory from that day will always remain in my mind. 

Thank you all for all the nice posts and pictures.

Jenny

Jack. Now is that Photo this years?. Trees turning already. Looks like a lake to me. It seems like I have seen that Photo before. So Beautiful. Would be great if nature stayed looking just like that.

Bubble.  You were a real cutey as they use to say.  Sort of flirty also.

Now after the war ended and about 1947 my best girlfriend went out to Durban. South Africa to live with her brother. had no other relatives.  Often wonder how her life went. Also had some of my  Family living in Rhodesia from about the late 50s until they had to leave about 1978 . Loved the life they had out there. She didn't have servants when back in UK.  All seem to have been in the Mining business.

Storms are now back here.  Really hard.  Was going to leave but no longer. In for the night
Friday nights are when all the High School football games are in town.  Will be rained out. Same happened last Friday night.  Some teams come from far away also. Such a shame.  Maybe they get word on the Buses before they make the long trip.

JeanneP no the photos are from prior years, no foliage change so far this year. That is not a lake, but fog rising in the morning.  Raining now, hope it stops soon, need my evening walk.

Jack, as always, your photos of Oglebay delight! Here you always see the mist rising from the waters in the fall. The air is warmer than the water so it mists.

I have had so many folks wanting me to lose the gray and go back to my more natural red. So, here is what I did today, a cut and color. 

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Jack  - Even if the colors are subdued it will be nice to have the change. The way it stands now I'm not sure we will be making the trip north. I hope we can as there is going to be a big family get-together with both my husband's side of the family and mine, plus our children and grands.

Bubble - That's an adorable picture!

Angelface - Your hair looks very nice. I'd love to have thick hair like that!

Angel, color just right for autumn! The cut looks nice and neat.

Jack, don't you wish the trees would turn to match Angel's head? lol

Bubble, you never lost that grin and sparkle. 

Patricia, great head of hair and color.

Beverly, for me it is now a small family, miss the old gatherings.

Jack, I love those photos!  Oglebay is gorgeous any time of the year and thanks to your photos, we've all been able to enjoy it.  I really do look forward to the changing seasons there.  I've been driving when seeing a fog like that.... never thought to turn around & get a photo, we are lucky you do take the time!

Bubble, you still look the same, that same "bubbly" personality.  Do you remember when we posted photos of different ones when very young to see if people could guess who it was???  That was fun, long time ago.

Great hair do, Patricia.  Nice cut & pretty color.  You look SO young.  I dyed my hair for years but gave up when I had to do the job every 10 days. 

We had another round of rain last night, I had drained the pool back to it's normal level yesterday and it is running over again this morning.  Nice & cool so don't mind getting out... think it said upper 50s.  Lots of flooding, river is up but it has been higher, that is no comfort to the people with water in their basements.  Our trees were needing a deep watering but enough is enough.   

This is a 46 year old photo of my family.   There were 6 girls and 4 boys.   My Shirley lined us up for the photo, the only one I have of all of us in a group.   I was around 40 (and thin) at the time.  Now sorry to say I am the oldest, at 85, of the remaining two brothers and one sister.   Happy memories (the ones to keep)

             

What a great family Jack! Makes me wonder what it would be to have brothers or sisters... Neat photo too.

Jack - What a great family picture! I have only one brother and always wished for more.  My two best friends each came from a family of six and I loved being at their houses. I always wanted six children but stopped at four. 

We have eight grandchildren, two step-grands (some with spouses) and five great-grands plus one step-g-grand. Makes for a lively bunch when we get together.

Thanks Bubble and Beverly.   My father worked for a stock broker and was one of the first to be hit by the big depression.  We lived in a tenement over a bar and had very little.  For a short time he worked for a government provided job.   We had little to eat, but the toughest, for me, was our having one bathroom and six sisters.     Do not have photos, I was the first to buy a camera and that was 1956 when I wanted to capture our first years of marriage.  Even then took very few, no money for film and development.

Here is a photo I posted on our previous site.   It was a double wedding in 1918 with my Father and Mother on the left in the photo and the other bride was my Aunt.   My mother had 10 children, her sister none.

             

Interesting photos Jack! My father who died in 1995 was born in 1918. He was a Missouri farm boy, one of sixteen and my mother was born in Kansas in 1923, one of twelve. Out of those two generations, the only remaining is the oldest in my father's family, 106 last January.

There were three girls in my family. Jody and I barely two years apart, soon after their marrying and Becky surprising everyone 12 years later. We were and are still it seems, the only side of the family not farming. I think both parents wanted a fresh start.

I've had some here asking why I stopped being red after posting my S&F  avatar, but it took meeting an old working acquaintance who had moved here last week to decide to change. The first thing she said to me was, "What happened to all that red?" The gray was taking over.

Jack. Great pictures to have.  Lots of Children to have at that time for your mum and dad but Oh! I bet it was fun. I just was not use to large family. In my mothers side even though Grandmother had 3 husbands there were just 4 children. Son killed in war One aunt had one son and the other 2 no children.  I only ever remember having one cousin.
In the Wedding 2 of the women look so stern and the other just smiling away.

I am happy to be with you all today. What a storm we went through yesterday. About 6pm and then at 9pm. Tornado warning and Sirens going.  4 tornados came to ground. Went over my town but hit in 2 of the villages 10 miles east.  Everyone O.K and just damaged a few building but did completely destroy one Farm Home and all the buildings and also a Motor Home where the people had just driven in from Alaska. Shame on the farm house as it had been in the same family for 137 years. Built by GGF.  Seems they lost their dog and 2 cats.  Area was lucky though as the Tornados went over 2 big camp grounds with lots of people camping. Lots of trailers there.
We are pretty much farm land  close to the interstate. Think that the reason that these Tornado seem to come down on land with not a lot of building. Although 3 years ago one did take down half of the town 9 miles south of me. And about 12 years ago another larger town 14 miles east. Again only 2 people died in those. You sure feel good though when the all clear goes.  They happen so fast.

JeanneP   we are in an area with very few storms.   Since 1950 we have had only 21.   Your area had 182 and Shirley in Kansas 233.
You can find everything on google.  Here is the link I checked and any city and state can be inserted.

http://www.homefacts.com/tornadoes/Illinois/Champaign-County/Urbana.html

The bride with the big smile was my aunt and she always looked that way.  Do believe people tended not to show a big smile on wedding photos back then. 

I love your Red Had, Paticia!

JACK WV...
...a family line up photo to treasure....
Yes agree, it was usual to see prim and proper, serious looking faces, rather than the smiling faces we now associate with...I can well remember an old black and white photo of our family members wedding sitting on my grans walls, cant remember who's wedding, but my mother and gran were in a fur coat, so it must have been a winter wedding, again no one seemed to have any smile on their faces...I wonder what happened to that photo, hope it is still in the family, just one aunt left now.....

ANGELFACE....
..that is a neat haircut....

Patricia,  I LOVE your new hair color and the hair cut.  I wish I could get the girl who cuts my hair to cut it like yours.  I try to tell her, but she just cuts it her way.  It turns out ok,  but just not the way I would like it.

Jeanne,
I am sure we all are happy that you didn't have any damage and your are able to be here.  It must have been a scary night.  Glad you are ok.

Joy

Enjoy the photos.  Hope you are blessed with some more beautiful fall colors this year, Jack.  Hoping we have more autumn colors here in northwest Florida, but we are still having hot summer days presently.

Angel, love your hair color and style.

JeanneP,  glad you weathered the storm OK

Jack. That true. On the TV it seems most areas have something. Either. tornado, Earthquakes. Floods.  I don't ever remember reading anything about your area.
Think I will move there.  Its time for me to make a change and keep putting it off.
Need to start doing a little more traveling again and pick a place.  Ones I have like I couldn't afford.

Patricia, your hair is beautiful, and so thick and lush. I would be happy to have some of yours. Mine is very fine, straight, grey and other ugly shades mixed in. But it's mine and I am thankful for that.

Thank you, everyone.

Sandy, you were one of the first to ask where all the red went.
Joy, I take photos with my phone of magazines or posters. I took in three and we selected some of each.

As you can see from my avatar, my hair has always been red but darker and it had gone to a partial  iron gray because I never colored it. There was a woman I had worked with and saw recently who encouraged me to do something. The first words out of her mouth were, "What happened to your hair!"    

We don't see much red outside either, just yellow falling leaves, the wind, and mist. You can see the surrounding hills are turning yellow with more fog/mist rolling up over the foothills.

First is the cam photo from Golden Heart Park, and the rest are looking out over my balcony.

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