Day 01- A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.
Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have beenclose with the longest
Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.
Day 04 - A picture of a habit you wish you didn't have..........
Day 05 - A picture of your favourite memory.
Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.
Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item.
Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh.
Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most.
Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with.
Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.
Day 12 - A picture of something you love.
Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist.
Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without.
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die.
Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you.
Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently.
Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.
Day 19 - A picture of you when you were little.
Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.
Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget.
Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at.
Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book.
Day 24 - A picture of something you wish you could change.
Day 25 - A picture of your day.
Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you.
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.
Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of.
Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile.
Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss

I belch loudly wherever I am, I learned to do that around my brothers
and sometimes my bad manners show at the worst times!
But I have to say I am always proud of a great belch.

Your worst habit?

Day 01- A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.
Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have beenclose with the longest
Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.
Day 04 - A picture of a habit you wish you didn't have..........
Day 05 - A picture of your favourite memory.
Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.
Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item.
Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh.
Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most.
Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with.
Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.
Day 12 - A picture of something you love.
Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist.
Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without.
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die.
Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you.
Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently.
Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.
Day 19 - A picture of you when you were little.
Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.
Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget.
Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at.
Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book.
Day 24 - A picture of something you wish you could change.
Day 25 - A picture of your day.
Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you.
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.
Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of.
Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile.
Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss

My all time favorite TV show is
The Mary Tyler Moore Show

A new show I saw that I loved was Bunheads!
(Watch the Pilot HERE )

I am looking forward to more from that show.

What's your favorite classic/new TV show?

I was looking through old photos and found these from when he was 3
He is a funny kid!

Here is the 30 Days of Pics challenge:

Day 01 - A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.
Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been
close with the longest
Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show.
Day 04 - A picture of a habit you wish you didn't have..........
Day 05 - A picture of your favourite memory.
Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day.
Day 07 - A picture of your most treasured item.
Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh.
Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most.
Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with.
Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.
Day 12 - A picture of something you love.
Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist.
Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without.
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die.
Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you.
Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently.
Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.
Day 19 - A picture of you when you were little.
Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel.
Day 21 - A picture of something you wish you could forget.
Day 22 - A picture of something you wish you were better at.
Day 23 - A picture of your favorite book.
Day 24 - A picture of something you wish you could change.
Day 25 - A picture of your day.
Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you.
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.
Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of.
Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile.
Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss

I guess my mom is the one I have been closest to the longest

Here on Xanga it is @Angi1972

They saw this spiffy old car driving by
 

A rainbow
 

Waving goodbye to her sisters on the school bus

Jack-O-lantern smile

Same Gesture

First watermelon of summer

Giving thanks

Being handed a bouquet

Helping Great Grandma

Caught in the act

2. THE FIRST FILM ever screened at Hollingshead's drive-in was “Wives Beware” (alternate title: “Two White Arms”), a 1932 one-hour comedy starring dapper Adolphe Menjou as a married womanizer suffering from convenient amnesia. The film co-starred the acclaimed Jane Baxter, a Winston Churchill favorite who graced stage and screen for a half-century. 

3. HOLLINGSHEAD'S THEATER reportedly lasted only several years, but his idea caught on, peaking at mid-century with nearly 5,000 drive-ins, according to Drive-Ins.com.

4. PERHAPS THE largest park-in was the All-Weather Drive-In in Copiague, N.Y. It held a full restaurant, play equipment and more than 2,000 parking spots on 28 acres. 

5. HOLLINGSHEAD USED RCA Victor speakers, and sound quality at drive-ins was notoriously awful for years — until soundtracks could be tuned through your car radio. 

6. THE DECLINE in drive-ins was partly due to rising real-estate prices. Revenue remained hindered, of course, since films (most of which were B-movies or delayed-run features) couldn't be screened until twilight. 

7. THERE ARE fewer than 400 surviving drive-ins in operation, according to Drive-Ins.com. Many of those are now multi-use facilities. 

8. DRIVE-INS HAVE MADE for great cinematic settings, naturally, being featured in such films as “Grease” and “Twister.” And — especially fitting in light of today’s Doodle — in the trilogy that goes “Back to the Future.”
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I remember  going to see some western when I was 4, I think it was
The Sons of Katie Elder
but I went out to play on the swings
because the movie was not for little girls in jammies!
I remember seeing The Jungle Book when I was about 5.

Later on we went to see "Dusk til Dawn Shows" at the Drive-Ins
where they played all the movies in one series back to back.
Once a month in the summer they did that .
We saw Mad Max, Back to the Future, Star Trek,
Rambo, Rocky, James Bond and Lethal Weapon.
The last showing at the that theater was all the Star Wars movies,
then they closed forever and built a strip mall,
I miss those all nighters.

The funniest Drive-In memory was when Mildred went to the bathroom,
when she came back she walked right up to the car in front of us
and opened the door.
My dad said "Look, isn't that Mom?"
and we were all wondering what in the world she was doing
We all watched her get into the wrong car...
she soon got out and came stomping back to our car and got in, she said
"I know you all saw that and just let me get into some strangers car!"
We were laughing like hyenas, that was just too funny.

How you have enriched my life!
I have been sharing my daily life on here since 2006.
You have provided a place for me to share my pictures, stories,
thoughts and emotions, struggles and joys...my life.
I have become a better photographer because of you,
wanting to show you my world.
You helped me to see myself in a different way
I used to hear the records of the past in my head, that song told me
that no one cared whether I was around or not
but you told me you cared in a way that I could believe,
you made me feel wanted.
You actually made an effort to come see what I posted
and have given me many comments, recs and kind messages.
You were there at 2 in the morning when I pulsed asking if anyone wanted to talk.
You give back to me, you make me laugh,
you have made me cry tears of joy and sorrow
and you have pushed me outward in thought, reasoning and understanding.
You are a place of support, entertainment and encouragement.
You have been stressful, touchy and mean here and there
but I try to learn from those times.
Maybe now would be the time to complain about all the drama
but I think it is more beneficial to tell you how you bless me.
Through some of that drama you have taught me more temperance
than one would think a blog could,
some of that came from seeing how others
have handled themselves in trying situations
 and some from not replying to snippy/mean comments
in the same way they were made.
You gave me a few of my very best friends and you gave me a second family.
You connected me with some wonderful people, a few who have changed my life.
You brought the world to me and showed me how other people think.
One can read a newspaper or watch the news but reading opinions
and ideas posted in the daily blogs of people around the world
gives one more of a front row seat of what is going on;
not just in one's hometown, state or country but globally.
I have been exposed to more culture, human sexuality, theology,
people of different  religions and lifestyles, philosophy
and poetry in the last five years than I had in my whole lifetime.
I guess you could say you have taught me much
about the human condition.
You give me something to look forward to daily,
a place to belong .
Thank you.
I love you!

I believe God orchestrated that moment just for me
to bring me back my smile,
and so it was.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
~Francis Marion Crawford

There had been an old farm up creek at one time
and we find all kinds of small pieces of broken glass,
china and earthenware worn smooth in the water.
Here is some of our our loot from a day last year

When I was taking pix of them I noticed if
I held my phone a certain way I caught a rainbow.
 
Over and under the rainbow.

I jokingly call them "Death Planters" and I kind of feel depressed
the whole time I am making them knowing they will be carted off to graves
by old people using walkers and canes.
It's a dying custom but when we were kids we used to get up early
and go with our Unk to put peonies at all the family gravestones,
I hated the ants that crawled up my arm and bit me from the peonies and
we often found snakes in the place where you put the flowers at the graves
but I learned the names of my great grand parents
and understood our family tree better at a young age.

Is it silly to put flowers on the graves of dead people who will never know
or is it a way to honor them and the memory of them?

There are five gut instincts you shouldn't ignore

“Something feels wrong in my body.”
Listening to your body’s subtle signals
is a critical part of exercising your intuitive sense.

“I’m in danger.”
If you don’t trust somebody, even if it turns out to be inaccurate,
it is something to pay attention to.

“I want to help.”
Following your instincts for sympathy and generosity generally turns
out to be a good investment in your own health and happiness, too.

“I know how to do this.”
If you know you can do it, trust your gut — not your head.

“This is it!”
When your intuition signals that you’ve found something
or someone truly right for you

read more HERE , also here is and Article on Gut Instincts

Do you "trust your gut"?

When ARE you truly married?
Is it as soon as you make the vows to one another and say I do?
Is it when the marriage officiator pronounces you man and wife?
Is it when you sign the license?
Is it when the marriage is consummated?
If you are married but have never consummated the marriage ,are you married?

Has it nothing to do with law but with living together daily sharing a life?

If two people commit to one another for life
without the benefit of church and law are they married?

What is a marriage?

HERE are pics she took a few years ago when she was 8

I've had a baby on my hip since I was 14 and I have rocked,burped
and loved on so many babies that I can't count them!
My sisters shared their babies with me
and now those babies share their babies with me.

I have never nursed a baby but I have kept newborns
who would not sleep so nursing mother's could rest.
When a mother gives you her newborn baby to keep overnight
you know you are trusted.

I have never felt the pain of labor or the joy of birth
but I have witnessed the birth of nieces and nephews
and saw them make their entrance into the world
and I have watched them grow from that day on.

I see that I have a job
and it has been to enhance the lives of the children in my life.
So many wonderful mother's have shared their children with me
and entrusted me to care for them
and I'm grateful for that privilege and honor.

Thank you Mildred for being such a good example of a mom,
you continue to show the way daily with your grace and wisdom.

If you saw a dog do it's duty on your sidewalk or yard could you clean it up and deliver it back to the owner?

My Grandmother Elizabeth Keffer Forney was born in 1890
(we called her Mem-mem, Mem is Pennsylvania Dutch for Mom)
was unpleasant to say the least. She was not blessed with a good personality
or kindness but she was an excellent worker and very thorough.
When she was young she was so obnoxious that her family could not stand her.
Her older sister Mary was an artist (and a wealthy man's mistress)
who lived in NYC, Mary sent Elizabeth to live at St Mary's in Peekskill NY
which was a convent and boarding school.
St Mary's is the oldest indigenous Anglican order in the United States,
it was founded in New York City in 1865,
she would have went there in the early1900's.
She finished school there and stayed on to help take care of the aging, ailing sisters who lived in the convent.
By the time she left St Mary's she was skilled at nursing the infirm
and she started her own convalescent home
in the Leesport area of Berks County PA where her family was from.
She took in her widowed step mother  Louisa who helped her in the home.
(we knew of her as "Ah-ha" because she played
peek-a-boo with my dad and his brother
and that is what they called her from the time they were babies)
Louisa was from New Ringgold PA, she had worked at the New Ringgold Hotel ,
they sent her to a swanky cooking school and she was
an exceptional cook and baker.
.
Elizabeth worked hard and saved money and when she was almost 30
she caught the eye of a single farmer named Howard M. Forney
who thought she would make a good farm wife and they were married.
She sold the convalescent home and bought a farm and they had two boys
Vernon (Unk) born in 1929 and my dad John born in 1932.
Tragedy struck one night and changed the course of their lives forever.
The story as my grandmother told me goes:
It was 1934 ,during the depression someone was poaching wood
from their land and when Howard went to check on it,
someone murdered him, hitting him in the back of his head with an axe.
My dad was 18 months old and Uncle Vernon was 4,
their fathers brother Reuben wanted the boys ,
it was no secret that Elizabeth had a nasty disposition
and I suppose Reuben wanted to spare the boys some misery.
There was a huge fight , Elizabeth kept the boys
and she never spoke to Reuben again.
Elizabeth sold the farm and moved to a row home in the town of Leesport
to a street that was nicknamed Potpie Alley, because they were all
Pennsylvania Dutch families and they made a lot of  Chicken Potpie ,
it was said you could smell it up and down the street at suppertime.
The boys lived there with with her until they were old enough to go
to Girard College in Philadelphia, back then it was a private school
for fatherless boys, they lived on campus and went home in the summer.
The school was constructed and endowed
from the fortune of Stephen Girard (1750 - 1831), a French immigrant
who was probably the richest man in America at the time of his death.
The money he left to create Girard College was the largest private
charitable donation up to that time in American history.
They spent summers in Leesport with Mem-mem and Ah-ha,
Mem-mem had a very dark side and did unspeakable things to the boys
but Ah-ha was kind and sweet and loved the boys dearly.
At Girard they received a good education and learned a skilled trade,
both boys enlisted in the army afterwards and
were veterans of the Korean Conflict.
My dad married my mom ,a sweet Mennonite girl from Lancaster county
and my uncle built a home for himself and his aging mother.
Unk was a bachelor for many years,
he married a good woman (Aunt Barbara) later in life
and never moved from the little home he built
  with the same phone number that I memorized as a little girl.

Every single week of my life growing up Unk and Mem-mem came to visit
on Sunday evenings for supper, then we all played 500 Rummy
(I learned how to play that when I was 6 because
my younger sister Sally had learned before me,
I was not all that interested in playing grownup games
but I couldn't be left out since Sally was already playing!)
After the game we ate ice cream and warm raisin bread with icing
that Unk brought and my mom made, it was so good!
Unk is the one who got us our "big" gifts on birthdays and Christmas,
he got us whatever we asked for.
He took us places in his little VW Beetle, he took Mem-mem
and all five of us kids all over the place in that little car.
He made a yearly trek to take Mem-mem back to the convent
in Peekskill NY to see the sisters. Sally and I sat behind the back seat
and going over over the Hudson River Bridge was so exciting sitting
way in the back of the bug, we could see far and wide!
 
My dad seemed to have a lot more issues than Unk and our home life
was not easy, my father was explosive and abusive at times
and was kind at other times, we just never knew what was what.
Unk knew that and did all he could to make our lives better,
he showed us what family ties were and loved us unconditionally.
We loved our dad because
he was our dad and we were supposed to love him ,
he left a lot to be desired as a father,
but Unk...
we loved him just because.

All throughout my life one of my worst fears was of losing Unk,
because I knew it would be like losing a father.

Today we buried Unk,

I miss you so much Unk, especially your voice.
Thank you for the good life you gave us.

I saw this scene on Breakout Kings, on the show
these are tough guys who don't even like one another a lot
sharing a queen size bed in a hotel.
 
Haaaaa, that would NEVER HAPPEN!
I believe that most, if not all straight men would rather sleep
on the floor or in the bathtub
than share a bed with another man.

Will you sleep in the same bed with another adult (non sexual)?

It all started with this photo that I too on the spur of the moment
when we needed something quickly,
I stapled the Open sign to his collar.
He is such a good sport

I have made him jump in the wheel barrow

sit in the van

sit in a flower pot

and stand behind the cash register

He does whatever I tell him to do and all with a smile,
he greets the customers when they come to the greenhouse,
he is such a good boy!

There are a few things I hate besides raw onions
like sardines, herring,octopus, oysters (strong fish), I can't eat them.
I strongly dislike watermelon and chocolate and soda pop.
I do not enjoy odd animal organs like heart, brains and kidneys, tripe and liver
but if it is served I will eat it.
I've eaten curry goat in Jamaica which was really good
I've eaten some kind of crunchy bugs from Zimbabwe, they were bitter.
Read more about edible insects HERE

My mom always said that when someone works to prepare a meal
and serves it to you, you eat it (unless you were allergic to something etc)

She always gave us this example:
When she was young they were doing some mission work at the Bowery Mission
People from the local church had some of the kids
come to their homes for lunch. The lady my mom's group went to
served them cold tomato soup with pop corn and cottage cheese in it.
It was the oddest thing, but they ate it.
My aunt said it would have been good served separate
but mixed up like that she kept gagging,
she can't even talk about it without gagging.
But the thing is, they received it graciously
and did not insult the poor woman who thought she was serving them her best,
they knew it was what she had.

Could you or would you eat it?