Family Photo Friday

 

Dear One has been digitizing an old photo album.  I am so happy he is doing that.  It is great that we can share the family photos with the whole family.  And others. This photo was taken probably in the spring of 1984.  We have the whole family together.  

You can see the log cabin the Dear One built for us back in 1972/1973 before our marriage in 1973.  Our upstairs bedroom window is showing.  You can see that the log cabin was story and a half so he, who is over six feet tall had to stoop to get into bed.  Well, after a while we changed the position of the bed to be under the window then BOTH of us had to stoop to get into bed.

 

We put up trellising around the "under porch" area so we no longer had skunks, cats, or woodchucks under there!  You would not think cats would be a problem, but THEY WERE!  They thought it was a giant litter box.  Really bad idea.

For myself, I LOVED the log cabin.  I felt no compunction about hanging things on the wall.  Just grab a hammer and some nails and poof: a picture was hung or a little shelf that one of the kids made in shop class.  Or a quilt on the wall.  In our new house, both in Vermont and here in South Carolina, Dear One had definite ideas about how and what gets hung.  Fortunately my sister introduced us to some fabulous  pieces of hardware that you can pound into the wall, more or less, and hang paintings and other pictures.  We had previously used the stick-on picture holders.  They DID NOT WORK!!!  Several times we came downstairs in the morning to a real mess of broken frames and glass shards on the floor.  Very discouraging.

So the kids look really good to me, even though the picture is old and still in the album.  Our oldest son was 10 years old and the baby was coming up to a year.  You can see the cute little shorts and shirt outfit I made for the older boys and passed on down to our final child.  Our daughter is wearing one of the better dresses I ever sewed.  The material was a lovely lightweight summer fabric. I don't think you can see it but I think there were little red dots on the dress.  I loved the little puff sleeves.

It makes me happy to see all their faces which show their personalities in some sweet ways.  Dear One surely looks different without his mustache...