Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- “Spring is sprung. The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is?” ~ Anonymous
- Bewildered and bedraggled Snowdrops. Angry Robin bemoaning frozen worms. #Wordless Wednesday #Weary from Winter #3 years of Wordless Wednesdays for me!
- Ahh – Spring arrives today!
- Why a Duck? Why not a Seagull? #Wordless Wednesday #Marx (Bros.) Madness!
- Humbug Marsh was hummin’, not humdrum on this trek.
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FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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BADGES
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- 02-02-2018
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- 03-13-2018
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- 03-25-2018
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- 03-26-2018
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- Year #6!! 02/2019
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- 04-13-2019
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- 11-21-19
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WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
Your baby pictures are so sweet! I wonder if you dropped that doll down on the bumper — you look so serious.
The Mustang pictures brought back a memory. I didn’t have any brothers so I was fascinated by an excited conversation a group of my older male cousins were having at a family gathering. (It must have been 1964, making me about 7 years old…) They went on and on about the new Mustang car, imagining driving it, making motor sounds and discussing all its features and specifications. I couldn’t get over how impressed they all were with a car — lol.
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Thank you Barbara! I thought a few black-and-white vintage car pictures would add some fun to this post. I actually have used other baby pics of me standing beside the car in an earlier post I did about car cruising weekend. When I scanned in all my photo albums over Thanksgiving weekend 2017, I scanned in almost 1,000 full-page images. Many, if not most, are raw images from the album page – I had to turn each page around and scan it in twice to ensure I got the whole picture. I did not finalize the picture as I scanned it. So, that is another huge project for retirement. If I had it to do over, I’d have bought a hand-held scanner. I have to go thru my media files and take out all the “finalized” pics and put them in one spot, on another flash drive for sure.
As to the doll, I’ve looked thru the scanned images looking for “Tilda Jane” and could not find her, just my other dolls thru the years. So this picture was very tiny and when I enlarged it, there she was on the bumper! My favorite doll ever! I had her for so long that my mom had to sew a new head on her, as I held her by her feet and her head was soft and dragged on the ground and got skinned up. 🙂 I sure did look serious, if not mad in that picture.
I always liked the look of the Mustang, especially the original model – the later models became boxier and were nothing like the sleek Mustang from years before. I’ll bet Mustangs were always boys’ dream cars back in the day!
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That sounds like quite the project! I suppose I should think about doing something similar. Tilda Jane is such a cute name. Do you remember how you chose it? (My doll was Kimberly and I keep wondering how I came up with the name, maybe from a storybook read to me?) Memories are mysterious things sometimes… 🙂 One of my kids, like my mother, would never smile for a picture. Always scowling or frowning…
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Barbara, my albums, scrapbooks and yearbooks were in several under-the bed boxes in a closet … it’s a small house and there were holiday decorations piled on top of the boxes, so difficult to get to the albums, so I bought that Epson flatbed color scanner and decided to scan in all the albums (family/travel/friends). It was quite an undertaking and coincidentally, just that week, after four and a half years of blogging, I had my first WordPress follower. I just did the scanning project so I could look at the photos and scrapbook items without tearing apart the closet to do so. Also, the bindings on many of the albums was starting to come loose and pulling out of the “posts/holder” and the adhesive overlays were becoming loose and pictures were slipping around. This was a good way to preserve their integrity. I have used many pictures in posts, so I’m glad I did this. As for why I called my doll Tilda Jane, up until about 15 minutes ago I did not know why. Another fellow blogger, Joni, mentioned this doll. We were discussing Christmas blogging topics one time and I said I was going to do one on dolls as I had several pictures of me with dolls. Joni is the same age as me, also Canadian and often does book reviews. She did a two-part review of L.M. Montgomery and her “Anne of Green Gables series” – all Canadian little girls read that series growing up, as she was a Canadian author. So I decided to Google the name “Tilda Jane” and discovered it was a story written by a Marshall Saunders, a woman author; it was published in 1901 about some orphaned children. I just sent the link to Joni and suggested she should blog about it as these two women authors were instrumental as writers in the early 1900s. I’m guessing my mom read it to me or she liked the name and picked it for me. All these years I wondered where I got such an unusual name. So your doll named Kimberly was likely a storybook as well. Interesting about not smiling for a picture – some people do not like to. My father could not take a picture to save his life – every shot is off center and he got scenery or a car in the shot and cut off my mom and/or me. It got worse as I got older as my parents were very short and I was 5′ 9″ tall … he always cut off my head. 🙂
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Good detective work there! 🙂 I remember you writing about your father’s photography difficulties. 😉 Good thing you didn’t inherit those genes — it would have made blogging all the more challenging for you. 🙂
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Thank you Barbara – that HAS to be how I picked that name. Perhaps it will be a topic for Christmastime … all about dolls from Christmas past. Yes, I am glad I didn’t inherit his photography difficulties genes. There are very few photos he took that the subject was almost out of the photo.
I am excited to share some news with you. I went to three metroparks today (and am pretty worn out). I saw my first chipmunk! I hope the photos came out as I was not near and it was sitting on an wooden outlook with a cluttered background. But a first … there were two and I didn’t see the other one at first, then that second one saw me, ran off the board and the other one followed. (The outlook was cordoned off with yellow safety tape. It is apparently listing to one side and they deemed it unsafe. I’ve not been here since I took the “Walk, Talk, Sketch” interpretative walk in 2019 and to think our group gathered together on it … wow.)
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Congratulations on finding a chipmunk, Linda!!! Aren’t they adorable? I’m looking forward to seeing the pictures — I hope they came out and make it on to your blog. A nice reward for walking in three parks in one day. 🐿️🐿️
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Yes, I was so happy to finally see them Barbara – so cute and I love their markings! They were very quick and I think I blinked and they were gone, darting here and there and down that space in the cement beneath the outlook that needs repair. I will be excited to see the pictures, though I may not look until next weekend as I am so awfully behind here in Reader (and things in the house/weeds need my attention as well). But I wish I had not been watching the hummingbird as one chipmunk was perched on a big rock. And, I was out today, two big parks as well and at Humbug Marsh I saw what I believe are beach roses … pretty pink and I took pics of them and have to look on your site to confirm them and compare side by side. A successful weekend of walking and taking pictures for future posts!
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A nostalgic trip indeed!
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The journey back to the “olden days” as we used to call it when we were kids – now I can reflect back on the “olden days” myself. There are older cars, some Model Ts in this cruise, but it was so hot last Saturday, I did not stay as long. I’ve not been to it since 2018.
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OMG – I love, love, love the vintage photos of you by the car with your parents. The one with the doll is precious. It looks like you’re looking at your mom and thinking, “Wait, where did you put my doll…I’m not smiling until she’s back next to me?!” I love the soft yellow mustang photo. Classic cars are so fun to see!
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Thanks Shelley – I am so glad I decided to put them in at the last minute. I had done another post a few years ago when I stopped at the annual classic car cruise event and used different pictures so I didn’t want the posts to be too similar. I was happy to find this picture which was tiny (the pictures processed then were very small, so I had to enlarge it. This is the only picture I have with my favorite doll “Tilda Jane”. I like that Mustang too – I always liked the older models the best because you could see it at a distance and know it was a Mustang.
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Nice work on creating an enjoyable post, as always ;-)!
Aw, that’s so sweet you remember the dolls name too.
Thanks for sharing this post!
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Thanks Shelley – it was fun to put together this post. I don’t know where I got that name from – kind of a mouthful for a young child to roll off the tongue. 🙂
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That’s awesome – you were brilliant and creative as an infant too!!
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Now my head will swell again. 🙂
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😍🥰😁
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Precious memories, Linda, and what an amazing line up of cars!
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Thanks Terri – yes, such a long time ago. I did a similar post when I last attended this event in 2018 and used some vintage baby pics of me then too. As the day goes on, there are wall-to-wall vintage and/or muscle cars in the dedicated lanes of Fort Street which runs through three cities. It was hot, 80 when I was there at 10:00 a.m. and going to the mid-90s. The line-up of “Ponies” was fun to see.
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I agree with Shelley. The first photo looks like you negotiated with your mother before agreeing to the pose. Your doll had to be within sight or she’d risk a full-on temper tantrum!
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Ha ha – Dave, I was wondering if the car was hot and that’s why I was wearing such a grumpy face. That was my favorite doll “Tilda Jane” and I never went anywhere without her, so your theory sounds more plausible than mine.
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I liked the license plate “NOT A EV”!
You were a car buff at a early age!
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Wayne, I liked that license plate too. I took pics of all the fun license plates there. I am sure more Mustangs showed up later – it was in the 90s that day, so I didn’t stay much past 10:00 a.m. I hope it was not a sunny or hot day when my parents plopped me on top of the hot car to take pictures! No wonder I looked grouchy! My father had an interview in Oklahoma one year – I was about seven. We drove from Oakville to Oaklahoma in a VW Beetle and he had plastic covers on the seats. I remember it was stinkin’ hot and I had to put a wool blanket on top of the plastic seat covers as my legs were sticking to the plastic. No A/C in the VW in those days. We went along Route 66 as I recall.
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just add another 6 to it and you have the highway to hell by the sounds of it! My legs have been burned by that same plastic! I wonder how many millions have experienced the same delightful feeling?
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For sure – it was a long and hot trip and nothing but driving, driving and more driving in a VW Beetle. No A/C in the car either back in those days … VW Beetles didn’t have a lot of amenities anyway, even when I had mine in 1973. I took a transistor radio in the car with me as it didn’t have a radio. That was an “add-on” and my parents bought the car new and said I didn’t need any distractions while driving. And why did our fathers do that to us Wayne with those stupid plastic seat covers? Just to keep the car seats clean and pristine looking. Yes, it was hot in Summer, scorching our poor legs when we wore shorts all the time. If you got out of the car, it was hellish when you came back. I had a blanket and sat on that in the heat with that hot blanket.
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I do not see those plastic coverings anymore? I guess they fried too many legs!
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I’ll bet you are right – maybe people use cotton or velour covers, a lot easier on the legs!
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I enjoyed seeing the photos of the vintage cars, but the ones with you in them are precious. You do not look too happy to be sitting on the hood of the car in the first photo. Maybe your mom took your doll away from you to take the picture and you were disgusted! 🙂
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Thank you Laurie – one of the best things I did for myself was buy a scanner to scan in the photos in the albums and also the scrapbooks. I love looking at the old photos. I really did look grumpy in this picture – maybe it was hot on the top of the car? My doll should have been in the photo, so you’re right … I was likely asking for her. I carried “Tilda Jane” everywhere!
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Cute pictures of you! I love old cars, my first car was a 1969 mustang and I loved that little car. Wish I still had it lol
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Thanks Susan! I thought it would be fun to include some vintage pics with these vintage cars. I did this in another post a few years back, but I recall that I looked a little happier in those pics. 🙂 They have this annual classic cruise weekend and, in conjunction with the cruise which runs along the main drag and goes through three cities, they have this “Ponies in the Park” event with all the Mustangs. It is impressive to see them all lined up like that.
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That would be neat to see!
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Last weekend was cruise weekend in Port Hron as well. We didn’t go I just heard it advertised a lot on the radio. Nice photos. If I was gonna buy a classic car it would be a mustang.
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That must have been the Gratiot Cruise wasn’t it Ruth? They have the Downriver cruise the last Saturday in June every year. I live close to the main street which runs through three cities. I only was there for an hour maybe – it was too hot to go to a big park, so I decided to go there and take some pics. First time since 2018 when I last visited.
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I think the Gratiot cruise is south of us. Chesterfield – Mount Clemens area. Not sure when that one will be.
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I wasn’t exactly sure the area you lived in Ruth – when you mentioned Port Huron, I thought maybe that was it. I remember the first year they had it – you couldn’t move on Fort Street for all the people watching. That was in 2000 and goes thru Lincoln Park, Wyandotte, Southgate and Riverview – a constant loop.
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we are between Chesterfield and Port Huron.
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I am the worst at directions Ruth!
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It’s always fun to look at vintage cars. My Dad has owned several through the years — some that worked and others not so well. I remember an old English Ford that my sister drove to pick us up at school. It had very squeaky breaks, so we always dreaded to see her coming. 🙂
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We never had any restored or not restored cars in our family – nothing that exciting in our family unfortunately. I do have a picture of my grandfather and his Harley Davidson motorcycle. The picture is very old, sepia-tinged and has to be close to a century old as he was born in 1892. This event is held annually and you see every make and model of vintage cars, some as old as Model Ts. I’ll bet you would see your sisters English Ford there as well!
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Oh just wow wow wow Linda!!
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It’s quite a car show Michael. I had not been in about four years, so I popped over to see it. Hot temps (91 F/32C) and hot-looking cars, no matter their age. 🙂
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What cute pictures of you Linda! And I noticed your favorite doll on the fender. It was classic car weekend here too last weekend, but I missed it again. I always intend to go, as it’s in our largest park, but inevitably don’t read about it until after the date. Usually it’s in August, so I was surprised it was so early. I like the red Mustangs the best.
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Thank you Joni – I thought I’d add some vintage pictures of me taken back in the day. I had not gone to the classic car cruise since about four years ago. In this event, you could not miss the cruise. In the sign you see it says “Cruisin’ Downriver WEEKEND” … the weekend part is new. For the most part, the official cruise on Fort Street through three cities is on Saturday only, but people are cruising Thursday night, Friday day/night, Saturday all day. Then, even on Sunday, they are still driving around. So we see it and hear it (tires squeal, they burn rubber and toot horns) long before Saturday’s (11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.) event. Now they even have bands playing all day long Saturday.
I liked the red Mustangs too and they have this event called “Ponies in the Park” where all the local Mustang owners in the club, park their cars, pop their hoods, then you can go by and see them. So I did that – it was very hot that morning, so I saw a few old cars, visitied the Mustangs and headed home.
About the doll – you and I had commented before about dolls one time and I said I had no pictures of “Tilda Jane” – she was my favorite doll. In perusing the albums, this was a very small picture. All my parents’ pictures from when I was a toddler were very small. So I found this picture and enlarged it and finally found a picture of my favorite doll. She is the one I carried around by the feet and dragged her head on the ground and my mom had to replace the head. 🙂
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OMG – Poor Tilda Jane – I hope she liked her replacement head!
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Yes – in cover of darkness my mom removed her head and put on another head and sewed it back up – she was made of a really soft material, a rubbery type of skin and I can picture her laying there. My mom sent my father to the store to buy another same or similar doll to do the “surgery” – it wasn’t close, but I had her for a very long time. I hope those two links I sent you in prior comments didn’t go to your SPAM … they might be interesting for a post for you sometime.
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Yes, I did get them Linda, and just responded now. Thanks for the email card for July 1 – I’ll show mom tomorrow. She’s gone to bed. It would be nice for her to paint – it’s a Bob Ross kind of scene! We just watched neighbourhood fireworks from the back deck at 10. Monday is your holiday, so you’ll get a long weekend I hope. I’ll try and answer your gmail tomorrow. I don’t know where the days go….I tried today to write a blog and only got one hour in, in between laundry and cooking and stuff. The air was so thick with humidity I couldn’t even stand being outside. We need rain!
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I wasn’t sure if your blog is set not to receive links … I don’t have my blog set like that either, so regular comments or comments with links rarely go to SPAM, just the junk comments. You’re welcome for the e-card Joni. I thought your mom might like that … take a screenshot of it the card as the painting is finished for your mom to paint. Don’t worry about the gmail – I was behind too. I had a busy day and went to three metroparks. Two are within a couple of miles of each other and the other one is five miles away. I went here and did the three parks, plus Huroc Park a few years ago. They said it was to be cool … it was less humidity, but I wasn’t cool, but then I had a long-sleeved top on (as I’ve already been sunburned twice this year – not happy about it, though not a bad burn, but enough), plus I had on long pants, crew socks (not short socks) and a bandana to not burn on my neck. Have to think about sun, ticks, mosquitoes … sigh. One of the parks always has a bad mosquito problem. I wanted to go to Willow Park as they had four of the DIA Inside/Outside paintings there. I could only find two and one was too dark that I’m sure it didn’t come out. I am worn out – 7 miles and drove 70 miles which is unusual for me, but they told me I have to drive the car longer stretches and preferably not stop-and-go, so a win-win for the car and I didn’t get lost, so a win-win for me. It is rural out there by those three parks. Nice tomorrow too and Monday until evening. We will get a stormy evening and then two stormy days – we need the rain badly.
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I would be exhausted with your schedule! We didn’t get even a drop of rain so I had to water for 2hrs tonight again…..the garden and grass look bad. Watched the fireworks from mom’s deck last night and got four mosquito bites in like 15 minutes then one followed me into the house….it was a giant. Not worth going out at night. Bought a flat of strawberries today so tomorrow is jam making day. I don’t even want to think about ticks but they are bad here too.
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I know it will get hotter as the Summer goes on and might be too hot for the bigger parks, many which are right out in the open, in the sun and a lot of walking. I figured it was supposedly cooler this weekend (although both days it was 85 when I was driving home after multiple stops while I watched the temps climb) … if it is this hot in June/early July, what will the dog days of August be like? At least Council Point Park is shady for about 3/4s of the walking loop. I am tired though from the heat and another 7-mile walk today out in the sun … went to bed earlier than usual last night, but the fireworks started at 10:00 p.m. once it was dark enough and continued for a long time. I am not going anywhere far tomorrow, just my regular park as it will be very hot tomorrow and I likely won’t get caught up here tonight (again). I didn’t water today because we are supposed to have a lot of rain/storms, some severe Monday night … something else to worry about. The mosquitoes were bad at the one Metropark I was at yesterday. The woods was full of them. I had on long pants, long-sleeved top (in this heat – ugh) and got bitten on my hands, even between my fingers. Can’t put on spray and use the camera. I do a tick check constantly if I’m in the wooded areas – at the paved paths, I only look before I get in the car. Hope your strawberry jam turned out well. Now you need to make hot biscuits to slather it on.
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I didn’t get the jam made today, but make strawberry shortcake instead, as I had company on the patio. Will do the jam tomorrow. It was a nice day, not too humid. I think I got bit by those tiny no-see-um’s as they bite right through your pant legs, and I have such a reaction to them I end up with red welts, that itch for 3 days. Started Claritin today finally as I couldn’t sleep last night – up every few hours putting AfterBite Gel, Hydrocortisone Cream and Polysporin on them! I had a problem with them last year too at the beginning of the season. The mosquito though is still in the house – as I saw it in the laundry room tonight but couldn’t catch it!
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I hate mosquitoes and always check my clothing before I come in the house, but they could come in on my hair. The only skin I had showing was my hands and forehead and they targeted both spots. My friend Carol gets bad reactions from mosquito bites too and gets them while working out in the garden, plus she gets rashes from unknown bugs or plants that she has allergies to. She’ll go outside feeling fine and comes in feeling sick and full of rashes and welts. She takes Benadryl (she says she “swigs” it, so must be liquid formula, but she takes the children’s formula after the bites, etc. and swears by that to cure the itch).
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PS. Mom’s tv stopped working today…the remote froze….tech person on phone said the Cogeco box needed to be replaced and they can’t sent anyone until Tuesday…..it’s one thing after another….I still haven’t dealt with the kitchen light electrical issue yet….have to talk to the manager this week as no one called me back and the kid marked the job complete when he didn’t install the dimmer switch. The only good thing lately is my car had a good checkup – knock wood.
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It is all the little things that just build up sometimes, now your Mom’s TV to top it off. I had the plumber in for the handle that came off the sink fixture downstairs and he made a recommendation about a valve replacement. I said “okay, let’s do it in the event of an emergency.” He said he would call in the job when he got in the truck – he didn’t so I sent a couple of e-mails. Still waiting. I still have cold air when I turn on the A/C in the car, so I am happy with it. And I drove my car 101 miles this weekend which is very unusual for me, but he did say to run it more. It got good gas mileage as I didn’t have many stops and starts, which is what it needs.
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That was my problem last week too – the handle was broke, but he didn’t way anything about a valve replacement, he just replaced the handle. She has Reliance under monthly contract plan so there’s no charge when they come, but not so with th electrician which was $250 and no dimmer switch. I’ll have to deal with that this week, as no one (manager) from Reliance has called me back and probably won’t. I may try and negotiate to take the labor off $120 and just get someone else in to install the dimmer switch – cut my losses – it’s too frustrating to deal with some of these people.
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I like the idea of Reliance and my friend Ilene who lives in Kingsville also has that Reliance service. I think they used to have that service advertised through Sears but Sears has kind of fizzled out the last few years. I think they do it through our energy provider (DTE) but just for electrical/gas appliance repair. Everything is frustrating these days – not enough people to come fix things, supply chain shortages. I hate to keep bringing up “the good old days” but we never realized how good we had on so many levels.
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Reliance used to be good….not so much now…but it depends on the skilled worker they send out. Still not heard from the manager, so I left the district manager a voice mail.
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Honestly – it is the same everywhere since they can’t get enough workers. Sorry you have to deal with that … that’s a good idea, so hopefully the higher up you go, the more success you will have.
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I didn’t get anywhere when I finally spoke with the “customer resolution” person. First she said the labor would be covered if the guy came back out, then when she realized I hadn’t been charged for the dimmer switch and it wasn’t even written on the work order (he didn’t record it), then she changed her mind and checked with her district manager and sent me an email saying I would have to pay another $99 for the labor call if he came back out with another dimmer switch. This defies description to me – it’s not my fault he brought a faulty switch so why should I have to pay labor for him to come out again with a good one. So I cut my losses and sent back a reply that I would find another electrician to complete the job, but if the other electrician finds the problem is the lights (which the kid brought and which I have no bill or warranty for) then I would stop by the district manager’s office and discuss it with someone in person. She was in a call centre in Toronto and had an attitude. I’m glad I didn’t sign mom up for the monthly plan. The electrician was very young looking but said he was 25 – but had no experience in my opinion, plus he was coming from Windsor which is a 2 hour drive – not my fault. CR rep said they can’t get staff – no wonder. They should just say that up front then, and not expect the customer to pay for a job half done. Have wasted way too much time on it, but I already have the guy who did my kitchen reno lined up for sometime although he is very busy. In the meantime we keep the kitchen light off it’s so blinding, kind of defeats the purpsose. I wish he had left the old light in. Sigh….
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I feel for you … the runaround in getting simple done that turns into making you sorry you even bothered. I need to get more outlets put in, but it can certainly wait until until there are enough electricians to get it done properly. It’s like my plumbing improvement … yes, optional but still….
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PS. The Cogeco guy came this morning and didn’t have to change the cable box – all he did was push the button and it came on right away. He said when they reboot the box from their tech end, they forget to tell the customer it shuts off and they have to push the button manually on the box! So 3 days of no tv for nothing? Honestly, how frustrating is that. I remember specifically asking if there was anything I could do manually as there were lights on the box when it rebooted and then it all went black and they disappeared and she said no. She has me reboot/reset it by pulling out the wire 3 times, and then did it several times herself from her end. So I asked him to let them know for the future. He said half their calls are over simple things like that, but the truth is at least half the people in their tech dept. either don’t know or their English is poor and you can’t understand them. I guess it’s hard to get qualified people. The guy who came was nice about it though, and no charge.
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I am shaking my head over that – why not suggest to them that they send out an e-mail to all customers when they do a reboot at their end so you know to do it yourself. I guess you will know for next time, but still. When I got the upgraded modem (which I rent from Comcast and I was eligible for the upgrade as it had been four years with the old one and it kept disconnecting), they asked if I wanted to order the modem and swap it myself as it was easy to do, then return the old modem to Comcast. I said “no, not that tech savvy” so they had to schedule/charge for the install. When the guy came out, he said you have to sync it to your smartphone to set it up and he was surprised … he’s a tech guy. It was some new model. I don’t have a smartphone, so I would have been outta luck.
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Wow, that’s really high tech! I have a smartphone but only a very cheap model which is good for nothing really.
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Yes, I thought it was fancy-schmancy too!
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I meant to ask you all week … how is the show where you missed the first episode? Were you able to catch up last Sunday?
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No, I forgot about it last Sunday – totally forgot. And this weekend we have no tv – until Tuesday am when guy is supposed to bring a new box. I hope he has one with him as I mentioned it 3 times. I ordered the DVD set of Portofino Hotel from the library whenever it is release, as I figured if we missed two episodes out of 6 there was no point. I also ordered the new Downton Abbey movie.
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Too many things going on in your life to remember everything. Good thing you have an option to the Portofino Hotel series from the library and the new Downtown Abbey movie as well. Strawberry shortcake sounded good – hope you got the strawberry jam made today.
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I did get the freezer jam made yesterday, but only had enough for one batch, as I had fed the rest of the strawberries to the company. I’m going to see if I can buy two pints for another batch, but they are scarce now as the local season is over, and I can’t use those grocery store things for jam.
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Our grocery store strawberries were more yellow than red the last time I saw them. Good luck finding another few pints or a flat of them.
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Joni – I was sitting here thinking about “Tilda Jane” and where in the world I got that name for it? It’s an usual name, right? So I stopped to Google “Tilda Jane” and look what I found on Goodreads. This was a book called “Tilda Jane” written in 1894 by a Canadian author, who, along with L.M. Montgomery co-founded the Maritime branch of the Canadian Women’s Press Club. So bingo! I must have read this story about orphans as a child and the name stuck with me. It looks like the book is free on Project Gutenberg. Here is the review from Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33613733-tilda-jane
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Isn’t that interesting. Published in 1901 before Anne of Green Gables!
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I thought so too Joni. And it looks like they were trailblazers for women publishers on the Eastern Seaboard. I knew you would find it interesting too.
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I’m not familiar with Beautiful Joe either, but maybe someone read both books to you when you were a kid and it inspired your love of animals?
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I looked at the story line for “Beautiful Joe” and that is entirely possible. That could be what inspired my love of animals. I wanted to be a vet as you know, but my math and science grades were not good – biology and zoology okay, chemistry, physical science not so much. it’s funny because over the years I was wondering where I came up with the name “Tilda Jane” — that has to be it. My mom might have read to me as a kid and I had a basket of “Golden Books” that I read over and over. I think my mom said I memorized them as I liked them so much.
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Sounds like a good idea for a post for your blog!
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Yes, maybe at Christmastime?
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Looks like she also wrote “Beautiful Joe” – this might be something for you to blog about since you enjoyed L.M. Montgomery’s work – what Canadian little girl didn’t grow up reading the “Anne of Green Gables” series (or see the movie). Here is the link to the book on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52018
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Linda, you are too cute in your bonnet! Parents looked so proud to hold you in those pictures. Love it!! Nice classic cars. My dad was a classic car guy and he a red fancy Impala. OMG, I was embarrassed to ride in that car getting all the attention from other drivers. I’d slide down into my seat. lol
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Thank you Esther! The first one I looked a bit grumpy – wonder if the car hood was hot? This was my favorite doll “Tilda Jane” who was on the bumper. My father had a 72 ‘ Impala which was a golden iridescent color with a vinyl roof. I have a picture standing next too it when it was brand new. 🙂
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Ahhhhh, I hope the hood was not hot!!
The name is wonderful and quite unique: Tilda Jane. Was that a popular doll for babies back then?
Sounds like a nice car. My dad went from classics to a gigantic Hummer in the early 2000s. My mom had him sell it after a year; she hated that thing. That thing guzzled gas and blocked sunlight for drivers. lol
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Yes, I hope it was not hot either, but I guess my parents wouldn’t have plunked me down there but I sure had a mad look on my face for some reason. Still have to wonder about it though. No, Tilda Jane was not a popular doll name Esther, however, Friday night I was writing someone else about Tilda Jane’s name and got done with the comment and decided to Google “Tilda Jane” and see if I could make a connection. I think I may have figured it out as I don’t ever remember asking my mom about the name … it turns out there was a book written by a woman author (Marshall Saunders) in 1901 by that name. It was a children’s book about an orphan and she had a previous book about animals. So I think my mom used to read it to me around and she was a fellow Canadian author from the Nova Scotia region and in a group of women writers that included L.M. Montgomery, author of the “Anne of Green Gables” series. I had to have gotten that name from that book!
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Very impressive research!!
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I’m thinking I may do a post on it one day Esther, maybe at Christmas … maybe how I transitioned from dolls to bears. 🙂 There is a doll on the deacon’s bench in the kitchen. She is a rag doll in a gingham dress, kind of made to resemble Raggedy Anne. That’s the only doll left now and we got her from a giveaway through Maxwell Coffee … she goes with the country kitchen.
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Maxwell Coffee giveaway! That’s cool. Something about dolls in a gingham dress make me dream of country things. But I had a bad reaction to Raggedy Anne because it was my Halloween outfit when I wanted to be a princess. My mom was late picking up a costume for me and R. Anne was the only one left at the grocery store. She brought it to school and I was horrified. hahaha, that was second grade.
That post will be interesting…makes me think about my doll collection to plushies too. Go for it!
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Yes, truly amazing and did I mention the giveaway was in 1985? My Raggedy Anne was outside only and in the garage. The child’s rocking chair she was sitting in fell apart from all the rain/moisture/humidity we had last year. I had it since 2010 and had to throw it away last Fall. I can see why you didn’t like Raggedy Anne. 🙂 I was Little Red Riding Hood one year and it was a rainy night and cold and I had a light-colored coat on beneath the red satin cape in the costume and it bled onto the coat.
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Unbelievable! Esther, just for kicks, I just Googled promotional Maxwell House rag doll and found her on eBay … she is still here sitting in the kitchen (ahem … a bit dusty), but she’s been sold, so I took a screenshot of her. Everything is on the internet!
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That is unbelievable! She’s vintage. It is amazing how much you can find on the internet…random stuff or specific things that you are looking for.
Ebay is crazy like that!
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I really didn’t expect to find it and was just taking a stab to see if there was some mention of her – what a surprise. Amazing – they had a list of every Maxwell House promotion they had for years!
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All these vintage cars make me think of the past. My brother who passed away in 2015 always loved these older cars. He owned several of them in his life time.
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Glad to stir up some nice memories of your brother Peggy. They have this cruise the last Saturday in June and it went from a Saturday to a whole weekend. Lots of vintage cars – even Model Ts. It was the first time I’d been since 2018.
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Sounds like an interesting event. Vintage cars are always interestiing to check out.
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Yes, they are interesting to check out Peggy. Back in 2018, the city where I live hosted an event called “Model A Rendezvous” which was a gathering of Model A vehicles, ranging from cars to pick-up trucks. I saw it advertised and it was a free event, so I went to check it out and had such a good time. The Model A was turning 90 years old. I got there early and the owners of each of the cars were eager to show me the inside of their vehicle, give me some stats on their car and let me take pictures. So I did a post about it. The vehicles were in perfect condition. One pick-up truck, a 1931 model, still had its original paint job – the inside was all original too – nothing altered. I will send you the link to that post if you would like to read it in a separate comment.
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Used your link and checked these older cars out. Really liked your pictures and commentary.
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Thank you Peggy – glad you liked it. The two owners of those Model A vehicles were so nice and I really enjoyed talking with them.
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Here is the link to that former blog post if you’d like to read it or see the photos … they were all so friendly and eager to show off their pride and joy:
https://lindaschaubblog.net/2018/08/11/i-brought-my-a-game-to-todays-excursion/
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Thanks Linda – I shall check your other old car post out.
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Wow – now those were antique cars. I always wished I ciyld ride in one of those rumble seats.
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Yes, they sure were Peggy. I remembered my mom saying she went for a ride in a rumble seat and it was really bumpy. I would like to go to that antique car festival they have every year at The Henry Ford/Greenfield Village. They turn the whole place into an old-time festival. The men and women and even kids come in period costumes and the staff of the Village does as well. One day, when COVID is over – sigh.
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Red was really a popular color that day! Adorable baby photos. Featuring you, or featuring the cars?!😉
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Yes it was – I was surprised how many of the Mustangs were red. Thank you Eilene. I did a similar post a few years ago when I last stopped by the cruise event and used other pictures of me as a toddler around cars around 1957 or 1958. I knew I had a few more photos that were taken with vintage cars, so I searched for them. My father was not great at taking pictures – most were so off center that he cut me out of the shot, getting only the landscape or the car. He had a camera and my mom had her “Baby Brownie” that she gave me when I was old enough to use it.
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Love the old cats and the vintage you!
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Glad you liked it Yvette – something fun and I almost called it “Wayback Wednesday” but I didn’t want to break my streak of 2 1/4 years of continuous Wordless Wednesdays.
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Yes / it would have broken the streak
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Yes, I hate to break it. 🙂
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And you will know the time is right for a change – but it does seem like it works so well for you right now
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I’m having a tough time keeping up here Yvette and so one long post and a WW works really well for me and, to be honest, I am not even sure I’d go to any more posts per week when I retire eventually. It also gives me a means to shave some pics off my Monday post and use them here.
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Yes – more might not be better and your two posts do work so well
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Wow! Those cars! And you, Linda; can’t get much younger than that! 😁
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Yes, a parade of them Tom … from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and they actually start on Thursday night with the cruisin’ down the main drag. I did see some old cars, (even older than me), but the Mustangs lined up in a row looking so spiffy really got my attention!
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That first picture of you is so cute. I can’t tell if you are just being very serious (considering all the things babies have to ponder) or if you are about to burst into tears because you dropped your dolly. I also love the one with your daddy 🙂
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Thanks Janis. I have to say that first picture is one of the only pictures of me as a baby that I had such a mad look on my face, so I wonder if having my doll, Tilda Jane, out of reach caused all that consternation. 🙂 I liked that picture with my daddy too Janis. Hard to believe it was taken 66 years ago – oops, did I admit that?
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I am late getting here,but glad I did. I love the early shots. The older car is a 1954 Chevrolet and the top one was a 1957 Monarch Lucerne. Monarch was a version of the Mercury that was sold through Ford dealers in Canada.
The cruise shots are of a 55 Chevy, an early 50s Ford truck and a 64 Mercury Comet. These are always fun to see.
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Glad you liked the photos JP. I do remember my parents referring to “the Monarch” and looking at the photo I didn’t know about the Lucerne part of the name and wondered which one was the Monarch. Now, thanks to you I know. One car was a green color – I remember my mom saying it was a putrid shade of green. My parents lived in an apartment in Toronto and my father took the streetcar to work and only drove the car on Sunday (that’s worse than me). He rented someone’s garage in the neighborhood. My mom said he’d take it out only if the weather was nice for a Sunday drive, then drove it back in the garage and dusted it off. 🙂 When we moved to the suburbs, I was two years old and he got a VW Beetle – I wonder if the big car was a gas guzzler to make the 25-mile drive to Toronto from Oakville?
My father was working at the Oakville Ford plant and we had a “Meteor” which was a version of the Mercury car. I remember him saying that. We got it in 1964 or 1965 and drove it to California and back in two weeks’ time. A lot of driving. We moved over here to the States and a distracted driver T-boned my father and smashed the front end so badly the car could not be repaired.
Thanks for identifying the other cars. There is a walker at the Park who drives that ’55 orange-and-cream-colored Chevy (or someone else has the exact same two-toned car). In high school we had a group of six close friends – only one had a car and it was a turquoise Comet. We’d fit all six of us in that car and go everywhere. Thanks for sharing your expertise with me and filling in the blanks!
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