Friday, July 19, 2013

0-6/60


My mom and me.

I've realized this morning that it's ten days until the big 6-0.  I had hoped to host a big bash in our newly restored back yard but, alas, the promised six-week garage-deck-patio project is now at 14 weeks  and counting.  I'm guessing at least six to go, so maybe we'll party next year instead.   Therefore, in a burst of total narcissism, I'm going to celebrate here, six years at a time.  Don't apologize if you get bored!  Actually, just don't read.

Years 0 ~ 6

The basics:  Ohio country life with my parents, my two brothers (the second was born the year I turned six), and my extended family all nearby.  The second half of kindergarten and first grade in Florida, where my parents were planning to move.
 
One word:  Idyllic.
 
Best memories:  The ocean and the palm trees in Florida, and in Ohio the fields, the trees, the creek, the butterflies, my cat Tomasina and her kitten Butterball ~ whose designated role in life was to became My Cat ~ our great dane Jody, and my paternal grandmother next door, who would drop everything for us at any time of the day or night.
 
Biggest fears:  Snakes.  Big ole' long blacksnakes stretched across the road at home, and coral snakes in Florida.  Honestly, I am so scared of snakes (which my brothers and I later spent years catching), you'd think they were every last one of them cobras prepared to leap out of nowhere and kill me instantly.
 
Music:  Perry Como and also  the Lawrence Welk show, which we watched on Sunday evenings after dinner at my maternal grandparents' house in town.  My plan was to become a blond, curly-haired singer named Peggy on Lawrence Welk.  My hair is neither blond nor curly, I can't sing a note, and obviously I have the wrong name  ~ but that was nevertheless my fondest dream.   
 
Quote (This is kind of like a yearbook!): "My work is to love the world" ~ Mary Oliver.



6 comments:

  1. Wasn't Lawrence Welk on on Saturday nights? WE watched Bonanza and Dinah Shore on Sundays... :)

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    1. If my memory is faulty, I think that at 60 I can be excused!

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  2. What a cutie you were. I loved those Lawrence Welk ladies, too, with their blond bouffants and tiny-waisted dresses. What a different world we grew up in. So innocent.

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  3. Yes, we watched Lawrence Welk and then Ed Sullivan as well. What an interesting post. I'm looking forward to more pictures and more stories.

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