We share birthdays! Hope your day is wonderful. DH and DD and boyfriend are taking me to this wonderful Chinese restaurant, and later we are going to see pirates of the caribean III 'cause you can't get too much Orlando Bloom! On, the other hand, my 19 year old prefers Johnny Depp - who could be her father - go figure!
What are your plans for the day?
Happy Birthday, laurawege!
hi seandor
I forgot that we shared a birthday happy birthday to you!
yesterday I did my favorite things because it was my birthday I went to a garden center ! with my best friend Phylis ( my husband gave me a gift certificate for" Windy Lo" : )) I got a new rose called passionate kisses its a beauty I hope it will be a good one . On Sunday my family brought a party to me . I knew they were coming but it was a surprise HOW MANY OF THEM WERE COMING! it was great I didn't have to do a thing and I got to see aunts and uncles, cousins my siblings, everyones kids, it was great we had such a great time I almost forgot that I turned 50!
laura
It's great to have a party when you turn 50 years young!
it was very nice
Happy birthday Laura! I hope it's wonderful!
I just found this thread, But I have to wish you happy bithday again! It was a fun party!
((((Laura))))
Your Sibling
Happy birthday to you , too, Seandor!
Oceangirl and Laura are sisters? way coool!
Yes, it is true, oceangirl is my sibling dut dut daaaaaah and a darn good one too! thanks for the birthday wishes
and thanks oceangirl for the party !
laura
Very cool! How long have you known each other? ;^)
About 50 years NOW!!! LOL
That's about how long I've known my sister! What a coincidence!
lol
When I first met her she was pretty short, and she couldn't talk- but she made a lot of noise!
She turned out pretty good!
yw for the party, Laura.
I still make a lot of noise!!lol
laura
So Oceangirl is the big sister.
Lol Yes, I'm taller, too!
But taller and older doesn't necessarily make you bigger :-)
I am not so sure if she is taller maybe at kassia's house we will stand back to back and see : ) I think she is shrinking at her age ; )
laura
Hmmm.... could be
Aren't younger siblings annoying? ;^)
Why, yes, now that you mention it... They sure ARE!!!!
;)
lol... you guys are funny.... so I will get to see the 2 sisters.... and my 2 sisters will be there!!!! and yes I am the oldest!!!!
I'm a middle (of three brothers that is) Sis is the oldest.
Any other gardeners in the family, Dave?
I am third from the top ( cindy IS the top) I think you and me and ma are the gardeners in the family. Gramy and Grampa gardened too. Remember when grampa charlie used to take us out after a rain to pick mushrooms in the wood around lake Cochituate? , We would pick them then bring them back to his house and he would cook them in butter yummy. He knew all the mushrooms I realy wish I had paid attention!
laura
Laura I have always been afraid of mushrooms...
You're afraid of mushrooms? Why? They don't bite . . . and they can't kill you - unless you bite them - and even then, it would have to be deadly, poisonous mushrooms.
Now falling down . . . that's something to be afraid of - you can get hurt falling down - which is why I am one of the few Canadians that can neither ski nor skate lol
kass you have to know which mushrooms to eat and they are delicious . but I don't so the only ones I eat now are from the grocery store. I don't like to fall down either but what I am really afraid of is the great big mouse at chuckie cheese
ewww he gives me the willies
laura
LOL I am afraid of Rats (Sounds like he qualifies)
I love mushrooms... I remember Grampa Collecting them.
Grampa Gene had a big vegetable garden too, and a compost pile
I remember Grammie saying "Come see my posies" and she would take me all around the house to see all of them...
LOL Seandor! yes, falling down is something to be afraid of!!! It has happened to me before... Ouch.
Here is a picture of Laura, our sister Patty, and me in our early gardening days... back then we were into tree work! (It's too hard for us now.) I am the big one standing...Laura is the little one on the left. She was cute, huh? Laura, this was after a visit from the butcher... I look like a boy!!! LOL
omg remember the butcher? she was a friend of my mothers who "did Hair". Boy did she do our hair ! we all had the same cut, they called it a "pixie"
I guess it could have been worse , it could have been grampa frank, the guy who cut the boys hair! I remember that tree getting hit by lightning I was standing by the kitchen window watching the storm with Kenny moscatelli ( a cousin who could say dirty words in donald duck language) and the tree got hit , the lightning traveled down the tree trunk and across the driveway blowing up sand along the way . the next day uncle red came and cut the tree down because he said it was "shattered" and the only thing holding it together was the bark
laura
I was out on the porch in the big green rocking chair with Kathy.
What a great picture and memories to go along with it! Did you ever imagine that one day you'd be talking together with a bunch of others over the 'internet'?
Very cute! Very nice to hear you reminisce (ooh! Spelling). Before you mentioned your cousin's last name, I was already guessing you were Italian- American. I've also "mushroomed" as we called it.
My brother gardens but pretty much focuses on veggies including his famous heirloom tomatoes which one cannot buy seeds for. This brother actually kept at it and still knows which mushrooms to pick as well as how to pickle eggplant and make his own stuffed cherry peppers.
My sister gardens but not to my level of insanity.
oh you guys look so cute!!!! I think that kind of hair is universal... I had my hair butchered too!!!!
Dave, nobody in my family gardens at my level of insanity either... my sisters are afraid if I show up with more roses... lol... is pretty pathetic.... I am so glad they are going to meet you guys so they will see that I am not alone!!!
You're definitely not alone Kassia! We're just as nuts as you!
oh ya we come from a long line of nuts!
laura
We sure do. You should feel right at home!
But Dave, we are not Italian American. Our cousins were. And Our Italian uncle was a
gardener. He had an amazing vegaetable garden and he made the best fired eggplant ever. He had gorgeous roses and African Violets, too.
remember Uncle Bruno's mother nonie (sp) and sister erma they had a cellar full of garlic and onions hanging from the rafters
His garden was so beautiful .
laura
So cool! Bet there's no vampires in that house!
It was! He had lots of zuchinni too- no squash vine borers!
Sofonisba- I don't think I would have believed anyone if they told me about the internet back then. I thought color TV was a miracle!
It is a miracle! I remember as a kid, talking about the space-age future like it was out of reach. Telephone cords would be miles long so you could go to the grocery store and back and not hang up on your conversation! Ha! I never imagined we'd have cell phones.
Harper