Good morning, all. A beautiful day here. My dad was up early, at 12:45. He just headed back downstairs a few minutes ago. We don’t actually have a downstairs but both he and father in law firmly believed they were living downstairs here. My dad will probably tell my brother that he was home alone this morning as he does not grasp that we don’t disappear or leave, we go to bed.
Oh beautiful Fall!! Leaves have yet to change colors here…next week in those mountains is said to be the place to be…I’ll stay home. Of course our pines stay pretty much the same 🌲
The leaves are spectacular around here, although not right in my yard right now. The trees can change at quite a different pace according to the local climate. Lake Superior has a big effect on the weather. So much beauty. That poor tree looks like it was damaged somehow.
My brothers had cap guns that we all played with. When they couldn’t find them, they were happy to place the caps on a sidewalk and hit each one with a hammer. They went through them quite quickly that way. Another way children will use toys in ways not anticipated by adults.
Happy Saturday. Waiting for the refrigerator repair man.
I remember getting onto one of LA’s old, still-running Red Cars when I was very young, wearing a brand new holster with “guns” and a cowgirl hat. We lived up in the mostly orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Hollywood back then.
dj, you would have been a riot as a friend! Oh, all the adventures!
Our trees are slowly turning as well (some quicker than others). I saw an aerial view of Kathaleena’s part of the world – so beautiful the colours!
I had an almost nap on the grass yesterday. The dogs were playing, the sun was so nice and warm, no breeze. The dogs then came and rested beside me as I watched hundreds of snow geese flying overhead.
Kathaleena @11:48: Your 2nd graph reminded me of that Doonsbury cartoon on how kids would use the gender-neutral toys — showing boys with vegetable strainers, pans and other cookware on their heads as helmets, spatulas pointed aggressively outward in a game of war.
Kare, what a peaceful vision of you in the grass with the dogs. 🙂
And today I tried to repeat the calm experience and I’m pretty sure I lay down where Kootenay had done his business earlier. I was soaked. Gross. Needless to say I came in and washed up and changed my clothes😳. We’re napping inside today.
Why all the Anon? I must have missed something in my absence.
I’m very busy caregiving, all day and all night. I just used extreme strength to haul a leather executive chair up to the bedroom. I did not know I had it in me! A sign that PT works😀
It’s been quite breezy today with leaves falling like rain. The pretty colors have not arrived, but the early droppers are overly active. Brother has walked the driveway several times today.
Beautiful header. God is so good to provide unique colors for each season.
I have really lost track of time. How can it be almost Sunday again? Hospitals make time all run together, shift change after shift change.
It’s Janice, in case I, too, appear as Anon♡
On the iPad I cannot be me…so little ol’ me is typing on the phone with fat fingers!
We went to our favorite restaurant in Elizabeth only to find it packed out at 11:30. So where else does one go for lunch in a little town? Dairy Queen of course. It was actually more fun because the little boys on the baseball farm league were there with the coaches having lunch after what was most likely their last game. So excited and delightful gentlemen….
(Had to put the “. . .” in the second one because apparently WordPress does not recognize National Repeat Yourself Day, and didn’t want to let me do that.)
Well tomorrow is church then gas the car and later drive to San Francisco to take my friends to the airport so they can go visit their son in New Zealand.
Now my sister wants me to go to an estate sale, luckily just down the hill from me, to see if they still have some original Old Willow plates. Promises to be a busy day.
Jo
I put a picture on Facebook of me with my four children and got 113 likes and lots of comments.
I found the picture in my camera feed. It was taken last July. We really only all see each other once a year.
Jo and her gang.
Anonymous dj @ 3:54
The Jesus People USA had a cartoon with progressive parents telling a friend they didn’t want their daughter to have dolls sine they promoted sexist stereotypes (or something similar), so they gave her a tool set. The last panel shows the girl holding a hammer and screw driver pretending they are Barbie and Ken.
I had one but my fascination waned quickly. My parents were just as glad after the shock of realizing all the separate outfits one had to buy to keep the Barbie fascination going …
In our house my sister’s Barbies were kidnapped hostages, Ken was just another victim of my full size GI Joe action figures. (not dolls) Poor Ken did not come with weapons to defend himself or Barbie and Skipper.
They even once took over the Barbie dream house and held all the dolls for ransom. Ace even stole her Barbie pink corvette. My sister was not pleased.
Ken and the other guy dolls were once again just collateral damage.
Ah, GI Joe. We teased the neighbor when he got one, that it was just a Ken doll with a new head and accessories. But since it was advertised as an “action figure”, they got boys to play with dolls.
Well, I and my non-Barbie-like friends just kept playing baseball, football — and frontier land. The swing set in the backyard, with old heavy blankets flung over various parts, became our horses. The chains from the swings, horse reins.
A raft put together by my dad and uncle from some old wooden planks served as our Tom Sawyer prop and, later, propped up against the small picket fence that divided our backyard, a bobsled in the Olympics.
I had so many Barbies and Ken and the horse and the car/trailer combo and all the clothes, plus my Oma was a wonderful sew-er and she made many many Barbie outfits for me.
We played Barbies with my cousins and between the four of us, we could cover the whole floor of a room with tiny shoes and clothing and accessories.
We also played at building forts and outdoor adventures when camping, on my grandparents farm, we found a great hideout in amongst the trees that had been taken down and just piled in a field – pirates, cowboys and…, house, mud pies – all were played. I usually played the dog 😂
We had Barbies. Oldest sister had the blonde with ponytail, I had the redhead with the bobbed cut and little sister had the brunette.Mom’s friend sewed lots of Barbie clothes for our dolls. We had no Ken.
We also played hopscotch, cops and robbers, army, roller skating, jump rope, fort building….most of our free time was played outside
I had a few Barbies (at least a couple of them were hand-me-downs from a friend of the family) and a Ken. I also had some “Liddle Kiddles” (anyone remember them?) that I pretended were toddlers for the Barbies.
I had a Barbie camper, a car, and I think I had a small Barbie house. This was in the late 60s/early 70s, so the colors on those were orange (yuck) and yellow (not quite yuck, but not a favorite color), but I think the car was pink. By the time my daughters started getting Barbies, pink had become the dominant color for those kinds of things.
As others have said, there was also lots of fun to be had outside with friends.
Here is a page featuring Liddle Kiddles. Not sure of how many I had – not many – but I think they were the Locket Kiddles, and maybe one Kologne Kiddle.
Kare! I was Lassie when we played sometimes. Until my friend Linda’s parents got her a real collie dog, then the dog got to play the part of Lassie and I was booted out of the role. – dj
We had numerous Matchbox cars in our neighborhood. With a lot of dirt in the yard we’d make roads and play for hours. Often we played football in the street, or volleyball over a fence between two yards. Or we’d play World War II using the Jeep of a neighbor’s dad as our vehicle (parked, of course). Oh, the fun we had. So glad there were no video games to ruin our imaginations.
Until my friend Linda’s parents got her a real collie dog, then the dog got to play the part of Lassie and I was forthwith fired from the role. Abruptly out of a job at the age of 7. – dj
(But I was a better Lassie, if I don’t say so myself, because the canine replacement wasn’t very obedient, never followed the director’s instructions).
dj, yes! If we could get my grandpa’s cow dog to play with us, then I was no longer the dog. But since it was a working dog, it usually didn’t stick around very long.
I never got a Barbie, but my younger sister did. I once knit a dress for it, I think. My three daughters all had Barbies, but the youngest probably inherited all from her siblings. I made tons of outfits. My granddaughters now have them.
I also made Barbie birthday cakes for them. Coincidently to this discussion my daughter was going to make a Barbie birthday cake for her youngest daughter only to find the Barbie pick figure had hair that was all in pieces. She had to throw it out. I have a pan and pick figure but was too far away to replace hers quickly. So, she made a princess castle instead. The fun of the cake is decorating the beautiful dress around the figure.
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Good morning, all. A beautiful day here. My dad was up early, at 12:45. He just headed back downstairs a few minutes ago. We don’t actually have a downstairs but both he and father in law firmly believed they were living downstairs here. My dad will probably tell my brother that he was home alone this morning as he does not grasp that we don’t disappear or leave, we go to bed.
mumsee
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Oh beautiful Fall!! Leaves have yet to change colors here…next week in those mountains is said to be the place to be…I’ll stay home. Of course our pines stay pretty much the same 🌲
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Wow what a gift to each of us that picture is. Thank you for a gift of beauty
Jo
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The leaves are spectacular around here, although not right in my yard right now. The trees can change at quite a different pace according to the local climate. Lake Superior has a big effect on the weather. So much beauty. That poor tree looks like it was damaged somehow.
My brothers had cap guns that we all played with. When they couldn’t find them, they were happy to place the caps on a sidewalk and hit each one with a hammer. They went through them quite quickly that way. Another way children will use toys in ways not anticipated by adults.
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ooh, beautiful fall!
Happy Saturday. Waiting for the refrigerator repair man.
I remember getting onto one of LA’s old, still-running Red Cars when I was very young, wearing a brand new holster with “guns” and a cowgirl hat. We lived up in the mostly orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Hollywood back then.
dj
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And yes, I was with my mom 🙂 not just a wayward (and well-armed) tyke wandering the city on her own. -dj
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dj, you would have been a riot as a friend! Oh, all the adventures!
Our trees are slowly turning as well (some quicker than others). I saw an aerial view of Kathaleena’s part of the world – so beautiful the colours!
I had an almost nap on the grass yesterday. The dogs were playing, the sun was so nice and warm, no breeze. The dogs then came and rested beside me as I watched hundreds of snow geese flying overhead.
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Kathaleena @11:48: Your 2nd graph reminded me of that Doonsbury cartoon on how kids would use the gender-neutral toys — showing boys with vegetable strainers, pans and other cookware on their heads as helmets, spatulas pointed aggressively outward in a game of war.
Kare, what a peaceful vision of you in the grass with the dogs. 🙂
-dj
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Seen on Twitter:
~ Hobby Lobby already has the Christmas trees up. ~
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Refrigerator repair guy is very late, now coming at around 3 p.m., which is still more than an hour away …
-dj
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And today I tried to repeat the calm experience and I’m pretty sure I lay down where Kootenay had done his business earlier. I was soaked. Gross. Needless to say I came in and washed up and changed my clothes😳. We’re napping inside today.
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Why all the Anon? I must have missed something in my absence.
I’m very busy caregiving, all day and all night. I just used extreme strength to haul a leather executive chair up to the bedroom. I did not know I had it in me! A sign that PT works😀
It’s been quite breezy today with leaves falling like rain. The pretty colors have not arrived, but the early droppers are overly active. Brother has walked the driveway several times today.
Beautiful header. God is so good to provide unique colors for each season.
I have really lost track of time. How can it be almost Sunday again? Hospitals make time all run together, shift change after shift change.
It’s Janice, in case I, too, appear as Anon♡
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On the iPad I cannot be me…so little ol’ me is typing on the phone with fat fingers!
We went to our favorite restaurant in Elizabeth only to find it packed out at 11:30. So where else does one go for lunch in a little town? Dairy Queen of course. It was actually more fun because the little boys on the baseball farm league were there with the coaches having lunch after what was most likely their last game. So excited and delightful gentlemen….
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Kare, haha. But sorry!
Gotta love nature.
(Janice, WP changed their formats so there’s no place to fill in our un-logged-in names).
-dj
(Refrigerator is fixed — I didn’t realize it was running 24/7, constantly; now it’s not, and it’s so quiet!)
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Glad your fridge is fixed – strange how we don’t notice some sounds until they’re gone.
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Walmart was also putting Christmas trees up. Hobby Lobby is quite early with different seasons, since customers make things with many of their items.
Some homes also have Halloween decorations out. Not a fan of these early seasons. I like to enjoy the one I am in now. Fall decorations are nice.
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Some Sept. 23 trivia. This day is:
National Singles Day, International Day of Sign Languages, Redhead Appreciation Day, National Checkers Day, Restless Legs Awareness Day
dj
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Some Sept. 23 trivia. This day is:
National Singles Day, International Day of Sign Languages, Redhead Appreciation Day, National Checkers Day, Restless Legs Awareness Day
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It is also National Repeat Yourself Day apparently.
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Must be.
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. . .Must be.
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(Had to put the “. . .” in the second one because apparently WordPress does not recognize National Repeat Yourself Day, and didn’t want to let me do that.)
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(Which kind of ruined the joke.)
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Well tomorrow is church then gas the car and later drive to San Francisco to take my friends to the airport so they can go visit their son in New Zealand.
Now my sister wants me to go to an estate sale, luckily just down the hill from me, to see if they still have some original Old Willow plates. Promises to be a busy day.
Jo
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I put a picture on Facebook of me with my four children and got 113 likes and lots of comments.
I found the picture in my camera feed. It was taken last July. We really only all see each other once a year.
Jo and her gang.
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Anonymous dj @ 3:54
The Jesus People USA had a cartoon with progressive parents telling a friend they didn’t want their daughter to have dolls sine they promoted sexist stereotypes (or something similar), so they gave her a tool set. The last panel shows the girl holding a hammer and screw driver pretending they are Barbie and Ken.
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So who all here had a Barbie doll?
I had one but my fascination waned quickly. My parents were just as glad after the shock of realizing all the separate outfits one had to buy to keep the Barbie fascination going …
Admittedly, I preferred the baseball glove.
dj
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My parents wouldn’t let me have a barbie. I did have a Dawn doll. I loved that doll.
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In our house my sister’s Barbies were kidnapped hostages, Ken was just another victim of my full size GI Joe action figures. (not dolls) Poor Ken did not come with weapons to defend himself or Barbie and Skipper.
They even once took over the Barbie dream house and held all the dolls for ransom. Ace even stole her Barbie pink corvette. My sister was not pleased.
Ken and the other guy dolls were once again just collateral damage.
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The real Aj
That was me, obviously….
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Ah, GI Joe. We teased the neighbor when he got one, that it was just a Ken doll with a new head and accessories. But since it was advertised as an “action figure”, they got boys to play with dolls.
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Well, I and my non-Barbie-like friends just kept playing baseball, football — and frontier land. The swing set in the backyard, with old heavy blankets flung over various parts, became our horses. The chains from the swings, horse reins.
A raft put together by my dad and uncle from some old wooden planks served as our Tom Sawyer prop and, later, propped up against the small picket fence that divided our backyard, a bobsled in the Olympics.
-dj
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We did have miniature cars and cowboys-and-horses we liked, too, though — for ‘indoor’ rainy-day play. But no one ever took hostages. -dj
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We were girls — and (mostly) civilized — after all.
dj
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I had so many Barbies and Ken and the horse and the car/trailer combo and all the clothes, plus my Oma was a wonderful sew-er and she made many many Barbie outfits for me.
We played Barbies with my cousins and between the four of us, we could cover the whole floor of a room with tiny shoes and clothing and accessories.
We also played at building forts and outdoor adventures when camping, on my grandparents farm, we found a great hideout in amongst the trees that had been taken down and just piled in a field – pirates, cowboys and…, house, mud pies – all were played. I usually played the dog 😂
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No Barbies at my house or my best friend’s house. I felt bored whenever I was around Barbie dolls. I did not understand the appeal.
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We had Barbies. Oldest sister had the blonde with ponytail, I had the redhead with the bobbed cut and little sister had the brunette.Mom’s friend sewed lots of Barbie clothes for our dolls. We had no Ken.
We also played hopscotch, cops and robbers, army, roller skating, jump rope, fort building….most of our free time was played outside
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I had a few Barbies (at least a couple of them were hand-me-downs from a friend of the family) and a Ken. I also had some “Liddle Kiddles” (anyone remember them?) that I pretended were toddlers for the Barbies.
I had a Barbie camper, a car, and I think I had a small Barbie house. This was in the late 60s/early 70s, so the colors on those were orange (yuck) and yellow (not quite yuck, but not a favorite color), but I think the car was pink. By the time my daughters started getting Barbies, pink had become the dominant color for those kinds of things.
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As others have said, there was also lots of fun to be had outside with friends.
Here is a page featuring Liddle Kiddles. Not sure of how many I had – not many – but I think they were the Locket Kiddles, and maybe one Kologne Kiddle.
https://www.fashion-doll-guide.com/Vintage-Little-Kiddles.html
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Kare! I was Lassie when we played sometimes. Until my friend Linda’s parents got her a real collie dog, then the dog got to play the part of Lassie and I was booted out of the role. – dj
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We had numerous Matchbox cars in our neighborhood. With a lot of dirt in the yard we’d make roads and play for hours. Often we played football in the street, or volleyball over a fence between two yards. Or we’d play World War II using the Jeep of a neighbor’s dad as our vehicle (parked, of course). Oh, the fun we had. So glad there were no video games to ruin our imaginations.
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Kare @3:36:
So I was Lassie when we played sometimes.
Until my friend Linda’s parents got her a real collie dog, then the dog got to play the part of Lassie and I was forthwith fired from the role. Abruptly out of a job at the age of 7. – dj
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(But I was a better Lassie, if I don’t say so myself, because the canine replacement wasn’t very obedient, never followed the director’s instructions).
I loved roller skating and hopscotch.
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dj, yes! If we could get my grandpa’s cow dog to play with us, then I was no longer the dog. But since it was a working dog, it usually didn’t stick around very long.
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haha, yes, our ‘real’ Lassie, the actual dog, would keep running off, really didn’t play the part very well at all. -dj
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I never got a Barbie, but my younger sister did. I once knit a dress for it, I think. My three daughters all had Barbies, but the youngest probably inherited all from her siblings. I made tons of outfits. My granddaughters now have them.
I also made Barbie birthday cakes for them. Coincidently to this discussion my daughter was going to make a Barbie birthday cake for her youngest daughter only to find the Barbie pick figure had hair that was all in pieces. She had to throw it out. I have a pan and pick figure but was too far away to replace hers quickly. So, she made a princess castle instead. The fun of the cake is decorating the beautiful dress around the figure.
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