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Last week Butter was watching something on the tellie about the Monterey Bay Aquarium so I thought that would be our theme this week for Way Back Wednesday.
I adored the jelly fish. These are Sea Nettles and they sting.
Spotted jellies in a cluster. They almost look like coral don't they?
~ames
Me and Boo Radley, 1939ish in Michigan
As you may know, the pain with being a bottled red-head is the fact that the color fades so quickly. So on Sunday it was dye day at the Tobey Ranch. Afterwards this occured:
Tobey: Maybe you should let it go back natural
Mrs. Oh: *gasp* Um. I don't know what color it is naturally any more.
Tobey: More reason to go back natural.
Now my natural hair (or the last time it was seen) has been described as being 'graham cracker brown' or ' graham cracker blonde' and that doesn't describe anything pretty in my book. Who rants over the graham cracker? In s'mores? No one raves about the graham cracker - it is always the marshmallow or the chocolate that steals the show. Cheesecake? Who raves about the crust? Being described as a graham cracker is nothing to brag about in my book.
So I tell Tobey that my natural hair color is just to 'plain'. If I were to go back to my natural color (dyed of course) I would need to choose either blonde again or brown and I do not look good as a brunette. Something about the day-glo-in-the-dark skin color I sport coupled with brown hair makes me look all Team Edward.
And Tobey says, "You could never be plain."
Yeah. I know......
He is such a good liar!
~ame
Mom, Gage and Yeti - 2002 Just a few of my favorite pictures of Tobey's dad: The GrandTobey
Tobey, GrandTobey and friend at our old church's Annual Chili Cook-Off. See I told you they look like twins. And no, despite downloading the recipe for and cooking the World's Best Chili Cook-Off winning recipe: we didn't win. I would say it was rigged...but it was at the church.
GrandTobey rockin' a serious Mad Men look.
I love this one. He looks like he could have been an extra on Columbo, Kojack or Streets of San Fransisco. Bum-chicka-bow-wow!
Another Mad Men pose.
You just know he was waiting on PonyBoy and SodaPop Curtis to come pick him up.
Gran at 16
Yesterday would have been my Grandma's 96th birthday. Happy Birthday! You've missed so much down here.
~ame
Dagwood Bumstead out for a jog? Not so my friends - this is Tobey's grandpa Buddy.
But this is how I will always remember him. Always with a smile and a hug. He was a great example in all he did.
~ame
This past weekend while I was decluttering I found a bin of pictures that I haven't yet organized. In that bin I found some pictures that I didn't know I even had. They were in a manilla envelope of pictures I got when my grandmother died two summers ago.
Great Uncle Dick, Dad and Great Aunt Maggie. I have so few pictures of her and I was happy to find this one.
This shot was a super-happy find! I only have a handful of pictures of my great-grandparents and I was thrilled to see this one. From left to right: Great Grandma, Mom, Aunt Ro, Dad, Dick and Great Grandpa.
The Great-Grands with Buffy. It is hard to believe this picture was taken in the early 80's. The grandparents are long gone and I suppose so is Buffy. She was such a good dog. Just look at that sweet puppy face. 
This weekend Max went to the groomer and isn't he just the most handsome Bichon ever? After I dropped his whining little self off, I went thrifting and picked up this 1961 edition of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It was a steal at only $1.99!
Nappy
Frodo
Simba
Barbie
Chewie!
Nappy and Chewie: January 2004Just think: 9 hours in the Shrekmobile and we could be spending the weekend in a winter wonderland. But why bother really when yesterday it was 44 degrees outside not including the (get this) wind chill factor. Yes friends, Florida a.k.a the Sunshine State is experiencing weather so cold the meterologists are breaking out Yankee words. Wind Chill Factor.
~ame
Great Grandma Snape and the gumball Christmas tree.
Grandma
Grandpa and the bulimic tree.
Mom in Grandma's front yard after the great snowfall.
Mom and Uncle H. with another sad little tree..jpg)
She loved Christmas so much.
Mom in the snow.
