A Goose for Camera Critters
Camera Critters
2 years ago I was down in southern Ca. visiting my father where I grew up. This guy here was wandering around at La Mirada Regional Park, in La Mirada Ca. I think he's majestic and kept these 2 pictures all this time.
2 years ago I was down in southern Ca. visiting my father where I grew up. This guy here was wandering around at La Mirada Regional Park, in La Mirada Ca. I think he's majestic and kept these 2 pictures all this time.
108 and 8 years old. Camera Critters
Meet Slower. Slower has been in my family since I was 2 years old. At the time we took him to a vet and was told he was between 50 and 60 years old. Slower had a mate. Her name was Slow, but she went to tortoise heaven about 5 years ago. He seems sort of lonely now, kinda just mopes around. Of course him being 108 years old may have something to do with it. LOL!!!
My grandson Jeremiah met slower before but he was too young, so I was glad to get them together again.
Google Earth/Maps and an unexpected find
Today I was messing around with Google Earth and Google maps. Of course I always put in my own address along with friends of mine. Today though I decided to place my dads address in it. He still lives in the same house I grew up in, down in Southern Ca.
I just could not believe my eyes when not only was I able to get a perfect view of dads house, but sitting in his driveway is my husbands car!!!
The last time we drove down there in this car was just a little over a year ago. What a trip! So seeing our car in front of his house was completely unexpected!
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I just could not believe my eyes when not only was I able to get a perfect view of dads house, but sitting in his driveway is my husbands car!!!
The last time we drove down there in this car was just a little over a year ago. What a trip! So seeing our car in front of his house was completely unexpected!
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1921 was a good year for me!
Today is a very special day in my family. My Daddy and his birthday. Born in 1921, my father is a young 87 years old today!
This was taken last year in my daddy's atrium. This is the house I grew up in from the time I was 16 months old until I moved out . This "atrium" is right smack in the middle of my dad's house. The glass sliding door that you see behind him( flirting with my girlfriend Cindy) goes to his bedroom. There are another 2 in that atrium also.
It is a beautiful spot. And while it is nothing more than a 3 bedroom house, pretty much like all the others (middle class) made in those days, my daddy always said, If I wanted a 3 bedroom house I could have bought anywhere. But if I wanted a 3 bedroom house with an atrium in the middle of it, My option was right here, meaning in La Mirada California. A town that was nothing but orange groves all around when they purchased this house.
Behind him in this picture is another of the 3 glass sliding doors that are in that atrium, and this one goes down the hallway. This was taken last year when he met my new puppy "Buick" for the first time. They became fast friends. My mother died in May of 1990, and had she lived just another 7 months they would have had their 50th wedding anniversary. I have 2 older brothers, by 8 and 10 years. I was born to them a little later in their life. My Daddy never remarried and as I said before still lives in the same house.
HAPPY 87th BIRTHDAY, DADDY!!!
Just a note, It is always fascinating to me to hear his stories of growing up. He was dirt poor and never lived in a house with a bathroom until after he met and married my mother. It never ceases to amaze me just how much this world has changed in less than 100 years.
WOW!!!
