Cameras are not our friends

Reason number one people over 50 shouldn't try to take self-portraits:

Double chins.

 

Reason number two people over 50 shouldn't take close-ups:

Lifting your chin just makes you look dumb.

 

Reason number three you should be taking pictures of your kids:

Even when you get a stranger to take your picture, your kids are still cuter. And do you see Mary Anne STANDING ON A LEDGE? To be taller?

December 8 was Mary Anne's 51st birthday...we think she's the youngest one in the bunch. The three girls drove to Huntsville and met Tony for lunch...that's actually twice in one year we've done something...we're on a roll!

Oh!Oh!Oh! The three of us went into SuperTarget to buy butter, for me, and coffee for all three of us. And when we came out...not a one of us had a clue where we'd left the car. Not a clue. So Brenda started hitting the emergency button to set off the alarm but, and I'm not making this up, we couldn't even remember what SECTION we were in so we had to wander around, punching the remote, until we set off the alarm. When we DO get old? We're gonna be dangerous.

 

Tags: Do you people need a driver?

Maintaining

My plan here is to keep this on standby on a regular basis, and then every five years talk about how cool we are! Or something.  And then for our 50th reunion, we'll print the entire thing out. But as has been pointed out, we have to shift to five-year-interval parties now. Age thing. That would be 2009.

I've been thrown out of better places than this!!!

That would be...Merrill Gardens. The retirement home. My middle child volunteers there every Saturday. During Handy, the Thompson Trio was playing there and she had to go in at nine in the morning to set up the popcorn machine and make lemonade. (Yes, we've discussed the popcorn and denture thing. I didn't ask.) So after having gone to Handy on the Plaza...which involves sitting outside under a stifling awning that just intensified the heat...I went to MG's to pick up my child. And walked in the door and there, looking JUST like she looked 30-something years ago, was Cissy Smith. And we talked and laughed and talked and laughed and talked and...then some 400-year-old man asked us to please leave because he couldn't hear the music we were being so loud. As Mary pointed out, that probably meant AMY was being too loud.

I've seen me do that.

Lunches

Several years ago Brenda and I started driving to Huntsville a couple of times a year and having lunch with Tony Barber. Originally, we always went to Rosie's because there wasn't a Rosie's here, but since that's changed we have been known to end up at Tim's Cajun Kitchen. We also have been known to end up at Publix and Trees & Trends and Atlanta Bread Company and Super Target. (You'll notice that three out of four of those places involve food.)

The point of that is, I wish I had started saving pictures then. But now's as good a time as any...so here are Brenda, Mary Anne and I celebrating Brenda's 51st birthday at Rosie's in Florence. There was a four foot tall tree with saucer-sized flowers on it involved, and I can't believe I didn't get a picture of Brenda holding that.

 

Randy B's trip

Hey Everyone,

 

Made it back from our Road Trip (again, if you've seen the movie "Wild Hogs" keep your comments to yourself).  It was awesome, had some rain Tuesday morning, but it quit about 1/3 of the way through the Dragon's Tail, but I'm officially a dragon slayer, we did it twice.  The only hitch was Tuesday evening when we got back to our chalet, the drive shaft broke on my bike, so Debbie and her son-in-law had to come get me and the bike Wednesday.  Thanks for the prayers (and the hot-tub) because they got me through it!!!!

 

Randy--The Dragon Slayer

This isn't funny.

Do YOU feel older? I don't. I saw a Simon & Simon rerun the other day, and their MOTHER was having her 40-year high school reunion. And there were these OLD people there. With like, hair do's. And brocade suits. And they looked so...middle-aged.

Good thing y'all don't look like that.

On a sad note...

...Rosemary Barber died this afternoon. She was a wonderful lady, and I know a Barber kid touched your life sometime! Visitation is Friday night and the service is Saturday.