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The photo is my son and myself. Now days you can get a photo made to look old like this one. This photo was taken when this was the new look.

Harry S Truman was president when I was born and world war II had ended. I grew up in a time when lunch was put in a brown paper bag and a sandwich was wrapped with wax paper. There was no such thing as pantyhose, we wore stockings that attached to the rubbery clippy things that attached to the girdle. Convenience stores were not common and when we took a trip we packed a picnic basket because many places did not have fast food. Highways had places to pull over and stop, some with picnic tables. Read more ....
 

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What Is Growing At Our House 2009

June 28, 2011
WHAT IS GROWING AT OUR HOUSE?
PAGE ONE
 
OUR GARDEN IS DOING WELL, DESPITE THE THREE DIGIT NUMBERS AND LACK OF RAIN.
 
WE HAVE A BABY WATERMELON! Late June 2009
 
Our Blackeyed susans are attracting many honey bees June 2009
 
Up close blackeyed susan
 
Notice the ants on the okra?  Well they are eating the aphids off the okra.
 
Okra Bloom Late June 2009
 
The Sunflower is starting to make seed!  Late June 2009
 
Katie in the watermellon patch
 
No, we are not growing eggs............ I wish.......... That is a white eggplant June 2009
 
Amish salad tomatoes, I ordered the seed this past winter.  Now June 2009
 
More tomatoes.....
 
This is Guara and it is just beautiful, it is sooooo tall, about seven feet. Late June
 
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The tomatoes have gotten so tall that we had to build a bamboo frame around it.  I cannot reach the top.  June 2009
 
Just thought this was pretty because of the coneflowers.
 
We went to see my daughter and decided to go to the beach............
 
It was a very windy day
 
 
 

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