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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 30, 2016 15:33:23 GMT
Cheers and the same to you, Mossie.
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Post by tod2 on Dec 31, 2016 9:55:12 GMT
I'll raise a glass to you Mossie - chin chin!! You look very well - I want some of what looks like fillet-en-croute....
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Post by tod2 on Jan 23, 2017 12:19:04 GMT
Every day at around 5.30pm we have a pre-dinner drink outside on the patio. I noticed something sticking out of my husbands denims... it has become our way of life once again - maybe like thousands of Americans. imageshack.com/a/img923/9089/aVpryb.jpg
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 4, 2017 22:11:35 GMT
My mother had her 90th birthday the other day. Here she is with all five of her children ~
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Post by mich64 on Sept 4, 2017 23:37:09 GMT
Lovely photo Bixa! Exudes happiness and pride.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2017 3:27:32 GMT
Thanks so much, ladies! It was a wonderful occasion & I appreciate your letting me share it here.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 5, 2017 3:49:07 GMT
Excellent photo. Is there any reason that the brother on the left is not a smiler?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2017 4:03:19 GMT
That IS his smile! He is extremely low-key, but very funny. Also, remember what a pain group shots are -- trying for something where no one is looking away or has closed eyes. You should be very grateful that I'm willing to show this, considering I always look like a mandrill in pictures, especially if I'm smiling.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 5:08:36 GMT
My goodness!! What a treasure and delight to see this !! When I read your post that you were in the States, I did have a shudder. And then this!!!! Thank you so much for posting this pic Bixa. It really means the world to me to see y'all!!! My warmest regards to all!!!
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Post by bjd on Sept 5, 2017 5:43:48 GMT
Nice for you to have a happy family get-together, Bixa. Much more family resemblance between you and the sister to your right and your mother.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2017 6:35:43 GMT
Ahh -- so lovely, Casimira. Thank you! Thanks, Bjd. It's hard to see resemblances unless you see us in real life & in movement, thus ~
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Post by bjd on Sept 5, 2017 10:53:47 GMT
Actually, I think family resemblances are more obvious on photographs than in real life. When people have a fixed expression, the looks/lines/features are more obvious. When we are moving or talking, then personality comes through and changes things. And of course, siblings resemble each other much more as they age.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 5, 2017 12:06:35 GMT
Lovely family picture Bixa. My family would rather die than get together for a picture...
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Post by amboseli on Sept 5, 2017 12:19:19 GMT
What a lovely family picture bixa.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2017 17:09:16 GMT
Bjd, my sister Mary, who is eleven years younger than I, had the graciousness to tell me she hopes she looks like me when she's my age. In real life there is more resemblance between us than between me & my other sister. All of us except Cathy (the sister in blue) strongly resemble my father, whereas Cathy gets her looks (& really great skin) from my mother.
Thank you, Mick! I came to the realization a long time ago that it's important to have these get-togethers when possible, rather than waiting for funerals and the inevitable conversations about how so&so would have loved seeing everyone together, or "it's a shame it's under these circumstances". Once everyone is all together, it's churlish to refuse to have a picture taken with the matriarch or whomever, so the group pictures get taken.
Thank you, Amboseli!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 5, 2017 18:55:06 GMT
Wow Wow Wow...what a lovely family...great family photo Bixa XXX
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 5, 2017 19:14:40 GMT
Being silly at work...taken just before I retired last year...Jade (24) is a Biomedical Assistant in the lab...she still visits me once or twice a month
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 5, 2017 19:28:33 GMT
Delightful to see that. I think you already posted it once but probably on the Photofuckit site, no?
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Post by lagatta on Sept 5, 2017 20:20:17 GMT
Oh, what a treat, Bixa! I adore the family photos, including those in motion. I'd have to see photos of your dad (including younger ones of both your parents) to see which parent the sibling resemble more. I definitely resemble my mother more; if I ever learn to upload photos (and these old ones were prints obviously), I'll post the photo of my mother as a young War Worker in Ottawa. She was so beautiful, but the beauty valued there then was fairer of skin and hair...
Is your mother still living independently?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 6, 2017 15:12:28 GMT
Thanks, Cheery! Your picture captures the essence of Cheeryness, although I question whether or not you are a good influence on that sweet young woman. Thank you, LaGatta! When I was at my mother's last week, she showed us five shoe boxes of photos, one for each of us. She said she had zillions more pictures that needed to be sorted into the boxes. There are also slides and some film, which I think is of bullfighting. All of that stuff really needs to be digitized, not only so it can be shared but as a hedge against loss. Not to be a nag, but anyport is coming up on its nine year anniversary and you've been a member since the beginning. Any time you want help via PM with learning to upload, I'm right here. My mother moved herself into an assisted living place eleven months ago, but has kept her house & stays there once a week, although she's quite happy with her new digs. Anyway, back to pictures ~ I don't have much of an age array of my parents on the computer, but will show a few. Here is my mother at @25, 30, & 80 (w/my son): My dad at @15, 61, & in his 50s or 60s: I kind of hate to show this picture, because it makes us look like a bunch of lost kids huddled in a bunker. However, I remember that it was taken after we'd been playing in the basement rec room. Anyway, it's the five of us 58 years ago ~ Only four of us here, as the other one took the picture. I don't know the date, but sometime in the '80s ~ (probably should put these in the "Declining Years" thread. )
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 6, 2017 15:26:17 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 6, 2017 15:55:48 GMT
gosh...there's something really heartwarming about sitting with your faamily after you have grown, shuftying through photographs when you have a shared upbringing. Each photograph can trigger dozens of memories.
We have stacks and stacks of my Dad's old family photographs to go through. We keep putting off sharing them out and one of my sisters has them stored in her house. We're ready to share them out now but my niece wants us to wait until after christmas as she says that looking at photographs of her Mum (our sister) will be too upsetting for her...understandable I suppose. Pat died last November.
The five remaining siblings just wnt to get it all done with...our Dad passed away in 2014 and we are ready for closure.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 6, 2017 16:01:00 GMT
Delightful to see that. I think you already posted it once but probably on the Photofuckit site, no? probably....lost track
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 15, 2017 17:43:07 GMT
We have stacks and stacks of my Dad's old family photographs to go through. We keep putting off sharing them out and one of my sisters has them stored in her house. We're ready to share them out now but my niece wants us to wait until after christmas as she says that looking at photographs of her Mum (our sister) will be too upsetting for her...understandable I suppose. Pat died last November. The five remaining siblings just wnt to get it all done with...our Dad passed away in 2014 and we are ready for closure. Not my business, but ....... I think the children of your father should go ahead and sort and share out the pictures without involving any of the grandchildren. The photographs that would have gone to your sister Pat will of course go to her daughter and she can look at them when she's ready.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 19:53:05 GMT
I love seeing these older pics of you and yours Bixa. Also, great to see "son of Bixa" dancing with your Mom. I was wondering after the recent reunion why he wasn't there. Too bad.
Every time I see a pic of your Mom from the past I note how very glamorous she looks (I would love to own that gorgeous black lacey top she is wearing!!!).
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 15, 2017 22:29:21 GMT
I was wondering after the recent reunion why he wasn't there. Too bad. On what did you base this inaccurate and inappropriately judgmental remark?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 12:08:40 GMT
I did not intend for it to read that way. My apologies.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 17, 2017 13:41:39 GMT
I assumed that the reunion was only for her children, not grandchildren or other descendants. But that was just an assumption.
She is lucky also that all five of her children are still alive and look pretty well.
I'm sure that at some point she'll want to sell her house, though if she has a garden, that is a terrible loss.
My mother was also very glamorous, and she made all her own clothes, even tailoring.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 17, 2017 16:16:28 GMT
Sewing skills are so admirable, especially when they reach the level of tailoring. I worked with a woman who is very small, but also always perfectly dressed, including a variety of suits. It turned out she made them all herself.
Re: reunion -- I made a thread showcasing it in the North America board.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 17, 2017 16:44:13 GMT
When I was little, I remember that my mother bought a fancy new electric Singer sewing machine to replace the cast iron pedal model that was in the house. I watched the salesman demonstrate the incredible new features such as zigzag stitching. (This was probably before 1960.) I know that my mother knew how to sew just about anything -- she could use the sewing machine with assurance, she could knit, crochet, embroider... However, once she had the sewing machine, it was almost never used, and I rarely saw her do more than hem trousers or sew on buttons throughout most of my childhood. I kind of think she bought it for my grandmother's visits (about every 4 years, because that's all the family could afford) and also possibly she just realised that the era of cheap mass produced clothing had arrived and sewing just wasn't worth the effort anymore. As she was a high school teacher who would correct papers until 1 or 2 a.m. certain nights, I can certainly understand that.
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