One of my grown nieces swears she can't cook and has taken the last couple of years to posting photos on Face Book of her burnt grilled cheese sandwiches. What worries me is not that Tanya shows burnt grilled cheese pics but that I have started to see people's faces in them. When she posts one that looks like the Last Supper I guess it will be time for one of us to get professional help.
Speaking of posting food photos on Face Book I have a cousin who would everyday show us what she had for breakfast that morning. Apart from always including a mixture of healthy and tasty cuisine, some of which came from her garden the presentations were always so beautiful that they almost looked like works of art. If Gretel had prints made of these for sale perhaps the local art gallery would not soon be closing.
Inspired by Gretel I wanted to snap a shot of a can of Dr. Pepper and a bag of Doritos with the tag - Bob's lunch today, UMMM! I feared however that Gretel would see it and take it wrong so the shot was never taken.
Speaking of cousins I grew up with one male and six female cousins. I do have two brothers and two sisters but one brother is five years older so we never played together. Cousin Benny was several years younger, the same age as my other brother and those two boys would pair off when families got together.
That left me with the little women. Did we play football or baseball, chase each other with sticks and pound our fists into one another shoulders. NO. Were we cowboys fighting Indians or generals over our miniature soldiers. Not a chance.
I do remember summer tea parties under the grape arbor, making up and preforming plays for our parents and other fun guy stuff like closing our eyes and pretending that we were in a fairy castle being chased by chipmunks and rabbits. Scary!
Now as adults my girl cousins are very close. Even though they are spread out all over the country they have been getting together lately to spend quality girl cousin time. The last time they happened to stay at my sister's home in Oak Park. I'm not sure if brother-in-law Ed is scared of chipmunks but I'm sure he managed.
No, I never read this before. It's adorable. (and I'm sure I WAS a chipmunk or rabbit in that one!)
ReplyDeleteWell, not being a sports guy, I enjoyed the conversations at the girl cousins' get together in Chicago. I then busied myself in my workshop and did a bit of chauffeuring as I recall.
ReplyDeleteGreat! I was always too old to be with the girl cousins, so I spent a lot of the time with the adults. It probably scarred me too.
ReplyDeleteI just had a delightful dinner with Charlene last night. She recalled when she first learned about the "facts of life." Karen and I still remember Charlene telling us to KISS as we sat on the soft a couple of weeks before we were married. We laughed so hard we never did kiss, and the harder Char objected the more we laughed.