Is it innate, the different way we carry our books according to our gender? I have to admit that in all my years of seeing students pre-backpack, it’s most often done this way. Does it have something to do with the different ways our body strength develops?
Debby’s books look like they weigh more than she does. Both Debby and David seem to be having enough trouble trying to get to school not to want to turn around and have their picture taken. But I love this photo. I was probably somewhere behind my mother–I wonder if I was happy to see them go, wished I were going, too, or wanted them to stay home? I can’t remember that far back.
I think I remember these dogs, but I may just remember photos of them, including one of me with them. As family history has it, this was the time in my life when my favorite animal companion was a one-eyed chicken. I don’t remember her at all.
Looking at these dogs–aren’t they collie mixes? No wonder I cried so hard that I had to be sent to bed while we were watching Lassie, Come Home. And NO, Debby, I still haven’t watched the video of it you so gleefully sent me a few years ago. As far as I know, Lassie’s still out there wandering around and making little girls hysterical. Bitch.
will not watch it. will not read it. i will not do Lassie Come Home.
But you have seen Old Yeller, and I won’t watch that one, either.
Greg got me Old Yeller for Christmas one year, he had never seen it, and thought he was getting a dog lover a dog movie. He didn’t get the horrified look on my face till we watched.
And I really love this picture.
Eek! It’s kind of like when people forget that I need to know if there’s an animal death in a book or movie. Except Greg got blindsided, too. Merry Christmas!
not since i screamed in the theater!
Poor thing.
Did they not have bags/satchels in those days..?
Lassie used to make me cry! As did The Littlest Hobo. :o(
I don’t know. It’s possible they didn’t want satchels. I remember the age came for me when no kids used them (or only a few). It’s good that backpacks became acceptable for all ages, I think.
I love this shot. It looks like a scene from a ’50s TV show.
It wasn’t the 50s, but you definitely weren’t born yet.
No wait. Since I’m 35, it must have been the 80s or something.
Maybe it’s the lighting in the shot – or the fact that I watch way too much TV – but the road behind your siblings looks almost too perfect to be real, like they were standing on a Hollywood soundstage in front of a painted backdrop.
Holy crap! You don’t think your brother and sister were in “The Truman Show,” do you?
I think Ed Harris is on his way to have a little talk with you.