Birthday celebrations from my past.
(I hope this posts, but recognize that blogger has somehow pin-pointed myself as interested in photos of myself and family when we were younger...at least that's my guess as to why I suddenly have been dropped from comments and posts of my favorite blogs in a timely manner.)
After our trip to Mexico to visit my great aunt, I posed with my pretty necklace, blouse and skirt - and my 16th birthday cake.
My little sister's 4th birthday in Houston TX. We both had Toni home perms.
My sister on her February 3, 1958 birthday. She carried on the family tradition. But taking outdoor photos in Missouri meant different attire than my August birthdays!
For her 16th sister Mary also sat outside in St Louis weather, then marked the photo with the wrong year, since it was 1960.
Fast forward to sharing a birthday in my mobile home in Tampa with my niece, Lisa and her father, Eric. Perhaps it was her birthday in April, 1973 or 74. Don't know where my sister was when this was taken.
Sharing with my Sepia Saturday friends who live all over the place and celebrate birthdays with cake!
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It seems suddenly I'm not receiving many comments, nor posts of my favorite blogs updated on the list in the right column. Is this happening to anyone else in blogger? Maybe whatever I'm writing is offensive to the great Blogger algorithm, if there is one. But I miss the social contacts.
Wonderful collection of photos and memories. I like all the birthday cake images.
ReplyDeleteTake care, enjoy your day and have a happy week ahead.
Have a great week yourselves, Eileen and family!
DeleteI don't seem to be having the same problem, Barbara. Maybe it's just a glitch and will come back.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope so...it's like searching in the dark for my favorite blogs...did they not post today? Where are they? Fortunately I can still find them eventually!
DeleteThere are some blogs which miss me now and then and I do a search. A glitch in the works. I don't think it relates to content.
ReplyDeleteI figured probably just my paranoia. But I also figure glitches are like error messages from programs, and so I change a bit of something to see what happens.
DeleteMust be a glitch, Barbara. I don't think of your content as being offensive in any way at all.
ReplyDeleteCan I just say that the photo of sixteen-year old you in your beautiful Mexican clothes and jewelry is a glory?
I love the cakes.
It was neat to have that outfit, but I had very few opportunities to wear it. I kept the necklace, which was also a pin, until just a few years ago when I ran it through wash and one of the stones fell out. I tossed a sterling silver broken pin...silly me! And I don't purchase cake very often, preferring carrot cake these days...but never bake one. Who would eat it all!
DeleteI've had the same complaint at times, low page views and few comments. Am I boring? Some days I don't have time or energy to read or comment.
ReplyDeleteI just noticed Ms Moon's post from yesterday hadn't shown up on my reding list so I went to her blog and there it is so something is going on.
DeleteI don't always comment when I read a blog. But I'd sure like the chance to read them at least!!
DeleteYou were a beautiful teenager! And what great baking, decorating and sewing skills. A wonderful collection of birthday photos!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of perms, I was informed by daughters and granddaughters that the trendy salons in our area just do styling and blow drying and coloring (and I guess extensions). Many do not do perms anymore. . . Say what?
Wow, I may go to a slightly trendy salon whenever I get a style/cut...but I admit I've never seen him have anyone receiving a perm. Yes we were taught lots of women's skills in Home Ec. And then there was even a posture class...where we learned how to walk with a book balanced on our heads! All in hopes of marrying and becoming society types. Yikes!
DeletePosing with the birthday cake -- a time-honoured tradition in many families and cultures! Yes, Blogger is having an issue right now with slow updates to all our Readers. Hopefully they will fix the problem soon. It's so annoying.
ReplyDeleteI do depend on blogger for lots of my contacts with the outside world. My bad!
DeleteYou seem to have a lot of comments but maybe not as many as you are used to. I will always see your posts.
ReplyDeleteMy mother had a May birthday, and we have a May anniversary.
I had to list you again to hopefully find today's blog. Nope, just yesterdays. So I've made a new blog list, thinking it didn't like having 40 on the list! This woman is determined to keep on having blog-friends. Oh no, what if blogger just slowly dies away! Sigh.
Delete...I it would be hard for me to come up with old photos like these.
ReplyDeleteMy dad liked to have pictures of his daughters. My mom may have also, but didn't want her own photo taken.
DeleteCharming pictures! I too made a skirt in Home Ec--3 yards gathered to a waistband.
ReplyDeleteSimple skirts, and a pleasure to wear. Back when I had a waist!
DeleteThe blogs you list in your sidebar are updated when I look at them. (But I don't see mine listed, hint hint).
ReplyDeleteI tried adding it. But this is the problem, they are not listed or not even updated.
DeleteGreat birthday photos that made me smile.
ReplyDeleteSusan
Thanks Susan!
DeleteWhat a great, fun tradition of taking pictures of each other holding your birthday cakes which you baked yourselves. We took pix of us with our cakes, but we were always sitting at the table with our cake in front of us - candles burning. Not quite as personal. I think I was around 12 when I made my first cake. I didn't follow the mix directions on how much liquid to use & the layers came out maybe all of 3/4ths of an inch thick - if that. It was a very short, heavy 2-layer cake. And the frosting! I was babysitting with my siblings when I decided to make the cake for my sister's 6th birthday. Mom & Dad weren't home to ask questions of. The recipe I found for frosting called for confectioner's sugar. I had no idea what that was but I thought I remembered Mom using powdered sugar when she made frosting. Still, I wasn't sure, so I used half powdered sugar & half regular sugar. My poor sister had a flat heavy birthday cake with grainy frosting decorated with raisins. It was awful.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear about your first birthday cake-baking attempt, which brought a big smile to my life this morning. Bet you all ate it anyway!
DeleteSoooo much Caaake! But my question is what kind? And do you have a favorite? Not every white cake is vanilla underneath. Yesterday we went to a friend's birthday celebration and it was carrot cake. My personal favorite is a sour cream pound cake. My grandmother probably baked thousands over her lifetime. She always kept a dozen stashed away in a big freezer, ready for any occasion.
ReplyDeleteAs for your question about how to play a trumpet, it's all in the lips. Not unlike singing but with a buzz into the mouthpiece. The length of the horn gives a set of notes spaced out in a very fixed pattern. Changing the length, either with valves or with a slide like a trombone, produces a different set of notes. Longer=lower (bass) and shorter=higher (treble). Most brass only need three valves to lengthen the natural horn by a 1/2 step, a whole step, and a step+1/2. That gives a full chromatic scale. It's easy!
Lots of our cakes were chocolate or vanilla. My favorite now is carrot, but there weren't any mixes that made it back then...and even now they are pretty awful.
DeleteI still didn't understand how those trumpets without a valve have different notes played. The length of the air distribution makes sense in trombones or flutes, but the kind without any of those features like used in a fanfare confuses me....or even playing Taps on a bugle!