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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Found the Picture!


This is the picture I've wanted to show you on several Mother's Days. At least for the past three years. But I couldn't find it. Well, I found it this year, scanned it, put the original in the right place, and filed the digital copy. So now, ta-da! I can bring you three generations of tough-as-nails women. Individually that is probably good. Together, we were a difficult trio. But between genetics and what they taught me, "I-yam what I-yam."


On the left is Granny, Emily Marguerite Fisher Rowe, I'm in the middle, and Mom, Catherine Burnham Rowe Leary is on the right.

This picture was taken the same day as the picture of me alone that I shared with you in January (link below). This was sometime around my second birthday.

The old pictures would get sorted faster if I made it a priority, but I just sort of mooch along with trying to get one in the right place when I come across it.

I used the last of my birthday money to order two plants I doubt I'll find in any nursery around here. They cost too much this way, but hopefully they will survive and be worth it.

In other news, I got the mower running! Mowed a little, but I have to find a way to get the seat farther forward. The engineers forgot that some of us still have short legs. And I started weeding the front flower bed. Plants are up enough now that I won't be killing things by accident.

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4 comments:

Ann said...

What an awesome photo of the three generations. Glad you found it. Hope you had a nice Mother's Day

Sharkbytes said...

Ann- thank you! I heard briefly from both boys- almost unprecedented. Hope you heard from your kiddos too.

The Oceanside Animals said...

Lulu: "That is a great picture of you and your mother and your grandmother! We are glad you heard from the boys on Mother's Day!"
Java Bean: "Our Dada has started scanning his old pictures too! His cousins gave him some of their old pictures to scan and that finally motivated him to start scanning ours. I am not in any of them."
Chaplin: "Well to be fair most of them so far have been 20 or 25 years old if not older."
Java Bean: "I could still be in them!"

Sharkbytes said...

Tell Dada I am enjoying the scanned pix even if you aren't in them