Spring!

Perhaps Easter or Mother's Day ... 

Dad, Mom, Grandma Myrtle and husband Bill Greer. 

ca 1976/1977

Buffy lolling in the grass (we STILL have flamingos in 1976/77??)

 Lori dressed up, that was such a cute dress style! 

And Lori with Diana and Rene Nault in the front yard. 

(and a flamingo in the background here too!!!)

Christmas 1972 (I think)

Our tree - a better shot of it - with tinsel!!

Lori and David, looks like we're gonna open gifts real soon!

Dad and Buffy.  Mom's little town on the TV behind him.

Pumpkins!

Kind of blurry, but this is the house across the street.

When I was growing up it was the Jones' house.

(Weird that no matter how old I get, that's how I think of it....)

Lori, Donna Martin, David, don't recall the girl in pink

Seven pumpkins all in a row .....

sounds like the start of a nursery rhyme!

Lori, David and Buffy

I wonder why we had seven pumpkins?

Was this the year David came home with a "bean seed" from school

and we got pumpkins???

Home and Family

An "official photo" of the backyard .... 

complete with flamingos!

Looking into the backyard from the back gate.

Everything is green and growing!

Mom with her two youngest.

Is David wearing Toughskins?

David, Dad and Buffy, with the flowering oleander

Birthdays and Puppy Tricks

Happy 9th Birthday to Lori!  

and another fun shaped cake!

Looks like it was a garage party!  

And another Easter Cross at St John's Lutheran Church.

Still orchards out there, we aren't sharing facilities

with another church yet.

Teaching a new dog new tricks!  Shake, Buffy, Shake!

Looks like we cemented some rocks into place around

the little garden area.  And we still have those flamingos!

Another Sunny Sunday!

Here we are again, must be another Sunday, we're all dressed up.

We're standing in front of these heather bushes

that were in the front of the house.

They were pretty, but too much maintenance

and way too many bees!!!

Lori and her friend, Donna Martin in matching dresses.

That's some really big flower print!

Ah, the way the kitchen looked in the old days!

All that honey wood cabinets and the linoleum!

Did Buffy the dog crawl in there for a nap?

or is she hiding before/after a bath??

Buffy was content to sit in the bike basket

while I rode around town.

I rode miles on Dad's bike!

Feel the Fall!

Here's David in front of the orange tree ... 

looks like we got our first harvest!

A jack-o-lantern .... and the new pup, Buffy

She was cute, all dark and fluffy

I see we still have those pink pelicans .... 

Buffy in a pile of leaves.

The fruitless Mulberry tree in the backyard sheds a LOT of leaves.

In later years, we learned we could trim the tree

right before the leaves turned .... 

they didn't fall, but stayed attached to the limbs.

A yearly chore in late October!

All About David

Guess who's learning to ride a bike??

This view was taken looking up Amethyst toward Monroe St.

There he goes.... Zzzzzooooom!!

Looking from home up Addison Street.

We played up and down this street our whole lives!

And we got our dog, a little cocker spaniel/poodle mix.

We called her Buffy!

The bushes in the backyard have grown quite a bit

the pine tree is still in the back corner of the yard,

and so are the pink flamingos!