Ah, PF is a fickle mistress, is she not?George Jones said:
SimplySolitary_ said:
And they keep putting the kids on Ritalin for that.FredGarvin said:
No wonder they have the attention span of gnats on caffeine!Heavier doses of Ritalin should fix that.Moonbear said:And they keep putting the kids on Ritalin for that.
When I went to elementary school there were 5 teachers running the place. There was one teacher for kindergarten and one teacher each for grades 1&2, 3&4, 5&6, and 7&8. One teacher for about every 20 kids, but each class was taught only 1/2 day, with in-class work being done for the remainder. When we went to the regional high school, we were well-represented in academic excellence, despite the fact that we came from a town that was economically depressed. I was lucky - in the 1960s, our family had running hot water and an indoor toilet, while many of my friends had neither. In the 1950's, we lived in a rented dump that did not have reliable sanitation, and our access to hot water for baths and shampoos was limited to the extent to which our parents were willing to fire up the stove and heat the water. Tub baths were allocated in terms of who was most "deserving" and perhaps who was most dirty. In terms of the former, I probably got the last bath more that most family members, because I was most likely to work in the garden, transplant berry bushes, etc. When the temperature of brooks and streams got tolerable, I tried to clean up with a bit of swimming/bathing as often as I could, and avoid the bathtub.). But, the reason I had to share this is that nobody ever believes me, or quite envisions it properly, when I explain the striped wallpaper and curtains I grew up with in our kitchen. This photo was taken in front of the kitchen window showing the wallpaper and curtains in their full glory! It's like something directly out of a psychology textbook on ways parents screw up their children (and yes, if you looked at the walls long enough, there was the optical illusion that the stripes were moving; I'm sure it went really well with the parties my parents used to throw back in the 70s...though this photo was taken in the early 80s). 
Moonbear,[/URL] you are so pretty!Moonbear said:As I was digging through old photos for the latest photo contest, I came across this one of me with my sister. I was about 11 in the photo (I'm on the left...the one who caught the REALLY BIG fish...or at least when I was that age, I thought they were really big, enough to make my parents take a picture of me posing with my catch...my sister couldn't be left out, so grabbed two blowfish to hog my fame
Share my childhood pain!
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2597/stripes9ko.jpg
) My hair used to turn so golden when I was still allowed out in the daylight. And, as you can tell, that was back before kids were slathered with sunblock before setting foot outdoors.Which is which?heman said:
I did the cleaning, Mom did the cooking, and we all did the eating!Math Is Hard said:Great picture, Moonie! Did you cook those fish or dissect them?
Evo said:
That's a cute picture Moonbear. Please don'tGeorginaS said:Now, let me tell you about the red, white, and blue striped wallpaper in the kitchen.
GeorginaS said:Moonbear with fish! What a great picture, for all of the elements of it, MB.
We had similar wallpaper in the living room of one house, although the black, white, and grey lines were wavy. And if you stared at the line for too long...yeah. At one point, we had furniture that matched the wallpaper nearly well enough for the sofa to disappear against the walls.
Now, let me tell you about the red, white, and blue striped wallpaper in the kitchen.
I have no pictures of what the dining room originally looked like. It was also black and white, but sort of checkers in waving patterns (the checkers varied in size to create the waves). I really can't describe it, but I now know why we get along so well...we suffered the same childhood decorating agony! I think we'll have to make you a member of the PF sisterhood for that. Georgina is definitely a sister!Moonbear said:
Very understated.
http://www.crawlies.ca/babyvisualstimulation.html
It might work if it was just one wall, and the rest were a nice solid color, but just try to imagine being completely surrounded by stripes! Though, I keep laughing when I see "modern" styles in both decorating and clothing that look frighteningly like what I grew up with in the 70s. There's a lot of "retro" in "modern" decorating. Just hope nobody tries to bring back the wallpaper covered in orange flowers that was so prominent in the 60s. I encountered a lot of that when shopping for my first house...it was an old neighborhood with a lot of homes that were being sold because the aging owners either were dying off or moving into nursing homes/assisted living, and they hadn't redecorated some rooms since buying their houses.cyrus said:Hey that's not bad. Looks rather Ethan Allen-ish. Would look very nice in a modern appartment.
*It would look atrocious if you don't pull it off right though, gloomy and depressing.
Great pictue Kurdt!Kurdt said:
That is a WONDERFUL picture of you. You are absolutely gorgeous! And I love how well you have the sitting human trained. It speaks very well of your character.Kurdt said:
I agree, the human is completely under control, well done!Math Is Hard said:That is a WONDERFUL picture of you. You are absolutely gorgeous! And I love how well you have the sitting human trained. It speaks very well of your character.
Nice picture Kurdt. Our male cat, Chester, looks much like the one in the picture, but his tail is not as bushy.Kurdt said:
My hair has grown a little since I made the pic in the avatar.
