another trip down memory lane

the top picture is Nancy with her tricycle when we lived donw on Hansford fork. I guess that she was about four years old in the picture.

the second picture was taken over in the edge of greenbrier county about 1962 or thereabouts.

left to right is Mary Hamrick, Nancy, Kay, holding a white kitten, Jimmy, and me.

and we are leaning on the front of a 1960 light blue Falcon.

Buying the Falcon seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was not. It was a pretty good car, but not a very friendly one. i never did really like it, and i always thought that it would blow up on me.

which it finally did, but with over 90,000 miles on it.

one thing that is easy to notice--we were all a lot thinner back then.

John and Lori

well, this picture is a little bit old, but it is a shows John and Lori in different pictures at Christmas time--at least i think it was Christmas time--may not have been though.

sometimes older pictures are best, because they help to remind us of how it was and may be a time we like to look back on, or go back to.

I have lots of pictures to put on this site, and i will do so, but sometimitmes it just doesn't work right.

These pictures were taken at John's house, and John is holding Preston's pinewood derby racer.

Marissa at her 18th birthday.

Although it happened a while back, here are pictures of Marissa enjoying her 18th birthday.

It is hard to bellieve that she is now 18 and 1/2, and coming up on high school graduation. Seems like no time at all that we were driving across the show covered mountains at the time she was born.

Time has certainly flown by, from Granddad's perspective, but probably not so fast from hers.

During the growing up years it steems like time passes so slowly, but after you get to my station in life and look back, it certainly seemed to have gone by way too quickly.

Rachel in a new dress

No one seems to enjoy school more than rachel. almost through her first pre-kindergarten year, she happily goes off to school every day, and truly enjoys learning new things.

One of her favorite things to say is I CAN DO IT.

It would be nice if more people throughout their life maintained this attitude. all too many people nowadays are giving up their own responsibility and expecting the government to take car of them.just remember, about the only thing that governments do well is wage war, and some of them aren't too good at that.

It is true now, as it has ever been, if you want a helping hand, first look at the end of your own arm.

and say, "I CAN DO IT.!

JVM

Rachel in a new dress

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jvm

MORE RACHEL BAKING COOKIES

TAKES a lot of work to make cookies, and here is a couple more shots of Rachel hard at work.

She enjoys things like this, but it seems like she pretty much takes over the house when she is here.

But,i guess that is what grandkids are for.

One observation--as i get older it seems that memories are truly timeless. memories from 50 years ago can be just as clear, close, and meaningful as one from 50 minutes ago.

Every picture is a frozen moment in time. Every memory is also a frozen moment in time. But, by showing a lot of frozen moments here on this blog, all at the same time, they become, not frozen moments of the past, but preserved slices of today, all put together in the present, so that those looking at them and reading about them, can enjoy each moment as if it were happening today, and thereby, create their own memory album. Enjoy.