Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!
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I’m still working on the scanning, but I have good news! Yesterday I could not find the slides from the community theater’s production of The Sound of Music that both Mel and I were in! I was almost flipping out, but Janet told me to chill, and that she knew they would turn up.
This morning, about the time I had totally given up, I moved a box and there they were! Oh, Mom will be so thrilled to see them!
So I spent all day scanning slides, and working to organize them. Tonight (Sunday) I want to crop, and clean them up.
Here are a few to look at just so you can see how cute Mel and I were back in 1966.
That’s me. The little one on the left. I was the youngest cast member in the play. I played Gretel. I had just started first grade and my Mom helped me learn all my lines by reading them to me and having me memorize them. Songs were easy. In that way, I was like a little parrot!
Here I am singing a solo! I look back and I wonder how I was ever brave enough to sing in front of all of those people! I don’t remember being frightened, it was all a great adventure!
This is me with the woman who played Maria. Jane, (her real name) was a wonderful lady. She was friends with my family and always took time out with us kids. We all loved her!
Here is Melodie playing Louisa. She was in the second cast of kids. In the line at the far left, the young boy was named Timmy. He was my sister’s good friend and mine as well. Shortly after the Sound of Music, Timmy was ice skating at a pond in back of his house, when he fell through. His mother saw him and tried to help, but sadly, they both perished. My sister named her youngest son after him.
Dear Melodie, and Burke (who played Captain Von Trapp)
Well,hope everyone has a good Monday. It’s back to scanning for me!
Mom continues to get worse. I feel like I am under the gun to get this slide show done for her to see when Janet and I go down on Friday.
The slide show you are preparing is a loving and thoughtful gift which I am certain will make your Mother very happy. You are just the most loving, giving person.,
These are so wonderful and Mom will be so thrilled! Me too! I just look at the ones that have my dear sweet Timmy in them and think of him with such love! What a beautiful little boy he was inside and outside.
Mom is not well and it looks to me like she is has reached a place where she is starting to let go. She talks more about dying now. Love YOU, Mel
Where did you find it? THat’s great!
It is so wonderful to watch those old pictures!!! I know your mother will be happy and it will remind her on your childhood and that time. GREAT!!
Love Uschi