Flashback

We're here for the duration, waiting on the blessed event looming on the horizon, and the weather has been rainy most of the last couple of weeks, so we've been trying to get projects done we've been meaning to get to for a while now and trying to enjoy the time we have together. On Tuesday we went to the lumber yard and built ourselves a drying rack that folds down from the wall in the storage room (dryers are less common here, and we don't have one). We've been eating out with friends, going to the movies (see my post on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), reading, etc., etc. We made a blueberry pie tonight too. Imagining all the places an infant might smear blueberries makes me think this might be the last one for a while....

My major occupation today was in the office going through old pictures. Monday we finally bought a scanner/printer and got it linked directly to the router so we can print from anywhere on our network (another project, this one for Inki!), and I've been meaning to scan a lot of the old family pictures I've got for archival purposes -- and for fun. It's been a real trip down Memory Lane, and I thought I'd share a couple of them with you over the next few days, particularly baby pictures, as sort of a warm-up to prepare you for the coming deluge.

I wonder if you can pick me out of this kindergarten picture. Remember two things, though: 1) it was the early 70s, and 2) at least the kids in this picture didn't buy their own clothes.