Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A galimoto from Zimbabwe. (This one you have to click on!)

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A little bronze from Ivory Coast.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A rug from Veggie Zapotec Arts.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A Steuben crystal bowl (from their tortoise collection).

Merry Christmas 1968, 1969 and 1970!

This ain't gonna happen again. Today was a really crappy day so what was there to do but sit beside a scanner and scan?

So you get a second batch of family pictures in a single day!

We have:

• The rest of Christmas 1968. The clock (seen in the earlier part) shows presents yet to be unwrapped at 6:15.
• ...featuring baby Chris!
• A visit with Floyd and Margaret. I believe that this was the time I had to share a bedroom with Brent or Bradd. One night I lay in the top bunk and was weirded out at having to have a strange person in the room with me. I couldn't sleep. Then I blinked and instantaneously it was the next morning. I hadn't moved a muscle. I didn't dream. There was no feeling of passage of time. Weird.
• Many underexposed and overexposed pictures. There isn't much information in them to try to coax out with image processing. Sorry.
• Karen's sixth birthday. We haven't seen the May celebration in a couple of years. Karen gets all the attention!
• Christmas 1969 with big Chris. The clock shows 5:50. I thought as kids got older they managed to sleep later! The TV is new this year. Jack and I built it from a Heathkit. I'm amazed that the thing actually worked.
• The Durango/Silverton train (then the Denver & Rio Grand Western now the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad). I think this was the trip that Jack put half the people on the train in Durango and drove the rest to Silverton. Then everybody (save Jack) switched rides. Jack took the pictures of the train but not from the train. The film used for these pictures (and the Christmas pictures to follow) is Kodachrome. It does show the bluish cast mentioned in the Wikipedia article. I didn't try to correct that. But at least the pictures finally have saturated colors and are nicely exposed!
• Christmas 1970. Clock shows 5:35. Earlier yet! Go figure.

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Merry Christmas 1968

Time flies! It seems like just a few days ago it was Christmas 1967. A year has passed.

Here is the next carousel of family slides.

• Penny and Al visit.
• Karen prepares for a life of crime.
• Jack goes hunting. The slides are labeled "Jack & deer." That's not really Jack, it it? And it is a pronghorn, right?
• Karen turns five!
• Christmas brings a puppy!

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(I'm sure my scanning of these slides won't continue at this pace.)