It's a wet day so the outdoors aren't calling me. I did a little tidying up around my computer desk and found a scanner under the mess! That made me remember all the slides we have yet to see.
Here's Carousel 21!
We're still stuck in a rut. Christmas, Christmas, Tucumcari and Christmas. All in 100 slides.
Christmas 1970 (on brilliant Kodachrome) was underway before 6:00am.
That year I got my telescope mirror blank and the grinding material. Jack got me a heavy metal table that we put in my bedroom. I used that for my grinding platform. I worked on grinding that piece of glass for more than a year. I started out with enthusiasm but it became a chore. I got it ground down to the approximate sagitta for an f/8 mirror. I even polished it. I couldn't figure out the knife-edge test for determining the shape of the mirror's surface. Without mastering that test and the follow-up correcting of the surface I couldn't finish the mirror. After more than a year I bought a finished mirror. The resulting telescope never worked very well. It's still in the rafters of the garage.
But I saved my disk of Pyrex with its smooth, curved surface.
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| My mirror (in progress) with the chandelier reflecting in it |
Allan was our guest this year.
Karen got some nice loot:
- A purple cow
- A really groovy sleeping bag
- A cucumber!
We visited Mom's kinfolk in Tucumcari in December, 1972.
We posed for pre-present photos at 6:40am Christmas 1972 (many overexposed).
This year Bobbie had a gentleman caller.
Peggy and Poss got some crocheted caps and stuff. Who made those? Why didn't I get a cap? I got a blazer instead.
I got a soprano recorder and a lesson book for it. Dogs will howl tonight!
If you want to see a lot of the same thing just look at this photo album. Not recommended for non-family...you'll be bored out of your gourd.
8 comments:
I have no memory of those caps. Did Gram make them?
Was anyone ever so young?
Again - thanks for the memories! I don't remember the caps either but I suppose Gram made them. And I didn't remember the trip to Tucumcari either.
I'm looking forward to another rainy vacation day with nothing better to do than scan pictures!
One word about the caps..."Celeste"
Thanks for doing all that work to share these!
Poss, thanks for the scoop on the caps. My godparents never sent me Christmas presents. I'm not even sure who they were.
Hey, Now you can finish that mirror!
YIKES! The 'gentleman caller' gives me the creeeeeeeps!
I was afraid the Gentleman Caller would not be a welcome sight but, sorry, I had to keep those pictures in for completeness.
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