Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A hook holding a scarf.

Grandma (Gram)

Here come nearly two years of our lives. But no Christmases!

Reasons for not having a massive Christmas orgy in 1973:

• Mom and Dad got divorced.
• Dad got remarried. Christmas orgy with Ewwww-deena? I don't think so.
• Karen was the only one of us still living at home. The rest of us were in college or beyond. We're getting a little old for that kind of stuff.

No Christmas orgy in 1974:

• See above.

What we do see are:

• More branding at Mabel's
• Beth graduates from Highlands University. Pictures of a graduation! A first!
• 1974 passes without a single picture (in this collection...some time ago I shared with the family some pictures of a trip Jack and Eudena took through the Grand Canyon and Salt Lake City. I wonder where those pictures are.)
• Karen and Dad took a trip to Emporia in January 1975.
• Dad and Peggy took a trip to Emporia for Gradma's (Gram's) funeral.
• Mom and Karen took a trip to Washington, DC, and Gettysburg. Whoever took the pictures didn't know how to properly set the exposure. Most are underexposed. Lots are almost black. Sorry, there's not much I could do to bring out detail. I left them all in for some reason.
• You don't see a single picture with me in it. Bobbie is absent, too.

Everyone seems to call Grandma "Gram." I don't remember calling her that.

Here is June 1973 through April 1975.

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Peggy's Big Day

I was looking through the Awkward Family Photos and thought that we probably have some contenders. I got inspired to try to find something in the next batch of pictures. I got out the next carousel of slides and scanned away.

I didn't find anything terribly awkward.

In the post-Christmas, 1972, slides we get to see the family standing around my telescope. You might remember my mirror blank I got for Christmas in 1970. Two years later I have a telescope but not with a mirror that I ground. Nope, it has a commercially made mirror. The tube and tripod weren't featured in the Christmas, 1972, pictures so I'm thinking it wasn't a Christmas present. I'm pretty sure I bought the mirror myself. I'm not sure about the tube and tripod. They might have been presents or maybe I bought them myself. I just don't know. What I do know is that the telescope never worked very well.  Two years of putting together a telescope were pretty much a waste of time.

The big event of 1973 was Peggy and Allan's wedding and reception. A fun time was had by all.

Fortunately, I missed out on helping brand Mabel's cattle. A bit more of that in the next batch of slides!

I graduated from high school around this time. There is no record of that. But then, there was no record of anyone else's graduations. Maybe there are Poloroids of those events.

Christmas 1972 to June 1973:

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Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A turquoise ID badge holder.

Thanks, Poss.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

So, these aren't tchotchkes in our house. They're not even tchotchkes. But they are chelonian. And they live nearby. So they count!

Watch it in HD if your Internet connection is fast enough. You'll be glad you did.



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Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Chopstick rest and sushi dipping dish (from Maui, thus surely from Karen). The spoon has a fish carved into it.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Little chimes (four of them!).

Maybe from Karen 

A ceramic bell we got in Taos

Don't know where this came from

Probably from Karen from a trip to Hawaii

They don't get much wind so the only time they tinkle is during large earthquakes.

Thanks for the theme idea, Jerry!