That's what I've been doing the past couple of days.
Last Saturday Stacy and I went through and unloaded all the boxes and items we brought back from Eureka. In the stuff we brought I came across one box with a partial photo album and a box of photos, in another an album that had been put together at some point in time but recent enough to have some good photo quality reproductions of old photos and newspaper articles in it. I scanned just about all the photos in. Still have a few to go and some were just too damaged to scan. In the photos, many I'd never seen, some of me I didn't remember ever seeing, were many that obviously meant something to my mom. I just wish she'd labeled them!!
She had gone back at some point and written names, rough dates, or just a note about the picture. Quite a few were professional photographers shots. In looking at them I'd guess that 'posed' professional pictures were very important in the 1930's and 40's, but even those didn't have any information on them. Only one set had 1937 on it.
I've often looked at photos, these photos, others, other peoples when shown, and sometimes I think it would be so interesting to be able to go back in time to just before or just after the picture was taken. What was really going on, right then. Were they really good times? Did the smiles vanish after the shot was taken? Although I know that in some really old photos the exposure was so long not many people smiled, couldn't 'not move' for that long so I've read! Still, I look and wonder how interesting it could have been to see the story of that photograph!
Today is my and Stacy's anniversary. How she's put up with me all these years is amazing when I think about it. I've put her through some tough times, always unintentionally by the way. I even got really stupid a few years ago, I was just plain STUPID. We worked it all out though and could it be done again there would sure be changes to that script and that year!
But on our passing anniversaries I remember back to that small church in Oregon on that one day. We've seen and done quite a lot over the years. Been so many places. I'm sure she'd never imagined she'd have been putting thousands of miles cross country on a motorcycle with a kid on the back and towing a tent or cargo trailer to boot. I know she'd never even thought she'd ride her own motorcycle! Let alone fly with me in small planes. Back along in those days almost every week in good weather! Tuesday was often flying day. When Sean got older he was often stuck as a reluctant passenger on some of those Tuesdays. When he started kindergarten he had the afternoon class, he was often late and wound up sitting at the 'green' table when we made him late because we didn't get back from flying in time to get him to school on time. He as well as Sandy and Laura were excited with flying for about a half hour back then. Then they usually fell asleep against each other until we landed at where ever we were going sightseeing or for lunch.
So many memories! Luckily Stacy got me a camcorder back just before Thanksgiving 1988 so we have hours and hours of family videos to bring back memories. The hungry to see themselves on TV back then kids now don't remember much or any of the stuff they see, or look at the videos like they're watching a Funniest Home Videos episode.
I've been working at putting them all onto DVD. It's much easier than it used to be with the newer types of DVD recorders there are. I keep telling them they're all going to be surprised one Christmas with a family "Best Of" video set for each of them! After all, I've been working on the DVD transition for a couple of winters now with another winter coming up I might get it done this year!
Well not much new in the rest of the family update. Did get a call from cousin Dan on my birthday last week at a convention in Las Vegas. He never did call back so I'm hoping he's not trapped there! Lost all his money, his cell phone, rolled for his wallet, amnesia from the hit in the head! You just never know!
Could be too many episodes of CSI also!
Type later, Tad. Maybe I'll get Stacy to add her two cents again someday!
Last Saturday Stacy and I went through and unloaded all the boxes and items we brought back from Eureka. In the stuff we brought I came across one box with a partial photo album and a box of photos, in another an album that had been put together at some point in time but recent enough to have some good photo quality reproductions of old photos and newspaper articles in it. I scanned just about all the photos in. Still have a few to go and some were just too damaged to scan. In the photos, many I'd never seen, some of me I didn't remember ever seeing, were many that obviously meant something to my mom. I just wish she'd labeled them!!
She had gone back at some point and written names, rough dates, or just a note about the picture. Quite a few were professional photographers shots. In looking at them I'd guess that 'posed' professional pictures were very important in the 1930's and 40's, but even those didn't have any information on them. Only one set had 1937 on it.
I've often looked at photos, these photos, others, other peoples when shown, and sometimes I think it would be so interesting to be able to go back in time to just before or just after the picture was taken. What was really going on, right then. Were they really good times? Did the smiles vanish after the shot was taken? Although I know that in some really old photos the exposure was so long not many people smiled, couldn't 'not move' for that long so I've read! Still, I look and wonder how interesting it could have been to see the story of that photograph!
Today is my and Stacy's anniversary. How she's put up with me all these years is amazing when I think about it. I've put her through some tough times, always unintentionally by the way. I even got really stupid a few years ago, I was just plain STUPID. We worked it all out though and could it be done again there would sure be changes to that script and that year!
But on our passing anniversaries I remember back to that small church in Oregon on that one day. We've seen and done quite a lot over the years. Been so many places. I'm sure she'd never imagined she'd have been putting thousands of miles cross country on a motorcycle with a kid on the back and towing a tent or cargo trailer to boot. I know she'd never even thought she'd ride her own motorcycle! Let alone fly with me in small planes. Back along in those days almost every week in good weather! Tuesday was often flying day. When Sean got older he was often stuck as a reluctant passenger on some of those Tuesdays. When he started kindergarten he had the afternoon class, he was often late and wound up sitting at the 'green' table when we made him late because we didn't get back from flying in time to get him to school on time. He as well as Sandy and Laura were excited with flying for about a half hour back then. Then they usually fell asleep against each other until we landed at where ever we were going sightseeing or for lunch.
So many memories! Luckily Stacy got me a camcorder back just before Thanksgiving 1988 so we have hours and hours of family videos to bring back memories. The hungry to see themselves on TV back then kids now don't remember much or any of the stuff they see, or look at the videos like they're watching a Funniest Home Videos episode.
I've been working at putting them all onto DVD. It's much easier than it used to be with the newer types of DVD recorders there are. I keep telling them they're all going to be surprised one Christmas with a family "Best Of" video set for each of them! After all, I've been working on the DVD transition for a couple of winters now with another winter coming up I might get it done this year!
Well not much new in the rest of the family update. Did get a call from cousin Dan on my birthday last week at a convention in Las Vegas. He never did call back so I'm hoping he's not trapped there! Lost all his money, his cell phone, rolled for his wallet, amnesia from the hit in the head! You just never know!
Could be too many episodes of CSI also!
Type later, Tad. Maybe I'll get Stacy to add her two cents again someday!
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