Family Snapshots Archive

Picture Day means short or styled hair

I guess this is the class of 1967, for picture day I got your basic buzz cut (Dad had a flat top! And I don’t mean that in a good way) – Girls on the other hand… That girl behind me, either her mother is a hair stylist or she got set back four grades.

The Children of the Corn move to the suburbs

A huge family moved into the rental house next door, I don’t know if they are castoffs from some rural cult, or part of a sinister government program, or what. The problem is compounded by the fact that they somehow have managed to lure the existing neighborhood kids away from their X-boxes, and taught them

Good Neighbors don’t smash

My next-door neighbor is an excellent driver. I would have demolished the fence and probably both houses getting that thing out of there.

Mamas, don’t let your doggies grow up to be babies

I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this picture, from 1985- My mom’s dog swiped this pacifier from my niece. He knew exactly what he was doing.

My dog is NOT a cross-dresser!

We got this new-style harness from Doggles via Amazon, because we were tired of the worn-out Velcro and leg-hole problem with Scruffy’s old harness. He is part Tazmanian Devil and as such, a simple collar and leash arrangement will not suffice. So this is what we got; The first time we walked him with it,

The corn saga

So I have a lot of points on the trading site Listia.com, and I was randomly browsing… I meant to just comment on this one but I fumbled around and bid on it… … So my question was, “Well, just how awkwardly can someone eat corn? I got the picture back because I “won” the

Customer Service; it’s in my blood.

We have been serving customers like you since the turn of the century (off and on). Here you see an ancestor standing in front of an Everett venture in Maine. I think this was one of the Holt boys, if it was an Everett he would surely be in the store helping dad pack rutabegas

Waiting for technological advances

Me and my siblings sitting on the couch, waiting for video games and cellphones to be invented, or at least Pong.