* dad , daddy , pa , papa, pop *my pop is the father of six girls and a self taught artist. One of my first memories of his art is a mural he did in charcoal on a large red wall in our living room. It was a stagecoach with horses, it seemed to jump off the wall into the room. I loved it. He also created a barn 'look' on the second floor landing of our house. Complete with split rail fencing used for the stair rail - the only thing between us and certain death was termite ridden timber. But, it looked fabulous! Our house had only one bathroom and with seven females in the house including my Mom, you can imagine how my Dad felt the need to make his mark (so to speak) in the one room he really had no control over. T hus, began our summer spent retrieving rocks from the river; for what would become the most famous bathroom in town. It was a good size room with a long wall of mirrors, a claw foot tub, the essential toilet and a window. Pop's idea was to
Okay Jane,
ReplyDeleteI'll try to remember those hand signs for Thanksgiving. LOL LOL You know, I had a friend who use to tell me that whenever they saw the little person in the lower corner of your TV doing hand signs for the hearing impaired, that she would automatically start watching the lady and forget what she was watching on TV. She said she couldn't watch both at the same time! HA HA Maybe those hand signs would work well when you are eating Thanksgiving dinner and someone brings up something that nobody wants to talk about! HA
Happy Thanksgiving,
Kris