Summer of '69

Thought you might need a picture of the era!! note: my one store bought dress I wore everywhere!







note to daughter...I made the red short outfit...so, I really can sew....

Time is a funny thing. Seems like yesterday and yet it has been 40 years ago. I remember my grandma telling me the hard thing about old age, is your mind pictures you young and yet your body reminds you, you are not! I was jogged to 40 years ago yesterday.

I have become a recent FB person, like the rest of the world! (yes Jilly you were right) And yes, I have found someone from my childhood, actually my preadolesent and early high school years.

I have thought of her many times through my adulthood, because she was my neighborhood friend. We hung out at each others house, many sleep overs, raiding the refrigerator, sat on the street corner making fun of the people that drove by, we rode horses together. Many a summer morning we would wake before the sun and walk the dark streets, several miles to feed the horses and then ride. Though I never had my own horse, I rode everyone elses! (and who would let their daughters in this day and age walk in the early morning hours to hang with a couple old men and kids all day!!) We went camping in Yosemite together. Her mother's family having homesteaded in the Park, so we had the privilege of having our own park within the Park! Her mother told us stories of herself as she had played in the cabins that are now in the museum! We were friends...And so, as life is, we ended up finishing in different high schools, I got married and moved away and she got married and moved away. I knew what her married name was and through the years wondered where and what she was doing. One time, while visiting Santa Barbara I saw what I thought was her name on the wall for some bakery and shared the story with my teenage daughter. Confession, I've internet stalked her to see if I could find her....which leads me to FB. Though my son and his wife are moving, and they FB, and I would like to sort of keep in the know of their lives, I also, in the back of my mind thought I might be able to find her. And it happened last nite. Wow is all I can say. Which led me to the realization this morning that it has been 40 years....the year America went to the moon! and the year my friend and I sat on my bedroom floor playing solitaire, when I read to her the letter from my sort of boyfriend who had gone to Tennessee for the summer, explaining how he was going to marry me!!! LOL!!! We laughed!!!! and continued to play our card game....40 years...how it goes by and yet is another life time ago...