Lovely banner!!

Gotta love Gitano, such a clear close up!

Thanks friends.......

I think we're talking about the photo contest also? I saw Paul's name among the winners, and also Calif_Sue in many categories. Others? Congrats to all!

And the banner's a beauty!

Deb -- is your avatar a picture of you when you were a little girl?

Yes. Found it the other day and it made me laugh. See that doll? For several years, the only thing I ever asked for at Christmas was a wedding doll. We didn't have a lot, but my mother--I mean Santa--always managed to get one for me. Looking at it from this age, I think I was being prophetic and warding off all at the same time. I was married once from 1985-1987. Not enough to count, really. However...my younger sister is about to be married for the fourth time. My brother was married three times. My youngest sister was married nine times...that we know of. And about that broom? Ask me how often I clean house.

You were a cutie!! Wow -- between you and your sibs -- seventeen marriages!!! Between me and my sibs, we all have more than one marriage -- but I think maybe your family holds some kind of record!!!

Yep, could be, Mary Ann. My parents were each married multiple times (including twice to each other), as were my paternal grandparents. Frankly, I am smarter and more well-adjusted than they are/were (well-adjusted meaning relative to THEM, not the world at large )--so, to this point, anyway, I have been able to escape getting on and off the carousel.

Deb!!

Deb!

Wow Debra, your youngest sister nine times

That we know of, Vi. She had other interesting habits, too, none of which were praiseworthy. Every family has one somewhere, she happened to be ours.