Family Pets

In looking at old family photos, I'm amazed at how many have pets (most always dogs) in them!  I thought I'd show some of them here.  Of course, mine are in the left-hand sidebar, both living and deceased.  Here's my mom's current Dane, Lucy:

My daughter's dog Ruben meeting Mom's Lucy:

My paternal grandmother in the 1920s with a family dog:

My maternal grandmother, probably in the 1950s, with Come-here, Kilts, and Buster:

My mom with either Come-here or Buster:

My maternal grandmother with my mom's boxer, Kimmy:

My great-grandfather walking home from the barns with two family dogs:

My maternal grandfather with a family dog:

My mom with her dolls and a dog:

A family dog, simply marked "Molly:"

My mom with Jason, the English Setter and Candy, the Wire-Haired Fox Terrier in 1967:

Here's another of the trio, Come-here, Kilts and Buster (not sure which is which in this photo, although Kilts is at the far right):

Here's one of my mom and a "family" calf:

And her mom with a couple of the family sheep:

Here's a much older one, circa 1900 or so - my great-great grandparents (seated at center) with their three living children at the time (including my great-grandmother at right).  Off to the right in the grass, you can see what must be the family dog:

Here's one with my dad (child at left) and his little brother inside and a cat outside the window - might not be a family pet, but may be a neighbor's cat:

Here's one of my grandfather and his cousin atop his pony, probably around 1913:

And a cute one of my mom, I think with her grandpa, and one of many Scottish Terriers, probably either named Tam-o-shanter or Kilts:

Seems we've just about always had pets in our family - and in our hearts!

My "New" Old Chairs!

Yesterday, my brother hauled a chair over to my house, a chair that my parents purchased sometime around 1962.  Here's my poor new chair:

I love it in spite of it's years-in-the-making flaws.  It's from the Broyhill Premier line.  The label was on the seat under the cushion and shows how lovely the fabric used to be.

Here is the way it looked in 1965 (you can just see the corner of it at the right of this Christmas photo of me):

And it's behind me in 1967 on my birthday:

Last year, I brought home another chair (you can also see it in the photo above on the other side of the little round table from the Broyhill chair).  Here's what that one looked like when it arrived:

And here it is in 1966, just to the left behind my sister's buggy:

I love these chairs, not just because they've been in my family for so long, and they're actually mine now, but also because they both have such clean and distinctive lines (and they're both comfortable to sit in, too!).  I wish they'd held onto this couch and chair long enough for me to have them now - I love these: