Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
Bob's brother Otto
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's sister-in-law Sybil
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Bob's nephew Virgil, who loves sports
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's nephew Baxter
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
Reblogged this on Musings on Life & Experience and commented:
Dumb is right. Either that or drunk.
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Well, I have certainly done my share of stupid things behind the wheel, although by some miracle I have never been in any accident worse than a fender bender (my guardian angel is probably to thank for that). Even more miraculous, I’ve been driving in Wisconsin for forty years and I still have not hit a deer! 🙂
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Wisconsin? Hey, we’re in the same state! I’m in Fond du Lac; where are you?
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I’m over on the other side of the state from you — about 45 miles from the Minnesota border. 🙂
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Reblogged this on A Blog About Healing From PTSD and commented:
I was going to say that you have to see these pictures to believe them…. but even after seeing some of these pictures, I still can’t quite believe them! Enjoy.
PS: For anyone who may be wondering, my appointment with the surgeon yesterday went great. No cancer!! Happy Dancing!!!!
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Woo-hoo! So happy to hear the good news! ❤ ❤ ❤
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THRILLED to hear “all clear” – thanks for letting us know.
xx,
mgh
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Whew! That’s gotta be a relief. Happy for you Lynda!
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Wow!
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Thank you for reblogging. 🙂
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I’m doing a lot of driving this week, as we travel to The City for Mom’s 97th Birthday party. Already logged 2hrs on the road today. This is a good warning to stay alert!
(“The world needs more lerts,” as some wag once quoth.)
The auto transport truck:
The driver presumably survived? Lucky, lucky. Looks like a LONG way down!
Egg delivery guy on the phone:
“Yeah, lost some eggs.
Well, several dozen…
several dozen cartons, that is…”
Yellow service truck in concrete:
I especially like the footprints. (Wasn’t there something similar you posted not long ago, a bike on a sidewalk?)
The on-ramp to nowhere:
“I was just following my GPS, officer!”
Tumped-over (as we Okies say) load on top of car:
Looks like the load must’ve been about empty, ’cause that car isn’t crushed!
UPS “random delivery” truck:
My car beeps at me when a door isn’t closed properly. You’d think UPS trucks would be that smart!
Thanks for the dumb, BoB. As always.
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LOVED your captions, Mindful – especially the guy following his GPS. Mine has tried to run me into buildings with “Turn right . . . NOW.” Can’t trust their evil ways, those talking boxes.
But sorry BOB, the over-stuffed “Beverly Hillbillies” van reminded me too much of my last move to be truly funny. (maybe they’re just moving down the block?) 🙂
Delphine, on the other hand, is a hoot! How DO you get these photos?
xx,
mgh
(Madelyn Griffith-Haynie – ADDandSoMuchMORE dot com)
ADD/EFD Coach Training Field founder; ADD Coaching co-founder
“It takes a village to educate a world!”
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I’m a compulsive collector of animal pictures — every time I see a good one, I save it to my files. Sometimes friends who are aware of my obsession send me pictures, too. I’ve gotten some great ones that way. 🙂
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Whatever or however, I love them. What started your fascination with birds?
xx,
mgh
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Not sure — I’m tempted to say I was born this way, because I don’t recall any time that I wasn’t an animal lover. 🙂
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But why the focus on birds? Why not another blog about cats, for example? (just curious, I love the focus, btw)
xx,
mgh
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Well, that just sort of happened. I chose my gravatar (the scowling bluebird) years ago purely on a whim, and I adopted the screen name “bluebird of bitterness” based on the photograph. When I started the blog, I named it after the bluebird in my gravatar. I never actually chose a theme or focus because I suspected it would make blogging a chore rather than a diversion; I wanted the freedom to post whatever I felt like posting at any given moment, without worrying about things like relevance and consistency.
As for the bird family in the sidebar, that evolved gradually over time because I just happened to have some really cute pictures in my bird file, and it stood to reason that the blog owner’s relatives would be avian. 🙂 If it looks as though I actually planned all that, I assure you that I didn’t. In the beginning it was just Bob, then his five siblings sort of appeared out of nowhere, and gradually other friends and relatives joined the gang.
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What a great story. I named my blog to give me similar options with the ‘andSoMuchMORE’ part of the name, even though I had been well-known for ADD expertise for years (through my first site, addcoach.com, hosting global support groups, speaking at conferences, etc.) — practically since the dawn of the web and certainly since the dawn of coaching.
I had long since branched way out, so I wanted to open the paradigm in the minds of others – and give myself a chance to post some “fluff” from time to time.
Your story is cuter ::grin:: Thanks so much for answering my question.
xx,
mgh
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Reblogged this on Citizen Tom and commented:
The last one is positively scary. Swerve the wrong way, and you may have your passenger in your lap.
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Thanks Tom. 🙂
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