Friday, February 02, 2007

The Back Forty

We had a seriously huge backyard. Like, we really could have had the pony I wanted desperately in our backyard. Instead of a nice pony, we had the Blue Goose, a suspiciously hearse-like vehicle. It was kind of a pre-SUV without any seats in it. It did have neat little shelves in the walls on the inside though. I liked to play in there. See my nifty Black Stallion shirt? My daddy defied copyright law to screen print a bunch of those shirts. I wore mine until it was too shredded to be considered a shirt anymore.
Here we are in our ginormous backyard, sitting at our own bright yellow picnic table (even our lawn furniture followed the color scheme!). We ate a lot of watermelon. A lot. My piece is bigger than my head. That's probably why I am wearing my bathing suit, while my sister is in regular clothes.

I suddenly am in the mood for watermelon and 100-degree summer weather... Hmm..

4 comments:

Life Inside the Champagne Bubble said...

I love love love that your dad made you a Black Stallion t-shirt. That is so cool. I must have read every Black Stallion book and seen the movies a million times. If I recall my personal favorite was the Black Stallion Returns movie that came out in the 80s (or was it early 90s?)You know, with Micky Rourke? If I had a shirt like that today I would wear it with pride, all over campus. It rocks.
FF

The Princess said...

oh yeah the old blue goose!!!Rememver when we were cleaning it out and the end of my broom kept stabbing throught the upholstrey near the roof??? I got into trouble for that BUT logic now tells me IThey should have given me a shorter broom!!! Yes you were Quite the horse person...I guess some things never change... Love ya.

joe hall said...

Stop it B stop it. These old photos of you are breakin' my heart!

:-)

o.r.p. said...

FF.. I had ALL those books! I read them a million times!! I wonder if I could find a black stallion shirt on ebay? Hmmm..
--b