Our children, from left to right, were 13, 16, and 15 years old at the time. It is hard to believe that today they are 52, 54, and 55.
Mom and Dad are also getting on up there.
I must tell you that I have not figured out how to insert photographs using New Blogger. Well, I have figured out how it is done, but my particular version of the New Blogger screen does not include all of the Editing Functions. I'm not kidding. Insert Photo and Insert Video are missing.
I had to "Revert to legacy Blogger" to include the photo in this post.
Keep your fingers crossed that I make headway with New Blogger soon because Old Blogger is supposed to be going away at the end of September.
And then, unless things change, there will be no more photographs, Throwback Thursday or otherwise, from this corner of the blogosphere.
I discovered the 'add photo' option disguised under ... which when clicked on showed 'other options'.
ReplyDeleteWhatever New Blogger is, it isn't an improvement.
I don't play FB, but love your family photo.
Sue, the ... that signifies additional options is also missing from the row of editing functions on my New Blogger version. I am mystified as to why. I am also mystified as to why I ever got that Afro. Glad you enjoyed the photo.
DeleteThat's a wonderful family photo! I keep hearing that a lot of people are having trouble posting pictures with the new blogger. I've done okay but I use a desktop computer and that may make it easier? Are you still using your phone to post? I imagine the smaller screen could cause some problems. I sure hope they fix the bugs soon!
ReplyDeleteBonnie, sometimes I use my phone and sometimes I use my desktop computer. My dilemma, to be exact, is that some of the editing functions on other people's New Blogger are not being displayed on mine. I have discovered that gritting one's teeth does not help. Glad you like the photo!
Delete1980 and all of you were cool and still are. I find the fashions in older photos interesting and yes the odd haircut is interesting.
ReplyDeleteRed, the haircut was not odd where Iived, but it probably wasn't seen every day in Saskatchewan. Thanks for saying we are still cool.
DeleteGreat family photo!
ReplyDeleteI miss some things about the 80s and 90s, but I don't miss the big hair.
Kathy, glad you enjoyed the photo! Which do you miss more, The Brady Bunch or The Partridge Family? Sonny and Cher or Phyllis Diller? The Mamas and the Papas or Lionel Richie and the Commodores? I don't miss any of them.
DeleteYou family is simply lovely.
ReplyDeleteEmma, thank you so much! The check is in the mail.
DeleteThis photo reminds me very much of one that still hangs n my parents house. i think it dates from 1985.funny how we all looked the same but different.
ReplyDeletei certainly wouldn't call your hair an afro, it probably qualifies as a jewfro, though!
kylie, my hair looks a bit wavy, I do admit, because it had received the first and only permanent I ever had. It grew out soon enough, and eventually, as more recent photographs prove. fell out as well. But let’s not talk about me. Let’s talk about you. Do you think your neologism might be the slightest bit anti-Semitic? I’m not accusing; I’m asking.
DeleteIt wasn't intended that way and my awareness of the jewfro came from a Jewish lady who suggested i could be an honorary Jew on account of my hair so i assumed it was ok to say. But then, it could be that it's one of those things that she was allowed to say and I am not.
Deletekylie, I knew in my heart that it wasn't intended that way, but I instantly thought of the fact that people of color in my country can refer to one another using the N-word and it is acceptable, but anyone else trying it risks being slammed to the pavement and beaten to a pulp. I exaggerate only slightly, although the possibility of being slammed to the pavement and beaten to a pulp by, say, Condoleezza Rice brings up more problems than solutions.
DeleteI'm grateful that you did not take offense at my comment. I for one had never heard the word before so was a bit startled.
Lovely picture that speaks subtly of the passage of time from 1980 to here - even if one had no idea who those people in the photograph were. Give us a song Engelbert:-
ReplyDeletePlease release me, let me go
For I don't love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin
Release me and let me love again
Neil, I have released you many times but you keep coming back.
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