June 21st. The First Day of Summer. The Longest Day of the Year.

My Diamond Jubilee Birthday

YIKES!!

I still chew my tongue when I am concentrating on something

and using my hands

Look at the size of those candles!!

I must have been very special OR more likely,

those were the only candles Mother had in the house

See my right hand going for that frosting?

Every time I turned another year older,

Grandma was hauling me to the photography studio

Story about this very same hammock--when Mother went into labor, Grandma called the doctor out.  He came from a town about 20 miles away.  He checked Mother and said it would be quite a few more hours.  Grandma would not let him go back to town and paid him to lay/rest/snooze in that hammock until I was born, at 8:15 that night.  .

I changed this around to be more like how I am

A 75th birthday is called: Dodranscentennial, which means, "A whole unit, less a quarter."  So--I guess that means, I am only playing with 3-quarters of a deck?