Metuchen
Susan, Diane, Frank and Florence – 1954
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I woke up this morning to six below and frozen heating pipes. After I positioned my space heater and hair dryer over the ice cold copper, the phone rang. It was Steven Varga wondering why his kitchen faucet wasnÃt working. It took me a minute or so to convince him that his pipes were probably frozen, and to impress upon him how important it was to thaw them out. And not to leave the house until water was again running through that faucet. Before the conversation ended, he sounded sufficiently alarmed, but to further make my point, I sent him this photo passed to me by Shiny Dome.
We leave our kitchen faucet cold water running at a miniscule trickle, and it seems to do the trick, as we have frozen pipes in the past. That linked photo is incredible!
SO cool to see the Canning Clan!!! Even without a caption, everybody reads right through as who they would be when I came to know them. Gotta wonder what the Earleigh-to-be’s thinking here about her little blonde sister…….
More, please!!!
Comment by water still running — January 10, 2004 @ 10:19 am
I love this photo.
Comment by Ginger — January 10, 2004 @ 11:15 am
Great photo. I always thought Matthew favored Michael, but looking at this picture I see Matthew in Diane also. So Diane whatever did you do to Susan that day to upset her?!
Comment by chris — January 10, 2004 @ 5:15 pm
As I recall, I was grounded for the better part of 1954 due to a very fresh mouth and a very snotty attitude, alone and in combo. My best guess is that the perfect Diane being so cute about sitting on the stupid fence to have her picture taken weighted against my wish to be anywhere but there were probably at the root of my expression. Or perhaps I had taken a good look at that shirt!
Comment by Susan — January 10, 2004 @ 7:30 pm
Susan you are too funny. Grounded for the better part of 1954-I love it. I like your shirt and what appear to be your Oxford shoes. So even then she was perfect Diane. I’m not surprised.
Comment by chris — January 10, 2004 @ 9:36 pm
The only problem with having a perfect sibling seven years your junior is that your transgressions look so much worse than they really are. How’s that for rationalizing!
The shoes. Oh God, I had almost forgotten. They are my uniform saddle shoes, navy saddles. Because they were special order and therefore expensive and feet grow, to get every penny’s worth out of them, once school was over for the year, they became my everything but going to church or party shoes (and since I was grounded that year, effectively only my going to church shoes). How about the turned up plaid cuffs on the shorts. Yikes.
Comment by Susan — January 11, 2004 @ 10:32 am
Susan – I can relate. Imagine sitting at your Senior Class Breakfast, next to your identical twin sister, and the principal announces the “superlatives”…..Best Dressed, Most athletic, etc., and my IDENTICAL twin is announced as the best looking girl in our graduating class. Well, I ask you, is that embarrassing or what? 35 years later I am still unsure if I should be at all complimented or totally insulted. What do YOU think?
P.S. Diane is still cute and sweet. Sorry.
Comment by jan queijo — January 18, 2004 @ 12:52 pm