Here's little Katie (l) showing her sense of humor at an early age.And here she is (r) feeding sugar pops cereal to the cranky rooster, Snowball, in the back yard in Bismarck. She loved to get up early in those days to play outside.
Here are Tom, Peggy, Katie, and Sally dyeing Easter eggs. I brought the picnic table inside during the winter and set it up in the big kitchen so the kids would have a place to color and paint and cut out things.
Katie enjoyed it especially, I think. She's now a working artist. This is her bio from an exhibit in Arizona.
Here are the lovely Katie and her siblings, left to right, Peggy, Sally, and Tom at Katie's wedding to Al Abdou. They have a strong bond formed in the days when they were each other's only playmates in our house in the Missouri River bottomland in Bismarck, North Dakota.
So, happy birthday, dear Katie. May light shine on and through you.
Thanks for showing me those old photos. I haven't seen some in years! I can't imagine now having a house big enough to fit a picnic table comfortably in the kitchen. I remember that so clearly. It WAS a fun place to play.
ReplyDeletethe picnic table was in addition to the regular dining table in there!
ReplyDeleteYou did a painting of that photo of Katie and the evil Snowball. What ever happened to that painting?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that I can have a photo of Snowball to show my family after the tales of terror I've been telling them all these years. The thing is, he doesn't look all that terrifying in the photo.
i gave the painting to katie.
ReplyDeletesnowball was fairly young in the photo. as he got older, he got meaner. remember how i used to have to snap a towel at him to hold him off while you all rushed to get into the car to go to the swimming pool? rotten bird. i finally gave him (plus phoebe and alice--i bought them to keep him company but they hid from him) to a friend who lived north of bismarck on the river. she had a pet pig and was happy to have something they could eat.