Second pic is my cousin Josh 5, me 3, friend John Brad 3, and my sister 1. Also a bunch of cuties =) - FFing Enigma

And if you ask me (which you didn't) young grandpa looks a lot like the actor that plays King Henry in the Tudors. - FFing Enigma

Ya never stopped being cute then ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Crazy Tina. Same with my Dad. German-Irish immigrants. Lied about his age and everything. Whassup cuz? - Mathew A. Koeneker

Grandpa wound up being a cook on a ship and as such couldn't make food in anything resembling normal quantifies. He wound up having 6 kids (my mom is 4 of 6) and would make pancakes on the weekends. He'd ask the kids how many pancakes they could eat and the boys would invariably say 5+. This was a mistake, as Grandpa's pancakes were the size of the 16" cast iron skillet he cooked them in... - FFing Enigma

Mathew, if you've got family in Michigan or South Dakota, then yeah we could very well be cousins. - FFing Enigma

Tina, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, I think. - Spidra Webster

Yup, that's it! Dave and I were trying to think of the name without resorting to looking it up </obstinate> - FFing Enigma

Was he in the Pacific then and China after? - Mathew A. Koeneker

I'm totally digging this old picture meme. - Will Higgins™

I don't actually know, Mathew. He and my grandmother won't talk about a lot of this period of their lives and keep certain things secret that (to the rest of us at least) don't seem very important. My mother only found out a few years ago that the name on Grandpa's birth certificate is Wilhelm and not William (and my grandmother kinda freaked about her seeing that). - FFing Enigma

My dad was a fire control PO with a penchant for Boxing which got him from the Cruiser Helena to the BS MO then UDT, and China for another of those secret US wars. - Mathew A. Koeneker

See if you can do some field recording. We have been doing similar with my Dad and grandparents while they were alive. It is good for your family if nothing else. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Loved both the pics. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mathew: this is exactly what i was digging at with my recent All Wordy And Junk blog post - document the oral histories of your family and friends before it slips away! - Joe Silence

Dead Silence: I am off to read your blog now. :) It is amazing what experiences the folks around us have had. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Um..-- Dead Silence -- I made the mistake of thinking that you aggregated your blog here. Have a link for me? - Mathew A. Koeneker

Mathew, DS has joined on the new project blog we started http://allwordyandjunk.blogspot.com His post is still on the front page EDIT - here's the link to the post http://allwordyandjunk.blogspot.com/2009... - FFing Enigma

Cool thanks, Tina! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

sorry, i am a disorganised mess. :) - Joe Silence

Odd.. it won't let me comment. It asks for the type the word people test but no place to type the word. - Mathew A. Koeneker

*sigh* That's the second heads up I've received about the comment area causing issues. Are you using Chrome? - FFing Enigma

i can comment fine with FF 3.5.2 and yet another person here using the exact same version had an issue crop up with posting a comment. wtf? - Joe Silence

@DS addons... ? - mjc

Me too - can't scroll down to the captcha easily - I'm using Safari. - WoH: Minding her Steves

i never get a captcha anymore, only happened once. i just posted a test comment on my entry, too. WEIRD. - Joe Silence

mjc: only addons i have that are non-standard are VLC and Adobe Acrobat. those should be irrelevant here. - Joe Silence

No on the Chrome. Yes, on Firefox. Let me try again. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Deakins was able to comment. - Joe Silence

Still no go. - Mathew A. Koeneker

and yet no problems with commenting on other pplz entries. NO FAIR! :( - Joe Silence

*looks up* damn, sorry for the threadjack, Tina. - Joe Silence

Awesome photos, Tina! I love the expression on your face in the second one. :-D - Ordinarybug Heather

Like the photos. - John (bird whisperer)

Bumping in honor for my grandfather. Miss you grandpa, you handsome devil you =) - FFing Enigma