Throwback Thursday

I'm still at work, but I hated to mess up my streak for the month by failing to post on the last day, so I took a picture of this picture I have in my office of Rob & the kids.  This was taken in my grandparents' front yard Thanksgiving of 1998.  Carey was 10 and Logan was 7.

The thing I remember most about this Thanksgiving is that Rob fried the turkey but my grandmother refused to eat any of it because she was convinced that there was no way the turkey was cooked after only 45 minutes in the fryer.  Fortunately, my mother had the foresight to bake a small turkey breast in the oven, so MaMaw had turkey too.

Throwback Thursday

Sorry for the fuzzy picture this week.  The original is just as bad, so if you can't tell, that's me in the white skirt laying across the front.

The question is, can anyone tell where this picture was taken?  Anyone?  Bueller?

That my friends was taken in June 1984, 30 years ago in the 1200 court of the North Carolina Legislative Building the week I was a page for the North Carolina General Assembly.

For those that may not know, I have worked as an attorney for the General Assembly for over 18 years, so maybe you could call this a sign of things to come.

Still, it's a perfect example of why I love going back through old pictures.  I never thought at that time, that I would spend my career working there, but that's definitely the summer that I first became interested in government.  1984 was a busy summer for me.  After I was a House page for a week, I went to Rotary Youth Leadership at Guilford College for a week, and then went to Governor's School West for 8 weeks.  Governor's School was where I first found out about the North Carolina Student Legislature, which I was heavily involved in through the rest of high school and college, and the rest I guess is history. 

On a separate note, I'm also pleased to say that those programs that so shaped me that summer are still around  30 years later.

Throwback Thursday

I love "Throwback Thursday" because it never fails to bring back a memory I usually haven't thought about in a while.

This is one of my favorite pictures of me, my brother & my sister.  I believe we were about 7 (me), 4 (Lee), and 2 (Julie) in this picture.  The picture was taken on the front porch of the single wide trailer my parents owned at Atlantic Beach, NC until I was about 10 years old.

We had some great times in that trailer park.  It was on the sound side, so we swam & fished constantly.  I learned to eat oysters by going down into the sound with the old men at low tide and pulling them off the corrugated steel wall and eating them raw.  We only went to the actual beach occasionally because it involved walking several blocks and water was water to us.

Part of the trailer park is still there, but actual houses  have been built right on the sound.  What used to be a tangled mass of scrub and brush next door is now a chain hotel.  It was a whole different world back then, but it was our world, at least for large portions of each year.