Throwback Thursday photos; ready for DAYLIGHT!!

This was a very normal, uneventful week.  The big pain is that my right ear is closed.  Drives. Me. Crazy!!  I know from past experience that all the home remedies in the world, including the ear drops, warm compresses, etc do not work for me.  I always end up needing to go to the doctor to have my ears flushed out.  I, of course, always hope that THIS time will be the exception.  But alas, I guess it is not.  I despise taking the time and money to go for such a simple procedure.  Seems like I should be able to do it myself.  

I enjoy posting pictures from the past on Throwback Thursdays on Facebook.  So today I'll post on here the ones I've shared lately.

The Witmer Trio and our guitar player in 1975:  me, Barb, and Doris with Dick.  That 12-string guitar was our first major purchase after we got married.  He can no longer play it due to the arthritis in some of his right-hand fingers.  He is thinking of teaching himself to play it left-handed.  I say, "Go for it!"  I love the sound of this guitar. 

Our family, Christmas 1990.  Miki was part of our family by then, but was in Sweden on a missions trip that year. How about Lisa's big hair?  How about Dick's hair?  I think he was looking pretty darned handsome on here, all of 40 years old!

Same year, different pose!

Mass Chorus (entire school) at Manheim Christian, Christmas 2001. This picture, as well as the next, gets bigger when you click on it - if you want to see the faces more clearly.

Primary Chorus (K-4 to 2nd grade), Spring 2002.

Anthony and Jeremy playing "ice hockey" in the playroom.

The nightgown I made for Lisa's 8th birthday.  She LOVED it.  I saved it in my cedar chest for years, but when I dug through the chest to find it for Sophie the other summer, it was GONE!  I can't believe I ever threw it away.  I still think I'm going to find it somewhere, but Sophie would have outgrown it by now. )-;

My first grade picture - back when I was "Thelma Jean".  It's the last cute picture.  In second grade I got glasses, increasingly stronger each year.  That makes for some pretty painful childhood pictures.  To this day my glasses prescription is stronger than anyone else's that I know.  Thankfully they now can make strong lenses thinner than in the old days.   

I took all the way one picture this week.  When I was driving home from Lori and Anthony's house late Wednesday afternoon the sun was setting behind the mountain across the snowy fields.  By the time I had pulled my camera out of my purse it had almost slipped away.

I don't think we had any snow all week long!  Woohoo!!!!!!  Still very, very cold some days, but yesterday was sunny and in the high 30's and it felt WONDERFUL!  And tonight we'll turn our clocks ahead an hour and our daylight evenings will commence.  A bigger woohoo!!!!!  They were saying all these scary things on TV about how daylight savings has devastating effects.  Good grief.  We've been observing daylight savings as long as I can remember and I never heard of any of these devastating things before.  I, for one, am GLAD for daylight savings.