It was my granddaughter’s 20th birthday celebration over the weekend. For everyone who was sure as soon as the calendar flipped to September that the heat would dissipate and we’d have crisp, autumn weather, they were wrong. We are getting cooler nights, but our days have been quite hot and sticky.
Saturday, party day, was rather warm. Also, very bright. It was afternoon and we were on the south side of the house (where the lawn is) and the sun was relentless. I’m not good in hot weather. I never really was and the older I get, the less I can tolerate it so we left fairly early, but not before I managed to get almost a hundred pictures!
Bouncy house!
Birthday woman … not a girl anymore 🙂
How about a dip?
It was a good party. For a bit of zing, there was a “bouncy house.” You’d be surprised at how many grownups find bouncing adds zing to their lives. I’m not a bouncer. I would bounce once, fall down, and have to be extracted. But I think I captured the essence of party and zing.
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FAMILY ‘SUMMER CAMP’ – BY ELLIN CURLEY 
SHARING MY WORLD AS SUMMER FADES INTO SEPTEMBER 
CRAWLING NIGHTMARES 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Thank you for sharing your party pictures with all the MMC members. i am still working on the pingback problem. The reply I got is that there can have a pingback problem between two self hosted blogs!!
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20 is not a kid anymore for sure- such a pretty girl. I know what Garry means- I think in my head I’m young until I realize no one is really interested in the old girl at the party!!
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Your granddaughter is beautiful
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Yes. She looks like I did at that age … but better.
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Me, too. I usually have to be extracted from a party. No bouncing house necessary!
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If we’d stayed any longer, I think they’d have had to bring in the EMTs 🙂
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I’ve never been in a bouncy house. They came along quite a bit too late to fit into my life.. or for me to fit into them.
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Kind of my feelings, too. They were even too late for my son, but are a longstanding favorite for my granddaughter.
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There is always something magical about about a ‘bouncy house”.
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The kids were having a great time with it. The adults were mostly eyeing it uneasily. Wondering how we’d get on with the whole arthritic thing and the bouncing.
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Is it weird that I’ve never liked bouncy houses? Too closed in for my tastes. Trampolines I can dig, but not bouncy houses. Glad you gave it a go though. Looks like fun was had by all. 🙂
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Oh no, I didn’t give it a go. I would fall over and never rise again. I just took pictures. I don’t like the “enclosedness” of its design either, but regardless, my body and I do NOT bounce, not any more!
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Ah, I misunderstood.
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That’s okay. You mistook me for someone with a body that might bounce. It’s almost as good as being mistook for a younger woman. Always just fine 🙂
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What a lovely young woman. Where did the time go?
Leslie
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Really. How did 20 years slip by so fast?
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Kind of scary, isn’t it?
Leslie
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Yes. In a smaller way, this whole year has just zipped right by.
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It sure has.
Leslie
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Fun party but, geez, I felt like one of the old people we used to avoid as a kid at these parties
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I noticed no one urged us to stay longer 🙂
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I think they were smiling – with relief – as we left. It’s like the dogs at night — when we leave the living room.
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