Though the practice of child labor was long ago outlawed, this young Florida girl toils unaware.
Her abject misery evident, the child is forced to model the "cute summer outfit" destined to be purchased for some richer child.
Appalling.
Posted by: Donnah at July 21, 2008 05:09 PMnot appalling, apparel :)
Posted by: nancy at July 21, 2008 10:51 PMThat is awful...cute !
Seems like yesterday mine were like that..
Posted by: csason at July 21, 2008 11:53 PMLife skills..she's gonna know how to cook too.
I also hung a clothes line out this summer.
I may turn off the AC, and spray her room with Black Flag when the mosquitos bite.
Full on Florida experience, or FOFE.
But you'd need one of those metal whistle cans..and the square gallon of *badass* BlackFlag in the carport.
Damn, those were the days... One of the finest points in our lives was riding our bicycles behind the skeeter sprayer...maybe that's what's wrong
with me now...HArdee har har..
Of course you are talking about some true to life natives there. Not the kind like on display at Cypress Gardens..
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e89/csason/CypressGardens1960.jpg
That's me on the right..1960
Posted by: csason at July 22, 2008 10:05 AMI was an Off! girl myself. Haven't smelled it in so long, must be close to twenty years now. Off! and something I seem to remember was called Sundown. Those smells just symbolized summer to me, even more so than the smells of barbecue grills and rubber/plastic pool toys. Am I the only person who noticed that stuff like buckets and shovles, rubber rafts and swim goggles had a special smell all their own?
Posted by: Little Starla at July 22, 2008 01:17 PMWas Cypress Gardens closed, or was it saved? It's a Florida icon.
We were there almost 20 years ago.
I loved the cypress tress, and I made sure I planted some out here.
They grow slow, but I have 5 or 6 "knees" now that I'm very fond of.
She should be sewing chain mail.
Posted by: James at July 22, 2008 06:33 PMI say put a suit of armor on her and let her stand guard by the door.
Posted by: Donnah at July 22, 2008 06:36 PMThe Gardens are still intact. Still have ski shows
and everything, including the ever provocative
Southern Belles..
"But mommy, the colors are just me. And they are in this spring, can't I have just this one" I will be good for a year. Please! Pllllllleeeeeeeaaaaaaseee!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Posted by: Paco Malo at July 23, 2008 08:26 AMCypress Gardens is a state of mind; just concentrate on those flowers or, in my case, not falling off that Dick Pope, Jr. bevel-edge slalom ski.
Wipeout!!!
Posted by: Paco Malo at July 23, 2008 08:48 AMThis is my great-niece, btw. Brown as a berry from the Florida sun.
Posted by: Donnah at July 23, 2008 05:41 PMThats just cute ...
Posted by: Gmac at July 23, 2008 08:39 PMThanks for letting us know who this angel is..I specifically came to ask.
Paco..I have one of those old cypress skis..actually a couple of them, made right in Eloise, FLorida..home of Jim Stafford...well now it's home
to a bunch of illegal whatever ya ma callits..
It's the Headline + Her Blank Expression that makes me laugh every time I see it.
Posted by: CJ at July 25, 2008 11:54 AMThe angel you see out smarted her brother the other day.
Donnah, you'll like this.
He slipped a fishing line on her bathing suit bottoms, and then ask her if she wanted to play hide and seek.
She took the "bait", but around the side of the house she felt the pull and realized the trick, so she took her bottoms off and left them in the bushes.
Along comes her brother, reeling in the line.
He was horrified to find nothing but her bottoms at the end of his hook.
He acts like he don't like her, but he was frantic to think she was running around butt naked.
He didn't know she had put a towel on first, until she ran in and called, "free".
(and then he hated her again)
One of the highlights of this summer.
Kids are great..till they become teenagers.. :(
Posted by: csason at July 25, 2008 08:00 PMThat was a darling pic of you and your bro, Owen.
Posted by: Donnah at July 26, 2008 02:53 AM
