Update: Ain't she beautiful? Naturally, our sweet and saucy little love, Teresa of Technicalities, hates the picture we posted below and says so in the comments:
Put me in a hat . . . and no one will be able to recover.
We remember when we were still young and beautiful as she is now and hated 99 per cent of the photographs we ever saw of ourselves. Now we just say no when someone points a camera lens our way.
"Strengthen me with raisins [White raisins? Virgins? What are we talking here?], refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love" (Song of Solomon 2:3). Neo dons Tuck's Stetson in a spirited hat trick at that Thai restaurant the other night during our sub rosa meeting in blue-state central, Brookline, MA.
"Hey Sissy, where's the Stetson hat pics?" writes Marybeth of Miss Kelly in the comments to our previous post. Herewith, by popular demand, the ladies that wear hats. Above, with signature Granny Smith apple front and center, the ever mysterious neo of neo-neocon tries on Tuck's hat for size. "Who was wearing the Stetson? Was it Tuck?" asks Tara in the comments. Teresa explains:
Tuck's hat was passed around to just about everyone at our end of the table. However, I must say that the rest of us do not wear it with nearly as much panache as Tuck does. *grin*
"Your husband is a sweetie," notes Marybeth (left). "We should definitely all wear big hats to the next (tribal) gathering." Adds Teresa (right), "Tuck gets the extra accolades for being a non-blogger yet coming to the meets and sitting through all the blog talk."
How does Tuck do it? Unlike ourselves, he's a naturally gregarious sort, always an asset -- a perfect foil to our own more introverted type -- at any gathering. PLUS -- and this is key -- He has a really good hat collection. Even Roger L. Simon has noticed.
Should we say " Hats on" to the Sub Rosa group?
Posted by: goomp | July 01, 2006 at 01:31 PM
Ouch... Sissy my dear are you trying to break everyone's monitor? Yikes - one picture of me will do it every time. *grin* Put me in a hat... and no one will be able to recover.
Posted by: Teresa | July 01, 2006 at 01:33 PM
ROFL - you are a sweetie you know. Young and beautiful... I ain't touching that one.
Posted by: Teresa | July 01, 2006 at 02:20 PM
A pretty girl is like a melody.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | July 01, 2006 at 02:24 PM
Everyone looks grand !
Thanks for posting the pictures..
Posted by: Tara | July 01, 2006 at 09:56 PM
Jesus Mary and Joseph - be careful of what you ask for!! Not a great angle for me, do I really have a double chin, squinty eyes and chipmunk cheeks? I guess so.....Have to work on that hat thing.....
Posted by: miss kelly | July 01, 2006 at 10:13 PM
No peectures, no peectures . . .
I love "Jesus Mary and Joseph," Miss K: 'Reminds me of my grandmother, who used to regale us kids with stories of the woman who lived downstairs in her building when she was a young mother with infant Mary, who would grow up to become our mother. The woman downstairs, ever distraught at her lot in life, would always say "Jesus Mary and Joseph, I got so much cooking, and I got so much cleaning, and oi, Mrs. Loddy, I'm so tired."
Posted by: Sissy Willis | July 02, 2006 at 08:05 AM
Beautiful, intelligent women in hats. Can't beat that with a stick. :D
Posted by: pam | July 02, 2006 at 08:27 AM
Ask Rupert Murdoch for some Danish cartoons
Posted by: Fuzzi Andrea | July 25, 2006 at 09:25 AM