Baby pics

I've started sorting through the family pics that my mother left me.

The first pic is of my maternal grandparents, Guda and Oumies Joubert, on their farm in the Orange Free State. (Oumies is Afrikaans for Old Miss. Guda was my Oupa's nickname. His real name was Gustavus Adolphus Joubert. He was named after the 1600s King of Sweden who was known by Protestants as the Lion of the North because of his successful battles against the Catholic armies.)



















My Mom and Dad, Neva and Scotty, soon after they were married in 1945.
























My Auntie Leone and my Mom. (Mom was pregnant with me at the time, 1946.)

















My Mom and her new bundle of joy, me, 1947.
























My Dad holding me.
























Mom and Dad with me.
























My maternal grannie, Flossie, with me. The brown mutt is my Dad's dog, Chummy, and the Maltese is Flossie's dog, Nessie.


















Nessie sitting in my pram with me on top.
























Me all dressed up with no where to go.
























Three pics of me "driving" my maternal Uncle Abraham's tractor. (Oupa Guda named his son Abraham Lincoln Joubert.) I loved that tractor and was probably born to be a farmer. Unfortunately, when Guda died, Abraham could not wait to get away from it. He sold the farm and moved away and was never seen by anyone in the family ever again.


























































Oupa Guda was a great admirer of FDR and wanted to name me Franklin Delano Roosevelt Conlon. My Mom agreed with her father but my Dad insisted that he wanted to name me Patrick. They compromised with Patrick Delano. In my liberal days, I was proud of my middle name, Delano, but, when I began to understand what damage FDR did to the USA, I stopped using that name.

Tune in next week for some embarassing nude baby pics.