Families are Punny

We had dinner at mom's today, a regular monthly occurrence. Usually it's around the second Sunday of the month but this month it was postponed because of my youngest sister's 40th birthday, which we celebrated last Saturday. So today we're sitting around the table talking about various things and eventually had a discussion about faith which ended thusly once agnosticism came up:

Brother-in-Law: Well only hens are allowed to be eggnostic.

Me: Does that mean that water fowl have to duck the question?

Nephew: Well I know that only women can be hagnostic.

Me: I've met some men who could be nagnostic.

BIL: And only male deer can be stagnostic.

Irish: Yeah, they use a point system.

Youngest Sister: I hate my family.

(Mom and middle sister didn't add anything because they were laughing too hard.)

More Gramma Lottie

Recently someone posted on our family website a photo of my Gramma (dad's mom) taken in 1910 when she was 12. I felt exactly as I did when I saw the photo of her at 17 - just like looking in a mirror. (Also, what is up with that bow!) I think the photos are big so behind a cut....

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Unlike my dad, I did not thin out as I grew older. *sigh* I still have a lot of hair though!