Neighborhood porch tour

Bette in the horse drawn wagon that took us on the porch tour.

When Bette/Lance and Jerry/Zuela were first married, we lived right beside each other in Morehead. Bette and I were both short, had dark hair, and were small so many people thought (and have thought over the years) that we were sisters. It was so convincing that some old women who lived on the little street to our house got totally confused as to which one of us lived in which house. To add the to the confusion, Bette and Lance had lived in our house prior to Heidi's birth. Those women would "work" out in their yard (They would actually lean over the fence to watch.) so they could watch the comings and goings at our two houses. The four of us were good friends so on any given day, Lance might drop in to visit for a while, Jerry might run over to their house, Bette might bring Heidi over or I might go over there to play with Heidi. Since we realized our actions were being closely observed with FROWNING, DIAPPROVING eyes, we decided to play into their disapproval. So, we would do things like both of us leaving one house and going to the other. I'd leave my own house and go to Bette's, pretending it was mine. Jerry and Lance did similar things. You could almost imagine the nosy neighbors keeping a clip board nearby and making notes on the activities.

After my recent trip to Cincinnati, I posted this picture of Bette on Facebook. The mistaken identity is still happening. So, rubbing our hands together in conspiracy, we went back to our old trick; I posted her picture as my profile photo and fooled a number of people, INCLUDING MY OWN DAUGHTER! That was the funniest. Bette reminded me once when Rob and I were up there, we'd all gone to Jungle Jim's. Rob turned to ask me something but spoke to Bette instead!

When the two of us stand side by side, the differences are very obvious now. Bette has stayed petite and I have chubbed up!! Also, she has aged better than I have. Despite that, I still love her. *grin*