Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Calendar

Sal and Al
 
Al and Sal live one street down from us, have been here forever, and while definitely seniors, are bubblier and more spry than all the rest of us combined. One day, Al and a few of his friends were in the hardware store. Al asked off-handedly if the proprietor had their new calendars yet. Apparently last year's calendar (scantily-clad beauties) he'd insisted on displaying prominently in their RV, much to Sal's dismay. Alas, no calendars this year, he was told.

Some time later, Sal and a few of her friends were in the drug store and spied a new calendar similar to the one in her RV. This was preceded by lunch with cocktails, mind you. They hatched a plot: Al's birthday was coming up, and wouldn't it be fun to give him a calendar of scantily-clad beauties that had OUR faces Photoshopped in?

They bought the calendar. We scheduled a photo session for our head shots, also with cocktails. I spent 2 days swapping faces, trying to match skin tones, carefully (pixel-by-pixel) blending edges. Then Joan added text, added the calendar grids, and shopped around to find a binder.

We presented the calendar to Al at the clubhouse Happy Hour, and he loves it. Now we're taking orders to sell them, 150 pesos. Email me to place your order...barbilou2@hughes.net

Here are the Ladies of Kino Bay!
Bette
Sal
Karen
Joan
Maggie
Jan
Delfie
Suzanne
Danielle
Pat
Jill
 Me
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We're planning one for us ladies next year, using the spouses of this year's ladies. Maybe a Firemen Calendar?

5 comments:

  1. This has to be the most amazing/funniest blog I read, no saw, so far. Ha Ha Ha. You made my day. I'm laughing so hard, there are tears in my eyes, Lol. You ladies having a lot of fun, huh?

    Btw, Barbi, you look gr8 as Miss December. Maybe, you'll shud hv a pageant.

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  2. I was rendered speechless for a bit! Barb, this is MAGNIFICENT! I like your and Karen's getups the best - just spectacular. You did a tremendous job choosing and blending photos, expressions included! I love both the idea of a calendar for the ladies and a pageant next year (I'm sure you'd have done the pageant this year if you'd had a few more drinks)!

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  3. Can we get them on Amazon.com?

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  4. Well, no, but I have a Paypal account at barbilou2@hughes.net

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